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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Mark Hoffman' | ||
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Number of Comments: 543 |
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| Number of Words: 49,003 | ||
| First Comment: 10 Oct 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 18 Aug 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 26 |
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| First Topic: 04 Nov 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 24 Jun 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 18 Aug 2004 | dooooooom!!! | We're talking about Doom 3, right? Not the origina.... >> |
| use Visio to generat.... | I use it as a brainstorming area to map out my c.... >> | |
| 17 Aug 2004 | Latest IE threat | 'Does the post change any of our lives one iota?' .... >> |
| 15 Aug 2004 | Anyone familiar with.... | I remember that the now defunct Wrox Press used .... >> |
| 14 Aug 2004 | Speaking of Google I.... | Screwed? Hey, if anyone is silly enough to ju.... >> |
| 10 Aug 2004 | in other words | How many people here are building extranets that.... >> |
| Legit reason to star.... | In Barry Moltz's book 'You Have to Be a Little C.... >> | |
| Rude = No Hire? | Why should prospective employees not have the same.... >> | |
| 09 Aug 2004 | Sacrificing parts of.... | 'dude, if you don't know that your wife and kid ar.... >> |
| 'If you have to remind yourself of the importance .... >> | ||
| The title of your post mentions 'to do great thi.... >> | ||
| 05 Aug 2004 | What do you use for .... | I use AllNetic here as well. Easy to use, unobtrus.... >> |
| Great Hacker != Grea.... | 'Ever since companies moved away from the closed w.... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2004 | After many years in this business, I find that i.... >> | |
| 02 Aug 2004 | a long, rambling, in.... | During my days of managing, I learned first-hand.... >> |
| best days of your li.... | College was fun, but it certainly wasn't the 'best.... >> | |
| 30 Jul 2004 | Home or professional.... | Stefan, My consulting business started when I w.... >> |
| '300-400' Yeah, I was gonna ask the same thing..... >> | ||
| 03 Jul 2004 | Paul Graham says we .... | I haven't read the article, so I'm not sure of t.... >> |
| 01 Jul 2004 | XP development is bi.... | The problem isn't XP development; it's a problem.... >> |
| Computer technicians.... | He might not be shy, but he's certainly creepy a.... >> | |
| your most absurd IT .... | I was leading a group of developers through a co.... >> | |
| 30 Jun 2004 | NYTimes spoof | Very nice! It doesn't work for the Google too.... >> |
| Business Names | Naming a business is tough! Naming the compan.... >> | |
| Advice for quitting .... | Well, firstly, just tell the guy it isn't going .... >> | |
| 28 Jun 2004 | What does SharePoint.... | 'I've run a demo in Firefox. There are a few gli.... >> |
| Small Business Owner.... | Tough question to answer because the answer will.... >> | |
| 24 Jun 2004 | GPS receivers for laptop? Software? >> | |
| 24 Jun 2004 | GPS receivers for la.... | Thanks for the info everyone! For the money, .... >> |
| 21 Jun 2004 | VS.NET bugginess neg.... | I consider myself a 'real web designer' and I use .... >> |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Sharepoint! which no.... | I'll agree that SharePoint isn't a household wor.... >> |
| Shocker: Pay rates f.... | Hey, if there any experienced .NET developers in.... >> | |
| 17 Jun 2004 | Is MS really a booge.... | If it were any other company besides MS, this wo.... >> |
| Empower ISV - UK | It's the same for everyone; not just the UK. >> | |
| How Microsoft Lost t.... | 'Evidently, you don't take pictures, listen to m.... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2004 | ' is that LAMP is destroying Microsoft on the we.... >> | |
| Good article, but... | 'Very good, very scary, and it makes me re-think a.... >> | |
| Summary of Joel's La.... | 'This will be a moot point with Longhorn because r.... >> | |
| It was a good article, but I think that the push.... >> | ||
| Air Supply | Now I can't get those Air Supply songs out of my.... >> | |
| How the browser comp.... | Yawn. >> | |
| 15 Jun 2004 | U.S. declines to cre.... | I wonder how the advocates of this system planne.... >> |
| Poll: www.foxnews.co.... | You thought CNN was worse? I think CNN has one .... >> | |
| I hate it. I don't want to have to click around.... >> | ||
| 14 Jun 2004 | Tech Interview Rant | I think I'd have to email the interviewer the co.... >> |
| 11 Jun 2004 | Stock photos | 'Go get a digital camera and walk around your of.... >> |
| ' sites such as http://www.microsoft.com/ ' Iro.... >> | ||
| 08 Jun 2004 | Betting your company.... | 'Have fun getting impersonation to work correctl.... >> |
| ' Errors thrown in a try block in a WindowsForms a.... >> | ||
