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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'son of parnas' | ||
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Number of Comments: 356 |
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| Number of Words: 16,361 | ||
| First Comment: 10 Oct 2003 | ||
| Final Comment: 01 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 4 |
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| First Topic: 09 Feb 2004 | ||
| Latest Topic: 31 Aug 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 01 Sep 2004 | Testing Taking Too L.... | It's really the same issue as system testing large.... >> |
| 31 Aug 2004 | My mind seems to have become a kind of machine... >> | |
| 06 Jul 2004 | Work vs. Family time | For some reason my breakdown doesn't ever add up .... >> |
| 05 Jul 2004 | Wikis and IMDB | Wikis are generally too hard to use for the genera.... >> |
| 04 Jul 2004 | Suddenly Unicode bec.... | And you are assuming they will pay for your softwa.... >> |
| Quicken's Quality Me.... | Aren't reviews tied to the check list? We often h.... >> | |
| Paul Graham says we .... | > Otherwise you would have some sort of a > reas.... >> | |
| > Define forever. 1. For everlasting time; eter.... >> | ||
| > I would love to see a few pages of one of your F.... >> | ||
| > FMEA's just don't fit the software construction .... >> | ||
| Ho, do you even know what FMEA means? Have you ev.... >> | ||
| 03 Jul 2004 | > . It's probably on the order of 10 per program o.... >> | |
| As he says: > Bugs turn up quickly. And devote.... >> | ||
| 02 Jul 2004 | Good Software Takes .... | I guess joel's products aren't any good yet? >> |
| Adult ADHD | > Looks like you are a victim in the latest wave o.... >> | |
| Is the internet "ant.... | Oh, and i certainly don't need Michael Moore to g.... >> | |
| Gmail Tip | > sampler2D HLSL texture binding Try searching .... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | your most absurd IT policy? >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | pressure from employ.... | What you did wrong is that you did not understand .... >> |
| Adult ADHD | I think it is controllable, so there is hope. The.... >> | |
| Is the internet "ant.... | Be honest. People prefer mediated communication b.... >> | |
| Chat and Development | I've never used chat during development, but i've .... >> | |
| Just. for web server.... | I am also confused as to why it would be a securit.... >> | |
| 30 Jun 2004 | Best Freeware Bug Da.... | Write your own. >> |
| Web Applications vs .... | Better can only be determined relative to requirem.... >> | |
| Your Opinion of Test.... | I don't think it is effective because it primarily.... >> | |
| The phrase "bet the .... | To motivate the troops you need to continually rei.... >> | |
| Visual Studio Expres.... | >Wouldn't high level IDEs turn already good progra.... >> | |
| Windows & Time | A thread safe queue may add unaccetable latency i.... >> | |
| For queue full conditions you may want to conside.... >> | ||
| 29 Jun 2004 | Have you hooked up a sniffer to see when the pack.... >> | |
| Experiences with XP .... | As a historical clearification, unit testing and a.... >> | |
| 28 Jun 2004 | C/C++ portability wi.... | I wouldn't try to make one os look like another. .... >> |
| Ace is a worth a look. It is a bit complex. I .... >> | ||
| Can you be a good C+.... | > Those who can, do. Those who can't teach. Wh.... >> | |
| No. >> | ||
| House prices (off-to.... | 20 years ago i thought there was a housing bubble .... >> | |
| I am starting a new .... | > Spoken truly by someone who has never worked > .... >> | |
| Blogs written by gee.... | > many others, including me, do not consider them .... >> | |
| 27 Jun 2004 | I am starting a new .... | Be nice. Be helpful. Be warm. Don't yell. Don't sp.... >> |
| 26 Jun 2004 | Blogs written by gee.... | > Would it be absolutely 'fascinating' today to re.... >> |
