Protecting Code

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  • I'm glad you mentioned either not using GitHub/Bitbucket/etc., or using private repos on this services for companies authored software.

    Rod

  • Doctor Who 2 wrote:

    I'm glad you mentioned either not using GitHub/Bitbucket/etc., or using private repos on this services for companies authored software.

    We use  Atlassian hosted Bitbucket - locked away behind encrypted repositories and multi-factor authentication of course.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • One of my many gripes is the thoroughly lazy vendors who write their installation processes to use only the SA account and won't change it regardless of how bad the practice is.

    Then you have the section of the business that says we have to give them the access because they don't want to upset the vendor, ie. the people being PAID to provide a service that is substandard at best.

    A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

  • That certainly needs some pressure from users to stop the practice

  • Yes, definitely a practice that should not continue but it is something that I have seen continuously since getting into SQL Server (from DB2) back in about 2003.

    It is not something that is going to change while businesses refuse to put conditions on the vendors to provide services in a timely fashion and in coordination with good coding practices.

    I still see applications coming out with a phone number field defined as VARCHAR(255).  No joke.

    A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

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