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Hold your team’s would-be hero in check, and other practical lessons for managers. Spoilers!
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That's much better than the management drivel the e-mags love to write about. Oh wait... 
Latest Article - Code Review - What You Can Learn From a Single Line of Code
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The new artificial intelligence technology under development in Microsoft’s research labs is programmed to pay close attention to individual words when generating images from caption-like text descriptions. "I want you to draw me like one of your French girls."
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How do we ensure that AI is designed and used responsibly? How do we establish ethical principles to protect people? How should we govern its use? And how will AI impact employment and jobs? Read it now, to get on the AI's good side later
But hey, free book
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I find security much more important than speed. We need invulnerable software systems, and we need them today, even if they are ten times slower than our current systems. Tomorrow we can start working on making them faster. If everything wasn't getting hacked, then what news could I post?
"Ten years after the launch of qmail 1.0, and at a time when more than a million of the Internet’s SMTP servers ran either qmail or netqmail, only four known bugs had been found in the qmail 1.0 releases, and no security issues."
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The best path to secure code is to ensure nobody has even heard of it, let alone used it.
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I think qmail has succeeded there (although I've never looked for an SMTP server)
TTFN - Kent
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Windows patches are fixed, but microcode updates are causing even more trouble. "There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief"
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Large majority of businesses are failing to keep track of passwords efficiently, leading to potential security risks, report says. There's a problem with sticky notes on the monitor?
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Reg readers point the finger at ambiguous requirements I'm sure they'll shock you
Sadly the full report is behind a login, sorry.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Reg readers point the finger at ambiguous requirements
/(.*)/
I'll grab my coat...
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Did they understand the question?
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Google today announced a new project to improve its mobile search results: factoring page speed into its search ranking. I forecast a bunch of really simple (and small) home pages soon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Google today announced a new project to improve its mobile search results: factoring page speed $p€€d into its search ranking.
FTFY
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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At the dawn of the millennium, somewhere in the depths of a company contracted by the United States Navy, D. Richard Hipp designed SQLite so that you could finally stick a database inside an application. Ignore the fact he's trying to sell you a competitive product. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
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Simple; learn SQL.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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ORMs are members of that class of "solutions" that are designed to keep newbies from learning to do things the right way.
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I have no dislike for writing SQL and stored procedures at all. SQL Management Studio has auto completion and it's pretty comfy. And if things don't work as you expect you can debug it inside SQL management studio too, good luck doing that with your ORM. Performance is great too.
For basic CRUD access I've written my own stored procedures that generate CRUD stored procedures (in SQL you can query table and column metadata and generate output based on that), so for 90% of the things I need I can generate it, and the other 10% I can generate it and tweak to my needs.
Wout
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That's okay, when I first saw "ORM" in the title, this came to mind: Operational Risk Management[^],
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Glad to see Realm works perfectly with C++... oh, wait.
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Hmmm, I have to say that article was poor. It stated that there was a problem, detailed what the author thought the problem was and.... well, that was it. If he'd taken it just that one step further, he could have talked people through how to solve the problem of poor performance; for instance, he could have made it explicit that you shouldn't do multiple updates when they should be set based operations.
This space for rent
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I completely agree with you.
In fact, there are ORMs that allow set based operations (the WHERE part of a LINQ select can very well be used in an update).
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University of California, Berkeley neuroscientists have tracked the progress of a thought through the brain, showing clearly how the prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain coordinates activity to help us act in response to a perception. Do they explain where it disappears to when you walk into a room?
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There is a theory that holds that the human brain is not the originator of intelligent thought but merely the first observer... I forget where I heard that...
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Why Oracle’s cloud-native stack is fueling innovation Oracle. Open? Oracle. That Oracle? Open?
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