Jonathan,

Great article! I am a C# .Net programmer and not a SQL Server DBA in my real job, although I am the DBA for my home system. I...

I have worked for two "dot-bombs" in the Columbia, SC area.

One of the "dot-bomb" companies developed an automatic loan approval system based on the rules to approve or decline a...

Steve,

You brought up great points in your post on 10/19/2008 11:32:11 AM, too many for me to quote and reply to.

I listed to the debate between Senator Lindsey Graham and...

Darn! I was hoping this was going to be a discussion about HDTV.

I think it would be of benefit to companies having financial and healthcare data. I see...

Shaun McGuile (9/16/2008)

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Borland had no idea that racoons had eaten all their pond fish, and were still spending $10,000s of dollars a year on fish food.....Management in motion! 😀

C# was...

Shaun McGuile (9/16/2008)

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Why would you want to move away from Delphi to C#, its B*stard son?

You can get Delphi .Net you know.

Pascal is one of the most elegant languages ever...

I haven't read Broken Window, but that data mining company in the book sounds like a data aggregator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_aggregators; companies that compile data of individuals from various sources, such as...

The article was surprising in that just three of the developers knew T-SQL. I suppose that the other developers had specialties in statistics and finance.

My experience is in software...

Happy Birthday Steve.

Umm, what would I want for my birthday?

I would like a fully functional PDP-11, preferably a PDP-11/45 or a PDP-11/70; one of the first computers that I started...

Keller (8/29/2008)

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blandry, sorry to break it to you, but we are all just part of one big video game being played by God himself...it's called SimGod...Maxis Software is suing for...

I agree with others that have said taking a break, or getting occupied with a distraction helps solutions come about. Just letting the mind go blank and not focus...

Steve,

In your article, you mentioned that always wanted a Sun "pizza box".

My wife bought a Sun SPARCStation IPX with a 20" monitor, CD Drive, and tape drive for about $400...

I am not convinced that virtual machines are the way to go for production environments. Yes, it saves costs in hardware, cooling systems, and power. But it places...

I am a DIY'er for some items. I don't like to work with alternating current; but I found replacing a boat battery is just as dangerous when the pliers...

I don't care what others call me as long as I get paid. My mother doesn't even know what "IT" is; she just knows that I "work with computers".

Although...