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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Clay Dowling' | ||
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Number of Comments: 365 |
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| Number of Words: 36,639 | ||
| First Comment: 11 Mar 2003 | ||
| Final Comment: 01 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 7 |
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| First Topic: 08 Aug 2003 | ||
| Latest Topic: 26 Aug 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 01 Sep 2004 | Database access in W.... | The DBI model is available in several languages, i.... >> |
| 29 Aug 2004 | "Rescue abandoned pr.... | If they've only budgeted a few thousand, you need .... >> |
| Using Bugzilla for t.... | Right now we're using the last proposed solution, .... >> | |
| 26 Aug 2004 | Using Bugzilla for the Helpdesk >> | |
| 18 Aug 2004 | X12 820 Parser | Philo's dead on with his advice. I've written sev.... >> |
| ASP.NET without VS.N.... | The O'Rielly ASP.NET book is very good, and they d.... >> | |
| 15 Aug 2004 | Recruiting requires .... | As to the original issue, I have to say that getti.... >> |
| This ain't about lov.... | I'm an asshole. I write bad things about my .... >> | |
| 14 Aug 2004 | I recently did a couple of months work for a clien.... >> | |
| Mozilla vs wxWindows | I haven't used XUL, but wxWidgets is by far the be.... >> | |
| Super OT: Fear of Dr.... | If you're afraid of driving - DON'T!!!! I might.... >> | |
| 13 Aug 2004 | develop cross-platfo.... | Another voice in support of wxWidgets. It wo.... >> |
| 11 Aug 2004 | Yet another Unix sec.... | The problem seems to be limited to a specific vers.... >> |
| 10 Aug 2004 | Legit reason to star.... | You have to ask yourself why somebody would want t.... >> |
| PHP and ADODB -- Cou.... | You might also want to get rid of the reference to.... >> | |
| 07 Aug 2004 | Contract/part time P.... | The biggest thing holding you up is without a doub.... >> |
| 06 Aug 2004 | Printing Postcards | I haven't done it with Visual Basic, but I have us.... >> |
| Who is your messiah? | Yeah, gotta go with the Jewish Carpenter answer he.... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2004 | Weapons software | If you have a computer science, engineering or phy.... >> |
| Platform for Commerc.... | PHP can lead to the embedded spaghetti code proble.... >> | |
| PHP can be compiled if you get the Zend tools, and.... >> | ||
| Confused About Linux | Red Hat's enterprise package also includes a nice .... >> | |
| 03 Aug 2004 | How can a progammer .... | The teaching gig works very well for boosting your.... >> |
| 02 Aug 2004 | Programming Language.... | I'm also inclined to the thought that different la.... >> |
| 30 Jul 2004 | How do people get th.... | 'I am asking this because it seems like noone is p.... >> |
| 29 Jul 2004 | Would I be a fool to.... | You'll want to take a look at the offerings from S.... >> |
| 28 Jul 2004 | Why the need to stam.... | 'the women, etc.' Man, I've clearly been writi.... >> |
| 27 Jul 2004 | A profitable alterna.... | The Sleepycat model might work pretty well. The co.... >> |
| Fred, At least for PHP on UNIX, there is a perf.... >> | ||
| Open Source = no rig.... | Albert, simply put, you don't understand economics.... >> | |
| XML/Perl based CMS w.... | I've also got a CMS that uses SQLite, which doesn'.... >> | |
| Templating systems f.... | I recently had to go through this same adjustment..... >> | |
| 24 Jul 2004 | Non compete prior to.... | The thing to keep in mind is that all recruiters a.... >> |
| 23 Jul 2004 | Thinking outside the.... | One of the big tricks is to perform your own code .... >> |
| Challenge:Being cont.... | Don't budge an inch. If they really have these cu.... >> | |
| Software piracy | Some of you trying to use analogies with the recor.... >> | |
| 22 Jul 2004 | Nasty virus/worm on .... | One thing you absolutely desperately need, no matt.... >> |
| Shell Scripting Fana.... | If they're writing things like CGI in shell script.... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | Open Source is good | I'll chime in as well with my own experience. I o.... >> |
| why not downloadable.... | There's a lot to be said for providing manuals and.... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2004 | PHP / MySQL weirdnes.... | muppet, A better place for these questions migh.... >> |
