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I don't know, I think those without the passion and going through the motions are wasting their lives--and that's terribly sad. I know that I'm blessed with working in a...
January 26, 2010 at 6:49 am
GOC-481399 (1/19/2010)
Nothing is documented and...
January 19, 2010 at 7:49 am
Most of my career has been spent as a solo programmer, so my day-to-day contact with *any* other programmers has been limited. Over 30 some-odd years I've probably worked closely...
January 6, 2010 at 6:53 am
David Portas (12/21/2009)
December 21, 2009 at 6:57 am
David Portas (12/20/2009)
Much more importantly, there are fundamental differences between a spreadsheet and a table (at least a table in the relational sense). As conventionally understood a spreadsheet is a...
December 20, 2009 at 5:47 pm
A couple of points:
It is DBAs who coopted the english word "data base". Removing a space doesn't cut it, linguistically. 🙂
We're the Johnny-come-latelys so the "uneducated" user is right, not...
December 20, 2009 at 8:36 am
Gianluca Sartori (11/16/2009)
Flexible languages such as VB.Net allow you to write crappy code, rigid languages such as Java simply don't allow crap.
It is quite easy to write crap in...
November 16, 2009 at 10:56 am
Florian Reischl (11/14/2009)
November 16, 2009 at 7:25 am
Ok, just to head off any flames about VB programmers as inferior, let me simply say good programming practices are language agnostic, and no language is inherently better or worse...
November 13, 2009 at 8:29 am
there's rumor a long time ago that part of it's fast engines were used for sql and access, though i wouldn't hold on to that rumor.
It's not a rumor,...
November 13, 2009 at 8:04 am
I was struck by the poster that said human languages are pretty much the same.
I must disagree. They really aren't.
Sure, they get the day-to-day jobs done. "I want food"...
November 13, 2009 at 7:15 am
If I understand Brian's post he's not entirely out in left field, although I think running with *no* data integrity is a huge mistake.
I think what he's saying...
September 11, 2009 at 9:06 am
I'm in agreement with G2. Surrogate keys (which my company calls RIDs) are the only way to go for primary keys in entity tables--tables which contain entities. Aside from eliminating...
September 8, 2009 at 11:42 am
David Korb (8/3/2009)
Those gatekeeper systems serve mainly to maintain legal monopolies for the benefit of the people already in the profession, with the secondary benefit of providing higher quality professionals.
I'm...
August 3, 2009 at 11:49 am
I've always viewed software as a craft, and viewed myself as a craftsman *not* an engineer. The definition of craftsman I like is: "a creator of great skill in the...
August 3, 2009 at 6:47 am
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