crainlee2 (12/5/2008)

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Steve,

The Atkins diet changed my life, my relationship with and need for food, my health, my metabolism, my blood pressure, and my weight, all for the better.

I've...

Ok, just so anyone else who hits this issue knows - if you use the link Jerry gives above, the download for "IT Professionals" for x86 (which points to...

Did you use the developer link or the IT professional link? That's the site I downloaded from but I did the Developer link. Also there are x64, x86...

Alexandros A Nipirakis (12/1/2008)

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Having developed using both of these extreme paradigms, I can honestly tell you that having your business logic primarily implemented in the database is usually the best...

samuele.armondi (12/1/2008)decisions should be taken based on 'this is the best tool for the job' rather than 'this is the tool I know hence it will be better than everything...

I think that having some strategy for security, backups, etc. are the absolutes, not necessarily how they are accomplished. How often you do full vs. differential is open to...

Some doofus in Houston who was "working as a consultant for a local hospital" left two laptops in his car in front of a Best Buy yesterday to go buy...

I think Agile definitely has some advantages in some environments, but it is not a one-size-fits-all solution to software development.

In any kind of a consulting/contract situation where the people doing...

Seggerman (9/9/2008)

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this is all well and good but if company B won't bring you on as a contractor being represented by company X because you worked at company B before,...

I had a discussion about noncompetes with my ex who is an attorney (in Texas) and he said at least in Texas a non-compete that prevents a person from making...

Timothy (8/25/2008)

I remember when using calculators in class was frowned upon because you weren't learning how to do the problem yourself. But now it's fine because what's the point in...

I despise cheating, and I do think what goes around comes around. We play a lot of board games at home and we're constantly reminding the 6 year old...

In general I would say I am about 2x more efficient when working at home, plus I tend to work longer hours overall since I just have to walk to...

I used to study Tae Kwon Do and I loved it. When I started a small business in my "free" time it took over my life and I stopped...

I must confess I haven't spent much time yet researching SQL Server 2008 mainly because I've been up to my ears in .NET 3.5. But I will be very...