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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Joel Spolsky' | ||
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Number of Comments: 695 |
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| Number of Words: 44,074 | ||
| First Comment: 14 Oct 2001 | ||
| Final Comment: 27 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 38 |
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| First Topic: 14 Oct 2001 | ||
| Latest Topic: 14 Apr 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 27 Aug 2004 | Salary survey | $46,700 estimated annual salary. >> |
| 25 Aug 2004 | hmmm | The poster doesn't work for Fog Creek. Fog Cree.... >> |
| 20 Aug 2004 | GOOG off to the race.... | I heard that people didn't get all the shares they.... >> |
| 05 Aug 2004 | Question for Joel on.... | It was a phone interview ... almost two hours, I t.... >> |
| 25 Jul 2004 | Fog Creek Affiliate .... | The administrative effort wasn't worth the benefit.... >> |
| 25 Jun 2004 | Uhh... What does ISV.... | ISV = Microsoft's word for "Any Software Company W.... >> |
| 14 Jun 2004 | When is joel coming .... | Maybe Umbria sometime in August. >> |
| 27 May 2004 | Checkin manager | Tinderbox? >> |
| 15 May 2004 | What another awsome .... | Wow. My feelings have been hurt. Ok, I guess I'.... >> |
| Hey guys, please be nice. >> | ||
| 14 May 2004 | Empower requiring mo.... | The renewal gives you another 12 months to finish .... >> |
| I got it too. Cool. Another year of MSDN Universal.... >> | ||
| Testing sites with M.... | The trouble is that having different versions of I.... >> | |
| NT Authorization fro.... | whoa! overkill alert. If you use InternetOpenUr.... >> | |
| Can you use WININET to send the http requests to I.... >> | ||
| 13 May 2004 | Structuring cross-pl.... | Check out http://apr.apache.org/ 'The missio.... >> |
| Meta Tags - Do they .... | 'Traffick.com's Andrew Goodman wrote recently in a.... >> | |
| 12 May 2004 | Where is the Ask Joe.... | That's pretty funny! :) rapture... hee hee... I.... >> |
| Joel interview | No such thing! >> | |
| 11 May 2004 | VBA - CallBacks = Fe.... | First of all VB/VBA has supported callbacks for qu.... >> |
| 10 May 2004 | Writing to registry .... | By permissions, I mean, the process under which II.... >> |
| Calm down, the original poster was talking about w.... >> | ||
| Unexpected results i.... | (Warning - PowerPoint slide show) >> | |
| Copyright Proof | Run a one-way function like md5 on the source code.... >> | |
| 06 May 2004 | Hiring the Best | Oh, this is going to be fun! >> |
| Open Sourcers: What'.... | Let's not forget subtle and obscure references to .... >> | |
| 05 May 2004 | Odd Google Observati.... | They generally ignore noise words in the query but.... >> |
| 30 Apr 2004 | Why not Canada? | ... because it's only half the price of the US, no.... >> |
| Joel deleted thread .... | Actually I deleted it because I wasn't happy with .... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2004 | Reading different fi.... | Microsoft Word stores text internally in a doubly-.... >> |
| teaching pointers wi.... | that's a good idea ... esp. the Offset() function .... >> | |
| 20 Apr 2004 | Advertising yourself | Write books and technical articles. If you have.... >> |
| Rick Chapman excerpt.... | Jackson, are you sure you're not confusing the boo.... >> | |
| 16 Apr 2004 | CityDesk and Downloa.... | I didn't even know you COULD pay for the position..... >> |
| Useful SQL Server er.... | My experience has been that accounts and all their.... >> | |
| Snacking on Dogfood | And don't forget, there's a difference between kno.... >> | |
| Protyping Web Based .... | PAPER AND PENCIL. I'm serious. There's a whole .... >> | |
| Windows Server 2003 .... | Interesting... today there was a news story about .... >> | |
| 14 Apr 2004 | Recommended servers for putting in colo >> | |
| 14 Apr 2004 | Recommend 802.11b ac.... | Philo, use the Microsoft one -- $50 at the company.... >> |
| Recommended servers .... | It's not that they don't take it seriously, and it.... >> | |
| Yeah, we have the power strips. The trouble is tha.... >> | ||
| 07 Apr 2004 | What happened to lei.... | It wasn't a dotcom or anything ... it was a guy do.... >> |
| I Question the Assum.... | That's an interesting comparison to the garment in.... >> | |
| 02 Apr 2004 | Talking to the Fox | You could try DDE http://developer.netscape.com.... >> |
| Recommend a reliable.... | A typical PC + UPS will run for about twenty minut.... >> | |
| 30 Mar 2004 | Googly froogly | Yeah, I'm in "Canada" (because my ISP is) and so I.... >> |
| 29 Mar 2004 | rs!field | The ! operator was added to Access Basic specifica.... >> |
| 27 Mar 2004 | top ten software fir.... | My list is "PC software companies" and comes from .... >> |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Impendance mismatch | http://groovy.codehaus.org >> |
