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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Christopher Wells' | ||
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Number of Comments: 1,084 |
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| Number of Words: 106,143 | ||
| First Comment: 17 Oct 2001 | ||
| Final Comment: 03 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 9 |
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| First Topic: 28 Feb 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 01 Sep 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 03 Sep 2004 | Yuk!!! | Did it lose the 'simplistic' appeal, only because .... >> |
| 02 Sep 2004 | Re-using desgin/code | Afraid didn't say whether he wants to maintain Pro.... >> |
| web services / 'thin.... | I've been writing software for 20 years and have n.... >> | |
| errno and MSVC | > I found this somewhere and maybe VC uses _iob fo.... >> | |
| > Having been down this road, I agree with the sug.... >> | ||
| Web based bug tracke.... | > So, is it me or does TTPro truly suck? And is F.... >> | |
| 01 Sep 2004 | Why buy tech support with software? >> | |
| 01 Sep 2004 | Outlook client with .... | My first guess is that Outlook (not Outlook Expres.... >> |
| 31 Aug 2004 | Multiple Build Machi.... | > Am I supposed to have one build machine for each.... >> |
| Commenting out | <!-- like this --> >> | |
| Growing your busines.... | > How did you do it? I've never done it, but pe.... >> | |
| New take on "practic.... | > So, anyone feel like answering my original quest.... >> | |
| How many of you know.... | I didn't study programming at school. I know a .... >> | |
| Last laptop related .... | I think it's an EEG recorder, isn't it? Lots of si.... >> | |
| Incentive Pay Consid.... | > True professionals work for intrinsic satisfacti.... >> | |
| Outsourcing happenin.... | CAD$25K/yr in Toronto is about 70% higher than min.... >> | |
| 30 Aug 2004 | What motivates you t.... | For similar reasons as for speaking a second langu.... >> |
| Americans need learn.... | > Not that my knowledge of Cwmraeg is anything bey.... >> | |
| If you would like to estimate which second languag.... >> | ||
| In the USA the most common second language for Eng.... >> | ||
| Name that executable | On Windows you can sometimes guess by seeing what .... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2004 | Typedef Insanity? (N.... | GetTickCount is a WINAPI function but I don't beli.... >> |
| 28 Aug 2004 | Running arbitrary co.... | http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;.... >> |
| The API is king | > little or no polyphormism Well, for example m.... >> | |
| hoser, > Item 3 often never happens because the.... >> | ||
| From idea to final p.... | My boss had his first app written and released wit.... >> | |
| Typedef Insanity? (N.... | > Gee, that was quite an experience. ... painfull .... >> | |
| > Compiler sais nothing, void* is good as any poin.... >> | ||
| Using Bugzilla for t.... | We used separate applications. Tech support ran CR.... >> | |
| 27 Aug 2004 | Tool to display disk space usage details? >> | |
| 27 Aug 2004 | General question abo.... | I know; I was thinking of going on record as sayin.... >> |
| The reason for having more bits is to be able to a.... >> | ||
| Valuable contributio.... | What would be better alternative than having AT&am.... >> | |
| 5 million dollars an hour is about 3 billion dolla.... >> | ||
| > Do you honestly believe that in the grand scheme.... >> | ||
| "Rescue abandoned pr.... | > My intuition is that most clients will not pay o.... >> | |
| Cross Platform devel.... | > We know all about wxWindows for the UI, but we'r.... >> | |
| Passing by value / r.... | > I think you're picking at straws in a potentiall.... >> | |
| C# doesn't support pass by const reference (it onl.... >> | ||
| Ever worked with a r.... | > Where is this 'anoop' thread? I'm not seeing it .... >> | |
| 26 Aug 2004 | Visual Studio .Net /.... | > In fact has anyone managed to integrate anything.... >> |
| Passing by value / r.... | > It works when passing by value but not by refere.... >> | |
| Ever worked with a r.... | Yes, once out of about 12 years and 50 hires. I di.... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2004 | Source Code analysis.... | You'd like to generate a UML class diagram from th.... >> |
| 24 Aug 2004 | how to handle user p.... | Thanks. It's a static (global) method ... a mem.... >> |
| My permissioning system is based on three entities.... >> | ||
| Writting all the com.... | > ... there has to be a way for a new coder coming.... >> | |
| 23 Aug 2004 | Profoundly screwed u.... | Turbo Tax is reputed to write to the disk's boot s.... >> |
| Manual vs. Automatic.... | > unless I enjoyed getting all sweaty in the summe.... >> | |
