Steve, please excuse me for being obtuse, but what did you mean by, "...  one thing I'd recommend is make a REPO to keep your code review checklists"? I'm wondering...

Jeff, I've taken your suggestion. I didn't migrate one of our databases to Azure. Instead, I created an Azure SQL database using one of the AdventureWorks databases. It's small, I've...

I agree with this.  One of the skills I have honed over the years is not a new programming language, but instead deciphering what management wants to accomplish.

I really...

Steve, you have more experience at dabbling with AI, then I do. I've got a ChatGPT account and have dabbled a bit with it, but there's a lot I cannot...

This is a scenario that causes me to lose sleep at night. I'm on a two-person team that's migrating all our source code out of an old, on-prem TFS to...

@stur, I'd like to reply to what you said concerning WFH. I did that for 3 years and totally loved it. It is the best way I work....

I have spent most of my career working in the public sector. Working in the public sector affects how you think. One quite common belief, as a public sector employee,...

No, life is not better for me. I've been forced back to the office with no justification. The pandemic showed that we could accomplish a lot more through MS Teams...

OK, you've got me, Steve.

I hear ya, Jeff, but where I work, they take the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mantra to the extreme. They will leave something alone until it is...

Thoughtful article, Steve. We're making lots of moves to the cloud. Not all at once, but in pieces. Currently moving test SQL databases to the cloud. I love...

Thoughtful article, Steve. We're making lots of moves to the cloud. Not all at once, but in pieces. Currently moving test SQL databases to the cloud. I love going to...

Hi David,

Thank you for your reply! I do have a newer (less than a year) desktop PC with 32 GB of RAM as a 2 TB SSD with another 2...

Steve, thank you for your reply as well as the analogy such as craftsmen using Harbor Freight, rather than Craftsman.

I hadn't thought about documenting/blogging my trip to try to upskill...

Hey Steve, this is an excellent article to help close out 2022. I often think about ways of improving my career, so this fits in nicely. I like your disciplined...