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Number of Comments: 123
Number of Words: 12,661
First Comment: 22 Feb 2002
Final Comment: 30 May 2004

Number of Topics Posted: 6
First Topic: 20 Jun 2003
Latest Topic: 12 Jul 2004
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12 Jul 2004   Legitimate emails getting lost?   >>  
07 Jul 2004   crystal reports in java   >>  
30 Jun 2004   Help using odbcconf   >>  
30 May 2004   If business is so ...   >>  
30 May 2004   If business is so ......   Anon, you just changed your words?   >>  
      Herbert Sitz, I agree with you. I also think t....   >>  
      'School has given you the feeling that you have to....   >>  
      In fact, a bigger question. Would it be "possible"....   >>  
      I love doing what I do (or would like to do) - i.e....   >>  
21 Apr 2004   Best overheard tech ....   There's funny tech support .wav files at http://ww....   >>  
   Video Game Programmi....   Modern games are usually budgeted at one to two mi....   >>  
   Horrible HandWrittin....   Just write slowly, and gradually speed up over the....   >>  
20 Apr 2004   Video Game Programmi....   Boofus, console titles do have to be 'bug free' bu....   >>  
   Auuuggghhh!  Ad....   anon... put your wife's company site in the 'trust....   >>  
      Bob, if you're using IE: go to Tools/Internet Opti....   >>  
19 Apr 2004   world best known sof....   Ah yes, CA, currently under investigation for fals....   >>  
   Qualifications Now O....   I agree with Jack, I worked in the industry for fo....   >>  
16 Dec 2003   Polite Question   And release a version that Runs on Linux, please. ....   >>  
06 Nov 2003   Incredibly Stupid Qu....   I think my favorite take on it went something like....   >>  
24 Oct 2003   Terrorist profiles m....   I refer readers to: http://tinyurl.com/rffh Im....   >>  
29 Sep 2003   Why doesn't Java hav....   Dates in Java suck anyway. To use them correctly,....   >>  
20 Aug 2003   Best place/position to read technical books?   >>  
18 Aug 2003   Development Paltform....   The Philip Greenspun stuff is fairly outdated - no....   >>  
22 Jul 2003   ranking of wright st....   I would have to disagree. At least in 1995, when ....   >>  
20 Jun 2003   Mailing list hosts?   >>  
04 Jun 2003   My browser hijacked!   Free for private use, which may not help the origi....   >>  
03 Jun 2003      SpyBot is a nice alternative to Adaware and also a....   >>  
16 Apr 2003   "80/20" Rule   It appears Yahoo is #1 among users dim enough to i....   >>  
08 Apr 2003   Server Naming Scheme....   Characters from Fawlty Towers.   >>  
27 Feb 2003   What to do on commen....   Phillip, You make some good points. Somethings....   >>  
      I think it depends on what your product is. Where....   >>  
14 Jan 2003   Math   I've found Graph Theory to be very useful.  A....   >>  
12 Dec 2002   jet, pick style DB l....   If you are doing multithreaded things HSQL may not....   >>  
26 Nov 2002   flash card program f....   Tom, Given that antimoon.com is a 'SuperMemo' p....   >>  
15 Nov 2002   Mathematics Software....   I would go with the HP-48 GX. It took a while to ....   >>  
07 Nov 2002   Free (Or Nearly So) ....   www.freshmeat.net The amount of quality open so....   >>  
06 Nov 2002   FogBugz looks great;....   I had good luck with Mantis (on source forge) .   >>  
22 Oct 2002   Extreme Programming   It sounds to me like you might try looking at Refa....   >>  
      I would second the recommendation of 'Pragmatic Pr....   >>  
16 Oct 2002   Good & simple we....   Mantis   >>  
03 Oct 2002   the new fogbugz setu....   I Wonder how much of the complexity was due to the....   >>  
15 Aug 2002   Like FinalBuild but ....   Ant Sorry, couldn't resist.    >>  
   MS Access   Ipersonally love oreilly, and found their COokbook....   >>  
      I have an old Book, that was MS Access 97 unleashe....   >>  
