I try to minimize the use of database specific programming languages like PL/SQL. It is just annoying to work with a language that is just badly designed and has hardly any serious tool support. It (and the IDEs around it) is lacking in so many ways. All the things I would expect from the most [...]
As everybody in the IT blogosphere knows by now Jeff Atwood started quite some discussion with his opinion that there might be too many rules out there for developers to follow. I think the opposite is true. I think the IT industry is still a mess because 90% of the members of this industry do [...]
Possibly the worst idea ever conceived in business is the idea to link payment to key figures. Why? Because it can only work for a single key figure: company profit, assuming that the main purpose of the company in question is to maximize company profit in the long run. If you link that number to [...]