| 04 Jun 2004 | what do you do when .... | Some interesting, albeit self-destructive, advice .... >> |
| questions to ask bef.... | ''Would you like me to take a few minutes at your .... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2004 | If you were Microsof.... | 'Microsoft is already into games and MMORPGs. Ash.... >> |
| what an article! | Well, I use XP with Office 2003 and I have no pr.... >> | |
| 02 Jun 2004 | why has no one built.... | 'Aren't Panasonic Toughbooks waterproof?' Not s.... >> |
| 23 May 2004 | Implementers of Shar.... | One of my clients implemented SharePoint and Tea.... >> |
| The real problem wit.... | 'Microsoft confuses the Win32 API with .NET. ' .... >> | |
| ASP.NET 2.0 | I don't know for sure, but I would imagine that .... >> | |
| 22 May 2004 | .NET with no prior e.... | I think you can become sufficiently proficient wit.... >> |
| Question on VS.NET | 'Since the 1.0 and 1.1 framework can be installed .... >> | |
| Book recommendations.... | 'Read McCarthy's book for entertainment, then th.... >> | |
| 'what on earth are you doing being promoted to t.... >> | ||
| Looking for a book o.... | Another recommendation for Delaney's Inside SQL Se.... >> | |
| 21 May 2004 | Design question involving transactions >> | |
| 21 May 2004 | Book recommendations.... | My favorites are: 'Dynamics of Software Devel.... >> |
| Design question invo.... | Dennis, Thanks for the link! I had just started.... >> | |
| Another take on the .... | Whatever works....If you want to use return code.... >> | |
| 19 May 2004 | another resume quest.... | If you are hoping to get exposure through recrui.... >> |
| Lots of free time, p.... | Stephen, Are you even capable of entering into .... >> | |
| ' Despite my great preference for US soldiers in.... >> | ||
| Lots and lots of fre.... | 'So, in the words of the recruiter' Therein lie.... >> | |
| what you don't know | 'Hey Artist, you sound like you are one of those.... >> | |
| 15 May 2004 | image | ' he accused me of....being overly careful' h.... >> |
| Finding small busine.... | First off, let me premise my post by saying that.... >> | |
| What is competitive .... | My experience with computer shops is that they h.... >> | |
| Joel, check this out.... | 'And software development will continue to be a .... >> | |
| Norrick Throws In th.... | Norrick, Regardless of what you decide to do .... >> | |
| 12 May 2004 | Learning Assembly--o.... | Yes, learn it. Assembly language was the first .... >> |
| 11 May 2004 | Hours | oh, you wanted free. Well, Allnetic is cheap.... >> |
| Allnetic Working Time Tracker. I've been using .... >> | ||
| 10 May 2004 | Unit Testing - What .... | I'll second the recommendation for 'Pragmatic Un.... >> |
| 08 May 2004 | US Company Backgroun.... | Dun and Bradstreet is one place to try. If they.... >> |
| Vocational, not acad.... | 'Those inclined to write software can just read .... >> | |
| ' I don't think mathematics departments have the h.... >> | ||
| Avoiding "chaining" .... | Some people seem to view too many procedures as .... >> | |
| What sort of profess.... | 'There are ways to appreciate people without makin.... >> | |
| 'Recognition adds nothing to you, nor does it re.... >> | ||
| 06 May 2004 | How many LOC per day.... | 'If anything, this thread provides lazy programmer.... >> |
| 04 May 2004 | Independent contract.... | I don't really consider myself a contractor beca.... >> |
| 03 May 2004 | Terrarium | I wasted entirely too much time playing around w.... >> |
| 01 May 2004 | Interesting Old Book.... | 'DOS 5 Techniques and Utilities' by Jeffrey Prosis.... >> |
| W-2 Hourly vs. Incor.... | 'The new broker offered to pay 7.65% extra since t.... >> | |
| MBA: What did you re.... | 'If you could have paid somebody $5000' Are you.... >> | |
| Why not Canada? | 'I thought it was the States that had the corrup.... >> | |
| A company I used to work for purchased a softwar.... >> | ||
| A programmer who is .... | 'That being said...I would never suggest to anyo.... >> | |
| I don't have much math beyond some work in calcu.... >> | ||
| 29 Apr 2004 | What are the real be.... | 'I'm saying that .NET, while providing little to.... >> |
| 'Install this 20 MB Virtual Machine that runs 'M.... >> | ||
| Lack of social skill.... | 'it's totally illogical that someone would ask '.... >> | |
| 26 Apr 2004 | Why programmers so d.... | ' Please tell me what element of a 'formal educa.... >> |
| 'It comes from working with programmers who have.... >> | ||
| Regarding EU Microso.... | To be fair, NoName does have a point. 5 years ag.... >> | |
| 21 Apr 2004 | Unhappy transfer | 'Really, really, leave now! Moving jobs is way l.... >> |
| Winning the professi.... | For me, it was being on a project that was an ut.... >> | |
| 20 Apr 2004 | Service Oriented Arc.... |
'SOA != WebServices'
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| 19 Apr 2004 | Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) >> | |
| 19 Apr 2004 | Audit log design patterns? >> | |
| 19 Apr 2004 | The card reader was .... | 'All we had were 1's and 0's.....and sometimes w.... >> |
| Service Oriented Arc.... | 'Why not create one accountopen() service and ex.... >> | |
| But what if we are talking about purely internal.... >> | ||
| 'Web services in a totally homogenous environment .... >> | ||
| The big disadvantage.... | 'I doubt we'll ever see the scale of bad code cr.... >> | |
| ' But I really don't understand the air of super.... >> | ||
| 16 Apr 2004 | Should source contro.... | What is their reasoning for keeping compiled DLL.... >> |
| Monolithic Function | If some of the properties are only used on some .... >> | |
| Protyping Web Based .... | 'Of course, you could just communicate with your.... >> | |
| I normally create them with HTML, but the risks .... >> | ||
| Carrer advice needed | I hear a lot of people saying how our industry i.... >> | |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Paid Overtime | 'Your problem is that you argued 'professional' .... >> |
| 'Highly paid journalists who hob nob with people.... >> | ||
| 12 Apr 2004 | How do you push out MS Office updates? >> | |
| 12 Apr 2004 | Something to consider.... If you want to be t.... >> | |
| How do you push out .... | SMS would do it, but they aren't running SMS. >> | |
| The JOS Game! | Hehehe..I think it sounds interesting, but it ig.... >> | |
| 11 Apr 2004 | Does the ShareWare m.... | I think the $350/month comment was sarcasm, guys.... >> |
| master's degree + em.... | Well, as someone who regretted not having more e.... >> | |
| Courage? What does i.... | I might suggest to take a step back and assess y.... >> | |
| Tagging lookup table.... | I don't use any convention for lookup tables. I .... >> | |
| 10 Apr 2004 | Regarding multiple classes in a single C# file >> | |
| 09 Apr 2004 | Product names | 'And whatever you do, do not hire a marketing co.... >> |
| 07 Apr 2004 | Why do people just w.... | 'Though I agree a lot of Americans are morons.' .... >> |
| When I die and go to.... | Am I the only one that thinks someone would get .... >> | |
| 06 Apr 2004 | C# Class Library Fil.... | Is there a reason you've chosen to put multiple .... >> |
| Its so easy... | Do they really call the MAC address the 'Airport.... >> | |
| 05 Apr 2004 | It's that time of ye.... | I should add that the best advice someone can gi.... >> |
| What is ethical pric.... | I'm with the previous poster; I don't see how et.... >> | |
| 04 Apr 2004 | It's that time of ye.... | My accountant here in Texas tells me that I oper.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2004 | Automatic updates | If you are using Visual Studio.NET to build your.... >> |
| 27 Mar 2004 | Old technical books .... | I still have 'DOS 5 Techniques and Utilities' by.... >> |
| Another Sanity Check.... | Oh geesh. Obviously, you were smart enough to r.... >> | |
| 23 Mar 2004 | Am I just grumpy, or is this a bad idea? >> | |
| 23 Mar 2004 | Am I just grumpy, or.... | Thanks for the suggestion, Rob. I was so irrita.... >> |
| 'But is there any reason why the two versions of t.... >> | ||
| 18 Mar 2004 | VB6 + COM Sucks? | 'VB6 should *force* you to write your own IDL, and.... >> |
| 17 Mar 2004 | Lies on CVs | Call me old-fashioned, but lying on your resume .... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | salary on current jo.... | ' It happens all the time... like 'we need a new v.... >> |
| I've never been in that position, but I think I .... >> | ||
| Can you learn .NET a.... | I'm not a big fan of courses, and many of the bo.... >> | |
| 08 Mar 2004 | Analogy for why outs.... | A few thoughts... 'Surely we can get some { g.... >> |
| Maths required for 3.... | Take a look at '3D Math Primer for Graphics and .... >> | |
| 04 Mar 2004 | VB.Net Success Stori.... | No matter what reasons people give you, there ar.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | "Getting Things Done" tools or templates? >> | |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Indecent Proposal | See, the engineer in me agrees with the original.... >> |
| 28 Feb 2004 | Some reasons not to .... | 'Which suggests something is wrong. Why should peo.... >> |
| I can't even imagine not owning a home. That was.... >> | ||
| 25 Feb 2004 | Question about .NET .... | 'I'd say worse, definitely worse. ' Your argume.... >> |
| Working for Game Com.... | 'Low pay? Not sure about that, at least in my corn.... >> | |
| Are Older Developers.... | When I first starting doing this for a living, a.... >> | |
| 23 Feb 2004 | Could .net fail? | Well, there are plenty of us that are doing a ti.... >> |
| 22 Feb 2004 | Strawman terminology.... | If I had been out of work for years, with no for.... >> |
| 21 Feb 2004 | Webby Awards - vote .... | Well, it's not too hard to see what the Webby Awar.... >> |
| 20 Feb 2004 | What customer asks f.... | 'He installed it and it screwed up his computer (o.... >> |