   What's on your plate....   1)Writing the Turnover document so I can leave thi....   >>  
   FinalBuild vs. Visua....   Nant? Do you mean Ant? Or is this something I've m....   >>  
   Sex, Drugs, and Shee....   Do not drink while operating Visual Studio. I say ....   >>  
14 Aug 2002   MS Content Managemen....   OK, My View was a little simplified, but that come....   >>  
      use CVS as your CMS Use Three tags: New, Appr....   >>  
   CS - MIT, Stanford, ....   I went to West Point. The CS program wasn't eve....   >>  
29 Jul 2002   What's going on?   Also, I need to learn to spell check.   >>  
      I'm getting Married this weekend. Everything el....   >>  
   The problem with Lis....   I don't believe you. Email nme your radfile so ....   >>  
   Open Source   There are many takes on Free software and Open Sou....   >>  
   Best programmer   Coders in smaller shops can rarely stay away from ....   >>  
   Linux on the desktop....   Bella, Thank you for calling me a Moron. It rea....   >>  
27 Jul 2002   Really, how good is ....   If you need a real RDMS use PostgreSQL. You can co....   >>  
   Linux on the desktop....   I am a Linux Geek...however: I recently bought ....   >>  
15 Jul 2002   Measurement   Wow. People focus on what gets the to the rewards.....   >>  
   Age old Comp. Sci. l....   I believe the quote is, 'Don't rush a miracleman, ....   >>  
   Whatever happened to....   It is on the bookshelf right next to the XLib book....   >>  
12 Jul 2002   From Applications to....   I see where you are coming from. I infer from your....   >>  
11 Jul 2002   What's the best text....   For development, USe n IDE, since you want intergr....   >>  
   From Applications to....   Open Source is the solution. For evey thing tha....   >>  
09 Jul 2002   Unit Testing Databas....   Unit testing and Revision control of Database code....   >>  
01 Jul 2002   Java Book   The Java Cookbook is a great book becasue it conta....   >>  
27 Jun 2002   typedef is evil, and....   I should insert the obligatory VB or Java comment ....   >>  
17 Jun 2002   Testers... Joel need....   I believe this is where I put in the obligatory Mo....   >>  
07 Jun 2002   Database program UI ....   Very Similar to the problem I face at work. Th....   >>  
   MOZILLA 1.0   One thing which is also important is that with Moz....   >>  
05 Jun 2002   Creating help files ....   Just to be that guy twho throws out the obligatory....   >>  
31 May 2002   Becoming a developer....   There are a lot of open source projects on source ....   >>  
   [Q] Bitkeeper vs. ot....   I think Bit Keeper is a bit too new for many peopl....   >>  
29 May 2002   Migrating from Excel....   1st step idenitfy the objects (tables) you seem to....   >>  
28 May 2002   How to protect web-b....   >Why not using a filter instead of mssing with all....   >>  
24 May 2002      To make sure that you have no more than 10 active ....   >>  
   What websites do you....   Webcomics: User Friendly the Comic Strip - The ....   >>  
      In adition to those listed above: theserverside....   >>  
21 May 2002   What on earth does a....   A unit test is a way to ensure that your code does....   >>  
   How often do you del....   How often do you clean up your desk. Don't put ....   >>  
   The Importance of Ed....   Best Part of an IDE: Integrated Debugger. Step th....   >>  
20 May 2002   Project Management S....   Sorry, excel   >>  
      Use excell If Project is overkill, so will everyt....   >>  
   The Importance of Ed....   As someone who routinely switches between emacs, v....   >>  
   How to plan a web ap....   Start with Use case analysis. 1: Who are the pe....   >>  
16 May 2002   modelling tools   Also, the poseidon UML tool is built on top of Arg....   >>  
   Software License Man....   I am not assuming MAC addresses are unique. Just t....   >>  