| 20 Aug 2004 | Card shuffling routi.... | > The guy who said pick a card at random, put it i.... >> |
| Take a deck, pick a card at random move the picked.... >> | ||
| Is there a term for .... | I like your manager's comment. It annoys me when a.... >> | |
| How bad is goto, rea.... | I done a lot of assembly language programming ... .... >> | |
| > There are few people in this world that can crit.... >> | ||
| 19 Aug 2004 | Production/Testing D.... | At our shop, someone made a tool and set of script.... >> |
| Code Olympics - what.... | Mental gymnastics Dynamic casts Throwing excepti.... >> | |
| How do you prepare a.... | Perhaps the developer and his manager *are* giving.... >> | |
| 17 Aug 2004 | Have I misunderstood.... | I recommend two books: _Design Patterns_ by Gamma .... >> |
| sick days | I used take sick hours, for doctors' and dentists'.... >> | |
| UML? | > For a reverse engeneer tool i can recommend toge.... >> | |
| I want to use it to document existing code: to mak.... >> | ||
| 15 Aug 2004 | How to get focused a.... | Think about writing a to-do list and then executin.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2004 | Managing and fixing .... | Based on what you've said, 3 options: 1) Leave .... >> |
| > Most of my projects come with many (ill informed.... >> | ||
| > When you tell some managers 'I can improve this..... >> | ||
| > You have to overcome the fact that Manager A has.... >> | ||
| > How do you handle this sort of thing? Persona.... >> | ||
| Have read Fowler's _Refactoring_ book? It speaks t.... >> | ||
| 12 Aug 2004 | benefits of daily bu.... | > Our issue is that the client, server and databas.... >> |
| 11 Aug 2004 | Is this just a phase.... | > Yet another problem is that most of the team app.... >> |
| Balancing life while.... | > It's hard to do with everyone moving around all .... >> | |
| Too many bells and w.... | > And was this supposed to be good or bad for Xero.... >> | |
| 10 Aug 2004 | Hidden URLs - How ea.... | > Or are men (and I guess alot of women) still stu.... >> |
| Too many bells and w.... | There's a comment in _Future Shock_ about people r.... >> | |
| Hiring Mistakes | Give them relevent books (Code Complete, Refactori.... >> | |
| 09 Aug 2004 | htaccess and Apache .... | MarkTAW's post implies that if http://experiment.m.... >> |
| Shareware and ISV's .... | > It's like the whole business is running on Virtu.... >> | |
| > Their domain knowledge is largely irrelevant. .... >> | ||
| 08 Aug 2004 | Buffer Overflow and .... | > Why are these such security risks? Imagine th.... >> |
| > Weren't you the guy who was going off about the .... >> | ||
| I don't know how to overflow buffers either. The o.... >> | ||
| What would you ask f.... | > A contract for X number of years with a penalty .... >> | |
| Backup Program | > Then I just run a batch file daily that copies a.... >> | |
| Contract/part time P.... | > But my question is, by doing so in weekend or my.... >> | |
| Why are pointers use.... | > But I would draw the distinction by ... Fair .... >> | |
| > If a foreign key actually represented the track .... >> | ||
| Hiring Mistakes | > ... Worse enough, they checkin uncompilable code.... >> | |
| 07 Aug 2004 | Custom XML Parser | I too was tempted to do that, instead of learning .... >> |
| Lightning Strikes a .... | There's a page saying that it's met the government.... >> | |
| Why are pointers use.... | > Chris, You have a bad case of C++ myopia. Can.... >> | |
| > Yes you can make 'pointers' 'safer' than in C++:.... >> | ||
| > 'Thankfully the programming world is slowly movi.... >> | ||
| > int b = 1; int* c = &b; Or 'int* c = new int(.... >> | ||
| > > Why do C & C++ distinguish between '.' and '->.... >> | ||
| > Same thing no? Yes I think so; and a C# 'ref.... >> | ||
| Programming books in.... | > The English used in programming books is probabl.... >> | |
| 06 Aug 2004 | Why are pointers use.... | > Why do C & C++ distinguish between '.' and '->' .... >> |
| pre employment backg.... | > in Canada extremely few organizations do drug te.... >> | |
| Job Boards | > Well, when you don't know anyone in your new cou.... >> | |
| > Now, having heard I don't know how many times th.... >> | ||
| Blogs, avalon, gmail.... | > How so? I can't answer that without 'spoilers.... >> | |
| > Sayer Sawyer >> | ||
| The 2003 Hugo award-winning novel (_Hominids_ by S.... >> | ||
| 05 Aug 2004 | Binding services for.... | The last time I wanted something printed I emailed.... >> |
| checked atoi() or st.... | I think I implemented one once in about a half-doz.... >> | |
| Microsoft Version Co.... | I see it includes work item tracking ... so perhap.... >> | |
| CNN: CS School Break.... | > Isn't algebra, like, eighth-grade math? Algeb.... >> | |
