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...

Ian Kelly (1/6/2009)

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When you write documentation and only then the code you are not writing it twice - the code should be a translation of the documentation. I have been...

I created and maintain what amounts to the corporate database backbone system we used for everything from dispatch to accounting to management and data entry.

It's about 100,000 lines of code...

I doubt our company would ever consider outsourcing, simply because of security concerns. However, the point about not upgrading because of application breaking needs to be addressed.

Best practice is to...

Biometrics have lots of problems. Even assuming the data is read-only secure (by which I mean someone can't substitute their fingerprints for yours, or yours for some known criminal!) you...

It's funny because it's true... 🙂

But, alas, it must be said: Shades of Terry Childs...

If you deploy 36 times in one week it means (assuming your coders are coding and testers are testing 24/7) you're deploying every 4.6 *hours*.

Even with scripting languages that's...