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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Matt H.' | ||
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Number of Comments: 469 |
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| Number of Words: 48,620 | ||
| First Comment: 20 May 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 13 Jul 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 52 |
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| First Topic: 18 Jun 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 08 Jul 2004 | ||
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| 13 Jul 2004 | Development Methodol.... | >I would like to know if you really follow >(to .... >> |
| Book sale figures | http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/index.html Mi.... >> | |
| 08 Jul 2004 | BrainBench >> | |
| 06 Jul 2004 | project managers for.... | I think good programming skills and good project.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2004 | C#/ASP.NET programme.... | MadebyMonkeys is, well, wrong. Health care is o.... >> |
| I don't have a probl.... | 'Sometimes people have endured tremendous hardship.... >> | |
| >I think you've hit on something there. >The re.... >> | ||
| >What is 'Apergian behaviours'? >Oddly enough, .... >> | ||
| Ok, Ged, I'll bite: Programmer to Tester 'Tha.... >> | ||
| Good Proj.Man. attit.... | Open Scope Contract. If they can't tell you wha.... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | Nifty UML Site? >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | If you like Joel on .... | http://www.xndev.com/articles/articles.htm >> |
| Subversion-Tortoise .... | CVS >> | |
| 30 Jun 2004 | Business Names | Lots of people do 'Name & Associates' Some ex.... >> |
| 29 Jun 2004 | Now I know where the.... | Orphans of the sky, not tunnell. Best. Heinl.... >> |
| No, I genuinely think that most people who know .... >> | ||
| Experiences with XP .... | Ditto the Automated Unit testing has changed my .... >> | |
| 28 Jun 2004 | Good Freelancing Sites >> | |
| 28 Jun 2004 | Can you be a good C+.... | >there were no courses focused >on software engi.... >> |
| 24 Jun 2004 | Converting no capita.... | It's call reciprocity. When you write a tool li.... >> |
| 22 Jun 2004 | Code Comlete 2nd Edi.... | Test Driven Development? Automated Unit Tests? >> |
| 16 Jun 2004 | outsourcing developm.... | Oh, the farther away you are, (in general) the m.... >> |
| A one-time-zone difference vs. Another Continent.... >> | ||
| Give them a requirements document that sucks. .... >> | ||
| 15 Jun 2004 | detecting a sinking .... | 1) Cessation of Bonus Program for staff. It may.... >> |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Ph. D. Material | If it was unique or non-redundant work, I agree..... >> |
| 07 Jun 2004 | You guys must love m.... | Shoot. I just read that it's a whole lot of gib.... >> |
| 'it prints all I need to see, *plus*, a whole lot .... >> | ||
| 04 Jun 2004 | Title of Book on Mot.... | 'Punished by rewards: The problem with A's, Prai.... >> |
| 03 Jun 2004 | Ayn Rand | Like I said before, a good place to start, but d.... >> |
| 'Individual Responsiblity and individual mastery.... >> | ||
| 01 Jun 2004 | Master's thesis adds.... | I would suggest something with model-driven-arch.... >> |
| 25 May 2004 | Dear JOS-Abbey: Need.... | One thing: Don't cold-call. Join professional .... >> |
| 22 May 2004 | Book recommendations.... | I third the votes for PeopleWare. IT's _the_ pl.... >> |
| 10 May 2004 | IBM Debuts new "Java.... | So ... what does it do? Manage licenses? Enabl.... >> |
| 06 May 2004 | One of the ways to s.... | Impatience, Laziness, and Hubris are three of the .... >> |
| 30 Apr 2004 | Deveoper Jokes 'Not Funny' >> | |
| 30 Apr 2004 | A programmer who is .... | Warning: I have a math degree Most programmer.... >> |
| Deveoper Jokes 'Not .... | >I know your kind. You're the kind of guy >wher.... >> | |
| Right. The intention wasn't to make people laug.... >> | ||
| Iterative Waterfall .... | Suggestion: Read the essay 'Plan to throw one aw.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2004 | Who handles writing .... | In our shop, developer writes unit tests, customer.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2004 | Accounting Primer fo.... | I took an accounting class at a local community .... >> |
| 21 Apr 2004 | Winning the professi.... | (1) School: MS at nite (2) Books really help (.... >> |
| 19 Apr 2004 | world best known sof.... | SAS SAS. oh, and SAS. >> |
| 16 Apr 2004 | Monolithic Function | In other use: Use the class to encapsulate and .... >> |
| Couldn't the customer class just have a method: .... >> | ||
| 14 Apr 2004 | What unemployment? | Why do you need 2 years of J2EE? Whoever you hi.... >> |