| > Northface's strategy is to pare away liberal art.... >> | ||
| C, T or I? | > Now that begs the question of what is a true int.... >> | |
| A question for our n.... | > I'm not so sure these are innapropriate in a for.... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2004 | Question about FogCr.... | > You quit to take just one day off? No; I quit.... >> |
| And 8% is really so small that it's lost in the wa.... >> | ||
| A question for our n.... | > On introducing a friend to a new business associ.... >> | |
| 03 Aug 2004 | How is the ->* op.... | It's used as described in textbooks, to implement .... >> |
| 01 Aug 2004 | best days of your li.... | > Anyway, do you feel your days as an undergraduat.... >> |
| 30 Jul 2004 | "No Defense for Linu.... | > Ahhh.... excellent catches, RocketJeff and MT - .... >> |
| For those who think .... | > So Chris, for these cases with a placebo vs an a.... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2004 | How do pople get thi.... | I was hired as an intern to do network performance.... >> |
| Learning Curve for a.... | > So I'm curious, how much did people, who have b.... >> | |
| For those who think .... | > Is there a name for the phenomenon where one sub.... >> | |
| 28 Jul 2004 | How do you use sourc.... | > I currently just make a separate copy of my appl.... >> |
| Multithreading and m.... | "A common programming error is to assume that the .... >> | |
| Innovator's Solution.... | > As for the talk about Microsoft running out of c.... >> | |
| I need help please | Well done for asking specific questions: much easi.... >> | |
| 27 Jul 2004 | COM book rating | I liked Essential COM: it showed me how to use API.... >> |
| A profitable alterna.... | I remember that when Bell Northern sold a packet s.... >> | |
| I need help please | > After suffering a particularly discouraging pers.... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2004 | Smart Pointers in He.... | I agree that implementing that needs reference-cou.... >> |
| 24 Jul 2004 | Universal MSDN or Em.... | You know that MSVC v7 is able to compile non-.NET .... >> |
| 23 Jul 2004 | Daylight Saving Time | Windows is able to make this conversion for variou.... >> |
| no respect... | > Are you saying that there are developers out the.... >> | |
| What are the most un.... | Cell phone. Public transport. Tai Chi. Banking .... >> | |
| 22 Jul 2004 | Resource Allocation .... | It's a big field. http://www.eil.utoronto.ca/profi.... >> |
| Estimating Developme.... | It depends on who I'm working for: the manager mig.... >> | |
| If you missed an interface then I'd say that what .... >> | ||
| 21 Jul 2004 | Purchasing a softwar.... | > That means that 2 of us, who have been with it s.... >> |
| 20 Jul 2004 | My pointer stupidity | > The way i see it, if a pointer is not allocated,.... >> |
| Upgrade without stop.... | Coplien's _Advanced C++_ has a section on dynamic .... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | Open Source is good >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | OT: unbiased coverag.... | > Your best bet is to either read news from many s.... >> |
| Programmer Performan.... | > Ideally, they'd like concrete, non-subjective, m.... >> | |
| Open Source is good | > How do you deal with the fork? That hasn't ha.... >> | |
| In an earlier project we had a similar experience .... >> | ||
| > If the tool breaks, I want it repaired. Fast. .... >> | ||
| Education System: Ev.... | > Probably the best thing you can do is to teach t.... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2004 | which that? that whi.... | MS Word wants to see either ... 'I have a fix f.... >> |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Help Optimize this c.... | Again, my guess is that each of the two Win32 API .... >> |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Atak: the new genera.... | http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=how+.... >> |
| Help Optimize this c.... | Use a profiler: if 90%+ is spent inside MoveToEx a.... >> | |
| Why can't windows ju.... | You can load/unload [some] device drivers at run-t.... >> | |
| RAII vs. Java | A "compacting" GC can move allocated blocks so tha.... >> | |
| 13 Jul 2004 | Read-only USB? | > Is there a way to use a policy to prevent users .... >> |
| Old farts lack respe.... | > However, being that this thread was intended to .... >> | |
| Muppet, on a stylistic note your trolling makes me.... >> | ||
| Visual C++ 7/7.1 Pro.... | The Compuware DevPartner Profiler (a free download.... >> | |
| Obscure DOS question | You're talking about a 'TSR' (terminate and stay r.... >> | |
| any ISV out there? | So: do you choose a 'target customer' *before* you.... >> | |
| 12 Jul 2004 | How do you rate your.... | > 'guru'? 'Experts write code that computers c.... >> |
