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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'AllanL5' | ||
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Number of Comments: 217 |
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| Number of Words: 28,867 | ||
| First Comment: 14 Feb 2004 | ||
| Final Comment: 02 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 5 |
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| First Topic: 02 Jun 2004 | ||
| Latest Topic: 24 Jun 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 02 Sep 2004 | Which data type woul.... | Oh, and when your link field is a reference to an .... >> |
| The part that uses 'ObjPtr' is fraught with peril..... >> | ||
| errno and MSVC | The bad news -- this sort of thing happens wheneve.... >> | |
| What exactly is a st.... | Yes, a 'stencil' is a small flat piece of plastic .... >> | |
| If Java doesn't have.... | In all fairness, I believe the original 'idea' of .... >> | |
| 01 Sep 2004 | How Many Hats Do You.... | Ooh, you got SQL Services Reporting!? Man, that's.... >> |
| Baby coming, Changin.... | The classic answer: Minivan? The Toyot.... >> | |
| Gradudate School | I got my Master's in CS from Johns Hopkins on a pa.... >> | |
| If Java doesn't have.... | Because Java does have 'references', which are a t.... >> | |
| Work Intlligence | Maybe this hit me wrong, but what you seem to be t.... >> | |
| 31 Aug 2004 | Best Disasters | Classic 'disasters': 1. The Denver airport bag.... >> |
| 30 Aug 2004 | What motivates you t.... | In this forum, what motivates me is learning what .... >> |
| 19 Aug 2004 | Bargaining for more .... | How does you daughter GET to school? Do you drop .... >> |
| 18 Aug 2004 | Device driver develo.... | FTDI has very nice USB hardware and software drive.... >> |
| X12 820 Parser | Perl is really-really good at using regular expres.... >> | |
| Are bigger systems a.... | The systems that people create tend to go through .... >> | |
| Good Place to Move f.... | To get a clearance: 1. An employer has job A, .... >> | |
| The Washington D.C. area (Northern Virginia, place.... >> | ||
| read/have article "W.... | I think it is a very nice (circa July 2002) summar.... >> | |
| Uses for the C keywo.... | '... where it has to be used...' Since it is th.... >> | |
| Database help -- whi.... | The 'classic' solution is as you've said -- add a .... >> | |
| Google Censoring sit.... | I'm saddened that 'Google is Evil' chose that part.... >> | |
| Feasibility of a VMO.... | 1. No, computers have NOT gotten fast enough that.... >> | |
| Why learn basic sear.... | My 2 Cents: Sorting algorithms have a long hist.... >> | |
| contract penalties f.... | Gosh, this has been a good thread. Wooden Tongu.... >> | |
| 16 Aug 2004 | UML? | Yes, 'UMLStudio' is a nice package for $500.00 tha.... >> |
| contract penalties f.... | 'Spec the shit out of it' -- Muppet, I'd agree .... >> | |
| The problem with these clauses is the ambiguous na.... >> | ||
| This ain't about lov.... | Thanks, neo, that's good to hear. I'm very glad t.... >> | |
| 15 Aug 2004 | Anthropomorphizing c.... | I never 'name' them, but each one has its personal.... >> |
| Non-pathetic sw work.... | The most pathetic software work goes to those who .... >> | |
| This ain't about lov.... | Wow, that was excellent. Check out the team: ht.... >> | |
| 12 Aug 2004 | Python: Whitespace a.... | One of the nicest things about 'modern' computer l.... >> |
| Windows XP Lite | I think the scenario goes like this. 1. Micros.... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2004 | SQLServer getting th.... | If I understand you correctly: You are saying t.... >> |
| A good Career | Why yes, there are two platforms that combine a mi.... >> | |
| SQL Server: Can mult.... | Only one person said the magic word -- 'Replicatio.... >> | |
| 09 Aug 2004 | Beginning the CMMI p.... | The CMMI (CMM Integrated) is kind-of new. This al.... >> |
