Information Technology Dark Side

Here’s a common problem in software development: you’re production application has sensitive/personal/private/legally protected data in it that probably isn’t wise to share with everybody and their dog. But, you need to debug a problem from prod, test a database upgrade, verify a new feed works properly, or some other task that would really be a [...]

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There’s a soul check room when you join IT management - I turned mine in about four years ago. I kept the ticket in my top dresser drawer for a long time, just in case I ever needed the thing again. The other day I checked for it and couldn’t find it. Then I remembered [...]

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Okay, so this is a little bit afield of what I normally write about, since I don’t normally delve into technical issues. Happily, my work life is becoming more technical and this blog is likely to follow suit, so you might expect more tech and less philosophizing in the future.
If you don’t know, subversion [...]

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