| 12 Apr 2004 | Interviews and firin.... | Hypothesis: Organizations that can't claim a co.... >> |
| master's degree + em.... | My Advice: An advanced degree from a non-big-na.... >> | |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Have you ever been f.... | Phil: any chance you are a John's Hopkins gradu.... >> |
| 07 Apr 2004 | I Question the Assum.... | Why don't just do it over the weekend or somethi.... >> |
| 05 Apr 2004 | Convert String to Fl.... | Does C# have atof() ? atod()? it'll be someth.... >> |
| 02 Apr 2004 | "The Apprentice" Considered Harmful >> | |
| 02 Apr 2004 | The Apprentice (spoi.... | Omigosh. www.omarosa.com No, I'm not kid.... >> |
| "The Apprentice" (sp.... | Should be 'He doesn't LOOK _under_ things' above.... >> | |
| 'And of course, as others point out, he may have b.... >> | ||
| The show made it sound like Bill, Kwame and Troy.... >> | ||
| 18 Mar 2004 | Becoming a C program.... | The C syntax is easy. It's the regression bugs .... >> |
| 11 Mar 2004 | Technical Recruiters.... | 'Finding a good technical recruiter is as hard as .... >> |
| Building Text Parser.... | I third: Do it in perl. If you have a c comp.... >> | |
| 08 Mar 2004 | not in my job descri.... | I know a photographer who trademarks every pic.... >> |
| Lean == critical cha.... | How about 'Critical Chain' By Goldratt? That .... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | #$#%@^ policies >> | |
| 23 Feb 2004 | Project Management I.... | PMI certification is kinda like the MBA idea of .... >> |
| Product Management T.... | Of course, hopefully, before you became a manage.... >> | |
| I'd read a couple of books on extreme programmin.... >> | ||
| CMM & Off-Shore | 'CMM-5 just means they've got documents for everyt.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2004 | my bizarre firing si.... | I'd get something in writing about never having .... >> |
| xml schemas anyone? | uh ... aren't key/value pairs pretty much the defi.... >> | |
| The Apprentice (spoi.... | Here's the thing: They were measured by the per.... >> | |
| 19 Feb 2004 | Taking Steering Whee.... | When you get to selling, pointing out that 'Inst.... >> |
| 17 Feb 2004 | Design Decision No.3 | I think she's going for hallway usability here, .... >> |
| Salary rate for a 6 .... | 'have over 6 yrs in VB 6' Was the original quot.... >> | |
| He said "Over 6 years" and I doubt it ... >> | ||
| Didn't VB 6.0 ship in September of 1998? With.... >> | ||
| CPM vs. SDLC | I'm sorry, the 'These words sound similar and I'.... >> | |
| Eli Goldratt's book 'Critical Chain' describes a.... >> | ||
| Suggestion: Don't use Critical Path, Use Crit.... >> | ||
| 16 Feb 2004 | How discouraging | >Good clarification. I guess I was > thinking mor.... >> |
| >getting it done fast, getting it done cheaply >.... >> | ||
| I dunno if you heard the expression: '90% of .... >> | ||
| 13 Feb 2004 | The Apprentice (spoi.... | My last post was all about a potential "Apprentice.... >> |
| Seriously, I'll bet Joel could do something wi.... >> | ||
| >Tammy/Tami is great. She's the new Sam. >Every.... >> | ||
| 11 Feb 2004 | Project Management Tool >> | |
| 11 Feb 2004 | Hiring Again >> | |
| 11 Feb 2004 | Hiring Again | I work at PH. I do not represent management. >> |
| Assessing a Software.... | >'I'm asking for a list of the 'skills' one >sho.... >> | |
| 10 Feb 2004 | Exchanging Files VIA.... | I know of one company that has an 'auto ftp' pro.... >> |
| 06 Feb 2004 | The Apprentice (spoi.... | I was very disappointed that Kristi was fired fo.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Bad Fit in a Corpora.... | Culture, Culture, culture. ESPECIALLY when yo.... >> |
| Schedule a large pro.... | You might want to read 'Agile Software Developme.... >> | |
| 03 Feb 2004 | Books on platform di.... | Uh ... use gcc on everything? VC.Net has hash.... >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Software Development.... | If you really want it, you can go RUP And UML an.... >> |
| 23 Jan 2004 | Professional Recognition of Testers >> | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | Common sense softwar.... | Go up a level (chop off the file name) That'.... >> |
| 20 Jan 2004 | Attending top univer.... | It also sounds like there was no 'senior softwar.... >> |
| Article on going ind.... | >I think the article is about looking for >clien.... >> | |
| 19 Jan 2004 | Just FWIW, if you want to play around with writi.... >> | |
| 16 Jan 2004 | trust new grad with .... | 1) Where did the 12K LOC estimate come from? .... >> |
| 15 Jan 2004 | An alternative way o.... | Like another poster said, a Math/CS degree proba.... >> |
| What next after Kern.... | For Gosh's sake, yes, learn C and learn about th.... >> | |
