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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Chris Tavares' | ||
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Number of Comments: 742 |
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| Number of Words: 57,288 | ||
| First Comment: 15 Nov 2001 | ||
| Final Comment: 31 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 1 |
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| First Topic: 16 Apr 2003 | ||
| Latest Topic: 16 Apr 2003 | ||
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| 31 Aug 2004 | Sharing a nifty tric.... | I suspect you're probably thinking of these: ht.... >> |
| Reading technical (t.... | I usually finish the technical books I've gotten, .... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2004 | Insourcing? | Here's the biggest benefit - if the car's made in .... >> |
| 27 Aug 2004 | Typedef Insanity? (N.... | Typedef'ed pointers make writing function paramete.... >> |
| Visual Studio .Net /.... | I generally avoid the SCC integration. With CVS an.... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2004 | Progammer pay rates .... | Having grown up in Connecticut, your comment about.... >> |
| Most efficient file .... | How long will it take you to write the perl code? .... >> | |
| 24 Aug 2004 | <iostream> - p.... | I had a bit of a epiphany about iostreams a while .... >> |
| patterns for file im.... | A pattern is just a known good solution to a parti.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2004 | Internet Operating S.... | One could argue that Google is doing exactly this..... >> |
| ASP.NET and Digital .... | I'm sure ClickOnce is the bees knees and will clea.... >> | |
| If you can guarantee IE on the client, your best b.... >> | ||
| 17 Aug 2004 | Feasibility of a VMO.... | The Squeak smalltalk system ( http://www.squeak.or.... >> |
| 15 Aug 2004 | wrapping an app as a.... | Hoo boy, you're in for a world of hurt. First, .... >> |
| 12 Aug 2004 | Excutable bit always.... | Umm, windows doesn't HAVE an executable bit. It's .... >> |
| Anyone install WinXp.... | Installed it last night, no issues so far. Halo st.... >> | |
| benefits of daily bu.... | As far as handoff to QA goes, our general rule was.... >> | |
| Python: Whitespace a.... | Gustavo, I can understand your reluctance. In m.... >> | |
| And thus we see the inevitable Python argument rep.... >> | ||
| 11 Aug 2004 | which language? | |
| 06 Aug 2004 | Winzip & WinRar .... | The info-zip package supports the zip formats, and.... >> |
| Why are pointers use.... | Because every problem in computer science can be s.... >> | |
| Software Patents | The other thing that's pretty nasty about software.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2004 | Binding services for.... | There's also http://www.mimeo.com . I've never use.... >> |
| Creating an ODBC dri.... | Exposing .NET data via ODBC will be a major pain, .... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2004 | Weapons software | On some levels, working on something like a cruise.... >> |
| 02 Aug 2004 | ISO:Leading Web (and.... | There's always Alan Cooper - he pretty much define.... >> |
| 01 Aug 2004 | A form with lots of .... | You're going to need to reduce the number of contr.... >> |
| Parser generators--d.... | I used YACC to parse email addresses. Worked ou.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2004 | Best Compression Pro.... | Define 'better'. Better compression? Faster com.... >> |
| what cars do geeks d.... | 2003 VW Passat >> | |
| System Administrator.... | Just remember that they're doing you a favor by le.... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2004 | Interviewing: common.... | Static vs Dynamic linking not learned in college? .... >> |
| What's a good FREE F.... | +1 for FileZilla. >> | |
| Unicode | Actually, a multi-byte character string in Windows.... >> | |
| 28 Jul 2004 | Embedded DB Solution.... | You might also want to look at sqlite: http://www..... >> |
| Multithreading and m.... | WM_TIMER messages are also sent to the back of the.... >> | |
| SPAM | Spambayes >> | |
| 27 Jul 2004 | Shareware authors | Niko Mak - author of WinZip. >> |
| COM book rating | To be honest, if you have no experience with COM, .... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2004 | Smart Pointers in He.... | I was told once by somebody who should know, that .... >> |
| Ahh, gotcha. You're on the right track there, then.... >> | ||
| Traditionally, languages that support weak pointer.... >> | ||
| Templating systems f.... | Well, as I read that article, it's complaining abo.... >> | |
| Egor, ASP.NET is very, very different from classic.... >> | ||
| ASP.NET *is* a templating engine. >> | ||
| Fun with bits | The funny thing about these questions is that I th.... >> | |
| Book Recommendations.... | You forgot the 'And bump up to the next unit of ti.... >> | |
| 25 Jul 2004 | HW Question - which .... | I've got a Canon U1220, and just love the thing. S.... >> |
| 21 Jul 2004 | Is it just me, or is.... | The problem is that the "form" is fill-in the blan.... >> |
