Developers, developers, developers
A survey of developers on Stack Overflow has some interesting results that Steve Jones notes. Some of them might just impact our careers as data professionals.
2014-03-11
288 reads
Editorial
An Integrated Process for Software Delivery.
Developers, enamored of the integrated approach to Software Delivery, would like to be able to respond to business need in business time, adding functionality when the need is recognized, instead of 6-9 months later after it's gone through the sclerotic IT purchasing and configuration process.
2014-03-10
83 reads
Continuous Delivery
The practice of continuous software development is growing, with continuous integration, deployment, and delivery being topics that Steve Jones is learning about. Today he talks about delivery.
2014-03-10
150 reads
2014-03-05
1,383 reads
Is Rolling Back The Same as Failing?
When you must rollback a deployment of changes, is that a failure of the process? The development effort? Or something else?
2017-12-14 (first published: 2014-03-04)
186 reads
Downtime
Most of us are working to prevent downtime in our systems. However Netflix thinks a little forced downtime is good for the software developers and infrastructure people.
2014-03-03
179 reads
DBA Dreams
Louis Davidson on the small dreams that DBAs can nurture, each day, to elevate the drudgery of a seemingly banal task into a celebration of purpose.
2014-03-03
156 reads
Geeky Entertainment
As a break from work, this week Steve Jones wants to know what you wish for. Are there comic book, science fiction, or technological thrillers you'd like to see made into movies?
2014-02-28
146 reads
Open Call for Editorials
Steve Jones is putting out an open call for guest editorial pieces in the spring of 2014. If you're interested, read on.
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-02-27)
1,221 reads
Fixing CREATE TABLE
Steve Jones has a problem with the inconsistency of the CREATE TABLE statement in SQL Server and has an idea on what to do.
2014-02-27
245 reads
Blogs
Ian Stewart to Lead WordPress.com
By Rob Sewell
Ian Stewart will lead customer experience at WordPress.com, utilizing his 14 years of experience...
A New Word: Opia
By Steve Jones
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What is PHP? A Thorough Explanation for Absolute Beginners
By Rob Sewell
PHP is a vital, open source scripting language that powers WordPress and many major...
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