Mandatory Fun Day: 2.10: You Know What To Do
24 Jul 2008 12:30pm GMT Brought to you by the Non-WTF Job Board:
Nepotism Trumps Interview
23 Jul 2008 2:00pm GMT Simon had a great job. Every day he was playing with cool hardware and software, he liked his colleagues, and the pay... well... OK, he was underpaid. Vastly underpaid. While his company made good on their promise to give him a raise once he got a C certification, it was an insulting two figures. Simon would've felt less insulted if they'd literally slapped him in the face (instead of figuratively). It didn't take him long to line up some interviews and get a job offer for a position that...
CodeSOD: tblTimesheet
23 Jul 2008 12:00pm GMT Not too long ago, Erik was hired to do extend and maintain a timesheet application for an employment agency. It was an ASP/VBScript web-app with data that lived in the Everything Database: a single SQL Server database filled with random tables from all sorts of various applications. After paging through the tables, Erik found a few that seemed to be for the timesheet application. The first one he opened up was tblTimesheet. TABLE tblTimesheet ( fld_TS_TimesheetPK BIGINT NOT NULL, ...
Designed For Reliability
22 Jul 2008 2:00pm GMT Tandem Computers were all the rage in the mid-1980s, especially in the banking industry and other high-transaction environments. "While most computer systems have failure rates on the order of a few days," Tandem salespeople would often say, "our NonStop line of computers is designed to fail hundreds of times less. We measure our uptime in years." And they were right: Tandem delivered hardware solutions with virtually no downtime. This was accomplished through Tandem's...
Mandatory Fun Day: 2.9: Just Say It
22 Jul 2008 12:00pm GMT Brought to you by the Non-WTF Job Board: