finally updated:04 Sep 2004 20:04 UK time oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Brad Wilson' View all Jossers sorted by : Name | Comments | Words | First Comment | Final Comment Number of Comments: 1,605 Number of Words: 91,701 First Comment: 15 Apr 2003 Final Comment: 02 Sep 2004 Number of Topics Posted: 13 First Topic: 31 May 2003 Latest Topic: 19 Aug 2004 When Item Comment 02 Sep 2004   laser printers   Had a Samsung ML-1710 that my wife took, and an ML....   >>      Is it safe to use VS....   No.   >>      errno and MSVC   Having been down this road, I agree with the sugge....   >>   31 Aug 2004   Version Control : Op....   Binary diffs are possible. Subversion does them.   >>      Commenting out   Devin was actually being humorous, you know. :)   >>      Last laptop related ....   To be pedantic: 'Should be 1024x768 (SVGA).' ....   >>   30 Aug 2004   Windows Update requi....   And, interestingly, if you read the post, I'm not ....   >>         Yeah, at this point in my life, the divorce is goo....   >>         'What do you mean I have to have electricity to ru....   >>         Note to self: stop helping people.   >>         You could go back to updating your computer manual....   >>         It's a cascading requirement of the new Windows Up....   >>      90 million downloads....   'Hmm.... is that 30 Million each of 1.0, 1.1, and ....   >>         '90 million downloads or 90 million attempts at do....   >>   22 Aug 2004   Conflict between Nor....   AVG is high quality and free... :)   >>   20 Aug 2004   dooooooom!!!   'The framerates I get in games are better than eit....   >>   19 Aug 2004   Automatic vs. manual transmission   >>   19 Aug 2004   Automatic vs. manual....   The way I read it is that he's presenting some pre....   >>         Or... it could be a response to Joel's post today.....   >>      ASP vs. ASP.Net   'And don't forget that MS keeps breaking the previ....   >>   18 Aug 2004   ASP.NET without VS.N....   ASP.NET doesn't require anything special. Write....   >>      Install SP2 or not?   'There were no magic speed up of anything even tho....   >>   16 Aug 2004   Career Plan : Projet....   I think there are qualities of engineers that serv....   >>   15 Aug 2004   XP SP2 font bug   Nazi salad cream!   >>   11 Aug 2004   Are some parts of a ....   The hostname is (virtually always) sent to the ser....   >>         FWIW, this is why web servers can't use the Host: ....   >>      CityDesk   I think both products contain something that most ....   >>   09 Aug 2004   Eric Sink's Software....   I'm never surprised by the quantity of people who ....   >>   05 Aug 2004   Question configuring....   You can edit the files in iTunes. Right click and ....   >>   02 Aug 2004   John Carmack   Carmack's brilliance with technology didn't start ....   >>      Geeks and cars   'Did the term Jock move from being the ultimate ma....   >>   31 Jul 2004   what cars do geeks d....   2004 Subaru STi. http://dotnetguy.techieswithca....   >>   30 Jul 2004   Nanosys - Forget Goo....   And it's not even long. http://money.cnn.com/20....   >>      Google toolbar popup....   'You won't be able to get away from them.' You ....   >>      Reflector, .NET and ....   Unless you live in the US, where some reverse engi....   >>   27 Jul 2004   Templating systems f....   Server-side controls are great, but they're ridicu....   >>   25 Jul 2004   Fog Creek Affiliate ....   Wait, someone scrounged a DEAD LINK to a page, and....   >>      Using .NET to develo....   There's only one reason you might choose .NET: bec....   >>   24 Jul 2004   Inquirer/Register:Wh....   As an example: http://www.theonionavclub.com/ ....   >>         'Answer: they aren't newspapers, they're websites.....   >>   21 Jul 2004   Rewriting from Scrat....   There is a proxy server from Microsoft called, I b....   >>      Is ASP.Net for Real?   Reporting Services is great if you're already usin....   >>   19 Jul 2004   What do I need to st....   Yes, you can use Gtk# today to write cross-platfor....   >>      why not downloadable....   And it's stupid to think that using HTML makes thi....   >>   15 Jul 2004   What do we teach our....   I disagree with your analysis. The point of the....   >>   14 Jul 2004   .Net devs that went ....   I've used both, and they're both tools. I think .N....   >>      squeaky clean intern....   'Sounds like MSN pre-95. Pass.' Meaning, it so....   >>      New Windows slogan   'There really isn't a need for .NET.' Anybody w....   >>      Why can't windows ju....   A few comments. Like other posters, I NEVER hav....   >>         It lives in the process space w/ the kernel for pe....   >>   10 Jul 2004   Video games dont cra....   PC games crash all the time. In fact, it's a runni....   >>   09 Jul 2004   Why the hell is IE s....   IE is 9 years old. That's not old?   >>      Ripping DVD   Do you live in the US? If so, then there is no com....   >>      Rich Text Editing   You have a link that talks about Safari having edi....   >>         If you're a .NET person: http://www.freetextbox....   >>   08 Jul 2004   Testing is a FUNDAME....   'There is no way around that....writing tests firs....   >>         'The thing about most developers is that they tend....   >>   07 Jul 2004      I have no doubt, having done it both ways, that th....   >>      Reading glasses   The phrase "reading glasses" should be tossed out,....   >>      Protecting Intellect....   The only way to protect your idea is: 1. Patent....   >>      Objection to XP (ext....   'Once you write a program, changing it is often di....   >>      Was IE 4 a rewrite   I think the 'rewrite' part was all about the embed....   >>      cd burning software ....   Clearly not true. You can access sockets from cons....   >>      Exit Interviews   And it's not even about coming back to that other ....   >>         I'm with Tom. I never, ever do exit interviews any....   >>      Cost of a home setup   Go to www.dell.com/tv or www.dellradio.com and see....   >>   06 Jul 2004   What % of users have....   Typo. The 1% should've been Windows 95.   >>         I didn't say the numbers were accurate. I said the....   >>         Ironically, the best answer is 'Google Zeitgeist'.....   >>      Exception Handling -....   That smells like nothing different than saying "th....   >>         'I'm by no means a language/compiler designer, but....   >>      Name that mouse butt....   Bizarre that the mouse wouldn't work. Every Logite....   >>         This is a problem in your mouse drivers. They have....   >>   03 Jul 2004   Paul Graham says we ....   Paul Graham is on something. :-p The system is ....   >>      Minimum browser list....   I have to agree with Andrew in that you're approac....   >>      FireFox is NOT Broke....   Firefox does a 100% job at blocking popups. Sports....   >>         The built-in search box, or the Google Bar extensi....   >>   02 Jul 2004   Good software takes ....   I used to agree, until I stopped doing big design.....   >>   30 Jun 2004   The Cost of Validati....   Don't forget one the most important reasons for va....   >>      Versions: planning o....   The answer is: it depends on too many variables, l....   >>      Visual Studio 2005 E....   Drudy, Unless I missed the announcement, still ....   >>         Nothing to do with VS2005. That code won't compile....   >>         That's kind of an odd departure. The existing s....   >>      The phrase "bet the ....   Yep. It was called GEOS on the C64, and when it gr....   >>         Especially since Apple is going to beat them out o....   >>   29 Jun 2004   https tracking - pub....   Public key encryption has nothing to do with the O....   >>      IMAP host reccomenda....   I like FuseMail, too, but their webmail system is ....   >>      Advice on Source Con....   You completely dropped the context that I was comp....   >>         No, it doesn't help. It's not transactional. You c....   >>   28 Jun 2004   Technical book publi....   O'Reilly and Addison-Wesley are the only consisten....   >>      General Interface's.....   Use Gmail and you'll see. It's the best web app I'....   >>      Book recommendations....   I can vouch that all three of those books are grea....   >>      Advice on Source Con....   Agreed. Now that Subversion hit 1.0, there's no re....   >>      Why 'http://WWP" and....   It's not option. It just so happens that most syst....   >>         I really wished people had used "web.foo.com" inst....   >>      What does SharePoint....   'What sold it for us (besides that it is now free)....   >>   27 Jun 2004   Opinions/knowledge a....   In general, be careful about taking any sleep medi....   >>      Upgradable API stand....   Bad idea.   >>      Administrative accou....   You re-install the .NET Framework as a day to day ....   >>         I love how some people think resorting to a sly so....   >>   26 Jun 2004      That's untrue. Developers _don't_ need administrat....   >>      Optimize this:   Oh, and for the original poster: 'He sez, too m....   >>         Here's how I would've answered the question: Me....   >>   25 Jun 2004   To all those who ber....   I build my own machines, and I'll agree that it's ....   >>   24 Jun 2004   Virtual PC / Redhat ....   Just to echo, I have Linux running on VPC. You mus....   >>   23 Jun 2004   Running .Net code on....   WinForms controls can be embedded into IE/Win as l....   >>      I am nostalgic about....   '.NET is a layer above COM' No, it's not. .NET ....   >>      [ASP.NET] Forwarding....   