| 25 Jun 2004 | Building a process | 1. What kind of software do you build? 2. What ki.... >> |
| Optimize this: | > *p will fail unless is it's dword aligned.' T.... >> | |
| > He sez: 'wrong, I didn't say ptr was 32 bit alig.... >> | ||
| 24 Jun 2004 | Web Application Deve.... | >Just to clarify, I am refering to our developmen.... >> |
| This is why software.... | Dennis, i don't see a handle diameter for the hand.... >> | |
| GMail Marketing Blun.... | >Now, everything is at my fingertips and I don't h.... >> | |
| XML Schema Design | My thoughts are attributes should provide the con.... >> | |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Innovation, Producti.... | I wish i could have said what AllanL5 said. >> |
| Am I a Java or C++ p.... | I get the feeling people haven't conducted a lot .... >> | |
| Figure out what they want through intelligent ques.... >> | ||
| Lookup tables vs. ex.... | >You are the professional developer. It is your >r.... >> | |
| 21 Jun 2004 | Byte shift | For up and down shifting you need to move your he.... >> |
| I have always found bit operations very confusing .... >> | ||
| 20 Jun 2004 | Mixing managed and u.... | What is unmanaged C++? >> |
| 19 Jun 2004 | Old, forgotten HTTP .... | wais, veronica, gopher, and jughead. I guess the k.... >> |
| Killer App(s) for De.... | Once we have wide spread wireless control of robot.... >> | |
| 17 Jun 2004 | The API wars: rich c.... | > Parnas Jr: do you run it under Linux? Still .... >> |
| Eclipse still manages to hang for long periods of .... >> | ||
| Programmers won't au.... | > Just because the language is inconsistent, doesn.... >> | |
| > maybe you're being sarcastic or clever or whatev.... >> | ||
| Monkey, the problem is it has spaces were you don'.... >> | ||
| Tools in Source Cont.... | I am not sure what a project is. Usually we have .... >> | |
| servlet based pop3 r.... | mail2web worked great. thanks. >> | |
| 16 Jun 2004 | UI question | Sounds like a request for a feature that will neve.... >> |
| Is company loyalty d.... | Fermilab is performing some very sophisticated te.... >> | |
| Skill Development | >That's why programmers are regarded as replaceabl.... >> | |
| We aren't trying to solve any particular problem. .... >> | ||
| JOEL stop watering d.... | I thought it was informative and well done. What .... >> | |
| How the browser comp.... | >behaved very badly at times You make it sound .... >> | |
| 0% of 2.0GB -- yahoo.... | If they would have been constantly improving thei.... >> | |
| 15 Jun 2004 | I need a new monitor | Didn't the government find MS a monopoly? Doesn't .... >> |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Bridging gap b/t hig.... | Yes it is common. It's very hard to be able to ef.... >> |
| Tech Interview Rant | > Foo f3 = new Foo2(); There's no ambiguity. Yo.... >> | |
| Ethics of running an.... | > At least I used to, seems like maybe he's > ru.... >> | |
| > Parnas, may I quote you? At your own risk of.... >> | ||
| Joel owes us nothing. The best way to stop a good.... >> | ||
| Stupid CS Exam Quest.... | >Our minds are not designed to think like computer.... >> | |
| > If you make a clerical error on a test, you're s.... >> | ||
| If you could trace your code do you think you wou.... >> | ||
| 13 Jun 2004 | Why leave vowels out.... | Thts hrrbl. >> |
| Using a debugger for.... | For the record i make plenty of mistakes. The deb.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2004 | Reality check on pro.... | It's a market. If you want the job you will do the.... >> |
| Using a debugger for.... | > How on earth does it help you? The few times .... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2004 | servlet based pop3 reader? >> | |
| 11 Jun 2004 | perl -d Now you are in a debugger. >> | |
| servlet based pop3 r.... | Nope. I thought i would want it on my server, but .... >> | |
| C++ and accessors--w.... | >'private parts' yourself, but that doesn't mean .... >> | |
