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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Katie Lucas' | ||
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Number of Comments: 289 |
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| Number of Words: 49,006 | ||
| First Comment: 16 Oct 2001 | ||
| Final Comment: 31 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 2 |
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| First Topic: 02 Apr 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 25 Mar 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 31 Aug 2004 | My mind seems to hav.... | I can't stand poetry. I can at least ignore the.... >> |
| How many of you know.... | I don't actually know all that lot now -- but I di.... >> | |
| 28 Aug 2004 | UML | UML's a nice way to write down descriptions of sys.... >> |
| 25 Aug 2004 | Obtaining File Name .... | The reason you can't do it sensibly in UNIX is tha.... >> |
| 16 Aug 2004 | Your Thought on IP (.... | What I find disturbing about the IP examples in Ge.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2004 | Super OT: Fear of Dr.... | Go to a racing course. Lots of places run these th.... >> |
| 05 Aug 2004 | Weapons software | When I was at university, we had a lecturer who ap.... >> |
| Programming Difficul.... | I dunno -- Yes and no. (In answer to the original .... >> | |
| 01 Aug 2004 | Parser generators--d.... | All the time. Simple files -- throw it through .... >> |
| Odd Codes of Conduct | At the current role we don't have an office. We.... >> | |
| what cars do geeks d.... | An 03 Hyundai Coupe (called Tiburon in the states).... >> | |
| 27 Jul 2004 | mislead about a job;.... | It's usual to lie about these sorts of things in j.... >> |
| 23 Jul 2004 | Quiet workplace: how.... | It could be worse. A bank I worked at piped mus.... >> |
| 22 Jul 2004 | Shell Scripting Fana.... | I can see why they'd be averse to things like C++/.... >> |
| 19 Jul 2004 | Lowest Common Denomi.... | Yes. It is. They don't take pride in their work.... >> |
| Learning emacs | Quite a while, I'm afraid. It's a matter of end.... >> | |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Coding Standards | At a certain bank I'm not allowed to name, coding .... >> |
| The Coffee Test | One place I worked had a coffee filter machine in .... >> | |
| Big Companies & .... | Personally, when I was working for companies like .... >> | |
| 13 Jul 2004 | obscure GNU libtool .... | Actually, the analogy of DLL hell on UNIX is where.... >> |
| Oh yes -- and have the compiler do the linking -- .... >> | ||
| You say something along the lines of
g++/gcc |
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| 12 Jul 2004 | Commercial Software:.... | Of course those of us in the Linux world get to be.... >> |
| Sealed classed... | 'Sealed classes help prevent users from shooting t.... >> | |
| 02 Jul 2004 | A great day to be at.... | I was actually having a fantastic entire month. Th.... >> |
| Linux (Crossplatform.... | Powerbuilder made me cry. Really. It's the only bi.... >> | |
| Kylix, unfortunately, isn't very good on linux pla.... >> | ||
| pressure from employ.... | 'OK - but my new employer won't wait that long. Te.... >> | |
| your most absurd IT .... | 'We don't use DNS' 'Why not?' 'Someone told .... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | An IT company writing some software which require .... >> | |
| 30 Jun 2004 | House prices (off-to.... | Actually, in the UK it's worth buying ex-fleet car.... >> |
| 22 Jun 2004 | The RedHat Enterpris.... | That's kind of like saying: 'Not even Microsoft.... >> |
| firefox - grrhh | Why are you trying to print if you don't have a pr.... >> | |
| 21 Jun 2004 | Microsoft plans to s.... | 'it is 'goodnight Vienna' for Linux, which also us.... >> |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Windows Progress Dia.... | 'All it would take would be to use a thermometer a.... >> |
| 17 Jun 2004 | Programmers won't au.... | Oh yes. The 'Them' that veto things. Oh, I hate th.... >> |