| 14 Jan 2004 | Outsourcing >> | |
| 14 Jan 2004 | Outsourcing | Outsourcing = Hiring a different company to do t.... >> |
| I think the 'Outsourcers are trying to make mone.... >> | ||
| More background: My article is in part inspir.... >> | ||
| 13 Jan 2004 | anybody hiring? | yes. www.priority-health.com >> |
| Part-Time Jobs Held .... | Micheal: If you are single and male, you can ge.... >> | |
| 05 Jan 2004 | Ideas are cheap | I think you've hit on a few good points. A .... >> |
| The problem with CSV.... | I've seen people turn binary into HEX to get Bin.... >> | |
| >Building a parser for CSV files is relatively >.... >> | ||
| Consulting? | One thing 'Real' consultants often do is come in.... >> | |
| 31 Dec 2003 | Agency terminology: .... | Elephant: The point of your rant is mostly th.... >> |
| 24 Dec 2003 | tech interviews | I agree. It's not the best, but at least they ar.... >> |
| 16 Dec 2003 | Doomed from the star.... | I second the 'get a simple working system and ad.... >> |
| 08 Dec 2003 | Test Driven Design i.... | If you like JUNIT, there's even a TCLTKUnit: .... >> |
| 04 Dec 2003 | Mike Scwern wrote test::More for Perl as well as t.... >> | |
| 02 Dec 2003 | Good interview approaches? >> | |
| 02 Dec 2003 | Good interview appro.... | Mr.: You got it right. Car has-a engine, not .... >> |
| Informix C-ISAM file.... | In your shoes, I would just create equivilant ta.... >> | |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Graduate degrees - w.... | Get experience, then get the MS at night. Then,.... >> |
| 24 Nov 2003 | Proposed Interview P.... | I might, as long as he didn't make me read the r.... >> |
| 21 Nov 2003 | Application Architec.... | If you're sick of code and fix, I'd recommend 'H.... >> |
| World Class Programm.... | ---Everything below can be summed up in 'Creat.... >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Revamping my website >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Revamping my website | >Matt, not to be picky, but you have a typo: He.... >> |
| Just to be clear Dennis, I've been working profe.... >> | ||
| Dennis: Thanks. I've thought about putting my .... >> | ||
| 18 Nov 2003 | On stored procedures.... | You can simulate stored procedures with perl lib.... >> |
| 12 Nov 2003 | Employment Hours Sta.... | I think california or Oregon had a state law aga.... >> |
| 11 Nov 2003 | Joel on Software for.... | I'm originally from the western maryland (Freder.... >> |
| 10 Nov 2003 | West Michigan Joelsters >> | |
| 10 Nov 2003 | Writing a software s.... | When asked to make an estimate early in developm.... >> |
| Software developers .... | Yes, CONSULTANTS can make that much ... if they .... >> | |
| 06 Nov 2003 | teamate becomming te.... | It's awesome that you are reading peopleware. .... >> |
| 1) Read PeopleWare 2) I would suggest 'The Pr.... >> | ||
| 31 Oct 2003 | Investing Money In C.... | >You really couldn't have picked a worse time to.... >> |
| 30 Oct 2003 | Capability Maturity Model >> | |
| 30 Oct 2003 | Advice for Student T.... | What kind of code were you writing in high schoo.... >> |
| Capability Maturity .... | To the first poster: Yes. CMM requires 'what' m.... >> | |
| 23 Oct 2003 | Test Team Chaos | Mike: I was about to post about TDD but Brent b.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Joel on Software Boo.... | About the affiliate program: I doubt he makes.... >> |
| 08 Oct 2003 | are there any true ".... | I think blackboard is in the DC area. It's we.... >> |
| IT staffing: permane.... | If your revenue is growing and you aren't sure i.... >> | |
| Thomas Stanley - The.... | I think the key to having a big pile of cash is .... >> | |
| 06 Oct 2003 | Where do all the cra.... | >You simply do not have the time to review >ever.... >> |
| >You can get away with crappy coders >by having .... >> | ||
| The Architect Within | 'Who needs an architect?' http://martinfowler.... >> | |
| J2EE architect certi.... | Certifiable: Did you even READ the article by f.... >> | |
| 05 Oct 2003 | Who needs an Architect? http://martinfowler.c.... >> | |
| IT Department Pet Pe.... | I met Larry Wall once. Called him 'Mr. Wall' .... >> | |
| 03 Oct 2003 | A FREEware like Snag.... | If you can find a better product, good for you. .... >> |
| 24 Sep 2003 | 99.9 percentile | 'When you're busting hump for your company, you do.... >> |
| According to Steve McConnell, Joel is going for gr.... >> | ||
| 17 Sep 2003 | Organizing random no.... | Wiki all the way. I've seen Kwiki's used to m.... >> |
| Smart, get things do.... | The problem is the productivity is hard to measu.... >> | |
| 15 Sep 2003 | How to handle dodgy .... | '...Last week, I told them that I want out, and th.... >> |
| Unit-testing | 'testing the code behind the GUI' --> By this I.... >> | |