| > It should be ugly, because it is. Objects ha.... >> | ||
| When you read the code does one read better than .... >> | ||
| 10 Jun 2004 | Has the role of .... | >What I feel is America has always shown > doubl.... >> |
| 09 Jun 2004 | What's a Good Perl I.... | vi >> |
| Avoiding Indecisiven.... | > He'll probably make some mistakes along the way,.... >> | |
| project from hell, a.... | >This industry can be great or it can be one hell .... >> | |
| 08 Jun 2004 | How GPA affects job .... | Don't put your gpa on your resume. Nobody will pr.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2004 | Slacker Coworker | You brought it up. Now leave it. Just never ever .... >> |
| what do you do when .... | Put up a sign. Email them politely. Ask to be mo.... >> | |
| smart people | >I can see that the idea of smart people as > wi.... >> | |
| I hate this industry | > After they made me buy that goddamn book. How.... >> | |
| Getting a client to .... | Agree with the first poster on how it should be do.... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2004 | Ayn Rand | Because objectivism is based on objective rules, .... >> |
| Where's Joel? | >I mean, who wants to get their teeth > kicked i.... >> | |
| 02 Jun 2004 | Planning to give my .... | >Bottom line: if they're only giving you a raise .... >> |
| I don't fully agree with the no counter offer com.... >> | ||
| 01 Jun 2004 | Project Manager Inte.... | Excellent daniel! My only modification would be t.... >> |
| > This makes me thing that one day a good AI could.... >> | ||
| I don't think PM is about team work, etc. It's ab.... >> | ||
| Why does Windows nee.... | They did the simplest thing that could possibly wo.... >> | |
| Motivation | http://softwareceo.com/ haas some interesting stuf.... >> | |
| 30 May 2004 | Definition of a "soc.... | End-points are like train terminals or airports. P.... >> |
| 28 May 2004 | Ethics of BCC'ing yo.... | When i've done this what happened was one of the .... >> |
| End to End Testing? | Depending on the project you can treat it like tr.... >> | |
| Should I retire? | When you retire you will likely die first intellec.... >> | |
| 27 May 2004 | Developer Change Log.... | Delete the comments by hand. Then add a tool to d.... >> |
| Tech work a "special.... | >First, there is nothing remotely testable about t.... >> | |
| 26 May 2004 | Why is it so difficu.... | If i told you here's a recipe to make a meal and .... >> |
| Opening my mind | Read good code and figure out how it works. Figur.... >> | |
| 24 May 2004 | OO: Lists, Collectio.... | Do you really think for every type you will have .... >> |
| teach Procedural or .... | Don't teach either at first. It's like teaching pe.... >> | |
| 21 May 2004 | Design question invo.... | schmoe, that's an excellent point about tieing the.... >> |
| This really pops up now with the use of AOP and c.... >> | ||
| 20 May 2004 | IEEE: Japanese best,.... | The code is like: int f123h(int a123) { i.... >> |
| Google IPO | I think google will be margenalized into irrelevan.... >> | |
| 19 May 2004 | another resume quest.... | Put them in an experience highlights section. Just.... >> |
| Why doesn't Opera ge.... | If there were more operas in english they might b.... >> | |
| 18 May 2004 | Do many programmers .... | >Are you saying that it testing needs to be done d.... >> |
| Testing after development is the domain of system .... >> | ||
| Temp table or not in.... | Try it and see? One could imagine advantages for.... >> | |
| Would a Wiki Work? | > All the developers are using it minus one who .... >> | |
| 17 May 2004 | Indian economy | >As you just have to look how some Americans >re.... >> |
| "Inductive" User Int.... | > Startling revelations indeed. Most applicati.... >> | |
| Do you have any actual technical objections you ca.... >> | ||
| Physically separate .... | > We develop embedded systems How about accessi.... >> | |
| 14 May 2004 | How much is risk wor.... | Is there a place where your contract couldn't be .... >> |