| Merchant Accounts | Specifically, what things are you wanting to do .... >> | |
| Job hunting *success.... | Grats. At the risk of sounding like a Tony Robb.... >> | |
| 11 Feb 2004 | What's Your Greatest.... | Well...You know it's a stupid question, I know it'.... >> |
| just how much math i.... | Short of an occassional foray into 3D work, I've.... >> | |
| 09 Feb 2004 | Programmers and Depr.... | 'Don't try and find meaning and purpose in your wo.... >> |
| Programmers and eati.... | Just as a clarification... I suppose it depends.... >> | |
| 'Incidentally, exerise is a lousy way to lose weig.... >> | ||
| I bought a personal gym for my garage.... ....... >> | ||
| 07 Feb 2004 | Anders Hejlsberg on .... | 'The last item is what sold JAVA to the masses. B.... >> |
| Help with .NET | Oh, I should point out that you can use that Goo.... >> | |
| Odds are that most of your questions wil have be.... >> | ||
| Economy looking up | 'It strikes me that a jobless recovery is a lot li.... >> | |
| The Virus Undergroun.... | ''The price tag on the latest virus is already lar.... >> | |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Mydoom a taste of viruses to come? >> | |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Does bad code lead t.... | In 'The Pragmatic Programmer', one of their firs.... >> |
| 03 Feb 2004 | Zip API for .NET? >> | |
| 03 Feb 2004 | Zip API for .NET? | Thanks for the links, everyone! >> |
| 02 Feb 2004 | Idea for an app..wan.... | Without even commenting on the merits of the app.... >> |
| Good, thorough artic.... | 'COM has been superceded by .NET ' Hardly. M.... >> | |
| 01 Feb 2004 | ASP.NET better than .... | '1. .net consumes too much memory (800M) when .net.... >> |
| Amnesty human rights.... | Oh good grief. ''[Microsoft] should be more c.... >> | |
| Amazingly stupid, si.... | When coders collide... >> | |
| 31 Jan 2004 | Mike Rowe Soft The F.... | It's interesting that the person who just bit over.... >> |
| 29 Jan 2004 | commoditize your com.... | 'What are the bugs in C++?' He said that there .... >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | .net mismatched runt.... | Do you mean at runtime, or do you mean how to manu.... >> |
| You and the coffee m.... | www.flavia.net Problem solved. >> | |
| Is Enterprise Archit.... | This type of discussion normally disintegrates i.... >> | |
| Linker available / f.... | 'Does that mean .NET is inappropriate for shrink w.... >> | |
| MikeRoweSoft - the e.... | 'Microsoft gave him an X Box. That's like the epis.... >> | |
| Anders Hejlsberg On .... | 'If we really cared about small code size, we'd us.... >> | |
| 27 Jan 2004 | Brussels set to rule.... | 'impose a tariff for steel imports unilateraly' .... >> |
| Well, Bill can call up Jack Welch to commiserate o.... >> | ||
| death of COM/DCOM? | Hardly. COM will survive for many more years. J.... >> | |
| Blade Servers Versus.... | 'Our Dell 1U sounds like a jet engine. I think the.... >> | |
| Gay men on the plane.... | Kyralessa, You're funny. The EEOC wholly end.... >> | |
| 'So you're saying, Mark, that discrimination doesn.... >> | ||
| 26 Jan 2004 | 'In business, this is ALL that matters.' Shhh...... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Today's Dilbert >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Are Developers Typic.... | 'And I know that 90% of the people there loved S.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Vancouver BC? | I'm wishing I was back in Vancouver....Spent a wee.... >> |
| Ideas and suggestion.... | Kevin, Is using .NET out of the question? It re.... >> | |
| Learning Multiple La.... | 'yes, it's possible by virtue of the fact that mos.... >> | |
| Pay Rate as a Contra.... | '...extra 7.5% for every dollar to $85k. ' I be.... >> | |
| finding the right so.... | '...post really about missing granmar' Granmar?.... >> | |
| 10 Jan 2004 | Dark Eyes | ' haven't tried contacts that might be an answer.'.... >> |
| rule of engagement, .... | '2. Clients must understand and appreciate our i.... >> | |
| Any JOS Readers in U.... | Stephen, Thanks for the reply. Like I said, I h.... >> | |
| 09 Jan 2004 | Would you... | This is a hugely personal issue and the answers .... >> |
| OOP Concept: Abstrac.... | I don't see how abstraction would be considered a .... >> | |
| What to make of "han.... | 'Why do you say that the fact he didn't provide me.... >> | |
| Any JOS Readers in U.... | To Stephen or other Westerners in that area...I'.... >> | |
| ASP.NET developer in.... | I would attempt to probe a bit at how they would h.... >> | |
| 08 Jan 2004 | Recommended time tracking software? >> | |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Question about contr.... | 'A formula is unnecessary, because you will never .... >> |
| 06 Jan 2004 | 2 mb of code how man.... | Hard to say...What language? Is the debug informat.... >> |
