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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Benji Smith' | ||
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Number of Comments: 215 |
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| Number of Words: 29,668 | ||
| First Comment: 20 Mar 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 28 Jun 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 15 |
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| First Topic: 22 Mar 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 28 Jun 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 28 Jun 2004 | Trademarks >> | |
| 28 Jun 2004 | My word processing e.... | I'm one of those people who loves MS Word. I use S.... >> |
| SWT is hot! | > Then again, I come from a perl background. No f.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2004 | Best IDE for HCI (GU.... | John, Flash is catching up fast with Director, as .... >> |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Starting an applicat.... | http://www.spaceprogram.com/knowledge/tomcat_init_.... >> |
| 21 Jun 2004 | Making my own browse.... | fool for python said: > or just use the mozilla p.... >> |
| 19 Jun 2004 | I think you should do it. This may sound crazy .... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2004 | Editing a PDF? | You actually don't need to edit your PDF file at a.... >> |
| The future API is HT.... | I would LOVE to develop most applications as thin .... >> | |
| Win32 apps will stop.... | Try this one on for size: http://www.longhornbl.... >> | |
| My understanding is that, in future versions of Wi.... >> | ||
| 15 Jun 2004 | Detecting duplicate .... | Funny you should mention this. I'm in the process .... >> |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Ethics of running an.... | Some people, I think, would welcome the news of a .... >> |
| 09 Jun 2004 | What's a Good Perl I.... | Personally, I just use a text editor (TextPad) whe.... >> |
| Correct term please | The people on my team sometimes refer to this proc.... >> | |
| How did VMWare do it.... | 'All this will be why vmware isn't as fast as your.... >> | |
| Decompiling .class f.... | I nearly forgot....there are some obfuscators whic.... >> | |
| There are a couple different types of obfuscation,.... >> | ||
| 02 Jun 2004 | Suns' innovative pri.... | According to news.com ( http://tinyurl.com/2acvs ).... >> |
| The demise of the MD.... | Interesting. I love MDI interfaces. I especiall.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2004 | where: discussion bo.... | phpbb doesn't include the ability to attach files..... >> |
| 29 May 2004 | Getting the UI right | 'If you have every form designed as the developer,.... >> |
| 28 May 2004 | Explain why emacs is.... | I'm not a great fan of emacs, but I think I unders.... >> |
| Getting the UI right | There's a fine line between UI design and graphic .... >> | |
| 26 May 2004 | Chris Stone on Open/.... | Luckily, most open source software is highly techn.... >> |
| Webhosts4Life has be.... | I do all of my webhosting through http://tektonic..... >> | |
| 13 May 2004 | Meta Tags - Do they .... | 'You can do a simple test do find out if google us.... >> |
| 12 May 2004 | Is it worth building.... | Building a computer from off-the-shelf components .... >> |
| 31 Mar 2004 | Algorithm for evalua.... | No, you wouldn't have to open all the files. With .... >> |
| 29 Mar 2004 | binary xml - just sa.... | Dennis, I like your example of adding closed ca.... >> |
| Not able to understa.... | 'I hate the 65,536 row limitation in Excel. We oft.... >> | |
| Algorithm for evalua.... | Here's something that irritates me: You have on.... >> | |
| 19 Mar 2004 | Subversion | My company just switched to subversion yesterday. .... >> |
| 06 Mar 2004 | app research | I've been looking at Columba ( http://columba.sour.... >> |
| 27 Feb 2004 | Laughable Web Servic.... | Stephanie said: 'we also provide a realtime web s.... >> |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Joel said: 'Benji, you need real market data from.... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Laughable Web Services >> | |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Unfortunately, I'm not looking for every bid/ask t.... >> | |