| Why bonuses are NOT .... | Meaningfully contributing to something that people.... >> | |
| 13 May 2004 | Whats the deal with .... | If a client didn't have you how would someone make.... >> |
| Americans rejoice. I.... | > Britney Spears getting elected to the White Hous.... >> | |
| 12 May 2004 | Gmail | Google isn't cool anymore. Time to move on. >> |
| Ken Thompson's "Refl.... | I also heard Thompson genetically reenginered his.... >> | |
| 11 May 2004 | What's a CIO? | A layer of useless management. >> |
| 10 May 2004 | To specify or not to.... | If you put a lot of detail in UML and aren't gener.... >> |
| Does commissioning a.... | We often look for a reason not to trust something .... >> | |
| Delphi + CORBA vs. J.... | > 1. They're basically global variables, globals a.... >> | |
| >Why JSP - because it's a lot easier to work with .... >> | ||
| 09 May 2004 | What's to learn? | Are you going to learn anything about programming? >> |
| Delphi + CORBA vs. J.... | > JSP was too messy so we needed Struts Speakin.... >> | |
| 08 May 2004 | Developer to IT and .... | It's hard to jump back. You would specifically hav.... >> |
| Must I worry? | > Or if I talk to them, is there a possibility the.... >> | |
| 06 May 2004 | Google Serach Result.... | Combine that with sites selling stuff ranking high.... >> |
| 05 May 2004 | Too competetive? | Do think competetive is the same as successful? >> |
| 02 May 2004 | Is it unprofessional.... | >Wouldn't it make much more sense to pay that rans.... >> |
| I think you should know the rate you are being bil.... >> | ||
| 01 May 2004 | The "Big Ball of Mud.... | Yes, i think this is the perhaps the best paper ev.... >> |
| 29 Apr 2004 | Is the job market st.... | > but I don't have the money to move. Work at .... >> |
| 28 Apr 2004 | teaching programming.... | You have 4 frickin years in school. It's not too m.... >> |
| 27 Apr 2004 | Programmed Death of .... | Please check your blood sugar as well. You sound l.... >> |
| 26 Apr 2004 | Unit Testing Embedde.... | >Perhaps I should rephrase the question as, 'How c.... >> |
| 25 Apr 2004 | Some things that have helped: 1. be able to warm .... >> | |
| Generative Programmi.... | If it is an embedded telco product than it is like.... >> | |
| 24 Apr 2004 | when to do perf/scal.... | Do you have requirements for performance and scali.... >> |
| Scope changes during.... | >Does anyone here have any objective numbers on a .... >> | |
| 23 Apr 2004 | Error handling - why.... | Should your browser just exit when you make a typo.... >> |
| What would you do? | >parnas, I feel sorry for you. Thank you. It ha.... >> | |
| >So parnas, money people, there is more to it than.... >> | ||
| 22 Apr 2004 | > Give me a break, Son of my Parn-ass. It would.... >> | |
| Keep in mind that the person who owns the company .... >> | ||
| 20 Apr 2004 | How incompetent am I.... | >The problem is, I can't shake the useless feeling.... >> |
| 19 Apr 2004 | I want to work for a.... | Hm, i had heard bad things about Google. >> |
| Audit log design pat.... | Use 2 because it can contain a lot of useful conte.... >> | |
| Service Oriented Arc.... | > 99% of the world uses Microsoft's built in VPN, .... >> | |
| I am talking about VPN software that locks down y.... >> | ||
| >But what advantage did this provide over just exp.... >> | ||
| VPNs stink also because: 1. the security locks do.... >> | ||
| SOA is simply what you get when you can't do fine .... >> | ||
| what software to wri.... | >I'd like a decent GUI for creating and editing Ap.... >> | |
| 16 Apr 2004 | Should source contro.... | You might want to store all this stuff in a releas.... >> |
| Why I hate Swing | > I have no clue what you are referring to. (serio.... >> | |
| Fred, i do not take drugs. >> | ||
| I found dancing the west coast swing a little easi.... >> | ||
| Protyping Web Based .... | Agree with using paper. You can change it fast an.... >> | |
