Which must be why our application development team in a business environment consists of one twentysomething male graduate, one thirtysomething male and four fortysomething married ladies - the sort who...

Definitely required reading for any forum. Just hope it gets through to the ones that need it!

Well done.

Pat

Bags I a beaurocracy shifter to deal with all the required civil service paper work and red tape needed to get some code implemented.

Then a software tester because the users...

I really don't think the domain check would work for a large number of users, including myself at home. I have a personal domain (.me.uk) which redirects mail to an...

Longer hours than 5 years ago? Yes and No. Five years ago my children were young (under 14) and I had a term time only contract developing software etc at...

I need that book NOW!!

So as I can't wait until January I'll just have to buy something else. Pity as I've already bought the reporting services and analysis services...

Loner - I'm a divorced mum too! But I've realised that I'm far happier and less stressed taking a local, lower paid civil service job with flexi time than commuting...

...And most of all remember, your children are only young once and they need parents, not stressed out adults who are too over-worked to give them enjoyable quality time.

Having just returned from a fortnight on the beautiful coast of South West Ireland I can only agree that we should appreciate the world we live in.

Man however is spoiling...

Done on one server which is 2005 development plus some Sharepoint databases.

Reporting services will be big as we can move off Crystal bodges (crystal enterprise is too expensive) and we...

As with those above I want to be wired for personal life but to be able to choose when I use it. I'm lucky in that although my mobile number...

Steve, how appropriate, on a day when the news here in the UK was reporting the finding of an army officer's stolen laptop with intelligence information on about military response to...

WGA is unlikely to catch corporate users anyway, they are usually too well firewalled and restricted. For example I am connected to the internet via a secure controlled connection which...

Today the sun rose at 4:20am (ish)  and we make sure to avoid the traffic jams at Stonehenge on route to work! We were still gardening at 10pm last week...

I enjoyed Crichton's Timeline - but after a few holidays I could relate to the area where it's set.

My real favourite though is Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. The Clacks are...