...you don't know where they've been, or who's been touching them. I've been burned pretty badly in the past by making assumptions about existing databases. Database documentation isn't always helpful either, because it is out of date or just wrong to begin with. Even if the documentation is "correct...

I'm a ReSharper junkie, and I get angry when I don't have it. I've spent the majority of my .Net career working with converted Java developers. To a man, they all complained about the crudeness of Visual Studio.Net compared to IntelliJ or even Eclipse. I wrote them off as whiners because I was used to...

Yesterday I griped about legacy code. I carped about VSS, whined about the tight coupling, groused about the arcane configuration setup, and spewed invective about the stupid manual post compilation steps it took just to make the code work. Today it's time to start cleaning things up and applying some...