| 15 Apr 2004 | Another take on loya.... | Is that loyalty or more like sitting under a shady.... >> |
| Just write the code..... | > What Getting? Already there. Argue for your.... >> | |
| >Son of Parnas, your ideas are definitely unique. .... >> | ||
| 14 Apr 2004 | First internet usage | Early 80s at college on a lovely pdp8. >> |
| 13 Apr 2004 | bug reports > act.... | Your database will just become another source of.... >> |
| Just write the code..... | > How do you represent the data you are processing.... >> | |
| >I generally code my domain objects to reflect the.... >> | ||
| >Son of Parnas' idea works fine in theory, but it .... >> | ||
| Layer your system. Your domain objects shouldn't .... >> | ||
| 11 Apr 2004 | Is Perl the only scr.... | Mathew, you could also use single quotes so you w.... >> |
| 10 Apr 2004 | Why no CPANs? | Cause name spaces add very little for the extra c.... >> |
| 09 Apr 2004 | Loyalty | Loyalty == serfdom >> |
| 07 Apr 2004 | Menus | You might consider a web page layout even when us.... >> |
| Why do people just w.... | >Though I agree a lot of Americans are morons. .... >> | |
| BerkelyDb Java Editi.... | They are a quality organization when i worked with.... >> | |
| 04 Apr 2004 | Who else is digging .... | >If you're lucky you can get a day job that's clos.... >> |
| 03 Apr 2004 | Java—what's the poin.... | >We had to shelve plans to migrate to java because.... >> |
| 02 Apr 2004 | Why do you care? >> | |
| Getting software con.... | Start a front company in india that really subcont.... >> | |
| 01 Apr 2004 | April fools | Ron, don't grow up! >> |
| Parm? What's t.... | Parms is old school. I think you are probably just.... >> | |
| Development and Mood.... | http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PlayHurt >> | |
| Distance Learning Wh.... | Philo, do you plan to leave MS of your resume? :-) >> | |
| What is the value of.... | A testing group can devote more time and resources.... >> | |
| 31 Mar 2004 | Complicated APIs vs .... | >I agree that simplicity is deceptive. But I belie.... >> |
| Nothing worse than a simple interface when i need.... >> | ||
| ThrowTheBumsOut | >Yeah, the 90's really sucked economically, didn't.... >> | |
| 30 Mar 2004 | When the blue collar jobs were going away there w.... >> | |
| Is SharePoint overki.... | Is there a reason not to use a shared file system.... >> | |
| cultural implication.... | My daughter is named a@zi$*aq. Works equally well.... >> | |
| 29 Mar 2004 | Multitasking - how d.... | You can't do it. Switching between flow states co.... >> |
| I Hate The New Googl.... | Hey, it saved 1.5K. >> | |
| Curving CS Grades | Grades are useless anyway. They aren't real. Curv.... >> | |
| Why are managers clu.... | Every smart programmer thinks everyone else is an.... >> | |
| So, I dropped on you.... | Just Me, if you have language restrictions then t.... >> | |
| As a developer as long as you can read, speak, and.... >> | ||
| 28 Mar 2004 | Should I do it? | Do it. You'll probably won't be successful from a .... >> |
| 25 Mar 2004 | To branch or not to .... | Christopher, i have seen the opposite. The problem.... >> |
| This can work if people keep in sync frequently. .... >> | ||
| Is grokking pointers.... | Yes. Try explaining C pointers to a java programme.... >> | |
| 24 Mar 2004 | A sysadmin must know.... | German is very important. >> |
| Scary, Bad Code at N.... | Anon, another tact is to think that the product d.... >> | |
| It is the normal state because most people aren't.... >> | ||
| 23 Mar 2004 | Am I just grumpy, or.... | How many releases since you updated? It's reasonab.... >> |
| Wiki question | Different wikis use different conventions. Some t.... >> | |
| Nice Guy-can't progr.... | Bored Bystander, i like your style. Though it may .... >> | |
| Don't slam him. Give the facts and only the facts..... >> | ||
| 22 Mar 2004 | Tech Events | First time with a pleasure droid. Definitely. >> |
