Let me say from the start that this is a total ripoff of Brent Ozar's SQL Server TV Show Contest, and I don't care. Imitation, flattery, all that jazz. This morning a few of us on Twitter were talking, like ya do, when Tim Ford (@sqlagentman) and Thomas LaRock (@sqlrockstar) sparked off a little burst of […]
Author: Jen McCown
Code Sins: Coding Lonely, without a Map
One of the symptoms – or maybe sub-sins – of coding lonely is coding without requirements. Let us start, as we so often do, with an analogy. We're planning a big road trip, you and I. We're going somewhere on vacation. Here's what we've decided so far: we're taking my van, the SQLbus. We're going […]
Women’s Day + Technology
This was rather a difficult blog to write, mostly because I feel like I have an underdeveloped grasp of women's issues. I'm a fierce proponent of women's rights – people's rights in general – but in my mind I'm still stepping around the sensitive spots in society. If I seem a bit awkward today, you […]