Developing in a hostile environment -


OK, no that kind of hostile I'm curious to hear that people How to work for development, which insists on all kinds of developer-friendly services and policies on the desktop (Prokwata, super-enthusiastic virus scanners, no local administrators, no access to SO) I have used virtual LAN effectively before, or used completely different parallel networks, but these are not always practical. Any other suggestions?

The most important thing is to recruit support to your boss (if possible). / P>

Unless he is a Ph.B., he will often understand you, the effect of these restrictions on your team and their success indirectly. If the request is appropriate, you can provide a buffer if you do against IT. In addition, if the entire team or other developers are looking for similar policies, then this "group bargaining power" is used to make special policies. can go.

Generally, large corporations are very enthusiastic about legal issues and information security, however, IT departments generally hate to deal with many requests for the support of a single person. Occasionally, if you show a clear loss of productivity to a project (for example, you use many temporary files and anti viruses hit them) or your program has to be installed in admin mode, then they Sometimes the agreement will reach you may have to sign something that you want to establish an illegal software to get any administrative access to your machine. Will not use, but you can still get the admin.

In some cases I have a job interview (I 'mostly in the field of education but have done some work in the industry), one of my biggest concerns was that my computing environment, with hardware, From the software, there was the amount of control for administrative rights. If I can not be trusted as a developer for managing my own windows box, then I do not think I should trust with a mission-critical system.


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