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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Patrik' | ||
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Number of Comments: 533 |
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| Number of Words: 40,789 | ||
| First Comment: 05 Mar 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 25 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 13 |
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| First Topic: 01 Mar 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 26 Mar 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 25 Aug 2004 | Bored out of my mind | Dan, Cofee? Dinner would be more appropriat.... >> |
| What is "SUCCESS" !? | John, Sucess is when I win and you lose. >> | |
| 23 Aug 2004 | Table inheritance: w.... | Jack, Postgres supports inheritance like this: .... >> |
| Looking for JOS read.... | bankstrong, I believe Mr. Bored Bystander is t.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2004 | A Question on Memory.... | Vin, It really depends on what the machine is .... >> |
| 10 Aug 2004 | disclaimer and terms.... | Jack, ':)' .... should tell you i wasnt serioui.... >> |
| 09 Aug 2004 | Mark, Who takes legal advice from a programmer .... >> | |
| 01 Aug 2004 | A form with lots of .... | Jim, I feel your pain. Instead of a wizard, hav.... >> |
| 21 Jul 2004 | Shell Scripting Fana.... | I've done parts of an Oracle Application with UNIX.... >> |
| 20 Jul 2004 | JavaScript | >Can Java Script be harmful? Welcome back to ea.... >> |
| 14 Jul 2004 | What is kernel panic.... | If an application does something that results in a.... >> |
| 30 Jun 2004 | man man | The only people I've heared saying to newbies that.... >> |
| 29 Jun 2004 | DBAs vs. Coders | >Ever heard of Sabre? Flown a plane? No, and y.... >> |
| 28 Jun 2004 | 'This is a real pain, and for VERY little gain!'.... >> | |
| 27 Jun 2004 | Extremely experience.... | >I specialize in completing computer projects that.... >> |
| DBAs vs. Coders | Albert, >I need some real good concrete example.... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2004 | Ged, But ofcourse. But in my experience when us.... >> | |
| >then having blank fields as zero length is a majo.... >> | ||
| 25 Jun 2004 | Linux at work? | I use it for proof-of-concept stuff at work. I wor.... >> |
| DBAs vs. Coders | In my oppinion it depends on exactly where the NUL.... >> | |
| Selectively disablin.... | This is possible if you write a DLL that installs .... >> | |
| Anybody know anythin.... | Ged, As I said, I am not a very seasoned progra.... >> | |
| >What's it all about? We use SAS at work. Im .... >> | ||
| 24 Jun 2004 | Converting no capita.... | Why do you think Open Source projects are almost a.... >> |
| 21 Jun 2004 | HELP! Overcoming pro.... | Or, you could buy a motivational poster to help: .... >> |
| 15 Jun 2004 | WEB applications | >Let's imagine that a brave knight frees the IE te.... >> |
| Web applications | > load some files and show on the fly > an applic.... >> | |
| 10 Jun 2004 | Oh No, Not New York .... | >Don't forget that the only city in modern-day Eur.... >> |
| 09 Jun 2004 | Correct term please | I don't know if this is the correct term, but we c.... >> |
| 29 May 2004 | Resources on Oracle | I dont believe no one mentioned http://metalin.... >> |
| 21 May 2004 | Backwards Interface? | Rain, How come you have all this inside informa.... >> |
| How long is too long.... | >40 hours a week 3% raise >60 hours 6% raise .... >> | |
| 17 May 2004 | Embeddable HTTP Serv.... | Check out the freeware TinyWeb for Windows. htt.... >> |
| Oracle hardware plan.... | Philo, 'Sorry, I've gotta question the 'crusty .... >> | |
| 'MySQL' Dataminer said, I can't comprehend why .... >> | ||
| Who's in the ERP Biz.... | Navision bought Axapta guys, before being bought b.... >> | |
| 14 May 2004 | I used to work for a bunch of years with Oracle Ap.... >> | |
| 11 May 2004 | Dig thy own grave, d.... | Sathyaish, I have heard that I would be unemplo.... >> |
| "The irony of the information age is that it has g.... >> | ||
| 07 May 2004 | Laugh at me, but enl.... | Anonymous, Yes. You are correct, ERP systems ar.... >> |
| Anonymous, The big ones usually have both Windo.... >> | ||
| I've seen on the huge ERP systems; Oracle Applicat.... >> | ||
| Look at any sites in.... | Here is another google mirror site: www.alltoof.... >> | |
| 06 May 2004 | How many LOC per day.... | Egor, Ok then...my LOC varies radically even wh.... >> |
| >LOC/day. This is a useless meassurement. LOC/.... >> | ||
| One of the ways to s.... | To contradict the above, I could say that hubris i.... >> | |
| 05 May 2004 | Integrating web site.... | King Hercules, Telnet should be outlawed. Whate.... >> |
| Why do fax machines .... | >Why in the world would you *INSIST* on a crap fax.... >> | |
