I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first formed, myself and several other bloggers from DotNetJunkies...

I now have an opening for a mid-senior level Database Administrator. SQL 2005, OLAP cubes, Performance Tuning, all that good stuff. If you know anyone who would like to work in the Akron Canton area with a small kickass team led by yours truly, send them my way.

I noticed an article today about Sprint Firing 1000 Customers . I would like to congratulate Sprint for making a tough and potentially unpopular decision for the good of their business. I wrote a blog post a few years ago about firing clients and I believe much of the same logic applies to the Sprint...

This guy knocks it out of the park . Our last two open positions we filled with H1-B candidates. Not because we wanted cheap labor (we pay them quite well, market rate), but because like my compatriot blogger here the quality of the American candidates was pretty poor. Of the entire stack of stateside...

Pretty fun post actually, sparked a lot of debate and good examples on both sides. So I got to thinking tonight and the funny thing about that post is that I was talking about why I reject the title of engineer and of course it led to a debate about whether we should all be called engineers or not which...

This wordpress post has been making rounds on the internet as an internal email being passed around at Microsoft about the views of an employee who previously worked for Google. Being the darling of the day, any look inside Google is of interest to a geek like me and probably you readers too. Here's...

When I actually get some free time and surf around the blogosphere I often see people referring to software as "engineering". I've always had a problem with this term because it implies things about software development that simply are not. Let's take a look at Dictionary.com for a...

When I actually get some free time and surf around the blogosphere I often see people referring to software as "engineering". I've always had a problem with this term because it implies things about software development that simply are not. Let's take a look at Dictionary.com for a...

For the last few months, I've been rather scarce while we put the finishing touches on the new enterprise software that runs the company I work for. I've been meaning to kick off a series of blog posts on what worked, what didn't, and why the team was able to finish a critical and complex...

Being that I was so irritated with Team System dying on me, in addition to the relative immaturity of the interface there, I decided upon return from Tech Ed to change direction and move the team to SourceGear's Vault product. In addition to Eric Sink being a stand up guy and blogger community figure...