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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Alberto' | ||
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Number of Comments: 212 |
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| Number of Words: 12,248 | ||
| First Comment: 28 Jun 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 15 Mar 2003 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 3 |
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| First Topic: 18 Nov 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 29 Jan 2003 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 15 Mar 2003 | politics | I think that part of our problem is perspective, w.... >> |
| 13 Mar 2003 | I have a confession .... | Never happened to me. I always do the right thing..... >> |
| 11 Mar 2003 | The Tyranny of Email | The other side of the coin, however, is that when .... >> |
| what's your title | I'm a 'bull goose looney'. (little joke for tho.... >> | |
| 08 Mar 2003 | followup | Dont call and accuse them of not contacting you, t.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2003 | A good desk | Mike Swieton above say... 'This desk isn't ever g.... >> |
| 01 Mar 2003 | a third place | It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation, have th.... >> |
| 25 Feb 2003 | How to Interview a P.... | I always create some hoops of varying colors and s.... >> |
| 13 Feb 2003 | What were your first.... | Along the same lines my first 'upgrade' was to inc.... >> |
| Sinclair ZX80 Spectrum With the color buttons f.... >> | ||
| 11 Feb 2003 | Getting through comp.... | Heres how I do it. I stare at each page until the.... >> |
| 09 Feb 2003 | ...another reason no.... | Right on, power to the people I say! Management.... >> |
| 06 Feb 2003 | Why don't colleges t.... | Read the stuff on Abstractions. Useful stuff is.... >> |
| 04 Feb 2003 | Smokers | I've found that people who complain about smokers .... >> |
| Space Shuttle Columb.... | What's the point of rating horrors? I'd say the.... >> | |
| 01 Feb 2003 | Don't Define the Int.... | I have worked on a few meta data driven applicatio.... >> |
| 31 Jan 2003 | Work Dress Code | I have a simple dress code (uniform) that I wear t.... >> |
| Good developers don'.... | I do it because I once loved it, and now all that'.... >> | |
| Cube or office...Wha.... | I must be lucky, I think that I could write code i.... >> | |
| Pocket PC Audio | They sum up the boosteroo very nicely with this wa.... >> | |
| Thanks, I'll check it out! >> | ||
| is murphy a random n.... | No Murphy is not a random number. A random numb.... >> | |
| 30 Jan 2003 | Does usability matte.... | Does anything matter? Just joking, sometimes us.... >> |
| Pocket PC Audio | Thank you all, yes I probably do need to hear that.... >> | |
| 29 Jan 2003 | Pocket PC Audio >> | |
| 28 Jan 2003 | Globals Suck | COincidently, this application has been in product.... >> |
| I'm currently upgrading an ancient vb3 appliicatio.... >> | ||
| Murphy's struck me t.... | It's called life. You cannot protect yourself aga.... >> | |
| 23 Jan 2003 | Recommendations soug.... | Option 1, CITRIX, not Terminal Services. As lon.... >> |
| Formatting the hard .... | I only rebuild my development PC from scratch when.... >> | |
| Fuzzy front and back.... | Always make sure that grey areas are specified, if.... >> | |
| 19 Jan 2003 | Why didn't you tell .... | I know what you mean Stephen, likewise, I have the.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2003 | impending doom? | If you mention anything then the politics will beg.... >> |
| 08 Jan 2003 | Shelf-Life Of A Prog.... | 42 years old, 17 years experience. Very good de.... >> |
| 30 Dec 2002 | Best Organizer/PIM | I too like Outlook. But I'd just like to say th.... >> |
