there are good managers, and there are bad managers. What I find interesting is that many in business love to watch sports, where the players are as critical to...

Nine years ago, when I was at a start up, we setup a CI environment. Sure, it took a bit of initial work, coordinating subversion, cruise control, testing, etc....

I worked in NYC for a while. Exciting, but expensive. If you are young, single, and looking for an interesting time, great, but if not, then don't bother...

OCTom (10/24/2014)

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I disagree with the premise that a toaster is simply a generic applicance and any one will do. They are not all the same and their performance is key...

The page limitation ties into another discussion Steve started a few months ago (in 2014 that is) about the slowing pace of change in SQL Server in general. Given...

Ah, being both adult and wise about picking technology tools.

What fun is that? Soooo many technical religions to pick from, so little time!

Some great points, but some times it all depends. is this a production install, or is it for dev/testing? If it is for production, then a repeatable, defined process...

Join the club. I completely went from your reference to Xenix (a unix variant), to my long forgotten days with the Victor 9000 (an early PC). Back then...

Ours used MSDOS.

Still the point about Multiplan and Microsoft not liking to code for different platforms has not changed.

It was a Victor 9000. as i recall, it has an Intel 8086 chip. when the IBM machines came out with an 8088, they were slower than the...

Gary Varga (10/9/2014)

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But you know what? They delivered on the cross platform problem. Nothing else installs on OS X, Windows...

Tom_Sacramento (10/6/2014)

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5 years from now...

When I started in this business 35 years ago life was punch-card FORTRAN and Assembler code. I am absolutely amazed at where we are now,...

I've been using SQL Svr since v4.21, so I am a bit biased. Overall it has gotten better and better, but... many of the younger developers are focused on LAMP,...

The sync part is for the contacts. They are all local in my local outlook personal folders. Sorry about that - did I mention email was not my thing 🙂

Hey, I'm not much of an email expert - so I guess it would be the local Outlook repository/personal folders - where it syncs with my POP/SMTP account, and then...