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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Chris Nahr' | ||
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Number of Comments: 391 |
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| Number of Words: 28,255 | ||
| First Comment: 13 Apr 2003 | ||
| Final Comment: 03 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 1 |
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| First Topic: 10 Apr 2004 | ||
| Latest Topic: 10 Apr 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 03 Sep 2004 | Winnable Solitaire a.... | In other words, this was quite deliberate, not a ".... >> |
| Um, Dennis? It's not unusual for games to refuse t.... >> | ||
| 01 Sep 2004 | Bug tracking at Micr.... | 'What criteria must be met before an issue makes i.... >> |
| Newbie Overview of L.... | Avalon sure got a lot of Microsoft bloggers excite.... >> | |
| 31 Aug 2004 | Americans need learn.... | I'm not sure why people think dialects are relevan.... >> |
| Does XP SP2 include .... | The MSDN DVD includes .NET 1.1 which is the curren.... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2004 | Just in case some people still aren't aware of thi.... >> | |
| Should I install XP'.... | Those IE message are just evil. 'Hi, I helpfully d.... >> | |
| 28 Aug 2004 | Name that executable | You mean determining programming language that an .... >> |
| Avalon FAQ bloopers | Some speculation... One problem is Visual Studi.... >> | |
| 90 million downloads.... | Mr. Analogy, I realize that you're not honestly in.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2004 | How bad is goto, rea.... | 'I did a little Fortran 77 to extend a physics dep.... >> |
| 19 Aug 2004 | dooooooom!!! | Eaten by a fat bald zombie, you mean. >> |
| Uses for the C keywo.... | auto doesn't optimize anything. The keyword you're.... >> | |
| 13 Aug 2004 | Anyone install WinXp.... | I've installed SP2 RC2 on XP Pro weeks ago, and SP.... >> |
| 12 Aug 2004 | Python: Whitespace a.... | The whitespace rule is indeed the single best thin.... >> |
| 08 Aug 2004 | Programming books in.... | Rather a combination of all aspects... Chinese has.... >> |
| 07 Aug 2004 | Custom XML Parser | Um, how about perusing the MSDN documentation firs.... >> |
| Winzip & WinRar .... | RAR is proprietary. I think the RAR download conta.... >> | |
| UI design -> huma.... | Actually I thought LXG was entertaining superhero .... >> | |
| Programming books in.... | The English used in programming books is probably .... >> | |
| 21 Jul 2004 | Indentation | One space is nearly invisible, I'd complain about .... >> |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Built into the opera.... | So in your world Linux servers don't have make in .... >> |
| why not downloadable.... | 'I can't remember the last time I printed a manual.... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2004 | Full Circle ? | Steve -- couldn't you use CodeSmith or run-time co.... >> |
| 16 Jul 2004 | Better Windows Explo.... | Speed Commander is fantastic! Does everything Tota.... >> |
| Why can't windows ju.... | Stephen, svchost is a host process that contains a.... >> | |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Mono ditching wine. | ...and that doesn't even address the question why .... >> |
| 'That is why Windows.Forms is such a thin wrapper..... >> | ||
| Impedance Mismatch S.... | 'Well it looks like Joel may have his wish in the .... >> | |
| Why can't windows ju.... | The free Process Explorer tool by System Internals.... >> | |
| More helpfully, I suspect that Netscape is hogging.... >> | ||
| Must be Netscape or your video driver because I've.... >> | ||
| 14 Jul 2004 | On Eudora | Funny, the automatic attachment extraction is the .... >> |
| 13 Jul 2004 | The importance of be.... | Okay, that was a bit confused. To clarify: -- C.... >> |
| Joe: MSIL and the CLI don't support const except f.... >> | ||
| 12 Jul 2004 | Video games dont cra.... | Well, Metroid Prime did crash on some cubes, as wa.... >> |
| 11 Jul 2004 | Steve Ballmer's lett.... | Er, whenever the low price goads me into trying so.... >> |
| 09 Jul 2004 | Visual Studio Expres.... | That last paragraph is too true. The MS bloggers r.... >> |
| English Code | Stephen, Comments or documentation are hardly r.... >> | |
| If you want code that reads like English your idea.... >> | ||