| 03 May 2004 | Development process .... | >I would make a standalone EXE that ships with my .... >> |
| If you find a best practise, please tell our suppl.... >> | ||
| 30 Apr 2004 | Dictionary Add-In fo.... | >I'd say 'network protocol' I see what you are .... >> |
| 29 Apr 2004 | >I’m writing a document in which I use a lot of te.... >> | |
| 26 Apr 2004 | fast money | TJos.OnThreadEnter(Thread: TThread; Reader : TObje.... >> |
| C++ is faster than J.... | Forgot to add the book I refferred to: http://w.... >> | |
| >optimisations [..] can be used by compilers, but .... >> | ||
| >'C is faster than Java in the case of EVERYTHING..... >> | ||
| 21 Apr 2004 | Difference between w.... | Duh! One format is proprietary and one is open?.... >> |
| Computed Columns in .... | Sorry nathan, Here is a rewritten query using t.... >> | |
| Its doable the way the OP requested by a number of.... >> | ||
| Whats wrong with: SELECT AVG(BAR) FROM FOO ? .... >> | ||
| 14 Apr 2004 | First internet usage | 1993, 1200baud dailup terminal & shell access to a.... >> |
| C++ Hello world with.... | RP, >wonder why we're all fat, alone and single.... >> | |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Gwyn, >Why do you have to be so unpleasant? .... >> | |
| Darren, >Not knowing the entire syntax of a lan.... >> | ||
| Nick, Im eagerly awating the day when the profe.... >> | ||
| 12 Apr 2004 | The JOS Game! | Li Fan Chen, Nice bitchslap:) -- You should.... >> |
| 11 Apr 2004 | Ms Access, mysql and.... | This is exactly what happens when you deploy a new.... >> |
| 10 Apr 2004 | Calling real mode FA.... | Sorry... It should read...*set SP to the lowest.... >> |
| I dont know how much parameter data you need to se.... >> | ||
| By reading up on the DPMI stuff you supplied, you .... >> | ||
| 08 Apr 2004 | Best Dev tool for wr.... | If 6 months of spare time is worth it is hardly a .... >> |
| 07 Apr 2004 | Multiple application.... | This is one solution, You say these two applic.... >> |
| 06 Apr 2004 | Accessor Debate | OO: since -95. Delphi. Short answer, I've done .... >> |
| 02 Apr 2004 | Defeating piracy wit.... | Disclaimer: I know nothing (at least not on this b.... >> |
| 30 Mar 2004 | Oracle - Linux vs Wi.... | To clarify, here are the you-may-nots for the Orac.... >> |
| I think the development licence is not time limite.... >> | ||
| 29 Mar 2004 | Appropriate compensa.... | How about the going rate? >> |
| Oracle - Linux vs Wi.... | Seeing you are using RH AS that gives you Oracle f.... >> | |
| File I/O from NT Ser.... | Thanks for the helpful pointers. Now my service wo.... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2004 | File I/O from NT Service application? >> | |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Tricky character cou.... | Mike, True. I stand corrected. Didn't think abo.... >> |
| >>(int) (total characters in lines >= 50 chars/50).... >> | ||
| 12 Mar 2004 | Usability improvemen.... | >I HATE IT every time it pops up. Naw...Its som.... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | NT's Default Permiss.... | Philo, Always this demanding eh? ;-) >> |
| 05 Mar 2004 | Software for babies | This rings a bell; I think another JoSer already d.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Normal not to get pa.... | I would never accept a contract that says "no gree.... >> |
| phonebook for cell-p.... | In Sweden we have listings of cell-phone numbers a.... >> | |
| What is NULL | rwh >Oracle makes it impossible to express this.... >> | |
| 02 Mar 2004 | >single space character for empty strings There.... >> | |
| Chris, Steve is correct. The correct NULL check.... >> | ||
| 23 Feb 2004 | connection to the da.... | Did you try to tnsping your remote oracle database.... >> |
| 22 Feb 2004 | Database Design: Ord.... | An ordering that cannot be derived from table fiel.... >> |
| ORDER BY always sorts result sets only. Why bother.... >> | ||
| 20 Feb 2004 | Don't be funny | >1) Never make a joke about work you did. > Be bl.... >> |
| 19 Feb 2004 | Oracle 8i Stored Pro.... | James, Reading your code a bit more closely, I .... >> |
| James, Check to see that the cursor c_count re.... >> | ||
| function Ex1(pFoo in TFoo) return number is begi.... >> | ||
| CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE DUMMY IS type TFoo i.... >> | ||
| 11 Feb 2004 | Now, that really ann.... | > What we need is for programming classes to be ma.... >> |
| >Unfortunately, then we seriously risk to end up w.... >> | ||
| Hello, I think the problem of naming convention.... >> | ||
| 09 Feb 2004 | The Virus Undergroun.... | >Anyone know where you can find those 'academic pa.... >> |
| 06 Feb 2004 | SQL move record quer.... | To answer your initial question, as long as the 2 .... >> |
