Provided the guys who build the AI system have read and taken on board Asimov's 3 laws of Robotics and considered the changes required as discovered by Giskard and Daneel...

In the same way that men shaved without cutting their throats before the invention of safety razors quality code was written before the invention of unit tests.

Well said!

I'd question that you double the time taken because you actually think what you are doing. I think this adds discipline to the development process and actually saves...

jckfla (7/17/2015)

Just seems to me that rapid development/continuous delivery of software in the current era is more about revenue streams widening rather than usefulness of technology advancing rapidly.

And...

Speaking personally I became...

I quite like companies running random charity events. I've been to some really good ones that really lifted the spirits and made plenty of cash for the charity involved....

With certain caveats yes you can.

The idea is that you write the tests that expresses the business...

I'm glad you mentioned the culture change and emphasised the need to work on the processes. The tools and technology are there already.

When you say continuous delivery do you...

It's great that the SQLSERVER community is like this but also a bit sad that the collaboration and helpfulness is regarded as unusual.

I've been hunting for the podcast from Netflix where they stated that they learnt the hard way to trust the data. They found that many of their intuited decisions...

Anything where you are describing relationships between entities and those relationships themselves have properties have properties.

I wrote about using Neo4J to help navigate through the relationships[/url] in a SQL Server...

I strongly suspect that in the event of a DR scenario the business would find out that certain non-critical systems were actually far more important than they realised.

The question I...

If you go down the as a service route the skills balance changes to those whose speciality is software integration.

If you outsource then you will need project management and tech...

Microsoft, your product is mature, it is time to start sweating the small stuff

I used to work in an advertising agency and the received wisdom was that customers were creatures of habit. Your activities were to make sure that customers didn't lose the...