| Why not automate: 1. Organisations which simply.... >> | ||
| 16 Jun 2004 | Work relationship tu.... | Converts are always the worst. And that goes for c.... >> |
| 13 Jun 2004 | "X years of experien.... | I'm starting to gain a certain amount of justifica.... >> |
| 11 Jun 2004 | Reflection on/in Int.... | 'Sort of the way pointers are used as a high-level.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2004 | what do you do when .... | Very simple solution: Join in. They look at you.... >> |
| Recommendations: bes.... | VI's ok if you're just writing code. If you want t.... >> | |
| Who should I hire? | I agree with mackinac -- he could be out of work i.... >> | |
| sounding off: Linux .... | Linux, I have found, is a pain to install things o.... >> | |
| Passing args by refe.... | In which standard are they initialised? comp.la.... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2004 | This is ludicrous | Some comment I came across about building access w.... >> |
| Dear The Entire Soft.... | Having done a degree in computer science is actual.... >> | |
| 31 May 2004 | Explain why emacs is.... | For me, it's got to be the auto-indent and stuff d.... >> |
| 13 May 2004 | Massive Windows Pain.... | Well, personally I buy machines without the CDs be.... >> |
| 01 May 2004 | Do you make appointm.... | Gerald -- yeah, I started doing similar things. Pl.... >> |
| back to "Writing a g.... | The number of things that default to 'stupidity'...... >> | |
| 26 Apr 2004 | fast money | You know, spam and phishing and stuff might have a.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2004 | Accounting Primer fo.... | I've worked on maintaining a lot of accounting sys.... >> |
| How long is two minu.... | Maybe it should be 'if it doesn't depend on someth.... >> | |
| Writing a great empl.... | I can tell you the sort of phrases not to use: .... >> | |
| 20 Apr 2004 | Relative IT Salaries.... | Cambridge is HUGELY expensive to live in. 1. Hi.... >> |
| Bear in mind you'll need at least two other jobs t.... >> | ||
| The card reader was .... | I get this sort of thing off my mother. She's n.... >> | |
| 19 Apr 2004 | Extreme Anxiety abou.... | Just think that even considering the passengers in.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2004 | bug reports > act.... | Sadly not smart enough to not be a software engine.... >> |
| 13 Apr 2004 | You also have to understand something about large .... >> | |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Team member goes Off.... | From experience it sounds like the leading edge of.... >> |
| Spammers have email,.... | Why on earth would the companies want to stop the .... >> | |
| Have you ever been f.... | I did get fired the once. I've forgiven him. Basic.... >> | |
| 31 Mar 2004 | Wrapping code at 80 .... | Screens, right, are a lot wider than they are long.... >> |
| 30 Mar 2004 | Dates with MS Access | Certainly it used to be the case that while most o.... >> |
| 29 Mar 2004 | Out of memory--what .... | brk() doesn't always return more memory. It can fa.... >> |
| 26 Mar 2004 | Another Sanity Check.... | My honest answer to this is that every methodology.... >> |
| 25 Mar 2004 | US anti-spam laws >> | |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Poll: What car do yo.... | New shape hyundai coupe. But only because I haven'.... >> |
| US anti-spam laws | I just thought this new law might mean we can go s.... >> | |
| Yes, but this email address didn't opt in. And yea.... >> | ||
| Slowest computer | I'd add the fact it crashes if you open a zero len.... >> | |
| Sadly, it's this Thinkpad 1Ghz laptop I'm writing .... >> | ||
| Good Code / Bad Code.... | 'All code is understandable to someone at some poi.... >> | |
| Pentagon:Windows Upg.... | I'm not sure how strong the evidence for/against g.... >> | |
| Scary, Bad Code at N.... | Yeah, code like that is normal. And so is the t.... >> | |
| 24 Mar 2004 | how did you find you.... | By being a wargamer. No, really. I've moved .... >> |
