I have both rolled my own queue in SQL Server and used message queue systems like MSMQ and AMQP. The article sited seems to have some good points but I...

I wish a Kanban or any other way to organize one's personal goals and projects could begin with some way to get my wife to agree with ANYTHING that I...

In software I do not have time to fully Grok.

Good thoughts for the day in a field where solving "impossible" is routine.

When I think of "never give up" I think of the phrase coined by Pirsig in Zen and...

Gary Varga (6/12/2014)

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geoffrey.sturdy (6/12/2014)

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No Gary - that's how things are - when you roll out changes you by their nature de-stabilise a system , ususally there is a good reason...

I always wanted to use kaleidoscope in a sentence. "I just hit F5 with focus on the wrong...

Hmm this could be lots of pages with long stories of woe.

Which should I tell...

? the times when someone ran a DELETE in production without a WHERE and the fun...

Hard-coded SQL in our apps has been my pet peeve for years. I cannot count the number of times I have been asked to put a clustered index on a...

When you fail more often you'll get used to it 😉

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."

-Yogi Berra

liteswitch (11/6/2013)

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I may be mistaken, but I thought the "upgrade" to Windows 8.1 was actually a full reinstall of the OS? One of our infrastructure staff here found this out...

Gary Varga (6/14/2013)

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scott mcnitt (6/13/2013)

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Jim P. (6/13/2013)

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David.Poole (6/13/2013)

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Anyone starting today would be shocked by what their predecessors had to to to fight with the early versions of MFC. The...

Jim P. (6/13/2013)

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David.Poole (6/13/2013)

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Anyone starting today would be shocked by what their predecessors had to to to fight with the early versions of MFC. The sheer amount of code...

Google "Shadow IT".

Very interesting.

It seems like a bad idea to find a script on the Internet and just run it -- whether you read the comments or not!

Look up and understand each statement...

Quest, I get it and do not want to seem like my tone is negative here.

I can only hope that I am never asked to "find some bad data that...