| Virus from a poster? | Hmmm..interesting concept. However, I would say.... >> | |
| Ideas are cheap | 'But if you don't have lots of money, you should k.... >> | |
| 05 Jan 2004 | Business/Working fro.... | I second the recommendation for having your own of.... >> |
| 29 Dec 2003 | Got asked to fly to .... | I'd say it's somewhat out of the ordinary, but rea.... >> |
| "IT shifting away fr.... | It was to difficult to see past the author's obvio.... >> | |
| 28 Dec 2003 | Advice for S/W Entre.... | The 'Investing outside our field' story is a class.... >> |
| 22 Dec 2003 | philo, please help. | Hehehe..Poor, Philo. I wonder if Philo has cons.... >> |
| 20 Dec 2003 | Philo's disclaimer | SharePoint 'eh? Good...now I know who to call when.... >> |
| Gratz on the new job, Philo. Are you free to di.... >> | ||
| Bold topics. | Geesh. Are the bold topics really that offensiv.... >> | |
| 15 Dec 2003 | music at work | 'Applying those factors, I would feel comfortable .... >> |
| IP address question | 'The exception was Verizon, who kept those records.... >> | |
| 12 Dec 2003 | how do small compani.... | Eric Sink had some valid points about this, but .... >> |
| Hiring someone who *.... | Oh...and when I hire, a degree means nothing to me.... >> | |
| I've been a perpetual Senior since '92 and the lac.... >> | ||
| technical interview | I'd say it's fairly common. Last time I was job hu.... >> | |
| 11 Dec 2003 | IRS Systems upgrade,.... | What's even more frightening is that the IRS is st.... >> |
| how much this so cal.... | I don't have references, but I had read in the WSJ.... >> | |
| 10 Dec 2003 | The Need to Outsourc.... | 'Not happy with the way World War I ended, we try .... >> |
| useit.com | While I'm just a luddite and Mr. Nielsen is an exp.... >> | |
| Our jobs... (again) | 'There is NO JOB OR CAREER I would continue with $.... >> | |
| We're not doomed. It's tempting, and easy, to l.... >> | ||
| 09 Dec 2003 | What the hell | Oh my... I just now visited that Software Legen.... >> |
| Writing device drive.... | My device drivers years are long behind me, (and I.... >> | |
| C# Games | Also...I haven't had time to look, but is the ne.... >> | |
| C# fan, Even removing the issue of the Framewor.... >> | ||
| 08 Dec 2003 | Even with DirectX 9.0 being available as managed c.... >> | |
| Does C# is going to .... | 'Unlike Visual Basic (6) which is dead Delphi is v.... >> | |
| Are Debuggers Wastef.... | Has anyone else ever caught themselves doing this:.... >> | |
| 04 Dec 2003 | Code in Mind | Like Alyosha, I don't get very far with my designs.... >> |
| 02 Dec 2003 | Software patents | 'Patents exist to provide financial incentives for.... >> |
| Requiring pre-interv.... | 'The point is that it's several hours of my life a.... >> | |
| One more thing... It would only make sense for .... >> | ||
| Sausage, It's pretty unlikely that the company .... >> | ||
| 01 Dec 2003 | Machine identificati.... | For machines that are relatively new (within 3 yea.... >> |
| Software patents | 'Now let the 'software patents are evil' debate co.... >> | |
| Stupid specific inte.... | Bah...My experience has been that a large percenta.... >> | |
| POLL : Do you play v.... | I'm not much into FPS, but I love strategy games. .... >> | |
| 25 Nov 2003 | Requirement for lear.... | In addition, if you are not familiar with object o.... >> |
| 22 Nov 2003 | Is .NET overkill for.... | 'I have to make sure the user has the runtime engi.... >> |
| World Class Programm.... | 'Richard Stallman is famous for having married sof.... >> | |
| 21 Nov 2003 | Application Architec.... | 'People who cannot design can just step through th.... >> |
| The Lifestyle | 'I'd like to have sex with all the living organism.... >> | |
| World Class Programm.... | See, this is where we get into the definition of w.... >> | |
| Engaging the thought.... | Tapiwa, You're witnessing human behavior. Tryin.... >> | |
| 20 Nov 2003 | Why are we doing thi.... | My coffee maker broke too. Makes the whole day tou.... >> |
| Small software biz a.... | My first question would be 'What do you need to do.... >> | |
| Being pushed | I'm confused. You said that your boss is behind th.... >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | 88% uptime for J2EE .... | 'In related news, Company X noted that automobile .... >> |
| How about a "To All".... | 'Even around here, mostly girls who are not good a.... >> | |
| 18 Nov 2003 | On stored procedures.... | 'I honestly think that planning for a change in da.... >> |
| For years, I have always used stored procedures. W.... >> | ||
| Inexpensive Relation.... | FWIW, MySQL is planning on stored procedures and t.... >> | |
| 17 Nov 2003 | Software development.... | 'Now, besides you acting as the Dali Lama of this .... >> |
| Jeff, You requested advice and when someone (De.... >> | ||
| 15 Nov 2003 | Dressing up for job .... | 'Do *not* wear a jacket and tie to an interview wi.... >> |
| 14 Nov 2003 | It's hard to imagine someone not getting a job bec.... >> | |