| Shell Scripting Fana.... | You could always demand that their shell scripts b.... >> | |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Indentation | Code Complete has a chapter on this stuff. McConne.... >> |
| Simple XML Compressi.... | Pete, you can't be serious. Base64 encoding *incre.... >> | |
| 17 Jul 2004 | Microsoft (or other).... | The outfit I'm working for is a Microsoft Gold par.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2004 | Live Chat customer s.... | I've done some experiments with http://www.provide.... >> |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Better Windows Explo.... | I think I've found the fix to the status bar. L.... >> |
| Any good books about.... | For at least ASP.NET, I quite like this: http:/.... >> | |
| 14 Jul 2004 | The End of Shrink-Wr.... | I have to say, that while the ideas sound good, th.... >> |
| 12 Jul 2004 | Sealed classed... | For what it's worth, sealed also gives the opportu.... >> |
| Testing floating poi.... | That's got to be the most perverse code I've ever .... >> | |
| 11 Jul 2004 | K&R. Great book,.... | Dennis's example may look nicer, but it won't comp.... >> |
| 10 Jul 2004 | It's not quite the same, because strcmp (assuming .... >> | |
| 09 Jul 2004 | The Myth of Technolo.... | At the grocery stores I go to, the customer swipes.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2004 | Cross-platform .NET:.... | Cross platform for Microsoft includes 64-bit Windo.... >> |
| initialzing an array.... | Ok, I took a second to sketch this thing out on pa.... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2004 | How are file formats.... | Create a blank file in the source application. Sav.... >> |
| 06 Jul 2004 | Local, single-user b.... | It's not specifically a bug tracker, but since I r.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2004 | XP development is bi.... | If you're *really* doing an XP process, then the s.... >> |
| 23 Jun 2004 | I am nostalgic about.... | Yes, ATL did have smart pointers. Then, to make it.... >> |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Rebates? Not yet? | I've gotten rebates, but I think they've always be.... >> |
| 15 Jun 2004 | CVS : I can't imagin.... | I would recommend having the CVS server itself on .... >> |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Windows CVS Clients | Another vote for Tortoise! The hardest part about .... >> |
| 04 Jun 2004 | Run screaming into t.... | It's funny. Back in college (late 80's/early 90's).... >> |
| 03 Jun 2004 | Visual Reflector? | If your talking about a plain old windows DLL, the.... >> |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Self Defence | Get one of these: http://www.scottevest.com .... >> |
| 29 May 2004 | When you have to be .... | The best thing about python in this kind of situat.... >> |
| 27 May 2004 | Is there such thing .... | I just got an 802.11b card for my pocket PC. A lit.... >> |
| 19 May 2004 | What examples to tea.... | I first grasped recursion when trying to write a f.... >> |
| 18 May 2004 | Are there any .Net c.... | We've built a fat client architecture using .NET w.... >> |
| The .NET runtime works all the way back to Win98. .... >> | ||
| Ternary Operators an.... | Of course, the name GetMoveAmount was just what I .... >> | |
| In cases like this, I almost always use a function.... >> | ||
| Quikview.exe on Win2.... | Quikview in practice turned out to be, er, not so .... >> | |
| my boss is a @%$&.... | You work the graveyard shift?? What kind of develo.... >> | |
| 17 May 2004 | Legit! ...and softwa.... | I still think Borland's old license was the best. .... >> |
| 14 May 2004 | Monitor on it's side | What you want is a 'portrait' monitor. I know I've.... >> |
| 13 May 2004 | Structuring cross-pl.... | If you've got Unix experience, you might want to t.... >> |
| Lower cost alternate.... | 'Legacy platform' to microsoft means NT 3.51 and N.... >> | |
| Design Skills are Wo.... | There's nothing wrong with throwing something toge.... >> | |
| Versioning Rules for.... | As far as I know, the only versioning rule for COM.... >> | |
| 12 May 2004 | Nope. The COM versioning rules, such as they were,.... >> | |
| 10 May 2004 | Unit Testing - What .... | For a really simple intro, a good book is: http.... >> |
| decoding mht files i.... | I believe that an MHT file is just a MIME-multipar.... >> | |
| 07 May 2004 | Pricing server-side .... | +1 on per-developer licenses. This has the advanta.... >> |
| Rising Oil Prices. W.... | Rising oil prices could even lead to more telecomm.... >> | |
| 06 May 2004 | Job Title for future.... | I have "Chief Bit Wrangler" on my business cards. >> |
| Anyone use 'My Docum.... | I pointed the shell folder to c:\home\chris. Every.... >> | |
| 05 May 2004 | Integrating web site.... | Can it be done? Yes. It's just bits after all. .... >> |
| 03 May 2004 | Interesting Old Book.... | Basic Computer Games and More Basic Computer Games.... >> |
| 01 May 2004 | java runtime questio.... | For what it's worth, I actually prefer "this." to .... >> |
| 30 Apr 2004 | Field Name ? | You know, those may be a pain to type, but anyone .... >> |
