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Well Leon, you delivered !! You have pictures so it did happen ! So of your three goals.... * Meet some of our amazing customers * Eat my body weight in schwarma * Speak at the conference. We know you accomplished 1 & 3.... I know there was a lot of food....but did you accomplish #2 ?

That works for Wednesday...not monday or tuesday.

The only thing I can think of is to cross post it everywhere. I wish we had a "sig" line we could use and then list links to ideas so every time we posted somewhere the link would be there for others to see. But then the additional bandwidth and clutter.

Not a new trend..been happening in the industry for over 2 decades now....

Hmmmm, Bacon. sqlrockstarAny luck on the bacon seeds yet ?

yes the evolving role of an IT professional in the SaaS/Cloud world is that of a proxy relay for complaints to the vendor.

It would be great to have your notes posted up here afterward. Some year I might be able to attend on of those.

I see challenges where we can't really see into the cloud environment other than a device on the other end of a VPN connection or an IP if it is an HTTPS connection.

look here WHD 12.7.1 Release Notes

+1 for notepad++ I like that you can create templates for various file formats like config files for nagios.

Soggy Thursday morning bump #bumpsquad​

Well said...and the big point you made, it is not a matter of if, but a matter of when something gets penetrated or breached either from the inside or the outside.

I had one very similar....plus I had the motorola startac...the first flip phone...bulky but it would serve as a bludgeon it worse came to worse.

Granted Halliburton was not a small trivial conversion...from a mainframe to a small unix server farm. Rumor has it that even 17 years later there are still incomplete or failing parts.

Very good. Another aspect of scope regarding variables declared at the top of the code is the global nature. Now you have to know where it is being modified so that you know what it should contain. Don't use same named variables in functions or subroutines unless you know for a fact that they are local to the subroutine or…

I would suggest adding allowances to the project end date for unexpected growth or applications being added to the mix. While it is not scope creep, it is hardly ever accounted for and can impact the project timeline. I would also suggest bi-weekly meetings the teams that are your customers...this allows for important…

Congrats to all the winners !!

Bumping for a good idea! #bumpsquad​

It is the express version...works great...just not on the ends.

Very good advice. I'm still working on the artful part...I am not very good at it, not to mention many of the others I also am still working on.

Excellent !

Agreed...the provided "correct" answer is singular and not a differentiation but rather a commonality.

Congrats nluchetta​ !

kind of like watching water boil...

Good Post !

Good stuff. I would add that a good level of logging for audit purposes needs to exist to provide a trail of everything done and to log anomalies. Then you need a good logfile monitor that ignores the "normal" and provides an exception report on a regular basis. Even then you still need human eyes reviewing logs and…

Pretty much mirrors the non Federal IT world.

something tells me that many shops will end up with a mashup of all the above...

The idea of hidden clouds or apps in the cloud just extends some of the issues we have seen in the bare metal and virtual world where people are running things under the covers be it hosted websites or even side businesses. I think this is going to be more of a problem with all of the undiscovered nooks and crannies that…

Still not sold on the cloud. It is really just someones elses computer as someone on here eloquently put it. If there is a service outage at the cloud providers level...how will it impact your organization ? Are the SLA's to return the service to use reasonable ? Latency especially with MPLS and such can be a factor…