| Worst Use of Technol.... | Worst Use of Technology Ever: Automated telepho.... >> | |
| Need a good Realty P.... | Justin, I have an associate who has produced a .... >> | |
| PHP Weirdness | You two should really consider checking in to some.... >> | |
| PHP and references | The only way in which it won't be backwards compat.... >> | |
| 16 Jul 2004 | If you upgrade to version 5, by the way, pass by r.... >> | |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Perl CGI | Matt, The whole expense of starting a new proce.... >> |
| What do we teach our.... | Teaching kids not to always pick the easy way has .... >> | |
| .Net devs that went .... | Although I'm unlikely to go to Java (it's a great .... >> | |
| 14 Jul 2004 | Database Pooling - I.... | Connection pooling is a problem if you're using a .... >> |
| Flint, Michigan read.... | I think you might have difficulty finding anybody .... >> | |
| While I like that acronym, I have kids and so woul.... >> | ||
| 13 Jul 2004 | Flint, Michigan readers? >> | |
| 13 Jul 2004 | [DB Question]Row cou.... | .NET, It looks hacky because it is inherently h.... >> |
| The Coffee Test | MarkTAW, You are an evil bastard. I love you. .... >> | |
| I've worked at great places where the coffee was t.... >> | ||
| Old farts lack respe.... | 'In my experience, the default behavior of older d.... >> | |
| 11 Jul 2004 | K&R. Great book,.... | In their particular production environment, they u.... >> |
| CIO's | Having been screwed often enough by failing to fol.... >> | |
| 10 Jul 2004 | Dumb Apache Question | You can press F1 if you want. One most syste.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2004 | Go west, young man! | If you've got the embedded background, the Detroit.... >> |
| Beer isn't free | Could you two take your pissing match to private m.... >> | |
| 02 Jul 2004 | Linux (Crossplatform.... | I can highly recommend the use of wxWindows for cr.... >> |
| 01 Jul 2004 | Computer technicians.... | Dennis, you don't get out much do you? She let .... >> |
| Unfortunately, that's just lending credence to the.... >> | ||
| Just. for web server.... | The justifications are pretty easy: If each dev.... >> | |
| Data Types Chosen On.... | That's why I use SQLite whenever I can. Everythin.... >> | |
| 30 Jun 2004 | Web Applications vs .... | Gen'xer: The proper solution to an IT manager l.... >> |
| 28 Jun 2004 | Why 'http://WWP" and.... | The www is something of an annoying convention is .... >> |
| Can you be a good C+.... | Having both taught and shipped production code, an.... >> | |
| House prices (off-to.... | The crappy neighborhood problem can be changed, an.... >> | |
| event-driven php web.... | What you're describing as event driven is pretty m.... >> | |
| 25 Jun 2004 | Web Application Deve.... | My bad, Jeff. I associated the wrong signatu.... >> |
| 24 Jun 2004 | Jeff, Is there some reason for the operating sy.... >> | |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Am I a Java or C++ p.... | "I'm a brewer who happens to have a lot of experie.... >> |
| [ASP.NET] Forwarding.... | For the more sensible answer, consider encapsulati.... >> | |
| 19 Jun 2004 | Curl answered Joel's.... | You are sadly deluded. Curl is a nice little util.... >> |
| Shocker: Pay rates f.... | $30/hr would be a great rate locally. I live one .... >> | |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Needed: C++ IDE | I'll second the recommendation for Anjuta. I just.... >> |
| 15 Jun 2004 | Firefox 0.9 has bad .... | The search box doesn't work as described by the OP.... >> |
| Web applications | I'm inclined to think that we're infected with a p.... >> | |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Stupid CS Exam Quest.... | If you can't trace code, how do you expect to writ.... >> |
| PHP Email | You should also check out the Mail modules in the .... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2004 | Got an internet acce.... | For those of you opening your system to the world,.... >> |
| 10 Jun 2004 | Yup the problem is n.... | There are alternatives on Windows. I've writ.... >> |
| 08 Jun 2004 | You guys must love m.... | A lesson I learned after beating my head against t.... >> |
| 07 Jun 2004 | Linked List 101: struct node { void* data; .... >> | |
