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The XML processing language XSLT is a powerful and flexible solution to many development needs.
Like every profession, IT is driven by the passion and eccentricity of the people who work in it.
Fungibility is a critical concept for managing long-term costs and risk in IT.
Here in the UK there is a constant stream of scandal as sensitive data is lost by banks, the police, the government, and pretty much everyone else. Rather than being a failure of "procedures", I see this as inevitable because of fundamental problems with the security of PCs and portable media.
To successfully navigate the IT of mergers, acquisitions and reorganisations you need to quickly establish high-level visibility, direction and control across the new structure. Here's how.
No IT objective, such as cost reduction, can be managed in isolation. You need to adopt methods that let you manage a basket of competing objectives.
To manage technology effectively, you need methods that let you manage at different levels of detail at different times and across different subjects.
The latest formats make it much easier to export data and reports to Excel, even if you do not use Microsoft technology and do not have the latest versions of Microsoft Office.

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The XML processing language XSLT is a powerful and flexible solution to many development needs.
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