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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'John Topley (www.johntopley.com)' | ||
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Number of Comments: 559 |
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| Number of Words: 16,279 | ||
| First Comment: 09 Oct 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 03 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 29 |
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| First Topic: 08 Nov 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 10 Aug 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 03 Sep 2004 | joel's articles | They're where they've always been: http://www.joel.... >> |
| 24 Aug 2004 | Profoundly screwed u.... | If the kids want to play games then buy them a con.... >> |
| 21 Aug 2004 | Hotmail/Gmail as net.... | Google's competitive advantage is their platform i.... >> |
| 20 Aug 2004 | Are the other players really upping the ante thoug.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2004 | how to run an open s.... | Be prepared to spend a lot of time dealing with e-.... >> |
| 18 Aug 2004 | Feasibility of a VMO.... | 'Isn't this what the HAL and x86 already provide?'.... >> |
| 16 Aug 2004 | Learning the basic a.... | "Delivering vapourware" is an oxymoron. Also, Bill.... >> |
| Preferred ways of ba.... | Oh yeah, I have offsite copies of the imaged parti.... >> | |
| My operating system is on a separate partition to .... >> | ||
| 13 Aug 2004 | Purchase this forum? | i like i, The article is actually still around .... >> |
| Issue related to fil.... | I understand what you mean, but why can't the stud.... >> | |
| 12 Aug 2004 | Do remember the boss.... | He also said that e-mail would be gradually re-int.... >> |
| 11 Aug 2004 | Search Engine Recomm.... | Thanks, I'll check them out. Google's not an optio.... >> |
| CityDesk | Just a thought, but if Fog Creek don't want to inv.... >> | |
| That's bullsh*t. On the whole, people like things .... >> | ||
| 10 Aug 2004 | Search Engine Recommendation Sought >> | |
| 10 Aug 2004 | Search Engine Recomm.... | Sorry I forgot to mention, it must be free. It's f.... >> |
| CityDesk | What's wrong with commenting on how the thing look.... >> | |
| Jon, To address some of your points: 1) Beca.... >> | ||
| 06 Aug 2004 | Windows XP profiles | I don't know of any programs, but try http://suppo.... >> |
| Blogs, avalon, gmail.... | How is texting an offshoot of the Internet? >> | |
| 26 Jul 2004 | Google Back Online >> | |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Free program to wash.... | I'm sure Apache have got an open-source J2EE proje.... >> |
| 19 Jul 2004 | Learning emacs >> | |
| 17 Jul 2004 | Better Windows Explo.... | Explorer already has spring-loaded folders! >> |
| 16 Jul 2004 | See File Targets (it's free) http://www.moonsoftwa.... >> | |
| Hmmm. I'm sure Raymond Chen would have something t.... >> | ||
| 13 Jul 2004 | Association, Aggrega.... | Why do you say do not bother with aggregation? >> |
| 08 Jul 2004 | Dumb Apache Question >> | |
| 08 Jul 2004 | Dumb Apache Question | So there is. Thank you very much! >> |
| Sorry, when I say a quick way I mean a configurati.... >> | ||
| Go South, young man! | The market for what? Bananas? >> | |
| 29 Jun 2004 | General Interface's..... | Those General Interface interfaces are awful from .... >> |
| 27 Jun 2004 | Administrative accou.... | 'Unless you're trying to install the .net framewor.... >> |
| 25 Jun 2004 | Java: can't reduce i.... | 'Now I understand why the Sun Certificates have 80.... >> |
| 23 Jun 2004 | XML Schema Design >> | |
| 23 Jun 2004 | XML Schema Design | Thanks all for the advice. And "Muppet", thanks fo.... >> |
| I am nostalgic about.... | Just as I was discovering what COM was about by re.... >> | |
| 22 Jun 2004 | What is Joel up to ? | 'In any case your comment amounts to petty semanti.... >> |
| Joel's writing web portal software now?! >> | ||
| 17 Jun 2004 | Memmory management | When I skimmed this, I thought the subject was "ma.... >> |
| What about apps depe.... | *If* IE were to lose its market share, it doesn't .... >> | |
| 15 Jun 2004 | Web applications | Mauricio, Okay, I see where you're coming from..... >> |
| WTF? How does compiling the source code of a Delph.... >> | ||
| 08 Jun 2004 | Website Removes Brow.... | CTRL + L in Internet Explorer brings up the Open d.... >> |
| They probably should have set it to ALT + I, which.... >> | ||
| Matthew means ALT + D, which they've set up as the.... >> | ||
| 04 Jun 2004 | Windows XP SP2 And Pirates >> | |
| 04 Jun 2004 | Forbes:Google's Mail.... | Google have a petabyte file system. See http://www.... >> |
| what an article! | What? The most commercially successful operating s.... >> | |
| No Andreessen said that Netscape would reduce Wind.... >> | ||