| Please, don't desert.... | Noob, Make sure you have a copy of Kernighan & .... >> | |
| Is the tide now goin.... | Albert: Get an editor. You post was overly long .... >> | |
| 05 Jun 2004 | Kiwis and Kiwi Fruit.... | That's not true. I spoke to the fellow next door j.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2004 | IT is a great indust.... | Other fields definitely have it worse. A large nat.... >> |
| 03 Jun 2004 | sounding off: Linux .... | It seems to me that there are blowhards on both si.... >> |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Norah Jones | I had this crazy idea that I'd play it with my reg.... >> |
| 30 May 2004 | But, but... I though.... | Apache is generally pretty secure. My server hasn.... >> |
| 26 May 2004 | C++ IDE on Windows | I'll second the recommendation for Dev-CPP. .... >> |
| 24 May 2004 | teach Procedural or .... | I have my own bias towards learning procedural pro.... >> |
| 21 May 2004 | Design question invo.... | I would recommend creating a new object that encap.... >> |
| VB and C | I'll be the one to chime in with the 'It Really Do.... >> | |
| 20 May 2004 | Better tools for cre.... | If you're looking to pull data out of a database a.... >> |
| By way of 'under the radar' you might look at my o.... >> | ||
| Lots of free time, p.... | Mr. Jones, I think you missed the points of my mes.... >> | |
| SJ, I don't know if you have any religious affi.... >> | ||
| 12 May 2004 | Best Printer for Bro.... | I'll second the recommendations for outsourcing yo.... >> |
| 07 May 2004 | Laugh at me, but enl.... | The reason you can't understand anything you read .... >> |
| 04 May 2004 | software registratio.... | I would say that the best thing which could happen.... >> |
| 30 Apr 2004 | Deveoper Jokes 'Not .... | Well, the social ineptitude seems to be striking a.... >> |
| 29 Apr 2004 | teaching programming.... | I'd like to point out to those who think they can .... >> |
| 27 Apr 2004 | Uber Cool | Programs often ship with what appears to be a DLL .... >> |
| 26 Apr 2004 | Application Developm.... | Some of the logical disconnect that's showing up, .... >> |
| 23 Apr 2004 | Starting C++ | An alternative to the VC++ 7.1 compiler is the Dev.... >> |
| Securing data transf.... | Peter, You're courting trouble if you doing som.... >> | |
| 22 Apr 2004 | CSS Formatting vs Ta.... | I'm not doing anything really complicated with my .... >> |
| Joel's PHP bashing n.... | http://us3.php.net/mbstring The information ava.... >> | |
| 21 Apr 2004 | Pretty well effed is how'd I'd describe that situa.... >> | |
| If you need unicode support, then Joel's criticism.... >> | ||
| Advertising yourself | The book/article suggestion is very good. I've ne.... >> | |
| 20 Apr 2004 | Is this easier in AS.... | I'm in the middle of that learning curve right now.... >> |
| The big disadvantage.... | The preferences between the two languages are stri.... >> | |
| 15 Apr 2004 | more mysql | I'd recommend a quick C/C++ program. If you'.... >> |
| Just write the code..... | 'Getting old and set in your ways? ' What Getti.... >> | |
| 14 Apr 2004 | This firm is tiny. The project consists of the sen.... >> | |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Just write the code... >> | |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Email Newsletter Sof.... | I, or many of the other people on this list, would.... >> |
| Just write the code..... | Son of Parnas' idea works fine in theory, but it h.... >> | |
| My schema has been presented, and there's a chance.... >> | ||
| It's their first time with more than one developer.... >> | ||
| Learning C | You'll have trouble finding more practice than in .... >> | |
| C++ Hello world with.... | A more appropriate forum for this type of request .... >> | |
| What is the perfect .... | 'Of course work isn't fun. That's why they call i.... >> | |
| 08 Apr 2004 | Goodbye strcpy | I would like to point out that those deprecated fu.... >> |
| 06 Apr 2004 | Would you hire me? | That background would probably get you a VB.NET or.... >> |
| 02 Apr 2004 | Recommend a reliable.... | If you're going to have the machine live on the In.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2004 | Microsoft admits tha.... | I'd like you to keep in mind what the current date.... >> |
| 30 Mar 2004 | About the impedance .... | Database access built into the language would be a.... >> |