| 20 Mar 2004 | Java Server Faces | RP, agree completely. Does anyone ever change the.... >> |
| Not yet. I am waiting to see if it is worth it. .... >> | ||
| 19 Mar 2004 | But are you happy? | Happiness is a lot to ask. >> |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Honesty in companies | > Most companies are like a brothel. And all i.... >> |
| source control philo.... | Perforce has a best practices document on their s.... >> | |
| 17 Mar 2004 | Cluetrain Manifesto | Consequences can be made to disappear with enough.... >> |
| databases are danger.... | What are the requirements? Are they met? End of s.... >> | |
| 16 Mar 2004 | What's wrong with St.... | >Why does everyone need/want a framework? I al.... >> |
| 15 Mar 2004 | Bad Programming Team.... | You are not a dog. >> |
| Another usability qu.... | Add logging and you can tell what features people.... >> | |
| An example of how to.... | >but we couldn't do it in house because we had >.... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2004 | Framework and "big c.... | > Frameworks can easily do more harm than good, .... >> |
| 12 Mar 2004 | Does good code matte.... | People who dump on frameworks are just pissed bec.... >> |
| 11 Mar 2004 | Technical Recruiters.... | My introduction to pay issues was at one very larg.... >> |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Hackers too? | I have a bad cough and my golf game sucks. So yes.... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | salary on current jo.... | Don't give your salary. Make them make an offer. .... >> |
| 06 Mar 2004 | vxworks device drive.... | vxworks has example drivers. They are pretty stan.... >> |
| Perforce for FREE!! | Search on perfroce vs CVS and you'll get a lot of .... >> | |
| 04 Mar 2004 | how to return for ni.... | Nihilist, you might want to search the archives fo.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Normal not to get pa.... | Must be standard in their country to rip off the g.... >> |
| 02 Mar 2004 | Table Driven Program.... | I do all my programming on a table. Lap driven pr.... >> |
| 28 Feb 2004 | Why Spirit stopped w.... | Rocket scientist, i would love to create a space p.... >> |
| 27 Feb 2004 | Hybrid Application: .... | Do you need a rich client? If not try html. Thoug.... >> |
| Why Spirit stopped w.... | Pish. This isn't monday morning 20-20 hindsight. .... >> | |
| Most complex embedded systems have recovery mechan.... >> | ||
| 24 Feb 2004 | Is there a name for .... | >that it's no better than having public data membe.... >> |
| 23 Feb 2004 | Working on contract .... | Do you want to do more business with them later? .... >> |
| 22 Feb 2004 | Objects Flamewar | >I'm not having OO shoved down my >throat because.... >> |
| 21 Feb 2004 | >And remember, the damage that is caused can >cau.... >> | |
| >son of parnas, I thought the *aim* was to write c.... >> | ||
| What is your alternative? You sound like a person.... >> | ||
| 20 Feb 2004 | What customer asks f.... | I didn't miss the point. Has there been another s.... >> |
| How is the problem of drop dead simple install be.... >> | ||
| 19 Feb 2004 | Rule-driven GUI's | You get the same problem you have with large comp.... >> |
| I hate developers | I give technical and philosophical tests. I don't .... >> | |
| Me and the view out the window, Yah we intervie.... >> | ||
| 18 Feb 2004 | How do I break the p.... | The Real Blank, apparently the only thing separati.... >> |
| >I happen to share your disdain for inheritance .... >> | ||
| Electroshock may work. If not you might try res.... >> | ||
| 17 Feb 2004 | Update on Feeling Ba.... | So if it wasn't for capitalism these folks would .... >> |
| 13 Feb 2004 | System Analysis | Maybe work as a programmer in the real world? Ot.... >> |
| 11 Feb 2004 | Now, that really ann.... | To name you have to think. Much code is written w.... >> |
| 10 Feb 2004 | Stupid regular expre.... | Here's how i parse paths: 1. normalize the slash .... >> |