| Integrating data acc.... | Jim, that's no different that what the MFC Data Wi.... >> | |
| NULL pointers vs. em.... | They probably didn't invent that themselves; I've .... >> | |
| Is grokking pointers.... | I think teacher may be right. But anyhow, I fir.... >> | |
| 22 Mar 2004 | VMware 3 suspend/res.... | It's probably just swapping in lots and lots of RA.... >> |
| 20 Mar 2004 | Charles Simonyi is R.... | I told you Hungarian notation paid off. >> |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Honesty in companies | Why do you think I think he wants to work for me? .... >> |
| Yeah, OK, "Regular poster but anonymous," I'm sorr.... >> | ||
| Programmer inherits .... | The only reason is if people wanted to do peer-to-.... >> | |
| That would be OK except that DHCP will not be able.... >> | ||
| 17 Mar 2004 | Lies on CVs | I have just about zero tolerance for any kind of l.... >> |
| What is a lot of res.... | Ah, such sceptics! When we recruited for summer.... >> | |
| Software Distributio.... | How much does it cost to send the tech out to the .... >> | |
| Domotica application.... | Doesn't X10 stuff do all this? And what's Domot.... >> | |
| Bizarre request for .... | (By the way, we keep a stack of filled-out W-9 for.... >> | |
| Just fill out the parts you're willing to fill out.... >> | ||
| 16 Mar 2004 | How to find out wher.... | http://venturereporter.net/ has all the data but y.... >> |
| Explorer Usability -.... | On Win 2K you could get a similar capability by ru.... >> | |
| 15 Mar 2004 | Tip of The Day: Usef.... | The right time to display a tip of the day would b.... >> |
| const--use it? | I can't tell; there are a lot of things like const.... >> | |
| 09 Mar 2004 | fogcreek.com zone pr.... | I fixed the TTLs and replaced the entries for dns1.... >> |
| Thanks! I got about 10 helpful suggestions duri.... >> | ||
| 06 Mar 2004 | VMWare virtual machi.... | Great idea but at 2 GHz on the main CPU, it's stil.... >> |
| Gwyn's "Why won't yo.... | We have a policy of not revealing any information .... >> | |
| A 20 minute usabilit.... | Thanks for the list! Actually we'd love to have.... >> | |
| 05 Mar 2004 | Fog Creek Office Pic.... | I didn't do it myself, it was a professional archi.... >> |
| It's a real picture but it was taken at two differ.... >> | ||
| 04 Mar 2004 | Converting email fro.... | cp /my/mbox $MAIL and then Outlook will suck it a.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Microsoft ISV Empowe.... | Oh, this is rich. >> |
| 27 Feb 2004 | Nextel direct connec.... | Technically, think of it as a phone call that conn.... >> |
| You've never seen how contractors work. I say t.... >> | ||
| Leap Year Date Probl.... | Lotus 123 thought 1900 was a leap year. For com.... >> | |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Laughable Web Servic.... | I think people think that DDE is slow because they.... >> |
| Ori, I'm interested in your claim that DDE is slow.... >> | ||
| 25 Feb 2004 | You're looking in the wrong place... The '15 mi.... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | #$#%@^ policies | All these recruit-a-friend policies don't work so .... >> |
| 23 Feb 2004 | End User License Agr.... | Get the appropriate book from Nolo Press; they hav.... >> |
| Yes Joel you May Hav.... | This is exactly right, of course... the REAL reaso.... >> | |
| 21 Feb 2004 | Stupid errors in In .... | The book is meant to be funny... And though it's n.... >> |
| Firebird 1.5 Final R.... | How does it compare to Jet? >> | |
| Quicken's Quality Me.... | Quicken is not the same as Quickbooks. A couple of.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2004 | Life is good | Happy dev teams are all alike; every unhappy dev t.... >> |
| why's (poignant) gui.... | The cartoons are brilliant, the writing style is e.... >> | |
| 19 Feb 2004 | Rule-driven GUI's | Ackkkk noooo.....!!!!! I built a GUI using a ru.... >> |
| Good cheap/free bulk.... | I use Microsoft Word + Microsoft Excel + Mail Merg.... >> | |
| IP issues around a p.... | Why don't you just get the company to give you per.... >> | |
| 17 Feb 2004 | "Designed for Window.... | I heard that one of the big office-supply stores w.... >> |
| 16 Feb 2004 | Placing Password and.... | In Windows the right way to do it is to set up IIS.... >> |
| What the hell does o.... | When I was interviewing for a job at Oracle in, um.... >> | |
| comment devenir pomp.... | Oh please, American firemen don't have to spell to.... >> | |
| 15 Feb 2004 | Amazon review scams .... | The problem isn't limited to >anonymous< reviews. .... >> |
| 13 Feb 2004 | Partitioning Hard Di.... | Totally doesn't make sense. The best way to do .... >> |
| 12 Feb 2004 | Why do we have # and.... | There are four more buttons there, too (ABCD), you.... >> |
| CreateProcess API an.... | Is your VB app running interactively or as a servi.... >> | |
| Dim statement As Ann.... | And in C, what does char* s,t; do? >> | |