I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that this is no....   >>      CVS : impossible to ....   Installing Subversion on Win32 is HARDER than CVSN....   >>   22 Jun 2004   How much RAM for XP?   VS.NET + SQL Server + VMware all running at once? ....   >>   20 Jun 2004   GMail?  Heck No....   Once you get an account, you get invites to bring ....   >>      Windows Service Pack....   If you say something over and over again, does it ....   >>   19 Jun 2004   Why does the "bloat"....   That, too, is the fault of another MSI feature: se....   >>      Why does Windows slo....   'The biggesst reason your ocmputer seems slow is t....   >>      Leaky Abstractions, ....   Um, we already have that feature built into HTTP.   >>   18 Jun 2004   Sharepoint! which no....   There are two pieces. 'Windows Sharepoint Servi....   >>      Windows Service Pack....   Running XP SP2 RC2 on my laptop. ABSOLUTELY LOVE I....   >>      Shocker: Pay rates f....   Hell, search for '.NET' and the results are much b....   >>      Real use of CSS   'Absolute positioning? That really sucks - you can....   >>      Why does Windows slo....   It isn't so much that Windows slows down, it's tha....   >>      Rebates? Not yet?   The only way to make sure you get your rebates is ....   >>      MFC   I don't know what the FIRST book is you should rea....   >>   17 Jun 2004   API wars and .net   Why would any of them be on port 80? They would us....   >>   15 Jun 2004   On Win2k3   The only reason to do that would be because you ne....   >>      CVS : I can't imagin....   SourceSafe is command line software, too. Oh, w....   >>   14 Jun 2004   Java Interview   I agree with all the advice given so far, and espe....   >>      Video Capture?   /still not an etymologist, also not a speller :-p   >>         haw-pidge /not an entymologist, just taking an ....   >>      Windows CVS Clients   +1 for Tortoise*, and if you are still choosing th....   >>      CRC calculation when....   +1 for securing the link instead. SFTP (FTP ove....   >>   13 Jun 2004   POLL : Do you enjoy ....   The rote coding isn't all that exciting any more. ....   >>      LCD Displays Ruin Co....   'A white screen should be about as white as you ca....   >>   12 Jun 2004   Microsoft Visual C++....   It's sort of a misnomer to call them 'Visual', sin....   >>      has anyone out there....   If you've never written drivers before, I wouldn't....   >>   09 Jun 2004   Correct term please   The process you're describing has a well known acr....   >>   08 Jun 2004   Website Removes Brow....   One I use all the time: Resize to 800x600: jav....   >>      Betting your company....   You're not going to want to hear this, but things ....   >>   07 Jun 2004   Windows suspend proc....   Built in? No. Available via some obscure 3rd party....   >>   05 Jun 2004   Using free VC++ Tool....   NAnt (and presumably Ant, with some Microsoft-spec....   >>   04 Jun 2004   Windows XP SP2 And P....   There isn't a single key for Windows XP for MSDN. ....   >>   03 Jun 2004   Virtual PC or Drive ....   'Note that Virtual PC won't run on Windows Server ....   >>      Need a link   The answer is: it depends mostly on the language a....   >>      Windows based Email ....   Yep, Thunderbird got me off The Bat! forever.   >>   02 Jun 2004      I'll take the AOLer route. +1 for Thunderbird. Way....   >>      Some thoughts, some ....   '(7) I didn't open that link. When you set somethi....   >>         'I get a runtime exception error in this because o....   >>         'Are constructors also required to have access sp....   >>      Daughter needs a lap....   We used to wash clothing by beating it with rocks.....   >>         'Have you considered a tablet PC?' With the exc....   >>      More on mail service....   On, and the reason I use system #2: the web based ....   >>         'And when I set up rules, they are stored and run ....   >>   01 Jun 2004   Dell Laptops   Mostly dumped because performance was abysmal.   >>      Why does Windows nee....   And fixed it when their customers complained. The ....   >>         'Is this the reason why a Windows restart is neces....   >>      RSS ..   For Ask Joel, a simple search yields: http://di....   >>   31 May 2004   Good email services   I use FuseMail and I really love it, for two reaso....   >>      Win2k forever   Pietro, scroll up a few posts to my long post. It ....   >>   30 May 2004   To Dubai or not to D....   'Incidentally, I don't know what is the predominan....   >>         When a country is strongly Arabic and Muslim, I wo....   >>      Visual Studio 2005 T....   There are plenty of free solutions, including solu....   >>         No, VSS is not part of the Team System. An entirel....   >>   29 May 2004   Win2k forever   One other thing to be aware of. If you make your W....   >>         As long as all your devices work (XP drivers gener....   >>   28 May 2004   VPN architecture que....   You seem to have a pretty good grasp of everything....   >>      Environment.Exit in ....   Why aren't you just returning the value out of Mai....   >>      Win2k forever   I was much more impressed with W2K3 than I was wit....   >>      Getting the UI right   You better get used to it. Most general purpose so....   >>   25 May 2004   The 'Holy Grail' of ....   Did you miss this sentence? 'The customer repre....   >>   23 May 2004      > How many people worked on gathering 'requirement....   >>      The real problem wit....   'To me .NET is the modern day lisp machine.' Th....   >>      developing software ....   I've already decided that if I get rich of my curr....   >>   22 May 2004   .NET with no prior e....   Yes, although you will eventually hit a wall if yo....   >>      Voulume   Personally, I would offer them a volume discount. ....   >>      Question on VS.NET   VS.NET 2002 only COMPILES against the 1.0 SDK, but....   >>      C on windows?   You're in for a hell of a learning curve. The s....   >>      Looking for a book o....   I can't recommend an MS SQL specific book, but for....   >>      Deadlock   +1 for Magee/Kramer. It's an awesome book that sho....   >>   20 May 2004   Are there any .Net c....   'ATL was introduced as the successor to MFC.' S....   >>   19 May 2004      'I learned C++/MFC in 1995. Since then, I have be....   >>   18 May 2004   Not really being hon....   Depends on your relationship with your manager. ....   >>         Why in the world would a salesman speak to the com....   >>      Website Monitoring S....   We use AlertSite, with all those features, and it ....   >>      Are there any .Net c....   'What value did C++ bring to end consumers?' On....   >>         'Note that my original point was that .NET offers ....   >>         'I think a profound lesson has been provided by th....   >>         Sure, there are benefits. There are the benefits o....   >>      NUnit vs DotUnit   Jamie Cansdale's NUnitAddin (available on SourceFo....   >>      Ternary Operators an....   Hmm... public boolean foo(String s) { return....   >>   16 May 2004   FidoNet -- why nothi....   Agreed... the OP has clearly never used NNTP clien....   >>      What another awsome ....   Hey, I was just honored to be spoofed, even if it ....   >>   15 May 2004      Stop bashing microsoft, you haters! It's perfect!   >>      C++: conversion from....   No, C# doesn't behave in the same manner, because ....   >>      Directory write prot....   'Can I make clear one delusion some people seeim t....   >>   14 May 2004   Monitor on it's side   Microsoft Word offers a side-by-side reading mode,....   >>         Bear in mind when you buy a multi-purpose LCD with....   >>      Testing sites with M....   I run the multiple browser stuff rom Skyzyx (you c....   >>      using dlls in java ?   Are you using real Java, or J++/J#? If it's the la....   >>      Meta Tags - Do they ....   It's dead for a pretty good reason: search engine ....   >>   13 May 2004      Are there search engines that use META tags? Yes. ....   >>      Is 64-bit worth it?   The only time my single proc boxes feel sluggish i....   >>         In my experience, once you have enough RAM, the si....   >>   12 May 2004   Massive Windows Pain....   'Why don't you just switch to a mac and be done wi....   >>         'But where do you get that standard Windows CD fro....   >>         I work on and with many different laptops, and des....   >>         In my opinion, your pain and hatred should be dire....   >>      Versioning Rules for....   What 'versioning rules for COM' are you referring ....   >>      Is it worth building....   'There's no way you can build your own for $499' ....   >>      Joel, please fix thi....   The error is there with Firefox, but it doesn't sh....   >>      Is it possible to ha....   And it's not an Apache limitation so much as it's ....   >>      Mono makes me wanna ....   'I don't think anyone needs a 64-CPU server, but a....   >>      .NET Rocks   Don Box was episode 44. Check the episode guide.   >>   11 May 2004      It sounds amateur, because it _is_ amateur. Micros....   >>      What's a CIO?   The people who take up technical CxO jobs -- like ....   >>      SD/MMC to Sony Memor....   The USB-based 5-in-1, 6-in-1, 7-in-1 readers all s....   >>      Win32 Api Profiling   For commercial products, I like Red-Gate Ants a lo....   >>   10 May 2004   Unit Testing - What ....   Also, there are differences between the terms 'Uni....   >>      decoding mht files i....   Oh, and it's reached IETF standards track. http....   >>         MHT files are actually a quasi-standard called MHT....   >>      M=K=Thousand   The only place 10^9 is used instead of 2^30 is by ....   >>   07 May 2004   How to Declare a CMa....   #include    Multi-monitor laptop....   Estari announces dual screen laptop called the 2-V....   >>   05 May 2004   Anyone use 'My Docum....   I use it, but I relocate it to my data drive. And ....   >>      JAVA EXE FILE   Yes. Look in the registry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.....   >>      Is 16% increase good....   If you're going to ask arbitrary questions, I myse....   >>   04 May 2004   Sasser   Patch has been available for 3 weeks.   >>      Reporting Services (....   Not a bad first start, but not truly useful until ....   >>   02 May 2004   My windows system ha....   You mean this 100% CPU problem that only affects W....   >>      disabling ctrl-alt-d....   If it's XP Pro, then enable remote desktop. Run "m....   >>      Know what I want in ....   No problems, per se, although the information is p....   >>         For the moment, anyway, number portability only ap....   >>      Microsoft says 8 mil....   When I repave my boxes: Install item #1: Operat....   >>      Microsoft Security p....   Maybe this is their subtle way to encouraging peop....   >>      DoS & RSS   10k hits an hour to static content is clearly no s....   >>      Gmail: Orwell meets ....   'the bush-powell junta' In fairness to Colin Po....   >>   01 May 2004   Microsoft says 8 mil....   Old news. So a lot of people didn't patch. Shocker....   >>      Interesting Old Book....   Back in my DOS programming days, I used to have a ....   >>      W-2 Hourly vs. Incor....   The other reason for the 2x rule (which is a good ....   >>         That's right. If you go Corp to Corp, then they do....   >>         Payroll tax is 7.65% up until you mean your annual....   >>      JOS & whatcounts....   I'm surprised people even have 'spam' and 'private....   >>      DoS & RSS   Yes, but those readers are very few and far betwee....   >>      Gmail: Orwell meets ....   'also because its eminently possible (and happens ....   >>      Joel deleted thread ....   She'll probably remind you that she's married.   >>      Is the job market st....   I'm also seeing this happening. During the last....   >>      RSS feed   I'm not asking him to post a list of rules. I'm as....   >>   30 Apr 2004   Programmer's Assumpt....   I've also reached a conclusion about Demotivator! ....   >>      Collective FROM: Add....   By "adding additional text", I mean to say, they c....   >>         'If there were some way of cryptographically verif....   >>      java runtime questio....   'Chris, the Java environments were doing that befo....   >>   29 Apr 2004   Reading different fi....   Why are you re-inventing the wheel? Buy dtSearch. ....   >>      Who handles writing ....   "He who wants to write the code, must write the te....   >>      Why does "salt" make....   'It doesn't stop a dictionary attack if somebody w....   >>         Another thing a salt does is prevent someone from ....   >>         The salt prevents having a dictionary of pre-gener....   >>   28 Apr 2004   Creating online orde....   Generally speaking, the load time of the HTML is n....   >>      Do these sites look ....   That should read "Both sites".   >>         Both sides, side by side, they look identical in I....   >>      RSS feed   Hopefully you'll see this reply before the thread ....   >>   27 Apr 2004   Anything like window....   While I agree that popup and popunder ads are goin....   >>      Gaining anything for....   If you had to pick two, I'd pick 98 and XP. You....   >>      Best Java Book?   The phrase "network-based Java apps" is pretty neb....   >>         +1 for Thinking in Java.   >>      Delphi for .net : ma....   By the way, any development tool that's going to w....   >>         Seems like you can always count on language thread....   >>      DLL deployment best ....   The solution to DLL is simple. Distinguish betw....   >>      CSS Formatting vs Ta....   That should be "MS thinks", not "IE things". :-p (....   >>         Personally, I do think it's pointless. Not because....   >>   26 Apr 2004      So use active code to generate your CSS.   >>   24 Apr 2004   when to do perf/scal....   Load testing before release is a very good idea. H....   >>      code on a whiteboard   I can't believe you guys think Joel is arrogant. Y....   >>      CSS Formatting vs Ta....   By the way, I'm not anti-tables. Tables should abs....   >>         'My problem with CSS positioning is that it doesn'....   >>         The reason my site does that is because it's an ol....   >>   23 Apr 2004   "handwritting" PDAs ....   'Personally I prefer a design where the screen is ....   >>      Can SQLServer index ....   