| 29 Mar 2004 | Linux: First determi.... | 'So Linux, in the long term, creates an environmen.... >> |
| 24 Mar 2004 | Which language for w.... | The instability in PHP development drove me away f.... >> |
| 23 Mar 2004 | Local Monster.com-ty.... | Here in Michigan the state runs a great job board .... >> |
| Another take on SCO | I dunno, I thought BOFH made the point pretty clea.... >> | |
| 22 Mar 2004 | More JoS bloggers? | Lazarus Notes: http://www.lazarusid.com/notes/ .... >> |
| 19 Mar 2004 | Future of Machine La.... | ML will always be in demand for virus and trojan w.... >> |
| 12 Mar 2004 | How Should a novice .... | The most important thing is to get your hands dirt.... >> |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Bizarre Situation | First, keep in mind that an HR person has an entir.... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | Software contracting | The best bet is to find somebody whose work you kn.... >> |
| 06 Mar 2004 | app research | Mozilla's Thunderbird package is very nice. It's v.... >> |
| 03 Mar 2004 | Open source... rat r.... | So there will be some good to come out of it. If S.... >> |
| Mostly SCO is grasping at straws, trying to save t.... >> | ||
| Report development | Li-fan, I say crazy s*** like that because I'm .... >> | |
| John, I'm saying that it's faster for me. I spe.... >> | ||
| There's no good answer to this. However, for.... >> | ||
| I promised I would n.... | Aussie Chick, Likewise, you can drop a line her.... >> | |
| Table Driven Program.... | I have to agree, there's nothing particularly revo.... >> | |
| 02 Mar 2004 | Stress Less Ideas? | Take a week off for the walleye opener. First, you.... >> |
| Cubes vs. Offices - .... | Drywall or the cement/plaster walls of a universit.... >> | |
| Lacking Enough Techn.... | I've written accounting systems, which required th.... >> | |
| 01 Mar 2004 | Cubes vs. Offices - .... | 'The worst cube I was ever in was 4 x 8, like a co.... >> |
| Lacking Enough Techn.... | anon, If you had aspirations to be a truely gre.... >> | |
| 28 Feb 2004 | Bubble sort reversed | Ori, I'm going to suggest that your position is.... >> |
| Well, you've answered the question yourself. Try .... >> | ||
| Learning XSLT | If you want to learn XSLT, learn xslt. It's not co.... >> | |
| Hybrid Application: .... | If you need cross-platform GUI capability, take a .... >> | |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Daydreams | I've been working casually towards starting my own.... >> |
| Selling software wit.... | My recommendation is to trust the customer and the.... >> | |
| 25 Feb 2004 | Spam filtering on se.... | pdq, I'm a developer, and I'd just like to say .... >> |
| Is there a name for .... | Chris, Thanks for the pointers. I'll look into.... >> | |
| Mssr Tavares, I am unfortunately stuck at posit.... >> | ||
| Programmer Shelf Lif.... | http://www.lazarusid.com/notes/archives/Article-20.... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | RSS scrapers for web.... | http://www.boutell.com/morning/ That might do t.... >> |
| Is there a name for .... | Grumpy Old Timer I believe the epiphany you wer.... >> | |
| Programmer Shelf Lif.... | Okay, being only 33 I don't actually qualify as an.... >> | |
| 23 Feb 2004 | All-In-One Laser Pri.... | My wife recently purchased an all-in-one laser pri.... >> |
| Strawman terminology.... | That rate wouldn't be bad for my own skill level, .... >> | |
| 19 Feb 2004 | Programmers and thei.... | I've lost a cat a year for the last three years. .... >> |
| 18 Feb 2004 | Recommendations of w.... | Both Dev-C++ and Visual C++ work pretty well under.... >> |
| 17 Feb 2004 | "Designed for Window.... | I've had to deal with a lot of software that not o.... >> |
| 16 Feb 2004 | POSIX API Documentat.... | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/.... >> |
| Web Server set-up :&.... | The problem isn't your web server, but your DNS se.... >> | |
| Down with WYSIWYG? | What would a comment about an open source product .... >> | |
| The crudy font situation comes from a defective or.... >> | ||
| 15 Feb 2004 | Is there a good free.... | My Newsreel package might work as well, although i.... >> |
| 13 Feb 2004 | System Analysis | Since you already have the programming experience,.... >> |
| C++/CLI | Speaking as someone who's written C code almost ex.... >> | |