| Mark: The article you linked to was criticizing.... >> | ||
| I use 'Ok' in perl with Test::More. IMHO, it'.... >> | ||
| 11 Sep 2003 | Star Team to CVS con.... | I think you can do a recursive import into CVS.... >> |
| 10 Sep 2003 | who will do the UI ? | I think that this is why they pay the boss the b.... >> |
| What Makes a Good Di.... | 'IT Director' is often misleading. According .... >> | |
| 05 Sep 2003 | Project Management a.... | I think PM is a sub-discipline of software engin.... >> |
| New book recommendat.... | Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules, .... >> | |
| 04 Sep 2003 | technical books | Effective Perl Programming (Just Finished) Le.... >> |
| 03 Sep 2003 | dynamic form generat.... | >Using my maniacal regular expression / perl skill.... >> |
| 02 Sep 2003 | Extreme Programming | >One of the goals of the XP processes is >to mak.... >> |
| I did a presentation on XP a couplea years back: .... >> | ||
| 27 Aug 2003 | Philo oughta write a.... | It would be VERY easy for Philo to present at a .... >> |
| 22 Aug 2003 | Code reviews and for.... | We lean toward the middle - mostly toward: 'Wha.... >> |
| 19 Aug 2003 | PhD in Computer Scie.... | I think that many companies today won't hire Ph..... >> |
| 15 Aug 2003 | MS Blaster Part II >> | |
| 15 Aug 2003 | Outsourced Overseas | >Use all your vacation time, if you have any. >Pr.... >> |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Space Shuttle Disaster (Boeing) >> | |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Space Shuttle Disast.... | In that the brass knew that a software program s.... >> |
| books about consulti.... | PS: ArsDigita was awesome. Somehow, it got all .... >> | |
| I'd recommend 'Million Dollar Consulting' - whic.... >> | ||
| 01 Aug 2003 | Guns,Germs,and Steel.... | 'Atlas Shrugged' - Ayn Rand 'The Cathedral and .... >> |
| 31 Jul 2003 | business books | Yes, start with JoS for the practical stuff. .... >> |
| 29 Jul 2003 | Business Stuff (Calling Bill Carlson) >> | |
| 28 Jul 2003 | "Business Guys" >> | |
| 23 Jul 2003 | Banking for dummies..... | Oh, I may have read your post wrong. It sounds .... >> |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156011077/.... >> | ||
| 22 Jul 2003 | ranking of wright st.... | Did you try http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index..... >> |
| Another career? | >In my area (they do a cost of living thing), > a.... >> | |
| You're going to get -more- than 100K in a gov't .... >> | ||
| 21 Jul 2003 | Perfectionism and Te.... | >I hate this attitude. >It absolutely disgusts .... >> |
| >A lot of people consider it extremely rude >to .... >> | ||
| 18 Jul 2003 | Is this salary decen.... | I'd say the pay is roughly equivilant. My rea.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2003 | You in your comapny | Uh: http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocalit.... >> |
| 09 Jul 2003 | Career Advice for be.... | 1) Do not go with the startup UNLESS they are al.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2003 | Cool Stuff >> | |
| 08 Jul 2003 | Cool Stuff | heh. A large project is just a bunch of small.... >> |
| >Ask what are the most common issues with >extre.... >> | ||
| Lunch time break. Time for an update. With X.... >> | ||
| I'll try to get to some of the those questions; .... >> | ||
| 07 Jul 2003 | My Name is Len Holga.... | Get a demanding, and/or challenging and/or 'mean.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2003 | CMM certification | Read 'PeopleWare' (2nd ed) for a good discussion.... >> |
| 01 Jul 2003 | "Learning Curve" | A few months back, I got off my horse of pride a.... >> |
| 27 Jun 2003 | Problem with colleag.... | All the advice above is correct. If I was in yo.... >> |
| 26 Jun 2003 | Trickery | >That's why I am a hacker... after all, >I have .... >> |
| >what's with the 'hacking isn't professional' >t.... >> | ||
| >'Im love to code, man, I even code at >home' ty.... >> | ||
| 23 Jun 2003 | Ars Digita and Ayn Rand >> | |
| 23 Jun 2003 | Ars Digita and Ayn R.... | >Greenspun very voluntarily agreed to >take onbo.... >> |
| 18 Jun 2003 | Switching Jobs | >It is always preferable to get a >candidate wh.... >> |
| 17 Jun 2003 | Are deadlines bad fo.... | >It's a very big heavy engineering company >and .... >> |
| Here's a thought: Maybe your team lead's bonu.... >> | ||
| Cover letters & .... | >Therefore, sometimes 'Good Enough' >really is a.... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2003 | >In fact, I bet that many don't read J >Joel On S.... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2003 | Not my problem... | The last para for my last post should read: 'My.... >> |
| These posts reminds me of a frustration I had so.... >> | ||