| RAII vs. Java | As I mentioned, C# compromises: rely on the GC to .... >> | |
| > so you have to write one line of code to close t.... >> | ||
| > what the holy hell is the difference? The dif.... >> | ||
| C# has a "using" statement that will call the "Dis.... >> | ||
| Help optimize this c.... | > Other problems aside, I suspect your SetBitV (or.... >> | |
| > I'm trying to render the monochrome bitmap retur.... >> | ||
| > I can't use BitBlt because it's too slow and it .... >> | ||
| And in the above, replace 'pBitmap[offset + 0]' wi.... >> | ||
| You could 'unroll the inner loop' to virtually eli.... >> | ||
| Commercial Software:.... | > Why is .net so slow? Several reasons. > If.... >> | |
| > Do you know if .NET or Java actually perform thi.... >> | ||
| That's supposed to be a reason for shipping softwa.... >> | ||
| Sealed classed... | > Can any of you gurus shed any light on why seali.... >> | |
| Eric on Hazards of H.... | I have a BA (Maths) from Cambridge UK, from 20 yea.... >> | |
| That was item #6 of his 10-item conclusion ('Does .... >> | ||
| > making his own ridiculously stringent criteria .... >> | ||
| > Where does someon without a college degree stand.... >> | ||
| any ISV out there? | How did did you acquire your business-awareness? D.... >> | |
| I develop software, whose requirements are specifi.... >> | ||
| The importance of be.... | > I'm not familiar with C/C++, so I'm sure there a.... >> | |
| 11 Jul 2004 | dis-improving | > You are assuming, on every point, that I neglect.... >> |
| > The problem is they can easily blame a subordina.... >> | ||
| ' ... said he was not satisfied with my work. ... .... >> | ||
| The importance of be.... | Programming is lame. Consts are a crutch. >> | |
| > Not trying to be bitchy, but do you program as a.... >> | ||
| > Another problem is that converting non-const cor.... >> | ||
| 09 Jul 2004 | Run, Run as fast as .... | > I agree Christopher but I still don't believe th.... >> |
| > I stated that it was relatively easy to track th.... >> | ||
| 08 Jul 2004 | Debugging C DLLs cal.... | There's an option in your project properties (Conf.... >> |
| English Code | > Isn't that like expecting my cardiologist to exp.... >> | |
| > how long would it take someone who spoke english.... >> | ||
| 07 Jul 2004 | Converting byte[] to.... | Perhaps the System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString m.... >> |
| Equating Cab Drivers.... | > If you want to compare software developers to so.... >> | |
| Work vs. Family time | > something has to give A canonical solution is.... >> | |
| Canadian Companies | For a few hundred C$ you could get http://www.scot.... >> | |
| 06 Jul 2004 | New app dev manager .... | Interview each developer separately. Say that y.... >> |
| Job Titles | Development Team Leader or Manager, Project Manage.... >> | |
| Beer isn't free | > And to answer the specific question, I just mean.... >> | |
| Confidentiality/Non .... | "... striking clauses that put more responsibility.... >> | |
| As sole owner, my boss wanted lots of control over.... >> | ||
| > In short, if the guy is putting so much energy i.... >> | ||
| 05 Jul 2004 | Beer isn't free | > What is the logic behind the use of the term 'Fr.... >> |
| Canadian Companies | The two big job boards for Toronto may be monster..... >> | |
| How does credit rati.... | I (in Canada) have a VISA card from my bank (which.... >> | |
| Chat and Development | > Email has worked well enough and i've curious ho.... >> | |
| 04 Jul 2004 | Remote software work.... | Bored, in case it helps, the one way in which I've.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2004 | Stretched too thin | I know nearly nothing about Brazil; but for all th.... >> |
| pressure from employ.... | > What did I do wrong? I've read many comments .... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | No More Improvements.... | http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=mod.... >> |
| string memory manage.... | The example is pretty dangerous, because: 1) Th.... >> | |
| Speech Recognition: .... | Scansoft bought Dragon, and are retailing it for $.... >> | |
| 30 Jun 2004 | The Cost of Validati.... | I think there are degrees of severity: 1) Displ.... >> |
| Business Names | > 'Woolworths'? Did you just get released from a .... >> | |
| Speech Recognition: .... | > I suspect that the free Microsoft SAPI makes it .... >> | |
| 29 Jun 2004 | Now I know where the.... | > Anyone taking bets on this being the next Heinle.... >> |
| Windows & Time | > But what happens when if the queue is full? a.... >> | |
| > I know you are going to say: I’m doing it wrong .... >> | ||
| I don't know what might happen if you put a networ.... >> | ||
