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Number of Comments: 131
Number of Words: 10,982
First Comment: 18 Mar 2002
Final Comment: 02 Sep 2004

Number of Topics Posted: 8
First Topic: 25 Jul 2002
Latest Topic: 23 Aug 2004
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02 Sep 2004   difference between j....   To clarify, Tomcat is not a J2EE server. It's basi....   >>  
   Re-using desgin/code   'We don’t really know right now what components th....   >>  
01 Sep 2004   Database access in W....   What language is this?! If you have a language whi....   >>  
   Incentive Pay Consid....   anon - time and motion studies were also used in i....   >>  
31 Aug 2004   Coding on Widescreen....   Edit-and-continue development? Are you sure that's....   >>  
   More Windows servers....   i like i - yes I know, certainly more Unix boxes, ....   >>  
      No high-end computing on Windows? Windows servers ....   >>  
   How many of you know....   Hehe, I thought my comment of being able to bluff ....   >>  
      Hmmm - I know C#, Java, PHP, Perl, a bit of LISP, ....   >>  
   Incentive Pay Consid....   A time-and-motion man? Hehe, you'd be lucky not to....   >>  
30 Aug 2004   Trademark Question   Yeah you'd need to talk to them if you're game is ....   >>  
29 Aug 2004   Mircrosoft.com Moves....   The new website serves the same HTML to all browse....   >>  
27 Aug 2004   D - Day !!   Code. Feature freezes and testing periods are for ....   >>  
26 Aug 2004   microsoft.com redesi....   The really funny thing is that the mouseover effec....   >>  
23 Aug 2004   Tape Backup Software   >>  
21 Aug 2004   Hotmail/Gmail as net....   No company has the platform available to support a....   >>  
19 Aug 2004   PHP and C++ encrypti....   Look into the mcrypt library in PHP, provided you ....   >>  
13 Aug 2004   Open source specs   Have you considered UML? It's easy to think you ne....   >>  
   Automated Tool for W....   Have you tried QA Wizard from Seapine? I can't vou....   >>  
12 Aug 2004   Determining a Produc....   52% of respondees favourable sounds quite good to ....   >>  
   Clients/Bosses and "....   Weren't prepared to sacrifice your vacation? What ....   >>  
      Have you signed a contract at some point that says....   >>  
   Windows XP Lite   Yeah but they're targeting this at home users. Our....   >>  
   which language?   It also comes down to whether the number of users ....   >>  
11 Aug 2004   IIS download   At this point i'd be complaining to Dell. I bought....   >>  
   CityDesk   That's the odd thing. I'm damn sure I'm not the on....   >>  
      I'm sure Jon is a troll, but this did prompt me to....   >>  
30 Jul 2004   Can do anything with....   Simply tell him that it's true, and it does only t....   >>  
23 Jul 2004   Possible to view .AS....   One thing I would advise is not storing things lik....   >>  
21 Jul 2004   An IDE 'itch'   you could call it word wrap.   >>  
16 Jul 2004   all-hands interop   hmm - blasted html character codes - what am i sup....   >>  
      <possible troll> or we could all use xml as....   >>  
15 Jul 2004   .Net devs that went ....   Also the direction which .NET is heading for the w....   >>  
05 Jul 2004   Need help on the VB ....   I'll add that to my list of insightful snippets...   >>  
03 Jul 2004   Minimum browser list....   Firstly if CSS is integral to your application (i.....   >>  
23 Jun 2004   GMail Marketing Blun....   More to the point is that email you send to someon....   >>  
   Great CSS resources   Standards Compliant or Semantically Sensible. You ....   >>  
17 Jun 2004   Firefox - First Go   Incidentally - to those annoyed by the default beh....   >>  
      One thing which really annoyed my by default is th....   >>  
07 Jun 2004   XML Spy Home Edition....   Chris - exactly what a firewall is for...?   >>  
08 May 2004   Hiring the Best   Can't be MS - they certainly don't pay three times....   >>  
07 May 2004   The developing in fr....   I would say be open about this. Certainly if you'r....   >>  
   Hiring the Best   Hurray! What do I win? A job? Oh bugger, i've alre....   >>  
      Minor clarification. Re-reading what I've written ....   >>  