| 09 Feb 2004 | ISP architecture for application servers? >> | |
| 09 Feb 2004 | More experience? | Ability is hard to quantify. So experience often .... >> |
| ISP architecture for.... | Thanks ryan, that does help. Hard to imagine 100s.... >> | |
| 06 Feb 2004 | PeopleSoft sucks.&nb.... | No need to enforce RI in the database if it's hap.... >> |
| 04 Feb 2004 | What is Hacking the .... | Don't care. I was asked to put in a feature today.... >> |
| Real experience XML/.... | I've found RPC over SOAP pretty easy. If you wan.... >> | |
| Client/Server design.... | Why do you think that is slow? What does slow mean.... >> | |
| 01 Feb 2004 | Throwing the Baby Al.... | Should read Work arounds do NOT work around bugs...... >> |
| Row, the problem is that bugs are a good indicator.... >> | ||
| 29 Jan 2004 | Feeling Bad About Le.... | Remember to them you are just a tool. They forget.... >> |
| Usability vs. Code M.... | So before XP you wrote a lot of stuff you didn't .... >> | |
| Don't forget that coding is hard. Making something.... >> | ||
| commoditize your com.... | Because everytime i try to explain C++ to program.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Is Eiffel a contende.... | >One of the reasons Eiffel isn't a contender today.... >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | Why is Friendster sl.... | tomcat is pretty slow compared something like res.... >> |
| 25 Jan 2004 | Technical Ladder -- .... | Mostly myth. Even if it's real your chances are re.... >> |
| 22 Jan 2004 | Dealing with Madness | The sad fact is most people who are programmers ar.... >> |
| 21 Jan 2004 | "The Office" | I find it unwatchable. It is so slow and painful. .... >> |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Bitwise vs Booleans .... | If you have a few then booleans are fine. When you.... >> |
| 07 Jan 2004 | "No Hire" | If my vote doesn't count why should i take the ti.... >> |
| 05 Jan 2004 | To Struts or not? | I agree with sassy. If you really know what you a.... >> |
| Database versus flat.... | Prevayler didn't seem particularly simple to me. .... >> | |
| A text file can be easier because you can easily .... >> | ||
| 30 Dec 2003 | Why apps developed w.... | I find out look complex, confusing, and lacking ma.... >> |
| 28 Dec 2003 | phone interviews | We use phone interviews as a simple technical fil.... >> |
| 18 Dec 2003 | Architects here + of.... | I have just talked to someone at startup that use.... >> |
| New Project - offsho.... | Is software a cost or an investment? If it is an .... >> | |
| Feature "Feature/Cod.... | There aren't any absolute rules. You need to use .... >> | |
| 10 Dec 2003 | Lisp and Productivit.... | Rob, the advantage of the object is at least there.... >> |
| So if keep my state in a session object instead o.... >> | ||
| 09 Dec 2003 | Writing device drive.... | Hardware interfaces are often poorly defined, bug.... >> |
| 07 Dec 2003 | Are Debuggers Wastef.... | Realist, if you can't write a logging subsystem th.... >> |
| 06 Dec 2003 | >So I take it you would prefer your doctor to send.... >> | |
| T, please don't be my doctor. I would like someon.... >> | ||
| Doctors shouldn't use MRIs or xrays either. Just l.... >> | ||
| 05 Dec 2003 | Well, this is it | Please don't do anything drastic. Your are having .... >> |
| Avalon's rearchitect.... | I think the point of the post is that it is intere.... >> | |
| 04 Dec 2003 | Why are 80% of progr.... | People don't quite because it's a job. I wasn't a .... >> |
| Code in Mind | Different people are different. I can keep a lot o.... >> | |
| Scrabble and Dummy D.... | NathanJ, i made a strong statement so expect to b.... >> | |
| >It is more fashionable to read a few blurbs on XP.... >> | ||
| Some things are just meant to be used by other .... >> | ||
| 03 Dec 2003 | Debug vs Release bui.... | My solution is to not have a different debug and .... >> |
| Unit tests as daily .... | It tells them what they bothered to test in an iso.... >> | |
