"Credit card companies, banks, and other institutions often have complex rules for how they handle and process data. I think this more of their secure methods of handling data should...

Mark Horninger (7/20/2009)

At any rate you can't argue the face that if someone take thier time and effort to learn and get certified it shows a level of committment learning...

Let's divide that 80/20 into functionality and correctness, hmm?

Provide 80% of *either* and you deserve to get fired.

Especially if 20% of the functions have some kind of problem, even...

Clould databases suffer from several shortcomings:

1) Bandwidth

2) Security

3) Availablility

Given all that, you'd be insane to trust your business on line--even if your business doesn't impact tens of thousands of customers...

This topic has two main thrusts, voice input and data validation.

Voice recognition as a general input device will never work. Ever. In certain domains it's a perfect fit--such as giving...

Steve,

Trouble is, I don't think the basic issues *can* be solved on a broad (all companies) basis. I trust ADP because they started back in the day when "network" meant...

I think you aren't taking the security issue seriously enough. Yes, we put payroll into the cloud, ADP is one example. But ADP has had decades of security experience, and...

Data in the cloud? Are you *NUTS*???

Security is (almost) non-existant. Hosting companies are big fat cows just waiting for hackers to milk them. One lucky break and a dozen company's...

I guess I'm peculiar. To my mind stored procs are for *database* logic, not application logic. Therefore I can't see a need to encrypt your sprocs since that's just obfusticating...

I read the T-SQL rant and to me it seemed more a SQL rant than a T-SQL one. A paradigm problem, not a language one. I still shudder when I...

At the risk of being overly cynical they...

Andy Warren (2/5/2009)

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I don't think ethics is that easy, and I'd rate myself pretty high on the ethic-meter. Don't lie/dont' steal are fine, but what about gray areas?

- As mentioned,...

Ewan Hampson (2/5/2009)

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Well said, Andy Warren.

If only.

Ethics comes from an individual considering their moral position, and can be assisted but not defined by a...

A written code of ethics is an admission of failure.

Everyone knows what ethical behavior is. Having written guidelines are nothing more than a feel good measure to sooth the conscious...

Well, at work I wear a uniform shirt and jeans. Believe it or not this was suggested by the president of the company, who wanted everyone in a uniform (the...