| 03 Jun 2004 | If you were Microsof.... | I'd make Windows Longhorn insanely great and ship .... >> |
| what an article! | I don't recognise any of the things he describes i.... >> | |
| using opaque primary.... | I think that what you're calling opaque keys are c.... >> | |
| Disk shredder / hard.... | SDelete from Sysinternals: http://www.sysintern.... >> | |
| What is time? | Someone used to have "The time you enjoy wasting i.... >> | |
| Would time exist without intelligent beings to mea.... >> | ||
| SDK for CD/DVD Burni.... | Windows has an Image Mastering API, see: http://ms.... >> | |
| Where's Joel? | Perhaps he's *gasp*...working! >> | |
| 02 Jun 2004 | Daughter needs a lap.... | Anything cutting edge now will be ancient in five .... >> |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Why does Windows nee.... | 'Admit and accept the *fact* that Windows was *nev.... >> |
| 27 May 2004 | Drive letter issues .... | You can for some drivers. >> |
| 14 May 2004 | Testing sites with M.... | Try http://www.insert-title.com/web_design/?page=a.... >> |
| offer for software c.... | What a professionally written letter! >> | |
| 13 May 2004 | Meta Tags - Do they .... | Google does not use the description meta tag when .... >> |
| 11 May 2004 | The simplest way to .... | 'Then your reg-ex would be a simple replacement of.... >> |
| 06 May 2004 | How many LOC per day.... | 3 million lines of comments a day? That's pretty i.... >> |
| 04 May 2004 | MS Application divis.... | No, I haven't worked with Charles Simonyi. >> |
| 30 Apr 2004 | What is a "standard".... | J2EE is often called a standard, when it isn't. It.... >> |
| google - # of pages | What is the significance of 2^32 in the context of.... >> | |
| 29 Apr 2004 | Lack of social skill.... | 'Being a developer/engineer/programmer means that:.... >> |
| Creating online orde.... | Make it as easy as possible for me to buy stuff. S.... >> | |
| Google - Microsoft b.... | Google are in fact building their own unique compu.... >> | |
| 28 Apr 2004 | More on DLL's and C+.... | • If you're going to share code amongst applicatio.... >> |
| Don't you keep asking the same question in differe.... >> | ||
| Delphi/J2EE Integrat.... | Could you use CORBA for this? >> | |
| * to C++ | This guy has 108 implementations of the Towers of .... >> | |
| 23 Apr 2004 | Error handling - why.... | 'I mean I knew it existed but always thought it wa.... >> |
| 21 Apr 2004 | Best overheard tech .... | Why didn't the tech support rep just tell the guy .... >> |
| Abstraction layers: .... | Do you think that's something that's only possible.... >> | |
| How to delete the fi.... | You should pick the option in Windows XP Setup to .... >> | |
| Windows Admin rights | Would you want any old user to be able to store an.... >> | |
| 20 Apr 2004 | Relative IT Salaries.... | What's wrong with Portsmouth or Southampton [sic]?.... >> |
| 19 Apr 2004 | world best known sof.... | 'John, Oracle ships DB and whole bunch of applicat.... >> |
| I'm surprised you've got Mirabilis on there. I bet.... >> | ||
| learning CSS | In this order: http://www.w3schools.com/css/def.... >> | |
| Extreme Anxiety abou.... | '...but associated with those statistics is a prob.... >> | |
| what software to wri.... | Sorry, I meant a decent, FREE tool! >> | |
| I'd like a decent GUI for creating and editing Apa.... >> | ||
| 16 Apr 2004 | Protyping Web Based .... | Is there an evaluation version of PAPER AND PENCIL.... >> |
| 'John, yes but the UI won't have the feel of a web.... >> | ||
| I've used PowerPoint itself to create some quite e.... >> | ||
| FogBUGZ vs Jira | Professional is $1000 for unlimited users. >> | |
| ...not that cost is the main factor when deciding .... >> | ||
| Sorry, in what way was my response meaningless? .... >> | ||
| 15 Apr 2004 | Apache Maven >> | |
| 15 Apr 2004 | Yes I've used JIRA but not FogBUGZ, so I can't giv.... >> | |
| Delphi | Does anybody actually want multiple implementation.... >> | |
| 'If I started a Delphi project today, would I stil.... >> | ||
| 14 Apr 2004 | What unemployment? | You beat me to it, Gerald! Even more importantly, .... >> |
| First internet usage | The Internet is not the World Wide Web! >> | |
| Attn. J2EE Gurus - J.... | I want to achieve re-use at the JAR level and not .... >> | |
| I'm writing both myself. I'd love to have some gra.... >> | ||
| 13 Apr 2004 | Attn. J2EE Gurus - JSP Custom Tag >> | |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Keeping track of pas.... | The passwords I use everyday I keep in my head. Fo.... >> |
| Attn. J2EE Gurus - J.... | 'IT management will cotton on to the J2EE scam one.... >> | |
| 11 Apr 2004 | Flash: the new clien.... | 'Are you saying that it's got a poor history for s.... >> |
| Flash has traditionally had a poor accessibility s.... >> | ||
