Has AI Changed Software Development?
Generative AI is everywhere, but especially in software development. Is it helping us? Steve has a few thoughts.
2024-01-06
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Editorials
Projects To Showcase Your Skills
A good way to showcase your skills is by working through and documenting a project and solution. Steve notes today that this is important in today's hiring market and asks for sample projects you might suggest for others.
2024-01-05
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Fixing Poor Programming Practices
Today Steve has a few stories of how he's fixed poor programming practices and asks you to share your own.
2024-01-03
343 reads
Happy New Year 2024
Happy New Year from Steve, with a reminder to work on your career plan for 2024.
2024-01-01
78 reads
Being A Bit Less Comfortable in 2024
I hate coming up with ideas for editorials, but my last editorial of the year gives me a very simple topic just staring me in the face: New Year’s Resolutions. Love them or hate them (or it we are honest, a good bit of both,) this end of one year and the start of another […]
2023-12-30
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The 2024 Plan
On the last working day of 2023, Steve says you should think about making a 2024 plan for your career.
2023-12-29
208 reads
Some Relief But Still Some Concern
Steve is relieved that he hasn't updated sqlmemorial.org this year, but worries he's missed remembering some of our colleagues.
2023-12-27
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2023-12-25
53 reads
A Thrill of Hope
I realize that this isn’t the last Database Weekly editorial of the year – that honor is reserved for Louis Davidson next week. 😊 However, as we approach the end of the year and various holiday celebrations, one of my favorite Christmas carols has been of particular encouragement to me recently. 2023 hasn’t gone exactly […]
2023-12-23
59 reads
Building CyberSecurity Skills with an Advent Challenge
Steve has been doing a cybersecurity advent challenge and has found it to be interesting, fun, and career building.
2023-12-22
144 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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