| java runtime questio.... | Another possibility for the 'this.' convention. I'.... >> | |
| A programmer who is .... | My undergrad degree was in electrical engineering..... >> | |
| Is the job market st.... | I was laid off back in 2001. At the time I got my .... >> | |
| 28 Apr 2004 | Do these sites look .... | I just brought up the subversion page in IE6, look.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2004 | The Best Thing on Te.... | I was the typical geek in high school. You know.... >> |
| 21 Apr 2004 | Winning the professi.... | Getting on an embedded project with some other rea.... >> |
| 17 Apr 2004 | Is this a language f.... | In general, the C (and C++) language does not chec.... >> |
| 14 Apr 2004 | How much experience .... | I don't have a good answer for your question, but .... >> |
| 09 Apr 2004 | Fastest, easiest DB .... | Deklarit is incredibly cool - if you're starting a.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Books for moving fro.... | The big advantage, right now, is that C# developer.... >> |
| 06 Apr 2004 | C# Class Library Fil.... | I tend towards a 1:1 class/file ratio. It just mak.... >> |
| 02 Apr 2004 | Java—what's the poin.... | It's not an academic argument; it's a very practic.... >> |
| Ken, Your definition of strong/weak typing is i.... >> | ||
| 01 Apr 2004 | Distance Learning Wh.... | If you've got no kids, and you can get your employ.... >> |
| 30 Mar 2004 | Intranet needs a sea.... | The Windows Indexing service has already defined f.... >> |
| Software & setup.... | TweakUI (from the microsoft power toys collection).... >> | |
| 29 Mar 2004 | Any problems with To.... | The only complaint I've got with Tortoise is that .... >> |
| 28 Mar 2004 | Out of memory--what .... | This is the age of virtual memory. Unless your lib.... >> |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Built-in SQL support.... | Umm, that's not going into the next version of C#..... >> |
| Slowest computer | Stephen Jones, Unicode was introduced in NT 3.1.... >> | |
| 24 Mar 2004 | A sysadmin must know.... | Kinda depends on what system they're adminning, do.... >> |
| Why .net not appropr.... | For those who don't want to bother registering for.... >> | |
| Opera's fat lady sin.... | Don't forget that Opera's most significant market .... >> | |
| 23 Mar 2004 | Wiki question | 'Hmmm... so how are the links on this page: http:.... >> |
| Argh! I always get Camel and Pascal case mixed up..... >> | ||
| If you type a NameInCamelCase in a wiki, that auto.... >> | ||
| how did you find you.... | Friend of a friend of a former coworker. >> | |
| What should I know w.... | I'm running a cheap 17' GEM LCD monitor at home. G.... >> | |
| 17 Mar 2004 | MS Visual SourceSafe.... | Whoops, I always get that one wrong. http://www.wi.... >> |
| You don't need cygwin if you want to use CVS on Wi.... >> | ||
| 16 Mar 2004 | Explorer Usability -.... | Search in WinXP is just generally broken. So I don.... >> |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Hackers too? | You mean 'crackers', i.e. computer criminals? N.... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | Can you learn .NET a.... | 'It's also possible to ask any specific question i.... >> |
| The value of a course is all about the instructor..... >> | ||
| 05 Mar 2004 | get/set routines in .... | Using get/set methods instead of public fields is .... >> |
| 04 Mar 2004 | Some advice required.... | You think wrong. I've got a masters in CS, and mos.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Open source... rat r.... | The objections to SCO's claims are, for the most p.... >> |
| 02 Mar 2004 | Laptop usability | My laptop has the windows key on the left, the con.... >> |
| Table Driven Program.... | The concept of a 'Jump Table' has a long history, .... >> | |
| Advice on pluggable .... | Re: Using IDL instead of VB. The reason I recom.... >> | |
| 01 Mar 2004 | Since you're working in VB6, you're dealing with C.... >> | |
| Anyone here use/look.... | Never heard of it. Link? >> | |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Inexpensive asp.net .... | http://www.webhost4life.com is what I'm using. $9..... >> |
| Visual C++ build pro.... | That doesn't help when the templates in question a.... >> | |
| Compile time in VC++ varies GREATLY depending on t.... >> | ||
| Class (static) metho.... | In Smalltalk, everything is an object. Including c.... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Python for Windows d.... | One of the nice things about Python is that experi.... >> |
| Laughable Web Servic.... | Most of those "services" are probably just people .... >> | |
| Idiotic design decis.... | Actually, just about every PC sold for the lat two.... >> | |
| Is there a name for .... | Well, if you *really* want to know what templates .... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | In my experience, there's actually *three* levels .... >> | |
| Free and simple to u.... | I suspect the term 'jack' is being used as a short.... >> | |
| 21 Feb 2004 | DotNet is Deja Vu | Everything we've been hearing about Java is just a.... >> |
| Objects Flamewar | Hoo boy. Apparently, you think C++ is the be all a.... >> | |