| > I may adopt the fax-over-UDP solution eventually.... >> | ||
| > I must say It would leave me nothing short of as.... >> | ||
| > Anyone has any idea where could the problem lie?.... >> | ||
| Technical book publi.... | The majority of my favourite books are from Addiso.... >> | |
| Joel Is a Man on Fir.... | > Interesting story, what happened next? Is the co.... >> | |
| > Fog Creek doesn't go so much for features but fo.... >> | ||
| > What would you all do if MS entered your space? .... >> | ||
| 28 Jun 2004 | C/C++ portability wi.... | Consider using the ACE at http://www.cs.wustl.edu/.... >> |
| $20 doesn't buy jack.... | > A teacher's salary is not high? Compared to wha.... >> | |
| 27 Jun 2004 | I am starting a new .... | Keep a timesheet of what you're doing. Entires suc.... >> |
| $20 doesn't buy jack.... | One thing that strikes me is the economics of bein.... >> | |
| 25 Jun 2004 | Linux at work? | My previous project was to help to develop some co.... >> |
| DBAs vs. Coders | > Who is right in this situation? It depends on.... >> | |
| Comdex | Perhaps the industry is now too large to fit into .... >> | |
| Optimize this: | There's a specialized 486+ opcode for this purpose.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2004 | managing with C++ | Can Boost garbage-collect objects which have circu.... >> |
| I wanna be a grey be.... | http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ might be a start. >> | |
| To all those who ber.... | Wait, sorry, my mum's laptop is a Toshiba. >> | |
| > That, and their support is typically a joke unle.... >> | ||
| Language-aware diff .... | > It gets very frustrating sometimes when a whole .... >> | |
| Resume Writing | > Implemented screen to improve user data entry ti.... >> | |
| 23 Jun 2004 | > Green-card status -- does that go in a Resume? .... >> | |
| > Nine pages is far too many. Rule #1 is that n.... >> | ||
| > What length is ideal - just 1 page? Some say .... >> | ||
| My plan is that the 1st page should contain all th.... >> | ||
| I am nostalgic about.... | Yes, Don Box suggested that in his book _Essential.... >> | |
| > Sort of like someone looked at C++ and said 'tha.... >> | ||
| Swing to MFC | > I doubt just moving to MFC will stop your app fr.... >> | |
| 22 Jun 2004 | How much RAM for XP? | I have VS.NET w/ 256MB RAM on Win2K. It's constrai.... >> |
| Respect to Eric | It isn't necessarily free: see http://blogs.msdn.c.... >> | |
| Multiple sandboxes i.... | > I want to have two sandboxes, both live, with se.... >> | |
| Programming Meade Te.... | > I have always found poor command of language to .... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2004 | C++ and accessors--w.... | > You can't guarantee what it calls on each member.... >> |
| > operator= just does a bitwise copy by default do.... >> | ||
| > Having to write trivial getters and setters in t.... >> | ||
| Objects (classes) are usually nouns (things), and .... >> | ||
| new grads | That brings us back to the last of the original qu.... >> | |
| Speaking of which, a reason for hiring people with.... >> | ||
| > How to mentor somebody who does not know basic d.... >> | ||
| I could add that, at one ISV where I worked for 10.... >> | ||
| > He got somebody else to do his programming work .... >> | ||
| > Who will mentor him? Ideally, I think, that w.... >> | ||
| > he is creating more negative work My ambition.... >> | ||
| > Should we start some kind of mentorship for him?.... >> | ||
| N-Tier stuff | > I was recently recommended GenuineChannels Ye.... >> | |
| > Since people are shelling out $5000 or whatever .... >> | ||
| Replacing an EXE on .... | You can use the MoveFileEx API with the MOVEFILE_D.... >> | |
| DataStructure for Th.... | I think you want a mesh or net, not a hierarchy (n.... >> | |
| Joining the French F.... | > Why not look for another solution? Because I fee.... >> | |
| 10 Jun 2004 | Has the role of .... | > I find it sort of confusing that the word Americ.... >> |
| Why Not Use Diagrams.... | > I agree that a picture is worth a thousand words.... >> | |
| Lack of Adaptability | > Also, users may not be good at 'specifying' what.... >> | |
| > But what if we allowed the user to specify those.... >> | ||
| > maybe if we designed more flexible systems Pa.... >> | ||
| > By “repeatable process” or “unchanging repeated .... >> | ||
| Software automates repeatable processes. >> | ||
| Softare and Object O.... | The .NET comments-in-source-code-become-XML-docume.... >> | |
| Ditto what Chris said. I also find that, withou.... >> | ||
| Oh yes, the public s.... | > BTW, how is it possible to estimate how long it'.... >> | |
| Joining the French F.... | I think that, given a choice between, say, joining.... >> | |
| 08 Jun 2004 | Exposing Options | If LOGFONT were a C# (not a C) type, with get/set .... >> |