| Sacrificing parts of.... | One thing that helps me is to remind myself that: .... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2004 | Visio 2002 or 2003? | I once was called (on the phone) by a Microsoft pe.... >> |
| 02 Aug 2004 | The Village is a hit | It was interesting to me that ABC, for the three w.... >> |
| The Village (no spoi.... | D'oh! 'I'm a guy' indeed. Philo said, 'No Spoile.... >> | |
| 01 Aug 2004 | Longhorn Visual Basi.... | I thought there was going to be an update to VB6 i.... >> |
| How can a progammer .... | Check your employment agreement. Certain emp.... >> | |
| The Village (no spoi.... | It is MUCH better than its previews might lead you.... >> | |
| Storing long-term hi.... | For raw data capture, I think a text file is simpl.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2004 | System Administrator.... | Gee, my SysAdmin told me that EVERY day was SysAdm.... >> |
| Array | 'Cube made out of Cubes..' -- Isn't that a 'tessar.... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2004 | Interviewing: common.... | 'of _what_'? Troll? Oh, well. Static vs. Dyna.... >> |
| What's a good FREE F.... | I've been very happy with CuteFTP, and CuteFTP_Pro.... >> | |
| user-interfaces shou.... | Who is going to do the training for this? Who i.... >> | |
| Failure Plan | I would think a 34 year old developer, with develo.... >> | |
| How far can an MCSE .... | In my experience, Oracle pulls the bucks. Sybase .... >> | |
| Reflector, .NET and .... | A quick note on Reverse Engineering: You have ALW.... >> | |
| Probability question.... | The first marble has 5/10 chance of being white. .... >> | |
| The OP's question comes very close to the gambler'.... >> | ||
| The burst is about t.... | Wow, after Tom Clancy's accurate prediction in 199.... >> | |
| Who Is Joe Bloggs? | Note sathayish's comments are his own, and do not .... >> | |
| 28 Jul 2004 | Definitely brilliant and hilarious. It's a litt.... >> | |
| why take shortcuts i.... | I'm in the Washington D.C. area, where if you don'.... >> | |
| I agree that it is the lack of a commonly accepted.... >> | ||
| 27 Jul 2004 | Automated Testing of.... | Winrunner is expensive, but good. And the point.... >> |
| Percentage of Develo.... | Unfortunately, I have not seen a community of Borl.... >> | |
| As far as I've seen, there are separate worlds of .... >> | ||
| 26 Jul 2004 | Programmatically rot.... | www.parallax.com has the BasicStamp module, which .... >> |
| USB Pen Drive under .... | USB requires a 'Master' and a 'Slave' device. USB.... >> | |
| Postel's principle | The Sunday, July 25 post is the one he's referring.... >> | |
| 24 Jul 2004 | An IDE 'itch' | Thank you for the extended illustration, that's ex.... >> |
| 23 Jul 2004 | Thinking outside the.... | In general, it is much easier to tweak an existing.... >> |
| What kind of (paper).... | I really like those green 'Engineers Pads', with g.... >> | |
| pet projects that fi.... | Ohhh, I really LIKED Ada. As far as I could tel.... >> | |
| 22 Jul 2004 | IE Dungeon Gets Inte.... | Ok, ok, I was too eager. Still, I thought it .... >> |
| Ooh, CSS has a good purpose! >> | ||
| pet projects that fi.... | VBA was created to provide an incrementally compil.... >> | |
| Personally, I like Pascal -- but 'Standard Pascal'.... >> | ||
| My resume any way to.... | 1. Mass mailing your resume is penny-wise, pound .... >> | |
| What are the most un.... | A number 2 mechanical pencil, with a nice Staedtle.... >> | |
| Estimating Developme.... | 1. Typically, you have to estimate a project long.... >> | |
| Quiet workplace: how.... | I once did a small research project that tried to .... >> | |
| Referencing Software.... | Wow, you actually want the specifier (I'll call hi.... >> | |
| What source code are.... | Why yes, I believe that IS called 'reverse enginee.... >> | |
| I tend to use 'Understand for C', by www.scitools..... >> | ||
| An IDE 'itch' | I agree, but you didn't say why stay less than 80 .... >> | |
| 21 Jul 2004 | Shell Scripting Fana.... | 'Reliable and maintainable' -- there's the problem.... >> |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Indentation | Ah, religious wars. How sweet. Personally, I pre.... >> |