| 11 Feb 2004 | Hiring Again | Matt, You need to find the person who wrote the.... >> |
| 10 Feb 2004 | C question: pointers.... | I've definitely worked on older hardware where siz.... >> |
| 09 Feb 2004 | Writing to DOCUMENT_ROOT on IIS >> | |
| 09 Feb 2004 | Writing to DOCUMENT_.... | Thanks for the help everyone. Michael's sugg.... >> |
| Unix / Linux Desensi.... | Harvey, I don't think that you're going to be h.... >> | |
| 08 Feb 2004 | Web site virtual roo.... | It's entirely possible. Check out the SCRIPT.... >> |
| 06 Feb 2004 | How do you view mone.... | How do I view wealth and money? From a great di.... >> |
| 05 Feb 2004 | Free Software Discus.... | Just Sir, That was low. Funny, but low. >> |
| 03 Feb 2004 | Advice needed: print.... | I've had really good luck with PDF. You aren't go.... >> |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Home Web Server - wh.... | Unless you're willing to take the time to become a.... >> |
| 26 Jan 2004 | Job Postings - Getti.... | I think it might be reasonable when applying to a .... >> |
| 23 Jan 2004 | Quit-Programming Tut.... | In the mean time, investigate the opportunities to.... >> |
| 22 Jan 2004 | Dealing with Madness | Getting the degree is a good idea. If you're self.... >> |
| what's your choice o.... | I've rolled my own for MySQL at http://www.lazarus.... >> | |
| Recommendation for a.... | I've had good luck with Kaspersky so far. It found.... >> | |
| "Unix culture values.... | I'm finding the comparison of a UNIX interface to .... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Mozilla Firebird | Antti, You are nit picking, as you suggested. .... >> |
| Recommend Web Hostin.... | If he also wants reliable service, then my criteri.... >> | |
| 20 Jan 2004 | I won't recommend a specific host, but here are my.... >> | |
| Anyone know what thi.... | This does look exactly like a problem with numeric.... >> | |
| 19 Jan 2004 | The computer delusio.... | Having been a one time subscriber to The Atlantic .... >> |
| Please enter... with.... | We've had the whole 'freeform data entry is the on.... >> | |
| Were 80's developers.... | It isn't just hobbyists writing infocom style game.... >> | |
| Article on going ind.... | I don't have an extensive publication list, but I .... >> | |
| 18 Jan 2004 | Windows versus Linux.... | Student, The ease or difficulty of maintaining .... >> |
| Is PHP viable for a .... | PHP is a fine language for large systems. My idea.... >> | |
| Lazy way to secure I.... | Recommending Apache might not directly address the.... >> | |
| 15 Jan 2004 | I am so lucky I have.... | I've been in this position before too. I too.... >> |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Which programming la.... | I'd suggest C/C++ as well, but if you're not comfo.... >> |
| Bitwise vs Booleans .... | I should clarify that even though I was very irked.... >> | |
| 12 Jan 2004 | "Rules of Engagement.... | Making money as a consultant is pretty much exclus.... >> |
| Bitwise vs Booleans .... | As far as long-term maintainability goes, bitfield.... >> | |
| 10 Jan 2004 | US:More degrees in “.... | It's good that there are fewer people studying eng.... >> |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Writing a GUI in C++.... | The audacity toolbars had a non-standard look, at .... >> |
| 06 Jan 2004 | Big Table Discussion | If you're worried about running out of unique inte.... >> |
| Email solutions | MBX format isn't particularly subject to corruptio.... >> | |
| No ASP Comments? | If he's worried about speed, introduce him to Visu.... >> | |
| Database versus flat.... | In Nathan's situation a database is a fine choice..... >> | |
| 04 Jan 2004 | Check for Updates | I don't know what language you are working in, but.... >> |
| Getting control of a.... | Gwyn, That approach has restraining order writt.... >> | |
| From somebody who's had to do it: You need to s.... >> | ||
| Cross Platform GUI R.... | Michael, That's great that you were able to mak.... >> | |
| Actual Cross-Platfor.... | I'd just like to say that I've started to explore .... >> | |
| 02 Jan 2004 | That's very good to know. I'm not doing anyt.... >> | |
| 01 Jan 2004 | Actual Cross-Platform GUI development >> | |
| 01 Jan 2004 | Cross Platform GUI R.... | I've used apps written in both, and I can say for .... >> |
| Actual Cross-Platfor.... | Chip, I'll have to give your static linking tri.... >> | |
