I can definitely see the sense in this. Although it does make the db design more complicated, it puts a layer between your app and the actual tables and fields. That means that you can change the fields willy-nilly, and as long as your app's only using stored procs to get to the data, that's all you need to change.
There's whole books on using similar concepts in code.
To some extent you do. There is an understanding where I work that developers will leave if they are unhappy enough. Some have already left. When everyone else has left, the MD can explain to the shareholders why the business no longer has anything to sell, if he wants.
Therefore, there is a kind of unwritten agreement that overtime will be given back in the form of time off. It works
Strangely I don't feel stressed that often. In fact, at the moment it's the manager getting stressed trying to resolve a load of design issues. I get more of a free reign than most people I guess. That helps a lot.
The problem of who's gonna develop for Linux? (Yes, yes I know lot s fo people develop for Linux. Just hear me out, will ya?)
Linux is sooner or later going to have to take Windows head-on. The "faster, more secure, more stable" advantage of Linux is disappearing, as Windows bugs are being fixed and the OS is being steadily improved. That means that Windows is stealing Linux's prime market - server machines. But they're still going to be able to support desktops. Windows will be the more flexible, versatile OS. If they get that crown, Linux is a gonner. No-one apart from die-hard Linux fans will use it, which means that no-one will develop for it. If you think I don't know what I'm on about, look at the Amiga.
If you don't want that to happen, then you should start campaigning for Linux to be easier to use.
Ok, is this going to be realistically possible to police? I mean, I live in the UK, and as far as I know, there is no such law here. So if I record a chat with someone who's in New Hampshire... What then? If I am liable in this situation, how do I know whether or not the person I'm talking to is in a state with these laws?
Also, I have MSN Messenger set up to automatically save a log (great since my cousin sends me URLs to all kinds of stuff, and it's nice to be able to get to them once the chat is closed). Am I potentially breaking the law?
I'd probably say that anyone who signs onto a chat room implicitly gives their consent to have their messages recorded.
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...she uses stored procedures like crazy.
I can definitely see the sense in this. Although it does make the db design more complicated, it puts a layer between your app and the actual tables and fields. That means that you can change the fields willy-nilly, and as long as your app's only using stored procs to get to the data, that's all you need to change.
There's whole books on using similar concepts in code.
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Sounds like a good plan...
I think blindfolds are customary...
To some extent you do. There is an understanding where I work that developers will leave if they are unhappy enough. Some have already left. When everyone else has left, the MD can explain to the shareholders why the business no longer has anything to sell, if he wants. Therefore, there is a kind of unwritten agreement that overtime will be given back in the form of time off. It works
Strangely I don't feel stressed that often. In fact, at the moment it's the manager getting stressed trying to resolve a load of design issues. I get more of a free reign than most people I guess. That helps a lot.
The problem of who's gonna develop for Linux? (Yes, yes I know lot s fo people develop for Linux. Just hear me out, will ya?) Linux is sooner or later going to have to take Windows head-on. The "faster, more secure, more stable" advantage of Linux is disappearing, as Windows bugs are being fixed and the OS is being steadily improved. That means that Windows is stealing Linux's prime market - server machines. But they're still going to be able to support desktops. Windows will be the more flexible, versatile OS. If they get that crown, Linux is a gonner. No-one apart from die-hard Linux fans will use it, which means that no-one will develop for it. If you think I don't know what I'm on about, look at the Amiga. If you don't want that to happen, then you should start campaigning for Linux to be easier to use.
Ok, is this going to be realistically possible to police? I mean, I live in the UK, and as far as I know, there is no such law here. So if I record a chat with someone who's in New Hampshire... What then? If I am liable in this situation, how do I know whether or not the person I'm talking to is in a state with these laws? Also, I have MSN Messenger set up to automatically save a log (great since my cousin sends me URLs to all kinds of stuff, and it's nice to be able to get to them once the chat is closed). Am I potentially breaking the law? I'd probably say that anyone who signs onto a chat room implicitly gives their consent to have their messages recorded.