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  • Reply To: The Gift of Asking Stupid Questions

    I've been asked questions that seemed dumb until I tried to answer them.

    As to the RTFM answers, anyone giving that response should pretend they know nothing and take their own...

  • Reply To: Containers Are The Present, Not the Future

    If you are using Docker a container is a running instance of an image. 1 image can run many containers.

    I would have a SQL2019 image and a SQL2016 image as...

  • Reply To: Containers Are The Present, Not the Future

    Loosely speaking a VM behaves and has the same demands as a physical machine. It needs an OS and all the baggage that goes with it.

    A container is ringfenced for...

  • Reply To: Getting Started Remotely

    Would I have listened to my older self when I was young?  It takes a certain maturity to listen.

    I'd agree with Chris.  Tech comes and goes but people skills never...

  • Reply To: Documentation. The Under Recognised Skill

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    David.Poole wrote:

    Where possible use the techniques from Bob Martin's clean code so code comments can be kept to a minimum

    It's unfortunate that people interpret his book/witings as that. ...

  • Reply To: No-code Software Engineering

    I worked for a documentation company that used Content Management Systems to build web sites.

    The vendor documentation was so poor we ended up overusing the component that allowed us to...

  • Reply To: Documentation. The Under Recognised Skill

    Sadly Jeff I share your experience

    Strangely enough my team have had an internal debate as to where to put documentation. After discussion we came to a few conclusions

    • If the...
  • Reply To: Office FOMO

    My company recognised that different people have different needs. There is not a one size fits all anymore.

    Many of my colleagues are at a life stage where working from home...

  • Reply To: Changing Edge Security

    Our security folk have a mantra, triple A, P.

    • Authentication = Login
    • Authorisation = What that login is allowed to do
    • Auditing  = What that login tries to do, permissions/membership...
  • Reply To: Bug Management

    It's not so much tracking down and fixing a bug that does it for me as removing an annoyance and/or distraction.

    Simply being able to decide for myself to fix a...

  • Reply To: Bug Management

    For a cloud vendor contributing back to the root project totally makes sense otherwise you'd have to reapply your fix every time there was an OS update. Also if you...

  • Reply To: DevOps in Space

    The whole point of DevOps is that it isn't a project, it isn't a team, it is a way of working and a culture.

    Culture changes are the hardest to implement. ...

  • Reply To: Poor Software Testing

    Sergiy wrote:

    Startups are reluctant to pay for hosting that much data as they will have only after 2 or more years. May be. If it all goes right. Therefore -...

  • Reply To: Every IT Organization is a Snowflake

    Speaking with friends who are ex-colleagues and also reading a fair number of IT/Business books I think there is a lot more commonality than would sit easily with senior egos.

    I...

  • Reply To: Imposter or Student

    I wouldn't say imposter exactly. I think a certain level of anxiety is present.  Having worked hard to acquire expertise in one area I want to perform at that level...

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