| definition of reflec.... | It's also REALLY useful when building "plumbing" -.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2004 | .Net linker redux | XP SP2 isn't out yet. Of course it's not on Window.... >> |
| Rule-driven GUI's | I found the book. It's here: http://www.bookpoo.... >> | |
| 19 Feb 2004 | To computer addicts | Vaguely remembered from 'Heart of the Comet' by Da.... >> |
| Rule-driven GUI's | It probably doesn't qualify as a rules-driven syst.... >> | |
| On Inspiration | I don't know; sounds pretty wishy-washy to me. .... >> | |
| Java or Python? | Umm, Python DOES have an interactive debugger. It'.... >> | |
| 18 Feb 2004 | Finding a good algor.... | Registration exists to keep the honest people hone.... >> |
| How do I break the p.... | Wizards suck. They're typically misdesigned. The g.... >> | |
| A: I would agree that polymorphism and static t.... >> | ||
| I'd like to second the recommendation for Design P.... >> | ||
| 17 Feb 2004 | CIS/MIS degrees | Where I went to undergrad, CS was part of the engi.... >> |
| Design Decision No.3 | Uni students aren't cheap, they're POOR! Having.... >> | |
| Office furniture | I went to the local 'Oak Furniture Unlimited' (I t.... >> | |
| DLL Hell - Part 2 | Yeah, but how is "default" initialization defined .... >> | |
| Knowing you can get .... | The backlash against outsourcing isn't, at least i.... >> | |
| $50+ hr for java pro.... | Can't get a clearance without a job that requires .... >> | |
| 16 Feb 2004 | Placing Password and.... | In general, no it's not considered secure. Most se.... >> |
| Monster.com | Hah! From Egor's post, I get a vision of migrant w.... >> | |
| 15 Feb 2004 | Knowing you can get .... | Indian immigration rules make it impossible for Am.... >> |
| 13 Feb 2004 | Best Windows Program.... | Actually, Petzold covers most of the Win32 user in.... >> |
| 12 Feb 2004 | C++/CLI | 'IMHO, C++/CLI makes MC++ look like an ugly hack.'.... >> |
| Is it ok to join Ork.... | 'Why, i am actually providing a needed service for.... >> | |
| 11 Feb 2004 | Software product ide.... | Lots, and I mean *lots* of software ship with the .... >> |
| Software to view doc.... | I'm reasonably sure. The last time I did an XP ins.... >> | |
| Assuming a Windows client, if you don't want them .... >> | ||
| just how much math i.... | If you take away summer vacation, when do the stud.... >> | |
| Comparing high school students is rather disingenu.... >> | ||
| 10 Feb 2004 | XML Schema & XSD.... | XSLT will transform XML into any arbitrary text. I.... >> |
| Good vs Bad Code | Most/all of your list is part of the "Code Smells".... >> | |
| Stupid regular expre.... | This is the problem with regular expressions - the.... >> | |
| SMS/Text Messaging | In the US, it's called "Too Expensive." :-) >> | |
| Is goto dead? | Of course, one could argue that the return in the .... >> | |
| Ugh. If you're going that route, I'd just do this:.... >> | ||
| 06 Feb 2004 | C-runtime, what it r.... | ReadFile reads a chunk of bytes from a handle. Ask.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Getting into Microso.... | I was flat out rejected when I applied with my bra.... >> |
| What's the daily spa.... | Almost Anon, That solution requires that you be.... >> | |
| Does bad code lead t.... | Withheld, Be glad there are no comments in that.... >> | |
| 04 Feb 2004 | Shared Jumpdrive | You'll need a special USB hub; a plain cable won't.... >> |
| 03 Feb 2004 | OCR from PDF file | There's an Acrobat plug-in that can do OCR on acro.... >> |
| HTML rendering contr.... | Brad, Well, he did ask for HTML, not HTTP. The .... >> | |
| Stop the insanity! | The proposed solution will fail hard if run under .... >> | |
| 02 Feb 2004 | Studies I'd like to .... | I've never started a company, so I may be way off .... >> |
| 30 Jan 2004 | Management problem f.... | Sounds like you need to bring in a UI designer and.... >> |
| MSIL | The only real advantage to a multi-module assembly.... >> | |
| 29 Jan 2004 | Synchronicity | I've seen this sentiment expressed a couple of dif.... >> |
| My Adventures with o.... | Actually, considering that the original poster is .... >> | |
| Usability vs. Code M.... | Hey, where'd that Mars probe go? :-) >> | |
| I'm a programmer and.... | The only one I've seen in general use is PCGen, a .... >> | |
| Portable Countdown w.... | 'okay you'll have to install a tcl interpreter on .... >> | |
| The Linker : The rig.... | VS.NET is 'free' to me when my employer already ha.... >> | |
| You forget though; you only need to do the framewo.... >> | ||
| Only three reasons w.... | It's fairly easy to decompile IL (the .NET 'byteco.... >> | |
| death of COM/DCOM? | An example? How about a word processor? A spreadsh.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2004 | A linker for .NET? | The amusing thing is that .NET *does* have a linke.... >> |
| Is Eiffel a contende.... | The OO classes at Rensselaer at Hartford are all t.... >> | |
| death of COM/DCOM? | I'll simply add this: I can agree that if you k.... >> | |
| I've wasted far too much of my professional life c.... >> | ||
