One of the classic side effects of dyslexia is a poor sense of time and my other half is quite dyslexic, so much so that he's nicknamed "late" Lavelle!

If he...

Start by sending all developers on a compulsory ITIL Foundation course with the requirement that they pass the ISEB Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management.

It will teach them about change...

Steve, thank you for this article, it explains why I also saw an update happen yet hadn't Ok'd it. It went on the "investigate when there's time" list as I...

Agreed Richard. Despite contacting a great many agencies  over the years my recent jobs have all come from direct adverts in Computing! Agencies are just a black hole for cvs....

Let the user lead - get them to kill the front end first (3 finger salute, task manager etc) then once that's done kill any stray connections remaining. Then they...

As another dba/developer I agree that stored procs are the way to go. Our apps are all asp or asp.net web based and database access is is now limited to a sql...

At work we only went to XP two years ago from NT4 and after extensive testing and a major rollout operation replacing all the desktop hardware. Everything has to go...

Were I one of Sprint's competitors I'd be laughing. And offerring great transfer deals.

We've just decided that the office lottery syndicate would be a major risk!! A lady in Scotland has just won £35 million and the comment was that even a smaller win...

We work in a supposedly secure environment and have security audits, penetration tests etc. Only a select few of the network admins have acces to their cd drives or usb...

Very appropriate having recently been slated for using SSRS2005 and pushing it instead of Crystal Reports 8 because CR8 wouldn't do the job and give the report the user wanted...

"Right" or "wrong" side of the road is just a matter of what you grew up with and learned to drive on. Many of us Brits can cope with driving...

And if you think the roads of Cambridge are small try our deep West Country lanes - the vegetation touches my van on both sides at once as I drive home!!

In the spirit of SQL Server Central and the work-life balance ethos, how about something that also pleases the other half and family left behind eg a family ticket to...

Put him through the ITIL Foundation course quick!!