Hiring for the culture is just about normal these days. But I have been hired on several occasions to change the culture.

In one case the work attitude...

At the Compass Group we use Continuous Integration to ensure the stability of our code base for both application and database projects. Although I was not comfortable with it...

I agree with Andy about keeping skill levels up in our areas. There are many avenues for that.

I don't believe the cloud is the panacea that many...

I agree with Steve that college provides more than training in terms of communication skills and general knowledge. I also believe that community colleges provide the skills training better suited...

The first rule of application security is to never trust user input. The second rule is always test for sql injection. The third rule is to run the...

I agree with Steve wholeheartedly. Having spent over 15 years doing a variety of operational auditing professionally for the Air Force and then Martin Marietta, I recognize the need...

I want to thank everyone for the comments. One of the ways we can learn about different technical solutions to various problems is to submit articles like this in...

Several commenters recommended using the FILESTREAM option rather than use a CLR. The FILESTREAM option stores the BLOB on the file system itself which defeats the purpose of storing...

I am on a contract with the Compass Group on the Webtrition project. I cannot speak to how other projects handle code reviews but on the Webtrition project...

Thanks for sharing. You gave me some insight on how I can be better organized without a lot of complexity.

While I served in the US Air Force we trained for a variety of contingencies such as a mass casualty, Hostage events and terrorist attacks on an Air Force base....

I can do that -- two articles it is.

I'd like to take this on as well as Adding Binary Files. It would be one article.

I'd like to take this on as well as the retrieve Binary Files.

Published in March 2015 -Needs closing