| 23 Mar 2004 | Communist Western Eu.... | We're still paying lend-lease back. It's due to.... >> |
| 18 Mar 2004 | Subversion | We've switched to it instead of CVS. Apart from a .... >> |
| 17 Mar 2004 | databases are danger.... | I'm stunned by how often people don't change datab.... >> |
| 16 Mar 2004 | const--use it? | I use it whenever possible. Which is when some idi.... >> |
| 04 Mar 2004 | VB.Net Success Stori.... | My other half does projects in various .NET enviro.... >> |
| 29 Feb 2004 | Some reasons not to .... | I decided to buy a house at the point owning a hou.... >> |
| 27 Feb 2004 | A Quote By Charles S.... | I read a bit about IP in a book; it's basically ab.... >> |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Unix & c redirec.... | Of course, CTRL-Cing it doesn't call exit(). I'.... >> |
| Buffering shouldn't make any difference, because w.... >> | ||
| Idiotic design decis.... | My DVD player's remote control has fast-forward bu.... >> | |
| Working for Game Com.... | Go to www.gamasutra.com where there's a postmortem.... >> | |
| I interviewed at a couple of companies. Frankly I .... >> | ||
| 23 Feb 2004 | Subversion hits vers.... | Fairly seriously looking at it -- because it versi.... >> |
| 21 Feb 2004 | definition of reflec.... | Actually most of it can be done in C++. It's ce.... >> |
| Personal Cell & .... | My take on this is the same. I write software. The.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2004 | Computer Science to .... | You know, reading that, I'm not sure which is wors.... >> |
| Naming args in heade.... | I write the code in the header files anyway. It sp.... >> | |
| 16 Feb 2004 | Down with WYSIWYG? | Actually the best bit about LaTeX is the ability t.... >> |
| Uses for a PDA | Pads of paper are all very well, but they do have .... >> | |
| 13 Feb 2004 | Group Policy changes | 'Add a line item...' Most companies get round t.... >> |
| 11 Feb 2004 | Good vs Bad Code | I try very hard not have variable lifetimes anywhe.... >> |
| 08 Feb 2004 | How to find qualifie.... | I don't think the issue so much is whether the goo.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2004 | What is Hacking the .... | I find a lot of the hacked code I come across is t.... >> |
| 03 Feb 2004 | DVDs and customer ab.... | 'Starcops' STILL isn't out on DVD. There's only ni.... >> |
| 26 Jan 2004 | how do other people .... | My sister's an accountant (technically she's an au.... >> |
| Sir Bill Gates | He's not going to be 'Sir Bill'. Mucky foreigne.... >> | |
| How much is 30K ster.... | 30K is about going rate at the moment for experien.... >> | |
| 04 Dec 2003 | TV Show about Progra.... | Dweebs is brilliant. It's worth catching on re-run.... >> |
| 24 Nov 2003 | Stupid Users | Back to the camera analogy, there's something else.... >> |
| Linux Refactoring | You know, in some respects, this site is getting a.... >> | |
| 22 Nov 2003 | IT is being moved to.... | I used to work in environments where people would .... >> |
| 21 Nov 2003 | Being pushed | In that case -- get a lawyer. Get documentation. A.... >> |
| 17 Nov 2003 | Offshoring Opportuni.... | The problems labelled a to f turn up all over the .... >> |
| 13 Nov 2003 | C++ meta programming.... | I sort of agree with Nick here -- I've just spent .... >> |
| Airport security - a.... | Re: the shoebomber... I'm not sure the smoke detec.... >> | |
| 03 Nov 2003 | The Ridiculous Influ.... | I have a couple of friends who are UNIX admins wi.... >> |
| Peopleware : doors b.... | Oh yes. Sales people in the same room as the devel.... >> | |
| "Programmer Folkways.... | Personally, I'd settle for a little extra respect..... >> | |
| The Hidden Costs of .... | Check out the story of the ITV merger in the UK an.... >> | |
| Life and Career | Anecdotally, a friend who's a contractor in the UK.... >> | |
| 23 Oct 2003 | Background color for.... | I do most development on the console of my laptop .... >> |