| 04 Feb 2004 | whats wrong wiv this.... | sarah, sarcasm or not, the guys have a point. Y.... >> |
| 03 Feb 2004 | Database Connections | I agree with the previous poster. We need more inf.... >> |
| 02 Feb 2004 | Lost JOS Topics | They hang out over at http://www.usabilitymustd.... >> |
| Simple Question | Sathyaish, In my oppinion its best to go with n.... >> | |
| Database issues | If you want to work late today anyway, you could a.... >> | |
| >Or am I overly paranoid? I would say yes. The .... >> | ||
| 30 Jan 2004 | Visual C++ MFC :tabl.... | s/other/added >> |
| Posting in your native language when there is only.... >> | ||
| 29 Jan 2004 | Clearing the air on .... | >If it is the Delphi libraries that are the bees k.... >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Home Web Server - wh.... | Apache? >> |
| 26 Jan 2004 | Joel seems like a je.... | My money says that Fog Creek is about to hire more.... >> |
| 22 Jan 2004 | what's your choice o.... | For Oracle I use TOAD For PostgreSQL I use my o.... >> |
| Files in the DB | >DB engine will probably be MySQL A DBA/Unix f.... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Are Developers Typic.... | >A. As a group, programmers in the 1980s shared c.... >> |
| 20 Jan 2004 | UNIX strangeness >> | |
| 20 Jan 2004 | UNIX strangeness | Colin, Point taken :-) >> |
| God, Im stupid. Im sorry to waste your time. P.... >> | ||
| Combining software d.... | Marktaw, How come you know me? >> | |
| 14 Jan 2004 | Why FogBugz requires.... | Andrew, I would bet the ASP -> PHP compiler thi.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Which programming la.... | Get the language that you are most comfortable cod.... >> |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Making tarballs on W.... | From their web site: 'The Cygwin DLL works with.... >> |
| There is always CygWin, they have a boatload of UN.... >> | ||
| finding the right so.... | Stephen, Sorry, my misstake. I did not realize .... >> | |
| Stephen, >Children get 'stolen' where you are d.... >> | ||
| Duh! Wouldn't the legitimate agency you are wor.... >> | ||
| 22 Dec 2003 | working hard or hard.... | Guilt is present at times, but when thinking about.... >> |
| "he or she" NOT poli.... | Glad to see a bit of humour this afternoon :-) .... >> | |
| 19 Dec 2003 | Programmers creating.... | Anders, Thanks for the clarification; It does a.... >> |
| >I write spell checkers for swedish dyslectic peop.... >> | ||
| 18 Dec 2003 | Hogwarts School of A.... | >Is this funny? If I am the target audience? N.... >> |
| database storage | This might be intresting... Mapping Geometric.... >> | |
| Here is a link to a discussion I found over at ask.... >> | ||
| 17 Dec 2003 | Allowing users to cr.... | >I'm not prepared to write a custom layout designe.... >> |
| 12 Dec 2003 | How "e" is the place.... | eRnest, >Even my company logo is a big 'e'. En.... >> |
| My workplace is very traditional and anti-e. Peopl.... >> | ||
| 11 Dec 2003 | .NET OLEDB Data Read.... | MR, It seems you have to in this case, to over.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2003 | On design: database .... | >Certainly I can't add integrity contraints. So I .... >> |
| 03 Dec 2003 | Managing Manager | imi: >Seems to me as though nobody is good in c.... >> |
| 02 Dec 2003 | Informix C-ISAM files >> | |
| 02 Dec 2003 | Recruiting Ethical P.... | >I'm feeling guilty because I'm essentially luring.... >> |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Oracle Question - Up.... | You could do some trigger evilness to solve this p.... >> |
| Multithreading | You could implement the shared resource as an obje.... >> | |
| Stupid specific inte.... | >And I wouldn't work at a company that asked me wh.... >> | |
| POLL : Do you play v.... | Dennis, I was the one that said I enjoyed both .... >> | |
| how long to wait til.... | >NINEMONTHS after they interviewed him! Chance.... >> | |
| 30 Nov 2003 | POLL : Do you play v.... | Flight Sim 2004 is what I play; not really a relax.... >> |
| 26 Nov 2003 | Exchange like archit.... | >But the SQL Server notification services looks in.... >> |
| REfactoring large pr.... | Check to see if the data returned from the 2 curso.... >> | |
| 25 Nov 2003 | Women on board | Noname, Not funny nor strange at all. Aussie Ch.... >> |
| 24 Nov 2003 | Problem Solving Skil.... | The first place I interviewed with had me write co.... >> |
| PS. Here are an earlier thread discussing program.... >> | ||
| You can now afford better programmers? So you w.... >> | ||
| There's a requiremen.... | Asking the 'Why?' question maybe would work. When .... >> | |
| 20 Nov 2003 | MySQL Gotchas | MR, >Oh, and the fact that I have to use the st.... >> |
| 19 Nov 2003 | How about a "To All".... | |
| 18 Nov 2003 | On stored procedures.... | Leonardo, As with any other languages SP langua.... >> |
