Simon, How in the world can you lock down a developers machine? Not only is that non-productive in my opinion, but I suspect that half the staff would be spending some of their time trying to figure out the admin password on their machine, just to "remove" the "lock" (for Windows only operating systems, of course). You must have a separate IT support department that is on a power trip trying to control the IT development groups machines.
Like you, I would be bringing in my own laptop, and doing my work in it while looking for another job. Celeste -----Original Message----- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:31 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [OT] Standardised Environments (was RE: [OT] Eclipse IDE) Our management (I won't say leadership, for reasons that will be obvious to experienced IS developers) also have the belief that standardisation is good. We are having our J2EE workstations defined to the n'th degree and they will all be locked down so that you can't change anything. You can't even change your windows wallpaper!!! Our IDE is defined, you'd better like it because you can't install anything else. All in the sacred name of productivity. Anyone else out there going through this or have advice to share? I am planning to bring my personal laptop to work to do any of my tinkering on. I like to think that my tinkering is helpful to the company, but you wouldn't think so from these new policies. This past year, I have introduced to the company's IS environment four new tools that I evaluated by tinkering with in those downtimes between projects. Specifically, these tools are Struts (hey, you know I like Struts! :-), ant, junit and Cygwin. The funny thing, to me, is that these tools evaluated by tinkering are going to be part of the new locked down standard! Gotta laugh. Simon >-----Original Message----- >From: Daniel H. F. e Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 5:39 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [OT] Eclipse IDE - The Two Towers > > >Hi all, > I do appreciate all feedback posted here in this list. > Well, i am only executing orders. I don't intend to obligate >everybody to adopt my >recomendations. >My boss wants a standard environment to all developers. So, >order is order. > I think his concern about this task is to improve >productivity. So, what is more productive? > Following our discussion, does someone have experience >writing Eclipse plugins? How difficult is >this kind of task? > >Best regards, > Daniel. > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:struts-user->[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For >additional commands, >e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
