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aka Shawn

  • SQL Server Developer/DBA
  • MySQL Developer
  • British expat
  • Code monkey

43 Answers

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27
Why is naming a table's Primary Key column “Id” considered bad practice?
26
What is the difference in a developer's years of experience with a language?
20
What popular “best practices” are not always best, and why?
12
Reasons Programmers Leave
9
My coworker created a 96 columns SQL table
8
How do programmers in the West see programmers in the East?
8
Are SMART goals useful for programmers?
7
How to reach to the advanced level in SQL?
6
Crunch-time Sleep Deprivation: Survival Strategies?
6
Has the term “Service Oriented Architecture” become meaningless jargon?
6
Continuous Professional development – the best approach
4
Should lookup tables enumerating strings have an integer primary key?
4
SQL Server DBA - How to get a good one!
4
What can I do when the interviewer doesn't know the answer to his/her own question?
4
Code while standing
4
Would you hire programmers without a 4-year college degree?
4
Will high reputation in Stack Overflow help to get a good job?
4
Pronunciation in programming?
3
What is the motivation that makes you to stick with current job?
3
How do you typically become chief software engineer in a company?
3
When is it better to offload work to the RDBMS rather than to do it in code?
3
When do you get your best ideas?
3
If you were the manager of a team of 25 developers, how would you motivate them?
2
How do we handle Categories in database schema and model classes
2
Why is prefixing column names considered bad practice?
2
What does it mean to write “good code”?
2
If I only know TSQL can I call myself programmer?
1
Arguments for a coding standard?
1
Best practices when creating/modeling databases?
1
What are some known/common development specialties?
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