| Reading glasses | 'Actually, in many cases the eyes don't focus as w.... >> | |
| 'I got monovision, where they make one eye good fo.... >> | ||
| 08 Jul 2004 | Converting byte[] to.... | ...but note that this encoding is somewhat differe.... >> |
| Exception Handling -.... | Look, the Java trolls are getting agitated. Micros.... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2004 | How are file formats.... | Regarding the original post: While the PDF format .... >> |
| Cost of a home setup | Note that Office is NOT included in the MSDN Pro s.... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | SWT is hot! | 'just dealloc all the sub-widgets when a widget is.... >> |
| 29 Jun 2004 | That's no different from Windows.Forms objects in .... >> | |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Swing to MFC | Since you're already depending on a runtime why no.... >> |
| 21 Jun 2004 | The IE Team Let out .... | No tabbed browsing, though... >> |
| 20 Jun 2004 | Are people using .NE.... | You can change the default for how VS.NET opens XM.... >> |
| 19 Jun 2004 | Why does the "bloat".... | These days I don't mind the install _size_ of soft.... >> |
| 18 Jun 2004 | Why does Windows slo.... | I can't believe that people are still recommending.... >> |
| The API wars: rich c.... | The last time I've used a Java client app is the 2.... >> | |
| 17 Jun 2004 | $36 million to upgra.... | However, kostenloses Bier is ironically called Fre.... >> |
| Building HTML user i.... | No, you couldn't. Figuring out why is left as an e.... >> | |
| Huh. Well, I don't know if there's anything like t.... >> | ||
| What specifically is the question? Creating Window.... >> | ||
| Importing from Eudor.... | You are correct. I don't recall if/how Outlook can.... >> | |
| a case for non-manag.... | That was a reply to GP Bob, obviously... >> | |
| Also note that these are only _ticket sales_. The .... >> | ||
| 16 Jun 2004 | Tabbed browsers - wh.... | And why would I care for lack of support for stand.... >> |
| 15 Jun 2004 | A lame question: und.... | Ah, I see. The documentation is indeed misleading .... >> |
| The following declarations are exactly equivalent:.... >> | ||
| Coder To Developer b.... | Check your local consumer protection laws -- you m.... >> | |
| There was another discussion about this book a whi.... >> | ||
| 14 Jun 2004 | Visual C++ Toolkit 2.... | Why would anyone care? You'd only use the debug ve.... >> |
| 09 Jun 2004 | XP Unzip like WinZip.... | I think you have to manually enable the distinct c.... >> |
| XML Spy Home Edition.... | CookTop looks nice enough but apparently it can't .... >> | |
| 08 Jun 2004 | Betting your company.... | Er, that refers to the original post and Windows F.... >> |
| What you see is the default ThreadException handle.... >> | ||
| 07 Jun 2004 | XML Spy Home Edition.... | Also, make sure to read the licensing agreement of.... >> |
| Google and IM | 'Speaking of being on MS payroll, who here thinks .... >> | |
| 05 Jun 2004 | 640K Should be Enoug.... | So in your world Microsoft didn't create Windows a.... >> |
| 04 Jun 2004 | Virtual PC or Drive .... | I couldn't install Windows XP in VPC on my XP Pro .... >> |
| 03 Jun 2004 | VB.NET and Strings | Oh yeah, and specify the character set in the DllI.... >> |
| In your VB file where you declare the external C++.... >> | ||
| Windows based Email .... | Or did you have your disk space restricted by user.... >> | |
| In this day and age I'd say that mishandling of a .... >> | ||
| Eudora, because it stores all attachments as ordin.... >> | ||
| 30 May 2004 | XSLT Mapper? | Mixed-content nodes are also necessary for using X.... >> |
| Visual Studio 2005 T.... | ...for stupid individuals that haven't heard about.... >> | |
| 28 May 2004 | Company I work on wo.... | Oh, and I've used those tapes to restore some acci.... >> |
| I don't know what crappy tape drives or backup sof.... >> | ||
| 27 May 2004 | NETFX 2.0 Anonymous .... | No, but C# 2.0 will have lambda functions. That is.... >> |
| 25 May 2004 | Paul Graham's "Why N.... | Quite an excellent essay. Perhaps not as much rega.... >> |
| OO: Lists, Collectio.... | With C#, I use CodeSmith to generate strongly type.... >> | |
| The real problem wit.... | The Windows API was designed before C++ or any oth.... >> | |
| 24 May 2004 | And how exactly would you go about turning Win32 i.... >> | |
