What is mentoring?  Listening?  Advising?  Helping?  I was looking for the definition of mentoring today and came across some interesting things.
dictionary.com lists two definitions:
1, a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
2. an influential senior sponsor or supporter
These are both correct, but not very helpful to me.  Sometime later I came across an article that really [...]

Hope everyone is enjoying the black-Friday/cyber-Monday sales. Personally, I haven’t seen many good ones this year but I did come across this gem in my inbox. It offers an impressive 20% off all their products if you happen to own a time machine:

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
-Scott

There were a number of comments about my recent article on the negative effects of too much database normalization so allow me to expand the topic a little more. The most consistent comment I saw was that while many of you agreed with me in principle that too much normalization can lead to poor [...]