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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...
December 21, 2015 at 4:43 am
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...
December 18, 2015 at 4:10 pm
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...
December 18, 2015 at 2:09 am
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...
December 17, 2015 at 3:13 pm
Wayne West (12/14/2015)
VTech had NO SSL on their site: aside from the ease of sucking everything through SQL Injection, you could also simply listen to their network traffic.
......:angry:...
December 15, 2015 at 3:59 pm
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...
December 14, 2015 at 9:00 am
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...
December 11, 2015 at 3:24 pm
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...
December 11, 2015 at 1:58 am
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...
December 7, 2015 at 10:48 am
phonetictalk (12/4/2015)
David.Poole (12/4/2015)
December 4, 2015 at 9:50 am
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...
December 4, 2015 at 7:13 am
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....
November 25, 2015 at 5:37 pm
It would help if businesses invested in training their staff.
When I was a DBA I knew how to secure SQL Server but I knew nothing about network security and the...
November 24, 2015 at 1:24 pm
maciej.skrzos (11/24/2015)
I've also done some research on Hadoop recently. I noticed new trend among Big Data Engineers - replacing Hadoop with Spark. I can't find reliable...
November 24, 2015 at 9:32 am
I had an interesting conversation with a senior director on this subject and captured his thoughts on this
https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/technical-debt-and-the-cultural-gap/%5B/url%5D
November 24, 2015 at 1:47 am
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