I had an interesting problem crop up trying to run my own application this week. We have a routine that uses an excel spreadsheet to import orders into Dynamics GP that includes some twists that aren’t handled well by Integration Manager. Since the application runs from the network (using ClickOnce) and because these orders can be substantial and represent a commitment of corporate resources, we want some control over who can run them. Specifically, we use Active Directory group membership with hard-coded/defined groups. One of the groups I want to allow is Domain Admins. And yes, this is...
One of the things I am seeing less of lately is the understanding that reasonable people can and will disagree with one another—without either of them being any the less reasonable or intelligent for doing so. It seems to me that people become so invested with the “rightness” of their ideas that they deny the possibility that those who disagree with them may be equally intelligent and well-informed. You see it a lot in politics, but I think that this attitude has crept into development discussions as well. I saw a manifestation of this in action after a...