roger.plowman (9/20/2016)

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...I do like the idea of small releases (1 small feature, maybe) but even then that applies to a long standing system that's largely already stable. It most certainly...

The mistake is that people are trying to do too much too quickly. Small and quick...

A recent client had come to terms that it actually was a technology company but refused to change how the organisation perceived themselves. Thus they acknowledged where their true value...

Eric M Russell (9/19/2016)

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Any programmer will be X times more efficient when given an assignment that matches their skillset, a clear set of specifications, sufficient managmement/QA/DevOps support, and sufficiently sized...

I understand. And your viewpoint, being...

Of course, the option of context switching to another client is usually...

Jeff Moden (9/17/2016)

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Gary Varga (9/17/2016)

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Maybe some of us would have paid...

It should be shocking that this is still occurring all over the place. The online community have been talking about this forever and before that it was big in the...

One of the biggest misnomers is the term "10x Developer" as to have one you need another developer who struggles to manage 1x but deals with all the distractions. Let's...

Maybe some of us would have paid attention if you mentioned...

Slyfin (9/16/2016)

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...we had a Microsoft Consultant to do a health check of our environment. The analysis script flagged us for xp_cmdshell being enabled. That didn't sound right to me and...

What? Does not compute!!!

As a dev, I have yet found a situation where I needed xp_cmdshell. Just lucky, I guess.

djackson 22568 (9/15/2016)

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Eric M Russell (9/15/2016)

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But going back to Steve's editorial, organizations need to implement application level encryption (ie: PGP for emails) and database level encryption rather than relying on...

Eric M Russell (9/15/2016)

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But going back to Steve's editorial, organizations need to implement application level encryption (ie: PGP for emails) and database level encryption rather than relying on infrastructure encryption...