I’ve fallen a bit behind on listening to some of my go-to programming podcasts of late (I will explain why shortly), but some of my friends were talking at dinner last week about a recent episode of .NET Rocks, featuring Alan Stevens. It presented the question, “Are you a craftsman?” and adopted a contrarian, or…
I’ll admit as I type the first sentence of this post that I don’t know whether this will conclude a two-part “mini-series” or whether I’ll feel compelled to write further posts. But I wanted to write the follow up that I hinted at to the post I wrote about introversion for programmers (well, specifically me)….
In SQL Server management studio, all of objects in the database are listed in the object explorer in the format [schema].[object]. In large databases of the legacy variety, it’s not uncommon to find that the only schema for application tables/views/sprocs is dbo. In this case, navigating to the object you want requires the infuriating step…
Negative feedback is something with which we all have to contend, and probably on a fairly regular basis. It comes in a whole lot of forms with varying degrees of merit or importance: official performance reviews, talks with coworkers, miscellaneous gossip, heated discussion with loved ones, and even things like comments on a blog post…
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you might have seen me engage in talk about the MacLeod Hierarchy from time to time in the comments with various posters. We’re referring to a concept where the denizens of a corporate organization fall into one of three categories: Losers, Clueless, and Sociopaths. It’s explained…