| 20 Oct 2003 | What coders can lear.... | Everyone can have a pen and paper. There is no lic.... >> |
| 06 Oct 2003 | Where do all the cra.... | Frankly I deal with the sub-standard coders by ass.... >> |
| There are companies that don't have a 'hire the be.... >> | ||
| 03 Oct 2003 | Working Vacation | I seem to recall my Dad was asked this one: They a.... >> |
| 29 Sep 2003 | I had an idea drivin.... | Oh yes, and house price inflation means I can't af.... >> |
| OK, I drive a car for exactly this reason. It has .... >> | ||
| Private offices, jus.... | A bank[1] recently moved a load of its staff. They.... >> | |
| 16 Jul 2003 | Job-hopping | You know, I've never been particularly reticent ab.... >> |
| 09 Jul 2003 | game programmers | 'Business users don't complain as much...' No. .... >> |
| Actually, my experience with games projects is tha.... >> | ||
| Performance Appraisa.... | My last performance appraisal basically went; 'You.... >> | |
| 03 Jul 2003 | Dangerous Competitor.... | I used to work for a company that ran against free.... >> |
| 27 Jun 2003 | Desk Decoration | I don't have very much stuff at work at all. We're.... >> |
| Phone interviews | I've found a worrying number of places care neithe.... >> | |
| What's Your Best Pro.... | I co-wrote a video game that I still come across p.... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2003 | Retroactive Advice | If I could send a note to myself ten years ago, I'.... >> |
| 17 Jun 2003 | ask JoS:: New mobile.... | I have a 33-something. Because it's small enough t.... >> |
| Fog Creek 9 to 5? | There's nothing wrong with that sort of role worki.... >> | |
| Business Cycles | It's interesting that the bank I work for is movin.... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2003 | Companies "based" up.... | Personally, I don't use microsoft stuff: I run /my.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2003 | Excellent grades | 'a degree from Oxbridge or an Ivy League universit.... >> |
| 10 Jun 2003 | WHO NAMES A NAMESPAC.... | Oh. I use 'mySomething' for references to thing.... >> |
| Have you registered .... | Hmm. Cross-border taxation. This might explain all.... >> | |
| 06 Jun 2003 | How to hire a Medica.... | You saw a doctor when you broke your leg?!? Hah.... >> |
| Well, lets see, I've got a physiotherapist, two su.... >> | ||
| Programming puzzles .... | My other half got a book entitled 'How Not To Prog.... >> | |
| How important is a p.... | And as for the Egg thing, I recently reviewed some.... >> | |
| The other thing I learned from the 'Code for Effec.... >> | ||
| 05 Jun 2003 | C++ question | I'm discussing the header thing with Duncan one ni.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2003 | Am I crazy? | I long ago realised all jobs are boring. They are .... >> |
| 03 Jun 2003 | How important is a p.... | 'Monday' was supposed to evoke feelings of 'new st.... >> |
| 30 May 2003 | Any theories on this.... | 'the Challenger burnt out on re-entry in a peculia.... >> |
| 29 May 2003 | You can't be an acco.... | I've worked for several vertical market companies..... >> |
| 23 May 2003 | How did you get here.... | I was always going to be some sort of engineer or .... >> |
| Extreme Programming .... | We've had a bundle of people turn up to enthuse th.... >> | |
| finding educated wor.... | 'Far from scholastic acheivment not being rewarde.... >> | |
| 20 May 2003 | where did all the so.... | 'Pay them or treat them well and they'll stay. The.... >> |
| 19 May 2003 | Confusing Job Specif.... | I often get the feeling that if you ask them reall.... >> |
| where did all the so.... | >>> 'On the other hand, if good people turn up, th.... >> | |
| I have noticed a trend that companies aren't adver.... >> | ||
| POLL : How Many Of Y.... | 1. I play RTSes when I can talk people into playin.... >> | |
| 16 May 2003 | Anyone use Multiple .... | I use MI all the time. I find the trick to having .... >> |
| 14 May 2003 | Do You Drive? | I have a car and love driving it. I did find no.... >> |