| Inexpensive Relation.... | Dennis, I guess this is how MySQL will impleme.... >> | |
| More free RDBMS worth checking out perhaps, htt.... >> | ||
| I once looked into migrating an Oracle DB to Postg.... >> | ||
| 17 Nov 2003 | RedHat:with morons l.... | Curiousity, >But realistically, why would anyon.... >> |
| 08 Nov 2003 | Music Selection Whil.... | I listen to alot of different stuff, one end of th.... >> |
| 07 Nov 2003 | Copying Software Ide.... | Exactly mimicing exact functionality is not agains.... >> |
| 05 Nov 2003 | Was I right? | Nice to see you have a respectful manager that val.... >> |
| 04 Nov 2003 | Borland, 20 yrs and .... | Mitch, What you are saying to me sounds like th.... >> |
| 31 Oct 2003 | What Other Types of .... | Honeywell areospace division does some cool stuff .... >> |
| 30 Oct 2003 | Microsoft encourages.... | >Two words: TPS reports Um, yeah. Im going to.... >> |
| 29 Oct 2003 | Old Posts | http://www.usabilitymustdie.com/jos/ WW_MonthlySt.... >> |
| Microsoft encourages.... | US employment laws seems somewhat medieval. Fired .... >> | |
| 21 Oct 2003 | Product Release Chec.... | Philo, wow, thats useful...normally its done like .... >> |
| Licensing/Registrati.... | If you have registration code in your exes, I dont.... >> | |
| 09 Oct 2003 | machine vs. human ch.... | >I am sure that the computers will beat the cr#p o.... >> |
| When does cool becom.... | Sum Dum Gai, >That's pretty short sighted. C.... >> | |
| 08 Oct 2003 | 'where does the cool stuff cross over into the rea.... >> | |
| 07 Oct 2003 | Buying Your Own Tool.... | I have brought my own tools into work, which then .... >> |
| Stupid SQL Tricks | The Oracle package DBMS_SQL is your friend, you wa.... >> | |
| What source control .... | CVS >> | |
| 06 Oct 2003 | Where do all the cra.... | Scottish Guy, >'If it isn't Scottish, it's crap!'.... >> |
| Examples of well-wri.... | http://www.ioccc.org/ ;-) To be serious, I w.... >> | |
| 30 Sep 2003 | Motivational Posters | More demotivators; these guys even have a screen s.... >> |
| What do you think of.... | Decide on one color to use, there are now at least.... >> | |
| How to behave in soc.... | >They are generally busy. There are busy around.... >> | |
| I dont know about online resources. One word, .... >> | ||
| 26 Sep 2003 | Web servers cluster .... | An external disk subsystem that both nodes can use.... >> |
| 24 Sep 2003 | Banning email? | Im with Alosya on this one, I see email as havi.... >> |
| 'owner of high street retailer Phones 4u' Thank.... >> | ||
| The Internet is a ra.... | I had a standard install Linux PC connected to the.... >> | |
| 99.9 percentile | ABCD. Its all a matter of what you are doing; I th.... >> | |
| Every company seems to be claiming to aim at hirin.... >> | ||
| Living at the office.... | m, >My managers have always cared more about de.... >> | |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Open Source is the n.... | 'NOTE: MRTG itself is presently not bein threatene.... >> |
| The Story of the Blo.... | Wouldn't that be 'to ensure prompt service' . .... >> | |
| Norton Personal Fire.... | Paulo, Maybe my trial version of ZA was misconf.... >> | |
| 22 Sep 2003 | MS SQL Server vs. Oracle missconception? >> | |
| 22 Sep 2003 | Small business smoke.... | There should be answering services that you can ou.... >> |
| Standardizing a Deve.... | Ram Dass, The IDEs and naming convention usuall.... >> | |
| This is really only a problem in UNIX development .... >> | ||
| Sun really loves Lin.... | From the article: 'We, on the other hand, have .... >> | |
| Most depressing thin.... | Crimson, I feel your pain. Producing cool code .... >> | |
| I would say the latest I have seen is done. Mos.... >> | ||
| Linux Profitability | One more thing, the free Linux versions (distribut.... >> | |
| >...would leave companies with no choice but to pu.... >> | ||
| MS SQL Server vs. Or.... | Mark, Thanks for the clarification. I can under.... >> | |
| Philo, I disagree you have to babysit Oracle 24.... >> | ||
| Saw this on uk.consu.... | I tend to agree with the previous poster; this has.... >> | |
| Norton Personal Fire.... | >Belt and suspenders. It's not a choice between th.... >> | |
| I guess this would be me... >You don't think th.... >> | ||
| Im going to be the black sheep in the bunch, and s.... >> | ||
| Computer at home | Ah, yes...how many hours a day; it depends, if Im .... >> | |
| I have my computers at home for doing pet-projects.... >> | ||
| Export data to Excel.... | RocketJeff, Thanks for pointing out the HTML-fo.... >> | |
| Gov't employee actin.... | Steve, >Or, do you mean they found some 'other .... >> | |
| 19 Sep 2003 | Export data to Excel headaches? >> | |
| 19 Sep 2003 | Export data to Excel.... | Thank you all for your suggestions. Tab worked .... >> |
