The Successful Consulting Series is a set of articles that are being written to both, help decisions on joining the consulting field and also, help existing consultants in their professional development initiatives. Please visit, “Successful Consulting Series” for a full listing of each part in this series. Perhaps you’re thinking, “I’m bored in my full-time job, managing the same 250 SQL Servers” and are considering a move to consulting.
This is an archive of the posts published to LessThanDot from 2008 to 2018, over a decade of useful content. While we're no longer adding new content, we still receive a lot of visitors and wanted to make sure the content didn't disappear forever.
The Successful Consulting Series is a set of articles that are being written to both, help decisions on joining the consulting field and also, help existing consultants in their professional development initiatives. Please visit, “Successful Consulting Series” for a full listing of each part in this series. In this article of the Successful Consulting Series, we’re going to discuss the process of interviewing for a consultant position. As with many of the other articles in this series, there is still much value that can be taken and related to fulltime employment and other positions or careers.
This post is proudly sponsored by JetBrains. And NCrunch. Well here it is, number 500, a half millennium and this is also exactly my 5th year on LessThanDot. It all started with this post about OOP. And it will all end with me giving away a Personal License for Resharper, Dotrace or DotCover (you can choose one of those three) and a named NCrunch License. Look below for more details.
This is day twenty of the SQL Advent 2012 series of blog posts. Today we are going to look at why you should use the new features of the product or language. Every now and then I get to look at some code that is recently written, looking at it you would think the code is written in 1999. I see insert into temp tables with an identity column in order to return a row number.
After years of only being familiar with Rhino mocks, I have been using Moq for the last 10 months or so. For the most part, I like it better. The syntax seems easier to get people up to speed on, and there are situations where it really cuts down on the amount of test code you have to write. This is about one of the situations where it doesn’t. One of the things I always liked about Rhino Mocks was the idea of the mock repository, and the fact that when disposing of a mock repository all of your setups get verified automagically.
The Successful Consulting Series is a set of articles that are being written to both, help decisions on joining the consulting field and also, help existing consultants in their professional development initiatives. Please visit, “Successful Consulting Series” for a full listing of each part in this series. Wikipedia states that work ethics is a set of values based on hard work and diligence. It is also a belief in the moral benefit of work and its ability to enhance character.
Introduction I am making this little project in Nancy because I want to use it at work next year. I tried out most of the things I will be needing and trying to get a feel of the product. This has of course resulted in some blogposts. And it will save me a lot of time once I get back. Yesterday it was time to add some authentication to my pages.
This is day nineteen of the SQL Advent 2012 series of blog posts. Today we are going to look at how to improve your tech skills. This really is a continuation of the Stay relevant and marketable post from yesterday. Here are some things that you can do to improve your tech skills Attend usergroups Attend your local usergroup meetings, there is always some expert that comes to do presentations.
Take a look at the books in your office. Think about how much space they take up. Now pick one up and page through it. Is there a lot of white space? Some pages may only have a couple paragraphs on them. There are a lot of words and letters repeated. If there was a way to compress the book, it would be much lighter to store and carry around, wouldn’t it?
This is day eighteen of the SQL Advent 2012 series of blog posts. Today we are going to look at how to stay relevant and marketable Whenever I interview people I always ask what the latest version is that they have used. I will also ask if they have used the version that is in beta now. More often than not I will get an answer that they are still running something that is two versions behind.