| 07 Apr 2004 | Windows PE | A custom shell for the Windows Portable Executable.... >> |
| 06 Apr 2004 | Google lies | Surely it depends on how much e-mail you send and .... >> |
| 03 Apr 2004 | Microsoft's Believab.... | Was Windows Me a failure? It sold, didn't it? >> |
| 02 Apr 2004 | '> Bob Okay, that's 1. Only 23 more to go befo.... >> | |
| Dot, 'This is exactly the sort of sentiment tha.... >> | ||
| I believe it, actually. Apparently WinFS filtering.... >> | ||
| 31 Mar 2004 | Annoying WinXP icon | Exactly. Just like an autocue. >> |
| Printing from IE | How about using a print style sheet? See http://ww.... >> | |
| 30 Mar 2004 | How do I create RTF .... | Have you tried using WordPad? I don't know if it w.... >> |
| About About Box | 'Was writing a function and moving it to another m.... >> | |
| Here's the Microsoft chapter and verse on ellipses.... >> | ||
| The About Box is the first thing I check whenever .... >> | ||
| 29 Mar 2004 | Why are managers clu.... | Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes: Q. Why.... >> |
| Linux: First determi.... | That's a bit of a condescending attitude towards e.... >> | |
| 28 Mar 2004 | 'Yes, Linux lacks a lot. But microsoft did not hav.... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2004 | Poll: What car do yo.... | A) Bugatti Royale. B) Probably. >> |
| 25 Mar 2004 | Slowest computer | PIII 733 MHz at work. >> |
| How to stop new wind.... | 'Slightly off topic, doesn't the XP-SP2 come w/ a .... >> | |
| Open Source UI Desig.... | 'Why does everyone assume that the least common de.... >> | |
| 24 Mar 2004 | 'The beauty of open source is that *you* can repor.... >> | |
| It says "Setting that don't fit elsew here"! >> | ||
| 22 Mar 2004 | More JoS bloggers? | Good to see that adding my site address after my n.... >> |
| Configurable system .... | Isn't this what Windows Management Instrumentation.... >> | |
| 21 Mar 2004 | Cross-browser web de.... | 'The original poster in this thread provides a lin.... >> |
| Information Overload | 'So what's the best RSS reader?' http://www.fee.... >> | |
| 17 Mar 2004 | What's wrong with St.... | The problem I had with Struts whilst I was learnin.... >> |
| 16 Mar 2004 | Explorer Usability -.... | You can use RunAs in Windows 2000 (and Windows XP).... >> |
| 12 Mar 2004 | Another critical fix.... | 'These security problems are unacceptable, and mus.... >> |
| 11 Mar 2004 | What do beta testers.... | Aren't alpha tests supposed to be internal? >> |
| AUTORUN woes on USB .... | Doesn't the dialogue also include a "Always perfor.... >> | |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Converting wizard. | What's "20 review"? >> |
| 07 Mar 2004 | A 20 minute usabilit.... | 1) 'Articles, Properties, Extras' . No way to nav.... >> |
| 06 Mar 2004 | 'Aricles, Properties, Extras' . No way to navigate.... >> | |
| 05 Mar 2004 | Software for babies | There was some software project that did exactly w.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Report development | Are you seriously telling us that it's faster for .... >> |
| 01 Mar 2004 | Dvorak on cookies | You can download a pre-built Hosts file with excep.... >> |
| 29 Feb 2004 | better chkdsk for Wi.... | Then there's AUTOCHK... ;-) >> |
| SCANDISK was a DOS and Windows 9x tool. The Window.... >> | ||
| 27 Feb 2004 | Hybrid Application: .... | Have you had a look at JGoodies? http://www.jgood.... >> |
| A Quote By Charles S.... | 'He shipped Bravo, the first WYIWYG word processor.... >> | |
| Microsoft tried to follow Simonyi's idea of having.... >> | ||
| Hardware usability | Where I work, we're still using Windows NT 4.0, wh.... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2004 | tidying up arbitrary.... | 'HTML lets you mismatch tags. HTML with mismatche.... >> |
| 18 Feb 2004 | Design Decision No.3 | Well you shouldn't stick with 1i because you compl.... >> |
| In between the 'Title', 'Author/s', 'Publisher' et.... >> | ||
| I would put more vertical space in between the fie.... >> | ||
| "Designed for Window.... | 'If Microsoft were sensible, they would design the.... >> | |
| 17 Feb 2004 | Agreed. Didn't someone do a study once that con.... >> | |
| '...such as placing some Registry values into Loca.... >> | ||
| 16 Feb 2004 | Free PC MIDI Sequenc.... | Thanks Eric. >> |
| 15 Feb 2004 | Free PC MIDI Sequencer Recommendation Sought >> | |
| 06 Feb 2004 | What's the daily spa.... | 'Does anyone else notice that the 'receiving end' .... >> |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Proper typing techni.... | I thought everybody used the left Shift key for pu.... >> |
| 04 Feb 2004 | why is my computer s.... | The swap file should go on a separate physical dis.... >> |
| 2 Q's on Design - We.... | 'But is it ok to have only a 'File' menu with only.... >> | |
| Sorry, I made the assumption that it's a Windows a.... >> | ||