| French Words/express.... | Oh my God... er, thanks for the enlightenment. >> | |
| 'yes (in french) and Father (in german)' Could .... >> | ||
| 23 May 2004 | The real problem wit.... | 'And it produces UI that looks like my 10 year old.... >> |
| 22 May 2004 | Magazines on line, g.... | It's a custom version of Adobe Reader, probably so.... >> |
| C on windows? | If you have the time, learning Windows from the gr.... >> | |
| my gripes with Offic.... | Follow-up about the oe/ö thing: David is actually .... >> | |
| Stephen: 'LaTex will take Unicode with little prob.... >> | ||
| 20 May 2004 | MS Office - Document.... | KayJay, do you have any bullets or autonumber para.... >> |
| Google & Microso.... | Albert, I have to take issue with your Word & XML .... >> | |
| Are there any .Net c.... | There are plenty of .NET libraries available, both.... >> | |
| (Actually an entire dialog box is more likely to b.... >> | ||
| And exactly how many shrink-wrap C++ applications .... >> | ||
| 19 May 2004 | Google & Microso.... | LOL... yeah, the only way to find MSDN articles in.... >> |
| Quikview.exe on Win2.... | Windows\System32\Viewers doesn't exist on my syste.... >> | |
| Having some good ide.... | 'There's no basis for assuming that it MIGHT be a .... >> | |
| 18 May 2004 | Quikview.exe on Win2.... | That guy did an upgrade or he got Quikview somewhe.... >> |
| Having some good ide.... | You didn't notice that those were actually three p.... >> | |
| Two points: 1. If you don't know how to program.... >> | ||
| 15 May 2004 | MS Office Moving Bac.... | Yeah, the MVPs' advice for broken numbering is als.... >> |
| Extensible Programmi.... | Why don't you prove that you're not the total moro.... >> | |
| Um, Tayssir, I'm not a 'language warrior'... but y.... >> | ||
| 'Yes. In Common Lisp YOU have control over the sys.... >> | ||
| 14 May 2004 | Empower requiring mo.... | Which will be paid for by suckers who buy MSDN Pro.... >> |
| Turning off Runtime .... | Sorry, I misunderstood that. I don't know what hap.... >> | |
| The compiler probably detected the uninitialized v.... >> | ||
| MS Office Moving Bac.... | Since I bet that nobody's going to find 'the other.... >> | |
| Extensible Programmi.... | Two words: prefix operators. Has any Lisp implemen.... >> | |
| Mono makes me wanna .... | Sorry, I saw "64" and "CPU" and mentally inserted .... >> | |
| 13 May 2004 | Longhorn in 2007. To.... | What I really want to know... will there be ANY re.... >> |
| Mono makes me wanna .... | The point about using 64-bit CPUs with big databas.... >> | |
| 12 May 2004 | Why doesn't Microsof.... | Yes, OpenOffice has a reasonable internal format w.... >> |
| More links on the issue, by Word MVP Shauna Kelly:.... >> | ||
| I recently did some research on this subject while.... >> | ||
| Win32 Api Profiling | I don't like the questionnaire that you have to fi.... >> | |
| 11 May 2004 | .NET Rocks | Looks like an outgrowth of that stupid Channel 9. .... >> |
| Shareware or Freelan.... | Inciting kids to write a virus and then cashing in.... >> | |
| What's a "Yhw."? | See? I almost got it right! Well, except for the p.... >> | |
| Your Humble Waiter? Yale Honors Winner? >> | ||
| Win32 Api Profiling | If you watch the nprof site long enough you might .... >> | |
| IBM Debuts new "Java.... | Looks like another "thin client" idea. Haven't we .... >> | |
| 10 May 2004 | kibibytes, methodolo.... | I wouldn't mind if "kibi" wasn't such a terminally.... >> |
| Coder to Developer: .... | I don't know why you're off your meds or whatever .... >> | |
| 09 May 2004 | That's true but the original poster is still corre.... >> | |
| How many LOC per day.... | Actually, there's a good chance that the Oscars mi.... >> | |
| 08 May 2004 | Do you use Active De.... | Yeah, I'm not really sure what it's good for since.... >> |
| 04 May 2004 | U.S. Is Losing Its D.... | 'What exactly is so special about the german contr.... >> |
| 02 May 2004 | Microsoft says 8 mil.... | How about a firewall then? Or does this particular.... >> |
| 01 May 2004 | What's the Deal with.... | I found CC unimpressive as well. Not downright wro.... >> |
| 30 Apr 2004 | Eiffel programming l.... | One thing I found irritating about Eiffel is its l.... >> |
| 23 Apr 2004 | Difference between w.... | Strawmen are flying low these days... When you sub.... >> |
| 22 Apr 2004 | Don't be an idiot. The idea of encoding print form.... >> | |
