There are some lessons I've taken away from this discussion:

"tools" I'm going to ask people more about the tools that are being used. I don't/can't know everything. And what...

I thought a Birmingham Screwdriver was a lump hammer:hehe:

On the Agile front an awful lot of things get labelled as Agile when they are not. If it sounds like...

The question for me is as to whether there has been much improvement in the ORM tools over the past 4years?

My next question would be as to whether education in...

Yes, when I first started working with SAS analysts I thought their output was going to be a bunch of formulae that I would have to code into an application.

It...

I enjoyed this article very much.

The open source debate is an interesting one. OpenSSL is open source so any company that trades over the internet is trusting their most...

In the UK there are restrictions to do with company financial state and length of operation that prevent smaller players from being considered for government contracts.

When the contracts come in...

In my experience the solutions are over engineered and under provisioned.

The over engineering...

For a census the app simply collects the post from a web form and persists it.

Given that it is a once every 10 year thing with fixed questions you are...

I have been on the receiving end of 3rd party partnerships with IT vendors.

I wanted to feel like a customer, not a conquest.

After the high-ups have been wined & dined,...

Troy's article is frightening and horribly believable. The case was a senior marketing guy saying that because his company used SSL stuff was secure even though the web feature...

Gary Varga (8/22/2016)

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I see the abandonment of rollback scripts as more of a cultural hurdle than a technical one. All too often I see too little effort put into these...

One of the benefits of releasing a little and often is that a deployment is rarely big enough to cause major headaches.

The advantage of robust automated testing is that a...

Revenue generation and in particular short term revenue generation will...

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665375/the-6-pillars-of-steve-jobss-design-philosophy

Absolutely agree that clarity and simplicity is a major weapon in producing a secure system.

It also leads to more easily maintained and understood code and thus it becomes obvious where...

The UK government provides a mixed experience with regards to usability. The open data stuff is great. HMRC (The UK equivalent of the American IRS) still have a...