| Where's Bella? | I miss Bella. Yeah, he was a first-class jerk m.... >> | |
| Ok, seriously, why W.... | Must be a slow day on /. >> | |
| 06 Nov 2003 | What's on your quick.... | 'It still amazes me when I go to a production Win2.... >> |
| Quit SlashDot today! | I tried reading SD..I really did. When that became.... >> | |
| getting ora 12571 er.... | *Gulp* I just started noticing those errors yes.... >> | |
| 01 Nov 2003 | Microsoft to buy Goo.... | I would love to know, as would most people, what M.... >> |
| 30 Oct 2003 | Microsoft encourages.... | Good grief, we have some amazingly daft people her.... >> |
| The Hidden Costs of .... | I think if you took a straw poll from developers a.... >> | |
| 21 Oct 2003 | I finally got it abo.... | I've developed both ASP.NET applications and WinFo.... >> |
| 13 Oct 2003 | finally, exceptions .... | So I'm not the only one that thought Joel was off .... >> |
| 08 Oct 2003 | More on the Half Lif.... | Good grief. JOS has sunk to new lows of geeky, ped.... >> |
| MSDE? | 'I believe that you're limited to a 2GB file -- no.... >> | |
| Stupid SQL Tricks | I had a very similiar problem and someone was kind.... >> | |
| 07 Oct 2003 | IT Department Pet Pe.... | 'Who the hell is Larry Wall ' The inventor of P.... >> |
| 03 Oct 2003 | Source code for Half.... | So...does this mean that we can expect to see the .... >> |
| 02 Oct 2003 | What is Hyperthreadi.... | '5% technology 95% advertising hype ' Not real.... >> |
| Buying a new compute.... | Johnny, As I asked before; what do you recommen.... >> | |
| 01 Oct 2003 | With all due respect to Mr. Bravo, this article fr.... >> | |
| '3. Don't read or believe anything which is publis.... >> | ||
| Oh..Something else..If you are interested in runni.... >> | ||
| Places such as Tom's Harware (www.tomshardware.com.... >> | ||
| 26 Sep 2003 | Why am I regularly k.... | 'You'd think the Linksys et al would put a tad mor.... >> |
| Incessant rebuilds w.... | Has anyone got a sneak preview the new MS build pr.... >> | |
| The Internet is a ra.... | Did Giorgio's 2K3 machine get hacked? >> | |
| 25 Sep 2003 | Banning email? | 'For crying out loud it's a shop. (aka store).' .... >> |
| 24 Sep 2003 | Banning email? >> | |
| 24 Sep 2003 | The Internet is a ra.... | 'I put one outside our firewall yesterday as a tes.... >> |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Good News for Americ.... | I don't really see how this changes anything. T.... >> |
| 22 Sep 2003 | MS SQL Server vs. Or.... | Patrick, I'm the one that made the original com.... >> |
| 18 Sep 2003 | Wireless LAN questio.... | I use Linksys at the house and it works great for .... >> |
| Oracle complaints? | A few things.. Regarding exploits.... this ain'.... >> | |
| 15 Sep 2003 | How to handle dodgy .... | It's always easy to give advice, particularly when.... >> |
| 11 Sep 2003 | Project Management -.... | MS Project is not the enemy of a successful projec.... >> |
| 09 Sep 2003 | .NET No-Touch Deploy.... | I stumbled across this today during lunch while re.... >> |
| 05 Sep 2003 | Do you know the worl.... | 'And even more so when the direct result of his mi.... >> |
| It's about results. | Peter, Don't get me wrong. I'm all about playin.... >> | |
| One Programmer's Opinion, When were you hired t.... >> | ||
| 04 Sep 2003 | There are many here that will read Phillip's post .... >> | |
| How to Dress? | 'Any recommendations on high quality clothiers? ' .... >> | |
| 'Never iron a suit without cleaning it; you'll j.... >> | ||
| 03 Sep 2003 | Best self-defence wh.... | Danil, I agree. I was being brief in the post, .... >> |
| I should add that if you do in fact meet with your.... >> | ||
| This is more of a political issue than it is a tec.... >> | ||
| PDF Generator for .N.... | For the forms that are templates then you might co.... >> | |
| Requirements Creatio.... | 'IMHO this impairs free contribution to the docume.... >> | |
| I tried Requisite Pro a few years ago and it was j.... >> | ||
| Database Stored Proc.... | I've seen a number of posts that give database ind.... >> | |
| 02 Sep 2003 | For me, one of the largest reasons for having our .... >> | |
| 28 Aug 2003 | agreement to not wor.... | Before all the self-proclaimed Legal Beagles offer.... >> |
| Developers in Suits .... | 'Personally, if I see a developer in a suit, I dis.... >> | |
| 'Look trendy and make sure not to buy a cheap suit.... >> | ||
| Brad, I'm not mistaken. That's a pretty broad s.... >> | ||
| I've worked in all kind of places with all kinds o.... >> | ||
| 27 Aug 2003 | XML Digital Signatur.... | You may also want to look at the WS-Security initi.... >> |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Lawyers, EULA, and C.... | Yeah, this is all we need...Lawyers suing software.... >> |
| What do you do when .... | I'll second the recommendation of Yoga. Now, no.... >> | |