| Yeah, it's ridiculous. Saving text in an existing .... >> | ||
| 20 Apr 2004 | Microsoft's C++ comp.... | My memory is a bit muddy... I don't think the VC++.... >> |
| 19 Apr 2004 | Incredible. Anyone can think of a reason for this .... >> | |
| 18 Apr 2004 | The joy of a good ke.... | I've never seen an optical mouse lose precision. C.... >> |
| 17 Apr 2004 | Good Free Icons | I hope those Glyfx guys have good lawyers because .... >> |
| 14 Apr 2004 | Piracy detection | You can use any shareware text editor to write C# .... >> |
| 13 Apr 2004 | Have you evaluated e.... | Now that you mentioned Psyco I had to look it up...... >> |
| 11 Apr 2004 | Keyboard Rant | Never! The cursor keys on the number pad are much .... >> |
| 10 Apr 2004 | CodeWright discontinued >> | |
| 09 Apr 2004 | Handling huge text f.... | 'The bigger the file gets, the increase in memory .... >> |
| 04 Apr 2004 | Any Germans around h.... | I think the previous comments didn't say that Germ.... >> |
| 03 Apr 2004 | Parm? What's t.... | ...except that Unix never had any technical limits.... >> |
| 01 Apr 2004 | Spam-free NNTP serve.... | No, but I can recommend a _free_ Usenet server wit.... >> |
| IT subculture the ca.... | '[Male:] * Spending more time on gettting credit t.... >> | |
| Xbox 2 compatibility.... | I don't get it either. Backwards compatibility was.... >> | |
| 28 Mar 2004 | 'Architecturally, it's more like I would expect a .... >> | |
| 26 Mar 2004 | Algorithm for evalua.... | 'Does .zip reuse tokens between files in the same .... >> |
| 13 Mar 2004 | Whidbey and Yukon de.... | Richard, did you look at CodeSmith? CodeSmith c.... >> |
| 12 Mar 2004 | At the risk of repeating myself... http://www.eri.... >> | |
| 11 Mar 2004 | Why do people still .... | Ah, an opportunity for a rant! Personally I don't .... >> |
| Whidbey and Yukon de.... | Now if they had told me three months back I would'.... >> | |
| 10 Mar 2004 | Good command-line sh.... | 'Can you get cmd.exe to run in a nice, standard wi.... >> |
| 09 Mar 2004 | You are absolutely sure that cmd.exe doesn't do wh.... >> | |
| Microsoft customer s.... | Trouble with a Microsoft product? Google Group Se.... >> | |
| 04 Mar 2004 | A win-win approach t.... | Since you are a European, how does that contradict.... >> |
| Xboxology | I own the other two popular consoles (PS2, GC) and.... >> | |
| 27 Feb 2004 | Variable declaration.... | Depends on your target compiler. The C89 standard .... >> |
| 26 Feb 2004 | Class (static) metho.... | Sum Dum Gai: how does static polymorphism work in .... >> |
| What Brad said. The whole point of polymorphism is.... >> | ||
| 25 Feb 2004 | It's because types are not polymorphic -- only obj.... >> | |
| Naming conventions f.... | Uh, get a better IDE? The class view and object br.... >> | |
| You should make additional namespaces if you have .... >> | ||
| 24 Feb 2004 | Shold learn XSLT? | You need XSLT if you have XML files for some reaso.... >> |
| 21 Feb 2004 | Objects Flamewar | 'Now the information hiding facilities of Visual C.... >> |
| What customer asks f.... | Besides, it's just the same crap that all the old .... >> | |
| .Net linker redux | I'm not aware that anything about Java requires ma.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2004 | xml schemas anyone? | Apple's schema looks similar to the SOAP support i.... >> |
| 19 Feb 2004 | C# Generics - now! | http://www.ericjsmith.net/codesmith/ >> |
| 17 Feb 2004 | Shutting down Window.... | Since you know that there's a problem it might be .... >> |
| Down with WYSIWYG? | There has been exactly one comment about OSS a cou.... >> | |
| 16 Feb 2004 | The big problem with LaTeX is that any customizati.... >> | |
| Let Java Go. | 'How many open-source apps have you used where the.... >> | |
| 12 Feb 2004 | Is it still worth le.... | I think "assembly language" is the language that a.... >> |
| The point is that you have to know how a CPU works.... >> | ||
| C++/CLI | The new version of Managed C++ (aka C++ CLI or wha.... >> | |
| Software to view doc.... | 'Windows help assumes that IE 4+ is installed. Thi.... >> | |
| 10 Feb 2004 | Two blank spaces aft.... | Typing two spaces after a full stop is an old conv.... >> |
| Documenting an appli.... | Thanks for clarifying, Fredrik, that was just the .... >> | |
| DocBook is just a document format, like LaTeX. It'.... >> | ||
| Programmers and eati.... | There's a difference between running and walking, .... >> | |