| 27 Jan 2004 | Version control sw f.... | Sourcesafe works pretty well over the LAN for simp.... >> |
| Windows XP command l.... | Cygwin carries too much of a burden for my tastes .... >> | |
| death of COM/DCOM? | 'Will dotNet ever be truly viable as a way to inte.... >> | |
| It meant that OOP sucks for distributed systems. .... >> | ||
| Using SSL for XML-RP.... | Considering that you currently have NO security (b.... >> | |
| 22 Jan 2004 | Encryption of Passwo.... | A useful tweak on the 'store hashed value in datab.... >> |
| "Unix culture values.... | >>> (For that matter, what's up with Windows? The.... >> | |
| Who's your favorite .... | And if that's really a concern, don't use the Doma.... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | "Unix culture values.... | I personally think that Unix systems value code th.... >> |
| For Sale: Abstract B.... | Well, building abstract base classes is, for the m.... >> | |
| Cleanroom SOftware E.... | 'Cleanroom Software Engineering' takes it's name f.... >> | |
| Who's your favorite .... | Another satisfied GoDaddy customer here. The NS.... >> | |
| 15 Jan 2004 | Favorite Soft Drink .... | Dr. Pepper and Cheetos. >> |
| 14 Jan 2004 | What next after Kern.... | If you want to go the C++ or Java route, I particu.... >> |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Do you Find Agile Mo.... | Actually, it's just the old "trailing punctuation .... >> |
| 11 Jan 2004 | Dark Eyes | Every 15 to 30 minutes, get up from your desk and .... >> |
| microsoft shared sou.... | Actually, the Rotor code is *very* useful as a lea.... >> | |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Amazing...even books.... | There is a possibility that the rebate was actuall.... >> |
| from c# to vb.net | VB.NET is a more verbose language, but the VS.NET .... >> | |
| Commercial software .... | I believe the MS Money user interface is actually .... >> | |
| Developing on the Pa.... | You could also go way out on a limb and take a loo.... >> | |
| 06 Jan 2004 | Prevayler | Using XML as the interchange format is just fine, .... >> |
| I've always thought the ideas behind Prevayler wer.... >> | ||
| 04 Jan 2004 | Technology ought to .... | You can still run DOS applications written in 1985.... >> |
| 03 Jan 2004 | CD-Burning Question .... | Well, if you've got a copy of Easy CD Creator, you.... >> |
| Prototyping tool of .... | How about Powerpoint? You can do some pretty so.... >> | |
| 31 Dec 2003 | Menu Shadows | Have you tried turning the menu animation/shadows/.... >> |
| most software is qui.... | I finally threw out my copy of Ami Pro 3 about a m.... >> | |
| 30 Dec 2003 | sorting | Knuth's not dead, and the poster here wasn't Knuth.... >> |
| 26 Dec 2003 | C++? Opinions? | COM at it's heart is really just a set of C++ codi.... >> |
| Why does FogBugz nee.... | Why not JSP? Well, aside from the ubiquity issue t.... >> | |
| 24 Dec 2003 | Future of straight C.... | From what I've seen of the open source types, ther.... >> |
| 22 Dec 2003 | DLL Base Address sui.... | You want to get a copy of one of John Robbin's Deb.... >> |
| 21 Dec 2003 | Visual Basic .NET Re.... | I read the license on these, and as I understand i.... >> |
| 18 Dec 2003 | Home Brew PVRs, anyo.... | I've got an All-In-Wonder Radeon 9700 card in a bo.... >> |
| Software/technology .... | The way the economy's going, there's really no rea.... >> | |
| Display the sin grap.... | You also need to get your terminology straight bef.... >> | |
| Programming for Prog.... | So, if the OS provided a system call that did glob.... >> | |
| 17 Dec 2003 | Separating Interface.... | The places where I've used interfaces extensively:.... >> |
| Interfaces also help when you have orthogonal conc.... >> | ||
| Cultural Divide: It'.... | Maybe I'm just backwards here, but I don't think t.... >> | |
| Embedded Databases (.... | How does this work? Well, most OS's provide both f.... >> | |
| Programming for Prog.... | The consistency problem is that the user typed: .... >> | |
| 16 Dec 2003 | music at work | Actually, it's pretty darn quiet around the office.... >> |
| I just thought I'd mention that I work for 'that c.... >> | ||
| 12 Dec 2003 | XML-RPC - how to cap.... | Whoops, my bad, it should have been http://www.poc.... >> |
| Do you want to always capture messages, or just wh.... >> | ||
| 11 Dec 2003 | Bill Gates: agnostic.... | Fullname, Ahh, but you're missing a step in the.... >> |
| "Better" language vs.... | 'There is no reason why memory cannot be allocated.... >> | |
| 10 Dec 2003 | Auto-Hiding Menu Ite.... | 'Personalized' menus are a real pain for me. I .... >> |
| 06 Dec 2003 | What's wrong with In.... | Add to all that, some general misdesigns. The i.... >> |
| 05 Dec 2003 | Well, this is it | The last time I was laid off nearly destroyed me. .... >> |
| Thin client vs clien.... | There *are* systems that allow live upgrades while.... >> | |
| 02 Dec 2003 | Good interview appro.... | Actually, it should be: template< class T > cl.... >> |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Software patents | Definately get an attorney. Engineers are too h.... >> |
| Dynamic formatting | Does this have to be pure C++, or will a Windows A.... >> | |
