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  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    I was aghast to find an old Clipper app still being maintained, although it didn't really need much maintaining. For next to no investment it was cheerfully generating £2million...

  • RE: The 2016 Home Lab

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/14/2016)


    For the AWS/Azure people with labs, anyone want to write an article that would allow someone to duplicate your lab?

    I'll give it a go as...

  • RE: The 2016 Home Lab

    I've got a bit of a home lab but rarely use it these days. Frankly commute time plus an average of 9-10 hour days on top leaves little for...

  • RE: Conflict in Functional Teams

    I can recommend the rest of Patrick Lenceoni's books as well. They are a good warm up act to The Phoenix Project.

  • RE: Conflict in Functional Teams

    Democracy works on the principle of opposing view points. Perhaps your greatest asset is the one that disagrees with you because you have to think to counter their arguments.

    Plato...

  • RE: Developer Deployment Frustrations

    Having just installed Apache Spark and got it talking to RedShift through PySpark on Python 3 I can tell you that getting to the point of being able to run...

  • RE: Bingle is my Senior DBA

    This is slightly off topic but I have some observations from the Big Data world.

    Which source of information do you trust? Certain technologies are too new for there to...

  • RE: What do you do or think about on the way to work?

    On the way in to work I'm planning the day ahead, listening to BBC Radio4 and when that gets irritating I put on the CD/MP3.

    On the way back I'm doubting...

  • RE: A Software Warranty

    I was slow to embrace Agile because of the way in which I was introduced to it. Some of the practices seemed to be cowboy coding but that is...

  • RE: A Software Warranty

    Tom, if the corporate strategy failed but the rogue unit was right then you have a desirable result but for the wrong reasons. The end doesn't justify the means.

    A...

  • RE: A Software Warranty

    It is interesting coming back to these threads four years in the future. Here is what I now appreciate fully

    • Most people want to do things to the best of...

  • RE: Do you have DBA syndrome?

    joshua 15769 (10/5/2016)


    From a programmer's perspective, I'd say, anything that you'd want to use to communicate with the database should be "tested". Anything which would be new to the database...

  • RE: Do you have DBA syndrome?

    Did the DBA who refused the stored procedure say why?

    The "why" is critically important.

    I had a similar situation with a SAN administrator. When I sat down with them and...

  • RE: What is the Future of Monitoring?

    I am playing with Apache Spark and the amount of stuff that this does under the hood for you which you would normally expect to write for yourself is mind...

  • RE: DevOps at Microsoft

    I very much agree with Steve that culture and behaviour has to change if you are going to get the best out of a technique or toolset.

    The building of a...

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