      Look for people who are already doing things i gue....   >>  
06 May 2004   Multi-monitor laptop....   It's a nice idea actually, two slide out screens s....   >>  
   How many LOC per day....   No i'm pretty sure Stephen King still types more w....   >>  
29 Apr 2004   IE page transitions   They look cheap, they convey an image of a dated p....   >>  
28 Apr 2004   Version control for ....   I think Adobe has something like this now, essenti....   >>  
22 Apr 2004   File archiving tool?   I wouldn't have thought Philo would have much prob....   >>  
14 Apr 2004   Piracy detection   there = their -- long day.   >>  
      I wonder how long it will be before companies prod....   >>  
   What unemployment?   Job still open hoser? Hehe - where is it?   >>  
13 Apr 2004   Attn. J2EE Gurus - J....   Hmm, at the risk of increasing the complexity, why....   >>  
01 Apr 2004   Hosting platforms/OS....   Woops Stephen got there while I was typing...   >>  
      It's based essentially on what languages and datab....   >>  
29 Mar 2004   Time management   Hmm, ok, i'll bite. I would say on days when I am ....   >>  
22 Feb 2004   Destructive experime....   Schrodinger's Google whack?   >>  
01 Feb 2004   Amnesty human rights....   Although, on the other hand, witness the recent co....   >>  
29 Jan 2004   usability as a caree....   (blank) - yes i know - frogdesign have done some r....   >>  
28 Jan 2004   A linker for .NET?   >>  
28 Jan 2004   Linker available / f....   I would say that what this boils down to is people....   >>  
   Linker Deja Vue   Mmm. The problem of course is that Joel wants to t....   >>  
   "Skinning" Framework....   Bad luck!   >>  
   usability as a caree....   Maybe look at things like Industrial Design, that ....   >>  
26 Jan 2004   Open source programm....   Also of course, given the rather good work Mono ar....   >>  
22 Jan 2004   .NET market penetrat....   If there were such a site it would still be essent....   >>  
   Poll: definition of ....   Well - I actually have a bet on with a computer sc....   >>  
19 Jan 2004   Application Icon Pac....   Oh sorry Stephen, i'd missed your point about if i....   >>  
      Well, the main reason you'd want to change the sta....   >>  
   Embeddable HTML Brow....   burninator - yeah, there are several ways of getti....   >>  
18 Jan 2004   Power brick rant   PCs used to do that as well - at least, the ones I....   >>  
   Embeddable HTML Brow....   Well, to give a little more information, basically....   >>  
17 Jan 2004   Embeddable HTML Browser?   >>  
17 Jan 2004   what is the best lan....   Depends how powerful you really want this to be, a....   >>  
   Embeddable HTML Brow....   Sadly, for what I have in mind, yes I need to embe....   >>  
      Ok, after a trawl of Google et al. i've found one ....   >>  
15 Jan 2004   Speaking of neat wat....   You could store things like your knoppix profile o....   >>  
   UI Rant ---forgive m....   JP: I was feeling quite miserable until then. Than....   >>  
13 Jan 2004   DLL Hell or somethin....   Just off the top of my head it seems unlikely that....   >>  
   The real reason we n....   I think for me at least Tomasz got it right when h....   >>  
12 Jan 2004   Standards Compliant ....   Regarding moving to .NET: at the moment you will h....   >>  
08 Jan 2004   Personal information....   Simply ask yourself: 'If I had an office, where I ....   >>  
07 Jan 2004   Commercial software ....   I would suggest possibly Director rather than Flas....   >>  
21 Dec 2003   Forced Subscriptions   Just a small reply to a point raised in the first ....   >>  
20 Dec 2003   Help vs. Info   Info has no meaning without context. The context o....   >>  
19 Dec 2003   Hogwarts School of A....   Don't use hieroglyphics? Have you written any regu....   >>  
04 Dec 2003   The knife and the ax....   The virtual machine/framework.   >>  
01 Dec 2003   Contentsystem with d....   What do you wish it to do that your current self-r....   >>  
17 Nov 2003   How do I develop a p....   I don't believe he said he wanted you or anyone el....   >>  
15 Nov 2003   Hard Data   The Hawthorne effect basically states that people ....   >>  
