I realize that blogs full of links to other blogs can be fairly annoying…I promise to limit how often I do this. But I just realized not everyone is on Twitter, and not everyone follows the folks I do. So you may've missed a few gems I picked up:
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First off, Sean's (of course) Database Underground blog on Infoworld. He posted a new entry yesterday, "Is SQL Server's latest security hole a real threat?", about the recent Sentrigo/Microsoft spat over plain text passwords in memory. I think the video he made on the same topic especially is pretty awesome, because he shows you step-by-step how easy it is to hack passwords, and gives you a few reasons to care. Hey, what can I say, I'm a fan AND a geek.
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Paul Randal, sooooper geeeeenius, recently began a blog with "I'm constantly surprised by the number of people that don't follow the CSS SQL blog – some of the best SQL people in the industry post there." Now, I hadn't been following CSS SQL blog, but I've started. I pass the link on to you.
BTW, if you do follow @PaulRandal on Twitter, doesn't his pic make you think of Ari from "Entourage"?
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And I just tweeted about the absolute best article on IT personality and management, evar, evar, EVAR. It's called "Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks" by Jeff Ello. I want to quote the whole entire thing, but I will restrain myself somewhat.
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Article begins: "I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: "Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, managerially and business-challenged, victim-prone, bullheaded and credit-whoring. To overcome these intractable behavioral deficits you must do X, Y and Z.""
- "IT pros will prefer a jerk who is always right over a nice person who is always wrong. Wrong creates unnecessary work, impossible situations and major failures. Wrong is evil, and it must be defeated."
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"IT pros are sensitive to logic — that's what you pay them for. When things don't add up, they are prone to express their opinions on the matter, and the level of response will be proportional to the absurdity of the event."
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"IT pros will self-organize, disrupt and subvert in the name of accomplishing work."
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That barely scratches the surface of Jeff's article. Go, go and read. Thank me later.
-Jen McCown, http://www.MidnightDBA.com