finally updated:04 Sep 2004 20:05 UK time oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Matthew Lock' View all Jossers sorted by : Name | Comments | Words | First Comment | Final Comment Number of Comments: 1,009 Number of Words: 36,776 First Comment: 03 Nov 2001 Final Comment: 01 Sep 2004 Number of Topics Posted: 59 First Topic: 31 Oct 2001 Latest Topic: 28 Aug 2004 When Item Comment 01 Sep 2004   Winnable Solitaire a....   I like the way Eric put his money where is mouth w....   >>   30 Aug 2004   Rewrite Gecko in Jav....   I think there was one project way back when Netsca....   >>   29 Aug 2004   faux striped source ....   Yes real printers let you know when they were work....   >>         You could probably paste the code into MS Word and....   >>      GmailFS - Gmail File....   Last time I checked 1Gb USB drives were still reas....   >>         Somone on Slashdot pointed out that it would make ....   >>         Oh look it's on Slashdot now: http://linux.slashdo....   >>   28 Aug 2004   GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem   >>   28 Aug 2004   Tool to display disk....   > Spacemonger 2 looks great but it's been coming f....   >>      From idea to final p....   It can take ages to get from the almost finished t....   >>   27 Aug 2004   Tool to display disk....   Yeah Spacemonger: http://www.werkema.com/software/....   >>      Getting the value of....   Bordem, he's an easy target, he makes such a fool ....   >>      Need info on Mideast....   No it's because they searched on "mideast" rather ....   >>         The OP didn't do any searching on Google at all I ....   >>         Not too long ago a researcher would do their own r....   >>   26 Aug 2004   Getting the value of....   Hey Muppet you mean like this one? http://discuss.....   >>      Need info on Mideast....   Muppet you really need to seek professional help a....   >>         Check the very first hit   >>         http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Mideast+Internet....   >>      Sink Battleship   Wow this forum has picked up some real losers rece....   >>   25 Aug 2004   Singing HTML   >>   25 Aug 2004   Some Questions   The advantage is that we don't have to keep reinve....   >>         This doesn't directly answer your question but tal....   >>      COM & XML questi....   > justify your original comment A lot of coders....   >>   23 Aug 2004   How to get invited t....   www.gmailswap.com   >>      advertisement blocki....   I'm curious about Promitron. What kind of things d....   >>   22 Aug 2004   How to verify a comp....   Whoops, try this link: http://tinyurl.com/2o6ks    >>         You look good in that tshirt too! http://www.il....   >>      Client education - f....   Oh, and when the client calls you for free advice ....   >>         Beyond the very first meeting I charge $50 per hou....   >>      Gmail notifies   So hide/remove some icons.   >>   20 Aug 2004   Does your employer m....   8-9pm I wish! I mean 8-9am.   >>         What part of Australia do you live in? Here in Per....   >>      GOOG off to the race....   Back up to 100+ now.   >>   19 Aug 2004   Automatic vs. manual....   The real flaw in Joel's argument is the analogy th....   >>      ASP vs. ASP.Net   I use both and although there's undoubtedly improv....   >>      Code Olympics - what....   Flaming on news boards   >>         - Synchronised and asynchronised swimming - Pong    >>         Int, Short, and Long Jump   >>         - perl golf - regular expression marathon    >>      read/have article "W....   > Errr.. a base install of XP without any network ....   >>         > It's a mental health problem to not want your co....   >>         > a '67 Mustang is a hell of a lot better than the....   >>   18 Aug 2004      Being called a troll by Muppet. Priceless! My r....   >>         > Windows 3.1 on DOS 6.22, and my problems were fe....   >>      Whats happening with....   'This site lists publicly available web services.'....   >>   16 Aug 2004   Poll   Why wouldn't an interviewer ask the candidate to w....   >>   15 Aug 2004   Anthropomorphizing c....   > Anyone remember the computer named 'Chip' from W....   >>   13 Aug 2004   Coldfusion programme....   Muppet it's you isn't it! You wrote that advert. Y....   >>         Who would apply for a job there? Only people with ....   >>      Friend's Idea / My I....   > if the company brings in $100,000 in its first y....   >>      Web Shops: 120 an ho....   > I would love to start my own web development com....   >>   12 Aug 2004   which language?   You could probably find some stories of perl scali....   >>         > Here's a test, ask anyone who is recommending Pe....   >>      Are some parts of a ....   Install this and you can see what goes back a fort....   >>   10 Aug 2004   CityDesk   Why? Isn't a painter's house always unpainted and ....   >>         CityDesk has its quirks, but it is definately the ....   >>   09 Aug 2004   Survivor of Technetc....   These weren't bad either: http://www.h2k2.net/p....   >>         http://www.itconversations.com/    >>      Getting Spammed &....   Mitnick was caught in the US, many spammers aren't....   >>         What country was Mr Mitnik caught in? And what cou....   >>      Hidden URLs - How ea....   h4x0r5 are wise to this too: http://www.wired.com/....   >>         > That's what I thought. So is this secret referre....   >>         How secret is super secret? It's as secret as it i....   >>         http://googlesite.google.com/search?output=googlea....   >>   07 Aug 2004   JOS Homepage Dates   Pesky Italian Hackers!   >>   05 Aug 2004   Diff program   Beyond Compare ++   >>      Dynamic Content   Trouble with iframes is that annoying click that I....   >>         Nice example here too of a web page requesting mor....   >>         You can get Javascript to fetch data from your ser....   >>      Anyone else from Wis....   Hey Cheese Heads!   >>   04 Aug 2004   Brand strength   Joel's way ahead of you. Try adding your url to th....   >>   02 Aug 2004   Programming Language....   They were listed at the their dotnet page. http://....   >>         O'Reilly publish heaps of .NET books according to ....   >>   31 Jul 2004   Joel and Eric on Pau....   Have they commented on Paul Graham's article? I di....   >>      Combating SPAM   > So how would a bayesian filter stop this (taken ....   >>   30 Jul 2004   Array   I thought the inside of the Tardis wasn't in this ....   >>   29 Jul 2004   What's a good FREE F....   WebDrive http://www.webdrive.com It's not free ....   >>   28 Jul 2004   SPAM   > and not have to worry about updating some local ....   >>         Too much work. I just want to filter out spam and ....   >>         With Popfile I came for the spam filtering, but I ....   >>      New MSN +Encarta sea....   See the first 3 results from MSN. All paid for adv....   >>   27 Jul 2004   SPAM   Popfile, with the Outclass UI in Outlook so you ge....   >>      I need help please   They act like this: http://users.pandora.be/bonte/....   >>      New MSN +Encarta sea....   Compare these results. I don't think Google needs ....   >>   26 Jul 2004   My users have threat....   Yeah make sure you don't erase the answering machi....   >>      Web page size still ....   Yep, or just generate static files everytime you u....   >>         Usually only on static pages though.   >>   25 Jul 2004   Fog Creek Affiliate Program   >>   21 Jul 2004   "Searching is not a ....   Check out how much better the latest Mac OSX searc....   >>      ASP business model a....   > As a replacement for Word/Excel or Open Office? ....   >>      Handwritten Document....   .. and writing on whiteboards.   >>         Also isn't the future according to many in pen bas....   >>   19 Jul 2004   Does term "Troll" co....   How do you figure?   >>   18 Jul 2004   Sun throws in the to....   Prakash: 'During the Bubble, Oracle used to run....   >>   17 Jul 2004   Last Straw   You need to get into the habit of either not promi....   >>   16 Jul 2004   Log Anaylser - any r....   I knocked my own one up in perl pretty easily once....   >>   15 Jul 2004   Javascript Compatibi....   Take them to another page. Those popups annoy me t....   >>   14 Jul 2004   Database Pooling - I....   This needs to be qualified though. A small guestbo....   >>      SEO sucks   Can you post the url of you and your competitors s....   >>   13 Jul 2004   Have you tried Googl....   What's better about Google Groups is that your new....   >>      The price, idiot, wh....   At this rate Joel on Software will probably end up....   >>   12 Jul 2004   Testing floating poi....   > needless casting overhead in tight loops I wo....   >>   10 Jul 2004   Gmail technical impl....   What add ons are there for Gmail?   >>   09 Jul 2004   Firefox extensions   Don't worry most extensions are under 100kb   >>         Tabbrowser extensions is nice, it lets you move th....   >>      What's your fave Thu....   > I like the Mole for drilling undergroud. F.A.....   >>      The Myth of Technolo....   So why didn't you pay with cash? Nobody forced you....   >>      Taiwan hardware, com....   Are the keyboards the same as the US? I lived in J....   >>   08 Jul 2004   English Code   Who cares if non experts can't read your perl code....   >>      Music   Stereolab.   >>   07 Jul 2004   Password attacks by ....   > force regular change of password This probabl....   >>         I would block his IP address from logging in after....   >>   06 Jul 2004   Cost of a home setup   Can you get away with using the free #develop or W....   >>      project managers for....   According to the Dilbert Principle you just need t....   >>      Dogfood   > TMTOWTDI : 'There's More Than One Way To Do It'.....   >>      Local, single-user b....   I just make a folder in Outlook based on the task ....   >>      How does the RIAA id....   I wonder why most artists just don't sell their mu....   >>   05 Jul 2004   Hungerian standard+J....   Read this about Hungarian Notation http://c2.com/....   >>      Canadian Companies   Do you do perl, if so I have seen a few in Canada ....   >>      Running Linux on Int....   Oh yeah check out Bochs, it's an open source x86 e....   >>         Anyone tried CoLinux? http://www.colinux.org/ I....   >>      Lecturing about Unic....   Yes that CKJV book is brilliant. http://www.oreil....   >>   04 Jul 2004   Suddenly Unicode bec....   > I didn't want to ignore my (potential) users in ....   >>   03 Jul 2004   Commoditisation   Why all the worry about Open Source? Open Source's....   >>   02 Jul 2004   Stamp Out Spam   >>   02 Jul 2004   Men of Cloth in Soft....   Has there been much of any research done by Men of....   >>         Bayesian Spam Filtering is based in Bayes' Theorem....   >>      Adult ADHD   > I really do have a brain in my head, and fuck yo....   >>      Just. for web server....   Get a new job. Seriously, no company that makes so....   >>   01 Jul 2004   No More Improvements to the Web   >>   01 Jul 2004   your most absurd IT ....   I worked in a company that was: - Too cheap to ....   >>      What will the web be....   > like usenet today, the Web will be obsolete W....   >>      No More Improvements....   Are there any actual web sites out there using "ad....   >>      If you like Joel on ....   Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.ht....   >>      Web Applications vs ....   How 1337!   >>         hugeurl.com is pretty cool   >>      What we want, what w....   Can you imagine the viruses and worms that would e....   >>   30 Jun 2004   Web Applications vs Desktop Applications   >>   30 Jun 2004   Web Applications vs ....   The url was so big I thought it might get broken u....   >>      JavaScript   Here's a great quote about Javascript: 'JavaScr....   >>         Exactly what don't you like about Javascript? I pe....   >>         I meant Netcape/Mozilla only above.   >>         There's some neat things you can do in Javascript,....   >>      fantastic - new on-l....   They probably use this http://myfreeadssecret.com/....   >>      The phrase "bet the ....   Wasn't GEOS originally developed for the Commodore....   >>         Oh yeah GEM was on the Atari ST too. That was reas....   >>         Gem? We had that on our Amstrad PC back in 1986, t....   >>         Let Google be the judge: http://www.googlefight....   >>         http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/winer.if.h....   >>      man man   UNIX does have black magic: http://www.clueless.co....   >>      Who is on fire?   I'd hardly say open sourcers such as RMS are worki....   >>         .. to Devon's questions about how much money will ....   >>         I'm sure I don't know.   >>         Hey did any language designer get to live in a big....   >>      Visual Studio Expres....   Hey I wonder if I could hack togther a "killfile" ....   >>         There's some real charmers on this forum aren't th....   >>         Wow I didn't know so many people didn't understand....   >>   29 Jun 2004   Who is on fire?   > As a user, I think that sucks. I'd rather pay f....   >>         In the perl case Larry Wall comoditised a scriptin....   >>         > Linux is evil. Open source is evil. In the long ....   >>      Visual Studio Expres....   But those examples aren't related to the skill. Ha....   >>         Wouldn't high level IDEs turn already good program....   >>      https tracking - pub....   > and therefore the images can duck around many/mo....   >>         Dennis, can you give us an examples of this snoopi....   >>         Make sure you check your tinfoil hat for any gaps ....   >>         This is totally bogus. How does random-site.com ge....   >>      General Interface's.....   A lot of guys are giving them away on irc. That's ....   >>   28 Jun 2004   What does SharePoint actually do?   >>   28 Jun 2004      Oh Gmail rocks! It actually feels faster to use th....   >>      JavaScript book? A r....   The O'Reilly Javascript and DHTML Cookbook is pret....   >>      Windows Update Rant   Buy one of those computer magazines with the CDs o....   >>      What does SharePoint....   What like MyYahoo?   >>      Pranks on people's c....   The old 'net send' is hard to beat for annoying pe....   >>   26 Jun 2004   event-driven php web....   Generally you just give each button a name like th....   >>      Pranks on people's c....   Crazy Clown Computing.   >>         > Make a screenshot of a desktop. Then delete (mov....   >>   24 Jun 2004   Why Web based apps S....   I felt the same when Ebay recently re-did MyEbay. ....   >>      Confidentiality/Non ....   You can get a lawyer to read over a contract for a....   >>         Oh yeah, just because it might not be enforcable d....   >>         Check with a lawyer. Those non-compete agreements ....   >>   23 Jun 2004   Language-aware diff ....   Run, don't walk to Beyond Compare. It's the best d....   >>      flash based MP3 play....   Are you sure they wear out that quickly? I use min....   >>         I have one of those old Creative Nomad IIs from 20....   >>         Why don't you think it's durable or reliable? I ha....   >>      [ASP.NET] Forwarding....   You want to use web services. Then you can get you....   >>      Lookup tables vs. ex....   About 2 years ago I ported an Access application t....   >>         The killer to arguments about scalability and perf....   >>      C#/.NET (Vague Troll....   I always assumed C# was originally based on Micros....   >>      Another reply to "Ho....   Who is "Joel Splosky"? This guy even spells Joel w....   >>      More API wars (sorry....   Am I the only guy who thinks putting certain word ....   >>   21 Jun 2004   Shakespeare Programming Language   >>   21 Jun 2004   Portable Business lo....   Oh that sounds better then. No pesky clients commi....   >>         > Users will mostly just setting a 'Required' flag....   >>         > users to modify the validation rules themselves.....   >>      Scoble's latest news....   > Sure there is confirmation... if the author both....   >>         Like this: http://prismicspiral.com/scribe/ from t....   >>         This could be fixed I reckon. The browser could pr....   >>      Shakespeare Programm....   2b || !2b   >>      Microsoft plans to s....   Ah from here: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/t....   >>         How do you come up with 1976 for FAT?   >>      IE is Broken   Type ahead find doesn't work in IE niether.   >>   20 Jun 2004   HELP! Overcoming pro....   Overcomming procrastination is simple. Just decide....   >>      Microsoft is ruining....   > Thanks for the swiss cheese. Bah, it's all ab....   >>   19 Jun 2004   YAR (Yet Another Ran....   Can you say accountant?   >>   18 Jun 2004   Real use of CSS   Often separating content, layout and style can be ....   >>      Making web applicati....   Guys check out XmlHttpRequest, both browsers suppo....   >>      Why the browser?   Everyone seems to be misunderstanding Joel's lates....   >>      REST assured   You can use a tiny iframe to do the above and rece....   >>   17 Jun 2004   REST assured   >>   17 Jun 2004   Browser Accessibilit....   Perhaps in distant the future people will have voi....   >>      New browser feature   Oh those sites that put a form "reset" button next....   >>      1 GB E Mail war begi....   What would really up the ante is if Google started....   >>      The misnomer "thin c....   Spell checking would be better served as a browser....   >>         > File > >>      javascript socket se....   I have had good results using this cross platform ....   >>      Firefox - First Go   Does anyone use bookmarks anymore? Since Google an....   >>         Try type-ahead-find, once you try it you will neve....   >>         Cool firefox features in case you missed them: ....   >>      setting form's encty....   There's nothing wrong with being cautious about us....   >>         By the way how could you have found CGI.pm arkward....   >>         > I've been working on perl/CGI for over 5 years n....   >>         > File uploads are a bit easier to handle in PHP t....   >>         > I want to try and do this WITHOUT CGI.pm You'....   >>         You are using METHOD='POST' aren't you. Here's ....   >>      Why microsoft lost t....   > If Visual Basic was such a best seller, where we....   >>      Incoming Slashdotter....   In Soviet Russia Fogcreek slashdots YOU!   >>   16 Jun 2004   How the browser comp....   Bundling is held up as the Netscape killer but I b....   >>         Did anybody ever actually pay for Netscape?   >>      Wiki Doc Management ....   The whole wiki thing is philosophically opposed to....   >>      Removing the anti-re....   Sir, I would search around on sci.electronics.rep....   >>      Tabbed browsers - wh....   How about type-ahead-find? I am addicted to type-a....   >>      Work relationship tu....   Yeah like David Hicks.   >>         When did this forum turn into a group therapy sess....   >>      0% of 2.0GB -- yahoo....   About $1 Australian dollar per gig here.   >>         Looks like the web just got interesting again.   >>      Interview with Scott....   A few words beginning with "X" have a "Z" sound, l....   >>      Windows like Web App....   I also happen to like the browser features like a ....   >>   15 Jun 2004   Web applications   > HTML was never ever ever designed to be an appli....   >>         The beauty of the web is the url and the hyperlink....   >>      All is revealed   FireFox fire rocks! Once you install Adblock and N....   >>      Looking for URLS of ....   It's a kind of variation on Godwin's Law.   >>      Where's Joel ?   Probably on Summer Holiday?   >>      Ethics of running an....   Anon it was a joke. No one is confusing Joel with ....   >>         'This house will become a shrine! And punks and sk....   >>         Somehow I think Joel can afford this forum: http:/....   >>         Have you ever noticed how Joel and Philo never pos....   >>   14 Jun 2004   Retro Computers   >>   14 Jun 2004   Retro Computers   I thought that was a classic example of "wife forc....   >>         So move to a country that has PAL, like the UK or ....   >>      Microsoft CRM   Philo?   >>      Ph. D. Material   http://www.supercrawler.com/pages/non_accredited_u....   >>         Aussie Chick: http://www.bogusphd.com/    >>      Eric's Marketing Ide....   A blog lends an authenticity and a human face to y....   >>   13 Jun 2004   After the POLL...   Bill hadn't touched it at that time, according to ....   >>         > Bill Gates went to Harvard This really had no....   >>         > Argentine tango That is cool.    >>      What will they come ....   The View from the Gulag: 'There was a long list....   >>         > Just for the record, not *everyone* hated Reagan....   >>      Reality check on pro....   Communist China tried that with the Backyard Steel....   >>      POLL : Do you enjoy ....   Write your own software and start selling in on th....   >>   12 Jun 2004   Gmail technical impl....   Use a http sniffer like Mozilla's Live Http Header....   >>      POLL : Do you enjoy ....   Seems to me the financial auditor is the one with ....   >>      JOS Disaster recover....   This discussion board was really just added becaus....   >>   11 Jun 2004   Eric's Marketing Ide....   Making a blog about software development means tha....   >>      My custom JOS Reader....   You know what would be cool. Some some of generic ....   >>   10 Jun 2004      Cool! I would like to see one combined with a ....   >>      Oh No, Not New York ....   I wonder how many people remember the Statue of Li....   >>         By the way I'm not singling out Philo. Just know s....   >>         > Whats even funnier is, many assumed that he actu....   >>         Infact London became a city around the AD 60s. So ....   >>         What about London? That's been a city for quite a ....   >>         > Hollywood, for the love of God, New York is not ....   >>      Joining the French F....   Yes that's good advice Jim.   >>   09 Jun 2004   Google: the search s....   'In America, first you get the sugar, then you get....   >>      caught someone in of....   Stick a couple of these in their office, that will....   >>      How did VMWare do it....   'Future of Virtual Machines The virtual-machine c....   >>      Value of resume data....   > retarded I'm always amazed that people don't....   >>      Thanks for the spam   > HUH?? Have you ever even used Windows XP? > St....   >>         The problem is that people aren't installing their....   >>         It would be the same if the masses used Linux or M....   >>      Lluna, browser-locat....   > I have never understood the notion of chat ch....   >>   08 Jun 2004   Hogging two spots (a....   The function keys are supposed to be application s....   >>   07 Jun 2004   End users' computers....   So a customer's computer is a spyware fest, and yo....   >>      640K Should be Enoug....   Yep, Germany and a lot of Europe has a long histor....   >>   06 Jun 2004   Software development....   I don't know about Software but the music in NZ su....   >>      Economics of Porting....   Yes there is an assumption to Joel's logic that th....   >>      RDFS   Hey anyone remember the old computer game on the S....   >>         I think W3C left Planet Earth quite a few years ag....   >>      What shareware model....   I forgot to mention VMWare - that's some pretty ex....   >>         > 2) Perhaps a good idea would be to give away a d....   >>         I have paid for the following shareware recently: ....   >>      Google and IM   > ...and BTW, it's the lawyer in me that's annoyed....   >>         > Whoa. This is *completely* inaccurate. Philo ....   >>         I think you're mixing up 'monopoly' with 'most pop....   >>         > content generation Google's way ahead of you.....   >>   05 Jun 2004   640K Should be Enough for Anybody   >>   05 Jun 2004   640K Should be Enoug....   More here: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,....   >>   04 Jun 2004   Real or Hoax? You be the Judge   >>   04 Jun 2004   Men are from foo, wo....   I'm still laughing from the Phantom of the Opera.   >>      MYSQL in trouble   Postgres is the quiet achiever in open source. No ....   >>      Real or Hoax? You be....   Australia has taken Joel's advice and decided not ....   >>         > I'd make sure you don't fall ill anywhere near N....   >>      SQL Editor   WinSQL is okay. http://www.synametrics.com/Syname....   >>      Aeron Chair   http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html    >>         Isn't that how all the best programmers code? '....   >>         We had them at Credit Suisse. They are really comf....   >>      Who should I hire?   I like David Ogilivy's advice "Always hire people ....   >>      Forbes:Google's Mail....   I see you're back from the Mental Health Instituio....   >>         These guys sell an 'Exabyte Tape Backup Systems' ....   >>      Run screaming into t....   I think I am right in saying that if you keep you ....   >>      Disk shredder / hard....   Here are some of my favourite ways to render hard ....   >>   03 Jun 2004   Visual Reflector?   ActivePerl ships with a little utility to inspect ....   >>      Windows based Email ....   What I don't like about Outlook is that there seem....   >>   02 Jun 2004   Where's Joel?   Joel went crazy and has gone far far away.   >>      The demise of the MD....   Trouble with MDI is that you cannot have a documen....   >>      why has no one built....   Wouldn't hard drives be waterproof? They are airti....   >>      Thinking about old f....   I thought this thread would be about old flame war....   >>      Dell Laptops   You could probably snap the mouse pointer stick th....   >>   01 Jun 2004      What happened to Transmeta powered laptops? I saw ....   >>      Has a file changed?   Trouble with relying on the archive bit is that so....   >>   31 May 2004   Becoming a C _develo....   Why not read some open source C code. Head over to....   >>      E-Fax   Actually they rate the services here: http://www.s....   >>         http://www.google.com.au/search?q=fax+from+web    >>   29 May 2004   When you have to be ....   I would count myself lucky if I had a turning mach....   >>         Re: perl looks like line noise, how is that bad?   >>   28 May 2004   Getting the UI right   Check this: http://www.paperprototyping.com/downlo....   >>   27 May 2004   Resources on Oracle   SQL for Web Nerds by Philip Greenspun http://p....   >>      Binary diff algorith....   The problem is with what you consider trivial diff....   >>         Check windiff on Sourceforge.   >>      Company I work on wo....   I would just burn a cd once a week and put it in m....   >>      Offshoring: Real or ....   Hey William, if I was you and fresh out of Univers....   >>         Hey Worried William, I went to Murdoch too, small ....   >>         Overrated, same worries as the US had in the 80s a....   >>      Is there such thing ....   This looks kind of cool: http://www.thinkgeek.c....   >>      Integration question....   Just finished indexing all my hard disk with DocSe....   >>         Ah, it works after installing latest JVM. Kewl.   >>         Just tried to install Docsearcher. Is there any in....   >>   25 May 2004   Spell Check your Pos....   If you don't mind a bit of Javascript it's not har....   >>   23 May 2004   unindented HTML   The OP said they use Mason right? That's a templat....   >>   22 May 2004   Speeding up Dial-Up   You could subjectively speed up your browsing by b....   >>      Book recommendations....   > what on earth are you doing being promoted to th....   >>   21 May 2004      A second vote for Death March. Also check these ar....   >>      Future of desktop de....   As for rich user interfaces, if you really want to....   >>         The arguments about Web Apps vs Desktop Apps miss ....   >>         You probably won't be doing any video editing onli....   >>         I can see web based applications becoming the norm....   >>      my gripes with Offic....   > An easy way to crash a Windows 2000 box is to po....   >>         I knew noone would come up with any objective ways....   >>         For all the allegations of Word crashing can anyon....   >>         Now I've woken up I'll bite. If Latex is so good h....   >>   20 May 2004      *snore*   >>      FUD: it's not just f....   I thought Al Gore was behind Linux?   >>      Caching "large" amou....   Do what Yahoo do and stick Squid infront of your d....   >>      The Apprentice - UK   The Commodore 64 had a reasonably big following in....   >>   19 May 2004   Help me come up with....   How about Wernham Hogg Computing.   >>      Why Byte (the paper ....   It used to be good in the early 80s. I spent hours....   >>      The Apprentice - UK   Sinclair didn't invent the Z80 processor, he just ....   >>         .. and that Bush company that made hifis.   >>         Why are all the British electronics companies cut ....   >>         Is that the guy who started Amstrad?   >>      Tabbing shell add on....   Trouble with MS Windows is that not too many appli....   >>         If you want them in quadrants you will have to ini....   >>         If you maximised all your windows wouldn't selecti....   >>         You mean no overlapping windows? Windows 1.0 was l....   >>      Google & Microso....   Microsoft make a good search engine. Are you kiddi....   >>   17 May 2004   How do You prefere t....   That's software not "soft".   >>   13 May 2004   Americans rejoice. I....   'On the other hand, I don't agree with everything ....   >>   10 May 2004   Fantastic Marketing ....   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394....   >>         Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy Like getti....   >>   09 May 2004   pragmatic innovation....   Mouse gestures in Firefox. I believe the first bro....   >>      Avoiding "chaining" ....   Yeah like how referrer is incorrectly spelled 'ref....   >>   08 May 2004   Do you use Active De....   I used it in the past to add a few web cams of dif....   >>      Avoiding "chaining" ....   > Public Sub DoLesson() > StartLesson > NextEx....   >>      Paul Graham's Book   Shhh, yes, I'm Paul's brother and I work as an Ast....   >>         > I think JOS readers would appreciate the book. I....   >>         > Good for him and good for you for telling us. >....   >>      "magical" autoincrem....   Shouldn't that be: foreach $k ( @some_list ) { ....   >>      Amiga Revival - OS4 ....   I was using it in the UK and Australia where it wa....   >>   07 May 2004   Paul Graham's Book   >>   07 May 2004   New spam method: ran....   I too had a 'catch-all' on my domain until a month....   >>      Amiga Revival - OS4 ....   In 1990 I added a sound sampler and a midi interfa....   >>      Banking Industry   The work can be dull but the money is great. And o....   >>   06 May 2004   Amiga Revival - OS4 ....   It pops up on slashdot now and again. But I really....   >>      Banking Industry   I'm not sure about London exactly, but in Tokyo "b....   >>      Speech Recognition   Sounds like how walkman headphones will start crac....   >>      Joel's post today: C....   For people who don't know why computer science has....   >>         When was it decided that CS wasn't a science? A....   >>      Google pop-up blocke....   By the way I have checked my machine with Adaware ....   >>         http://www.citypaper.com/current/index.html also p....   >>   04 May 2004   JOS Suggestion   Post the articles on the forum.   >>   03 May 2004   developer versus cod....   Code Monkey is more of a state of mind that a job.....   >>   02 May 2004   disabling ctrl-alt-d....   You could remove the hard drive from the machine a....   >>   01 May 2004   The "Big Ball of Mud....   Have you noticed how computer programs are like th....   >>      Know what I want in ....   Thinking further I have often typed in missed call....   >>         That would be cool. In Australia (at least a few y....   >>      bsd security   Hey my ZX Spectrum has had no security exploits in....   >>      Client sniffer/port ....   What like a public service to check the security o....   >>   30 Apr 2004   PHP/MySQL interview ....   I was asked how to design a set of database tables....   >>      more great open sour....   This critiscim of opern source UI irks me a little....   >>      Delphi vs. VB or C++   Hey, http://discuss.fogcreek.com/redirect.asp?http....   >>      WMA Conversion for I....   I wonder if someone will ever make a virtual cd-wr....   >>   29 Apr 2004   Delphi vs. VB or C++   Sorry, yet another win32::gui link http://perso.cl....   >>         This looks interesting too: http://www.bahnhof.se/....   >>         If you do perl how's about win32::gui ? That makes....   >>      Math wizards - look ....   Has this been offshored to you Captain Offshore?   >>      WMA Conversion for I....   Will burning AAC to CD then ripping back to mp3 or....   >>   27 Apr 2004   Simple site builder   Citydesk doesn't make you use HTML or templates if....   >>   24 Apr 2004   Application developm....   The cure for "why can't I have a programming langu....   >>      Web-Based Forms Crea....   replace "calls" with "cost"   >>         Philo, try selling an enterprise application to a ....   >>   23 Apr 2004      That form's building thing in Outlook/Exchange is ....   >>      Note for Americans?   Just watched the Christmas special - genius, you s....   >>         Joel can I suggest you watch "Rab C Nesbit". You'l....   >>   18 Apr 2004   Great shrinkwrap .ne....   Sourcegear Vault would be a success story I think.....   >>   17 Apr 2004   Coloc or Web Hosting....   I have seen some problems with PHP and web hosting....   >>   16 Apr 2004   Web application deve....   > how does one best perform unit testing on web ap....   >>         Or better yet used paramaterised queries, and let ....   >>   15 Apr 2004   mbox vs. RDBMS   You may find this interesting, it's how Arsdigita ....   >>   14 Apr 2004   Testing Time sensiti....   Since 60 days is like 5184000 seconds, how about: ....   >>   13 Apr 2004   GMail Client?   'The JavaScript that drives all of these features ....   >>   12 Apr 2004   Flash: the new clien....   > Whe you try to really do something via the web (....   >>   11 Apr 2004      Plain old HTML and a web server is still compellin....   >>      Is Perl the only scr....   Alrighty! How about this insert query for pretty: ....   >>         I am also addicted to this perl feature. You can u....   >>         Whoops the above should read my %users = (... N....   >>         I never bought the argument that perl is ugly. I'v....   >>   09 Apr 2004   Why no CPANs?   You're right CPAN rocks! Someone tried to make ....   >>      4D Charts?   Like this one (cool!): http://www.smartmoney.co....   >>      databases   I wouldn't say databases were lists. They are more....   >>      Full text retrieval   It's suprisingly hard to write a good regex to str....   >>      Fastest, easiest DB ....   .. except MFC anc C++ ;)   >>         Access is pretty hard to beat in terms of how fast....   >>      Pricing for a produc....   Joel answered this quite nicely here too: http://d....   >>   08 Apr 2004   Keyboard Rant   > I just hate the fucked up 'Function Lock' system....   >>      Microsoft IE 6 popup....   If you don't mind moving over to Mozilla Firefox y....   >>   06 Apr 2004   learning lisp   Read Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com There's....   >>      Google lies   Trouble with spam is that they now encode little u....   >>   04 Apr 2004   Who else is digging ....   Just finished watching "Open All Hours" on DVD. *T....   >>      Buying music online ....   If you're into Techno and Dance music Warp's Bleep....   >>   03 Apr 2004   Who else is digging ....   I found this article helpful: 'Hackers and Painter....   >>   31 Mar 2004   Gmail.com   In Soviet Russia April Fools make fun of you.   >>         Do you reckon it is a joke, the domain is there ht....   >>   28 Mar 2004   Should I do it?   Nobody may care about your GPA (academic record in....   >>         Do it. Even if you never make any money the experi....   >>      A big usability leap....   I remember playing with voice control software on ....   >>      Old technical books ....   If they really are old don't donate them to the li....   >>   27 Mar 2004   top ten software fir....   Rank Company Annual Revenues #1 Micro....   >>   25 Mar 2004   Slowest computer   I still use my 7MHz Amiga 500.   >>      One more thing about....   Most compilers do try to recover from an error and....   >>   24 Mar 2004   Open Source UI Desig....   Got to get me a Mac, I love the look of the UI wid....   >>         The beauty of open source is that *you* can report....   >>      Drowning in one's co....   Here's a way to REALLY settle the debate: http://w....   >>         PHP is also orders of magnitude easier to get star....   >>         Here's another 'metric', search Google for program....   >>         That's cause I forget about Java ;). But you h....   >>         I would say perl is installed in *more* servers th....   >>         I judge the mindshare of a language by the amount ....   >>      Which language for w....   I know of no hosting provider that doesn't support....   >>   18 Mar 2004   Pointers to learn Ja....   > I think Japanese is actually easier to learn tha....   >>         Actually I found that if I walked up to a Japanese....   >>         > No debunking. Any gaijin who's lived in Japan ha....   >>         > very, very, very few Japanese will speak in Japa....   >>         > The reason Japanese is considered difficult to O....   >>         I learned Japanese while living for a few years in....   >>      Groove   How much does Groove cost for 2 people? I have alw....   >>      (Real) Web Applicati....   phpMyAdmin, there is a demo here: http://www.phpmy....   >>      Has anyone used SQLi....   You will see a lot more web sites using SQLite onc....   >>         On the above example I mean arithmetic in the SQL ....   >>         How about if you do some arithmetic on a column, l....   >>   17 Mar 2004      What a curious site. This is a little uptight thou....   >>   16 Mar 2004   How to spot a 9-5 co....   Just schedule the interview for after 5pm, then yo....   >>   13 Mar 2004   Could this installer....   I must be the only person who can't even remember ....   >>   11 Mar 2004   Building Text Parser....   I'll second using perl as a parser. Check out the....   >>   05 Mar 2004   A 20 minute usabilit....   The best test of Citydesk's usability is that I co....   >>      Software for babies   A bit left field, but I suggest Knoppix. If you do....   >>   04 Mar 2004   Pricing conclusion   Can I recommend this book: 'The E-Myth Revisited: ....   >>         > And if we're REALLY lucky, we may just get enoug....   >>      Quotes from a custom....   So did MS build some sort of performance limiter i....   >>         'Performance is scalable. You can get any amount o....   >>   21 Feb 2004   Google (1) vs. Yahoo....   I think everyone must have short memories regardin....   >>      Text-editor as Appli....   How about customising MS Word! Almost its entire o....   >>   19 Feb 2004   anyone have irc chan....   s/dawn/darn/   >>         On freenode there's #os2, pretty dawn quiet though....   >>   16 Feb 2004   AvantGo and this for....   I get the same problem too on my avantgo subscript....   >>      Question for Florida....   It's often over 100F here in Australia and we stil....   >>   15 Feb 2004   Uses for a PDA   The great thing about todo lists on PDAs is that t....   >>   12 Feb 2004   Why do we have # and....   FYI in Australia and Britain we call the '#' key t....   >>   10 Feb 2004   SMS/Text Messaging   >>   10 Feb 2004   SMS/Text Messaging   > Text in the UK So is the verb in the uk 'text....   >>   09 Feb 2004   dual harddisk/partit....   I have 2 data partitions, one for data I want to b....   >>   07 Feb 2004   Get Google to list most popular downloads   >>   07 Feb 2004   SpamBayes   If you want an easy to install bayesian-esque mail....   >>      Help with .NET   The only IRC channel I found on freenode was #c# f....   >>   06 Feb 2004   Tool for limit netwo....   The weirdly named 'Charles' will do that http://ww....   >>      Easiest way to copy ....   I used to do it by hand with xcopy, but it won't c....   >>   05 Feb 2004   Objected Oriented HTML (Kind of...)   >>   05 Feb 2004   "Getting Things Done....   I got my self a palm and just created an enormous ....   >>      What do to when host....   Change hosts? There's about a million of them on t....   >>      Proper typing techni....   I wish computers had footpedals like an organ. One....   >>      What is Hacking the ....   I think you have your terms mixed up. In programmi....   >>   04 Feb 2004   The future of HTML   > LOL..from this I deduce that you dont have a hug....   >>   03 Feb 2004   Automating IE For Testing   >>   03 Feb 2004      I also the the irony of you guys complaining about....   >>         I must be the only developer here who actually lik....   >>      Automating IE For Te....   Maybe the sendkeys could work. I can get the HWND ....   >>         I just did it from the OLE InternetExplorer.Applic....   >>         I don't want to 'bypass' it exactly, I just want m....   >>   02 Feb 2004   Better or Different?   Check out how these guys advertise their autocompl....   >>   01 Feb 2004   ASP.NET better than ....   Philo, out of interest how long does MS plan to ke....   >>         >> YOU NEED TO KNOW OO TO USE OUR PLATFORM. Since ....   >>         Actually this guys states it better than me: ht....   >>         I hear you. ASP.NET has certainly more feature....   >>   29 Jan 2004   Javascript Countdown Timer   >>   29 Jan 2004   Mars Rovers use Powe....   That explains all the reboots! http://news.google.....   >>      Tips & Advices f....   These questions always remind me of Richie when he....   >>         'How to become a hacker' is pretty good advice (Ha....   >>      Linux and Innovation....   Does Apple's MS Office have a database like Access....   >>      The Rich Client Stri....   One of the nice abilities of web apps is for corpo....   >>      scheduling combinato....   AFAIK there is no known way to guarantee the most ....   >>      I'm a programmer and....   How long has .NET been out for now? 2 or 3 years?   >>      things more complica....   I'm going out on a limb here... but actually anyth....   >>         So called "standards based" table-less web design.....   >>         SOAP compared to XML-RPC.   >>      Delphi compiles to s....   If you want to persuade me to use Delphi tell me s....   >>         A developer's skills in languages and development ....   >>      Javascript Countdown....   Here we go, like this: http://www.javascript-page.....   >>      The Linker : The rig....   Unfortunately Delphi is based on pascal which has ....   >>      .net mismatched runt....   Here we go: http://groups.google.com.au/groups?....   >>   27 Jan 2004   Photocopying your laptop   >>   27 Jan 2004   Software Development....   > 1) The ability for marketing to add thir require....   >>      Photocopying your la....   We got his printer working for him. ;)   >>      Managing Idiot Savan....   Why move him from VB to C++? You'd have a hard tim....   >>      Next generation OSes   '2D is Better Than 3D' http://www.useit.com/alert....   >>   26 Jan 2004   How much is 30K ster....   Just a tip, Birmingham is *so* boring. And the acc....   >>   24 Jan 2004   Upcoming VS.NET   I have been using Textpad's version of code snippe....   >>   18 Jan 2004   Internet Explorer: B....   You should see Mozilla Firebird, it's keyboard sho....   >>   17 Jan 2004   what is the best lan....   You can also get some inspiration for creating a c....   >>         I also recommend using google's api. But if you re....   >>      Internet Explorer: B....   ..another killer Firebird feature. Typing in a phr....   >>         A killer Mozilla feature for me is the 'block imag....   >>   15 Jan 2004   ASP.Net validator?   I guess you would have to run the script then and ....   >>         I thought those HTML validators ignored inline scr....   >>      combating spam   check out http://popfile.sourceforge.net    >>   14 Jan 2004   Anger-Oriented Progr....   Modula-2 was great!   >>      becoming a robot tec....   You may be able to take inspiration from this guy,....   >>   13 Jan 2004   Standards Compliant ....   I wonder if anyone *really* uses cellphones to loo....   >>   12 Jan 2004      By the way why do so many "standards compliant" we....   >>         You use divs and css to position text and things i....   >>         replace "tabless" with "table-less"   >>         When you say 'standards compliance' you probably m....   >>      Custom Client or Acc....   IT usually prefer browser based applications as th....   >>      finding the right so....   Homer: Ooh! It's that new show about the policeman....   >>   11 Jan 2004   Where to study Compu....   Arsdigita had a kind of university for a while. Th....   >>   10 Jan 2004   Windows RPC question   If you are happy using IIS then you already have a....   >>   06 Jan 2004   Email solutions   > In my mind this means that data corruption could....   >>   04 Jan 2004   Word of the Quarter   My vote goes for the over use of the word 'broken'....   >>   30 Dec 2003   Start an open source project get knighted   >>   30 Dec 2003   most software is qui....   > Why do I have to google to use a damn typewriter....   >>   29 Dec 2003   Things that make you   I liked the l33t hax0r one. (Note not for l4m0r5)   >>      Serving ads in softw....   I wonder how long until the advertisers realise th....   >>   28 Dec 2003   Simple ASP Question   So we can help post the fields of the product_titl....   >>      Serving ads in softw....   Cydoor is exactly what I meant about getting your ....   >>         Does ad supported shareware actually make any mone....   >>      Open source complexi....   The fact that Tim Berners-Lee made the world wide ....   >>      HELP! data recovery ....   Check whatever temp directory cool edit uses. My w....   >>      Type of parser used ....   Excellent. Many so called compilers and code conve....   >>      Software cloning and....   This makes interesting reading 'Against User Inter....   >>   27 Dec 2003   Type of parser used for ASP->PHP compiler   >>   24 Dec 2003   Hackers and Painters   I particularly liked the idea that each task shoul....   >>      Scripting desktop ap....   It's reasonably common in classic ASP to automate ....   >>   22 Dec 2003   "he or she" NOT poli....   > If anything, it reinforces the statement that th....   >>         There is a little used word in the English languag....   >>      Programming bottom-u....   I tend to program this way when creating classes. ....   >>   21 Dec 2003   Acceptable ways of d....   I find it annoying when an application launches a ....   >>   19 Dec 2003   hiring directly over....   I was hired over the phone from Australia for a jo....   >>   18 Dec 2003   Lisp company IPOs   >>   18 Dec 2003   Lisp company IPOs   Also this http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents....   >>         I beg to differ: http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.ht....   >>      Bully Institute   Remember that Simpsons and the poindextrose chemic....   >>   17 Dec 2003   Defining moment in c....   For a more recent moment how about Aug 20 1991 in ....   >>   16 Dec 2003   Embedded Databases (....   Don't know if this will help but SQLite is becomin....   >>      Standards Schmandard....   Especially since many "standards" are really just ....   >>   15 Dec 2003   IP address question   192.168.x.x is just your internal address, your si....   >>      HTTP scripting?   > what is the DLL you need to link to for ie ole a....   >>         I automate Internet Explorer from perl to perform ....   >>   12 Dec 2003   Simulate Slow Networ....   Check out the strangely named 'Charles' http://ww....   >>   11 Dec 2003   LISP - why?   > Yahoo store was originally written by that dude ....   >>         Heaps of links to Commerical lisp applications her....   >>         Oh yeah, Emacs is written in Lisp http://plug.org.....   >>         Yahoo Store was written in Lisp http://www.paulgra....   >>   10 Dec 2003   Bill Gates: agnostic....   'I don't have any evidence of that... Just in term....   >>      "Better" language vs....   This article 'Scripting: Higher Level Programming ....   >>   08 Dec 2003   How To Get Rich Prog....   With perl you just put a "use strict;" declaration....   >>      Chest Pain ... Am I ....   Probably heart burn. Run up and down the stairs a ....   >>   03 Dec 2003   TV Show about Progra....   How about BBC's "Attachments". That was a soap/dra....   >>      Unit tests as daily ....   Interesting point. I also like the extra confidenc....   >>   01 Dec 2003   Stupid specific inte....   I'm going out on a limb here but I wouldn't hire a....   >>   30 Nov 2003   Learning Unix/Linux   http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=mozclient....   >>      Where do YOU get pro....   I found these articles really helpful: http://w....   >>   27 Nov 2003   I need a pay rise   If I may say so, you sound pretty angry with your ....   >>      Tidbits - Bayesian A....   > If the counter-weight text matches what you've t....   >>         Most bayesian filters tokenise and score everythin....   >>         Yes it's an attempt to subvert Bayesian filtering ....   >>      A bit far-fetched   I have a financial application running in Access w....   >>   26 Nov 2003   ASP dynamic include ....   I had an application in ASP once that need to dyna....   >>      Wizard-Style Web UI   This may be helpful: 'The Back button is the li....   >>      Death of Moore's Law....   Also Moore's law can double if the technique impro....   >>   25 Nov 2003   Death of Moore's Law greatly exaggerated   >>   25 Nov 2003      Not enough coffee this morning. I meant: 'I'm a....   >>      ProFont   Any chance of a link to download "Andale Mono". I ....   >>   23 Nov 2003   Bayes filtering, inv....   Probably the main factors were the interesting-nes....   >>         Credit correctly to go Paul Graham because after h....   >>      JoS - Delphi...   I'm sure that anyone who did a Computer Science ma....   >>   19 Nov 2003   When Will the 'Sunse....   The day after we switch to IPv6   >>      MySQL Gotchas   At just pulling records out of a table, how much f....   >>   18 Nov 2003   Aeron Chairs   I worked for a bank in Tokyo a few years ago and *....   >>      RealAudio to OggVorb....   I just did that with Dr Dobb's Technetcast. GetRig....   >>   16 Nov 2003   The real problem wit....   Is offshoring really that much cheaper? I have....   >>   15 Nov 2003   cool companies in me....   Check to see if American's qualify for a Working H....   >>   14 Nov 2003      have a quick search of http://it.seek.com.au/ to l....   >>      Offshoring Opportuni....   > anyone out there was to take a guess at which st....   >>         I agree with the OP, now is the time to compete wi....   >>      Why MSN search is so....   The pop-up window ads MSN uses are also why it's l....   >>      Finding Funding for ....   Check out the Autodesk File: http://www.fourmilab....   >>   13 Nov 2003   Why username and pas....   What would happen if 2 users had the same password....   >>   10 Nov 2003   Usability: Fixed Len....   I believe the original password hashing algorithm ....   >>      Software developers ....   I remember when Arsdigita used to loan you a Ferra....   >>   07 Nov 2003   They call me NERD!!!   That's a pretty cool idea Nick, generating code to....   >>         Put an index on a query that made a query go from ....   >>      SQL Server hot backu....   I wonder how much it costs, there are no prices on....   >>   06 Nov 2003   Google Deskbar   >>   06 Nov 2003   Google Deskbar   Mmm that is cool!   >>   05 Nov 2003   God vs. Computing   Knuth's talks on God and Computing are all online ....   >>   03 Nov 2003   Help needed choosing....   I had the same reservations about PayPal, but in p....   >>      Why CEOs will never ....   > ...and will she be much slower doing her figures....   >>   02 Nov 2003   joel test #13   Just tell me where to sign... An alternative #1....   >>      Why CEOs will never ....   Interesting reading. It validates my opinion that ....   >>      Peopleware : doors b....   You think your office conditions are cramped, chec....   >>   01 Nov 2003   The Ridiculous Influ....   I've never seen anyone ever use voice recognition ....   >>      Alerts Management On....   Activeperl runs on win32, and you can use the perl....   >>      Managing web content....   > You'll be absolutely suprised at how easy it is ....   >>   30 Oct 2003   Computer aided patte....   Am I the only one who noticed that Onlysigns site ....   >>      At Least Microsoft P....   Moron is a word thats bandied about all to much th....   >>         > oh! sorry, try doing a find on 'unfixed security....   >>         > its hard to believe, _windows_ users complaining....   >>   29 Oct 2003   At Least Microsoft Patches are Free   >>   24 Oct 2003   Creo Tokens   >>   24 Oct 2003   Creo Tokens   Is there any communication system on the internet ....   >>   23 Oct 2003   Why RDBMS?   Shandy is just for children.   >>   22 Oct 2003   CityDesk DataAccess ....   Apparenty PHP will start being shipped wuith SQLit....   >>      Curse of the 4.0   I speak Japanese, and yes a way of pronouncing 4 h....   >>      PlanetLab, the Super....   They'll still need hard drives though to store all....   >>   21 Oct 2003   What goes down must ....   There seem to be a lot less people looking for IT ....   >>   20 Oct 2003   What goes down must come up   >>   20 Oct 2003   Where's the damn doc....   Set up a cookbook style web page with "how tos" on....   >>      Specialization - Whi....   Plumming?   >>      The great start up t....   > I think you also have to realise the barriers to....   >>      What coders can lear....   > you choose the language(s) from a long list of a....   >>         Think about the mechanics of how a license could w....   >>         > First, just about everyone wrongly presumes lice....   >>   19 Oct 2003   The great start up t....   > And no, it was NOT obvious at all in 1977 or 198....   >>         > Please provide a hint for the coalition of the w....   >>         > Besides, an Amazon size startup needs Amazon siz....   >>   18 Oct 2003   The great start up tradition   >>   18 Oct 2003   Where can I find a G....   I know what the OP means, it was a kind of windows....   >>      What coders can lear....   It would have stopped Bill Gates, he had no qualif....   >>         Sure a plummer may make $200/hr for a few hours a ....   >>   16 Oct 2003   Stress/Load Testing ....   Load up your page in the browser and hold down the....   >>   15 Oct 2003   No Perfect Language   This is a straw man. Which language designers say ....   >>   14 Oct 2003   Presenting the new c....   Whoever made that must have a lot of time on their....   >>   13 Oct 2003   The Language FOrmerl....   How about calling it "11 - the language that is on....   >>   07 Oct 2003   Recommendation on bo....   'Getting Started with Oracle' http://otn.oracle.....   >>         SQL for Web Nerds http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/....   >>   02 Oct 2003   Tool to build a phot....   I think photo.net was built from ACS by Greenspun.....   >>   01 Oct 2003   Inheriting someone e....   Build a full suite of black-box tests for it, then....   >>   30 Sep 2003   which language to le....   I second Prolog   >>      Creating Web Clients   How interactive does your client have to be?   >>   29 Sep 2003   Storing files in dat....   By the way base 64-ing binary files usually double....   >>         I like storing attachments as blobs in a database.....   >>   25 Sep 2003   XML forms definition   > Before you know it, users will be asking you 'C....   >>   23 Sep 2003   Weather data sources   There are some nice perl modules for getting weath....   >>      XML forms definition   Yeah building forms from a definition is a great w....   >>   22 Sep 2003   Off-shoring question   Are there any examples that anyone could site of c....   >>   21 Sep 2003   knowledge base softw....   Kwiki - the effort to add information is so low th....   >>   18 Sep 2003   Computer Wallpaper   I worked in a bank as a contracter where you were ....   >>      Did Microsoft really....   >This is not true. In the times of Windows 1.0, a ....   >>         The most amazing thing about the GUI on PCs was th....   >>   17 Sep 2003      > Well, Mathew, I remember reading that Apple also....   >>         By the way you don't need to guess about the early....   >>         I think early on Microsoft hired one of the guys f....   >>      Paperless Office   By the way, what is it with programmers and their ....   >>         You actually can make notes in the margin of a wor....   >>      Query on CityDesk   The list of features above is a great illustration....   >>      So this is where the....   Dental Plan Lisa needs braces.    >>   16 Sep 2003   turned off because o....   What's "Hooters"?   >>   15 Sep 2003   testing automation t....   I use perl to automate IE through COM, which ends ....   >>      search word from a l....   I'll second perl. For any kind of text processing ....   >>      Best OS For Home Use....   > I have no money, no time, and no patience. Wh....   >>      How to deal with tea....   Fix the bugs yourself, then when you both have som....   >>   14 Sep 2003   Web page watcher?   Does the notification feature actually work in Fir....   >>         There is a notification by email feature already b....   >>   09 Sep 2003   huge spam messages a....   Eudora used to (still has?) a feature where you co....   >>         I get 200 spam a day but almost none get through b....   >>   07 Sep 2003   Currencies in On-lin....   I wouldn't worry about currency conversions. If th....   >>      OODB: Are they viabl....   Postgresql has some Object-esque feature I believe....   >>   05 Sep 2003   Localization questio....   In Japanese windows they also use the same keyboar....   >>   04 Sep 2003   the open source busi....   you could add 3) Compile a collection of open s....   >>      How to Dress?   If there is 20% or less polyester in the shirt it'....   >>         Let me let you into a secret, you can 'iron' shirt....   >>      web site syncing/man....   Beyond Compare is great, I have used it to sync we....   >>   03 Sep 2003   Engineers vs. crafts....   > Second, programmers are almost never supervised ....   >>      dynamic form generat....   You may find this handy too if you want to go with....   >>         RZ if you like Perl there are plenty of ways to ge....   >>         Sure, HTML apps can be a bit of a pain sometimes. ....   >>         Interesting how web based applications get critise....   >>      business logic   "The more things change the more they stay the sam....   >>   30 Aug 2003   Google uses Linux Co....   One of the founders of Google gave a very interest....   >>   28 Aug 2003   The greatest softwar....   Speaking an Aussie myself, saying Janitor is hardl....   >>   25 Aug 2003   Poor poor me, the ap....   Even easier - run windowsupdate weekly. None of th....   >>   22 Aug 2003   How Long Will Kids L....   I'm with the "Christian Bible" guy. It's not when ....   >>      svchost   Yep I fixed a friends machine infected by blaster ....   >>      Python or Ruby?   >I hated perl because I could never remember if I ....   >>         Out of curiosity what did you hate about Perl?   >>   16 Aug 2003   Google Toolbar v2.0   Here is the unofficial Google Toolbar for Mozilla,....   >>   02 Aug 2003   Is the Amiga in Chap....   The reason I moved off Amigas was the prohibitive ....   >>      End of the road for ....   Changing a widespread protocol is like trying to c....   >>   01 Aug 2003   Spec template for in....   I recommend the concept of 'paper prototyping' whe....   >>   31 Jul 2003   business books   > Conventional advertising rarely has a positive r....   >>         For advertising and marketing read "Ogilvy on Adve....   >>      C to PHP   ... I mean "meta-characters".   >>         You can use the system command in PHP to call a C ....   >>   30 Jul 2003   Coots R US   I play Adventure inside Emacs.  It's one of t....   >>      Time Zone lookup via....   check out http://www.xmethods.com    >>   28 Jul 2003   Good RSS Reader for ....   Check out Feedreader. It's open source and not bad....   >>   27 Jul 2003   sweet spot pricing f....   You missed the common shareware price points of $2....   >>   26 Jul 2003   Technical Self-Emplo....   There must be a business in home IT support. Washi....   >>         Trollumination your problem had nothing to do with....   >>      Language Stereotypes   > Access & Excel - strikes fear into the developer....   >>   25 Jul 2003   Technical Self-Employment Is A Fat Paycheck Waitin   >>   25 Jul 2003   Yahoo!Store question....   Here's a one: http://www.nbdc.net/isiposs/rtml/....   >>   23 Jul 2003   HTML Menu/Combo box ....   Try using TITLE instead of ALT eg >>      Googleholes   You think that's hard, try searching for info on 8....   >>   21 Jul 2003   Perfectionism and Te....   The right attitude is not to 'major on the minors'....   >>   20 Jul 2003   too many files!   Check out Spacemonger http://www.werkema.com/softw....   >>   19 Jul 2003   How do you store cab....   Andy that's quite a good idea, might give it a go.   >>         The natural state of cables is to be tangled to ea....   >>      Starting Up?   I studied linguistics once and there's a very comp....   >>      XSLT & EDI shoul....   Thanks for the tip. I have noticed that 90% of ....   >>      Educate reluctant cl....   Remember the old phrase 'you can lead a horse to w....   >>   17 Jul 2003   Good sites for devel....   *The* site a developer needs to learn is Google's ....   >>   16 Jul 2003   Web UI vs Windows UI   Most of the time Javascript is only demanded for f....   >>      Sharecropping   XHTML will displace HTML the day after IPV6 displa....   >>   15 Jul 2003   Language for new pro....   Have you ever tried to maintain code written by so....   >>         What I mean is that combining a deadline with lear....   >>      Web UI vs Windows UI   It's dead easy to develop for all available browse....   >>         Lets compare apples with apples. How long would....   >>   14 Jul 2003   Prolog   >>   14 Jul 2003   Language for new pro....   Starting a new project and learning a new language....   >>      Perljobs   There are heaps of Full time and contract perl job....   >>      Web UI vs Windows UI   This is the quote: 'Web pages weren't designed ....   >>      Prolog   I also got my enthusiam for lisp and prolog from r....   >>      Software development....   Estimation is tough, and often asking the impossib....   >>      contender apps for c....   Open source languages are pretty popular in compan....   >>      Sharecropping   Philo you're missing the point about open source. ....   >>   13 Jul 2003   include graph genera....   GraphViz can be made to do that with a little bit ....   >>   11 Jul 2003   Picking a programmin....   Get your self a copy of Perl. It will teach you a ....   >>   09 Jul 2003   Which printer is che....   Duncan, I have used it with an old Canon BJC210 an....   >>         I have been refilling my ink jet cartridge with fo....   >>   08 Jul 2003   RSS Feed   >>   05 Jul 2003   AS-400 books?   .. and this http://www.touniteamerica.com/programm....   >>         There's a site here with some ebooks for AS 400 to....   >>         Check Amazon I found 329 books by searching on AS ....   >>      Upgrade Frequency   I'm still on my Pentium 2 laptop I bought second h....   >>   04 Jul 2003   finding the count of....   To clarify create in the loop that scans your sent....   >>         Yes you should use a hash to count the number of t....   >>         Sumit, are you making the list yourself, or is it ....   >>      What language for a ....   I felt the same way about regular expressions. For....   >>         Perl's power is it's brevity, or succinctness. ....   >>   03 Jul 2003      > Perl - the 'write only' language... How do yo....   >>   02 Jul 2003   Computers on either ....   I moved a monitor from Japan to Australia and one ....   >>         The keyboard layout in the UK is different from th....   >>      Evaluating Programme....   I think Walter may be right. Most of my career ha....   >>   01 Jul 2003   Website Critics Welc....   Hello "Jack of all" I'm from Perth W.A. too. Nice ....   >>      Automatic Error Repo....   I have been rolling my own error reporting in ASP ....   >>      "Learning Curve"   I think this is it: 'Training research shows th....   >>   29 Jun 2003   Does Java Suck?   I'm always baffled by why clients care what langua....   >>      How much surveillanc....   That was Greenspun who said that if you make the o....   >>   22 Jun 2003   Are my teachers just....   Anywho it's not like you have a choice of studying....   >>         Silicon! Real programmers use valves, and none of ....   >>   21 Jun 2003      > Of those who are advocating knowledge of Assembl....   >>      Google for public FT....   to find file.exe search for this in google: 'in....   >>   13 Jun 2003   Who here works on ca....   I like working on cars. Here in Australia cars las....   >>   10 Jun 2003   WHO NAMES A NAMESPAC....   Thinking of variable names is one of the hardest p....   >>   01 Jun 2003   A new web broswer   type-ahead-find is darn cool too   >>   23 May 2003   Localization   Make sure you remember to build in support for the....   >>      Windows XP Pro resou....   Try Windows 2000. I found that XP Pro was much hea....   >>      Cue Cat Redux   If the nutritional information of the product coul....   >>   20 May 2003   Feasible business?   It would probably be acceptable for very small bus....   >>   19 May 2003   MS to buy Unix from ....   Didn't MS have the rights to Unix in the 80s in th....   >>      where did all the so....   How about the World Widde Web as an innovation? Th....   >>         I have noticed also that the quicker you reply to ....   >>      POLL : How Many Of Y....   I love playing 80s games on MAME, Bubble Bobble, N....   >>   18 May 2003   where did all the so....   I agree with Joel's Hypothesis three. IT booms....   >>   15 May 2003   Most satisifying sof....   Octamed on the Amiga   >>   13 May 2003   How do I sell an app....   How about giving the tabbed browser application aw....   >>   06 May 2003   Hackers and Painters   Paul Graham is a genius. He's one of the few write....   >>   04 May 2003   Philo's "Sackage" - ....   Working the hours 9 to 5 critical I think. I tried....   >>   30 Apr 2003   No new desktop appli....   I use MusicMatch but I'll second that mp3 jukeboxe....   >>   29 Apr 2003   Precious   Use some reverse psychology. If you don't want the....   >>      Software Startup Boo....   I have been including the following in my most rec....   >>         > Cold calling is not a way to start a software bu....   >>   28 Apr 2003      Try 'Hard Drive' it goes in-depth into the start o....   >>   27 Apr 2003   CNN Article on buggy....   Software is often buggy because it's developed usi....   >>   26 Apr 2003   will struts save me ....   I found that writing a kind of mini-language helpe....   >>   24 Apr 2003   Software proposals   A little trick you can do in Google is search for ....   >>   18 Apr 2003   Does contributing co....   Some examples that spring to mind: - Linus Torv....   >>   17 Apr 2003   Thanks for the mid-d....   You need those spectacles with eyes painted on the....   >>      What to do about sle....   Hey Choppy I lived in Japan for some time and lost....   >>   14 Apr 2003   Unemployed how long?   > Unfortunately, there are a lot mor unenlightened....   >>         > Now, working at the Gap at $10 an hour, it takes....   >>   12 Apr 2003   Outrageous Suggestio....   If you accept a more liberal definition of "pay" t....   >>      Job Fairs   The only Job Fair I went to was in Tokyo a bit ove....   >>   11 Apr 2003   XHTML, CSS and valid....   I don't worry too much about valid HTML. No compan....   >>      Desktop Metaphor   Check out this project http://www.sqldesktop.com/ ....   >>   07 Apr 2003   Linux IDE for C++ de....   Try googling for Linux IDE C++ quite a few come up   >>   02 Apr 2003   webapp design issue:....   How would the fusebox method work out if you had m....   >>   01 Apr 2003   Sex   My Mum was a computer programmer! How's that for a....   >>   29 Mar 2003   .Net/SQL Server ->....   > I always thought it was perl, not PHP, that had ....   >>      Best editor: Visual ....   > Best food: Korean BBQ Now you're talking!    >>   28 Mar 2003   Relooking at Decline....   I think it's like so: Day 1, US working day: US....   >>   27 Mar 2003   Definition of Bug?   Try Google http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=....   >>      FogBugz: Projects pr....   There's nothing wrong with the phrase 'Your projec....   >>      Japanese characters   John what OS are you using? Windows 2000 Pro's not....   >>      Current Date.   > not paying instead of stealing What's the dif....   >>   25 Mar 2003   Memory/Concentration....   I find ambient music mp3s played very quietly help....   >>      Parallelogram Office....   You work in an office that gets vaccuumed!?   >>      Current Date.   > You are a programmer after all. Use something of....   >>         Amazing the lengths cheap skates will go to - to a....   >>   24 Mar 2003   Wrox bankrupt?   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672....   >>   22 Mar 2003   future of software e....   It's funny how people speculate that in the future....   >>      Discussion Forum Sof....   c) Teach your kids to program, then sit back....   >>         a) start programming again b) buy some coffee    >>   21 Mar 2003   Hungarian Notation   One of the great design points of perl is that all....   >>      what comes first, pr....   > I could be missing something important here, but....   >>   20 Mar 2003      Get the product built first. That will be the crit....   >>      Finishing a product ....   In fact thanks to the power of Google here's an ad....   >>         Except that MS was already profitable when it 'bui....   >>   19 Mar 2003   Allowing developers ....   Arbitrary rules governing what developers can and ....   >>         If you make web apps tell them you need to install....   >>         Just take in your own laptop and set it up how you....   >>      How to get computer ....   If all else fails install Winzip, make a zip file ....   >>   18 Mar 2003   BNF for Visual Basic....   VB.Net has it's grammar online http://msdn.microso....   >>         Check this search http://groups.google.com/groups?....   >>      testing in blackbox ....   You can start by not using all caps.   >>      Spread Sheet/Grid Fu....   If it's for an intranet how about just embedding a....   >>   17 Mar 2003   Applets making a com....   The worst thing about applets is the lack of any l....   >>   13 Mar 2003   The Real Problem   I would say the 2 real problems are the difficulty....   >>      Cross-platform optio....   ...don't just take my word for it http://groups....   >>         > perl works, but I dont' think i'm the only one w....   >>         We build all our web applications in Perl, and the....   >>         It's Chillisoft is still around but it's called 'S....   >>   12 Mar 2003   Website Implementati....   Buzz word compliance.   >>      The Tyranny of Email   I just set my email's "check for new messages" to ....   >>   07 Mar 2003   Books on Digital Fil....   Analogue synths used low pass resonant filters for....   >>   03 Mar 2003   PostgresSQL database....   Postgres is a great database compared to MySQL, it....   >>   01 Mar 2003   Joelonsoftware Chat Room   >>   25 Feb 2003   Most Admirable Perso....   I'll vote for Larry too. What a genius to say 'The....   >>   24 Feb 2003   Big Macs, Naked Chef....   One pet theory I have about why PocketPCs don't ha....   >>   23 Feb 2003   Palm handles Office ....   that's "most other Web Development tools"   >>         Ditto MS FrontPage, they had a huge lead on most o....   >>         I think it's actually a great example of 'Fire and....   >>   22 Feb 2003   Palm handles Office Documents better than PocketPC   >>   20 Feb 2003   Sole proprietorship   Another advantage of having a separate Bank Accoun....   >>   18 Feb 2003   Calling all Nerds   >>   18 Feb 2003   Calling all Nerds   On second thoughts I went to school in the UK near....   >>         I went to high school in the UK and Australia and ....   >>   17 Feb 2003   Web mail   You get what you pay for.   >>   16 Feb 2003   Computer Programmer's Union   >>   16 Feb 2003   Acess woes   I think the widespread use of Access actually help....   >>   13 Feb 2003   What were your first....   Actually I just remembered my first use of a compu....   >>   12 Feb 2003   What were your first computers?   >>   12 Feb 2003   handling credit card....   Not enough coffee yet, I meant 'According to m....   >>         I used Paypal as my payment handler until I saw ho....   >>   11 Feb 2003   Computing visionarie....   Paul Graham is a visionary in my opinion http://ww....   >>      Universities' Crusad....   Don't worry about it, when I was at Uni in the ear....   >>   09 Feb 2003   Generating Windows Icons   >>   08 Feb 2003   Nice software compan....   To quote David Ogilvy one of the greatest advertis....   >>   07 Feb 2003   Do only geniuses get....   The title of this thread reminds me of a Simpsons ....   >>   03 Feb 2003   Scrolling in web bas....   If your db doesn't support LIMIT and OFFSET check ....   >>   01 Feb 2003      Do you mean database paging? In some databases ....   >>   29 Jan 2003   VHS Better than Beta....   Don't you read the Guardian Neil?   >>         Here's another article on the same thing but more ....   >>   28 Jan 2003   Is there a "Java" sh....   There's a few Java tutorials in Real format here h....   >>      skillsets - how to e....   Developers can download Oracle for free here http:....   >>   26 Jan 2003   MySQL Adds Subselects   >>   26 Jan 2003   Hard Disk Failure and Power Fluctuations   >>   26 Jan 2003   Syntax, Idioms, and ....   I also feel very strongly that code should be conc....   >>         I'm a Japanese speaker and let me tell you that Ka....   >>      IS it bad to charge ....   If you charge strictly by the hour consider that i....   >>      Another lesson...   The moral of the story is that a backup plan isn't....   >>      Hard Disk Failure an....   Just to add from my original post, my parent's off....   >>   23 Jan 2003   Bad code - My proble....   > Wait until they seek your council before you giv....   >>   22 Jan 2003   Fuzzy front and back....   If you haven't done enough designing yet to give t....   >>   20 Jan 2003   Rentacoder sites   I just had a quick look and noticed that they all ....   >>   17 Jan 2003   VNC over firewalls   >>   17 Jan 2003   VNC over firewalls   Just read that it's not free though :( 'free fo....   >>      Java vs. Perl/PHP   Perl would be your choice for productivity, check ....   >>   13 Jan 2003   Customer Relationshi....   In Australia government officers have to declare a....   >>      Jurassic Software   Can't you right-click on an application in XP and ....   >>   07 Jan 2003   Writing a programmer....   Unless you have the time and the money to train th....   >>   06 Jan 2003   Learning new paradig....   There are no shortcuts to learning - practice make....   >>   05 Jan 2003   Number of Jobs by Programming Language   >>   05 Jan 2003   C++ Project Document....   Check out Doxygen http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/do....   >>   03 Jan 2003   Making it on your ow....   Paul Graham who developed Yahoo store with some ot....   >>      best way to learn SQ....   The best way to learn SQL, or any computer languag....   >>   02 Jan 2003      Do you mean the actual SQL language, or MS SQL Ser....   >>   27 Dec 2002   God and Computers   > I knew that Larry Wall is Christian, but I didn'....   >>   26 Dec 2002   Technical Writing Re....   check out http://www.joelonsoftware.com    >>      God and Computers   I forgot, also one of the fathers of computer scie....   >>         I know of a few Christian computer scientists, and....   >>   22 Dec 2002   Protecting shareware   See 'Crackproof Your Software: Protect Your Softwa....   >>   02 Dec 2002   Using database field....   I have done this in Access before by: - scannin....   >>   01 Dec 2002   Why some programmers....   I think being productive in programming equates to....   >>   25 Nov 2002   How to let managment....   Over the years I have come to the depressing concl....   >>   15 Nov 2002   how to "manage expec....   Have you tried asking the original coder why they ....   >>   14 Nov 2002   Logon vs Login   Just noticed that unix goes with login/logout wher....   >>      Stick-shift or Auto-....   'Do you eat your favorite snacks while driving and....   >>         Boy do I miss pork pies down under, being an expat....   >>         If you like to eat while driving automatic is best....   >>      "Next Big Thing."   They already have those, they're called megaphones....   >>   13 Nov 2002   Logon vs Login   >>   13 Nov 2002   Stick-shift or Auto-....   Which is better out of a gui or a command line? De....   >>      Joels humourous anal....   Microsoft scraps server OS plans 'Microsoft has....   >>   07 Nov 2002   WhatTimeIsIt.com   >>   07 Nov 2002   VNC fixed shift key problem   >>   07 Nov 2002   WhatTimeIsIt.com   That is the http://whattimeisit.com site    >>      Version your databas....   Access is an SQL database.   >>      Data validation: bes....   Here is a great run down on validating data and se....   >>   06 Nov 2002      It amazes me how many people do the data validatio....   >>   04 Nov 2002   Hallway useability T....   SERENITY NOW!!!!!!   >>   02 Nov 2002      Hey Art, how's Vandelay industries going?   >>   28 Oct 2002   Providing Salary His....   A tip to managers hiring. Giving equally skilled p....   >>   27 Oct 2002   Hiring superstars?   I have been looking to get hold of an article call....   >>   26 Oct 2002   Mockery of stupid mo....   It's an old cliche, but our "You want it when?" po....   >>   25 Oct 2002   Layoffs hit Ben &....   We go for cooked breakfasts down under too!   >>   24 Oct 2002   Hiring superstars?   Managers seem to value loyalty and 'team-playing' ....   >>   22 Oct 2002   Operating Systems Used to Access Google   >>   22 Oct 2002   Datawarehouse and di....   Data Warehousing for Cavemen http://eveander.com/....   >>      PHP Design Flaws   A worse design flaw in PHP is that there is no eas....   >>   16 Oct 2002   Employment   A company I contract for in Australia put out an a....   >>   10 Oct 2002   Dynamic HTML?  ....   Yet another Paul Graham quote that seems to hit th....   >>   08 Oct 2002   Volunteer Programmin....   If you program in Perl check http://jobs.perl.org ....   >>   01 Oct 2002   Programmer Interrupt....   Here here to the agility of small companies. H....   >>   27 Sep 2002   Data-structures draw....   Graphviz is a collection of powerful open source s....   >>   25 Sep 2002   Stopping pop up ads   About 95% of adverts and pop up windows on the int....   >>         I just use the etc/hosts file at: c:\WINNT\syste....   >>   24 Sep 2002   learning to program   Here's some interesting links about learning to pr....   >>      Programming for the ....   You can do OO in ASP in straight VBScript via clas....   >>   23 Sep 2002   Calculation of Resul....   If you want an easy way to get the value on hand w....   >>   22 Sep 2002   Last minute changes   No way. If they won't extend the deadline why shou....   >>   20 Sep 2002   Does hell mean Micro....   Google orders sites according to the number of lin....   >>   18 Sep 2002   After $273 million, ....   Phillip Greenspun seems to sum this up best: <....   >>   11 Sep 2002   Memoriam   That's big talk for a person who won't put their o....   >>   07 Sep 2002   Joel's attitude prob....   What's wrong with having a bias? That's why I en....   >>   02 Sep 2002   Jet vs SQL Server fo....   I've pushed JET upto 250 users without any problem....   >>   01 Sep 2002   Windows Runtime   >>   26 Aug 2002   MP3 Player   That's "walks" not "works".   >>         I have a nomad II. It's pretty good for going for ....   >>      Doubts on Web Servic....   Paul Graham has a great article in defence of ASPs....   >>   23 Aug 2002   how can i protect my....   You need to register (at least in Australia): -....   >>   21 Aug 2002   Software Review Site....   Usenet is the most useful thing on the net! At....   >>   18 Aug 2002   Builder Script   Thanks for sharing your script. Looks good.   >>   16 Aug 2002   Software Development....   Yes dire as in 'can't get a job to save your life'....   >>         Probably the easiest way to find a list of Austral....   >>   08 Aug 2002   CVS vs. RCS?   Isn't CVS built on top of RCS? From the man page: ....   >>   05 Aug 2002   Do you use the best tools money can buy?   >>   27 Jul 2002   Really, how good is ....   I built an intranet application in ASP using Acces....   >>   22 Jul 2002   Learing Lisp   Hey cool, Paul Graham posted to this list!   >>   21 Jul 2002   Real-world XML DOM?   There are quite a few nice Perl modules for spider....   >>      wml programing   Don't just take my word for it, check out these li....   >>         The reason is that i-mode is charged by the packet....   >>         Don't waste your time WAP is dead. Wait until NTT ....   >>   20 Jul 2002   Learing Lisp   Thanks for the tips. I have downloaded clisp a Com....   >>   19 Jul 2002   Learing Lisp   >>   19 Jul 2002      This is one of my favourite quotes from Paul Graha....   >>      ASP   If you already know Perl or PHP stick with them. T....   >>         Once you have learned ASP give PHP a go. It's an e....   >>   15 Jul 2002   What's the alternati....   I like Joel's idea of a professional ladder htt....   >>      why PDF is soo compl....   There are plenty of free Perl modules for creating....   >>   12 Jul 2002   Ogilvy on Advertising   >>   12 Jul 2002   Good Software Takes ....   From http://www.winzip.com/awards_and_press.htm ....   >>         Joel's point was that software takes time to matur....   >>   06 Jul 2002   Caffeinated Soap   >>   06 Jul 2002   Why open-source usab....   Open source also tends to tackle harder projects l....   >>      Am I supposed to wor....   How about a philosophy graduate from the Universit....   >>         I didn't know they trained managers at MIT   >>   02 Jul 2002   Navajo isn't a writt....   Any language can become a written language by just....   >>   21 Jun 2002   Strategy Letter V: S....   Here's a link describing Java on i-mode http://....   >>         Java's been running on Japanese mobile phones for ....   >>   20 Jun 2002   Proposal for defect-....   Why can't people install all those silly little pr....   >>   19 Jun 2002      They tried to implement a 'Computer Driving Licenc....   >>         Tom DeMarco has a pretty interesting take on softw....   >>         How will certification cause software to be defect....   >>   06 Jun 2002   Computer Science quote   >>   05 Jun 2002   Complete archive of ....   Good one! I also noticed that Google is startin....   >>      Books about coding f....   Check these algorithms: http://finance.bi.no/~b....   >>         I just read a book on basic finace which gave the ....   >>   04 Jun 2002   Anyone using CityDes....   Access can actually handle quite a large amount of....   >>   31 May 2002   Going about publishi....   Why don't you put the articles online like Joel di....   >>   27 May 2002   Marketing Software Consulting   >>   27 May 2002   Marketing Software C....   Here's a negative example too, quite funny: htt....   >>         Thanks. After some reading on the web I figured o....   >>   25 May 2002   What websites do you....   If you don't read http://slashdot.org everyday the....   >>   22 May 2002   MS EULA: JAVA TECHNOLOGY IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT   >>   22 May 2002   Software Metrics and....   KLOC's must be the worst possible way to measure p....   >>      MS EULA: JAVA TECHNO....   I did work experience at nuclear power plant in th....   >>      The Importance of Ed....   Textpad doesn't have the ability to enter commands....   >>   21 May 2002   How often do you del....   Great story that magic one!   >>      The Importance of Ed....   I take issue with programmers using notepad. It's ....   >>   20 May 2002   Project Management S....   Joel's written a nice article a while back on usin....   >>      The Importance of Ed....   I've noticed that when developing ASP applications....   >>   18 May 2002   exit strategies   I for one am getting mighty bored of these 'I hate....   >>   16 May 2002   application platform....   Non-programmers can't build Access applications be....   >>   14 May 2002   RealNames   I lived in Japan for a few years and I never saw a....   >>   11 May 2002   application platform....   When you mention scalable do you mean the ability ....   >>   10 May 2002   PHP + MySql   At the risk of starting a religious war Perl plus ....   >>   07 May 2002   Who owns consultants code?   >>   07 May 2002   Source code dependen....   Getting a top down hierarchical (directed) graph o....   >>         GraphViz is an open source graphing program which ....   >>      Who owns consultants....   Could anyone suggest wording for a contract to sta....   >>         Some reasons consultants charge more per hour than....   >>   06 May 2002   MS Word .doc word co....   You can use Word's COM interface to get the word c....   >>   30 Apr 2002   Understanding someon....   Printing the code on A3 paper is great, as when yo....   >>   13 Apr 2002   XML Weather feed   http://www.xmethods.com/ lists publicly available ....   >>   02 Apr 2002   How to appear compet....   I take along high quality colour screen shots from....   >>   01 Apr 2002   Project Management o....   If you don't want to stream the talk it can be dow....   >>   31 Mar 2002   Project Management on the XBox   >>   28 Mar 2002   homebrew CS educatio....   The Arsdigita University used to offer a full CS e....   >>   22 Mar 2002   CF and/or ASP?ASP.ne....   Since ASP and CF and any other server side languag....   >>   07 Mar 2002   Microsoft Photo Draw....   Whoops it's 'Imagemagick' with a 'g' and the url r....   >>         Imagemajick is pretty cool. It's a set of open sou....   >>   25 Feb 2002   Internationalization....   You also need to make sure that you format time, d....   >>   24 Feb 2002   Daily Builds, lint, ....   Perl isn't really interpreted, it's compiled into ....   >>   21 Feb 2002   Source Code Change L....   I find them pretty handy, I use them more like a r....   >>   20 Feb 2002   What's the training ....   I hear you DB, I worked in a company previously th....   >>   18 Feb 2002   New comp sci grauate....   O'Reilly are getting stuck into Bioinformatics wit....   >>   17 Feb 2002   P2P & scalabilit....   Your in luck, they are discussing the scalability ....   >>   04 Feb 2002   Selling Shareware   I wonder what the difference in revenues would be ....   >>   03 Feb 2002   Selling Shareware   >>   28 Jan 2002   Paying Double Salary   >>   28 Jan 2002   Paying Double Salary   One more point is that it's been shown that the be....   >>   27 Jan 2002   Ultimate programming....   What do you think about Microsoft Natural keyboard....   >>      Wireless   Ultra Wide Band radio looks pretty cool for the fu....   >>   24 Jan 2002   Is a college degree ....   You don't have to have a degree in computer scienc....   >>   23 Jan 2002   Databases   A relational database suits itself well to hierarc....   >>   08 Dec 2001   Would you hire someo....   It depends how good they were. I would hire Donald....   >>   22 Nov 2001   Fast Transfer of Hug....   ftp it from one server to your workstation, then f....   >>      Restricting Navigati....   My bank offers it's online banking interface like ....   >>   20 Nov 2001   Costs of testing on ....   No offence but I hope your Netmmercial idea doesn'....   >>         Yeah MSDN is great. http://msdn.microsoft.com/s....   >>      Software development....   Some I use: HTML & CSS - http://www.htmlhelp.co....   >>   15 Nov 2001   Abandon the browser?   >>   14 Nov 2001   Working on CityDesk,....   Couldn't agree more on XML being all hype. And you....   >>   12 Nov 2001   The Ultimate Usabili....   'Ooh! They have the internet on computers now!' H....   >>   03 Nov 2001   Hungarian Notation   The thing that put me off hungarian was that in a ....   >>      Books on XML and MSC....   Just go to Amazon and search there. You might ....   >>   31 Oct 2001   Hungarian Notation   >>

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