Category Archives: Editorial

The Programming Languages We Use

Posted on January 13, 2023 by way0utwest

Many of you reading this probably work primarily in SQL. Even if you are a developer whose main language is something else, you write a lot of SQL. Even if you have an ORM writing the SQL that goes into … Continue reading →

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Do Hybrid Conferences Work?

Posted on January 11, 2023 by way0utwest

The pandemic forced many events online, which has worked fairly well inside many companies and certainly spurred some technological advances in how we meet and share information. With the pandemic ending or at least entering an endemic phase, there are … Continue reading →

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The Cost of Employee Turnover

Posted on January 7, 2023 by way0utwest

Sometime during the first 3-4 months of the pandemic, after offices all over the world closed, I thought that a lot of businesses would try to hold on to existing employees and minimize turnover. I also thought many employees would … Continue reading →

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The Best and Worst Tech of 2022

Posted on January 6, 2023 by way0utwest

There was an article on the worst technology of 2022 from the MIT Technology Review. I was hoping to get some sense of what was really useful or failure-prone technology, but it seems that the article delves into decisions on … Continue reading →

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