| 11 Jun 2003 | Survey:: Personality.... | INFP, Just like Larry Wall and Gerald Weinberg.... >> |
| First Job Search | Advice: 1) Try for an internship and work you.... >> | |
| 10 Jun 2003 | Better than KLOC >> | |
| 10 Jun 2003 | Better than KLOC | Fixed Pricing can be awesome. 1) You need acc.... >> |
| 09 Jun 2003 | More Performance Appraisals >> | |
| 09 Jun 2003 | More Performance App.... | Without reviews, you just drag on for years with n.... >> |
| Joel wrote: 'Most software managers have no cho.... >> | ||
| 06 Jun 2003 | Is Visual Studio use.... | I used to work on a complex, shrink-wrapped AP.... >> |
| 05 Jun 2003 | Turned down again | 'Software Developer = Me' It's not mine, I go.... >> |
| He allready has a day job that pays the rent, ri.... >> | ||
| 04 Jun 2003 | Time to avoid Develo.... | It's not that the car is expensive, it's that it.... >> |
| The Hero in the story is ABSOLUTELY Convinced th.... >> | ||
| Currently, I know of 1 company in my area that '.... >> | ||
| I think it's just a case of Natural Selection, a.... >> | ||
| Pair Programming - t.... | >If i am using TDD why would i have errors? >So .... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2003 | >Also, I don't have to code faster than the pair. .... >> | |
| Confusing times for .... | It depends. If I'm a hiring manager, and don'.... >> | |
| >I Agree with with this, but where >would be a g.... >> | ||
| About 3C above: Lots of schools have ISMN pro.... >> | ||
| >On a typical jobs thread, they'll bitch >and co.... >> | ||
| 02 Jun 2003 | "Entertaining" compu.... | 'The Deadline' by DeMarco is pretty ineresting a.... >> |
| 30 May 2003 | What do you think ab.... | I founded the grand rapids perl mongers, the gra.... >> |
| 29 May 2003 | Probation Periods | I've noticed this too - companies with 90 day pr.... >> |
| 23 May 2003 | QA Teams - do we nee.... | True QA is performing an internal audit of the.... >> |
| Amazed at uninformed.... | >What purpose does it serve to try >to segregate.... >> | |
| Experience with proj.... | 1) Planning to make it up later 2) Unrealis.... >> | |
| Peachtree customizat.... | You can import .csv files into peachtree. Bas.... >> | |
| 21 May 2003 | Recent Threads >> | |
| 21 May 2003 | Cheap tech booxs? | I buy used off amazon. If you're willing to g.... >> |
| Recent Threads | I don't see 'wah! My boss sucks' - I see 'here's t.... >> | |
| FYI: I think the 'what would a sane person .... >> | ||
| 20 May 2003 | Shady Characters | >I disagree - depending on the software I will .... >> |
| >I once worked for a software >company where the.... >> | ||
| 19 May 2003 | Build times | >It's a build on maybe a medium-sized project >(.... >> |
| where did all the so.... | >The fact is employers laugh at you when >you co.... >> | |
| 16 May 2003 | O'Reilly Open Source Conference >> | |
| 16 May 2003 | Poll: Most used scri.... | Perl. Anyone going to the Open Source convent.... >> |
| 13 May 2003 | How do I sell an app.... | >yeah, and if those people wrote >Microsoft Word.... >> |
| 09 May 2003 | Resume writing servi.... | The experience of writing and revising his own r.... >> |
| 07 May 2003 | How to manage a doom.... | I'd agree, 15 minute meetings. To check status,.... >> |
| >I'm not suggesting to ignore these, >just keep .... >> | ||
| 01 May 2003 | Job Advice | >About this not violating some 'chain of command'..... >> |
| 30 Apr 2003 | >I'd personally never talk to your boss's boss .... >> | |
| While sergeant sausage was being mean about it, he.... >> | ||
| Web Services | I've done 'real' Web Services Coding Front en.... >> | |
| Departmental Solutio.... | Departmental Solutions push Profit and Loss resp.... >> | |
| Good programmers are.... | Are good chess players trained or born? Are g.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2003 | Precious | 'the build is now merely a formality' On re.... >> |
| >I am happy to 'help' and 'teach' but not >to 'g.... >> | ||
| 25 Apr 2003 | Layoffs | 1) I thought at GE it was the bottom 5%. 20% is p.... >> |
| 24 Apr 2003 | software engg. at sc.... | I just finished a grad course called 'intro to s.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2003 | What is to fuel the .... | Oh, and Health Care. >> |
| >IMHO, CRM is a waste of time. I'm sure to dr.... >> | ||
| >So what is the next thing we >will see moving.... >> | ||
| 22 Apr 2003 | Programmers Main Mot.... | >If you lack social skills, you are more likely >.... >> |
| 21 Apr 2003 | Managing | Tom DeMarco, Co-Author of PeopleWare, on Managemen.... >> |
| 18 Apr 2003 | Kinds of bad managers? >> | |
| 18 Apr 2003 | Kinds of bad manager.... | The post above leads me to 9: 9) Manager who .... >> |
| #3 should be 'in the hope that someone else SOLV.... >> | ||
