I wish I kept a copy of a job description that an HR person pitched to me. It was for a programming position and it required VB.Net. But for the DBAs...

Making the customers happy is one thing, but when the customer keeps requesting changes and adding features, well, that project will never get finished.
I worked for one company where...

We have a Beagle puppy, River, now six months old and I'll throw a PVC pipe for her to fetch. I'll catch up on four photography blogs that I follow....

At one place where I worked, one practical joker installed the BSOD Screensaver on a co-worker's computer.

My first experience with a computer was using the Engineering department's DEC PDP-8 in at USC. The first language was FOCAL, then DEC PDP-8 assembler.  When I switched to Computer Science, I started...

I spent 10 years working on Unix systems and with the utilities available, working in the shell is powerful. True, Unix isn't free, but Unix skills are transferrable to Linux...

Jeff Moden (12/13/2016)

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Sean Redmond (12/13/2016)

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A senior developer who recently left our company expressed the opinion to me that the DBAs should be in charge of the Data Access Layer.

He was...

At a job interview a number of years ago, I was given a listing of a C program and asked to explain what it does. I did that and...

I had one of those systems. The state agency had a vendor provided system, that was shared with another state agency, that sent alerts out using fax and email....

Wells Fargo’s Stars Thrived While 5,000 Workers Got Fired

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-03/wells-fargo-s-stars-climbed-while-abuses-flourished-beneath-them

I don't think that a computer system could have detected the fraudulent activity at Wells Fargo. This was a systemic problem across the branches from the account representatives up through...

A pet peeve of mine are those presentations that end with a black screen that displays "End of slide show, click to exit."

For my presentations, my ending slide is a...

GUIs are great to use, but sometimes one has to use the shell to get things done. I had to export users from an Active Directory system and create...

I've paid for an MSDN subscription for several years. Microsoft has revamped their subscriptions, now called Visual Studio subscriptions and also made it more expensive to buy for the features...

And still, we don't have transporters or warp drive yet.