| 22 Aug 2003 | How Long Will Kids L.... | While we will quite likely live longer and more he.... >> |
| Goliath vs David | Umm...It's not terribly uncommon for people to ref.... >> | |
| Technical Documentat.... | If you could be more specific then it would help. .... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2003 | Enterprise security question >> | |
| 21 Aug 2003 | Outsourcing to India.... | Rick, Because they aren't building shrink wrapp.... >> |
| alternatives to shar.... | Are you just needing a system to build intranet po.... >> | |
| Enterprise security .... | I probably misused the word application. It's a.... >> | |
| Technical College De.... | Is getting a BS degree even a possibility for you?.... >> | |
| Yugo | Yeah, what *was* the meaning of the Alabama joke? .... >> | |
| Managers get fired t.... | 'Employee A generates $240 in revenue if Manager s.... >> | |
| 20 Aug 2003 | Best Game Industrie .... | GarageGames.com attracts lots of Indie developers,.... >> |
| Data Structure Algor.... | I use the simpler data structures such as stacks, .... >> | |
| #define PRIVATE stat.... | It's pretty rare that I read anything where I tota.... >> | |
| Managers get fired t.... | Joe, Considering that many electric utilities a.... >> | |
| 'One of the ideas of being a 'worker bee' is you r.... >> | ||
| "Good" worm causes h.... | Uh Brad...I did read the article. Thank you very m.... >> | |
| I have a simpler question: Why was Air Canada s.... >> | ||
| Awesome article by E.... | While the article's point may have been pretty sim.... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2003 | PhD in Computer Scie.... | David, Which do you prefer: The more academic p.... >> |
| 15 Aug 2003 | Google Toolbar v2.0 | I just updated to the new version of the Google To.... >> |
| 14 Aug 2003 | How to keep track of hotfixes, patches, etc? >> | |
| 14 Aug 2003 | MSBlast - I don't un.... | Alyosha` nailed it. Yeah, it's easy to say 'Wel.... >> |
| How to keep track of.... | Uh...I'll answer my own question; perhaps it will .... >> | |
| 07 Aug 2003 | VB6 unit testing fra.... | NUnit supports VB 6? Are you sure? NUnit makes use.... >> |
| Advice: Small to Big.... | 'I'm worried about an emotional breakdown if I lea.... >> | |
| Matthew, I was in almost the same situation as .... >> | ||
| Interesting... | 'It was widely publicized (in geek circles only pe.... >> | |
| 06 Aug 2003 | switch to *nix - not.... | 'I believe a system that is harder to use will hav.... >> |
| Can "test cases" be .... | George, Some of your points are valid. As Len s.... >> | |
| Joel's market mistak.... | GM produces software and technology. Does that qua.... >> | |
| SharpDevelop (coool!.... | I was going to second the recommendation to at lea.... >> | |
| Do firms even hire l.... | I've been working on a long term gig for over 2 ye.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2003 | Outsourcing and Stra.... | Yeah, the WinAmp comparisons are well and good and.... >> |
| Building a build pro.... | Thanks everyone for the replies. I was heavily .... >> | |
| Implementing Joel Te.... | Nathan, Congrats on the job and good luck with .... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Building a build process.... >> | |
| 03 Aug 2003 | Microsoft Millionair.... | Hmmm..Sounds like Microsoft has been either direct.... >> |
| 01 Aug 2003 | Amen, Joel | 'Yeah, uh-huh. Such programmers should be admired .... >> |
| Technological discri.... | Amir, Perhaps it's a culture thing, but over he.... >> | |
| 'If one chooses not to include someone based on hi.... >> | ||
| 'I'll conclude by saying that I am interested in t.... >> | ||
| Managing your manage.... | Mac, Why would you do that? Picking an argument.... >> | |
| Conducting Post Proj.... | Here's a tip I learned I learned while working for.... >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | A question on unit tests >> | |
| 31 Jul 2003 | Web Services - is th.... | My personal favorite example of the hype is the we.... >> |
| Good RSS Reader for .... | D. Barlow, I'm now using SharpReader (thanks ev.... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2003 | Are these reasonable.... | er, make that course. Not question. >> |
| Those are questions that a freshmen in college tha.... >> | ||
| "IT contractors cram.... | Christopher, I knew the 'English' meaning wasn'.... >> | |
| Ok, since we're completey off-topic. Mark..My l.... >> | ||
| 'but we always look for contractors who are prepar.... >> | ||
| Calling all .NET Gur.... | I'd take Michael's comments with a grain of salt. .... >> | |
| 28 Jul 2003 | Good RSS Reader for Windows? >> | |
| 28 Jul 2003 | Fiat | They finally got wireless in your pub, didn't they.... >> |
| software developers .... | I don't think it's unreasonable that a person with.... >> | |
| Technical Self-Emplo.... | The User Friendly comic strip today is pertinent h.... >> | |