| You should have "Exit" as the menu option, with th.... >> | ||
| 03 Feb 2004 | Identifying users wi.... | Reading the title of this thread, I thought it ref.... >> |
| Idea for an app..wan.... | 'I would tell you to check http://www.abinitio.com.... >> | |
| I was going to write something similiar using Delp.... >> | ||
| Lost JOS Topics | How do you get a personal comment history page? Do.... >> | |
| 02 Feb 2004 | Good, thorough artic.... | I recommend 'What OLE Is Really About' by Kraig Br.... >> |
| 29 Jan 2004 | Downloading Runtimes >> | |
| 29 Jan 2004 | Massive runtime down.... | Actually, it might have been Excel. >> |
| The first version of Word for Windows came with a .... >> | ||
| Downloading Runtimes | LOL! I don't know if it's still true but I read on.... >> | |
| .NET linking ... why.... | Always happy to oblige, however unwittingly or unk.... >> | |
| Just a hunch but I think Joel would probably rathe.... >> | ||
| things more complica.... | J2EE...? >> | |
| .NET and classic fil.... | I think both points are valid. It's a difficult on.... >> | |
| What happens if you're a user who has come to lear.... >> | ||
| 28 Jan 2004 | Anders Hejlsberg On C# vs Java Generics >> | |
| 28 Jan 2004 | MikeRoweSoft - the e.... | Hmmm...looks like oracull.com is available. Ora.... >> |
| Delphi for ShrinkWra.... | 'A warning: I've seen a few shrinkwrap pieces of s.... >> | |
| Windows XP command l.... | findstr has been there since Windows NT I believe. >> | |
| 25 Jan 2004 | Does C# owe its succ.... | The forms designer is part of Visual Studio and no.... >> |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Why 'win'word and no.... | 'In fact, I think only powerpoint (who's name is l.... >> |
| Hang on, wasn't PowerPoint a case of Microsoft buy.... >> | ||
| 19 Jan 2004 | Product Positioning Dilemma: Apple iPod mini >> | |
| 19 Jan 2004 | Product Positioning .... | Does anyone need to carry 10,000 songs around with.... >> |
| A more powerful TEXT.... | 'Javascript is kinda fun.. untill you try to make .... >> | |
| Nick Bradbury Interv.... | Also, RSS isn't just about blogs. Many news sites .... >> | |
| Your implication seems to be that reading blogs is.... >> | ||
| I shall definitely be buying a copy of FeedDemon (.... >> | ||
| 18 Jan 2004 | Nick Bradbury Interview >> | |
| 15 Jan 2004 | Windows common save .... | Windows XP doesn't have built in DVD writing capab.... >> |
| Blue background with.... | I've just learnt something new about Word. If you .... >> | |
| The closest you're going to get using Word is Ctrl.... >> | ||
| 14 Jan 2004 | JVM On Windows 2000 .... | So do existing applications have to be modified to.... >> |
| No...I'm having a debate with a colleague who is s.... >> | ||
| 13 Jan 2004 | JVM On Windows 2000 Using AWE >> | |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Thanks for the information. I was actually coming .... >> | |
| 11 Jan 2004 | How to Copy Files fr.... | Windows XP doesn't support DVD burning out of the .... >> |
| 09 Jan 2004 | "Raytracers" on JOS | Perhaps the 3-D Excel work evolved into the flight.... >> |
| 07 Jan 2004 | To Struts or not? | You don't even need the *.TLD files if you're usin.... >> |
| 23 Dec 2003 | Visualizing | For some reason I always imagine class variables a.... >> |
| Registry Permissions.... | This should do it: http://www.sysinternals.com/nt.... >> | |
| 17 Dec 2003 | Cultural Divide: It'.... | 'Why could I have a nice black-on white shell wind.... >> |
| 12 Dec 2003 | Software Engineers: .... | A bicycle is most certainly not a force for good i.... >> |
| Any bulletin board s.... | I hope you're being ironic. >> | |
| 11 Dec 2003 | Auto-Hiding Menu Ite.... | Windows XP doesn't hide program items by default d.... >> |
| 10 Dec 2003 | how much this so cal.... | What software legend? What are you talking about? >> |
| 09 Dec 2003 | Chest Pain ... Am I .... | Just remember...GIGO. >> |
| 05 Dec 2003 | Avalon's rearchitect.... | I don't think Microsoft has always been the "big b.... >> |
| 04 Dec 2003 | Why Pragma? >> | |
| 04 Dec 2003 | Joel's Strawman Argu.... | The use of humour is one of the things that makes .... >> |
| IT at School | Hey, two out of three correct facts ain't bad! ;-).... >> | |
| HTML forms and back .... | What's the living equivalent of turning in your gr.... >> | |
| 02 Dec 2003 | All the screws lined.... | I don't know if it's true of modern BMWs but I rem.... >> |
| Why only 2 GB? | You're not seriously telling me that secretaries u.... >> | |
| Is the average business machine running Microsoft .... >> | ||
| 01 Dec 2003 | Contentsystem with d.... | Struts is a Web application framework, not a conte.... >> |
| 27 Nov 2003 | Wizard-Style Web UI | I'm using Struts with a session-scope ActionForm, .... >> |
| 26 Nov 2003 | Wizard-Style Web UI >> | |
| 26 Nov 2003 | Thanks Brad. It's okay, I'm using Struts and that .... >> | |
