I like your reasoning, Ken. You are correct, I work in a highly bureaucratic organization. I work in State Government. My previous boss, who retired last year, was one of...

Thank you, Steve, for bringing this to our attention! I was not aware of this type of attack. I can see how it could happen. Where I work, they put...

Would upper management actually realize if you used .Net 8 instead of .Net 2? Would they...

Steve, I used to think that investing in myself would result in others following suit. Sort of rising water lifts all boats.

However, I work for an organization that is dead...

Very good post, Louis! I had thought that my time would cost the same, regardless of what activity I'm doing. But you're right, some activities are more valuable than others....

I have used GenAI, mostly in GitHub Copilot. But also ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude AI. But all from home. My employer won't purchase any AI because it costs money...

Interesting story, Ryan, although a bit long. It reminds me of where I work, however often without a happy ending. We have a lot of applications which were written 10+...

Yeah, I know... day late and a dollar short since ADS is going away. Is there a good tutorial on creating graphs that aren't absurd in ADS? (I'm just...

I see this as a change in the type of programming that will take place. In a sense such a change is inevitable. In this case it was brought about...

WOW, I hear you! My recently retired former supervisor was the biggest advocate to maintain technical debt that I've ever known. We have an old application which is horrible to...

Oh, Louis, you've definitely hit a major pain point for me at my current job. When we experience issues on the servers like you've described I rarely see any effort...

No one else can access the server remotely, because it is my development...

No. However, I don't have permissions on the server to do that. (I'm talking about...

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@pietlinden where is the settings file?

Thank you, Grant. (I'm replying from my work SSC account.)