| Rant: Can't so.... | 'Diatribe Over Discussion' -- excellent phrase. I.... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | Programmer Performan.... | 'Industry Best Practices for Programmer Performanc.... >> |
| OS reliability studi.... | See 'Leaky Abstractions'. If you WANT to use a .... >> | |
| Yes, MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) metrics typ.... >> | ||
| McCabe Complexity An.... | Actually, the response to a single module's cyclom.... >> | |
| 17 Jul 2004 | OOAnalysis and OODes.... | But, but, but -- it's CALLED OOA/OOD. Analysis is.... >> |
| all-hands interop | No, everything is NOT supposed to work with everyt.... >> | |
| 16 Jul 2004 | OOAnalysis and OODes.... | The first few steps of an OOA/OOD are the same as .... >> |
| Is the one-page resu.... | What people havn't said yet: In our Tech indust.... >> | |
| 12 Jul 2004 | Making Design look l.... | As Fred Brooks has pointed out, the complexity of .... >> |
| Testing floating poi.... | The solution I like best is the one that suggested.... >> | |
| 10 Jul 2004 | Specifications? How? | You definitely need some way to include text and d.... >> |
| 09 Jul 2004 | Perl, IE and invalid.... | Perl is perfectly tolerant of any string you want .... >> |
| The Myth of Technolo.... | The next stage, of course, is those check-out line.... >> | |
| How to spot a SW dev.... | TANSTAAFL -- Thank you, Robert Heinlein. It com.... >> | |
| this-> or no this.... | ' 'Removing Ambiguity' -- if it was ambiguous, the.... >> | |
| initialzing an array.... | Thanks Chris! Varied, well explained, and re.... >> | |
| 08 Jul 2004 | this-> or no this.... | Originally, I started naming the members of a clas.... >> |
| BrainBench | The problem with having tests to get qualification.... >> | |
| I just received a te.... | Yes, for really-really expensive software ($20,000.... >> | |
| Excel: unique ID on .... | Excel Macro recording is fun. Here's a solution.... >> | |
| Beyond source contro.... | I agree it would be nice to have a 'lightweight' (.... >> | |
| Objection to XP (ext.... | 'Most of the assumptions made in waterfall design .... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2004 | The best analogy to producing software that I have.... >> | |
| 06 Jul 2004 | Hungerian standard+J.... | My problem with Hungarian notation is that it tigh.... >> |
| 30 Jun 2004 | Versions: planning o.... | It is much more important to deliver when planned,.... >> |
| Electronic Whiteboar.... | Scott Ambler, of 'Agile Modeling' fame, recommends.... >> | |
| Help using odbcconf | Apparently ODBCConfig is terra-incognito. I .... >> | |
| 29 Jun 2004 | Visual Studio Expres.... | On the one hand, I note they have resurrected Visu.... >> |
| Windows & Time | It works on a PC platform under Linux? Good to kn.... >> | |
| Pranks on people's c.... | Yes, NSFW == Not Safe For Work, as in there are pi.... >> | |
| 28 Jun 2004 | C/C++ portability wi.... | Been there, done that, but for an OpenVMS system. .... >> |
| Trademarks | Yeah, I draw the line a l33t sp34k. And I know th.... >> | |
| It's probably equivalent to writing in all caps fo.... >> | ||
| One way to teach C++ | Yes, definitely worth a picture. I know what's go.... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2004 | Pranks on people's c.... | Hmm. 99.99% of people are desperately trying to m.... >> |
| Administrative accou.... | I try to run in a non-admin role, so that when I t.... >> | |
| 25 Jun 2004 | DBAs vs. Coders | Good job Ron, you've done it. You've addressed th.... >> |
| Not a bug? | Wow, what a cool thread that was. Even now, Jef.... >> | |
| Another C question. | Wow 'Monkey, thanks for a nice clean 'Var_Arg' imp.... >> | |
| Aha, the original question was how to use VARARGS .... >> | ||
| 24 Jun 2004 | Wicker Furniture, ha ha ha >> | |
| 24 Jun 2004 | 'C' certainly has multi-dimensioned arrays. Brute.... >> | |
