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Readers hand down more IT Commandments: Readers hand down more IT CommandmentsMaking changes on Friday is okay.Just make sure you don't actually load them into production until Monday. Or later. :-) If you can make changes directly to a production system on a Friday and you aren't a sysadmin or other similar entity, perhaps...; Tags: IT Commandment, password, information technology; Discussion threads 2006-05-02
Readers hand down more IT Commandments: Last month, ZDNet bloggers delivered 15 IT Commandments that technology executives couldn't afford to ignore. Readers were quick to propose a few additional IT rules -- rules which may or may not be worth carving into stone. Here, in no particular order, are ZDNet readers' IT Commandments... Thou shalt not...; Tags: information technology, IT Commandment; Blog posts 2006-05-02
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hacked: IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hackedWow, that's 15 IT Commandments....I wonder how many stone tablets will be needed to write them all down? Wait a sec, it's the 21st century, we could just put it on a Tablet PC and be done with it! ;)Seriously...; Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, server, IT Commandment, information technology, Web server; Discussion threads 2006-04-14
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hacked: Over the past few months I've become increasingly aware of the number of web sites being compromised and used for phishing and/or dropping malware. I expect the owners of the sites were unaware of what was going on. I've contacted ISPs and gotten a number of such sites shut...; Tags: Web server, server; Blog posts 2006-04-13
IT Commandments: Ignore at your own risk: IT Commandments: Ignore at your own risk11th IT CommandmentThou shallt remember that the neck of the bottle is at the top of the bottle...14 Thou shalt not screw your employees to make your self look good14 Thou shalt not screw your employees to make your self look good15 Honour thy...; Tags: IT Commandment, information technology, training material, backup; Discussion threads 2006-04-12

IT Commandments: Ignore them at your own risk: IT Commandments: Ignore them at your own riskThou shall not Gerrymander or BalkanizeThe history of UNIX is a history of struggle. Departments were given hardware and admins, and each one deployed their own solution. This created a variability in quality whereas your customer was only as empowered as his UNIX...; Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Catia, IT Commandment, information technology; Discussion threads 2006-04-11
IT Commandments: Ignore them at your own risk: In February, when L'Unix blogger Paul Murphy handed down his IT commandment, Thou shalt not outsource mission critical functions, we thought to ourselves: There must be a stone tablet's worth of basic IT rules. We asked each of the experts in ZDNet's blogosphere to supply a commandment that IT executives...; Tags: Blogging, information technology, IT Commandment; Blog posts 2006-04-11
IT Commandment: Thou shalt loosely couple: IT Commandment: Thou shalt loosely coupleBusiness rules and the commandmentsLove the commandments. Several seem to me to point towards the use of business rules as a technology:Thou shalt put thy users first, above all else [Business rules allows users to control the system themselves not just have IT do it...; Tags: business rule, information technology, IT Commandment, Business Rules; Discussion threads 2006-04-10
IT Commandment: Thou shalt loosely couple: Hard wiring processes should be a sin, let's do away with it once and for all. Since the dawn of computing, applications have been rigidly architected, and therefore tightly dependant on one another. Change one application, or interface, and you risked breaking many other applications. As a result, there's been...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Web services, IT Commandment, information technology; Blog posts 2006-04-10
IT Commandment: Thou shalt document all thy works: IT Commandment: Thou shalt document all thy worksI rarely agree with youBut in this, a hearty AMEN!Yeah, right.Reuse REQUIRES:1) A database of functions2) Good communication3) Developers that will check the database FIRSTSoftware Engineering requires:1) Documentation (Data dictionary, Project Spec.)2) Standard methodologyYou CAN do one without the other - but you...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, information technology, software, programmer, IT Commandment; Discussion threads 2006-04-10
IT Commandment: Thou shalt document all thy works: Reuse is at the heart of all today's hot IT trends: open source, SaaS, Web 2.0, mashups, etc. But how is anyone supposed to reuse a piece of code or a service if the documentation's inadequate? When I started out writing this commandment, it was headed "Thou shalt not...; Tags: information technology, IT Commandment; Blog posts 2006-04-10
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear change: IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear changeParty like it's 1999?I still see about as many headhunter e-mails and field about as many phone calls as I did in 1999. Most of them are a) projects related to Homeland Security, or b) projects that prepare in-house resources to be...; Tags: Outsourcing, Operating systems, IBM Corp., outsource, IT Commandment, job, information technology, Party Like It; Discussion threads 2006-04-05
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear change: I've been wracking my brain for a commandment which would fit with the theme this week, and I figured that the commandment "Thou Shalt Recognize the Inherent Superiority of Microsoft Software" might be a tad too partisan, particularly coming from guy who works for Microsoft in its IPTV division (queue...; Tags: information technology, outsourcing; Blog posts 2006-04-05
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not ignore security risks when choosing platforms: I am joining my fellow ZDNet bloggers this week in posting this Security Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Ignore Security Risks When Choosing Platforms Although for most of us it is already too late and we are doomed to...; Tags: Security Commandment, standardization; Blog posts 2006-04-03
IT Commandment: Thou shalt free thy content: The ZDNet bloggers are doing a series of IT commandments, so I thought I'd join in the fun. I racked my brain trying to think of a 'commandment' that suited my blog's theme of Web 2.0. What I came up with is essentially one of the building blocks...; Tags: Creative Commons, British Broadcasting Corp.; Blog posts 2006-04-03
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not condemn departments doing their own IT: Thou shalt not try to stop departments from experimenting with web services and developing skinny applications for their own uses.The IT department has often been among them the most conservative and change-phobic in the entire company. "That's not the way we do things and we've been doing this 15 years,"...; Tags: IT-departments, information technology; Blog posts 2006-04-03
The IT Commandments: Thou shalt not use nonsecure protocols on thy network: The IT Commandments: Thou shalt not use nonsecure protocols on thy networkTurn of HTTP while you're at it!Funny, it seems to me that the VAST MAJORITY of severe virus/spyware/adware problems flowed over HTTP! How about this: dump the idiot Web-based applications, and enforce a strict "deny all" policy on the...; Tags: Web technology, NETWORKING, Badware, Funny IT, HTTP, Telnet, network, IT Commandment; Discussion threads 2006-04-02
The IT Commandments: Thou shalt give something back to the community: The IT Commandments: Thou shalt give something back to the community"Open source" isn't "free"Open source software may be "free" on a monetary level, but the moment you start giving back to the community, it has a very real cost. If you were a manager of IT, ask yourself this simple...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Tools & Techniques, open source, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition, software, work-around, Microsoft Windows, IT Commandment; Discussion threads 2006-04-02
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not use nonsecure protocols on thy network: You may have noticed recent posts from some of the ZDNet bloggers in a series we're calling IT Commandments. Here's a commandment for any of you responsible for administering your company's network: Turn off Telnet and FTP and use secure protocols to provide access through the...; Tags: firewall, network; Blog posts 2006-04-02
IT Commandment: Thou shalt give something back to the community: Following in the model of Paul Murphy and Dion Hinchcliffe, here's a commandment for anyone who uses open source software: Give something back. Before I get into the why, I want to take a moment to discuss the what and the how. First, what exactly are you supposed to give...; Tags: software; Blog posts 2006-04-01