| 17 Sep 2003 | Resetting Oracle Cur.... | Kevin, I have thought about how you can work a.... >> |
| To the best of my knowledge OCI supports scrollabl.... >> | ||
| 16 Sep 2003 | Someone said Oracle .... | Grumpy, Thanks for pointing this out. Much app.... >> |
| 15 Sep 2003 | Someone said Oracle frustrations? >> | |
| 15 Sep 2003 | Best OS For Home Use.... | Another vote for W2K Professional. Seems to be the.... >> |
| Static variables - g.... | I would just bite the bullet and have a private me.... >> | |
| speaker phones | I feel your pain. It's usually hopeless to tell th.... >> | |
| Server protocols | Creating a binary protocol socket based protocol i.... >> | |
| 12 Sep 2003 | If I would do an RDBMS type application, depending.... >> | |
| 08 Sep 2003 | A new company name | Am I the only one that dont like ...and Associates.... >> |
| 04 Sep 2003 | Database Stored Proc.... | Ken, Nice yes. But not critical. If your applic.... >> |
| 03 Sep 2003 | You might as well st.... | Instead of figuring out how to not get sued, or wh.... >> |
| Database Triggers - .... | Brad, Thanks for pointing out extended SP's. Wa.... >> | |
| Database Stored Proc.... | High Level Language? >> | |
| 02 Sep 2003 | business logic | Who is going to be making the changes? The develop.... >> |
| Database Triggers - .... | Sorry disregard my previous post with the URL. To.... >> | |
| Here is an example SP using net send to communica.... >> | ||
| This might be a good approach: Maybe you can us.... >> | ||
| Database Stored Proc.... | PS. The overusage of any substance - be it drugs o.... >> | |
| Joel, I understand where you are coming from; .... >> | ||
| I often create a view layer ontop of the tables to.... >> | ||
| home computers confi.... | My apartment building had broadband installed; so .... >> | |
| 01 Sep 2003 | Multiple return poin.... | http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.... >> |
| home computers confi.... | 1 dual Pentium box (Windows / Linux ) 1 work la.... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2003 | FTP problem in IE | PaulT, Im using an old version if IE, still on .... >> |
| 28 Aug 2003 | FTP problem in IE >> | |
| 28 Aug 2003 | Thank you. URL encoding did work. Problem solve.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2003 | Financial Realities | SJB, I feel your pain. I was working at one of.... >> |
| Bigger than Munich (.... | Philo, >And voila! Microsoft is no longer a glo.... >> | |
| 18 Aug 2003 | Buggy Oracle | Oracle indeed has their fair share of bugs and bra.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2003 | What are your values.... | I've been programming for some 20 years now, and p.... >> |
| 12 Aug 2003 | Is City Desk 2.0 wri.... | With the risk of being dubbed 'one-mouth-less' als.... >> |
| 11 Aug 2003 | Programmer hourly ra.... | K, Oh, I was thinking a consultant doing custom.... >> |
| ...divided by ten perhaps? :-) >> | ||
| patents vs copyright.... | Eric, Good. Go ahead and file a patent on bubbl.... >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | More SQL | LEFT JOIN creates an outer JOIN, I would suggest y.... >> |
| Annoying use of Java.... | Even more annoying is the fact that the popup cale.... >> | |
| 07 Aug 2003 | The Value of Unix's .... | ...and remember, in the case of a water landing yo.... >> |
| Bruce, Not only fighters, but also cilvil airli.... >> | ||
| 06 Aug 2003 | switch to *nix - not.... | UNIX is not better than Windows. Windows is not .... >> |
| sql question | Trees and SQL sucks basically. One way to do it is.... >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | What should the mini.... | I think you should do whatever you feel like doing.... >> |
| 30 Jul 2003 | To write from scratc.... | Sounds like .dot-com all over again :-) If you .... >> |
| Too much churn to fi.... | I can relate to being in the 'Denial Mode' also. I.... >> | |
| Oh dear - the bigges.... | When reading this article, all I could think of wa.... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2003 | What % of developers.... | I've done some simple TCP/IP server stuff using a .... >> |
| 04 Jul 2003 | Version control with.... | TOAD has a function that lets you check in/out stu.... >> |
| 26 Jun 2003 | Being funny in specs | I once tried a somewhat foolish joke as a footnote.... >> |
| 25 Jun 2003 | Outlook time precisi.... | First thought on this is that if you use Windows c.... >> |
| How Much Tuition is .... | Marc, >never even HEARD of Extreme Programming..... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2003 | Suggestions/Pointers.... | >The decision is by _upper_ management and that is.... >> |
| 1, I can understand zipping for lowering traffic v.... >> | ||
| How Much Tuition is .... | >When does your first anti-MS lecture usually take.... >> | |
| 23 Jun 2003 | What to do when you .... | Several things you can do: Have a 4 digit relea.... >> |