      As we began a migration to using IDEA from emacs, ....   >>  
15 May 2002   Stallman, Baby...   For discussions on insanity, please See 'Zen and t....   >>  
14 May 2002   Another MS Office ki....   OK, here is another merit: The Code is open. ....   >>  
   Eckel is thinking in....   <> As an example of warping a design: I'm look....   >>  
13 May 2002   PHP + MySql   PostgreSQL Goo. We use it here and have really com....   >>  
07 May 2002   another missed world   Consulting ware usually starts with a product (SAP....   >>  
03 May 2002   Pair Programming vs ....   Well, I somewhat play the manager roles, but am pr....   >>  
   World's Worst Misint....   Ididn't see anything wrong. What was I supposed to....   >>  
   Learning to communic....   Ugh, that posted worse than I thought. Sorry.   >>  
      Well, I can't say that it address the Why per se, ....   >>  
30 Apr 2002   Understanding someon....   For DB stuff, look at the Entity relationship diag....   >>  
   Learning to communic....   Shoulda been specific: I hardly ever use UML tools....   >>  
   HTML Source Code Doc....   As a worst case, couldn't you just script the old ....   >>  
29 Apr 2002   Learning to communic....   While Drawing on the Right Side of the brain is a ....   >>  
   are other areas of p....   If the class is 2000 lines long, chances are it is....   >>  
18 Apr 2002   Stay or go?   Learning Java ain't that bad. ASP->JSP is an ea....   >>  
   Best CVS Implementat....   We use CVS here. It is quite straight forward. The....   >>  
   Open source projects   JBoss actually has open source code, but you have ....   >>  
08 Apr 2002   Bloatware - one more....   Simple is hard To make an easy to use UI is dif....   >>  
05 Apr 2002   Can't understand it?....   Or, to phrase it anothe4r way, You don't have to u....   >>  
   Comments in code   Many languages have a documentation genration tool....   >>  
   Sites like Joel   For Java Stuff, theserverside.com is excellent.   >>  
   Question Pertaining ....   For an ECommerce syste, you want to get the absolu....   >>  
   requirements definit....   What you need is the difference as specified by yo....   >>  
   Don't worry, be happ....   Whew, Just read the Astronaut Rant. If you are ....   >>  
02 Apr 2002   De ondergang van tec....   A really Bad Translation. WOuld Someone like to cl....   >>  
   How do you guys mana....   I use Mozilla. Mozilla stores your Bookmarks as....   >>  
   Sun, McNealy and Jav....   I like Java, and I like open source. I realize tha....   >>  
25 Mar 2002   Suggested Books   Military Intelligence The military uses the wor....   >>  
   Joel: Your all your ....   Have I finally found a forum to answer this questi....   >>  
22 Mar 2002   anyone else find thi....   Back to the Mozilla thing (netscape6+) It is actua....   >>  
13 Mar 2002   Patterns never took ....   Two books that definietly should be on the list: ....   >>  
12 Mar 2002   Teaching Lazyness   Focus on Interface designing. Whether that interfa....   >>  
   Functional specifica....   THis might help : http://www.mojofat.com/tutori....   >>  
      I worked at a company that wanted to be Anderson C....   >>  
07 Mar 2002   VC++ envy   On the desktop you have the same sort of library p....   >>  
06 Mar 2002   To design or not to ....   Design can also mean a 20 minute brainstomring ses....   >>  
25 Feb 2002   What would you do?   1) CVS 2)AMANDA (Tape Back up system) 3) Staging....   >>  
   Daily Builds, lint, ....   Also, Use something like Http Unit to do unit/func....   >>  
      Spider the site. It will alert of of broken links,....   >>  
22 Feb 2002   Data hiding   Sounds like the XML mechanism is already doing mos....   >>  
   Daily builds for web....   Ant is your friend. If you are using something oth....   >>  



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