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See you at TheRuntime.com

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...

Published Mon, Nov 12 2007 10:43 AM by Eric Wise

Filed under: ASP .NET, Patterns and Practices, Business / IT, VB .NET, Personal, Rants, SQL, C#
Growing the team

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.

Published Wed, Aug 8 2007 5:55 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Business / IT
Kudos to Sprint

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...

Published Mon, Jul 9 2007 5:48 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Business / IT
On H1-B Visas

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...

Published Sat, Jul 7 2007 10:42 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Business / IT
Followup: Rejecting Software Engineering

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...

Published Thu, Jun 28 2007 10:44 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Patterns and Practices, Business / IT
Google? Not for me...

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...

Published Wed, Jun 27 2007 10:00 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Business / IT
Rejecting Software Engineering

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...

Published Tue, Jun 26 2007 10:39 AM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Patterns and Practices, Business / IT, Rants
Looking Back: Keys To Project Success Part 1

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...

Published Sun, Jun 24 2007 5:41 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Patterns and Practices, Business / IT
Hello Vault

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...

Published Mon, Jun 11 2007 10:52 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Patterns and Practices, Business / IT
Application Development Manager

It's actually been more than a month since I received this promotion, but I've been so busy pushing towards release for the new internal insurance processing software that my company needed that I haven't had any time to blog! Anyways, I thought I'd quickly and formally announce that...

Published Mon, Jun 11 2007 10:48 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Business / IT, Personal
TechEd Wrapup

All in all, it's been a pretty fun week so far. My favorite sessions by far were Rocky's architecture session and David Platt's jam packed session on Why Software Sucks . Rocky and David are both very engaging speakers who use humor and make the audience feel comfortable in interacting with...

Published Thu, Jun 7 2007 4:36 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: ASP .NET, VB .NET, C#
Bye Bye Team Foundation Server

Ya know, I really tried to give team foundation server a fair shake. My opinion on it is as follows: It's a generally better source control system than source safe. It's really expensive. It's a pain in the ass to administrate. It's a pain in the ass to troubleshoot. So, I haven't...

Published Thu, May 31 2007 2:32 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Patterns and Practices, Business / IT, Rants
I'll see you at Tech-Ed

Nuff Said.

Published Wed, Mar 14 2007 9:29 AM by Eric Wise

Filed under: ASP .NET, VB .NET, C#
Offtopic Happy Friday : Webcomics

I'm often surprised how few people realize that there are some quality comics on the web that aren't syndicated in newspapers. Here's a list of my top 3. Happy Friday! http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic for general gaming and industry humor. http://www.somethingpositive.net For the dry, sarcastic...

Published Thu, Mar 1 2007 7:43 PM by Eric Wise

Filed under: Personal
Sahil on FOR XML

Sahil just posted a nice little primer for getting started with the FOR XML clause in sql 2005 . Good start, however I feel like he missed a technique. One of my major gripes with working with FOR XML is when you have to join more than 2 tables in your query. FOR XML AUTO tends to create a child node...

Published Tue, Feb 20 2007 7:01 AM by Eric Wise

Filed under: SQL

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See you at TheRuntime.com

Growing the team

Kudos to Sprint

On H1-B Visas

Followup: Rejecting Software Engineering

Google? Not for me...

Rejecting Software Engineering

Looking Back: Keys To Project Success Part 1

Hello Vault

Application Development Manager

TechEd Wrapup

Bye Bye Team Foundation Server

I'll see you at Tech-Ed

Offtopic Happy Friday : Webcomics

Sahil on FOR XML