It's the same in any situation - if we get someone in we should take steps to ensure he is competant to do the job. For many trades there are...

Sending the newbies to stores for "A long stand" or "A short weight" are British institutions.

A colleague inadvertantly did this one morning to an awkward user on the phone...

That answers my problem too - and this post is so I can make the change:)

Thirty years ago I was in the final year of my Computer Science degree. It had to be "with "something (maths in my case) as there weren't enough computing units...

I've been considering whether to do a payjump as we are just lowly civil servants and an unqualified Post Office worker earns as much as us developers! I've been in...

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...