| Wicker Furniture, ha.... | D'oh! My bad. It was early. I'd just had my f.... >> | |
| This is why software.... | No, the military is NOT supplied by the lowest bid.... >> | |
| "Sometimes the serve.... | By the way, I did have to deal once with a copy of.... >> | |
| Personally, I have rarely had a 'co-located' serve.... >> | ||
| "Father" of ASCII de.... | The Y2K panic was more about databases that 'assum.... >> | |
| I worked at the IRS on their Y2K effort. It was n.... >> | ||
| Several good attributes of the ASCII code: 1. .... >> | ||
| Hmm, let's see. He's the one who created the mapp.... >> | ||
| Job searching as a l.... | Oh, yes, and 'Smart but doesn't get things done' i.... >> | |
| Suggestions. 1. Go to job fairs. While they a.... >> | ||
| 23 Jun 2004 | Abstraction Layers >> | |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Customizing DOS prom.... | In other words: >Prompt $p$g -- gives you the 'n.... >> |
| The software ecosyst.... | The problem with a 'pure' free market is that it t.... >> | |
| Resume Writing | Getting a job at Microsoft: I think you need on.... >> | |
| DaveF: Very nice resume. From it I can tell yo.... >> | ||
| Whoosh, just saw the 'Personal' part of your post..... >> | ||
| Sathyish: First, welcome back. Second -- the f.... >> | ||
| Innovation, Producti.... | Relations of Abstraction, Innovation, Productivity.... >> | |
| Am I a Java or C++ p.... | Being a Systems Engineer, who started out in hardw.... >> | |
| Lookup tables vs. ex.... | Oh, BTW, I think the 'INT' suggestions come out of.... >> | |
| Being a Perl programmer for a few years now, I wou.... >> | ||
| More API wars (sorry.... | Why would ANYONE port to VB.NET if they could have.... >> | |
| 22 Jun 2004 | Database in-memory | 'Single Point Of Failure' (SPOF) means merely that.... >> |
| Modelling Program St.... | Oy, if you have no UML experience, you have a larg.... >> | |
| What is Joel up to ? | Well, this IS 'Joel On Software', so naturally he .... >> | |
| One thrird maginal l.... | Re; NASA -- US Federal Government support work has.... >> | |
| 21 Jun 2004 | Portable Business lo.... | Oh yes, and building a 'validation engine' for rul.... >> |
| My experience with 'Business Logic' is that this i.... >> | ||
| Byte shift | OK, noob if YOU'RE not going to be serious about t.... >> | |
| What fun! Posts all over the place. Bit Shifti.... >> | ||
| Prince II - Project .... | This is such a classic question! Thanks! >> | |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Leaky Abstractions, part 2 >> | |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Encapsulation--to wh.... | For me, the main purpose of providing public 'acce.... >> |
| Recommendations for .... | I've always liked 'Running Excel'. Also, 'Excel.... >> | |
| 17 Jun 2004 | Memmory management | Depends on how big, and how nested, and how many c.... >> |
| Since my projects tend to be real-time, I don't wa.... >> | ||
| Tools in Source Cont.... | Duplication can be a very good idea. I've had som.... >> | |
| Software Development.... | This issure rises up pretty often in software deve.... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2004 | Skill Development >> | |
| 16 Jun 2004 | Incoming Slashdotter.... | Well, really, JOS has had some of the nicest, mild.... >> |
| When is Manual Trans.... | I assume it is when you are raw-hiding the car thr.... >> | |
| Skill Development | Value, to me, is based on what you can create, and.... >> | |
| JOEL stop watering d.... | I think the 'Ask Joel' forum (now closed, I believ.... >> | |
| Backwards Compatabil.... | It is a paradox. The 1965 IBM 360 OS (whose dev.... >> | |
| Nibbles, Words, DWor.... | Ian: Yes, I have spent some time in the assembl.... >> | |
| Oh, and I would not recommend learning x86 assembl.... >> | ||
| Sorry to be extending this thread, but.... One .... >> | ||
| 15 Jun 2004 | I need a new monitor | In fact, Microsoft does have a monopoly on the Win.... >> |
| Nibbles, Words, DWor.... | Yes, your logic is correct. There is a 'simpler.... >> | |