| Pricing a document m.... | What you really need is an American company to act.... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | Free IDE --> Free.... | Bruce Eckel wrote 'Thinking in Java' and 'Thinking.... >> |
| 23 Feb 2004 | Best Free IDE for be.... | I started out as a programmer by learning JavaScri.... >> |
| vi (just kidding) >> | ||
| 20 Feb 2004 | Text-editor as Application-Scripting-Framework >> | |
| 20 Feb 2004 | .Net linker redux | I can imagine lots of cases where it would probabl.... >> |
| Text-editor as Appli.... | To clarify... There are lots of text-editors th.... >> | |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Why do we have so ba.... | To me, this is like saying 'why are cars still so .... >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | collecting Info over.... | Here's an interesting thought. The company that.... >> |
| Starting a company: .... | One way of looking at it is this: when you sell a .... >> | |
| Frustated by (Near) .... | While I agree that this is an interesting discussi.... >> | |
| 26 Jan 2004 | Mars Rover Software Problems >> | |
| 26 Jan 2004 | Open source programm.... | D http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ >> |
| Mars Rover Software .... | Not to mention the insight that we could gain by s.... >> | |
| Leaving MSFT to star.... | I started a web development company in 2000 and th.... >> | |
| "ResumeXML" | Yikes. My professional resume has several diffe.... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Database Analysis Tool >> | |
| 16 Jan 2004 | is there any point t.... | If you're interested in computational linguistics,.... >> |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Node vs. Element | http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1 This is th.... >> |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Question about contr.... | My company bills my time to our clients at $150 pe.... >> |
| Commercial software .... | Even if you're not building a client/server app, i.... >> | |
| 18 Dec 2003 | Cultural Divide: It'.... | It seems as though bash could use some updating as.... >> |
| 12 Dec 2003 | Command line vs. Gui.... | Ideally, the type of interface I prefer could only.... >> |
| 04 Nov 2003 | I Still Don't "Get" .... | One thing I really like about XML is that the data.... >> |
| 03 Oct 2003 | CVS hosting. | There's a company called tektonic that offers virt.... >> |
| 01 Oct 2003 | What do you think of.... | All but one of the HR people had not visi.... >> |
| That's odd. My last post got cut off in mid sen.... >> | ||
As for the HR droid question, no, HR pers.... >> |
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| 30 Sep 2003 | A personal site should convey some sense of your p.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2003 | freeware lightweight.... | I agree that Photoshop Elements is a better deal t.... >> |
| I'm a big big fan of Photoshop. I've been using it.... >> | ||
| 05 Aug 2003 | c++ before c?? | My introduction to programming was JavaScript. It .... >> |
| S-Q-L or SeQueL? | Also: Anyone who places their toilet paper in t.... >> | |
| 01 Aug 2003 | End of the road for .... | The best solution that I've heard is that the paym.... >> |
| 19 Jun 2003 | Negotiation book | 'Get Paid What You're Worth' http://www.amazon..... >> |
| To yacc or not to ya.... | By the way, my recommendation is: no, don't use ya.... >> | |
| This sounds like a great project for you, although.... >> | ||
| 04 Jun 2003 | C++ question | The two 'features' I'd like to eliminate from C++ .... >> |
| 20 May 2003 | Salary.com is it acc.... | > That's scary that people are taking those survey.... >> |
| 17 Apr 2003 | Andrew Tridgell on h.... | I'm in total agreement with some of the previous p.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2003 | startup company offe.... | http://www.fuckthatjob.com >> |
| 14 Apr 2003 | Does "Versioning" In.... | > In general the different versions are simply > .... >> |
| Non Stop Coding - Ho.... | I've done 36 hours before. (My first freelance gig.... >> | |
