I don't hate Microsoft.
I think that most of the people who "hate" Microsoft honestly don't care much either way and they just bash MS because everyone else does.
I work in my city (population approx. 200,000) government's IT department as a developer. As someone else mentioned, the best way to handle code deployment is over a three-tiered system. At DIT, we have Dev, Stage, and Prod for the Internet, Intranet, and Applications sites. Developers should be given full read/write access to dev, in which they do all of their work. In no way should the world, nor the client, see dev. Upon completion, we promote our work to staging (via sending a promotion request, or doing the promotion yourself, if you happen to have access to staging like myself). At staging, the client (for us it's 99% internal work, so someone else within City Hall) can review the work, request additional changes, etc. After the staging process is done, a request is sent to the guys in ops (IT) to promote to production.
Basically, to answer your question: IT should handle code deployment, but developers should be involved in the process.
Mod me to -1: Flamebait all you want, but I don't care. I think it's absolutely stupid when someone sues over a copyright violation (which they are more than entitled to do), and the entire internet community goes "omg, information/music/images/barney should be free, no suing." Now of course I don't necessarily agree with this particular case; it was stupid to be suing over a parody site, and I do believe that parodies have a certain level of artistic freedom, but they do need to tread the line carefully between parodying something and defacement of that something.
Basically, I thought it a stupid case, but a perfectly legitimate case nonetheless.
I'm currently enjoying the pleasure of converting message board software from (broken at that) HTML 4.01 with tables for layout, to XHTML 1.0 Strict using CSS entirely for styling and presentation. It's been a long work in progress (we're on about our 6th month of development work for this version, but XHTML/CSS isn't the only work being done, and we're all volunteers), but the change has been amazing. You wouldn't believe the increased speed at rendering pages, even for a Perl-based project. It's thrilling, actually. And of course we kept the tabular data (memberlist, calendar) in tables because it belongs in such.
Yes, our CSS file is huge now, but I can live with that.
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A status bar?
I don't hate Microsoft. I think that most of the people who "hate" Microsoft honestly don't care much either way and they just bash MS because everyone else does.
> However, for living room consoles, "Ocarina of Time" has shown that, if there is such a thing as a perfect Zelda game it probably has to be 3D.
I beg to differ
I work in my city (population approx. 200,000) government's IT department as a developer. As someone else mentioned, the best way to handle code deployment is over a three-tiered system. At DIT, we have Dev, Stage, and Prod for the Internet, Intranet, and Applications sites. Developers should be given full read/write access to dev, in which they do all of their work. In no way should the world, nor the client, see dev. Upon completion, we promote our work to staging (via sending a promotion request, or doing the promotion yourself, if you happen to have access to staging like myself). At staging, the client (for us it's 99% internal work, so someone else within City Hall) can review the work, request additional changes, etc. After the staging process is done, a request is sent to the guys in ops (IT) to promote to production.
Basically, to answer your question: IT should handle code deployment, but developers should be involved in the process.
I don't actually have a garage door opener...I'm just playing devil's advocate.
I didn't vote for this president. I don't support this war. Why should my garage door be sacrificed?
It's their copyright, why can't they sue?
Mod me to -1: Flamebait all you want, but I don't care. I think it's absolutely stupid when someone sues over a copyright violation (which they are more than entitled to do), and the entire internet community goes "omg, information/music/images/barney should be free, no suing." Now of course I don't necessarily agree with this particular case; it was stupid to be suing over a parody site, and I do believe that parodies have a certain level of artistic freedom, but they do need to tread the line carefully between parodying something and defacement of that something.
Basically, I thought it a stupid case, but a perfectly legitimate case nonetheless.
Just shut up. You're not funny.
I first played the game years ago, and I'm 18 now. I still love it. I think it's appealing to all ages.
Ohnos, I can't bare to get up at 6am, we must adjust the clock so I can get up at 7am instead....
Or you could just take it inside and throw it into the dock...
Well, I don't suppose we'll get it in Chesterfield, Virginia anytime soon, will we?
I'm currently enjoying the pleasure of converting message board software from (broken at that) HTML 4.01 with tables for layout, to XHTML 1.0 Strict using CSS entirely for styling and presentation. It's been a long work in progress (we're on about our 6th month of development work for this version, but XHTML/CSS isn't the only work being done, and we're all volunteers), but the change has been amazing. You wouldn't believe the increased speed at rendering pages, even for a Perl-based project. It's thrilling, actually. And of course we kept the tabular data (memberlist, calendar) in tables because it belongs in such.
Yes, our CSS file is huge now, but I can live with that.
Nintendo should hire this guy for their commercials.
I'll just have to remember to not upgrade it anymore.
Get SmartFTP for FTP You sir, are wrong. Please check out FileZilla. I've used both, and since using FileZilla, I've never wanted another FTP client.
Last time I checked, MSWord doesn't get Slashdotted.
Welcome to Slashdot, where a post bashing Microsoft automatically gets modded +5 insightful.
Don't worry, it's a "feature."
I would like to point out that on Wikipedia, many users prefer to ignore all rules...
If it took them 4 rewrites of their complaint, and they still sound like a bunch of whiny brats...this trial could take awhile.
So let me get this straight. They're admitting what we've known since before the launch?
Start -> Run 'services.msc' Cut off most of these. Many are useless, and yet are enabled by default.
Jack Thompson eats giants for breakfast.
Funny, I never took him for someone into the fantasy genre.
Switch your entire topology to good ol' 802.5. Let the good times roll.
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