| 10 Feb 2004 | Oh boy. ANOTHER secu.... | Hear hear. I wasted 3 hours on this lovely patch t.... >> |
| 09 Feb 2004 | VMWare Tips | Look in the RedHat-specific setup instructions in .... >> |
| RSS Aggregator | Why do people keep thinking I don't have an RSS fe.... >> | |
| 08 Feb 2004 | Get Google to list m.... | The highest page ranks in the Google universe are .... >> |
| 07 Feb 2004 | most productive fire.... | ... I had a summer internship there, many many yea.... >> |
| Tony, I saw this "have a word" tactic happen in a .... >> | ||
| The Virus Undergroun.... | These "price tag" numbers come from the Idiot IT R.... >> | |
| 06 Feb 2004 | Software Translation | In the case of Joel on Software, I had copy editor.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2004 | financial accounting.... | What you know from Quickbooks is bookkeeping. (.... >> |
| Why isn't FogCreek i.... | Let's just put it this way: Fog Creek is always re.... >> | |
| What's the daily spa.... | I love SpamBayes and have had excellent success wi.... >> | |
| 04 Feb 2004 | ListView, WIN API, c.... | (I don't mean to be glib. You're really not missin.... >> |
| Ownerdraw everything. >> | ||
| 27 Jan 2004 | Frustated by (Near) .... | Damn, I would love to have challenges like that to.... >> |
| Anyone else get hate.... | You guys ain't seen nothin'. I get email like t.... >> | |
| Two REsume Questions.... | Our current policy is to respond to all resumes. .... >> | |
| Resume Post | I went through the last week's batch of incoming c.... >> | |
| 26 Jan 2004 | How many resumes do .... | Between 10 and 30 a day for posted jobs. A handful.... >> |
| Is "grammer" an alte.... | Andy, if it wasn't for that post, this whole threa.... >> | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | Dual Monitor display.... | What OS? The later versions of Windows do a better.... >> |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Database Analysis To.... | Eek. What you want is a pivot table. It's built.... >> |
| References for emplo.... | That sounds like a great way to find out if the pr.... >> | |
| 20 Jan 2004 | Programming/Developm.... | There IS an equivalent, it's called 'decision tree.... >> |
| 19 Jan 2004 | Please enter... with.... | By the way... for usability purposes, often it's w.... >> |
| The joke is, our order form doesn't even care if y.... >> | ||
| Stupid Move on the P.... | Microsoft doesn't own a trademark on 'Excel.' Citi.... >> | |
| Folks who write these stories and get caught up in.... >> | ||
| Define "Code Complet.... | Now that we've got that out of the way... anyone k.... >> | |
| It's the equivalent of topping off for a skyscrape.... >> | ||
| Backups comment/ques.... | r1ch, I would need an enclosure and power supply t.... >> | |
| Worst IE Bug I have .... | I actually saw spam today that exploited this bug .... >> | |
| Vacation | Well, it's better than Churchill. Although I woul.... >> | |
| Product Positioning .... | I'm just waking up to this stuff... isn't USB 2.0 .... >> | |
| Maxi = people who want more capacity Mini = peopl.... >> | ||
| 18 Jan 2004 | When to use 'const' .... | Oh yeah, I'm dyslexic today. >> |
| As a member function this asserts that the functio.... >> | ||
| 17 Jan 2004 | what is the best lan.... | Start by reading this: http://www.tbray.org/ong.... >> |
| Embeddable HTML Brow.... | I agree. I research this extensively about once a .... >> | |
| Modal dialogs with W.... | Did you SetParent? >> | |
| 16 Jan 2004 | Ergonomic chairs? | Aeron's last a LONG time. Almost certainly ten yea.... >> |
| 15 Jan 2004 | Blue background with.... | It was implemented a long time ago in order to pro.... >> |
| 10 Jan 2004 | Weird COM problem - .... | More code! The SysFreeString is suspicious. >> |
| Not enough information! >> | ||
| rule of engagement, .... | At least he admits 'Later that week, when I re-rea.... >> | |
| 09 Jan 2004 | Strange Design Decis.... | There *isn't* an algorithm for getting Italic from.... >> |
| Any JOS Readers in U.... | Mostly Sunni, but there are some Shiites too. >> | |
| 08 Jan 2004 | Montréal Dinner / January 15 / RSVP Here! >> | |
| 08 Jan 2004 | Berkeley Dinner / January 30 / RSVP Here! >> | |
| 08 Jan 2004 | "Raytracers" on JOS | I used Povray to do some prototypes of a hypotheti.... >> |
| Join the lemmings in.... | You're welcome to post, repetitive though they may.... >> | |
| Dawg, why don't you start a India Backlash weblog .... >> | ||
| Linus and Lucy | I'm listening to it now. It sounds more like Bosto.... >> | |
| Bug traccking for pe.... | Reminds me of Daniel Berlinger's LifeBUGZ concept .... >> | |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Keeping synchronised.... | NT has this built in and has had it built in for y.... >> |
| Software Liability I.... | An LLC (or some other type of corporation like S-C.... >> | |
| 06 Jan 2004 | Virtual Macs? >> | |
