Eric Wise

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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... Posted Nov 12 2007, 10:43 AM by Eric Wise with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: ASP .NET, Business / IT, C#, Patterns and Practices, Personal, Rants, SQL, VB .NET

• 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... Posted Jun 26 2007, 10:39 AM by Eric Wise with | with 66 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices, Rants

• 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... Posted May 31 2007, 02:32 PM by Eric Wise with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices, Rants

• Lobbying for change in the consulting industry

  I think most people who have been in the IT industry for an average amount of time can agree with my perception that for the most part, the consulting industry is garbage. Consultants are expensive, usually on par or worse than your full time employees... Posted Feb 12 2007, 09:59 AM by Eric Wise with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Rants, Patterns and Practices

• Know Your Role

  Nothing is more dangerous than a programmer pushed into a DBA role who doesn't know crap about databases. Too often, you see consultancies, smaller organizations, and people in general trying to save a buck and not bring any DBA presence on board... Posted Aug 28 2006, 06:37 PM by Eric Wise with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Rants, Patterns and Practices

• Of scary security practices

  Jay had a little mini rant this morning about passwords and security. It's Friday, should be a happy day, so I'm just going to list out some rather absurd security practices I've encountered in my years of consulting and development. A major (fortune... Posted Apr 08 2005, 08:02 AM by Eric Wise with | with no comments Filed under: Easy Web Applications, Patterns and Practices, Rants