Yes, it has extensive APIs. We use it from .NET, w....   >>         The Indexing Service is not very good. It's not ba....   >>      The Best Thing on Te....   'Most TV is awful. Most books are awful. Discrim....   >>         I think it's hilarious how much the anti-televisio....   >>      code on a whiteboard   'I would never ask a developer to use a machine th....   >>         So, why not bring in a laptop and a projector, and....   >>      CSS Formatting vs Ta....   'In future, I'll use tables where I want some simp....   >>   22 Apr 2004   Object Persistence L....   The question you have to ask yourself is: is your ....   >>   21 Apr 2004   Anyone use a TabletP....   I'd wait a couple generations, to be honest. To....   >>      Salaries again...   $15/hr means roughly $30k/year, which puts you pre....   >>      Difference between w....   There are lots of 3rd party libraries that read an....   >>   19 Apr 2004   Microsoft's C++ comp....   As far as I can recall, the SDK never included the....   >>      Have a nice weekend ....   If it's such a "problem" to have to do your job, t....   >>      learning CSS   Oh, and don't use IE as your 'first look' browser.....   >>      Qualifications Now O....   Degrees help get first jobs, but not in the games ....   >>      The big disadvantage....   I use C# instead of VB.net for two reasons: 1. ....   >>      Commercial Software ....   Of the people who browse to our site with .NET, ap....   >>   17 Apr 2004   Bad Cable, Anyone?   DECAFBAD :) http://www.decafbad.com/blog/    >>      Is Norton Internet S....   Ite's not out. I suggested downloading RC1 (Releas....   >>         I absolutely LOVE ZoneAlarm Pro. I've never used t....   >>      Compiler warnings   C Rose, are you new to "professional coding"? Ther....   >>      Commercial Software ....   Here's one of the recent, related threads: http....   >>         This thread has been done to death, I think. Ou....   >>      Monitor size and dev....   FYI, a 17' and 19' LCD have the same native resolu....   >>   13 Apr 2004   books on software ar....   Three really important books, in my opinion. 'R....   >>      Keeping track of pas....   I was a fan of Password Safe (used it for 4 years)....   >>      Joel on Slashdot   Hey OP, if you want Joel to respond, you ought to ....   >>   11 Apr 2004   Interviews and firin....   Hiring the wrong person is usually at least 10x as....   >>   10 Apr 2004   VC++ .NET   I like the VS.NET IDE a lot, but it's not as good ....   >>   09 Apr 2004   "The Apprentice" (sp....   These predictions of winners are hilarious. Trump ....   >>   08 Apr 2004      And yet nobody mentions the most important moment ....   >>      VC++ .NET   And, you should use VC++ .NET as opposed to VC++ 6....   >>      Keyboard Rant   'And nothing ever comes out of my printer.' It ....   >>      Code Review Websites   I'm skeptical. Code review is usually in the wider....   >>      Best Dev tool for wr....   '- Longhorn will have .NET as it's main API - Win....   >>      Faking pass-by-value....   Immutable strings are a much better option. For....   >>      SSL Port - is it alw....   The "work-around" that's used is a small super-use....   >>      Removeable HD and pr....   And, to be clear about file system mis-matches: I ....   >>         I stand by my statement. To clarify, since I think....   >>   07 Apr 2004   SSL Port - is it alw....   Not precisely. http://www.abc.com/ defaults to ....   >>      Why not more apps us....   License servers are easily bypassed.   >>      Removeable HD and pr....   'You could of course read the whole thread first......   >>         Nevermind, I see now that I missed the file system....   >>         By the way, if the file systems are NTFS all aroun....   >>   04 Apr 2004   How do you study?   In my experience, there are various ways to learn.....   >>   03 Apr 2004   Defeating piracy wit....   I would refuse to buy something that only works on....   >>      Easiest software to ....   You should realistically expect CPU performance to....   >>   02 Apr 2004   "The Apprentice" (sp....   'The show made it sound like Bill, Kwame and Troy ....   >>      Walmart Microtel   OEM's don't pay $100 for XP Home. Hell, OEMs will ....   >>   27 Mar 2004   Are there really sof....   It will be interesting to see how the uptake of XP....   >>      "The Apprentice" (sp....   'Some Video Poker machines when played correctly h....   >>         'No - what you're thinking of is that in Blackjack....   >>   26 Mar 2004   Laptop for heavy VMW....   The question is whether you have a lot of funds to....   >>      Complete Idiots Guid....   The motherboard has a perfectly good from the powe....   >>   25 Mar 2004   To branch or not to ....   The disadvantage is that integration becomes a spe....   >>      Complete Idiots Guid....   MR is right that they're for insulting the screws ....   >>      Poll: What car do yo....   I'd love an A4 convertible, if they were available....   >>         Oh and: In theory, 27 on the highway, and about 23....   >>         A. 2000 Audi A6 2.7T B. Everything is in cycles.    >>      US anti-spam laws   Not all opt-in is necessarily opt-in via electroni....   >>      Is grokking pointers....   Wow, this thread took an interesting turn. :-p   >>      How to stop new wind....   'I will not use Firebird or whatever the heck it's....   >>      A sysadmin must know....   Very important for that Elven Linux distribution!   >>      LASIK vs PRK   I doubt that failure resulting in blindness is any....   >>   23 Mar 2004   Wiki question   Mixed cased words are called PascalCase. When a wo....   >>         Wikis have a concept called WikiWords. Any word th....   >>      Internet Explorer 6 ....   My best suggestion to getting this right is to rea....   >>      Plasma TVs - worth i....   Don't forget the often unloved 540p! :-p   >>         'I'm a bigt cynical about burn in when he mentions....   >>      What should I know w....   'Why will staring at an LCD monitor for eight hour....   >>      More JoS bloggers?   http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/    >>   22 Mar 2004   Plasma TVs - worth i....   For the OP: Plasma can be worth it, but if you ....   >>         'Standard TV is 240i' Sorry, that's wrong. Stan....   >>      What should I know w....   'For example, I'm looking at the windows desktop (....   >>      MDAC_TYPE and ADO   MDAC was the consolidation of their data access AP....   >>   21 Mar 2004   Subversion   'Version Control with Subversion', an online book ....   >>   20 Mar 2004   Is the VB runtime in....   'The VB6 run-time shipped with WinNT, Win 2000 and....   >>   19 Mar 2004   "The Apprentice" (no....   Well, his point is: yes, you can blame them. Hot o....   >>   18 Mar 2004   Subversion   I agree that VSS's support for multiple checkouts ....   >>         It's amazing. We love it. We switched from CVS. ....   >>   17 Mar 2004   const--use it?   That would be apropos, if people believed that all....   >>   16 Mar 2004      'The reason most code sucks is that most people *a....   >>         'its like always putting an immutable on the LHS o....   >>   15 Mar 2004      'I'm noticing that C# doesn't support const object....   >>      Bad Programming Team....   Sorry, I can't be helpful (but really, has anybody....   >>   12 Mar 2004   Is anyone using Crui....   Using it. Love it. Build with NAnt, tests with ....   >>      What is the logic be....   1. Some people will forget to mail it in. 2. So....   >>   11 Mar 2004   Opinions on demand-d....   You can't sell something before you build it. S....   >>      What do beta testers....   They don't have to be. It can be very valuable to ....   >>      What is wrong with S....   Vault has a VSS migration tool. They do this prima....   >>   10 Mar 2004   AUTORUN woes on USB ....   Is the fact that you're trying to do it all from A....   >>      Hackers too?   'Please, no messages about golf until all this sno....   >>         Sure, I did that stuff. You know, then I grew up a....   >>      What is wrong with S....   Like any large company, Microsoft uses a variety o....   >>      your sleep pattern   Early through high school, late in college, early ....   >>         There is no magic. You just need to do it. I wa....   >>      Windows NT for G5 re....   'x86 performance increases have been on the downtu....   >>      Access or SQL server   'The disadvantages to MSDE are that it won't accep....   >>   09 Mar 2004   Sunblock for a lapto....   MotionComputing offers tablet PC with 'View Anywhe....   >>   08 Mar 2004   Nielsen is getting o....   That's my feeling, too. Nobody makes you read him.....   >>      Empower question   You might be right. I might've read it incorrectly....   >>         'Is the software time limited -- i.e. will 12 mont....   >>      Remote Source Contro....   Do NOT do SourceSafe over VPN. You will corrupt yo....   >>      BitTorren over port ....   "Oh Myanmar, you'll always be Burma to me!"   >>   07 Mar 2004   Authentication for W....   I don't believe you can convince Windows to authen....   >>         Authorization -- for what? To login? Why not use a....   >>      VMWare virtual machi....   Also... 'GCC compilation times seem to be on pa....   >>         There are a couple different options to combat tha....   >>      Gwyn's "Why won't yo....   'Does the same hold true for YOUR claim?' Of co....   >>         As someone who is in favor of free (we use Subvers....   >>         Right, because the REALLY important part is that i....   >>      Windows XP SP2 Will ....   