| VB6/ATL or .NET for .... | Dave says.. 'I'd go the .NET route. That's wher.... >> | |
| 27 Dec 2002 | Your favorite resear.... | My code bible. http://mindprod.com/unmain.html >> |
| God and Computers | Charles Babbage the man who arguably started the w.... >> | |
| Version control syst.... | I think version control is essential, it's ingrain.... >> | |
| New Year Resolution | To stop wasting my time reading this site :-) >> | |
| 24 Dec 2002 | Marriage == Career D.... | For me it was just the opposite, there's nothing l.... >> |
| 23 Dec 2002 | old dog, new trick? | Yes, I dont think it's carte blanche that unit tes.... >> |
| Marriage == Career D.... | I can't believe we are discussing computer program.... >> | |
| 19 Dec 2002 | Diagnostic Tools | Thanks Guys, I'll check 'em out. >> |
| 18 Dec 2002 | changing skill sets | I just spent a couple of months looking for a job .... >> |
| Similarities between.... | Prostitutes generally make the customer happier th.... >> | |
| 17 Dec 2002 | Diagnostic Tools >> | |
| 17 Dec 2002 | Diagnostic Tools | VB6, that is. >> |
| Career Path for Prog.... | Degree in mathematics, 13 years developing softwar.... >> | |
| Natural Selection ap.... | It's all about entropy, pure entropy I've decided,.... >> | |
| 16 Dec 2002 | Selection and the cu.... | I pointed him in the direction of some reference m.... >> |
| The problem is that some peolpe are able to get by.... >> | ||
| Solving the difficul.... | I think programming tools are like ice cream flavo.... >> | |
| 13 Dec 2002 | Recruitment is just .... | I expect to get lucky on my first date. >> |
| I finished my last contract on 16th October this y.... >> | ||
| Should I be a Progra.... | Unless you can make money from acting, music, tenn.... >> | |
| 12 Dec 2002 | Theories on why prog.... | Oh, and some permanent employee on the team's just.... >> |
| Other reasons exist: UML/Other tools, i.e Ratio.... >> | ||
| Joel on the Economy .... | There's a lot of rubbish about degrees being discu.... >> | |
| 10 Dec 2002 | strategies for copin.... | What burned me out was the rapid knowledge that I'.... >> |
| 09 Dec 2002 | Rewriting WinAmp fro.... | I agree with pb, skins are a turn off. They tell.... >> |
| 08 Dec 2002 | Intelligence | I recently read a report where a study was done in.... >> |
| 06 Dec 2002 | Microsoft College In.... | Storm in a teacup. Silly question, silly answer, s.... >> |
| Unemployment Woes | I happen to know why so many doctors are mediocre,.... >> | |
| Despite great G.P.A's why are so many doctors so m.... >> | ||
| 01 Dec 2002 | Yes Grad, the idea of wider knowledge is interest.... >> | |
| T Norman, Basically I agree with what you say. .... >> | ||
| 28 Nov 2002 | Angry manager | Jab a sharp knife deeply into his throat, preferab.... >> |
| 27 Nov 2002 | How to start oversea.... | Whats the difference between sitting in New Delhi .... >> |
| Fox Pro | Not about the yawning that is. >> | |
| I think you got it right Simon. >> | ||
| 26 Nov 2002 | Develop apps when jo.... | Develop something in a technology that is marketab.... >> |
| Angry manager | It sounds to me like your manager may find himself.... >> | |
| 25 Nov 2002 | Pricing | Also, it depends on the 'volume' of product you in.... >> |
| How to let managment.... | The key objective for you is to less frustrated at.... >> | |
| Bringing Code Sample.... | It goes both ways, code samples. I have bought .... >> | |
| Need a better UI for.... | don't sweat the small stuff. >> | |
| Painless Software Sc.... | Bottlenecks. That's what I want to see. >> | |
| bait and switch: wha.... | Don't listen to them Bella, they're all fat mother.... >> | |
| 22 Nov 2002 | How many gas station.... | How come I haven't got a job?!!! >> |