| Interface : widzard .... | A great example of a wizard-style application is T.... >> | |
| 11 Apr 2003 | Using Excel to gener.... | You can write VB (actually VBA) code in excel to m.... >> |
| Microsoft Profits | pb -- I think you meant fixed costs rather than va.... >> | |
| Mike Swieton: Profit margin always takes into a.... >> | ||
| That's funny. The gossip that I've heard says that.... >> | ||
| iespell | I posted a little prematurely. Here's some addi.... >> | |
| http://www.thesolutioncafe.com/public-spell-checke.... >> | ||
| Desktop Metaphor | At this point, making any major changes to the use.... >> | |
| startup company offe.... | By the way... $12,000 per year / (40 hours per .... >> | |
| You'd have to be nuts to take this $1000/month gig.... >> | ||
| A Heuristic Evaluati.... | I just had premature (by 13 weeks) twins in Decemb.... >> | |
| Lisp Man says Java i.... | > If 'too much typing' really is the problem, > t.... >> | |
| 10 Apr 2003 | Can Java run on the .... | Could Java replace COBOL on the mainframe? I guess.... >> |
| The Joy of Linux | This is interesting news. Any improvements to Linu.... >> | |
| There is certainly no problem with linux not havin.... >> | ||
| Moore's Law is comin.... | It's important to note that Moore's law has nothin.... >> | |
| 08 Apr 2003 | Fax reception provid.... | (The email address for sending efax documents is t.... >> |
| I can second the recommendation for efax.com If.... >> | ||
| 07 Apr 2003 | Sick of being stuck .... | I remember there was something in development a fe.... >> |
| If you were not a de.... | My first bachelors degree is in Playwriting. I'd k.... >> | |
| How often should one.... | Of course, even if I had a GUI to edit the XML, th.... >> | |
| T. Normon said: Manually editing 10K lines of XML?.... >> | ||
| 04 Apr 2003 | I'm a big fan of tiny incremental check-ins. Nothi.... >> | |
| Server Naming Scheme.... | We've got a bunch of muppet-name servers (piggy, a.... >> | |
| 02 Apr 2003 | Can engineers learn .... | Incidentally, good web design has very little to d.... >> |
| By the way, I think I speak from experience as som.... >> | ||
| I agree with Brent, to a point. Yes, anybody ca.... >> | ||
| 27 Mar 2003 | Personal Projects >> | |
| 27 Mar 2003 | Personal Projects | As for myself, I'm currently tinkering around with.... >> |
| 21 Mar 2003 | Hungarian Notation >> | |
| 21 Mar 2003 | Hungarian Notation | Joel and others, What is it about C code that .... >> |
| Why do Programmers H.... | Asking why programmers don't write good documentat.... >> | |
| 20 Mar 2003 | Finishing a product .... | This is a tricky question. It's almost always a.... >> |
| Above Average Progra.... | Woops. I misinterpreted that last quote before I r.... >> | |
| 'The more you learn, the more you learn how much y.... >> | ||
| 19 Mar 2003 | API vs .NET | You can definitely still use the win32 API. If .... >> |
| Windows' Biggest Ene.... | Perhaps, if you think Office 2000 is making it mor.... >> | |
| dh003i, It's pretty silly to complain about the.... >> | ||
| What allows GNU/Linu.... | Tom, An important note is that shell scripting .... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | Real World Metaphore >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | Real World Metaphore | Good replies. I've thought through several of t.... >> |
| 12 Mar 2003 | O'Reilly Safari | How is the book text presented? Is it in some eboo.... >> |
| 26 Feb 2003 | Heisenberg effects | While all of this speculating is fun, I would be c.... >> |
| 25 Feb 2003 | Multiple Exit Points | Gregor, That's some ugly code. You're using a l.... >> |
| 21 Feb 2003 | Why are you still em.... | I also work for a company that does government con.... >> |
| 19 Feb 2003 | Discrimination: Lear.... | Go Linux, Go! said: I don't need some silly lic.... >> |
| How did you stumble .... | I found Joel's site about a year ago. There was.... >> | |
| 14 Feb 2003 | Sunset for Sun >> | |
| 14 Feb 2003 | "Demo" version schem.... | If you define 'most effective' as 'most effective .... >> |
| Tell me again, why J.... | Nick, You have an excellent point, since Java i.... >> | |