| 06 Jan 2004 | Yahoo dumping Google | Not entirely news, since this was expected. Yahoo'.... >> |
| Virtual Macs? | IDC claims 2.3%: http://news.com.com/2100-1040-.... >> | |
| oh never mind I see you just answered that. Cool! .... >> | ||
| Thanks for all the tips! I never 'bashed macs'.... >> | ||
| 05 Jan 2004 | No ASP Comments? | That's ridiculous. There is no performance reason .... >> |
| 04 Jan 2004 | The problem with CSV.... | "The Art of Unix Programming" >> |
| 02 Jan 2004 | Set List? | Good CD turntables like the 800 have nice features.... >> |
| 31 Dec 2003 | Wrong industry | Because you were their Plan B. When they found som.... >> |
| 27 Dec 2003 | Type of parser used .... | One of these days I'll write about it. It's a real.... >> |
| Some Thoughts on Fog.... | Right. In theory we only maintain the ASP version .... >> | |
| Software cloning and.... | Oh and read up on all the old Borland/Lotus "Look .... >> | |
| Selling software app.... | Many of the add-in tools in Excel came from outsid.... >> | |
| Future of Window API | At the PDC the Longhorn people said pretty clearly.... >> | |
| 24 Dec 2003 | Working at Microsoft | Let's put it this way. If one is a programmer, one.... >> |
| To be fair this person wasn't a programmer... >> | ||
| 23 Dec 2003 | Why does FogBugz nee.... | We don't ship either MySQL or PHP (or Linux or Apa.... >> |
| We wrote an ASP->PHP compiler. FogBUGZ is writt.... >> | ||
| Why The Flip Flop, J.... | Correct. The source is ASP. The PHP version is aut.... >> | |
| Right! >> | ||
| 22 Dec 2003 | Joel on installing D.... | I can't remember precisely; I think that Red Hat h.... >> |
| Yes, I used the official ISOs. I just followed .... >> | ||
| Unix OS installs | Partition editing was particularly irksome. The go.... >> | |
| EM_DISPLAYBAND (Tech.... | You probably don't have to think about this unless.... >> | |
| In the old days people had dot matrix printers tha.... >> | ||
| Why are the best dev.... | I must thank you guys (and you are guys) for worki.... >> | |
| 21 Dec 2003 | Acceptable ways of d.... | Why easier? The Microsoft Help format *is* just a .... >> |
| Outsourcing - making.... | Or cc a copy of the emails to your FogBUGZ databas.... >> | |
| 20 Dec 2003 | Bold topics. | Somebody wrote that bold topics make it 'very hard.... >> |
| That method almost instantly causes a bad feedback.... >> | ||
| But seriously: as the number of posts on this foru.... >> | ||
| Damn! They noticed! I hope they don't notice th.... >> | ||
| Thought police? >> | ||
| Registry entries for.... | Right click Open With Choose Program (choose \w.... >> | |
| 19 Dec 2003 | Bold topics. >> | |
| 19 Dec 2003 | hiring directly over.... | I remember some study discovered that over-the-pho.... >> |
| Replacement for PGPd.... | For a small file of passwords you could try SafeSe.... >> | |
| 17 Dec 2003 | Distribution Questio.... | On NT/2K/XP, your application can't write in the P.... >> |
| Defining moment in c.... | The IBM-PC really corresponds to the Douglas DC-3..... >> | |
| The Altair, obviously ;) >> | ||
| [VB] Good tool to de.... | Here's how we finally conquered the OCX problem. .... >> | |
| 15 Dec 2003 | HTTP scripting? | If I were trying to do this, I'd write a little VB.... >> |
| 11 Dec 2003 | New Development PC | Looks like about $6000 from Dell's US web site... >> |
| 04 Dec 2003 | Joel's algorithm is .... | The trouble is the DoEvents. Without it, the ap.... >> |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Machine identificati.... | There's a number called a SID which is supposed to.... >> |
| 30 Nov 2003 | French translation needed... >> | |
| 30 Nov 2003 | French translation n.... | Done! The first two chapters are now available at .... >> |
| thanks! Those babelfish type programs often get th.... >> | ||
| Maybe n'été pas encore? >> | ||
| Merci! As you may have guessed I've only got the f.... >> | ||
| 28 Nov 2003 | Spammers are stupid | The advantage of Bayesian filtering is that you ca.... >> |
| Bionic office sample.... | Check out http://domino.watson.ibm.com/tchjr/jou.... >> | |
| 26 Nov 2003 | and or or | For an example look at http://www.corcoran.com/pr.... >> |
| Most of the time when users want OR it's for the s.... >> | ||
| 24 Nov 2003 | Army v. Business | Oh boy. If I remember correctly, the army is full .... >> |
| Turbo Pascal editor .... | Run emacs and type Esc X wordstar-mode Enter >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Optimizing massive d.... | Create your own windowless controls. When they get.... >> |
| How big is this boar.... | It's 130 MB now. >> | |
| 17 Nov 2003 | wawa | Actually "wawa" is what Richard Feynmann uses for .... >> |
| Internationalization.... | Keyboard issues. Many languages have a Alt+Gr butt.... >> | |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Why MSN search is so.... | What do you mean by 'lame'? That's a rather imp.... >> |
| 07 Nov 2003 | Is Linux more Secure Than Windows? >> | |
