The best manager I had was not technical. The worst manager I had was technical. Most are in between and are OK as leaders. I've had good and bad from...

Working in I.T. has been my carrer. I enjoy it. I am really drawn to music. Music is my avocation; I.T. is my career. I.T. earns the money to pay...

A friend of mine recently made a wireless device to light up and make a sound when he hit a target on the shooting range.

It was interesting to see...

Thomas Abraham (4/30/2014)

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BWFC (4/30/2014)

It certainly has its uses but I'm always careful what I post because unscrupulous types could use it to bypass the hours of research that I may...

The very worst naming convention I saw was years ago on an AS400 (1981).

Tables are called files on that machine and reside in a library.

The naming was such:

Library001

File001

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I usually just convert coffee into waste water several times a day. :satisfied:

Tom

I'll be there by 4:30.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/16/2014)

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Ed Wagner (4/14/2014)

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I know there are many crazy stories about the weather from this year all over the world, but I have to share today's...

Hackers are not going to try to hack all severs. They look for the easiest path. This is one area where it's best to be the ugly duckling at the...

It stinks but that's how employers look at it. The reason is that it is possible to pass the certification exams without actually knowing the material or how to do...

The Brewers swept the Red Sox over the weekend... WOW! :w00t:

If all you are looking for is syntax checking, intellisense can help. Syntax checking does not catch logic errors.

Of course, testing in a non-production environment is always the best way;...

This is my take on LINQ to SQL. I have found that it does not handle large data sets well. It can be slow. And, because you do not...

There is the reputation of the team and your personal reputation. Most of the teams I've been on were somewhere in the middle; not bad, not great. I think...

Jeff Moden (3/21/2014)

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Shucks. Thanks for the awesome feedback, Tom. :blush: I really appreciate the thoughts.

Shifting gears back to the task at hand, thanks again for the link to...