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  • RE: What Can You Do?

    David Poole wrote:

    There is a need for some pragmatism.

    Indeed. We need to find a balance. I'm by no means arguing we should open our kimonos to the world, just that...

  • RE: What Can You Do?

    ... there have been no shortage of cases where management or technical staff avoided securing their systems.

    And now for a different opinion[/url].

    Sometimes developers are being asked to perform their jobs...

  • RE: Email Formatted HTML Table with T-SQL

    I hate to be negative about someone's efforts, but I think this solution is 'the long way around the barn'.

    XSLT, despite the author's comment to the contrary, is not terribly...

  • RE: JSON Select - Easily query values from JSON

    Like every tool JSON has its place in the useful stack - but replacing an application store where it typically would be written as a relational store, not such a...

  • RE: NOSQL and RDBMSs

    In the RDBMS camp I can understand the attraction of being able to accept and process JSON and absorb other NOSQL type functionality but isnโ€™t this precisely the one-size-fits-all approach...

  • RE: Nope to NoOps, No way to NoDBA

    The DBA gets to torture and embarrass the app developer. Nothing, but nothing, pleases a DBA more than this.

    Not for me. I absolutely love it when code does all the...

  • RE: Nope to NoOps, No way to NoDBA

    I can understand GenY application developers right out of university wanting to bypass the grumpy DBA middleman and code directly against an object database that they control themselves.

    I want...

  • RE: Teambuilding

    ... when you participate together such as lawn bowling or even just eating out, you get to talk together. That seems to have a positive effect later at work.

    Or you...

  • RE: Nope to NoOps, No way to NoDBA

    Excellent article, and sadly, yes, similar mistakes keep getting repeated. Back in the early 90's, it was non-IT people in the business enterprise writing all manner of mission-critical 'applications' in...

  • RE: How many environments?

    1. Development - a sandbox for developers and designers.

    2. Test - which closely emulates the production environment, for user acceptance testing.

    3. Production - where everything we thought worked perfectly in...

  • RE: Business Pressures

    ... you're not really entitled to just stroll in [to a Starbucks], park yourself and never purchase anything; In busy locations, they can and will ask you to purchase or...

  • RE: Business Pressures

    I get the etymology just fine.

    Thanks for alleviating my concern. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    I will be sure to try that argument next time I go sit for 12 hours straight in a...

  • RE: Business Pressures

    I find it interesting that we're now using the term "customer" for folks who aren't actually paying for service. A couple of years back we used to call those "prospects".

    Perhaps...

  • RE: Business Pressures

    robert.sterbal 56890 (8/13/2015)


    SugarSync changed from a freemium to a free trial model.

    I moved my data

    Great, thanks for the info, Robert!

  • RE: Business Pressures

    What's disconcerting is some companies will abandon the free model in favor of a higher priced subscription ...

    That's fine. That's business, but it does start to dampen the trust of...

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