| 07 Nov 2003 | SQL Server hot backups in a different City >> | |
| 07 Nov 2003 | FC Logo | It's abstract. >> |
| 06 Nov 2003 | How to translate "gu.... | People who pull out guns and shoot without thinkin.... >> |
| 03 Nov 2003 | Help needed choosing.... | (hint!) Why don't you just get a normal merchant a.... >> |
| Ahem, we are not using Verisign for ANYTHING. Can'.... >> | ||
| Internet Access - wh.... | What you're looking for is something called Busine.... >> | |
| 01 Nov 2003 | Why don't browsers j.... | Moveable type: http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/1.... >> |
| 31 Oct 2003 | On other blogs it was happening enough to cause th.... >> | |
| Thank you for your conspiracy theory. Actually,.... >> | ||
| JoS RSS feed doesn't.... | My rss 0.91 feed doesn't validate there because '.... >> | |
| 29 Oct 2003 | Longhorn available t.... | Whether these shows are worth the money depends a .... >> |
| 23 Oct 2003 | VB for hand-held dev.... | The problem I had, in CE 3.0 days, was that "embed.... >> |
| 22 Oct 2003 | CityDesk DataAccess .... | (And also because it handled some Jet operations n.... >> |
| DAO, because it was more complete, debugged, and m.... >> | ||
| 20 Oct 2003 | Simulting Reduced Ne.... | www.shunra.com claims to do this. I don't know too.... >> |
| 18 Oct 2003 | How to remotely shut.... | http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill..... >> |
| Excel as an applicat.... | VBA first appeared in Excel 5.0 (1994). >> | |
| 17 Oct 2003 | Annoying Signup Webp.... | If you lie with numbers that are too small, they m.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Has Joel ever really.... | Russell: shouldn't you uncopy the files if that st.... >> |
| Exceptions, Threads .... | Ori, excellent post. Threads, like exceptions, .... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | Build solution for w.... | We use a FinalBuilder script (from "a to zed softw.... >> |
| 13 Oct 2003 | Larry Wall half-wron.... | I think XML vs. HTML is the ultimate proof of this.... >> |
| 12 Oct 2003 | Parameters to check .... | We always check the IE version to make sure it's 5.... >> |
| 11 Oct 2003 | Unicode and VB6 | As far as I know Arial Unicode is also a part of M.... >> |
| Unicode and estonian | I changed it so people don't accuse me of not know.... >> | |
| I said it was a friend "in Estonia" but I didn't s.... >> | ||
| 10 Oct 2003 | Encoding problem | what locale is your system running in? (e.g. what .... >> |
| 02 Oct 2003 | New Fog Creek Office.... | Here's the health issue related to staring at comp.... >> |
| 01 Oct 2003 | Bionic office colors | Don't trust colors you see in a photograph on a we.... >> |
| New Fog Creek Office.... | We did some research and told the architect that t.... >> | |
| 18 Sep 2003 | Windows install snap.... | Theoretically the Wise Installer has a system wher.... >> |
| 17 Sep 2003 | Oracle turnaround | I bet it was Phil Greenspun teaching the first gen.... >> |
| 12 Sep 2003 | Localisation of ASP .... | I seem to remember that the locale in effect in an.... >> |
| Why outsourcing ofte.... | The problem of clients accepting low-ball offers i.... >> | |
| 11 Sep 2003 | FTP mode (passive or.... | The usual reason PASV or non-PASV ftp doesn't work.... >> |
| In our experience supporting CityDesk you MUST sup.... >> | ||
| 10 Sep 2003 | Friendster.com's alg.... | Off the top of my head, here: you make a square 2d.... >> |
| 05 Sep 2003 | Localization question >> | |
| 05 Sep 2003 | Localization questio.... | Thanks. I'm working on the CityDesk localization k.... >> |
| CMS | I would guess that what RedHat has is the leftover.... >> | |
| 04 Sep 2003 | How much do Technica.... | For technical books the author usually gets around.... >> |
| 03 Sep 2003 | How to Dress? | Use starch in summer months when it's hot. The shi.... >> |
| 29 Aug 2003 | Citidesk v2.0 critiq.... | Philo, you're right about beachheads, that's why w.... >> |
| It drives me crazy that the User Model in CityDesk.... >> | ||
| Geezer/Philo:
Suppose the user changes
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| 28 Aug 2003 | Subversion | I'm going to venture a guess that it's because sub.... >> |
| 27 Aug 2003 | To cookie or not to .... | It's quite difficult to make a working shopping ca.... >> |
| 23 Aug 2003 | Waking up thread blo.... | use "select" instead of "WSARecv" (that's the old .... >> |
| 20 Aug 2003 | Yugo | Nobody defending Alabama today? >> |
| #define PRIVATE stat.... | That seems sort of shortsighted. With the attitude.... >> | |
| What *is* that icon .... | Solution: it's the new Fog Creek logo. I posted.... >> | |
| 15 Aug 2003 | So how was the JOS O.... | There were about 20 people, and a good time was ha.... >> |
| I guess Fog Creek's .... | Peer 1 has a generator on site, I think the lights.... >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | What *is* that icon on the home page today? >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | Annoying use of Java.... | How does milonic do it? >> |