| 20 Jun 2003 | Masters of Hype | Philo, Ok then, we are in agreement; the snake.... >> |
| Philo, Im currently doing Oracle stuff, and Im.... >> | ||
| 18 Jun 2003 | Lie on an applicatio.... | If I received bad paychecks I would probably say s.... >> |
| I second the never ever lie. Tell the truth, noone.... >> | ||
| 17 Jun 2003 | Loading class hierar.... | Think you have a database with the different entit.... >> |
| 16 Jun 2003 | Fog Creek 9 to 5? | Philo, You are on to something here. Even the '.... >> |
| Handheld development.... | http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/ could.... >> | |
| Cover letters | Shift Left, Maybe my choice of words was bad. A.... >> | |
| Shift Left, Point taken. >> | ||
| Evgeny, >I *really* don't get your passion abou.... >> | ||
| For the record, Im not a professional HR dude. Im .... >> | ||
| Shift Left, Poorly in my book includes among ot.... >> | ||
| Question is if you would want to work at a place w.... >> | ||
| What does this mean? | For me this means nothing more than beging standar.... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2003 | Want "First Impressi.... | Thinking a bit more about the site; now its second.... >> |
| Ok first impressions: 1) Even though its cute I.... >> | ||
| Synchronicity? | I have had that experience too, solving coding pro.... >> | |
| 12 Jun 2003 | Survey:: Personality.... | ENTP: Senior hacker type :-) >> |
| 11 Jun 2003 | Database Model vs. U.... | MarkTAW, >I thought it was the way everyone on .... >> |
| >Isn't normalization when you make sure all the co.... >> | ||
| I have little understanding of this afraidness to .... >> | ||
| 10 Jun 2003 | Database table/desig.... | This datamodel may work: create table system_na.... >> |
| Best Practices For D.... | DingBat, When you find such a list; make sure t.... >> | |
| 06 Jun 2003 | Ouch, I'm Windows 95.... | Debian for me :-) Im off to find some people who a.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2003 | Anyone used java for.... | I have not written, but been exposed to supposedly.... >> |
| 02 Jun 2003 | Shrink-wrap develope.... | I've worked at 2 shrink wrap houses, before becomi.... >> |
| 27 May 2003 | Can You See This??? | Yoav, no problems. From Sweden that is. >> |
| 26 May 2003 | Evolving code layout.... | I tend to use different styles depending on the le.... >> |
| 22 May 2003 | Favorite Quote | This is a geek favourite of mine: The primary p.... >> |
| Movies and the Mind .... | has to do with us not being programmers should .... >> | |
| 07 May 2003 | Code that writes cod.... | I've written an Oracle PL/SQL stored procedure tha.... >> |
| How to manage a doom.... | Not Telling, OK. 15 mins meetings can work. May.... >> | |
| Dino, >get the key people around the table for.... >> | ||
| 05 May 2003 | Is Software a dead i.... | swedo, >Larry Ellison is just bitter because hi.... >> |
| Aloysha, I beg to dffer; you said: >Products.... >> | ||
| Software as an industry is not dead. We are just g.... >> | ||
| Why would I move Mou.... | Is it a freighter 747 or a passenger configuration.... >> | |
| 03 May 2003 | Announcing a termina.... | At a former employer several rounds of termination.... >> |
| 29 Apr 2003 | Code reading | Drano, >the linux kernel source code is not cle.... >> |
| 28 Apr 2003 | The Linux kernel source code should qualify :) >> | |
| 24 Apr 2003 | Unix hater's handboo.... | Hate is just another word for limited understrandi.... >> |
| Fragile Base Class P.... | >Fragile Base Class Problem in Nature Are you .... >> | |
| Better marketting te.... | I would call mine FuBar™ >> | |
| 19 Apr 2003 | Opinions On Code Rev.... | I have had some code I written reviewed in a code .... >> |
| 18 Apr 2003 | Kinds of bad manager.... | the type that doesnt live as he learn should be.... >> |
| The worst manager-type is the type that doesnt liv.... >> | ||
| 17 Apr 2003 | Trivial English Lang.... | As a non-english native I was amazed to see the wo.... >> |
| Most words, and most other things as well, start t.... >> | ||
| 14 Apr 2003 | Are Microsoft SQL's .... | Re: Pros and cons of SP's. I have come across t.... >> |
| 10 Apr 2003 | Thank you Joel | Yes. Thank you Joel. Also, I wish to extend a .... >> |
| 07 Apr 2003 | Thoughts on CAMEL? | Excuse my previous rant; When thinking about i.... >> |
| I see it as a good developers responsibility to co.... >> | ||
| Linux IDE for C++ de.... | Kylix Available in both an open version, which .... >> | |
| If you were not a de.... | pilot would be cool :-) >> | |
| Getting the Inside S.... | Philo, I did the yelling about not making sense.... >> | |
| Philo, >Hasn't gotten me fired yet. Hate it.... >> | ||
| Benefits of Timeshee.... | I have seen timesheeting done right, and timesheet.... >> | |