| Blame Open Source fo.... | Yeah, it's all the fault of that evil open source .... >> | |
| 30 Dec 2003 | sorting | What's this silliness about unique ids? Inserti.... >> |
| 29 Dec 2003 | Got asked to fly to .... | > Nice....Good advice from the 'Joel On Slackers' .... >> |
| My advice: You're stuck on the road on a holida.... >> | ||
| "IT shifting away fr.... | An objective source the Inquirer is not. I don't .... >> | |
| C++? Opinions? | Chris, 'Essential COM' was my first introductio.... >> | |
| 26 Dec 2003 | MySQL or Postgress | I don't think anybody doubts that MS-SQL Server is.... >> |
| C++? Opinions? | Philo, COM and C++ aren't words that go well to.... >> | |
| Joel on installing D.... | I use the faster solution of keeping four systems .... >> | |
| Joel, Before you claim that these free UNIX pro.... >> | ||
| 22 Dec 2003 | Programming bottom-u.... | I think that I won't take too much of my C++ progr.... >> |
| 21 Dec 2003 | kinds of sw developm.... | Any project that requires a high degree of interac.... >> |
| Outsourcing - making.... | I've done something similar, with some success. .... >> | |
| Did linux just show .... | To be perfectly honest, the whole KDE vs Gnome thi.... >> | |
| 19 Dec 2003 | You have to love OSS.... | As a good security exploit, I have to give them ma.... >> |
| 18 Dec 2003 | STL Vector on Borland tools >> | |
| 18 Dec 2003 | STL Vector on Borlan.... | OWL, Borland specific String extensions (boy howdy.... >> |
| Ancient as in 5.02, that is correct. It's an old .... >> | ||
| Feature "Feature/Cod.... | I've never had a QA department to deliver things t.... >> | |
| Embedded Databases (.... | Jeff, I also choked on the licensing costs. I .... >> | |
| 17 Dec 2003 | [VB] Good tool to de.... | Fredric, In general, you can't do that from wit.... >> |
| Embedded Databases (.... | All modern UNIX systems have good file locking sup.... >> | |
| Jeff, Before you commit yourself to Berkeley DB.... >> | ||
| 16 Dec 2003 | Guide to building JE.... | Koz, If you're getting stymied with JET, there .... >> |
| 15 Dec 2003 | Crystal Reports | I have to say that Crystal Reports is the reason t.... >> |
| 14 Dec 2003 | Signing up for accou.... | The technique that I've used at http://www.lazarus.... >> |
| 07 Dec 2003 | New Career? | Being a few years older and finding myself in the .... >> |
| What's wrong with In.... | I've had very good luck with NSIS, but I'm only bu.... >> | |
| 05 Dec 2003 | Wise Installer - New.... | I don't have any experience with Wise, but I've ha.... >> |
| Why are 80% of progr.... | I've definitely been in shops where 75% of the pro.... >> | |
| 01 Dec 2003 | Interview Question | MR, What it will do depends on the compiler. T.... >> |
| Steve, As for your daemon's stdout, the answer .... >> | ||
| Where to place CVS? | If you only have access to /tmp, you don't have an.... >> | |
| 30 Nov 2003 | Cross Platform Serve.... | Vince, My reason for avoiding Java is that the .... >> |
| 27 Nov 2003 | I need a pay rise | I would recommend approaching your boss very openl.... >> |
| Cross Platform Serve.... | There have been lots of recommendations for Java, .... >> | |
| 24 Nov 2003 | Linux Refactoring | Alice, Don't confuse your inability to understa.... >> |
| 23 Nov 2003 | I think that plan smells like old socks. X i.... >> | |
| JoS - Delphi... | The rabid advocacy comes from another factor as we.... >> | |
| 22 Nov 2003 | An end to blog spam | While I admit that blog spam is a pain, and in gen.... >> |
| 20 Nov 2003 | WEB services | The authentication issues with Web Services are id.... >> |
| 19 Nov 2003 | MySQL Gotchas | I have to agree with Eric. It's a great tool with.... >> |
| Licensing and regist.... | I've written a couple of little registration manag.... >> | |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Linux hack attempt | Ori, I think maybe you've taken too personal a .... >> |
| 08 Nov 2003 | Kylix development ab.... | First I'll say that I'm a huge Borland supporter, .... >> |
| Is Linux more Secure.... | Portabella, UNIX programmers refuse to move to .... >> | |
| 04 Nov 2003 | The REAL problem wit.... | Steve, Most states require all construction con.... >> |
| Wise/InstallShield? | I'll second the recommendation for NSIS. I've use.... >> | |
| 01 Nov 2003 | Managing web content.... | You'll be absolutely suprised at how easy it is to.... >> |