| 17 Apr 2003 | Possible to get perk.... | Good managers ARE worth thier weight in gold. .... >> |
| >A lot of times they seem to 'give you a line' >.... >> | ||
| Ken: Sadly, this situation is VERY similar to m.... >> | ||
| 16 Apr 2003 | Quitech Plan | Law Finance (Investments) Writing (Well, I'd.... >> |
| 15 Apr 2003 | UML and design patte.... | UML is a basically a way of visualizing stuff. .... >> |
| 11 Apr 2003 | Are Microsoft SQL's .... | If you keep your stored procedures simple (prett.... >> |
| startup company offe.... | >no business plan in existence that justifies >a.... >> | |
| Can Java run on the .... | COBOL is transactional in nature. JAVA is not.... >> | |
| 09 Apr 2003 | Encouraging Testable.... | If you can get them to write unit & integration .... >> |
| 07 Apr 2003 | Sick of being stuck .... | >Anybody got any tips about getting >away from t.... >> |
| 05 Apr 2003 | If you were not a de.... | Law Finance (Investments) Writing (Well, I.... >> |
| 04 Apr 2003 | Dealing with obstina.... | Ed's onto something. It sounds like this isn'.... >> |
| Team Development wit.... | >For example, you have 100 >developers working o.... >> | |
| 03 Apr 2003 | Questions to ask whe.... | Find someone you know inside the organization t.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2003 | "Incentive Pay Consi.... | Astarte: I'd suggested you read 'Punished By Re.... >> |
| 24 Mar 2003 | Greed and Total Cost.... | The whole minimum wage thing is a red herring. .... >> |
| Bella's Pet Peeve #5.... | I think the key is to figure out if it's appreci.... >> | |
| 20 Mar 2003 | Commenting Code | I once stuck the entire 'You're not my father' s.... >> |
| //Here be dragons ... and /*Magic*/ and.... >> | ||
| masters GPA cutoffs? | With a 3.55, a good score on the GRE, and two .... >> | |
| 19 Mar 2003 | Call for special sof.... | http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~heusserm/GuestLectures.... >> |
| 18 Mar 2003 | Do employers ever sa.... | >You have nothing to lose by trying. Give em a cal.... >> |
| Manipulating Very La.... | Seriously, Perl. >> | |
| 13 Mar 2003 | What does a 'world c.... | 'Million Dollar Consulting' That's a good un'.... >> |
| The techinical stuff anybody could tell you, and.... >> | ||
| 12 Mar 2003 | Warchalking | Here's an idea: Public Website or napster-l.... >> |
| Is Inheritance a Pil.... | VB 6.0 is object-based. Object-Based pretty m.... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2003 | MS Access or MSDE fo.... | >(I'm mostly concerned by the 'distributed' side.... >> |
| Unit testing in n-ti.... | 1) Create a test environment 2) Create modules .... >> | |
| Gadget freak or cons.... | Conservative. I carry a Franklin-planner-like-t.... >> | |
| what's your title | >mine -> head of service, business information >.... >> | |
| Programmer/Analyst >> | ||
| Money, taxes, and wh.... | >You might like to purchase a copy of >the book .... >> | |
| 10 Mar 2003 | Construx.com >> | |
| 10 Mar 2003 | Automated Unit Testing Redux >> | |
| 07 Mar 2003 | Pair Programming Exp.... | Two different cases: (1) You're using pair pr.... >> |
| 'helping out' | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000000.... >> | |
| >(especially since the job market is >none exist.... >> | ||
| MSCS or Post-Bac BSC.... | I have a BS in math with a concentration in CS. (.... >> | |
| 06 Mar 2003 | Software Development.... | Farming? Football? Want more examples? Re.... >> |
| 05 Mar 2003 | Automated Tests for Data Extracts >> | |
| 05 Mar 2003 | Automated Tests for .... | >I think you're ahead of yourself. :-) Obviousl.... >> |
| 02 Mar 2003 | "Less than expert" T.... | This is especially hard to do if you are coding in.... >> |
| You get what you pay for. Companies hire the anyon.... >> | ||
| 21 Feb 2003 | anybody on this foru.... | FYI, If I have to say it, the answer to the ques.... >> |
| Check http://www.ijustheard.com/ - Simon Lucy's.... >> | ||
| Professional Associa.... | Perl Mongers >> | |
| Know Anyone Persecut.... | >My firm policy after some earlier career >setba.... >> | |
| 19 Feb 2003 | Why did FoxPro Fail .... | Marketing. And 'Nobody ever got fired for using.... >> |
| 18 Feb 2003 | Discrimination | Let's back up a bit. Assume we are in the U.... >> |
| Fine print(if any) i.... | to : 'these components and bonuses will be paid on.... >> | |
| current salary level.... | I think salary levels haven't changed much in th.... >> | |
| 17 Feb 2003 | Cheapest VC++ Professional? >> | |
| 17 Feb 2003 | Worst interviewer ev.... | >They are entitled to paid >maternity leave, muc.... >> |
| Cheapest VC++ Profes.... | 'Academic is not good enough' The license doe.... >> | |
| How did you stumble .... | >Too forward? :-) I say that b/c we spent a lot.... >> | |
| I don't honestly remember. I think I was taking .... >> | ||
