100% virtualized - 12 instances (dev, test, production). No measurable performance hits since the VMs live on a screaming SAN and we have the latest Dell hosts with 256...

Excellent points by Nigel. In addition to technologists generally making poor politicians, politicians are almost always poor technologists. This is one of the reasons that it takes so...

Usually we deploy the database and application changes together, but not always. We actually use SQL Compare to make all of our database changes in an environment where multiple...

I would estimate that most of my time is 80/20 on fixing/new. As I have moved up in my career and into management roles, I stress to my employees...

First of all, I agree with Steve that "Team of Rivals" is an excellent book. It was really Lincoln's humble and earnest management style that made his team effective....

Jeez, I'm listening to a lot of Fox news and Glen Beck devotees. What nonsense, no one in Congress said any such thing. They'ed be out on their butt so...

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I used to be a strong believer in regular funding of my retirement account, but now I'm less likely to do so. The finances for the USA...

I used to be a strong believer in regular funding of my retirement account, but now I'm less likely to do so. The finances for the USA are in...

I enjoyed Moneyball as well. My vote for the best picture I have seen in a long time is Act of Valor, though. I just went to it...

We are pretty small but still have a basic change control process. Before we deploy any code (database or .NET), we deploy and test it on a staging server....

If I'm in a meeting I prefer pen and paper. But then I usually consolidate those into OneNote. If you haven't tried OneNote you really should! I...

I would strongly support a vocational training program for computer programming. Over the years the votech schools have struggled as most Americans have bought into the big lie that...

I completely agree with you about the groupoing pane and the (in)ability to easily freeze columns or headers while scrolling (or on new pages). That was WAY easier in...

It’s 7:30 PM and I’ve just made it in the door to my home in a Minnesota suburb. Traffic was bad tonight because of the 6 inches of snow...