| Let me have a crack at it. USA population = 280.... >> | ||
| SourceSafe monitorin.... | I wish. >> | |
| I write beautiful code, probably the best in the w.... >> | ||
| 21 Nov 2002 | bait and switch: wha.... | Seriously - I'd say that you want to work on the o.... >> |
| WhatToDo - 'every person I know over the age of 3.... >> | ||
| CVS vs Visual Source.... | I will repeat what I said on one of the earlier th.... >> | |
| Painless Software Sc.... | I had the same distast for microsoft project, I've.... >> | |
| Sabbatical: Your opi.... | What is the "big dig" meant to be eventually? >> | |
| Prakash, I hope no offence was taken by the 'white.... >> | ||
| I have wondered what happenned to JAWA's now I kno.... >> | ||
| 20 Nov 2002 | Painless Software Sc.... | Dmooney - doesn't Microsoft Project do this stuff .... >> |
| Sabbatical: Your opi.... | I'm 42 and pretty well have worked my guts out as .... >> | |
| Debugging and head-b.... | My point being, use whatever system is most genero.... >> | |
| Time estimates are like share prices. Every shar.... >> | ||
| Code Cleanup | I would do the following... 1) keep a copy of t.... >> | |
| Good questions to as.... | PS - I crave the limelight, so I need to know how .... >> | |
| I think the financial renumeration is the most imp.... >> | ||
| SourceSafe monitorin.... | I'm not so humble, I've been doing this for a long.... >> | |
| I don't blame the tool, but I do blame the idiot u.... >> | ||
| 19 Nov 2002 | Then, you'd be stalking them. >> | |
| I think 'big deal' is ok, I'm happy with that. .... >> | ||
| In fact, I'd allow myself about 3 hours to write t.... >> | ||
| Big deal. It's easy to write your own VSS appli.... >> | ||
| 18 Nov 2002 | Spam >> | |
| 17 Nov 2002 | Average Raise after .... | Raises based on the passage of time (i.e 6 months,.... >> |
| 16 Nov 2002 | VB6 ListView Missing.... | "Soon", is of course, a relative term. >> |
| Novice - the answer is in your name. You need expe.... >> | ||
| Dead wood II | Ask to hire a temp to do Betsys job. Whatever .... >> | |
| Mathematics Software.... | I have a mathematics degree with honours (Pure) fr.... >> | |
| Whose back hurts? | I worked really hard on a project a few years ago .... >> | |
| 15 Nov 2002 | how to "manage expec.... | Basically you are proposing a re-write when they e.... >> |
| The Ultimate IQ Test | I just put some effort into ensuring that I got ev.... >> | |
| 14 Nov 2002 | Email Postage | Sounds OK to me, I must be a small email user, my .... >> |
| Logon vs Login | What about just two pictures, a smiley face and an.... >> | |
| Stick-shift or Auto-.... | Hey, maybe this 'New to cars' character is simply .... >> | |
| The Ultimate IQ Test | I've already added the results to my resume! >> | |
| 13 Nov 2002 | Stick-shift or Auto-.... | I live in a big city and drive a stick shift, most.... >> |
| Software Quotations | I once heard somebody say "But it's working as cod.... >> | |
| Spam Proofing our di.... | Looks good, as long as it works it gets my vote. >> | |
| The Ultimate IQ Test | Anybody get a perfect score? Are you a Visual P.... >> | |
| I'm a Precision Processor (130). 'This means t.... >> | ||
| Joels humourous anal.... | Whoops, I see a language war on the way. If only I.... >> | |
| I've got to disagree with VB.NET criticism, I do a.... >> | ||
| 12 Nov 2002 | Role of testers | Sorry, you're probably not on drugs, but it really.... >> |
| Sarain H, 'This is a poor strategy on all but the.... >> | ||
| 11 Nov 2002 | Hardcore Data Mining.... | Oh, and use any query analysers you can lay your h.... >> |
| 1) Make sure you have the right indexes. 2) Then .... >> | ||
| Role of testers | Take your blinkers off. Developers can make cof.... >> | |
