I had a similar need to monitor that a database was accessible, but it also needed to check that web servers were also up. I wrote a Windows service in...

I developed a C# application that matched a list of Medicaid patients from one state agency with the immunization records at the state agency I work for. To get the...

I grew up following NASA's space program. I saw two final flights in person: 1) the US half of the Apollo/Soyuz Test project and 2) the final Space Shuttle launch.

I'd...

For work, I have folders set up for each project or system and I move the emails to the relevant folders. If my manager wants to know something about...

I use Outlook at home with Google being my email provider. I have folders set up for different topics: photography, computers, etc., and there can be subfolders.

Generally at the...

I am responsible for three critical web applications. For one system, I developed a Windows service that monitors the web application; it pulls the login page and verifies that it...

I was the developer of a system that registers medical people that want to volunteer in disasters/emergencies. The DBA that was assigned to the project did a brilliant job in...

I support three different key systems. I developed three Windows services (the first was used as a shell for the other two) that runs at periodic intervals to do diagnostics...

I was on a project where the project manager had a weekly two hour status meeting. Her meetings perpetually started 10-15 minutes late because she was futzing with the computer...

Steve,

It's great that you got to see history happen with the Falcon 9 landing. Kennedy Space Center is a great place to visit. I've been there a few times and...

When I graduated from the University of South Carolina, Computer Science was in the College of Math and Science; sometime later, the Computer Science program was moved to the College...

I cringe anytime I open any emails from one manager. Her emails have many misspellings and grammatical errors.

For improving verbal skills, I recommend Toastmasters.

This is something the organization that I'm in doesn't do. The source code is in source control, but not the database and all the components within, tables, stored procedures,...

At one place that I worked at, "bye-bye emails" were somewhat a tradition.

One person "wrote" a C++ program that thoroughly blasted the executive management.

Another person created a crossword puzzle using...

The first computer that I learned programming on was the DEC PDP-8 (FOCAL, and assembly) at USC's College of Engineering; in the Computer Science department, I did programming on their...