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IT Best Practices
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IT Best Practices
October 20, 2013 at 5:23 am
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.

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RE: IT Best Practices
October 20, 2013 at 11:48 pm
Most of our government departments use ITIL
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RE: IT Best Practices
October 21, 2013 at 12:44 am
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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RE: IT Best Practices
October 21, 2013 at 12:51 am
I'm notorious for not commenting my code. That's a best practice, yes?
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RE: IT Best Practices
October 21, 2013 at 2:18 am
Excellent. I feel slightly less alone. Smile

Thanks for the responses.
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RE: IT Best Practices
October 21, 2013 at 3:45 am
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
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RE: IT Best Practices
October 21, 2013 at 5:57 am
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.
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RE: IT Best Practices
October 21, 2013 at 6:00 am
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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RE: IT Best Practices
October 21, 2013 at 7:48 am
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.
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RE: IT Best Practices
October 21, 2013 at 7:55 am
I was excited to click on this as I thought it was about Internet Trolling.

Oh, well. Undecided
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