| 29 Oct 2003 | Stateful SOAP client.... | Check out gsoap. I'm at a client site (waiti.... >> |
| 24 Oct 2003 | my boy wants to lear.... | As an easy language to get going with visual devel.... >> |
| Creo Tokens | I think that for receiving large files, my Image M.... >> | |
| 23 Oct 2003 | Why RDBMS? | 'Why does everyone choose lager?' Well, I've br.... >> |
| 21 Oct 2003 | The "zip code" is no.... | It's worth remembering that .com was originally re.... >> |
| My own experience with my own sites, in .com domai.... >> | ||
| Product Release Chec.... | InfantManager, I wish there was someplace I cou.... >> | |
| 20 Oct 2003 | Licensing/Registrati.... | I'll second Bill's recommendation. Dependencies ar.... >> |
| CityDesk too much fo.... | A little less attitude might go a long way. E.... >> | |
| I finally got it abo.... | I'm almost exclusively a UNIX programmer, and I ca.... >> | |
| Specialization - Whi.... | Philo, From what I understand, the money is a p.... >> | |
| 18 Oct 2003 | What do coders do?? | First, don't ask them 'what do you do?' You shoul.... >> |
| pricing structures | I wouldn't approach it with an 'I do all the up fr.... >> | |
| 16 Oct 2003 | Transactions and Rol.... | The prick waving about rollbacks on installation i.... >> |
| What you are trying to do isn't easy using any met.... >> | ||
| No Perfect Language | My point may have been missed. On my UNIX system,.... >> | |
| The .NET thing isn't completely hype. I've b.... >> | ||
| 15 Oct 2003 | What should programm.... | There are two things a programmer should learn: .... >> |
| Build solution for w.... | I'm using make to handle that, but my situation is.... >> | |
| A Clay Pot | If you think that making software is like making l.... >> | |
| Bjarne Stroustrup in.... | It was actually a pretty good article on design.&n.... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | skills do you want t.... | How to be a good salesman. I'm rather hopele.... >> |
| Why does Joel care a.... | PHP in no way forces code/html intermixing. I've .... >> | |
| 10 Oct 2003 | Low cost intranet so.... | My thought is to look at your long term relationsh.... >> |
| 09 Oct 2003 | Are we all crappy co.... | Since the original question was about improving ou.... >> |
| 07 Oct 2003 | What source control .... | I'll second the CVS/WinCVS combo. CVS is honestly.... >> |
| Examples of well-wri.... | You might want to take a look at some of the code .... >> | |
| 30 Sep 2003 | How to behave in soc.... | Proper behavior is somewhat contextual. A very goo.... >> |
| 28 Sep 2003 | Unzipping and Zippin.... | You should probably check out pkware.com. They ori.... >> |
| Grudgingly admitting.... | I've had a few. My attempts to use ActiveX from C.... >> | |
| 24 Sep 2003 | Tits up? | Working from the luxury of my basement office with.... >> |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Linux Profitability | There are an aweful lot of trolls here, mostly by .... >> |
| 17 Sep 2003 | So this is where the.... | That job posting isn't so far off. I've held that .... >> |
| 15 Sep 2003 | When did it end? | I'm not inclined to say that Microsoft's dominatio.... >> |
| Anyone else aghast g.... | At one shop where I worked, we had a weekly night .... >> | |
| 14 Sep 2003 | Doctor Dobbs Journal | What with there being no such thing as 'General So.... >> |
| MySQL Installation &.... | Back to the topic at hand, Todd, you will find a n.... >> | |
| 10 Sep 2003 | Project Management -.... | I took a one day class through Horizons, and found.... >> |
| who will do the UI ? | UI Development needs to become a core skill in you.... >> | |
| 09 Sep 2003 | huge spam messages a.... | I'm using a bayesian filter and it's wonderful. I .... >> |
| Online Forms | I don't have any pointers, but that looks like a g.... >> | |
| 05 Sep 2003 | CMS | I have a small system I have created at http://www.... >> |
| 04 Sep 2003 | To interchange or no.... | I've been in this situation before. Moving people .... >> |
| Interview Questions .... | It's prefectly reasonable for people to ask what y.... >> | |
| Linux stabilization .... | Just Sir, I think you should stop hitting yours.... >> | |
| 03 Sep 2003 | web site syncing/man.... | About CVS: ask. CVS tends to be installed on most .... >> |
| You might try using CVS to handle synchronization..... >> | ||
