Good Advice – Setup Edition

My friend and collegue Adam Cogan is a big proponent of documenting best practices. In fact his company, SSW puts all kinds of lists of these best practices up on their website.

Recently Adam chimed in on a list we are both on with a link to the best practices (Rules) around setup and I realized that even if you know a topic well you should go back to the well from time to time to ensure you are still on the right path. I think back to the days when coding by stringing together user input to make a SQL statement was accepted as the way to build a login form (before the first SQL Injection attacks). You have to seek out other sources even (maybe especially) on things that you hold yourself to be an expert with. I now find myself reviewing how we do setups at DTS to make them better and finding Adam’s advice to be a very good source of points to contemplate.