| 09 Feb 2004 | Anders Hejlsberg on .... | 'LISP and Smalltalk for example had GC, massive li.... >> |
| Is goto dead? | 'If a reader sees goto, he has to examine the dest.... >> | |
| 08 Feb 2004 | Hmm, I think the obvious criticism would be this: .... >> | |
| Whether goto is dead or not depends on what progra.... >> | ||
| 06 Feb 2004 | books/websites about.... | Maybe a more specific link would be in order... h.... >> |
| You also need to get the console maker's okay befo.... >> | ||
| 03 Feb 2004 | The future of HTML | Is XHTML even relevant anymore? With the advent of.... >> |
| 01 Feb 2004 | A linker for .NET? | My MSDN Library, January 2004 edtion, has the usua.... >> |
| 31 Jan 2004 | Chars 128 to 255, No.... | You're out of luck. Code positions 128-255 are _no.... >> |
| 30 Jan 2004 | MSIL | 'My current project has a lot of code in managed C.... >> |
| 'Exactly. The al.exe tool simply allows you to pac.... >> | ||
| 'I would like to be able to write a mixed language.... >> | ||
| It's not what Joel wants, but it's still interesti.... >> | ||
| MS Programming Envir.... | Logo and GW-BASIC. Sometimes FORTRAN IV for speed..... >> | |
| Anders Hejlsberg On .... | Hmm... but couldn't they work around that by insta.... >> | |
| I'm not sure why it's so important to support exis.... >> | ||
| death of COM/DCOM? | Just about _any_ stand-alone fat client applicatio.... >> | |
| 29 Jan 2004 | Clearing the air on .... | Especially when said vendor seems hell-bent on put.... >> |
| The Linker : The rig.... | Any shareware editor for $30 has syntax highlighti.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Anders Hejlsberg On .... | They should. After all, C# and Java _technically_ .... >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | .Net virii | The riddle is solved! http://www.perl.com/langu.... >> |
| Andrew, the neologism 'virii' is very widespread, .... >> | ||
| ...and the language barrier got me: it's declensio.... >> | ||
| Not that I know of. Doom is a called a worm, thoug.... >> | ||
| 26 Jan 2004 | Gates ends spam | Don't forget the free Xbox! >> |
| MSDN Subscription qu.... | Well, it's Microsoft's biggest cash cow. Wouldn't .... >> | |
| 23 Jan 2004 | No, SharpDevelop is an open-source project which i.... >> | |
| Yeah, what Brad said. I like to have the MSDN Libr.... >> | ||
| Well, it DOES depend on what you want... I'm su.... >> | ||
| 22 Jan 2004 | Dynamically determin.... | To define character entities and text passages tha.... >> |
| I'd just like to point out that people who use DTD.... >> | ||
| Sealed Classes C# | When a library class is 'sealed' there's likely so.... >> | |
| 16 Jan 2004 | here spaketh a progr.... | Is everyone drunk tonight? >> |
| Ergonomic chairs? | http://www.swopper.de/ http://www.swopper.com/ .... >> | |
| Why put pictures of .... | Not mine. Text was good enough for Gutenberg, it's.... >> | |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Node vs. Element | Sorry, apparently MSDN doesn't provide a graphical.... >> |
| Just look at the inheritance hierarchy. An XML "no.... >> | ||
| Dark Eyes | >>Rigid Gas Permable lenses you wear at night that.... >> | |
| Strange Design Decis.... | >>The true question here seems to be if 'oblique' .... >> | |
| 11 Jan 2004 | Can't Copy Money | See, if we were still using gold coins this wouldn.... >> |
| Conditional Compilat.... | .NET provides a nifty "Conditional(symbol)" attrib.... >> | |
| Dark Eyes | I can't wear contacts either due to dry eyes, and .... >> | |
| Strange Design Decis.... | 'Is there an algorithm for getting Bold from Plain.... >> | |
| 10 Jan 2004 | Let's talk about key.... | Thanks for the PCkeyboard link, that brings back m.... >> |
| Bug traccking for pe.... | KnowledgeBase by Ozmosys is another database along.... >> | |
| 06 Jan 2004 | Case-sensitive filen.... | What he said. I think some Windows versions have a.... >> |
| 05 Jan 2004 | Database versus flat.... | So how big is this database anyway? A 10-player ga.... >> |
| 04 Jan 2004 | Single Line Up Arrow | I really have no idea why the Symbol font isn't co.... >> |
| 'Single Line Up Arrow Glyph (0xAD)' Character c.... >> | ||
| Cross Platform GUI R.... | (When I say "all" and "exactly" I'm talking about .... >> | |
| 'Every single aspect (i.e. 100%) of the GUIs shown.... >> | ||
| 03 Jan 2004 | Just took a look at your screenshots, and they don.... >> | |