| XML Document formats | HTML is about web pages. Word is about printed pag.... >> | |
| Multithreading | That depends on how you define 'accessing the shar.... >> | |
| 26 Nov 2003 | C# position | I'm on my first professional (as in paid to do it).... >> |
| 21 Nov 2003 | GetEnvironmentVariab.... | Oh, by the way, you do NOT need to reboot an NT cl.... >> |
| IT is being moved to.... | At least in Connecticut there's a state law requir.... >> | |
| Sabbaticals | Umm, I meant to put 'Typical paid vacation IN THE .... >> | |
| Typical paid vacation time for 'short timers' (les.... >> | ||
| When Will the 'Sunse.... | I can't see any reason to use MSIL as a native ins.... >> | |
| 20 Nov 2003 | Webapp GUI design | Don't think in terms of the tables. Think in te.... >> |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Order of things (aka.... | What I meant by using a parser generator: There.... >> |
| I have to put in another plug for XML here. Aussie.... >> | ||
| Well, your option 1 is how all the .NET stuff work.... >> | ||
| Share powerful PC CP.... | There's Incredibuild, which is supposed to farm ou.... >> | |
| Macromedia developer.... | Having the IM client accessible inside other progr.... >> | |
| HowTo: transportable.... | You might want to consider this: http://www.ide.... >> | |
| 18 Nov 2003 | "Visual Studio" w|wo.... | Visual Studio releases are a lot slower than the p.... >> |
| 17 Nov 2003 | Need a reasonable da.... | 'SQLite has a do-whatever-you-want-with-it BSD sty.... >> |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Dressing up for job .... | From personal experience: Do *not* wear a jacke.... >> |
| Why do I want to hos.... | To be honest, I look at this as mainly a replaceme.... >> | |
| It's for poor schlubs like me who know C# really, .... >> | ||
| 13 Nov 2003 | PHP / ASP : Side by .... | I've run PHP 4.2 on windows and IIS as a testbed f.... >> |
| 12 Nov 2003 | The Reality Distorti.... | Actually, the last versions of BeOS did NOT have a.... >> |
| Looking for dynamic .... | Do you have any common space, like a conference ro.... >> | |
| PHP overview | '...is completely wrong. You can easily override .... >> | |
| I did a small website in PHP, since that's what ou.... >> | ||
| Airport security - a.... | And then the terrorists will have won. >> | |
| 11 Nov 2003 | .org addresses | The only "laws" are the policies specified by the .... >> |
| Run diferent version.... | The browser coupling is not a case of predatory pr.... >> | |
| 08 Nov 2003 | so I heard through t.... | If your experienced QA person thinks you're a year.... >> |
| 05 Nov 2003 | I wasn't a CS / EE m.... | State machines come up all the time. Any time you .... >> |
| A couple other topics that it's well worth having .... >> | ||
| 04 Nov 2003 | Where Did You Go To .... | JD = graduated from Law school. >> |
| BSEE, University of Connecticut, 1991 MSCS, Renss.... >> | ||
| 03 Nov 2003 | Wise/InstallShield? | Personally, I'd use NSIS and some NSIS plug-ins. N.... >> |
| I've used InstallShield Developer 8 for MSI. It su.... >> | ||
| 02 Nov 2003 | Strategies for manag.... | Something we did once: Repository had a 'thirdp.... >> |
| 31 Oct 2003 | Longhorn, you, and y.... | Useless clutter? Maybe, but it makes the C-levels .... >> |
| 23 Oct 2003 | Does anyone *like* t.... | My wife got a lexmark inkjet printer (top feed) wi.... >> |
| Background color for.... | If you want a monospace font for programming, go h.... >> | |
| 22 Oct 2003 | Ever thought of givi.... | From http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/default.as.... >> |
| 17 Oct 2003 | When was the last ti.... | Look in the TCL codebase. This is probably the gra.... >> |
| XML Languages as pol.... | I thought the whole point of a build file (or a Ma.... >> | |
| How does one program.... | Pretty much the only time I use try { } catch { } .... >> | |
| 16 Oct 2003 | How important are la.... | If you're localizing an application, you pretty mu.... >> |
| DoSomething as Insta.... | The point is you don't need to catch the exception.... >> | |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Joel's example was obviously talking about the nee.... >> | |
| Joel on Software Boo.... | (Sorta-kinda completely off topic, but what the he.... >> | |
| Exceptions, Threads .... | Threads are best used when you need to wait for so.... >> | |
| finally, exceptions .... | The idea of statically marking what exceptions can.... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | Error handling patte.... | But unless you're programming in Eiffel, or (at be.... >> |
| IllegalArgumentException *is* an assertion failure.... >> | ||
| 09 Oct 2003 | Need a new compile e.... | Yes, my original example was C# code. The actua.... >> |
| I know the feeling. I did this the other day: c.... >> | ||
| Legal Question | Anon kept saying 'signed a 1099'. A 1099 is a cont.... >> | |
| 08 Oct 2003 | MSDN Universal DVDs .... | My last update from MSDN (I have a universal DVD s.... >> |
| 07 Oct 2003 | MSDE? | Redistribution of MSDE is, umm, problematic. I'.... >> |
| What source control .... | 'No one who reads this forum uses Fog Bugz? Why n.... >> | |
