I'm on a hybrid remote/office schedule. Two days at the office, 3 days at home.

This is a nice balance because part of my work involves setting up hardware as well...

Amen, Steve.

Amen Steve

Skills atrophy if not used.

Back in the days of the Model T you had to know how to hand-crank the car to start it. Knowing how to remove the cylinder...

Be wary when a user tells you "oh, we'll never need more than 1X of this. Or especially wary if they say "just 2X (or 3X" because it will inevitably become nX.

Or...

Ok, I am a developer, and I have to say I hope Sean Redmond is being facetious.

1. Anyone who develops database applications needs to be fluent in (not just "be...

My view on certificates is pretty negative. They're usually nothing but a money grab by vendors, and even when they aren't certification tests are a lot like high school or...

TRY/CATCH doesn't catch everything. In fact it won't catch most of the things you really want it to so I simply avoid it completely. Nothing worse than an...

TRY/CATCH doesn't catch everything. In fact it won't catch most of the things you really want it to so I simply avoid it completely. Nothing worse than an unreliable language...

The eternal balance between law and chaos.

Standards are by their nature "gates". For example, would you really want five different voltage standards for household outlets? How about which side of...

Does ANY other computer language yield .1? Probably not. THIS is a serious bug. No matter what they say this kind of issue could cripple a project and probably not...

There's a secret to reading code. 🙂

Don't try.

Or rather, do it only once. Code is called code for a reason. Even the best written code is not written for readability...

DevOps isn't related to cadance or QA/testing. It is related to learning to become better. Plenty of companies conflated the two and drove speed over quality (many still do)....

While DevOps is a nice theory, situations like this are why you shouldn't pile on the coal and have an overly ambitious release schedule. Even Microsoft eventually admitted the truth...

A firewall is about access from endpoints, which may or may not help here. Inside->traffic often isn't limited, which is a hassle.

There are protections built in, but many don't...