| 'With regards to client applications developed in .... >> | ||
| 02 Jan 2004 | Set List? | Okay, now I'm curious. What's a CD player that "ac.... >> |
| Cross Platform GUI R.... | By the way, there's a wxPython project underway th.... >> | |
| Recommend a free RSS.... | Sharpreader is great, thanks for the link! So you .... >> | |
| 31 Dec 2003 | Menu Shadows | Sounds like a graphics driver problem to me. Try l.... >> |
| 30 Dec 2003 | E-Vote Gear firm hac.... | The rise of a class of career politiciancs is the .... >> |
| Why do we need scrip.... | Stephen -- system administrators who only know som.... >> | |
| Portability and weak typing are good points but as.... >> | ||
| Working at Microsoft | After reading that article I have to agree with St.... >> | |
| 29 Dec 2003 | Serving ads in softw.... | The point is that Joel isn't showing any ads in th.... >> |
| 27 Dec 2003 | Future of Window API | That's hardly a valid comparison. The step from DO.... >> |
| 26 Dec 2003 | Clear the console ou.... | There's no Clear() function but you can directly m.... >> |
| Yes, there doesn't seem to be any way to directly .... >> | ||
| Future of Window API | The Win32/64 APIs are going to be around for a loo.... >> | |
| 23 Dec 2003 | Borland is no more. | Just to clarify that "C# is free?" question... the.... >> |
| 17 Dec 2003 | Cultural Divide: It'.... | 'There are many more terrible things about batch f.... >> |
| 'A command shell without decent editing keys or hi.... >> | ||
| Most of the original poster's points about the all.... >> | ||
| 16 Dec 2003 | Caution on Bayesian .... | Eudora's built-in learning filter does produce a f.... >> |
| 09 Dec 2003 | Assertions in C# | I should probably add that you'll only need assert.... >> |
| A common use of assertions would be to check that .... >> | ||
| 07 Dec 2003 | Exceptions should be used to test conditions that .... >> | |
| 06 Dec 2003 | C++.Net Book Recomen.... | Challa and Laksberg, 'Essential Guide to Managed E.... >> |
| 22 Nov 2003 | .net benchamarking | Well, I did some small benchmarks of my own and fo.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Linux in China | Like one visitor on the site asked, is China actua.... >> |
| 23 Oct 2003 | Background color for.... | I prefer Lucida Console for program code, and Geor.... >> |
| 21 Oct 2003 | I finally got it abo.... | 'for Windows applications, the .NET Framework comp.... >> |
| 19 Oct 2003 | Coloring hotspots in.... | Duh! Sorry about that. I'm only using HTML Help Wo.... >> |
| MS Help Workshop does have an editor but it's a si.... >> | ||
| 18 Oct 2003 | XML Languages as pol.... | Thanks for the explanation, but I think after addi.... >> |
| 17 Oct 2003 | 'e.g., instead of
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| Say it ain't so Joel | 'Oh - and for the Win32 example - you do realise i.... >> | |
| 16 Oct 2003 | No Perfect Language | What does 'fully first-class citizens of the CLR w.... >> |
| On that recurring '.NET only supports C#' nonsense.... >> | ||
| UCS-2 means no Unico.... | Thanks! But I think your second URL should be this.... >> | |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Looks like you're right. I dug up the Platform SDK.... >> | |
| 14 Oct 2003 | Leave your language .... | Arrr matey, about them thar gears again... maybe s.... >> |
| Erm, that reply was to Frederic Faure. But o.... >> | ||
| Minimally. There's very little difference with mod.... >> | ||
| UCS-2 means no Unico.... | Okay, so... can CityDesk really only handle UCS-2 .... >> | |
| Are you sure this 'UCS-2' label means that the app.... >> | ||
| Latin-9 | Dream on. Latin-1 & co. are only used anymore .... >> | |
| Funny thing about GO.... | Very true. Unconditional intra-procedure jumps are.... >> | |
| 13 Oct 2003 | Email client used at.... | Eudora 6 (paid version), and I really like the new.... >> |
| Unicode resources | Jon Skeet's page, with a focus on .NET: http://ww.... >> | |
| 12 Oct 2003 | Step #231 in the spa.... | Maybe you don't communicate with very many people..... >> |
| character encodings | I'm not sure about the Win32 Unicode API but the ..... >> | |
| 26 Sep 2003 | Incessant rebuilds w.... | The up-to-date checks in VS.NET are completely bro.... >> |
| 25 Sep 2003 | www.datamaxinfotech..... | I'm not a web guy either but I believe they're non.... >> |
| 24 Sep 2003 | The Swen Virus, and .... | 'Well, right now, the problem is that the virus sc.... >> |