| 07 Aug 2003 | Oslo Dinner | I got about 12 replies so far, so there will certa.... >> |
| 06 Aug 2003 | Is This Code style/S.... | I don't see any value in coding standards for thin.... >> |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Joel on Tech TV's 'T.... | They were willing to pay for the flight to San Fra.... >> |
| 02 Aug 2003 | books about consulti.... | http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/Books/ManProSer.html .... >> |
| http://www.dorsethouse.com/books/soc.html 'The .... >> | ||
| 01 Aug 2003 | Joel: "you can't hav.... | Yes! Thank you Mr. Fancypants. That's what I meant.... >> |
| I've been trying to figure that out all day. (I wr.... >> | ||
| "...no software comp.... | Soft*Letter, you mean. It's great stuff but a subs.... >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | A question on unit t.... | The last major unit test I created was a separate .... >> |
| Unused Office Space .... | Can I make a quick tax comment? All the people .... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2003 | Coots R US | 'You young twerps have it easy. All these newfangl.... >> |
| 27 Jul 2003 | Web-based software d.... | Set up a server with Windows Terminal Server and a.... >> |
| 26 Jul 2003 | Windows Mail Server? | We've been happy with IPswitch. >> |
| 24 Jul 2003 | Installshield and St.... | I used to agree with you, but I was convinced by t.... >> |
| 23 Jul 2003 | Calendar on weblogs | Anonymous got it exactly right. It's the worst pos.... >> |
| 22 Jul 2003 | Who writes the docum.... | By the way, although the documentation for CreateW.... >> |
| It varies. My guess would be that the program mana.... >> | ||
| 19 Jul 2003 | How do you store cab.... | ziplock bags. One each. >> |
| Expedia | A few more tidbits: (1) I've been told that air.... >> | |
| Expedia, like all online reservation sites, has to.... >> | ||
| 18 Jul 2003 | Batch processing | Check out Microsoft Access Replication, it can be .... >> |
| Restrictions on # of.... | For some reason performance gets terrible around 1.... >> | |
| 16 Jul 2003 | Linux in Munich... Discuss here! >> | |
| 16 Jul 2003 | Linux in Munich... D.... | If they get VMWare they still gotta buy a copy of .... >> |
| I'm trying to avoid the advocacy and politics, and.... >> | ||
| 15 Jul 2003 | ASP and encryption | OK. But to answer the original question. You could.... >> |
| European Software De.... | This ISO 9000/9001 stuff is a plague, it's like a .... >> | |
| Open Internet Browse.... | This is a bit harder and requires some COM program.... >> | |
| 13 Jul 2003 | ASP.NET LinkButton a.... | The ASP.NET linkButton is the *classic* leaky abst.... >> |
| Photo Album Software | I've been using Adobe PhotoAlbum to organize my pi.... >> | |
| 11 Jul 2003 | JoelOnSoftware homep.... | From the hill at gasworks park. Yes, july 4th wee.... >> |
| 09 Jul 2003 | Bartleby the Scriven.... | If I remember correctly, Bartleby worked fine for .... >> |
| 08 Jul 2003 | HTML editor control | Actually if you're starting from scratch you might.... >> |
| Hey Joel! | that is not true, mark. It's not Taco Bell, it's B.... >> | |
| 02 Jul 2003 | I finally found one! | 'unnatural' ? what does that mean? >> |
| 01 Jul 2003 | Camouflaging an OS? | Hmm... How about this: you get an IBM Microdriv.... >> |
| 30 Jun 2003 | Automatic Error Repo.... | Keep an eye out for my feature article about this .... >> |
| 26 Jun 2003 | Phone interviews | For phone interviews I tend to ask higher level al.... >> |
| Trickery | I don't understand. If they're not going to hi.... >> | |
| Being funny in specs | Some people just don't have a sense of humor, and .... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2003 | Collecting VAT on so.... | We're talking about software downloads, here. >> |
| Very mysterious. I couldn't find one investigative.... >> | ||
| Rearranging Furnitur.... | I'm surprised that noone here is taking the client.... >> | |
| Screenshots | When I need GIFs I use Corel PhotoPaint to convert.... >> | |
| 21 Jun 2003 | Rename in DOS | DOS is included in NT class OSes, you can ge.... >> |
| 20 Jun 2003 | Mailing list hosts? | whatcounts.com >> |
| Cancel != Debug >.... | The joke is, they do have an option for Abort/Retr.... >> | |
| John, if you've installed a debugger on a Windows .... >> | ||
| Invisible functional.... | Bless you, Stephen. Too many options and it's a.... >> | |
| CityDesk URLs are po.... | Joel, CityDesk has templates, it's no excuse. I'm .... >> | |
| ... and the reason I don't change the existing URL.... >> | ||
| Moreover, CityDesk is the only web application I'v.... >> | ||
| 19 Jun 2003 | Google results quali.... | In a universe of billions of web pages, with billi.... >> |
| Setting a Price, The.... | Here's an expert in software pricing: http://www.... >> | |
