Yes there's something seriously wrong with some of the patent applications.

They are anti-competitive / anti-imaginative and it makes me wonder how in the hell they are upheld.

New Planet Money have...

Yeah another accountant in the world of systems design. I am always surprised and disappointed that accountants don't take a deeper dive into the...

Eric M Russell (1/21/2014)

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I know. Even with constraints Excel would still not be a database, but it would make for a better data input and analysis tool. For example, Windows...

I was doing some work in Lightswitch the other day VS2013 and I note that in the schema diagram after you have named a table Contact it will automatically make...

This is interesting

I'm probably in the "I don't think Excel is the problem" camp. Excel does far more good than harm and its only the fact that it is often...

Personally while I would expect excellent spelling and grammar from items written for articles and blogs I am not so critical of spelling mistakes in places like forums. Spelling mistakes...

The only unusual thing that I like to have is a home made Project/CRM software that I put together just for myself. It holds all my contacts and a list...

Absolutely all Developers should have a clear understanding of primary and foreign keys and the idea of relationships between tables and how the differences between different query types. ( I...

Another vote for having the developers and DBAs to be working side by side in the same team.

So divisional teams based around products with a single manager for both. Functional...

Yes and No

While I do think you should have a walled off area I am strongly of the opinion that every organsation should have a fully open pool database /...

Programming is one of the few disciplines were the ability of the individual can outweigh the ability of an army of individuals.

As long as that individual is not down right...

This is an excellent topic. I do a bit of work for a timing company. I actually helped time the Haddington Sprint Triathlon on Sunday last weekend. We can time...

Yes and I keep reading articles...

Oh boy - flat earthers still exist.

Investors have little time for appointing mavericks and even if a former owner and developer of a company comes back he often faces incredible resistance from present investors. Michael Dell...