| 'the solution is to leave the mail on the ORIGINAT.... >> | ||
| Portability: rougue .... | 'I'm trying really hard to come up with a platform.... >> | |
| 20 Sep 2003 | Organizing random no.... | These two freeform databases are both quite good. .... >> |
| 12 Sep 2003 | C# books? | Mickey Williams, 'Microsoft Visual C# .NET'. Grea.... >> |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Linking Visual Studi.... | That's correct, IIRC Microsoft was advising at the.... >> |
| 20 Aug 2003 | Carpal Tunnel | I think we have a misunderstanding here. The pads .... >> |
| While I agree that muscles atrophied by underuse a.... >> | ||
| Wow, looks like a really popular thread... fortuna.... >> | ||
| 19 Aug 2003 | freeware lightweight.... | The standard low-cost image editor on Windows is P.... >> |
| Notepad, Can It Be R.... | I prefer EmEditor ( http://www.emeditor.com ). Sm.... >> | |
| 16 Aug 2003 | Markets or uses for .... | Yeah, that's a real problem after a few decades.&n.... >> |
| 13 Aug 2003 | C++ Test - Questions.... | Regarding the 'new' operator... I may completely o.... >> |
| Are ActiveX Data Obj.... | 'If you remember the concept of shared DLLs was a .... >> | |
| 12 Aug 2003 | VB vs BCB vs...and w.... | And if you do want to look into .NET note that you.... >> |
| 11 Aug 2003 | Why does Microsoft k.... | Office is designed for users, not for programmers..... >> |
| 31 Jul 2003 | Messageboxes are evi.... | Well yeah, I guess so. Now that you mention .... >> |
| Qualcomm Eudora has a cute solution to the problem.... >> | ||
| What % of developers.... | Also, training your abs is certainly good for you .... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2003 | Visual FoxPro | Well, out of curiousity I tried to create a little.... >> |
| 23 Jul 2003 | Who writes the docum.... | By the way, Microsoft includes a handy feedback li.... >> |
| 19 Jul 2003 | Quake II ported to ..... | DirectX or GDI wouldn't pose any compatibility pro.... >> |
| 17 Jul 2003 | munich linux redux | I guess the point is that we make a mental note an.... >> |
| 15 Jul 2003 | Quake II ported to ..... | Well, I just read the whitepaper provided by these.... >> |
| They did add managed code for a new heads-up displ.... >> | ||
| 10 Jul 2003 | MS shifting developm.... | A lot of people on this board need to turn on thei.... >> |
| 08 Jul 2003 | Which printer is che.... | Good monochrome laser printers are really cheap th.... >> |
| Toner & Ink | Yeah, laser cartridges last WAY, WAY, WAY longer t.... >> | |
| What about the Ameri.... | Programs with keywords written in a different lang.... >> | |
| 03 Jul 2003 | What color is the sk.... | Find & Replace in Files are available in VS.NE.... >> |
| 29 Jun 2003 | Anyone tried C# Buil.... | Automatic refactoring would be sweet. Add either m.... >> |
| 28 Jun 2003 | Compile Times | Re I/O: Visual Studio .NET requires all C# source .... >> |
| 27 Jun 2003 | How would you find a.... | 'Strangely enough VS6 uses MFC, VS7 does not, nor .... >> |
| 14 Jun 2003 | Hiding my ignorance .... | WINAPI is indeed one of the many macros defined in.... >> |
| New MFC Project and .... | That's easily solved by creating a .NET applicatio.... >> | |
| 13 Jun 2003 | The Mythic Microsoft.... | Windows is just one side of the Microsoft quasi-mo.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2003 | WHO NAMES A NAMESPAC.... | I don't know where you got the impression that I w.... >> |
| 11 Jun 2003 | Monster.com tip | ROFL. I particularly like the 100+ comments after .... >> |
| WHO NAMES A NAMESPAC.... | 'Chris, your sarcasm doesn't accomplish much other.... >> | |
| Just when I thought I'd seen it all some guys come.... >> | ||
| 10 Jun 2003 | 'Try global replacing (say) i in any source file w.... >> | |
| 'Klingon!?? ROFL! Look on the bright side, at leas.... >> | ||
| Have you registered .... | Paying VAT for imported goods is completely normal.... >> | |
| 08 Jun 2003 | Missing C++ feature? | 'Imagine you have 2 other classes, B and C, both/e.... >> |
| 'The point is that you have 3 type X. One type X h.... >> | ||
| 'I could have a class X with a static virtual ('Vi.... >> | ||
| I'm not sure about statics in C++ but recently thi.... >> | ||
| CodeWright editor | Are you using VS.NET 2003 at work? If not you shou.... >> | |
| 07 Jun 2003 | I like the design of CodeWright but it was always .... >> | |