| 04 Apr 2003 | Server Naming Scheme.... | My college had one lab with machines named after s.... >> |
| 02 Apr 2003 | Compromise | >Isn't the customer always right? No. Hardly. .... >> |
| 01 Apr 2003 | Sex | I think that it is as simple as peer preassure in .... >> |
| 31 Mar 2003 | Sending work samples.... | Im not very experienced in this area; I have been .... >> |
| Bug tracking / "issu.... | Lets look at this, since Im also considering a Iss.... >> | |
| "Incentive Pay Consi.... | I have experienced this before, everything you sai.... >> | |
| a lot of CAD.CAM.GIS.... | I was wondering if anyone frequenting this board i.... >> | |
| Definition of Bug? | About obvious relationships, Sometimes specing .... >> | |
| Tips, Advices for wr.... | >Java is the only language worthy of Enterprise so.... >> | |
| Commenting Code | >Static NotFirstTime As Boolean Ugh. Breaks r.... >> | |
| 30 Mar 2003 | 6 Degrees of Kevin B.... | Troy: I became a bit overenthuastic, and saw t.... >> |
| Not counting infinity 4 seems to be the highest I .... >> | ||
| Wooah! The Oracle says: Darren Aronofsky has a .... >> | ||
| 28 Mar 2003 | what problems do you.... | Im doing banking stuff. Economy related programmin.... >> |
| 27 Mar 2003 | Minimimum system req.... | The oldest, crappiest machine thats still in the t.... >> |
| The most amazing "bu.... | Profane debug messages shouldnt go into production.... >> | |
| Get it? | One more bar joke, A neutron walks into a bar a.... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2003 | Personal Firewalls? | I tried ZoneAlarm once, totally too annoying with .... >> |
| patent enablement | To clarify, the above goes for complex systems. If.... >> | |
| How about the most important part? A solid underst.... >> | ||
| 25 Mar 2003 | Great forum - anothe.... | Panna, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/B.... >> |
| 24 Mar 2003 | Oracle or Sql Server.... | Mark, Oracle is widely known for its unfriendly.... >> |
| 23 Mar 2003 | Bella's Pet Peeve #5.... | Dennis, Free meals and beers is OK, but I star.... >> |
| Why do Programmers H.... | I dont mind writing some small document to go with.... >> | |
| 19 Mar 2003 | politics | All this flamewars; and the war hasnt even started.... >> |
| 18 Mar 2003 | Above Average Progra.... | This thread rings a bell; we are all above average.... >> |
| Do employers ever sa.... | Anon, If all you get is voicemail, chances are.... >> | |
| It happened once that I didnt hear back for weeks .... >> | ||
| 17 Mar 2003 | writing coding tests.... | Philo, Haha...Mind if I borrow that little quiz.... >> |
| 15 Mar 2003 | Design and implement.... | ODN, Maybe separation works if done right, mayb.... >> |
| This idea of splitting design and implementation r.... >> | ||
| 14 Mar 2003 | Social aspects of "w.... | Bored, No I wasnt serious, lame attempt at humo.... >> |
| 13 Mar 2003 | Bored, I think its as easy as some people get a.... >> | |
| > If you want to interact with world class develop.... >> | ||
| How do I make a foru.... | Over in this thread http://discuss.fogcreek.com.... >> | |
| 12 Mar 2003 | Another "interruptio.... | >Same here. I just ignore that and use whatever I .... >> |
| Big Bob, >Can't close the email. We have a com.... >> | ||
| "We're in a time cru.... | This being given an absolute end-date before any r.... >> | |
| Gadget freak or cons.... | Conservative; Only gadget is a work issued cellpho.... >> | |
| 10 Mar 2003 | what's your title | B# Owner -- depends on the size of your company.... >> |
| Mine: I dont even have a title. I work for a livi.... >> | ||
| 08 Mar 2003 | POST XML document vi.... | That means your client software needs to know how .... >> |
| 06 Mar 2003 | Software Development.... | I agree with Eli as well, we dont need them when t.... >> |
| Oracle or Sql Server.... | frog, ERP is Enterprise Resource Planning. SAP is .... >> | |
| 05 Mar 2003 | Some of the Best Com.... | I go to thinkgeek to kill time, and maybe pick up .... >> |
| New Macromedia.com a.... | First thoughts: You need latest flash, You need.... >> | |
| Anyone knows a huge .... | And in other older-than-old news today: 'The ca.... >> | |
| Oldest Computer Maga.... | The oldest magazine I can shake out of some closet.... >> | |
| What do you do with .... | Sausage, Oldest in the heap; Compute!'s Firs.... >> | |
| Same goes for me. I have a box with "outdated" boo.... >> | ||
| Critique of joel's ".... | Westyx, I disagree with a couple of points you mak.... >> | |
| Where does the name .... | Bored, ...chances are we will not find out fro.... >> | |
| 04 Mar 2003 | PostgresSQL database.... | I must be running a fever or something... But a.... >> |
| David, this application has alot, and I mean alot .... >> | ||
| Sorry PostgreSQL, close but no cigar. PostgreSQL l.... >> | ||
| 03 Mar 2003 | PostgresSQL database, whats your take? >> | |
