Another good one Steve!

My answer: yep - I can do this job anywhere in the world. It's the new nature of the disconnected workforce.

I understand and appreciate the sentiments...

I blogged about Performance Based Organizations in IT a while back.

Like many manufactring trends of the 70's and 80's, PBOs have jumped the fence to our industry. Here's what we...

This is another good one Steve!

Like the folks above, I've built applications to monitor and report job and package status. Usually these applications have used a combination of internal logging...

I agree with you Steve - a flexible work schedule, including working from home, along with more vacation would be great.

:{> Andy

Good link and editorial Steve.

I, and many I know, still refuse to purchase anything remotely connected with the Sony Corporation because of the violation of trust they perpetrated against us...

Interesting poll topic, Steve!

The first application I remember writing attempted to track weather systems as they traveled on prevailing winds from west the east across the US. It was written...

I would teach. I taught part-time before at a technical college and thoroughly enjoyed it!

:{> Andy

This can be tricky.

Businesses exist to make money. "Trade" implies goods and services exchanged for capital. Capitalism, viewed from space, purports to be a system - partially described as...

Disclaimer: Andy is a Redskins fan.

Developers can be quirky. Team-think doesn't always allow for this, desiring everyone to be a team player (I cannot help but think of several scenes...

Great editorial (again), Steve!

It was cool of Adam to share his code and thinking as it evolved - thanks Adam!

Way too often, I find myself dealing with someone's perception of "the...

I started working with SQL Server 6.5 a few months before 7.0 was released. I'd started a business after building an idea into a product called Plant-Wide Webs (it was one...

Any chance you can convince my kids of this?

LOL! I'll trade you - you convince my kids and I'll convince yours!

Hi Josh,

I wrote some about differing DBA roles at http://sqlservercentral.com/cs/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2005/07/30/86.aspx. Although it's difficult to generalize, I think you're looking for more of what I describe as a Developer DBA.

I think...

One day we'll look back and laugh, but today ain't the day.

:{> Andy

... it's more accurate to say I was part of a team that built a 1.6 TB SQL Server 2000 data warehouse! My apologies to the rest of the team...

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