| 09 May 2003 | Need a new job, and .... | You know that. I know that. Everyone with any sens.... >> |
| keep it in the hemis.... | There is a much more subtle language problem: as w.... >> | |
| 07 May 2003 | The generation gap | It'll sort itself in a little while. The boomers a.... >> |
| 06 May 2003 | Programmers who are .... | Friend of mine is a contractor at a biggish logist.... >> |
| 17 Apr 2003 | Knowledge sharing us.... | Seed the Wiki with stuff. Make up conversations if.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2003 | UML and design patte.... | I have to say, I agree. Class diagrams and sequenc.... >> |
| 11 Apr 2003 | The Joy of Linux | Have to say I agree. RPMs/Redhat are great if you .... >> |
| 08 Apr 2003 | If you were not a de.... | Computerizing - Oh, I have no issue with using a c.... >> |
| Salary history | 'Be prepared for a pay cut in six months' WOW. .... >> | |
| 07 Apr 2003 | If you were not a de.... | Own a wargames publishing company. >> |
| Server Naming Scheme.... | I don't really publically name servers on our netw.... >> | |
| How come? | I recall seeing an interview with a pair of screen.... >> | |
| 04 Apr 2003 | English clarificatio.... | It's not quite the same as chapter 11, because the.... >> |
| In-House Customers H.... | 'Are there really places out there that try to wri.... >> | |
| 03 Apr 2003 | Benefits of Timeshee.... | I'll just add an extract of a rant I'm sending to .... >> |
| 02 Apr 2003 | Self Imposed Pressur.... | I never felt under pressure as a contractor. In fa.... >> |
| 26 Mar 2003 | Pen-and-Paper coding.... | I use huge peices of paper -- flipchart refill pad.... >> |
| 25 Mar 2003 | What One Recruiter R.... | Personally, I've found the best way to deal with r.... >> |
| 24 Mar 2003 | Tech hubs around the.... | And then there are two games development hubs in t.... >> |
| 19 Mar 2003 | What allows GNU/Linu.... | Whilst I agree with the 'thousands of crappy apps'.... >> |
| 17 Mar 2003 | writing coding tests.... | I don't ask people to write code. Every member of .... >> |
| Design and implement.... | We do similar stuff here. Issues are: 1. We emp.... >> | |
| Social aspects of "w.... | The world class people I know variously hang out i.... >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | What does a 'world c.... | How delightfully Victorian. There are some non-.... >> |
| Warchalking | It's supposed to wash away - that way the symbols .... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2003 | Military Software De.... | I wrote military software. I have no qualms about .... >> |
| Multiple Exit Points | The rule here is 'one exit point'. Mostly because .... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2003 | dumb Unix question | If you rename all the UNIX directories to be somet.... >> |
| Windows NT/200X Buil.... | I liked the 'for the first two weeks it was uneven.... >> | |
| 18 Feb 2003 | Worst interviewer ev.... | I've seriously considered adding to the bullet poi.... >> |
| 17 Feb 2003 | scientific apps | Unfortunately, they seem rather rare. From my expe.... >> |
| 14 Feb 2003 | OpenGL vs. Direct3D | OpenGL is cross-platform. It tends to change less .... >> |
| 11 Feb 2003 | Universities' Crusad.... | Hmm. I must have missed out, because we didn't cov.... >> |
| 06 Feb 2003 | actively hiring | Which does raise the question about why everyone i.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2003 | Speaking of Source C.... | We use PVCS over a network link which has ping tim.... >> |
| 04 Feb 2003 | how difficult is ker.... | Depends how complex you want the VM system to be. .... >> |
| 03 Feb 2003 | Smokers | Yep, there's no social exclusion in pubs. Excep.... >> |
| Work Dress Code | I don't wear ties. Somehow I doubt they'd look goo.... >> | |
| 31 Jan 2003 | Cube or office...Wha.... | How come earphones are always people's answer to t.... >> |
| I live in an open-plan office. I have no walls..... >> | ||
| 10 Dec 2002 | Code Reviews - Does .... | It's not that I don't pay attention to detail, it'.... >> |