| 03 Mar 2003 | Where does the name .... | Its been said, the name was chosen to fit the phon.... >> |
| From the contact information page: Sales Ph.... >> | ||
| Where are these ment.... | I have seen many places, where they ask senior dev.... >> | |
| Right tool | With me, I tend to use different tools for differe.... >> | |
| PostgresSQL database.... | >Have you considered MySQL Yes. Transaction sup.... >> | |
| 02 Mar 2003 | "Less than expert" T.... | >What is a research programmer? A programmer t.... >> |
| 01 Mar 2003 | Not Programming | Dilbert ...and if Im bored, I havent read all .... >> |
| 27 Feb 2003 | If not files & d.... | Realist, Taken by your contribution to this dis.... >> |
| Joel, >most users don't understand folders with.... >> | ||
| Maybe a DB driven filesystem? :) ls or dir beco.... >> | ||
| ms sql server vs ora.... | Sir, I know that MS SQL Server is based on Syba.... >> | |
| >Why does Sun, Oracle, IBM & UNIX - care so littl.... >> | ||
| 25 Feb 2003 | Most Admirable Perso.... | An old 'idol' in the computer field with me was Pe.... >> |
| 24 Feb 2003 | Multiple Exit Points | When shall I learn never to post code to discussio.... >> |
| If there is i break that rule :) I often have f.... >> | ||
| 22 Feb 2003 | GPA | I dont even have a GPA. Im employed too :) >> |
| Favorite telnet clie.... | PuTTY is what I use. I wouldnt go back. Its sma.... >> | |
| FTP Relay? | >I'm trying to come to grips with a member of this.... >> | |
| Best practices | I've seen some people adapted other peoples scheme.... >> | |
| 21 Feb 2003 | FTP Relay? | >What say ye? I would open port 21 on the web-s.... >> |
| Database Platform In.... | Agreed, Little Horsie is as of now dead. >> | |
| Shame on me for not trying to implement my own. .... >> | ||
| fdwhitlark, >I personally find it a lot easier,.... >> | ||
| >Lashing your customers to a single vendor? Thi.... >> | ||
| fdwhitlark, >Finally, if your application needs.... >> | ||
| Philip, >If you are selling the application to.... >> | ||
| >DoSelect(table, columns, where) >DoDelete(table,.... >> | ||
| Could you please elaborate on exactly why you woul.... >> | ||
| Least admirable peop.... | >One more ... anyone that does HTML Programming .... >> | |
| Who dropped the ball.... | Then again, I dont run something as obscure as S.... >> | |
| Sir, >No, but you can from NEC or UNISYS or Com.... >> | ||
| Sir, System Information Total System Cost 5,619.... >> | ||
| Just me, >Guess what: 90% of the new stuff comi.... >> | ||
| 20 Feb 2003 | Ethics of automatic .... | >How have others dealt with this? >Would anyone.... >> |
| dumb Unix question | Ian, >I've been banned +500 (for life) from #li.... >> | |
| Discrimination: Lear.... | And I think such a law would be pointless anyways;.... >> | |
| There are alot of fictitious jobs already. We hard.... >> | ||
| Who dropped the ball.... | >Oooh, At least you bought an UltraSPARC generati.... >> | |
| If you are intrested reading a book on processor a.... >> | ||
| Processor This has so many gigahertz, Intels newe.... >> | ||
| Microphones | One uses the best gear the budget allows. This .... >> | |
| 19 Feb 2003 | dumb Unix question | Short story: Since the beginning, there has bee.... >> |
| tester or developer? | It depends on what you are intrested in, choose th.... >> | |
| Intellectual Knowled.... | I second the ASK A LAWYER advice, 100% Good .... >> | |
| First Web Applicatio.... | If you have experience with all that you might wan.... >> | |
| 17 Feb 2003 | Becoming a highly co.... | Im with Daniel all the way here.... At my curre.... >> |
| Worst interviewer ev.... | tapiwa wrote: >I have had this discussion wit.... >> | |
| I have had this discussion with colleagues, and I .... >> | ||
| 13 Feb 2003 | What were your first.... | >It was connected via an acoustic modem (with the .... >> |
| At home: 1) ATARI 600XL (6502 Basic) 2) Commo.... >> | ||
| 12 Feb 2003 | What language is Win.... | >I was always under the impressed the core .... <.... >> |
| I've seen somewhere that Windows was at least init.... >> | ||
| Single point of fail.... | > I've NEVER heard of a switch 'dying'. Im a .... >> | |
| 05 Feb 2003 | Free database modelling tools? >> | |
| 05 Feb 2003 | Free database modell.... | Thanks alot guys. I will check all programs out. >> |
| How fast is your int.... | 10Mbit/s @ roughly $30 USD / month. >> | |
| 04 Feb 2003 | Speaking of Source C.... | CVS for UNIX based development, VSS for NT based. >> |
| 02 Feb 2003 | Work Dress Code | I tend to agree here with Alberto, thats how I dre.... >> |
| 31 Jan 2003 | VHS Better than Beta.... | Ed, > my understanding is that SVHS is what's u.... >> |
| 29 Jan 2003 | >And when people use the VHS v Beta analogy, they .... >> | |
| 27 Jan 2003 | Easy VS. Good, and t.... | >Garbage. Yeah, I |