Why the hell hasn’t anyone ever told me about Elliott Jaques?! This stuff is gold, like seeing the world from the air for the first time.
SQL phreaking
Phreaking. Phreaking. Phreaking.
Business Consultants vs Professors: Death Cage Match!
Business Consultants and Professors do mix a bit: you get professors becoming consultants or doing consulting in the 20%. (You have to do 80% of your time dedicated to the university, I’ve been told, but you can use the other 20% to do what you want.) And consultants often teach a class or end up just professoring after making their …
Power of Mediocrity: Being Great Takes Risk
You’re never going to burn bright when your goal is to not get your fingers burnt.
Software Requirements and Knowledge
The big “Aha!” for me was the these are all tied together.
Student Evaluations Are Useless In Professional Training
It’s much like asking a happy, satisfied and content married couple why they are happy: they discover that there is no reason at all and it all falls in.
Yes, Virginia: IT Doesn’t Matter
It’s not a question of whether to spend or not spend.
It’s about what really matters.
It’s the people, people.
I’ve never agreed with anyone who says that “People are our greatest resource” because: 1) if you have to remind us it probably isn’t true and 2) I resent being the equivalent of a printer.
Why You Hate Your Consultant (part 1)
“He’s a know-it-all blowhard!”
What CEO Skills Really Work
“We need to get these people on board” when people really mean to say “We need to coerce these people into doing what we want rather than what they want.”
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) vs. Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Executive Summary From a security perspective, RBAC always provides superior security to ACLs. However, there are places where the cost of using RBAC would be too high. These include: the security of Windows file systems, Oracle/Sybase/SQL Server DBA and employee-specific functions such as where an employee manages his or her own 401(k). Developers should use RBAC in almost all cases. …