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The law in many jurisdictions has shown itself to be ignorant of IT and naive in its understanding as to the effects demanded by lobbying stakeholders.

Liability will be a mess...

Definitely!!!

We cannot apply a universal rule to learning except that keeping ones skills up is...

chrisn-585491 (9/22/2015)

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...Additionally, listing OSS experience on a resume for a Windows position or vice-versa is a instant disqualification or red flag when apply for a good percentage of jobs. (Bitter...

I am with you DBAs with your skepticism of ORMs, however, CI & CD, whilst no silver bullet, encourages early updates which also encourages a reasonable process for updating to...

call.copse (11/16/2015)

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I seem to spend half my life trying to drill this into various devs from multiple angles. It's often hard to maintain my equitable visage but of course always...

I don't buy it.

I certainly do not believe that the shifting of a normal in the case of the Space Shuttle is equivalent to deliberately changing the way an engine...

Manners come with little cost yet make life much more pleasant. There is even the joy in exuding good manners. In this analogy you can reap what you sow!!!

djackson 22568 (9/23/2015)

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Nice article.

However, we need to stop saying security is a pain. Doing so only perpetuates the myth. Security is not difficult, and it is not painful....

Very surprised to find this editorial from almost two months ago on a feature I had missed with so few comments.

Thanks for the link to resources Steve.

Eric M Russell (10/15/2015)

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...My understanding is that a .NET or Windows app can write to a file in simply append mode (ie: WriteLine) or in block mode. For event logging,...

Hungarian notation??? Nooooooooo!!!

david.gugg (11/13/2015)

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...previous DBA thought it'd be a good idea to provide each customer of our SaaS software with its own schema. Image how incredibly hard it is to work...

+1

David.Poole (11/11/2015)

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...The tests are living artifacts that, when done properly, are a fine grained specification of what the system is supposed to do and the behaviours it is supposed to...