03 Nov 2003   End of Redhat Consumer Distro...   >>  
02 Nov 2003   Alerts Management On....   What, innumerable pieces that you don't know what ....   >>  
01 Nov 2003      Using my mind slightly more suggests that "df -k" ....   >>  
      On which platform do you plan to run this? I imagi....   >>  
   Empower ISV   Sensible reaction, I agree. Personally, i'd actual....   >>  
      I would be very curious to know what would happen ....   >>  
24 Oct 2003   my boy wants to lear....   C#. If you start off thinking in terms of objects ....   >>  
20 Oct 2003   Microsoft to rule in....   Or alternatively MS will win because MSNM comes wi....   >>  
   Beta Testers Wanted ....   After a little more positive thought, what this is....   >>  
   Starting up an E-Com....   Have a glance at http://www.erol.co.uk (disclaimer....   >>  
19 Oct 2003   Beta Testers Wanted ....   Beta testing aside, are you seriously thinking of ....   >>  
20 Sep 2003   Portability: rougue ....   Just one slight disagreement with Philo here (rare....   >>  
15 Sep 2003   Best OS For Home Use....   I'll add another vote for WinXP - it's proven very....   >>  
14 Sep 2003   ot: brain parsing of....   It's interesting that so far, the people who say t....   >>  
03 Sep 2003   Best self-defence wh....   Incidentally, the correct thing to do for alt tags....   >>  
02 Sep 2003   Our software on a cr....   Referring to the point made early about releasing ....   >>  
06 Jun 2003   Using Bandwidth   Perhaps a better solution rather than trying to fi....   >>  
27 Mar 2003   The most amazing "bu....   Actually - I didn't program that one - but I did d....   >>  
15 Feb 2003   Acess woes   Hmmm. Please forgive the following comments, I adm....   >>  
14 Feb 2003   "Demo" version schem....   I would second some sort of unobtrusive feature li....   >>  
09 Feb 2003   Sun on Java...   >>  
23 Dec 2002   Storing credit cards....   Hmmm. Although it would be nice to be able to avoi....   >>  
11 Dec 2002   Explorer or Yahoo-is....   Another issue is making this content accessible to....   >>  
18 Nov 2002   reverse career fair   Really? Surely a reverse career is paying someone ....   >>  
05 Nov 2002   Over the top?   Hmm. I find myself torn on this issue. While it's....   >>  
04 Nov 2002   Functional Programmers   >>  
27 Oct 2002   Question about Cityd....   I second the inclusion of a simple 'save' button. ....   >>  
10 Sep 2002   .NET vs. Web Standar....   With regard to serving multiple pages, i'll admit ....   >>  
08 Sep 2002      Walter, you appear to share my feelings entirely! ....   >>  
07 Sep 2002   .NET vs. Web Standards   >>  
07 Sep 2002      Oh - and i'm a Dreamweaver MX user too - which has....   >>  
      I do come from a web development background - orig....   >>  
18 Aug 2002   WinAmp, another soft....   I have this odd hunch, and this could be insulting....   >>  
      Well - partly because it's overkill to set up - al....   >>  
17 Aug 2002      Frederik - yeah this is something like what I was ....   >>  
16 Aug 2002      Why have an interface at all when you're not using....   >>  
05 Aug 2002   Do you use the best ....   pb - you assume that they pay you by time, not by ....   >>  
      Hah! Obviously writing at the same time, and with ....   >>  
      I think maybe RK's point is slightly short sighted....   >>  
26 Jul 2002   Linux on the desktop....   Yes - though I suspected that perhaps the post was....   >>  
      Sorry - there's a missing "don't" in that middle p....   >>  
      Erm, well, yeah. Of course. If you have eneough pr....   >>  
   Piracy protection of....   Hmmm - i'd like to think that I could make money c....   >>  
25 Jul 2002   Piracy protection of "non-programmatic" products..   >>  
25 Jul 2002   .Net and returns for....   Reading a bit of the mono blurb, and talking to a ....   >>  
26 Mar 2002   CF and/or ASP?ASP.ne....   Razib - yeah - fair points - I see where you're co....   >>  
25 Mar 2002      Quite a few interesting points raised - just a few....   >>  
18 Mar 2002   For ASP developers   I always used to multi-purpose a page - it's conte....   >>  



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