| Thanks. I'll include a Previous button and check t.... >> | ||
| Comparison of Develo.... | ICBW, You register with Borland and they send y.... >> | |
| If you're familiar with Java then you'd probably b.... >> | ||
| 25 Nov 2003 | ProFont | Didn't Microsoft pull their free font downloads so.... >> |
| 21 Nov 2003 | World Class Programm.... | 'The key isn't to read the books, it's to understa.... >> |
| 19 Nov 2003 | The world Wide Spam .... | I guess I've just been lucky so far then. I get.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2003 | You can no longer read entries on Mark's blog usin.... >> | |
| How to get Windows X.... | If it's the same as Windows 2000 then you have to .... >> | |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Ok, seriously, why W.... | It just works. With the minimum of fuss. >> |
| 13 Nov 2003 | Subversion? | Why should asking colleagues why a particular tech.... >> |
| The question probably bought out some hostility be.... >> | ||
| The Reality Distorti.... | 'We're on our fourth major release of Mac OS X wit.... >> | |
| 'Apple's HFS+ file system has a lot (but not all) .... >> | ||
| 12 Nov 2003 | The Reality Distortion Field On Longhorn >> | |
| 12 Nov 2003 | Anti Spam Scheme | I've been using K9 for a month or two and it's set.... >> |
| Question for i/Power.... | Wow, the Mac has no security vulnerabilities! >> | |
| 11 Nov 2003 | Where are all the ne.... | Does anybody know of any practicable applications .... >> |
| 07 Nov 2003 | The best font for pr.... | I quite like the Raize font, see http://www.raize..... >> |
| They call me NERD!!! | In my last job they were using a training administ.... >> | |
| 06 Nov 2003 | What's on your quick.... | ''A shortcut to fast user switch*' Hold Windows.... >> |
| Let's see... - Show Desktop - Windows Media Play.... >> | ||
| 05 Nov 2003 | FogCreek's site is n.... | If they're using 19' TFT screens then they should .... >> |
| 04 Nov 2003 | Where Did You Go To .... | Branston School and Community College. 1992. I wor.... >> |
| 31 Oct 2003 | Longhorn, you, and y.... | WinFS should make file folders largely irrelevant..... >> |
| 29 Oct 2003 | CMM - How relevant i.... | This is an article about the space shuttle softwar.... >> |
| Auto tests and an au.... | In J2EE, you can use Cactus to test servlets. It's.... >> | |
| 22 Oct 2003 | Exceptions: My attem.... | http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2003/jw-1.... >> |
| 21 Oct 2003 | Better then RSS? Jab.... | I was talking about Push to the desktop from the W.... >> |
| Didn't Push die with IE 4? >> | ||
| The "zip code" is no.... | 'How about sorting your country list by the number.... >> | |
| Hear hear. Isn't it about time we replaced post.... >> | ||
| I think I've only ever seen it listed as United Ki.... >> | ||
| Who gets to decide which countries are the common .... >> | ||
| Philo said that he put US first 'because that's wh.... >> | ||
| Philo, So you're designing the site for your ow.... >> | ||
| One of my personal peeves is sites that have the U.... >> | ||
| Ever thought of givi.... | I meant to write Google Groups. >> | |
| I can usually find the answer on Google, or at lea.... >> | ||
| 20 Oct 2003 | Made Me Laugh... >> | |
| 20 Oct 2003 | Guard your computer .... | What advantage does your software offer for $25 ov.... >> |
| Coloring hotspots in.... | Shouldn't you leave the colours as the system defa.... >> | |
| 19 Oct 2003 | Where can I find a G.... | You want Command Prompt Explorer Bar from http://w.... >> |
| 17 Oct 2003 | XML Languages as pol.... | 'If the configuration subsystem just relies on rec.... >> |
| Apple user interface.... | 'Moreover, Apple doesn't violate its own user inte.... >> | |
| Exceptions: My attem.... | I was taught that you should always catch the spec.... >> | |
| How important are la.... | Don't do this! - http://www.johntopley.com/archiv.... >> | |
| 16 Oct 2003 | Creating a secure we.... | A brief answer as I haven't much time. Check ou.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2003 | What should programm.... | Actually you're right. I think they should be taug.... >> |
| I think that programmers should have knowledge of .... >> | ||
| Does Joel use Java? | http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=ISO.... >> | |
| The Language FOrmerl.... | I don't like the "uber" prefix. How about Nano? >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | Leave your language .... | Having to manually change gears in the 21st centur.... >> |
| Error handling patte.... | So given Daniel's example, in Java should you fail.... >> | |
| 13 Oct 2003 | Email client used at.... | Outlook != Outlook Express. I've used OE for ab.... >> |
| Cast Iron | Just as there are lots of [insert C++/C#/VB/Del.... >> | |