| Paper prototyping - .... | 'They'll think you're done...' -- very good point..... >> | |
| The most effective approach toward GUI development.... >> | ||
| Bridging gap b/t hig.... | One other approach toward this is the Extreme Prog.... >> | |
| So, I assume you are porting to VB6? I recommen.... >> | ||
| Engineering | Actually, I've been developing significant softwar.... >> | |
| Why leave vowels out.... | Agreed. 'PerformTask()' is probably as much as yo.... >> | |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Engineering | Classically, the idea behind 'Engineering' is 'App.... >> |
| Retro Computers | Oh, that is just beautiful. Now I can show this.... >> | |
| After the POLL... | Ahh, Philo, 52 direct reports when you were 21. .... >> | |
| Why leave vowels out.... | '..the Bible without vowels...' -- AHA! THAT ex.... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2004 | Using a debugger for.... | Fair enough. Before I had nice visual debugging.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2004 | Wow, discussions like this make me think there rea.... >> | |
| 10 Jun 2004 | Has the role of .... | Um, Iran was holding our hostages because we had b.... >> |
| Yes, America has always had a foreign policy that .... >> | ||
| DataStructure for Th.... | Oh, I just remembered: Hierarchy. Hierarchy is.... >> | |
| There is a major difference between the way comput.... >> | ||
| Why Not Use Diagrams.... | Very good points. Realize, though, since 1978, .... >> | |
| Lack of Adaptability | One of the biggest problems I see in 'human system.... >> | |
| Oh yes, the public s.... | My point being, as long as that romantic 'Big M Me.... >> | |
| Oh, for the Silver Bullet. That's the big-M 'Meth.... >> | ||
| Beauty. Yet another classic example showing how D.... >> | ||
| Confused by K&R .... | Unfortunately, 'C' is full of these little gotchas.... >> | |
| IT Salaries in Europ.... | 'The answer is 42' -- comes from 'The Hitchhiker's.... >> | |
| 09 Jun 2004 | What's a Good Perl I.... | Personally, I'm fond of CuteHTML. It understand.... >> |
| project from hell, a.... | Good lesson. Thanks for sharing it. The situat.... >> | |
| How GPA affects job .... | GPA -- Grade Point Average. You take the grades y.... >> | |
| 08 Jun 2004 | Decompiling .class f.... | The nice thing about a Java decompiler is that you.... >> |
| How GPA affects job .... | As Joel has pointed out, the person people want to.... >> | |
| Monumental Incompete.... | I agree with the 'Software development is an itera.... >> | |
| 07 Jun 2004 | Please, don't desert.... | Hi noob, welcome back. 'C' strings, inside stru.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2004 | Passing args by refe.... | Sure, NOW pointers are initialized to zero. One o.... >> |
| 02 Jun 2004 | Where's Joel? >> | |
| 02 Jun 2004 | somebodyonsoftware | Would it help to know BEFORE you read it, that it .... >> |
| Passing args by refe.... | >By the way, is it legal to have char *name[50] ?.... >> | |
| noob, with all those comments, you still don't kno.... >> | ||
| Very painful project.... | Savage, thank you for your comments. I find mys.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2004 | C++ or Java ? | Stick with Java for now. With your '6 to 7 years'.... >> |
| 31 May 2004 | Becoming a C _develo.... | Being knowledgable in 'C' is NOT being able to add.... >> |
| Master's thesis adds.... | Were I you, I would work on #3. Check out Visio, .... >> | |
| Definition of a "soc.... | In order to make a TCP-IP connection to a machine,.... >> | |
| 25 May 2004 | Proficiency in C | A couple of good books you'll need, after K&R: .... >> |
| 24 May 2004 | Distributed Systems | The reason centralized database, or application se.... >> |
| 19 May 2004 | Why Byte (the paper .... | I used to love Byte magazine also. In the 80's it.... >> |
| 20 Apr 2004 | How incompetent am I.... | Wow, Spike, and '.' (whoever you are). This is on.... >> |
| 14 Feb 2004 | what is cleanrooming.... | The 'CleanRoom' Software development method was de.... >> |