| In the current economic circumstances testers have.... >> | ||
| how do you manage yo.... | Tim, I know what you mean, a friend of mine is .... >> | |
| 10 Nov 2002 | I suppose what all that means is in my opinion don.... >> | |
| My 'Strategy' has been to buy property with my sa.... >> | ||
| Revenue | Personally, I hope he's making a bucket, the produ.... >> | |
| 08 Nov 2002 | Still, it's a rude question. Fogcreek is not publi.... >> | |
| Free (Or Nearly So) .... | Don't you just use pirated stuff, like everybody e.... >> | |
| 07 Nov 2002 | Data validation: bes.... | I always have an small information pane on my data.... >> |
| 06 Nov 2002 | vb6 profiler | I second aivosto, we've used Code Analyzer and it .... >> |
| 29 Oct 2002 | Question about Cityd.... | What about a 'Save' and a 'Close' button, naturall.... >> |
| 28 Oct 2002 | The button with a little disk on it should only sa.... >> | |
| Mockery of stupid mo.... | I've got one just near me that says 'Solution i.... >> | |
| 27 Oct 2002 | Providing Salary His.... | I never have a problem with it because I've been e.... >> |
| 24 Oct 2002 | What would you do? | Before you just 'quit' at least make an attempt to.... >> |
| Motivation during bu.... | 'I prefer when everyone can pick up any bug they l.... >> | |
| Translations? WTF?! | Sorry, I'm a contractor, if I'm going to be helpfu.... >> | |
| 23 Oct 2002 | Motivation during bu.... | 'how do you motivate others to clean out their bug.... >> |
| 22 Oct 2002 | Beware of the UML sn.... | We used the rational suite on the last development.... >> |
| What kind of PDAs yo.... | I use a HP-Jornada 548, pretty old PDA (3 years?),.... >> | |
| Number of people wit.... | IMO in about 2 years it will be as common as kerne.... >> | |
| "Good Code" - What i.... | I just got asked last week to fix an application (.... >> | |
| Translations? WTF?! | Martha, maybe look up poor in the English dictiona.... >> | |
| Just to clarify - I think the idea is good, but it.... >> | ||
| Personally I think the translations are silly. .... >> | ||
| 18 Oct 2002 | Concurrent changes t.... | I do fear concurrent changes and try to organise m.... >> |
| Forte Agent | So? >> | |
| Success in science | It seems to me that 'passion' is a characteristic .... >> | |
| To me, all he was saying was 'we need superman'. .... >> | ||
| How do you reward de.... | Maybe you forgot to invite management? :-) >> | |
| ps. I am paid very well. $US72 p/hr, contract. >> | ||
| The place I work at the moment is fantastic, basic.... >> | ||
| Impact of DUI on Job.... | whoops. 'Possession' not 'possetion', so I'm still.... >> | |
| whoops 'employed' not 'imployed', ok maybe I do ha.... >> | ||
| I'm self employed. I have 3 DUI offences all comm.... >> | ||
| 16 Oct 2002 | Employment | Oh yes, and agents, I avoid them at all costs. In.... >> |
| I've been a contractor for 12 years, used a few di.... >> | ||
| 15 Oct 2002 | Joel & C++ | Has anybody ever heard of ' a storm in a teacup'? >> |
| 14 Oct 2002 | The advertising empe.... | Advertising works at even more basic levels, if I .... >> |
| 10 Oct 2002 | 10/90 - code written.... | Yes, and what about us single wine drinkers? Ar.... >> |
| An Observation | Also, there's often more than one way to skin the .... >> | |
| 09 Oct 2002 | Why didn't you just .... | 'Why didn't you just write good setup instructions.... >> |
| Reversible Setup and.... | when you try item(key).Remove and it fails (.... >> | |
| 08 Oct 2002 | I know what you mean, I don't agree with the colle.... >> | |
| Volunteer Programmin.... | If you really want to help people that badly go an.... >> | |
| 06 Oct 2002 | Project Management f.... | Vividly Vivid. 95% correct. 5% incorrect >> |