| MS articles describing the .NET PropertyGrid sugge.... >> | ||
| Yes: Google for "PropertyGrid" or "PropertyBag". >> | ||
| Lazyness | http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zc24hour.html >> | |
| I am fragile | > and my imagination wilder. I've worked at som.... >> | |
| 07 Jun 2004 | Getting hit by a bus | In America (perhaps because of the lack of public .... >> |
| "Quality Assurance" | > Quality is the job of everyone on the team. Y.... >> | |
| Within that organization: A) Professional Teste.... >> | ||
| The last place I worked at had (simplied version):.... >> | ||
| Windows wireless tro.... | I have a friend whose wireless LAN doesn't work in.... >> | |
| Home office design f.... | You probably want somewhere to sit. I use a chair .... >> | |
| Is the tide now goin.... | > Is this one of those threads a Microsoft employe.... >> | |
| 06 Jun 2004 | The demise of the MD.... | > Is it just SDI with tab pages and docked windows.... >> |
| 03 Jun 2004 | using opaque primary.... | Aren't GUIDs useful, when you eventually need to c.... >> |
| Celko wasn't able to convince me. It was years ago.... >> | ||
| http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=.... >> | ||
| > ... just share his opinion? I think they're u.... >> | ||
| Old school certifica.... | I'm not certified, and have never been asked for a.... >> | |
| Components | > Do you people prefer to buy COTS components or w.... >> | |
| 02 Jun 2004 | Daughter needs a lap.... | > Anything cutting edge now will be ancient in fiv.... >> |
| Planning to give my .... | I wouldn't say 'pressure in general' (you're suppo.... >> | |
| The demise of the MD.... | Something like Word seems to have only a single ch.... >> | |
| Reviewing your co-wo.... | > Personally, I consider people either'good' or 'b.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Why does Windows need to reboot after patching? >> | |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Developping a market.... | > But I am 90% sure that this company is lacking a.... >> |
| Are you a less produ.... | > If you can afford it, it's much better all the w.... >> | |
| 31 May 2004 | Alone or Team? | Ignoring the 'well' adjective, the fact is that I .... >> |
| Off-the-wall UI | Discuss it with colleagues, potential users, and t.... >> | |
| 28 May 2004 | Opening my mind | > How do you learn? Experience. Practice. Pri.... >> |
| 26 May 2004 | What does "Our Techn.... | > Is Hatteras based on technology from Vault? I.... >> |
| 24 May 2004 | Why Do We Need Gener.... | I don't know what extra syntax you'd suggest, to s.... >> |
| > The implementor should have to specify the conce.... >> | ||
| Vince, polymorphic behaviour is to let you call an.... >> | ||
| Without generics you may have weak typing and ther.... >> | ||
| OO: Lists, Collectio.... | In C++ you don't need to ask: because you can so e.... >> | |
| Should I stay or sho.... | I stayed 12 years in one place, 4 months in the ne.... >> | |
| Best Feature of OO | In a well-constructed procedural program you may k.... >> | |
| French Words/express.... | ||
| ... except "shallow". >> | ||
| my gripes with Offic.... | As a technical writer, I used to like writing text.... >> | |
| 23 May 2004 | Math library questio.... | The x87 FPU seems to use radians instead of degree.... >> |
| French Words/express.... | > Laissez tomber les mecs, en général vous faites .... >> | |
| English doesn't use plain english either: "keep it.... >> | ||
| data retrieval metho.... | Some people might say it's better to not have SQL .... >> | |
| 22 May 2004 | French Words/express.... | > 'μεν' and 'δε' ... w.... >> |
| > 'Faux pas' (Bad move?) A mistake. > ... be.... >> | ||
| 21 May 2004 | Deadlock | Yes, it needs to be done at design-time: there's n.... >> |
| Acquire locks in a predictable sequence: for examp.... >> | ||
| data retrieval metho.... | I did the same as you: 1) low-level function, .... >> | |
| 20 May 2004 | Confused about .NET | The next job I had after C++-on-Windows, before my.... >> |
| I posted a brief description of what .NET is in ht.... >> | ||
| Caching "large" amou.... | > the process will take longer to startup ... w.... >> | |
| > if the database is 'never' updated ... means .... >> | ||
| I implemented a cache, with record-level locking, .... >> | ||
| The last time you us.... | It was when I implemented a TreeView control. For .... >> | |
| Lots of free time, p.... | > Pretty clear I'd have thought. Yes it's clear.... >> | |
| > would you be 'hateful' if you wished the America.... >> | ||
| 19 May 2004 | another resume quest.... | If you put it on your resume then it may come up a.... >> |
| What examples to tea.... | Given an array of objects, where the array has arb.... >> | |