| 27 Jul 2003 | ' But don't throw out that 'good living wage' crap.... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2003 | I thought the author perfectly nailed the attitude.... >> | |
| 25 Jul 2003 | company car | 'then she thinks that I am not a good fit for the .... >> |
| You Just Can't Kill .... | VB brought some great features, but it also brough.... >> | |
| Digital Signatures a.... | I wrote a couple of articles for ASPToday that cov.... >> | |
| Time to pakc your ba.... | Although I don't agree with Giorgi's assertion tha.... >> | |
| 24 Jul 2003 | Offshoring is the LE.... | 'Best bet? Invest in grenade launchers that can ta.... >> |
| 'The elimination of pilots could happen as early a.... >> | ||
| 21 Jul 2003 | Digital Camera | I just got back from a trip to Vancouver Island wi.... >> |
| 18 Jul 2003 | I'm not defending Mi.... | 'I worked at a bank a while back.They replaced tho.... >> |
| 17 Jul 2003 | .NET web app hosting.... | Good luck with Brinkster. I was searching for h.... >> |
| 01 Jul 2003 | Version control with Oracle? >> | |
| 01 Jul 2003 | Difference between F.... | Just depends on the person and the aversion to ris.... >> |
| 25 Jun 2003 | Retroactive Advice | I spent 5 years in college and never got a degre.... >> |
| 24 Jun 2003 | What Does a Degree M.... | ymmv, Perhaps you shouldn't have majored in Pol.... >> |
| 23 Jun 2003 | "plumbers make more .... | Interesting... Not really being a Linux guy, I'.... >> |
| What Does a Degree M.... | Brad, Where do get this 100K figure? Sure, if y.... >> | |
| Brad, My degree will pay dividends over the cou.... >> | ||
| Everyone seems to be asking 'Does a degree help me.... >> | ||
| 20 Jun 2003 | Masters of Hype | 'You need 3rd party tools to make Oracle friendly .... >> |
| What's the big deal .... | Photo.net is also run by Greenspun and the some of.... >> | |
| Google results quali.... | Sorry Joel, but like a lot of people here, I've us.... >> | |
| Build and release ma.... | Thanks for the replies everyone! >> | |
| 19 Jun 2003 | Build and release management tools for .NET? >> | |
| 18 Jun 2003 | Lie on an applicatio.... | Why do some of you think he shouldn't discuss the .... >> |
| 17 Jun 2003 | Maybe Bush should be.... | Stephen, I suspect it's because once they begin.... >> |
| For some reason...I dunno...I'm guessing that to b.... >> | ||
| Well, I don't want to turn this into a pedantic ar.... >> | ||
| Just curious..How many of you were able to flying .... >> | ||
| What does this mean? | Yeah B#, you nailed it. It was bigotry. I mean, wh.... >> | |
| MarkTaw, Brave words? Huh? Because I said that .... >> | ||
| Expecting the return.... | Stephen, Where did you get the numbers that sta.... >> | |
| 16 Jun 2003 | Business Cycles | Brent, You don't have to be psychic to be able .... >> |
| What does this mean? | 'and support workforce diversity' I couldn't gi.... >> | |
| Who here works on ca.... | Hmmmm...Most geeks that I know are also mechanical.... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2003 | SourceGear Vault vs .... | I'll second the recommendation for looking at CVS..... >> |
| 12 Jun 2003 | The Mythic Microsoft.... | ' Read the findings of fact in the DOJ v .... >> |
| Hungarian Notation | Hungarian notation is falling off in popularity am.... >> | |
| Test The Nation | Since we've opened this can of worms... Here is.... >> | |
| Cool title | I agree with putting Dr. on the card instead of ad.... >> | |
| Use of the word Engi.... | Hijack words from the public domain? Huh? State.... >> | |
| To me, the title of engineer confers some degree o.... >> | ||
| Free soda? | 6....litres....a....day????? Good grief man! I .... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2003 | Writing Solid Code | You might try taking a look at 'The Pragmatic Prog.... >> |
| 09 Jun 2003 | Angry Coder on VB in.... | It didn't take a whole lot of brains to make tha.... >> |
| 05 Jun 2003 | Time to avoid Develo.... | I'm an American that has been enormously blessed o.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2003 | I just don't see outsourcing as this huge evil thi.... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2003 | Pair Programming - t.... | 'It's hard not to conclude that your basic objecti.... >> |
| I'm not a fan of open-ended cliches such as 'don't.... >> | ||
| 29 May 2003 | Vendor Managers | 'In fact, I would go further. Try to cancel, postp.... >> |
| 28 May 2003 | Look on the bright side...Stuff like this keeps th.... >> | |
| E-bay pays $35millio.... | printf('Hello World!'); Patent Pending >> | |
| Why this design spec.... | Philo, I wasn't suggesting that the customer do.... >> | |
| 27 May 2003 | SDLC - Feasibility | Simon, Kindly send us your HR department's emai.... >> |
| Why this design spec.... | Dave, The failure you mentioned wasn't caused b.... >> | |
| 22 May 2003 | Extreme Programming .... | Oh. Sorry, Bill. I posted my opinions of XP aft.... >> |
| Hmmm..interesting point about the Hawthorne Effect.... >> | ||