| 04 Jun 2003 | A new web broswer | '2: Windows Favorites, and in short Bookmarks as a.... >> |
| 03 Jun 2003 | Am I crazy? | Keep your job, and write computer games or develop.... >> |
| 31 May 2003 | Paypal = good or bad.... | So do you still have to pay a monthly fee even whe.... >> |
| 29 May 2003 | C++ reference book r.... | For the C++ language: the latest edition of Strous.... >> |
| Surprised this news .... | There are those emulators but running Windows apps.... >> | |
| Company's WebSite (P.... | Dave Perry is a computer game designer. Normal rul.... >> | |
| 26 May 2003 | Any reason to consid.... | 'Since you're intending to ship a product you also.... >> |
| 'What was the reason for using C# again?' That .... >> | ||
| .Net Forms | Fascinating example! Are there obfuscators for per.... >> | |
| 23 May 2003 | standards for key ac.... | Erm, oops, obviously there are some reserved funct.... >> |
| Yes, look it up at the MSDN website. But as for.... >> | ||
| 22 May 2003 | Language suggestions | Microsoft's 'Advanced Compiler Technolgy' group is.... >> |
| .Net Forms | 'I think the point is more about being overly para.... >> | |
| 21 May 2003 | Let's do a reality check here. Normal people can't.... >> | |
| 1. Not really. Most likely you're just experiencin.... >> | ||
| Build times | 'Could the difference be entirely due to templates.... >> | |
| 20 May 2003 | Design Question... | Okay, but wouldn't you at least get a runtime erro.... >> |
| The idea that you should never repeat anything is .... >> | ||
| 15 May 2003 | DOUBLE STANDARDS | So do all you programmers who complain about cheap.... >> |
| 13 May 2003 | Real .NET applicatio.... | Oh yeah, and it's not as if Microsoft had any real.... >> |
| 'Why not .NET for packaged software? I don't get i.... >> | ||
| 11 May 2003 | Configure VS.NET 200.... | And as it happens, I just discovered a nice VS.NET.... >> |
| keep it in the hemis.... | Scott, games don't work like application software,.... >> | |
| 10 May 2003 | Can you learn and ma.... | 'Accelerated C++' is without a doubt the best intr.... >> |
| Java 1.5 – a huge ph.... | 'Now what happens with J# after JDK 1.5 ?' They.... >> | |
| 'Let’s give credit to MS: I think the emergence of.... >> | ||
| Java bytecode to CLR | Thanks for the DotGNU pointer, I wasn't even aware.... >> | |
| 09 May 2003 | 'Is there a reason no one is extending CLR to run .... >> | |
| Visual Basic on the .... | Right now, Microsoft basically ships .NET with one.... >> | |
| 08 May 2003 | .Net develops advant.... | Or how about upgrading to .NET Framework 1.1 which.... >> |
| 06 May 2003 | Where have all the a.... | I'd just like to notify you guys that you're talki.... >> |
| Eiffel programming a.... | Thanks for the links, David. That does look better.... >> | |
| 'So, no, it's not just something provided by a min.... >> | ||
| I looked around the web for some info on Eiffel, a.... >> | ||
| 02 May 2003 | Microsoft X# | From browsing this document it sounds like they're.... >> |
| 01 May 2003 | From absolute zero t.... | I tried Perforce but I found the Windows GUI modul.... >> |
| John Carmack Program.... | I thought this only worked on Usenet? >> | |
| 30 Apr 2003 | From absolute zero t.... | Well, it might have worked faster if I had taken m.... >> |
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| 28 Apr 2003 | Donald Knuth - The A.... | Another problem is that Knuth is simply a poor wri.... >> |
| 25 Apr 2003 | Unix hater's handboo.... | No garbage collector, declarations in separate hea.... >> |
| I did read Stroustrup's classic book, and Scott Me.... >> | ||
| Great find, thanks! I love the chapter on C++, too.... >> | ||
| Putting your whole H.... | 'External CSS file' -- but wouldn't this require a.... >> | |
| 24 Apr 2003 | Joel, create a blog! | I don't know, IMHO most blogs are a waste of valua.... >> |
| software engg. at sc.... | Directly applicable software engineering knowledge.... >> | |
| 22 Apr 2003 | Look out Outlook . ..... | If you saw a screenshot you might require hospital.... >> |
| 20 Apr 2003 | Editor for Windows t.... | Microsoft Visual Studio .NET offers structure tree.... >> |
| 14 Apr 2003 | XHTML, CSS and valid.... | Forgot to add that the no-space variant of <BR/.... >> |
| Okay, I just checked the HTML 4.01 specification a.... >> | ||
| 13 Apr 2003 | FWIW, Ian Hickson is wrong when he says that the <.... >> | |