Ivanova (12/21/2015)

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Slightly off-topic; while working for a large financial institution, I was approached by one of the security team. He was a highly-paid and allegedly very security-savvy contractor. His request...

What is really sad is that if you sit down with a business person and listen (really, really listen) to what they are trying to do

a. They are grateful...

I could believe most of it, even the bit about people listening but not the bit about people acting.

Someone at a senior level chose that software and they won't thank...

It's interesting reading this a few years on.

I've come to realise that so many things stem from a businesses desire to move faster than IT can keep pace and the...

In short when it is perceived as mutually beneficial there are no complaints on either side.

For the extra hours I put in I gained knowledge, the satisfaction of solving challenging...

Render unto Caesar!

I have often gone the extra mile because I knew that my employer would reciprocate.

It was either time off in lieu, beer and pizza or something that said...

The trick is in training the system in the first place. I remember playing with a package called 4Thought back in the 1990s. I think you have to...

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Sadly it is on the job training at best.

When Windows was riddled with buffer overrun vulnerabilities I hunted high and low for a good article on "how not to write...

I feel that we tend to use a one size fits all approach with little regard to actual business need.

Billing systems have to be accurate. Marketing systems can work...

Given that data is committed in an operational system and that commitment process plays no part in the confirmation of delivery to the reporting process I'd say that eventual consistency...

This puts me on the horns of a dilemma.

On one hand I want my system to be secure, but on the other hand I want to do stuff with it.

Terry...

phonetictalk (12/4/2015)

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David.Poole (12/4/2015)

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Parity percentage is something that HR departments moan about and an obsession in some circles but if women don't apply in the first place then there is damn...

At one of the SQL Bits conferences the topic of women in IT was a specific session.

I'm struggling to recall if, throughout my career, the number of women even applying...

Errrrmmmm, but Linux has its basis in Unix has a number of text processing utilities that can pipe their output into each other. Sed, awk, tr, wc, split, join....