| 03 Oct 2003 | "C" 32 bit short? | I've worked on a system (using a TI DSP processor).... >> |
| 01 Oct 2003 | What is Hyperthreadi.... | CPU's have execution pipelines; basically an on-ch.... >> |
| Dual Xeon Developmen.... | If you're developing multithreaded code, you *NEED.... >> | |
| which language to le.... | In regards to language syntax, as with many other .... >> | |
| Oh, just to throw another functional language into.... >> | ||
| Re: ADA I consider ADA and ADA-95 two separate .... >> | ||
| CVS hosting. | > Oh, Windows? pfft. arch is probably not for yo.... >> | |
| You know, I've looked at arch a couple of times. .... >> | ||
| 30 Sep 2003 | which language to le.... | Of your original list: Drop Ada. That's a proce.... >> |
| ASP.Net program flow.... | I've seen some excellent ones - unfortunately, the.... >> | |
| 29 Sep 2003 | Weird .NET / Athlon .... | It sounds to me like a heat problem. I had a si.... >> |
| 26 Sep 2003 | Cross-platform socke.... | 'A socket handle can optionally be a file handle i.... >> |
| The other thing to worry about is that select is t.... >> | ||
| Does it have to be plain C? Can you use C++? The A.... >> | ||
| VS.NET macro slowdow.... | I've got no idea about the slowdown (never used VS.... >> | |
| 24 Sep 2003 | Disgruntled at JoelO.... | Actually, the next thing from Microsoft will be GO.... >> |
| 23 Sep 2003 | The Story of the Blo.... | Re: Kermit When did *that* abomination come out.... >> |
| 19 Sep 2003 | Book on Design Patte.... | Oh, and just to get back on topic: This book is.... >> |
| Heck, even in C++ it's not an issue. You place the.... >> | ||
| I would argue the 'completely unrelated' criteria .... >> | ||
| What about Visitor do you hate? How else would .... >> | ||
| Request: suggestions.... | Buy a full copy of Adobe Acrobat - not just the re.... >> | |
| CVS vs. Subversion | Umm, isn't the client/server protocol for Subversi.... >> | |
| 16 Sep 2003 | Static variables - g.... | You might also want to look at the State pattern i.... >> |
| 13 Sep 2003 | Decoupling Request a.... | An empty object has 8 bytes of overhead in .NET - .... >> |
| 09 Sep 2003 | Localization questio.... | On CSV: If there's a comma embedded in a field,.... >> |
| 08 Sep 2003 | Recommendation Advic.... | The Wrox books with only one author are generally .... >> |
| 07 Sep 2003 | Localization questio.... | Another advantage of the old key bindings is that .... >> |
| 05 Sep 2003 | Rebooting after inst.... | On a lot of projects, a previous version required .... >> |
| 03 Sep 2003 | dynamic form generat.... | The Web browser control is great for this sort of .... >> |
| 02 Sep 2003 | Recommend vendor for.... | I ended up getting my MSDN Universal sub through t.... >> |
| 01 Sep 2003 | Multiple return poin.... | You should use multiple returns up front when you .... >> |
| 29 Aug 2003 | Wrapping an existing.... | Oh, and one more thing: if you need to do this .... >> |
| Modules in IDL aren't COM - they're something VB s.... >> | ||
| 19 Aug 2003 | Agile/XP programming.... | The problem is that 'the industry' *isn't* support.... >> |
| Which Language for W.... | Whazzamattau, IE plug-ins are also called Activ.... >> | |
| 18 Aug 2003 | Development Paltform.... | .NET does *not* cost money. You can download the S.... >> |
| Notepad, Can It Be R.... | Crimson Editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com) is y.... >> | |
| Intelligent Idiots | Hah! I had almost the same experience when *I* was.... >> | |
| question on Joel tes.... | Brad got it. The intent of the question was to .... >> | |
| 15 Aug 2003 | MSF? | I suspect he's talking about 'Microsoft Solution F.... >> |
| Outsourced Overseas | On the bonus to stay on idea, a possible alternati.... >> | |
| Got lights? | There's a significant difference between the power.... >> | |
| question on Joel tes.... | An OO design question a friend of mine got once (f.... >> | |
| 14 Aug 2003 | Design question | I think he means 'text templates.' As in a text.... >> |
| Upgrading to visual .... | Well, I've *never* wanted a C++ dll - they're impo.... >> | |
| 13 Aug 2003 | Recommend Hardware F.... | I used a Linksys router on my DSL line for a coupl.... >> |
| 12 Aug 2003 | C++ Test - Questions.... | If you're programming in C++, you care, by definit.... >> |
| This is the problem with C++ - there isn't a singl.... >> | ||
| java preprocessor? | If you really want a macro processor, go grab a co.... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2003 | Are ActiveX Data Obj.... | And if you've got tons of code written in ADO (not.... >> |
| Why does Microsoft k.... | I've heard from Microsoft people (Mike Blasczek in.... >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | Nice to know we're n.... | Actually, the founding fathers of Milwaukie (sorry.... >> |
| And Milwauke is in Oregon. Go figure. ;-) >> | ||
| coworkers as enemies | If nobody knows what 'dynamic' means, you could ju.... >> | |
| 06 Aug 2003 | The Value of Unix's .... | 'Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C programming lan.... >> |
