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IT Best Practices
#1
IT Best Practices
It's my field.

Is there anyone else here into ITIL, COBIT etc.?

By all means PM me if you are still in the closet.

Cheers.
The PURPOSE of life is to replicate our DNA ................. (from Darwin)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)
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#2
RE: IT Best Practices
Most of our government departments use ITIL
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#3
RE: IT Best Practices
ITIL? No, but I know the difference between redundant and diverse and how hard it is to buy four nines and an eight type reliability for an international telecom service.
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#4
RE: IT Best Practices
I'm notorious for not commenting my code. That's a best practice, yes?
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#5
RE: IT Best Practices
Excellent. I feel slightly less alone. Smile

Thanks for the responses.
The PURPOSE of life is to replicate our DNA ................. (from Darwin)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)
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#6
RE: IT Best Practices
Not IT, but I do have to code quite a lot...
Comment the code, so I remember what it does next week...
Write a good header with usage examples and, if the language allows it, use automatic documentation style! Wink

Use decent variable names, not just initials. Use decent function names, not just initials... damn people who coded in Fortran and used variables called frrm = frrx - frry / 2
Undecided
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#7
RE: IT Best Practices
Haven't done any programming in years. I think the amount of comments in my code would diminish as a project went on. Hey, if they got that far I'm sure they can figure out the rest.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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#8
RE: IT Best Practices
I put some humorous comments in my code, but I'm the only one reading, because I don't do it professionally. Yeah kids, don't do drugs and don't drop after highschool, it will come and bite you in the ass later.
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#9
RE: IT Best Practices
I'm not sure how my search for follow ITIL gurus became a programming thread but hey ho, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em...

I once set up a help desk system with the following levels of urgency for Incidents:

Critical
Urgent
Normal
Trivial

To this day, I don't think anyone noticed.

My bad.
The PURPOSE of life is to replicate our DNA ................. (from Darwin)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)
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#10
RE: IT Best Practices
I was excited to click on this as I thought it was about Internet Trolling.

Oh, well. Undecided
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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