| Yes. It's required. To the extent that I got bor.... >> | ||
| Naked Objects | Yes, but remember that call centre staff get a lot.... >> | |
| 09 Dec 2002 | Code Reviews - Does .... | Every time I've doen them they've been a pain in t.... >> |
| 04 Dec 2002 | Handling the telepho.... | How about 'Please don't interrupt me, I'm thinking.... >> |
| 02 Dec 2002 | Why some programmers.... | 'flushing your Ritalin and Prozac down the toilet..... >> |
| 28 Nov 2002 | Unemployment Woes | Heh. Housemate is currently job hunting. Now, n.... >> |
| I did have this issue myself looking for a role - .... >> | ||
| 22 Nov 2002 | C++ Builder - any go.... | Delphi seems to be quite healthy, although it's no.... >> |
| How many gas station.... | I was asked this in an interview recently. I said .... >> | |
| 18 Nov 2002 | OT? Source control f.... | My sister's an accountant. For ages she's been nag.... >> |
| 14 Nov 2002 | Stick-shift or Auto-.... | Personally, I have no idea what to do with my le.... >> |
| 13 Nov 2002 | "Next Big Thing." | 'Save time normally done doing what?' Well, loo.... >> |
| 11 Nov 2002 | Revenue | Greenspun got greedy, and the company got burned, .... >> |
| 04 Nov 2002 | Writing Specs - Not .... | Actually, my problem here is that the developers A.... >> |
| 16 Oct 2002 | Employment | I've just changed jobs. Sobering experience. I ser.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2002 | Joels worst piece ye.... | Jak & Daxter being in Lisp: In an interview, th.... >> |
| 12 Sep 2002 | Memoriam | I'm in two minds about the whole thing: Firstly, 3.... >> |
| 11 Sep 2002 | A-ha! interview ques.... | Pop quiz: why did UK national newspapers run the p.... >> |
| That'll do it... And, what's even worse, once y.... >> | ||
| 10 Sep 2002 | One insightful inter.... | The lack of a decent RTTI would win my vote (the h.... >> |
| A-ha! interview ques.... | I don't even ask the 'what is polymorphism'. Mostl.... >> | |
| I hate people who use these sorts of questions. Fr.... >> | ||
| 02 Sep 2002 | Can someone please e.... | 'I know there is a urge to want to prevent Adobe f.... >> |
| 30 Aug 2002 | High Stakes no priso.... | I finished reading it, put it down and was struck .... >> |
| 09 Aug 2002 | Do normal people use.... | I used to run lint on platforms where the C compil.... >> |
| 02 Aug 2002 | Ants | Jeans?!?!? You buy $125 jeans? My god. The l.... >> |
| I used to have a house with ants nests in the wall.... >> | ||
| 26 Jul 2002 | Is game developer vi.... | I have to agree - watching people having fun with .... >> |
| 08 Jul 2002 | Why open-source usab.... | Another issue with config files rather than GUIs i.... >> |
| 04 Jul 2002 | PCWEEK Article | 'Where is the british manufacturing now?' Where.... >> |
| 30 Jun 2002 | What's the big deal? | Consulting. Ahahahahahaha. The consulting industry.... >> |
| 27 Jun 2002 | Personally, I want to be a manager for a number of.... >> | |
| 18 Jun 2002 | Why Software Is So B.... | No-one ever said that building bug-free large syst.... >> |
| 11 Jun 2002 | This chef has no clo.... | Programming is easy. Absolutely falling off a log .... >> |
| 04 Jun 2002 | Writing skills | The main problem of UML is that whatever it's INTE.... >> |
| 22 May 2002 | Aircraft falling fro.... | Simple reply: Look at all the job adverts. Certain.... >> |
| 21 May 2002 | Code Reviews (Method.... | Personally, all of my experiences with code review.... >> |
| 10 May 2002 | Ant and Make - Why d.... | Actually, Make works fine over multiple directorie.... >> |
| 08 May 2002 | cool production code | I once came across some code in a financial applic.... >> |
| 30 Apr 2002 | Other management ide.... | Yeah, but airbus don't have something like a 2/3 f.... >> |
| Possibly true, but then the 'formal' and 'proper' .... >> | ||
| are other areas of p.... | Learning embedded: you could... Write some Linu.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2002 | Other management ide.... | The idea of having huge mailing lists on which you.... >> |
