Andy wrote:

"...I had lunch with a friend recently who manages a dev team and he was telling me that his team wanted him to let them decide when & how...

If that's what you expect from a Junior, what do you call them if they can't even do those tasks? "Un-employed"?   

The humouress version would probably...

Computer Science isn't dead, it just needs to evolve - like the rest of the programming world has already.

At university, I was taught the theory on how to develop software,...

Complete Obliviousness - In the right circumstances, you'll have full control over what IT equipment, software, (or whatever), is used in the company, because no-one else will know anything about your...