Tag Archives: software development

From Great Idea to End Result

Posted on October 27, 2015 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on May 5, 2011. It is being republished as Steve is at the PASS Summit. What’s the time for you IT department to get from great idea to a resulting application? This is a very good … Continue reading →

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Aging Software

Posted on October 7, 2015 by way0utwest

I wrote The Age of Software awhile back and noted that supporting previous versions of software isn’t necessarily a good use of resources for development teams. I especially think this is true of SQL Server. But does that mean we should abandon … Continue reading →

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Exercism

Posted on September 28, 2015 by way0utwest

I’ve been looking to work on my programming skills a bit and try some new languages. I’d like to grow my career in a few different ways, as well as investigate where some of the new languages and platforms might … Continue reading →

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Data Masking for Convenience

Posted on September 23, 2015 by way0utwest

I was at Microsoft in Redmond recently and heard an interesting comment from a SQL Server developer. I was debating the data masking feature with a friend, and we were torn on the value of this for various situations we’d … Continue reading →

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