| interview related qu.... | Here's an idea: Go check out the web-site. C.... >> | |
| 14 Feb 2003 | Access / ADO / C++ Question >> | |
| 14 Feb 2003 | More Job Openings >> | |
| 14 Feb 2003 | Access / ADO / C++ Q.... | it's --always-- cut off at 255. The example i.... >> |
| Problems with Softwa.... | If you like this thread, you'd probably get a ki.... >> | |
| Evaluating Resumes: .... | >Presenting a code test is a cop out, writing >c.... >> | |
| 13 Feb 2003 | Ask them to write code. 'Could you right a .... >> | |
| How do I get my Boss.... | >The other 3 devs on my team totally agree >and .... >> | |
| evaluating oneself a.... | >But the company keeps shipping buggy products. .... >> | |
| Value is relative. I will explain. Let's s.... >> | ||
| Any chance that's Dino Esposito? :-) >> | ||
| What were your first.... | Commodore Vic 20 IBM PC-JR (King's Quest Rock.... >> | |
| 11 Feb 2003 | What database does C.... | Dang. I just did a search for 'citydesk for gee.... >> |
| What, citydesk's Data Access ... Hidden? Obfu.... >> | ||
| how to get an interv.... | I just accepted an offer from a mid-west compan.... >> | |
| 04 Feb 2003 | Is CM meaningfully c.... | >I guess I'm saying that Source Code Control >has.... >> |
| >here's an answer from here: no. I've >not heard.... >> | ||
| 27 Jan 2003 | Books on How to prod.... | Successful Software Development by Donaldson/Sei.... >> |
| 24 Jan 2003 | Fuzzy front and back.... | >Probably because, between you me >and the gatep.... >> |
| 23 Jan 2003 | Connection Strings >> | |
| 23 Jan 2003 | Connection Strings | Specifically: I'm looking for a connection st.... >> |
| need some advice | Another thing you can do, as Joel hinted at, is .... >> | |
| Some people are like Wolves. They can sense sel.... >> | ||
| Salary? | >Given the responsibilities of the position, >.... >> | |
| Books on leading pee.... | 'Leading without power' Max De Pree. I hav.... >> | |
| 22 Jan 2003 | Making Easy things easy ... >> | |
| 22 Jan 2003 | Salary? | I'm not sure if these numbers are accurate, but .... >> |
| Hiring, Firing ... ok. Project Management? (L.... >> | ||
| Books on leading pee.... | >I've been tasked with taking on a leadership >r.... >> | |
| 16 Jan 2003 | Griping about Dell | I think there's more to JIT than what's been dis.... >> |
| >You describe the effect as 'a local >optimizati.... >> | ||
| Curious - impression.... | >jeeze--they don't need another >MBA type up ther.... >> | |
| 15 Jan 2003 | User Interface with .... | Uh, C++ doesn't have a gui. I assume you're t.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2003 | This should be easy .... | So the DSN HAS TO BE a system DSN, setup by the .... >> |
| 10 Jan 2003 | This should be easy part II ... >> | |
| 10 Jan 2003 | I ended up using ADO smart-pointers, but I'm s.... >> | |
| The 'SifDatabase' above should read 'database' .... >> | ||
| 09 Jan 2003 | This should be Easy ... >> | |
| 09 Jan 2003 | This should be Easy .... | You guys Rock! thanks, >> |
| 07 Jan 2003 | Shelf-Life Of A Prog.... | I'm a coder who's 26, and I know what you're tal.... >> |
| 06 Jan 2003 | The future | >I am just about finished up with my MCSE, and >.... >> |
| >If you get an MBA from any school other >than t.... >> | ||
| 03 Jan 2003 | Thingy Programming >> | |
| 03 Jan 2003 | Thingy Programming | I've got the 2nd Edition - Chapter 4: Referenc.... >> |
| Making it on your ow.... | I'm currently reading an old edition of 'Million D.... >> | |
| 31 Dec 2002 | God and Computers | //-----// Here's a quick lesson in science: if yo.... >> |
| 30 Dec 2002 | Living and Working i.... | If you're that good - telecommute. http://job.... >> |
| God and Computers | What does appear likely is that neither they nor y.... >> | |
| 'What makes an Athiest's arguements _against_ God .... >> | ||
| If the 'horse' at the beginning of the fossil reco.... >> | ||
| Move on the Prime Mover & Thomas Aquinas: 'Aqui.... >> | ||
| 'darwinism doesn't explain the whole of evolution'.... >> | ||
| 27 Dec 2002 | Heh. BTW, most of those arguments I was told or.... >> | |
| PS: Ceaser is more like 2,000 years old. Lincol.... >> | ||
| Wow. I'll post something more on monday. O.... >> | ||
| Think about this very long and very hard: besides .... >> | ||
| I earned my undergrad degree in Mathmatics. F.... >> | ||
| 20 Dec 2002 | I'm Peeved ... >> | |
| 20 Dec 2002 | need recommendations.... | What do you mean by 'Data'? HTML, XML, Test, CS.... >> |
| 18 Dec 2002 | Book Recommendations? >> | |
| 18 Dec 2002 | Incompetent Executiv.... | In PeopleWare, by DeMarco/Lister, the authors po.... >> |
| Book Recommendations.... | OLE DB. Not OLD DB. Ha! Ooops ... >> | |
| 13 Dec 2002 | p-Code | When I said CLR above, I ment MSIL. oopsie. >> |