| How to ask for a rai.... | I can second the reccommendation for 'Get Paid Wha.... >> | |
| Work hours/week? | Philip Janus, I can understand your love of pro.... >> | |
| I work about 41 hours per week. The purpose of .... >> | ||
| Architecht,Engineer,.... | Practical Geezer, Thanks to your rock-solid arg.... >> | |
| Job Openings | Wow. Off topic, but --- I just noticed that Joe.... >> | |
| Be careful, Pedro, you put your actual e-mail addr.... >> | ||
| Do only geniuses get.... | 15 in 3 weeks is approximately what I was doing wh.... >> | |
| 12 Feb 2003 | Out of work? Don't t.... | I agree, in principle, with what you're saying her.... >> |
| Red Highlighting of .... | Try using google's advanced search. You can search.... >> | |
| Computing visionarie.... | People who claim that the computer industry is now.... >> | |
| Getting through comp.... | Others seem to post messages that don't contribute.... >> | |
| Do only geniuses get.... | Thank you for proving that its mathematically poss.... >> | |
| KHTML-Win32 | While it was certainly fascinating to hear about '.... >> | |
| 10 Feb 2003 | Universities' Crusad.... | Add to my little list above that every student sho.... >> |
| Most universities actually get a fantastic deal on.... >> | ||
| Peer 1, a right deci.... | Bored Bystander said: Perhaps Joel should not hav.... >> | |
| Getting through comp.... | The only way to learn programming is by writing fi.... >> | |
| Sun on Java... | I program in Java. I love the language. I love the.... >> | |
| cs masters | I'd like to add (to my comment at the top of this .... >> | |
| KHTML-Win32 | Please don't help with this project. ;) As a so.... >> | |
| 07 Feb 2003 | cs masters | The current prevailing opinion is either that gett.... >> |
| Do only geniuses get.... | You are sending out too many resumes. You can't.... >> | |
| The Database Databas.... | Goodness sakes, this is a disaster. How in the .... >> | |
| 05 Feb 2003 | Ghost vs. VMWare | VMWare virtual machines don't use their own physic.... >> |
| 30 Jan 2003 | Where is the industr.... | Go Linux Go! siad: >> That is such a laughable st.... >> |
| My opinion: it doesn't matter what will be the nex.... >> | ||
| 24 Jan 2003 | Syntax | Upon reading some of the responses here, I can see.... >> |
| Assembly language | One thing to consider is that you may get tired of.... >> | |
| 23 Jan 2003 | Syntax >> | |
| 23 Jan 2003 | will Linux be mainst.... | In 1998 it might have made sense for Microsoft to .... >> |
| 21 Jan 2003 | Which technology for.... | ....Of course, I'm not sure what PHP has to do wit.... >> |
| PHP has some caching technology available for it. .... >> | ||
| 20 Jan 2003 | Pointers for dummies | The biggest problem with people understanding poin.... >> |
| 14 Jan 2003 | Math | I would say learn trigonometry and then calculus. .... >> |
| 13 Jan 2003 | Suggestions for virt.... | What you're looking for isn't virtual hosting. You.... >> |
| embeddable open sour.... | There is a C++ API to MySQL available. I've never .... >> | |
| 09 Jan 2003 | How do you get a pro.... | Three things: 1) Proceed with caution if you su.... >> |
| 19 Dec 2002 | Advice required: Doc.... | My last job was as a technical writer producing so.... >> |
| 19 Nov 2002 | Expected out of coll.... | Study something besides computers, for crying out .... >> |
| 13 Nov 2002 | Graduate school | What you should really do first is decide what typ.... >> |
| N-Tiered Solutions/I.... | Okay, I suppose that 'impossible to do with SQL' w.... >> | |
| Linux Commands | Okay, I just found out that a TRUE boolean value i.... >> | |
| 07 Nov 2002 | N-Tiered Solutions/I.... | BTW, there are also prevayler implementations port.... >> |
| If you're doing J2EE development, an intriguing so.... >> | ||
| 06 Nov 2002 | Linux Commands >> | |
| 06 Nov 2002 | Learning Perl >> | |
| 06 Nov 2002 | Linux Commands | By the way, I should probably clarify: I'm real.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2002 | Why open-source usab.... | I consider myself a power user, and I suppose a lo.... >> |