| To yacc or not to ya.... | I may be weird, but of all the compilers I've writ.... >> | |
| 17 Jun 2003 | Instant Object Hiera.... | It sounds terribly inefficient and a bit of a pain.... >> |
| More forms = simpile.... | This is one of the reasons I wrote the Five Worlds.... >> | |
| Dart vs. IP*Works? | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Our.NetStra.... >> | |
| COM. >> | ||
| Right now we use POP3 to get email, including secu.... >> | ||
| 16 Jun 2003 | Dart vs. IP*Works? >> | |
| 16 Jun 2003 | Fog Creek 9 to 5? | yes, in fact that's exactly why we're hiring a sup.... >> |
| Programmers here tend to drift in around 11-12 and.... >> | ||
| Cover letters & .... | What can I say, all the great people write persona.... >> | |
| VB ActiveX EXE Heise.... | Beats the heck out of me. We have the same kind of.... >> | |
| Conditional Compilin.... | I wouldn't use conditional compilation unless you'.... >> | |
| Nice office layout | wfc = world financial center. >> | |
| Nice guess, B#, it's 3000 r.s.f., those are really.... >> | ||
| 15 Jun 2003 | Suing Joel... | (and anyway i only give credit to people with huma.... >> |
| You said it under LGPL, not GPL. >> | ||
| Down & Out | Some people are going back to school because they .... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2003 | don't wanna ? | Do read Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" first.... >> |
| Hungarian Notation | Personally I'm still a big fan of Hungarian, it's .... >> | |
| With | Oh right. Sorry Bill. To be fair it has been baked.... >> | |
| Dan, you should see how many properties a cell in .... >> | ||
| Follow along, John, I wrote that spec. >> | ||
| Yep, here's the spec from December 1991: (criti.... >> | ||
| I introduced 'With' to VBA because Excel macros we.... >> | ||
| Smart/Funny/Stupid C.... | he he. in MFC / Win 32 programming you have all t.... >> | |
| Excellent grades | I'll get a resume where the resume is purportedly .... >> | |
| OK, let me clarify a bit. I don't care if you g.... >> | ||
| Cool title | You can put any title you want? How about "CEO"? >> | |
| Free soda? | Good tip! I'll do that next time. This was more.... >> | |
| OK you guys must be really desperate if you're tal.... >> | ||
| 08 Jun 2003 | Self-evaluation | No, no, no, ... The value of reviews is precise.... >> |
| 07 Jun 2003 | In self-evaluations there is no need to sound mode.... >> | |
| 05 Jun 2003 | Windows XP Themes | Yeah, you have to code defensively. Don't assume a.... >> |
| Turned down again | You could find a smart but tactless person who wil.... >> | |
| Suggestions of progr.... | I haven't played with Radio Userland, and it's not.... >> | |
| 04 Jun 2003 | Turned down again | Dude, cleaning M-16s in the rain is nothing compar.... >> |
| How is Fog Creek bei.... | Bill's answer is better, but since people are curi.... >> | |
| Fog Creek is profitable. >> | ||
| Who Else Is Getting .... | They didn't get them from us. >> | |
| What Exactly Are Obi.... | It's the name of their CGI executable >> | |
| Justin Frankel leave.... | Seems obviously related... given the number of thi.... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2003 | Running your server .... | You would need far fewer patches, possibly zero. .... >> |
| VMWare 4 - Ouch! | The floppy works for me and I don't use Linux VMs. >> | |
| My #1 recommendation.... | Urg. I'm using Cloudmark these days, and I'm findi.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2003 | Paypal = good or bad.... | If you really don't want to just become a credit c.... >> |
| 29 May 2003 | Webserver logfile an.... | Seems like there's VERY little lexing and parsing .... >> |
| 23 May 2003 | psychometric tests | For some reason psychometric tests are pretty rare.... >> |
| Spamm 'o Ramma - fro.... | Mark, are you sure your support@microsoft.com emai.... >> | |
| Nat, I'm guessing it was someone who knows who you.... >> | ||
| PIF was a file format used to describe how a DOS a.... >> | ||
| 22 May 2003 | Text Justification w.... | You can't. The way I know this is that there's .... >> |
| 21 May 2003 | iTunes-style sharing.... | http://www.shoutcast.com/ ? >> |
| 18 May 2003 | where did all the so.... | Here's one hypothesis... packaged software is gett.... >> |
| 16 May 2003 | Controling the re-ca.... | With recalc turned off, replace all occurances of .... >> |
| Is Joel Alive and we.... | I just don't have anything to say :) Actually d.... >> | |
| 14 May 2003 | Prince2 Tools | I've never heard of Prince2... what is it and what.... >> |
| Moving an applicatio.... | The trouble with forcing yourself to the foregroun.... >> | |
| 10 May 2003 | comparing connection.... | You can hire a company like Keynote or Gomez to me.... >> |
| Developing a full bl.... | I've never found lex and yacc to be worth the trou.... >> | |
| 09 May 2003 | Dealing with crap co.... | Everybody makes mistakes, but nobody likes having .... >> |