| The Language FOrmerl.... | 'Actually, it's highly unlikely that any company (.... >> | |
| 12 Oct 2003 | Jargon's quite a good name but then I thought..."J.... >> | |
| 11 Oct 2003 | My preference is for Cola is you can get away with.... >> | |
| 10 Oct 2003 | Need a new compile e.... | In Java I prefix static member variables with the .... >> |
| University Infrastru.... | Sounds like something you'd do in J2EE not J2SE. >> | |
| 07 Oct 2003 | What source control .... | Oracle SCM at work, Visual SourceSafe at home, alt.... >> |
| free bug fixes = no-.... | Isn't this sort of situation the reason that contr.... >> | |
| Software as Fashion .... | Anders Hejlsberg, now at Microsoft. >> | |
| Passwords | I use Password Agent from http://www.moonsoftware..... >> | |
| 06 Oct 2003 | Next version of Delp.... | Let's face it, Kylix has been a failure for Borlan.... >> |
| 03 Oct 2003 | Source code for Half.... | So the source code was stored on a server connecte.... >> |
| should stupid people.... | Oh you're right. I guess I was only using 1% of my.... >> | |
| Most of the brain isn't used. The majority of peop.... >> | ||
| spolsky, you have co.... | "Using" - too much .NET for The .NET Guy! ;-) >> | |
| HT vs. Dual CPUs | Brad's had bad experiences with Athlons and certai.... >> | |
| 02 Oct 2003 | New Microsoft Patent.... | There must be lots of prior art for this. I'm sure.... >> |
| What's Happened to J.... | All good, conflicting advice. >> | |
| Dual Xeon Developmen.... | Ah but are you using a server version of Windows, .... >> | |
| Don't you mean "build times don't (even nearly) ha.... >> | ||
| 01 Oct 2003 | Personal firewall | Not quite. The Windows XP firewall can't block out.... >> |
| Creating Web Clients | Struts Studio - http://www.strutsstudio.com - is q.... >> | |
| Whatever happened to.... | The CityDesk icon is not the FogCreek icon. >> | |
| 30 Sep 2003 | What do you think of.... | It has a pleasing simplicitly and is very quick to.... >> |
| 19 Sep 2003 | Who Killed Apple Com.... | 'Even today, the PC world has yet to fully deploy .... >> |
| 18 Sep 2003 | Windows install snap.... | Yeah, InCtrl used to be a free download. Unfortuna.... >> |
| This has come up before. Unfortunately I can't pro.... >> | ||
| Oracle complaints? | A minor point but SQL Server has a greater range o.... >> | |
| Did Microsoft really.... | That GUI timeline site has some interesting screen.... >> | |
| Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse. Xerox als.... >> | ||
| Sun's Marketing Prob.... | When I visited the Apple site using Firebird it ju.... >> | |
| 17 Sep 2003 | Please let's not hold up http://www.apple.com as a.... >> | |
| 16 Sep 2003 | When did it end? | I wasn't aware that Microsoft's domination of pers.... >> |
| MySQL Installation &.... | I've installed both Office XP and Visual Studio .N.... >> | |
| 15 Sep 2003 | Best OS For Home Use.... | 'One caveat: People have told me that the longer .... >> |
| If you go for a new version of Windows then make s.... >> | ||
| The Making of Oracle.... | Well you shouldn't be surprised that it reads like.... >> | |
| 14 Sep 2003 | Unit-testing | I'd guess that lots of people around here are usin.... >> |
| What's your latest p.... | I'm working on a J2EE integration framework for le.... >> | |
| 11 Sep 2003 | Smallest exe ? | Read this: http://www.jrsoftware.org/striprlc.php.... >> |
| 10 Sep 2003 | Open Folder Dialog f.... | ...Thought not. Therefore Rick's suggestion is inv.... >> |
| Does GetOpenFileName let you browse for a folder? >> | ||
| 09 Sep 2003 | It's worth pointing out that this API was enhanced.... >> | |
| Code snippet of tedi.... | The failure of Kylix isnt that surprising given th.... >> | |
| The Delphi form files are stored as text but it's .... >> | ||
| Feedback from Websit.... | 'I would also suggest using smaller fonts. The pro.... >> | |
| 04 Sep 2003 | How to Dress? | Are pants what we British call trousers? >> |
| Rant on Linux on the.... | 'My argument is simply that the problem of Linux b.... >> | |
| 03 Sep 2003 | Best self-defence wh.... | Fix the errors. >> |
| Yahoo!SiteBuilder si.... | I can't see any mention of a scripting language. >> | |
| Linux stabilization | Simply Linux Fan, see http://www.linuxbase.org >> | |
| Database Stored Proc.... | 'What you don't get to do in a stored proc, though.... >> | |
| 02 Sep 2003 | RSS - How useful, an.... | I forgot to mention what it will do for you that y.... >> |
| I use SharpReader from http://www.sharpreader.net .... >> | ||
| Preserving HTML form.... | CityDesk 2.0 converts the sample you gave into the.... >> | |
| 01 Sep 2003 | Stupid Arrogant Prog.... | Interesting. I've found Norton AntiVirus 2002 to b.... >> |
| 29 Aug 2003 | Citidesk v2.0 critiq.... | XHTML is a first step towards the Semantic Web bec.... >> |
| I'm over the moon about all the work that's gone i.... >> | ||