| Any good design idea.... | > 1) support customers for troubleshooting or educ.... >> | |
| And so it begins | 'There are two big IT projects going on at Health .... >> | |
| > And, this issue about ms-access being $200 per s.... >> | ||
| 17 May 2004 | C++: conversion from.... | I think of it as making a copy, not as casting a t.... >> |
| 16 May 2004 | > An implicit 'copy constructor'? Yes. > Bas.... >> | |
| 15 May 2004 | > This is because the implementation of Derived mu.... >> | |
| 14 May 2004 | Continuing Visual St.... | I downloaded my CD image[s] from http://msdn.micro.... >> |
| Why 30 days? | Even 30 days may not be long enough to learn to us.... >> | |
| NT Authorization fro.... | I don't know; perhaps http://win32.mvps.org/securi.... >> | |
| RIP Ask Joel | > Now is there a solution? Really, give it a shot..... >> | |
| Americans rejoice. I.... | > I would think as a non-hindu that you would be f.... >> | |
| KayJay, > The homogenisation I meant, was this .... >> | ||
| 13 May 2004 | RIP Ask Joel | Yes, Paulo, and it's in just that context that Bud.... >> |
| From my understanding of classical Buddhism, spiri.... >> | ||
| > I revere him, but then at the end of it, he's al.... >> | ||
| Competition and the .... | I should add that I feel that some of the informat.... >> | |
| Win32 Api Profiling | The email that they send doesn't contain a key. It.... >> | |
| 12 May 2004 | Competition and the .... | I agree with old_timer, and add the idea of 'pay i.... >> |
| Win32 Api Profiling | Compuware's privacy policy is at http://www.compuw.... >> | |
| Thank you all. The DevPartner Profiler Communit.... >> | ||
| 11 May 2004 | Incidentally, can you recommend a profiler for .NE.... >> | |
| I expect that a Win32 API call varies too much to .... >> | ||
| Formulla for calcuti.... | It's easy to imagine a requirement this quick to s.... >> | |
| 10 May 2004 | Coding is language! | > I'll spare you I won't! Ein und ein dswei ist.... >> |
| > The language that communicates the message is En.... >> | ||
| I've thought that my being taught to be bilingual .... >> | ||
| A few random ideas | > So metres/second ^ 2 should be the units for the.... >> | |
| M=K=Thousand | > Do I detect a note of sarcasm there? I think .... >> | |
| > Otherwise the ISO could just make 2^10 the stan.... >> | ||
| 09 May 2004 | Questions for the ca.... | I worked for a company whose product is a VoiceXML.... >> |
| A few random ideas | > Then what good is it measuring, 'how much change.... >> | |
| Lots more, tell me w.... | If you look at http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/p.... >> | |
| 08 May 2004 | A definition of spag.... | Google suggests http://info.astrian.net/jargon/ter.... >> |
| Does commissioning a.... | > somebody pays your company $5 million If obje.... >> | |
| should i just leave .... | > This really is something that a company that pro.... >> | |
| What sort of profess.... | Any time you want a job here, just come in. No nee.... >> | |
| Pricing server-side .... | As an ISV or OEM, we didn't mind development (e.g..... >> | |
| outsourcing to ameri.... | > Of course that tanked the stock market for some .... >> | |
| One of the ways to s.... | > Seems like a trend on the JOS boards to state th.... >> | |
| 05 May 2004 | Joel's post today: C.... | I enjoyed the quote from Alice's Restaurant. >> |
| U.S. Is Losing Its D.... | > So you believe the caste system is 'kind and mor.... >> | |
| > I think the civilized world has nothing to worry.... >> | ||
| 04 May 2004 | > Food from the fields of American farmers and val.... >> | |
| 03 May 2004 | Development process .... | > But in this case it would also seem you need a v.... >> |
| 30 Apr 2004 | Why not Canada? | > Does this apply to software engineers too? T.... >> |
| > So how come all the tech parks are in India? .... >> | ||
| java runtime questio.... | > this.blahBlah = blahBlah; Assigns blahBlah (t.... >> | |
| Iterative Waterfall .... | You say that the risk is 'no global consideration .... >> | |
| Advice for a college.... | > I really like doing this, and not surprisingly, .... >> | |
| Is the job market st.... | When you update your monster.com resume, that caus.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2004 | What are the real be.... | > You cannot port to Unix ... Perhaps you can w.... >> |
| There's a brief comparison of using (not of writin.... >> | ||
| uniqueness | For example, a "diff' tool (like Windiff) can tell.... >> | |
| 28 Apr 2004 | Install stuff in the.... | The .NET runtime could be considered a part of the.... >> |
| Are company blogs a .... | > ..., or the one with the most outrageous claim o.... >> | |
| 27 Apr 2004 | Managing Up | > Can anyone suggest a better way of making this p.... >> |