| Best self-defence wh.... | One option is to generate valid HTML. The ALT att.... >> | |
| Linux stabilization | First, there seem to be a lot of people spouting o.... >> | |
| Rant on Linux on the.... | Some of these Linus disadvantages can be turned in.... >> | |
| business logic | If business logic rules are constantly changing, t.... >> | |
| 02 Sep 2003 | Alternatives to Vist.... | I'd recommend trotting down to your local print sh.... >> |
| Extreme Programming | When I was doing extreme programming, I didn't rea.... >> | |
| REALLY "low end" con.... | I'm a techie myself, and I have to say that some o.... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2003 | 80$ per/hr access pr.... | Managers like Access, because it's something small.... >> |
| A Kinder, Gentler Ti.... | Might be time to seriously consider a different ad.... >> | |
| Help authoring mista.... | After looking at the Help & Manual web site, I.... >> | |
| http://www.helpscribble.com/ Best help authorin.... >> | ||
| fixed price contract | Tesla, What you are experiencing is a fairly ty.... >> | |
| Developers in Suits .... | Wow, Bella's obviously never seen an iron. T.... >> | |
| 28 Aug 2003 | I'm gonna side with Philo here. If your suit is un.... >> | |
| 27 Aug 2003 | Hiding website email.... | Encoding my e-mail address as html entities did cu.... >> |
| www/Why did client-s.... | As somebody who has made the mistake of trying to .... >> | |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Contracting, Permame.... | As to the housing prices, I noticed that you kept .... >> |
| 23 Aug 2003 | transport mechanism | The obvious solution, of course, is to hire me to .... >> |
| 19 Aug 2003 | Installers which wil.... | Anybody downloading from an installer is most like.... >> |
| Don't you malloc() m.... | At the time that both C and UNIX were created, eve.... >> | |
| Development Paltform.... | C and C++ do have very nice RAD environments. For.... >> | |
| 18 Aug 2003 | Beth, If you need to be able to handle cross-pl.... >> | |
| 15 Aug 2003 | Blaster - How are bu.... | GOT, I'm suprised that this question is coming.... >> |
| Web based database f.... | The exact tool you are looking for is called realt.... >> | |
| Database Programming | As a notorious peckerhead myself, I highly recomme.... >> | |
| 12 Aug 2003 | C++ Test - Questions.... | I've got to stay that first, I wasn't able to get .... >> |
| VB vs BCB vs...and w.... | If you're wanting to build Windows desktop apps, B.... >> | |
| 11 Aug 2003 | Is EDI still a hot t.... | Philo, That's the sub-element delimiter you're .... >> |
| 10 Aug 2003 | How to check which t.... | The smart developer escapes any string data to pre.... >> |
| Is EDI still a hot t.... | AJS, X.12 is the ANSI standard that most of us .... >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | Is EDI still a hot topic? >> | |
| 08 Aug 2003 | Computerizing Bad Bu.... | My experience has also been that the sponsor needs.... >> |
| Is EDI still a hot t.... | We certainly don't get national standards for auto.... >> | |
| Much thanks for the update. In answer to the ques.... >> | ||
| 07 Aug 2003 | "Jobs are moving off.... | I've got to agree that offshore programmers aren't.... >> |
| C++ IDE as Cool as I.... | Or even http://www.bloodshed.net Stinking tyops.... >> | |
| If you don't need GUI app development, by the way,.... >> | ||
| I'll second the C++ Builder vote. I've used Visual.... >> | ||
| switch to *nix - not.... | What I'm seeing here is that the quality of the op.... >> | |
| 05 Aug 2003 | Age discrimination i.... | I can't honestly expect that code development is g.... >> |
| 04 Aug 2003 | Non-technical Manage.... | Yanwoo, This sounds like a great route to take..... >> |
| Space Shuttle Disast.... | It does sound remarkably like the train tunnel inc.... >> | |
| When you can't find .... | Grumpy Old Timer: Post your position here, and.... >> | |
| 02 Aug 2003 | When to design Web-b.... | A little advice, from someone who has been down mo.... >> |
| 31 Jul 2003 | C and C++ - are thes.... | These languages still definitely have their place..... >> |
| What should the mini.... | Seth, You're tying yourself up in knots over no.... >> | |
| C to PHP | The best solution is going to be to re-write the C.... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2003 | MS Access or MSDE fo.... | I think that using either ODBC or ADO are your bes.... >> |