Nah! lump hammers are only used for precision adjustments.:hehe: For a while I worked in places where a sledgehammer, oxy-propane...

Steve said:

ORM tools are just that tools. Used well, they can perform admirably, but just as I don't use a hammer to drive a screw into wood, don't depend...

David.Poole (8/25/2016)

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For a census the app simply collects the post from a web form and persists it.

Given that it is a once every 10 year thing with fixed questions you...

Dalkeith (8/19/2016)

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I am hoping that maybe fully hosted applications can really take off - a lot of government applications while not particularly computationally challenging are complicated and obscure - add...

There's some nice examples there of how to do things better:

There seems to be a widespread problem of "identifying people" especially occasional users. It's not confined to the government and...

Thanks...

I sympathise with David.Poole's problems. I think some of that can be put down to _not_ "Putting Users First".

On the other hand, I think "Digital by Default" can have real...

As h.tobisch and Tindog say, this approach has its risks.

I tend towards a middle of the road view. The main condition for it working as I want it is a...

...It can also be less stressful since you work on lots of small issues without looming, ...Experienced, semi-retired professionals might really enjoy this job. I know this is something that...

:-D:-D Oh how true! No matter what way you structure it.

That's definitely an interesting and useful suggestion. Tung has pointed out a real problem. The difficulty with dealing with it in the abstract is that different solutions work in different...

Thank you for the article Tung. Are you one of the many "one named" people you refer to? 😉

I think the problem you refer to goes deeper than technical implementation....

One of the ways to enjoy success is to speculate a little of whatever surplus you have in the arts, research and "fantastic" projects. The Medici family did that in...

Good post. Every good practice can become a bad practice if taken to extremes. Sometimes it takes an outsider to point out what is going wrong.

If you are looking for...

I'm in completely in agreement with Steve about the "if we know they're defaults". If we know, then the thinking and implementation downstream can and _should_ take that into account....