| programming in c | > By that way, the only debugger I've come across .... >> | |
| 26 Apr 2004 | Why programmers so d.... | > But you need a base in the fundamentals to becom.... >> |
| > Why do most programmers seem to be so down on ge.... >> | ||
| 25 Apr 2004 | App. Development w/o.... | LabVIEW's target audience is people who are comfor.... >> |
| 24 Apr 2004 | Application Developm.... | > My point is: an outsider to programming can prob.... >> |
| Application developm.... | > I think software should be a vehicle in and of i.... >> | |
| Web-Based Forms Crea.... | > And I seriously do not get the reasoning behind .... >> | |
| Difference between w.... | I was hoping that, if they were patenting, then th.... >> | |
| 23 Apr 2004 | Starting C++ | > Book recommendation If you already know C, th.... >> |
| do i need to learn t.... | I don't know about ASP and ASP.NET and web softwar.... >> | |
| Error handling - why.... | > so that one may be able to code something like .... >> | |
| 22 Apr 2004 | File archiving tool? | Perhaps omething like "xcopy /s /c source destinat.... >> |
| Application developm.... | > I take it that most people would conclude that t.... >> | |
| Diversity initiative.... | > Diversity initiatives are just another name for .... >> | |
| Difference between w.... | I'd guess it's not the fact that it's XML that's p.... >> | |
| 21 Apr 2004 | IEEE/ACM Membership | > I doubt there's any technical information availa.... >> |
| Unhappy transfer | > ... Frankly, I do not want to have anything to d.... >> | |
| What are some synony.... | code (microcode, source code, object code), machin.... >> | |
| Abstraction layers: .... | > Trying to adapt an abstraction layer to an OS th.... >> | |
| Is it ignorance or r.... | > I can't say that I've ever used the technique, b.... >> | |
| 20 Apr 2004 | Small SQL challenge | About 5 seconds: "delete from thetable where (from.... >> |
| 19 Apr 2004 | C-style variable def.... | > Isn't 'MyValiable : SomeType' a lot more readabl.... >> |
| Downloading files us.... | Wow: you *have* been back to the 90s! I developed .... >> | |
| 18 Apr 2004 | > I don't even thing Internet Conneciton or Dial U.... >> | |
| 17 Apr 2004 | > So I can only use TAPI to connect and disconnect.... >> | |
| > is it realistic to expect that I can do with TAP.... >> | ||
| Compiler warnings | > But it's always possible (due to casting) to hav.... >> | |
| Monitor size and dev.... | I have a colleague who judges (or 'whack-a-moles').... >> | |
| Spell checking in Vi.... | > http://www.mjberger.com/archives/000131.html .... >> | |
| 16 Apr 2004 | Should source contro.... | > Just curious if anyone out there uses their sour.... >> |
| Monolithic Function | A simple, general answer would be 'if the data is .... >> | |
| Interview: Bringing .... | > What are you thoughts on this? Personally, if.... >> | |
| Carrer advice needed | > If you were me, would you: Most of the job ad.... >> | |
| 15 Apr 2004 | mbox vs. RDBMS | You could also use something like a dBase-format (.... >> |
| Another take on loya.... | > I've honestly never had a direct manager who add.... >> | |
| 14 Apr 2004 | What unemployment? | > And wouldn't an unemployed programmer apply for .... >> |
| 13 Apr 2004 | C++ Hello world with.... | '... Hello full stop end of sentence. There exi.... >> |
| securing docs & .... | > One-way hashes work great for that kind of appli.... >> | |
| > I want to write/find an app that will lock down .... >> | ||
| 12 Apr 2004 | Have you evaluated e.... | > assembler in assembler should be 'an assembler .... >> |
| > Have you evaluated each Programming Languages ? .... >> | ||
| Interviews and firin.... | Another province is going to do a study on whether.... >> | |
| 11 Apr 2004 | Spelling and Coding | I asked a peer to correct a mispelled class name (.... >> |
| 10 Apr 2004 | Calling real mode FA.... | Normally when you 'pass parameters' you pass them .... >> |
| 09 Apr 2004 | Keyboard Rant | > When I'm editing code I usually have some 5-10 e.... >> |
| 08 Apr 2004 | "Forgot Password" We.... | > It would be a lot easier if we could have the us.... >> |
| Keyboard Rant | If your hand is on the mouse (because you've moved.... >> | |
| Emergency Vehicle GP.... | Personally I don't use GPS (I already know where I.... >> | |
| Team member goes Off.... | > You cannot force someone into counseling I do.... >> | |
| I've had experience with them at home. Can you con.... >> | ||
| 07 Apr 2004 | Why not more apps us.... | Consider its effect on performance too. For exampl.... >> |
| Design Question (For.... | > What woud you advise me solution 1 or 2 ? Ano.... >> | |
| Windows PE | "C'est un grand garçon avec un sourire lumineux" ..... >> | |
| > Go figure. Probably translating from CE 'Comm.... >> | ||
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