| 05 Oct 2002 | Article translations | Nathan and Jutta, Yes I know, I was just stirri.... >> |
| 04 Oct 2002 | Sorry - that's such a bad troll even I have to ret.... >> | |
| As soon as anybody from a non English speaking bac.... >> | ||
| 03 Oct 2002 | the new fogbugz setu.... | I'd say Joel hasn't written that program at all ye.... >> |
| Project Management f.... | 80% common sense 10% methodology 10% personality.... >> | |
| 02 Oct 2002 | Not all the news is .... | The only good thing about the crash is that some o.... >> |
| 01 Oct 2002 | Visual problems - mo.... | No name, Your life is too normal, take some drugs.... >> |
| Programmer Interrupt.... | It will hurt your brain, this job, especially if y.... >> | |
| 30 Sep 2002 | Starting a Functiona.... | I'd be against the func spec. Firstly, I personall.... >> |
| 29 Sep 2002 | Forum Design - Good .... | Just to clarify, I think the conversion to differe.... >> |
| The one thing that is bad with Joels web page is t.... >> | ||
| UI design/methodolog.... | Combo Box = Dropdown List I mean. >> | |
| Combo Box - Supplier Name. 2 labels (Other suppli.... >> | ||
| 19 Sep 2002 | If you're good, don'.... | Oh and Christopher, Maybe the whole IT industry.... >> |
| Getting back to the 'If your good dont worry' them.... >> | ||
| 09 Sep 2002 | Job Interviews | Ring them once - and then forget them. Under no ci.... >> |
| 06 Sep 2002 | Software Estimates E.... | Don't be so afraid to be wrong, back your judgemen.... >> |
| 05 Sep 2002 | Something I read on this site a while ago... Ask .... >> | |
| 31 Aug 2002 | Jet vs SQL Server fo.... | If you design your classes properly and structure .... >> |
| 30 Aug 2002 | Notes is Dead -- Lon.... | We use Notes at the Bank I currently work for - Yu.... >> |
| 29 Aug 2002 | What would you? | Get on a motorbike and ride up to the artic circle.... >> |
| 28 Aug 2002 | When A Bad Design Is.... | I'm surprised that there's any issue of any sort w.... >> |
| Software Rights, Res.... | Buy liability insurance, it's not that expensive. >> | |
| What is the future o.... | My understanding is that vb.net will be able to ac.... >> | |
| If computer programming languages were horses in a.... >> | ||
| Postmortems | I think that distributed development can work well.... >> | |
| 27 Aug 2002 | MP3 Player | Not sure if I'm answering sensibly...I've got a So.... >> |
| 23 Aug 2002 | Return on Investment.... | Tell us more about your life, Bella. It's so inter.... >> |
| 19 Aug 2002 | Hiring Project Manag.... | Certification does not matter. Bin the uneducat.... >> |
| Software Development.... | Yes, us white westerners are all lazy good for not.... >> | |
| 14 Aug 2002 | Why you should norma.... | I'd say that your datebase design is INADEQUATAE! >> |
| 12 Aug 2002 | I am stuck..how to g.... | Whatever problem you have, don't try to code. Foc.... >> |
| 07 Aug 2002 | What if smart people.... | Something I read on Kuro5hin recently... 'Winning.... >> |
| 05 Aug 2002 | Estimating Softare D.... | Firstly, consider the quality of your development .... >> |
| What if smart people.... | I have noticed that truly smart people are rarely .... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2002 | Ants | My suggestion is to do some research and determine.... >> |
| 02 Aug 2002 | Software Certificati.... | whoops 'pust' - I mean 'push' >> |
| Most places I've worked in that use UML do so beca.... >> | ||
| 01 Aug 2002 | Beyond coding? | Just Me - You sound like the least productive memb.... >> |
| 27 Jul 2002 | Really, how good is .... | Access is fine, its the code around the applicatio.... >> |
| 12 Jul 2002 | Good Software Takes .... | Winzip is a great piece of software. It certainly .... >> |
| 28 Jun 2002 | Bill Gates@Work | I would imagine that Bill Gates knows more about o.... >> |