Probably Microsoft just accepting Economics

I'm on record as thinking that the additional features that are added to software tools although good are not significant enough IMHO to prevent continual eroding...

Google are clearly working on this as best they can. I expect them to improve significantly on their present ability over the next 5 years.

In the meantime - joining a...

I think this is a massive topic - enterprise application development is massively lagging behind your more mainstream application development (google play and app store host roughly 2 million programs...

I am hoping that maybe fully hosted applications can really take off - a lot of government applications while not particularly computationally challenging are complicated and obscure - add to...

The various people having issues with fingerprints is interesting.

I expect their is a sizable number of individuals who regularly damage or obstruct their finger prints through work / play or...

Me I'm sanguine about it - this is the price we pay for security.

Ironically I've come in this morning and my colleague has just been locked out of her computer...

I definitely prefer 2 factor authentication on my more sensitive applications.

Apart from that with the inherent risk of passwords that I can't avoid I try a bit of security through...

We have some web applications at work which I administer. I like to customise the look of some of these. Customisation is easy as the whole UI is held in...

950m - I live on Dalkeith Road Edinburgh and SQL Saturday Edinburgh was just up the road at Edinburgh University Student Halls which are also on Dalkeith Road.

Went a couple...

Everyone makes mistakes but I contend that there will be less mistakes if you have a more flexible and knowledgeable workforce. Whether thats sys admins / developers doing more operations...

I definitely think a mixture is the best way to go.

Remote can be great for experts as an additional tool but you pick up a heck of a lot from...

Regards blind interviews and SQL Server Central..

Its a very good point raised - blogs / forums etc are a sort of blind reviewing meritocratic platform

Maybe that's part of what...

I think I'm a generalist but I'm a specialist in solutions for a particular domain. After a while of building up knowledge and tools for a particular domain I could...

I do wonder sometimes whether something like Watson could be developed to produce a truly objective job applicant decider. I'm conscious that everyone is slightly biased when it comes to...

I know what you are talking about.

Humanity's natural tendency to protect and keep children in particular safe in a strange way seems to lead to arrogance and ignorance. I think...