| Where to store the D.... | If you were writing in C++ I'd suggest sticking th.... >> | |
| 01 Aug 2003 | Hunting a .NET Memor.... | It's probably not a C++ style memory leak. The obj.... >> |
| 31 Jul 2003 | How popular is VB .N.... | The answer to your question depends on political f.... >> |
| Employer paying for .... | When I've worked places that wanted me to stick ar.... >> | |
| Messageboxes are evi.... | Wouldn't it be better for Eudora to just rebuild t.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2003 | Outsourcing Honesty .... | You know, I think I've finally figured out the rea.... >> |
| 25 Jul 2003 | Avoiding hiring mist.... | I do know one programmer who has trouble with bool.... >> |
| Digital Signatures a.... | Writing Secure Code, 2nd edition, has lots of good.... >> | |
| Maintaining Exported.... | Expose your API's through interfaces only - don't .... >> | |
| 24 Jul 2003 | Installshield and St.... | In many organizations, it's actually a marketing d.... >> |
| "Microsoft beefs up .... | Microsoft is in an amazing position, hiring wise. .... >> | |
| Questions for CEO in.... | How does this company make money? If you aren't.... >> | |
| 22 Jul 2003 | Satisfactory program.... | We re-implemented a sonar system that cost $10 mil.... >> |
| Help Choosing a Grad.... | My experience as an undergrad is that the professo.... >> | |
| 20 Jul 2003 | Alternate jobs for p.... | A friend of mine was one of those 'will do vaguely.... >> |
| 18 Jul 2003 | ee degree | I ended up choosing EE over CS because I didn't wa.... >> |
| My undergrad degree is in EE. What makes EE har.... >> | ||
| 17 Jul 2003 | CFMX flouts Joel's ".... | And Cold Fusion isn't Macromedia's flagship produc.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2003 | Scripting Languages? | JScript is a surpisingly powerful little language .... >> |
| Choosing a bugtracki.... | Well, we didn't use an ASP per se, but we were wor.... >> | |
| 14 Jul 2003 | Web UI vs Windows UI | If you want a dirt simple way to bang out dialogs .... >> |
| 12 Jul 2003 | ASP.Net and AS/400? | That's odd - I just did a presentation to a compan.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2003 | Mouse Alternatives? | 'Don't you guys ever play games?' Yep, I still .... >> |
| Logitech Marble Trackball man here. I got some .... >> | ||
| Picking a DIFFERENT .... | Prolog is well worth learning, but don't expect to.... >> | |
| 09 Jul 2003 | Having VB 3 program .... | Isn't VB 3 still the 16-bit version? There's no wa.... >> |
| Learning New Items | I'm currently working for a contract/training hous.... >> | |
| What we should teach.... | Visual inheritance? No, I've never really had a ne.... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2003 | Learning New Items | I teach classes in new technologies. Right now I'm.... >> |
| A standards plug for.... | Writing standards compilant HTML is not hard. T.... >> | |
| Regarding cracks - C.... | If you register your software, the key then tracks.... >> | |
| What we should teach.... | Ahh, ok, I see what you're getting at. You're t.... >> | |
| Uck. All this up-front design is making me a littl.... >> | ||
| 03 Jul 2003 | extensive memory all.... | DO NOT MANUALLY CALL THE GARBAGE COLLECTOR! Mod.... >> |
| What language for a .... | Here's another vote for Python. You can use the wx.... >> | |
| What color is the sk.... | I'm not too fond of the new find-in-files dialog. .... >> | |
| 02 Jul 2003 | Computers on either .... | This is how we know that computers run on smoke. .... >> |
| 01 Jul 2003 | MSXML Books? | You're much better learning XML in the abstract fi.... >> |
| 30 Jun 2003 | The "white picket fe.... | The 'white picket fence' has nothing to do with th.... >> |
| 27 Jun 2003 | How would you find a.... | VS.NET is the next version of the Visual J#/Interd.... >> |
| Are Big Corporations.... | The alleged link between internet piracy and decli.... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2003 | How would you find a.... | My experience has been that the better you know MF.... >> |
| 24 Jun 2003 | G5's | Actually, "Modify while debugging" got lost in the.... >> |
| Considering that Virtual PC is now owned by Micros.... >> | ||
| 23 Jun 2003 | Snobbery and the IDE | Realistically, how often do you encounter this att.... >> |
| What Does a Degree M.... | Personally, I think a degree can be quite valuable.... >> | |
| 22 Jun 2003 | Get a range of file .... | Another option is filezilla - you can get it on So.... >> |
| Free Soda & losi.... | I didn't edit the quote so much as try to repeat t.... >> | |
| 20 Jun 2003 | Object State | Your reasoning is off because you only enforce con.... >> |
| Get a range of file .... | Just remember to use the PROMPT command before iss.... >> | |
| Free Soda & losi.... | Just to add, the purpose of the sign on the cooler.... >> | |
| 19 Jun 2003 | To yacc or not to ya.... | If you want a real challenge, try writing a compil.... >> |
| The original goal for XML was for something that a.... >> | ||
| 18 Jun 2003 | Switching Jobs | I was asked in one interview why I had so many job.... >> |
| What to pick - C# or.... | And the 'zero scalability' comment is wrong. .NET .... |