| are other areas of p.... | OK, embedded is worth it if you like a challenge -.... >> | |
| '* were allowed to bring pets to work, * had 10 .... >> | ||
| 'For a doctor to make $50K as a .NET programmer he.... >> | ||
| 24 Apr 2002 | What about advanced .... | 'Lots of companies do have high level architecture.... >> |
| I've been pondering an MBA. Basically because I sp.... >> | ||
| Futuristic office | One of the things I've noticed is that too often d.... >> | |
| Enlightened companie.... | 'A few people complain, as we do on this list, eve.... >> | |
| 19 Apr 2002 | Stay or go? | I think the thing to do is to stop worrying about .... >> |
| 18 Apr 2002 | Where do you go to t.... | Oh, for heaven's sake! [See, this is why people.... >> |
| I think in the bath. Very long baths with lavender.... >> | ||
| 17 Apr 2002 | Is this still true | First post!! Yes, I think it's still true. It's.... >> |
| Future for commercia.... | I'd be happier if the open-source people stopped u.... >> | |
| 'in-house developers updating accounts receivable .... >> | ||
| Working Conditions | Ah... my problem with fixed price work is the inab.... >> | |
| 'if it is a bug that i have spent 4 hours looking .... >> | ||
| 'My issue is about my work environment: I have bee.... >> | ||
| 16 Apr 2002 | Anti Visual Basic | ``People saying things like 'we need an OO languag.... >> |
| '2. Variable declaration is hardly rocket science .... >> | ||
| 15 Apr 2002 | Simple question. | I don't think Joel's always right (I disagree with.... >> |
| 12 Apr 2002 | Joel On Pictures | So - what's the one with the shelving? Can't quite.... >> |
| A Religious discussi.... | MS advertising for .NET in the UK is... well... cr.... >> | |
| 02 Apr 2002 | How to appear competent? >> | |
| 02 Apr 2002 | Are all programmers .... | Personally, I think learning is the most important.... >> |
| 28 Mar 2002 | Doing an MS in CS | {I apologise if this turns up >1 time, I'm having .... >> |
| 26 Mar 2002 | Proj. Mgrs. Staffed .... | Project managers (ideally) are there to make the p.... >> |
| I keep having this nasty experience at companies o.... >> | ||
| Suggested Books | The problem I find with any sort of logical argume.... >> | |
| 14 Mar 2002 | Should programmers a.... | Yeah, there's nothing like saying 'Hey, I could so.... >> |
| 13 Mar 2002 | Patterns never took .... | I'm working at the moment at a client that's keen .... >> |
| 11 Mar 2002 | "The Way Good Softwa.... | The speedo went on my car as I was accelerating do.... >> |
| 04 Mar 2002 | Visual Modelling Too.... | Best visual modelling tool you can get: Black felt.... >> |
| Best way to avoid ke.... | If you told management they needed to have more pe.... >> | |
| 01 Mar 2002 | Making (design) deci.... | Don't sit in front of a computer. Code happens .... >> |
| 28 Feb 2002 | Developers over 35? | Actually, having thought about it, I can see how w.... >> |
| I can't think of any sane reason for it. The ma.... >> | ||
| 25 Feb 2002 | working efficiently..... | Oh good. I'm not the only one that leaves a note r.... >> |
| 19 Feb 2002 | Certification/Licens.... | 'certified by whom?' Why, Microsoft, of course..... >> |
| 14 Feb 2002 | The Iceberg Secret, .... | I don't see how this 'spamming the people the othe.... >> |
| 12 Feb 2002 | Bidding | I seem to have spent most of my life wondering why.... >> |
| 31 Jan 2002 | Inept Interviwers At.... | Personally, I've found the 'sprawling requirements.... >> |
| Anyone provide good .... | 'If you have an office plan for informal meeting s.... >> | |
| Making money with Op.... | I work as a contractor in the UK and I have seen a.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2002 | PDA'sLUseful or Crap.... | Personally I find my Handspring invaluable. My oth.... >> |
| Wireless | Comment about SMS - It's gobsmackingly useful. .... >> | |
| 16 Oct 2001 | Underline Edit Boxes.... | It doesn't seem to work at all on Netscape for Lin.... >> |