| Learning EJB and Str.... | I thought Struts = MVC = Model 2? >> | |
| 22 Aug 2003 | POI- How to pop up t.... | Does that not come under the category "Java user i.... >> |
| Are you talking about a button on the Excel worksh.... >> | ||
| Best screen locking .... | ??? >> | |
| The Lock Workstation feature has been in Windows N.... >> | ||
| US doesn't have an a.... | I believe that NASA's funding was in decline even .... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2003 | Google calculator | The point is...42 is the answer but what was the q.... >> |
| What'd you do with u.... | Unlimited money *and* influence? Oh, I'd put money.... >> | |
| 18 Aug 2003 | PDC? | If I had the chance to go, I'd jump at it just to .... >> |
| 15 Aug 2003 | Good XML editor? | Philo, are you using XMLSpy 5.0? Just curious a.... >> |
| MSF? | What is MSF? >> | |
| 13 Aug 2003 | Web Worm Hits Window.... | Microsoft usually get criticised for doing things .... >> |
| How should Bill Gates fix his software? By releasi.... >> | ||
| 12 Aug 2003 | Is City Desk 2.0 wri.... | What gave it away for me was when Joel talked abou.... >> |
| Bollocks. >> | ||
| You're guessing wrong! It's VB6 with some C++. >> | ||
| 11 Aug 2003 | What *is* that icon .... | Yeah and I can see Elvis in there too! ;-) >> |
| 10 Aug 2003 | Why does Microsoft k.... | In spite of what lots of people believe, I really .... >> |
| What *is* that icon .... | I stand (well, sit-down) corrected! Thanks. >> | |
| Roel, There are no patent issues with GIFs any .... >> | ||
| 09 Aug 2003 | I was going to say that it's a new icon for CityDe.... >> | |
| 06 Aug 2003 | vmware - installed s.... | I wonder what percentage of VMware (and similar) u.... >> |
| S-Q-L or SeQueL? | Or even, 'it's not a word, it's an acronym'. He.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2003 | It's Del-fee, not Del-thigh. Sorry, reminds me of .... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Netscape had it's pr.... | IE 3 on Windows 3.1?!? >> |
| RAM - 1 GB over 512M.... | If you can afford it, then why not? >> | |
| Making money out of .... | I'm sure they had the clipboard. IIRC, the word pr.... >> | |
| 03 Aug 2003 | Xerox could have been more dominant than Microsoft.... >> | |
| 01 Aug 2003 | why are experts skep.... | I think Microsoft got interested in high quality s.... >> |
| Oh dear - the bigges.... | I wouldn't say that .NET is the new Windows OS but.... >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | Slowly double-click .... | I quite like the slow-double-click-to-rename metho.... >> |
| 30 Jul 2003 | Oh dear - the bigges.... | He mentions that Apple started over twice in 1984 .... >> |
| Good RSS Reader for .... | I think I'll switch to FeedDemon, as Nick Bradbury.... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2003 | What % of developers.... | 100%. Every program has at least one thread. Do I .... >> |
| Purpose of a pointer.... | The more I learn, the more I think that indirectio.... >> | |
| 28 Jul 2003 | Good RSS Reader for .... | I like SharpReader from http://www.sharpreader.net.... >> |
| Please code review t.... | The Catch block seems pretty pointless... >> | |
| great UI design is d.... | Did Altavista lose their search engine crown becau.... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2003 | Why do programmers d.... | Yes, a great Borland invention! >> |
| 24 Jul 2003 | Windows 2000 Shutdow.... | Is it shutting down completely or is it hibernatin.... >> |
| When to use Stored P.... | I tend to put SELECT statements into views. >> | |
| 22 Jul 2003 | Does VMWare degrade .... | How can something degrade performance if it's not .... >> |
| Good Tech Blogs | ...shameless whoring I know, but even if you don't.... >> | |
| See my name? ;-) >> | ||
| 20 Jul 2003 | Digital Camera | I'm delighted with my Canon PowerShot A40. >> |
| 11 Jul 2003 | Any *specific* downs.... | 'It's c# with added Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.' Ex.... >> |
| HTML <label>&n.... | Christopher - 'Using accesskey; how do you let .... >> | |
| 09 Jul 2003 | OK Cancel Apply | Microsoft introduced the Apply button in Window 95.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2003 | Monitoring an instal.... | PC Magazine had a free utility that did this. It w.... >> |
| 03 Jul 2003 | 98.72% of all blogs .... | I've had my blog up and running for just over a mo.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2003 | Dual monitors for de.... | An IMAX screen is the way to go! >> |
| 01 Jul 2003 | Does Java Suck? | So no one can tell us why Struts is a good way to .... >> |
| 30 Jun 2003 | Windows Server vs. L.... | WTF is l337?! >> |
| 'Linux stability: windows is closing, but I still .... >> | ||
| Does Java Suck? | Why should the tool used to create the .java files.... >> | |
| 'Struts is a good way to make code dangerous.' .... >> | ||
