It's really not whether you say no, it is how you say no. Three simple rules have nearly always worked for me:

Be honest.

Be direct.

Be professional.

Doesn't matter if you're simply...

Well said, but the one thing I found absent from the discussion was the price/feature ratio (or price/improvement if you will), particularly nowadays with Microsoft's rather byzantine licensing structure. To...

Gary Varga (11/19/2015)

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I agree with this editorials stance.

However, anyone who took 10 ways to shrink your IT budget[/url] too seriously hasn't looked into the author much. He is an ex-actor...

While unit testing is definitely a skill I need to improve, there are legacy applications and code I've been dealing with for years and I have no problem messing with...

I've been working on our main production database for over five years now. It's housed on a Sql Server 2005 instance so the thing is at least 7 or...

Usually after I've finished coding some particular piece or resolving some issue, I take a walk out to our back entrance (we have a decent-sized landing near our loading docks)...

j-1064772 (9/25/2015)

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Logging might get complicated during the execution a multi-statement in a stored procedure when the various steps are within a transaction.

Has anyone considered the possibility of writing to a...

I'd be curious to see how this would work to search and return a range of similar addresses, say from a given domain such as all the email addresses from...

I think everyone would do well to remember the old adage when dealing with this subject:

"It's not personal, it's just business."

I've been on both sides. There were times when...

You're asking the wrong question.

The question of "What makes a good developer" is highly dependent upon your industry, your work environment, methodologies and a hundred or more other factors, to...

A not-often-mentioned benefit of VCS is the ability to organize work. All the parts of a solution from data store to GUI can be kept in one place for...

If someone wants to see my code, they can grant me an interview and we'll talk about it then. Either I use something that's mine or they can present...

Regardless of how good something performs in initial testing, I always try to find people who are less computer savvy to field test. They do the "stupid stuff": things...

We ran smack into this earlier this year. We've got 2005 SP4 running and went through the whole exercise of costing out a move all the way to SS2014....

It's survived and thrived so long...