When I started my small series about migrating systems, I commented, “anyone working in technology long enough has had to deal with a system migration.” I am just as sure that anyone working in the technology field long enough has also taken down production. Ways I have broken production Spinning down a disk drive. This is the first thing I … [Read more...]
Writing Your Own Code Versus Plagiarism
I read an article the other week talking about computer science students getting into trouble because they had "lifted" some code. I know that taking credit for someone else's work is wrong, but I have to admit that I lift code all the time. Why I steal code I do this for a couple of reasons. One is for consistency. If I am working in a … [Read more...]