| 29 Jun 2003 | Link Colors observat.... | Tom, This URL will go to the Google Groups adva.... >> |
| 27 Jun 2003 | Time for comic relie.... | Q. Why weren't the Romans good C programmers? A. .... >> |
| Court: MSFT not requ.... | What is your definition of a non-proprietary langu.... >> | |
| What's Your Best Pro.... | At my last employer I wasn't in a programming posi.... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2003 | Thrill of the day... | That's always a nice feeling! >> |
| What Exactly Is A Pe.... | Macs run all DOS software? What, even some ancient.... >> | |
| 25 Jun 2003 | What Exactly Is A Personal Computer? >> | |
| 25 Jun 2003 | 'Sure. Why not?' In which case Apple's claim t.... >> | |
| 20 Jun 2003 | Cancel != Debug >.... | It's not very clear which dialogue box you're talk.... >> |
| Invisible functional.... | 'I wonder what do I do when I do decide I want to .... >> | |
| There's a fine line between automatically choosing.... >> | ||
| unrecognized data ba.... | How are you connecting to the database, DAO/ADO/OD.... >> | |
| CityDesk URLs are po.... | Have you seen how many fogX URLs there are within .... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2003 | Free soda? | Do companies that offer free soda also offer free .... >> |
| 12 Jun 2003 | With | Joel, How come you've got access to a Microsoft.... >> |
| Smart/Funny/Stupid C.... | Do you think bool_var = (x > 3); is more rea.... >> | |
| Looks like a case of mistaken optimisation to me. >> | ||
| Microsoft has purcha.... | I don't see how you can make any generalisations a.... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2003 | What do you listen t.... | The sound of my colleagues working. Or talking. >> |
| 10 Jun 2003 | WHO NAMES A NAMESPAC.... | >> What would you name a collection of Employee ob.... >> |
| '3. Never use plurals for variable names.' What.... >> | ||
| 06 Jun 2003 | Close option at wron.... | It is damned annoying! Applications that add an "A.... >> |
| Embedded SQL server .... | Marc, How is copying an Access .MDB file going .... >> | |
| Is Visual Studio use.... | I think we made the assumption because he gave the.... >> | |
| 05 Jun 2003 | What is actually wro.... | Also, when does the Class_Initialize event fire? >> |
| Windows XP Themes | Joel, Will you be fixing the superfluous horizo.... >> | |
| 04 Jun 2003 | MSN & AOL messen.... | Why is it inevitable? Microsoft hate AOL with a pa.... >> |
| 03 Jun 2003 | Installing VB 6 apps.... | John said that he installs *application-specific* .... >> |
| How important is a p.... | Not entirely. In the U.K. General Motors called.... >> | |
| It's interesting isn't it? I think "Egg" is a quir.... >> | ||
| Email client recomme.... | I personally don't have any problems with Outlook .... >> | |
| Pair painting | Modern computers never fail, we work in the indust.... >> | |
| Surely pair programming involves the programmer on.... >> | ||
| A new web broswer | pb, I'm curious, why do you have such a downer on .... >> | |
| 30 May 2003 | CHMOD and Web Server Question >> | |
| 30 May 2003 | CHMOD and Web Server.... | fc. Thanks everyone. >> |
| Sorry Brad, a major misunderstanding on my part! S.... >> | ||
| 28 May 2003 | Version Compatibilit.... | What's wrong with clicking the Help button on that.... >> |
| 23 May 2003 | Amazed at uninformed.... | I agree with Philo but it's a problem of how wide .... >> |
| 19 May 2003 | MS to buy Unix from .... | Tony, you're talking utter drivel. How are Microso.... >> |
| 15 May 2003 | Opera >> | |
| 15 May 2003 | Opera | See http://www.opera.com/features/mouse/ >> |
| The British School o.... | My God, I actually have first hand experience of a.... >> | |
| 14 May 2003 | Moving an applicatio.... | 'I think that XP's single greatest achievement is .... >> |
| I believe that it's now considered rude for an app.... >> | ||
| Joel On Software RSS.... | Many people want the entire post content in RSS. S.... >> | |
| 13 May 2003 | Real .NET applicatio.... | Why not .NET for packaged software? I don't get it.... >> |
| 12 May 2003 | Explorer.exe in Longhorn has apparently been (re-).... >> | |
| How do I sell an app.... | What is your application's unique selling proposit.... >> | |
| CS degree from home | The Open University hold regular tutorials where y.... >> | |
| Sorry, Ged beat me to it! >> | ||
| I don't know where you are but I'd recommend the O.... >> | ||
| 09 May 2003 | Why isn't Delphi mor.... | When I used Delphi, I was always impressed by the .... >> |
| Ctrl + Shift + Up, Ctrl + Shift + Down will naviga.... >> | ||
| 08 May 2003 | OOP Paradigm Shift:&.... | All of the OOP books that I read said that they'd .... >> |
| Where have all the a.... | See http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm.... >> | |
| 'That doesn't mean that it would be a bad thing to.... | ||