| 02 Dec 2003 | Who to let go? | Definitely ask if anyone has wanted to move on. I.... >> |
| How often do you rel.... | Usually releases are based on revenue. Are you ge.... >> | |
| 26 Nov 2003 | Wizard-Style Web UI | Studies show, the reference i can't find, that peo.... >> |
| Teaching him a lesso.... | This person has some growing up to do. As many ge.... >> | |
| 25 Nov 2003 | Reinventing The Whee.... | When you get that new tcp/ip replacement coded gi.... >> |
| I hate regular expre.... | I love REs. You just have to learn the language th.... >> | |
| 24 Nov 2003 | What do I say to thi.... | Your boss is an idiot: [3] Even managers close.... >> |
| Problem in my Develo.... | It's tough because people do get assigned roles. .... >> | |
| Spammers now thwarti.... | The mozilla bayesean spam filter didn't work well .... >> | |
| 20 Nov 2003 | C/C++ programming qu.... | As a long time c/c++ programmer i never combine d.... >> |
| Optimizing massive d.... | Them rich clients seem very easy to make :-) >> | |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Loyalty? | > Take the job, but let them know that you're paid.... >> |
| 17 Nov 2003 | Forgot, you will make your manager friend look re.... >> | |
| Quiting after a couple of weeks is nasty. It t.... >> | ||
| 15 Nov 2003 | How to get started i.... | Embedded is a still a broad field. It's generally.... >> |
| 13 Nov 2003 | Why username and pas.... | So should we have 3 variables? >> |
| 11 Nov 2003 | A small rant about L.... | >you would probably have a lot of security holes t.... >> |
| 07 Nov 2003 | Can MS sell the lock.... | One thing i wondered is if you want to develop fo.... >> |
| They call me NERD!!! | Take a look at erlang's lighweight process archite.... >> | |
| 05 Nov 2003 | I wasn't a CS / EE m.... | These days art is a response to art in previous d.... >> |
| Hopefully a broader vision than most people will .... >> | ||
| 03 Nov 2003 | Internet Access - wh.... | We have have 500kbs for $250/month over wireless. .... >> |
| SW Mgmt Part 2 - Des.... | I once worked for a wacky rich accountant also. It.... >> | |
| 01 Nov 2003 | Strategies for manag.... | 1) Do you mean people should access it over a sha.... >> |
| 30 Oct 2003 | Online identity | We need to be our own publicists now in that you .... >> |
| 29 Oct 2003 | Development has beco.... | I lost 2 20 page reports in school on an apple II.... >> |
| I will try to make a defense for how it is. The is.... >> | ||
| Can you be more specific about what in the RPG en.... >> | ||
| What angered me the .... | >Feel sorry for all the warp drive mechanics - the.... >> | |
| >Do you believe that we only have one calling? >.... >> | ||
| Sum Dum Gai, you can certainly have more than one.... >> | ||
| I am a programmer and i am staying a programmer b.... >> | ||
| 23 Oct 2003 | Why RDBMS? | The shandy is a crime against all beer kind! >> |
| What kind of beers are draught and shandy? >> | ||
| 22 Oct 2003 | Curse of the 4.0 | Release numbers are a marketing issue. As a devel.... >> |
| 21 Oct 2003 | Better then RSS? Jab.... | If you have 1000,000 users pushing data constantl.... >> |
| Radio, for exampe, pings the server which causes a.... >> | ||
| 18 Oct 2003 | What do coders do?? | That kind of question is an opening for you to co.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Policy on exceptions.... | Dennis, if the developers can't remember to catch.... >> |
| What should programm.... | There are a class of programmers that will never .... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | Exceptions considere.... | What happens when someone adds 49th error yet tha.... >> |
| 10 Oct 2003 | leave company => .... | >Believe it or not, there are employers out there .... >> |
| It's clear what you want to do. So just do it. >> | ||
| Once you show disloyalty to the team you are no lo.... >> | ||
| Once you decide to leave then leave. You won't be.... >> | ||