| Need a new job, and .... | Java and C# are so close, that any employer who wo.... >> | |
| 07 May 2003 | Automated Image Redu.... | Or LEADTools, commercial and industrial strength. >> |
| 02 May 2003 | Software libre | Who was the supplier of the cross platform GUI/fra.... >> |
| 29 Apr 2003 | while we're on the s.... | The way he explained it to me about, oh, 12 years .... >> |
| Joel readers being s.... | I'll check into it. It won't be widespread since t.... >> | |
| Joel and Excel | your argument is just a TINY bit weakened by the f.... >> | |
| Concerned about Joel | If I used any less I couldn't justify monitors, se.... >> | |
| 25 Apr 2003 | Justifying monitors | Here's how to justify it. LCD monitors last 7 yea.... >> |
| 24 Apr 2003 | Table changes withou.... | I think Jen meant adding or changing data, without.... >> |
| 22 Apr 2003 | SMTP Replacement... | Yes, you receive postal junkmail, probably about 2.... >> |
| Suppose there was a charge of 1 cent for sending m.... >> | ||
| Look out Outlook . ..... | Talking about their release before it came out was.... >> | |
| Does Chandler 0.1 prove my "mouth wide shut" theor.... >> | ||
| 16 Apr 2003 | InstallShield: Don't.... | Yeah yeah but show me the InnoSetup or Wise utilit.... >> |
| Upgrade Installer | It would be worth it if it makes setup faster for .... >> | |
| 15 Apr 2003 | Why auto tab-ahead o.... | Those sites must be designed by people who are use.... >> |
| 11 Apr 2003 | Using Excel to gener.... | First of all, you have 2^6 possibilites (64). T.... >> |
| Professionals .... b.... | The worst thing about lawyers is that they create .... >> | |
| 02 Apr 2003 | Net 30 argument - ch.... | Unfortunately the whole Net 30 scam is totally sta.... >> |
| 29 Mar 2003 | Errors and Omissions.... | Hmm, now you got me wondering... do we really need.... >> |
| 28 Mar 2003 | Joel on office space | Let me throw in a comment about the problem of out.... >> |
| Did Joel buy his cop.... | I got Leadtools free. It is totally, completely st.... >> | |
| 27 Mar 2003 | Source Code When Usi.... | It depends on the company and their reputation. Le.... >> |
| 26 Mar 2003 | Algorithm for Photoshop's AutoLevel/AutoColors? >> | |
| 26 Mar 2003 | Algorithm for Photos.... | There is a very small number of image editing oper.... >> |
| Cool! That sounds like all I need to know to put a.... >> | ||
| 25 Mar 2003 | Memory/Concentration.... | Donuts and Coffee, baby! ... I'll be at the Kri.... >> |
| Parallelogram Office.... | man oh man, the second guessing here is intense! I.... >> | |
| 21 Mar 2003 | Hungarian Notation | I think people who think Hungarian makes code 'har.... >> |
| Wrox bankrupt? | Yep, they're belly up. This is a company that s.... >> | |
| 18 Mar 2003 | fighting DOS attacks | If your hosting company is running off of a little.... >> |
| Do employers ever sa.... | Although the norm seems to be NOT to tell people w.... >> | |
| 15 Mar 2003 | Tracking metrics wit.... | No, they can do that... it's pretty easy: off the .... >> |
| 14 Mar 2003 | Any experience with .... | I'm not at all surprised if most 'bugs' are really.... >> |
| 13 Mar 2003 | Real World Metaphore | model train set? >> |
| How do I make a foru.... | most databases have a variable-length, long text d.... >> | |
| you only need one table, for "posts". Some posts h.... >> | ||
| 12 Mar 2003 | Windows Shell Progra.... | IShellFolder::ParseDisplayName. >> |
| 11 Mar 2003 | MS Access or MSDE fo.... | In our case, for CityDesk, we chose Jet (access) b.... >> |
| 07 Mar 2003 | The new offices | Ack, I hate hung ceilings! That and flourescent li.... >> |
| "shmatta"? | http://www.jr.co.il/humor/date.txt >> | |
| 05 Mar 2003 | Anyone knows a huge .... | Last week Cornell University mailed out acceptence.... >> |
| Why is printing not .... | Applications that Really Really Care about exact p.... >> | |
| 04 Mar 2003 | When did booleans bu.... | If you look closely at the Windows API the "BOOLEA.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2003 | Is the forum softwar.... | Nope. It's hardcoded with a bunch of things that a.... >> |
| Joel's email article.... | Boy, I feel for Janet. This happens so often (happ.... >> | |
| Do we have to subscr.... | that's because I expect the email to get forwarded.... >> | |
| 01 Mar 2003 | Handling Errors | There's a whole O'Reilly book about developing err.... >> |
| 28 Feb 2003 | New Forum for New York City >> | |
| 28 Feb 2003 | New Forum for New Yo.... | I'll give the NY forum a few weeks to settle in, a.... >> |
| Porches and Schools | Another example of the wealth effect is swimming p.... >> | |
| Unit testing and pro.... | I don't really agree that GUI development is just .... >> | |
| No forwarding? | why? heisenberg effects! didn't I already mention .... >> | |
| 27 Feb 2003 | Unit testing and pro.... | If the code is straight up symbolic processing, th.... >> |
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