I have worked on three projects where the plug was pulled. One was for an insurance product for a Norwegian insurance company, another was for an automated loan approval...

8 Ways to Bridge the IT Skills Gap brings up some valid points.

1 - Invest in Training

Toastmasters is a great continuing education and affordable program to help people develop their...

I wrote an article on CodeProject about a C# .Net windows application that I developed using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) to read a schedule that is published...

Scrapbook:

It looks like OneNote does the same thing. I use OneNote for saving web pages for research, and for keeping other notes.

Getting Things Done:

This looks interesting and merits more...

Of all the places that I have worked, I enjoyed working for Affinity Technology Group in Columbia, SC with plenty of great place for lunch within walking distance. The...

Google has GMail Custom Time which allows users to specify the time when they want mail sent, using an exclusive time-flux capacitor.

Handy for those that forgot to send an email...

Wayne West (4/1/2008)

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Absolutely brilliant,...

It was near the end of March 2000, when I announced my resignation to go work for another company. Friday, March 31, two coworkers told me that Hooters Restaurants...

I walked into our team’s daily 9 AM meeting a few minutes late and apologized for being late, saying “I just off the phone with our help desk. My...

D Smith (2/26/2008)

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We do that where I work too. Everyone takes the TTI assessment as part of the application process, and everyone's results are available to everyone else. ...

The readers of SQL ServerCentral work in a binary world, so why have just refer to three types when we can use a nice round binary number of sixteen.

petertuffin and...

I worked for one company where a client signed a contract for the product with a specified set of features. A Functional Specification was then written specifying the features...

I went to the University of South Carolina and since graduation, have worked in the Columbia, SC area, except for a seven-month contract in Cedar Rapids, IA. Columbia is...