| P-Code isn't unique to microsoft, and I suspect .... >> | ||
| 11 Dec 2002 | Looking smart | Dodo Head: Seriously, Honestly, it sounds lik.... >> |
| 09 Dec 2002 | Code Reviews - Does .... | Unless I can think of a way of doing them informal.... >> |
| 27 Nov 2002 | Unemployment Woes | There's some insurance company in Jacksonville, .... >> |
| 26 Nov 2002 | Angry manager | I highly suggest Quality Software management, vo.... >> |
| How to let managment.... | Frustrated: You might want to read 'Death Mar.... >> | |
| 25 Nov 2002 | 'we have a 30% chance of meeting this timeline giv.... >> | |
| 22 Nov 2002 | How many gas station.... | My answer would something like: 'I used to .... >> |
| Similar websites as .... | Cringley on business stuff. You can always ch.... >> | |
| 21 Nov 2002 | Painless Software Sc.... | 'Please somebody tell me how to accomodate varying.... >> |
| 20 Nov 2002 | Meetings | ' Best to ask him how the meeting went and when.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2002 | Dead Wood "III" >> | |
| 18 Nov 2002 | Dead Wood "III" | ' The Christian ideals are much easier for women,.... >> |
| I almost forget - 7 Habits of Highly Successful .... >> | ||
| Expected out of coll.... | Question: What is expected of a green just-graduat.... >> | |
| Average Raise after .... | I graduated in 1997 and started in September. .... >> | |
| Competing Offers -- .... | if your current company really wants you they shou.... >> | |
| Good idea to bundle .... | Such people are not qualified to do meaningful, me.... >> | |
| 13 Nov 2002 | Best Books for Windo.... | MFC Visual C++ 6 by Blaszczak is pretty good i.... >> |
| 08 Nov 2002 | "Missing" Free Tools >> | |
| 08 Nov 2002 | "Missing" Free Tools | Oh, the .avi editor should do animated GIFs, als.... >> |
| Free (Or Nearly So) .... | >The best tools money can buy. > >Starting a com.... >> | |
| 07 Nov 2002 | Free (Or Nearly So) Programmer's toolkits? >> | |
| 07 Nov 2002 | Visual Basic For Testers >> | |
| 07 Nov 2002 | FogBugZ is free to evaluate, $90 for a single-us.... >> | |
| I will definately add open office to the list. .... >> | ||
| Visual Basic For Tes.... | A couplea things: 1) Joel offered to give thi.... >> | |
| 06 Nov 2002 | Learning Perl | I use textpad. I'm a VC++ programmer, but I've .... >> |
| 28 Oct 2002 | Providing Salary His.... | Here's the kicker: Let's say they have two .... >> |
| Dead wood | PS: If this was 'your' project, a project assesm.... >> | |
| Just a thought: If you're early in your career,.... >> | ||
| 25 Oct 2002 | What would you do? | I don't have the URLs hand, but there are LOTS o.... >> |
| 23 Oct 2002 | The Brickie Programm.... | 'I'm sure you would agree that the most important .... >> |
| 22 Oct 2002 | Extreme Programming | I like XP, and have managed to do most of the pr.... >> |
| 10 Oct 2002 | 10/90 - code written.... | VB is really common for lowest-common-denominato.... >> |
| 03 Oct 2002 | Project Management f.... | I'd recommend XTreme Programming: Installed alon.... >> |
| 24 Sep 2002 | Risk Management >> | |
| 23 Sep 2002 | Last minute changes | Your project plan should have lots of assumption.... >> |
| 18 Sep 2002 | Should Consulting be.... | >What are the advantages of outsourcing >consult.... >> |
| 16 Sep 2002 | Thanks Joel! | 'Me Too' It's been a pleasure to read. As the.... >> |
| 13 Sep 2002 | New Articles | Tapiwa: _VERY_ interesting comments. If I give .... >> |
| 12 Sep 2002 | New Articles >> | |
| 29 Aug 2002 | J2EE, .NET - what wa.... | Ok - Here's a question - how does an 'enterprise a.... >> |
| Rebranding using Web.... | Robin - Any relation to Jenny, the 1997 SSU gra.... >> | |
| 28 Aug 2002 | Just a thought ... let's say you own a GI Sur.... >> | |
| 23 Aug 2002 | Return on Investment.... | I do a lot of one-off coding to automate data pr.... >> |
| 22 Aug 2002 | How to write like Jo.... | A couplea things Joel does: (1) Take an idea .... >> |
| SAP, Oracle, PeopleS.... | This just my $0.02 ... As time moves on, we k.... >> | |
| Hiring Project Manag.... | >they have to really understand software to the nt.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2002 | Training Cirricula >> | |
| 21 Aug 2002 | Training Cirricula | >How much language training could >you hope to t.... >> |
| 20 Aug 2002 | Top programming lang.... | Is this a troll or what? When I am nailing bo.... >> |
| " (X) On Software" A.... | > (This is a Microsoft Powerpoint file > and re.... >> | |
| Those comments actually do help, thank you. I.... >> | ||
| Dude, the Author is me. It's -Fred- Brooks, w.... >> | ||
| 19 Aug 2002 | " (X) On Software" Articles >> | |
| 19 Aug 2002 | Hiring Project Manag.... | Not NT4. Nt 3.01 or something. bleh. >> |
| >Good companies don't consider >project manageme.... | ||