| Good Documentation o.... | Thanks everybody. The SGI manuals are very clos.... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2002 | Good Documentation of C++ Standard Library >> | |
| 01 Jul 2002 | Just to clarify after seeing some of these replies.... >> | |
| 15 Jun 2002 | Testers... Who needs.... | In addition to being a big fan of dedicated tester.... >> |
| Despite my support of having a team of dedicated t.... >> | ||
| My company makes software for the CAD industry. I'.... >> | ||
| 06 Jun 2002 | New Machine anyone ? | James, Please post more information here. I'm v.... >> |
| 17 May 2002 | how can "new.net" in.... | New.Net is a company that makes up their own domai.... >> |
| Software License Man.... | >> Low-tech almost always wins out over hi-tech. .... >> | |
| application platform.... | Matthew Lock: >> Non-programmers can't build Acce.... >> | |
| 15 May 2002 | If all you want to do is have users put data into .... >> | |
| 14 May 2002 | There will never be an application development pla.... >> | |
| 09 May 2002 | best looking softwar.... | Robert X. Cringely >> |
| 07 May 2002 | Who owns consultants.... | Work for hire is usually determined by 3 factors: .... >> |
| does fog creek charg.... | I generally charge by the job. The reason: code re.... >> | |
| 03 May 2002 | Good software engine.... | I've also heard others make a suggestion that I th.... >> |
| 02 May 2002 | This is the exact idea that inspired the establish.... >> | |
| IE 6 Privacy default.... | Actually, it isn't quite as big a deal as it may s.... >> | |
| 30 Apr 2002 | Mind Mapping | I"ve used some mind mapping tools before (I can't .... >> |
| 29 Apr 2002 | IE 6 Privacy default.... | I set up one of the sites that I built to have a c.... >> |
| 26 Apr 2002 | Test Plan Insanity | UPDATE: The test plan is finished now, with 200.... >> |
| Open Source - Micros.... | Andres said: 'Same with open source programming.... >> | |
| 24 Apr 2002 | IMHO | Sorry. Didn't mean to come off as antagonistic. .... >> |
| .net again, for a ch.... | On the flip side of the coin, there's a certain st.... >> | |
| 23 Apr 2002 | IMHO | I'm all for obliterating any of these acronyms. Th.... >> |
| 22 Apr 2002 | Test Plan Insanity >> | |
| 18 Apr 2002 | Left field competiti.... | Exactly, Mark. I remember the introduction of the .... >> |
| The obliteration of operating systems is an absurd.... >> | ||
| Good Book on VBA | Upon re-reading your post, you say you're not a no.... >> | |
| I have a fantastic suggestion. Sitting on my books.... >> | ||
| 17 Apr 2002 | Where do you go to t.... | An anecdote: One of the developers at our offic.... >> |
| I used to have the most incredible ideas while mow.... >> | ||
| Is this still true | An online screenwriting forum that I periodically .... >> | |
| 15 Apr 2002 | Anti Visual Basic | VB was one of my entry-points into programming. Af.... >> |
| 11 Apr 2002 | Convincing my boss a.... | Tim said: Do you really think that in your case.... >> |
| Christopher, It looks like we're going to try t.... >> | ||
| The trouble with the iterative design process that.... >> | ||
| Bloatware - one more.... | When I'm at home, I often use Word 2000, Excel 200.... >> | |
| 10 Apr 2002 | Convincing my boss a.... | I'll try again with the project manager. He's actu.... >> |
| The trouble is that the developers don't seem to w.... >> | ||
| I just (this morning) tried to convince the projec.... >> | ||
| Arguing about string.... | I just want to raise my hand in favor of the xml s.... >> | |
| Bloatware - one more.... | Many people have commented that its most important.... >> | |
| 05 Apr 2002 | The future of applic.... | I'm impressed by the oddpost DHTML/SOAP site. Thei.... >> |
| 04 Apr 2002 | woops! My 3rd paragraph is actually referring t.... >> | |
| Actually, browser-based apps have a much poorer sc.... >> | ||
| Question Pertaining .... | To build on sherlock's suggestion from above, try .... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2002 | Open Source version .... | Here's a tip: Saying M$ instead of MS is not cl.... >> |
| 22 Mar 2002 | Open and Closed >> | |
| 20 Mar 2002 | ...I thought I was finished posting, but I guess n.... >> | |
| I don't think its necessarily true that one system.... >> | ||