'I'm pretty sure the Microsoft JITter marks its ta....   >>         'One of the protections is that areas of memory mu....   >>   06 Mar 2004   VMWare virtual machi....   '[...] keep the serious long-runs and raw crunchin....   >>         [psst, Brad! One word: SCSI] psst, Philo! One s....   >>         Yes, plentiful RAM is a requirement to make this w....   >>         Oh, and I do it with a 1GHz P3 and 5400RPM drive o....   >>         I develop only inside of Virtual PC now. My host P....   >>      Gwyn's "Why won't yo....   Yes, except that they have product differentiation....   >>   05 Mar 2004   "The Apprentice" (Sp....   'I am confused about how techie people are actuall....   >>         I think the "prize" where they got to have a picni....   >>         Oh, and Trump comes off like an idiot. Honestly, d....   >>         'In this show, much like Survivor, one person wins....   >>      Does Windows XP Sp2 ....   'It's a PITA that Microsoft didn't include the fra....   >>   03 Mar 2004   Xboxology   Xbox is an incredible console with some of the bes....   >>      Reject Via Telephone   Bah, you wimps. There's no liability if you didn't....   >>   02 Mar 2004   Stammering my way th....   'The problem with stuttering is not the way it aff....   >>   29 Feb 2004   better chkdsk for Wi....   Huh. Learn something new every day. :)   >>         CHKDSK has never repaired bad sectors, and still d....   >>      Interface and Implem....   'Isn't it possible the author was purposefully usi....   >>         Whatever book that is, throw it away. The author i....   >>      C# 'Servlet Engine'   The fact that you don't have to deploy an ASPX fil....   >>         I'm not a Java expert by any stretch, but I imagin....   >>      Emulate Mac OS X fro....   Does MOL work on ANY Linux PowerPC, or only on Mac....   >>      The next Fog Creek p....   We've heard about it nearly endlessly. Here's the ....   >>   27 Feb 2004   Please recommend a D....   The -R format is the most widely supported among t....   >>   25 Feb 2004   The Apprentice (spoi....   Um, new episodes are on Thursdays.   >>      Why are .NET strings....   Immutable strings are a performance enhancement. W....   >>      Class (static) metho....   name, It already does this. You can hide (the b....   >>      HTML, CR,LFs vs LFs   I'm curious to know how bad the HTML is that you c....   >>         Consider block sizes on disks. For NTFS, the defau....   >>   24 Feb 2004   XP Pro vs. Windows S....   SQL Server, yes. You can run MSDE or MS SQL Develo....   >>   23 Feb 2004   Could .net fail?   'Would you trust your bank account to a Windows ma....   >>      Subversion hits vers....   'Still boggles my mind how many are willing to acc....   >>      Yes Joel you May Hav....   I don't think it's harsh. I think it hits the nail....   >>   22 Feb 2004   my career   Sure, but now let's be specific. Nobody hires a....   >>         If you want to be heavily focused on small areas, ....   >>         The answer depends on what you want to do with you....   >>      Yes Joel you May Hav....   I have no hard stats, just time in the industry an....   >>         It comes down to this: There is probably at LEA....   >>      Scroll speed in fire....   Definitely turn off smooth scrolling. It's an "eng....   >>      Point of View   'the glamorous IT professional world' Bwahahaha....   >>   20 Feb 2004   .Net linker redux   'Distribution would be much easier if Microsoft in....   >>         And where would you draw the line? I guarantee ....   >>      Office furniture   'I also went the door / filing cabinet route. You....   >>   19 Feb 2004   C# Generics - now!   A second for CodeSmith. Until there's generics in ....   >>      Persistent errors on....   The was a Via southbridge chip (which includes the....   >>   17 Feb 2004   Office furniture   Our furniture is from the Bush Corsa Dark Cherry c....   >>      Middle Click Scrolli....   'Anyway, with Firebird, it (middle click scrolling....   >>      "Designed for Window....   'Have you got that the right way round?' The lo....   >>         There are, presumably, some political reasons that....   >>      A dot com retrospect   'for a $2 billion dollar purchase consideration.......   >>      DLL Hell - Part 2   Calling new with primitive types does not guarante....   >>   16 Feb 2004   Taking the easy way ....   Alternatively, this is one of the reasons that man....   >>      WinXP power mgmt woe....   Check your BIOS settings. It's possible that yo....   >>      AvantGo and this for....   'Perhaps its because Joel has '&' in his URLs?....   >>   15 Feb 2004   Manager asleep for 5....   Then resign. Get a new job first, though. :)   >>   14 Feb 2004   Threads Supported on....   Actually, I _was_ being (mostly) serious. IIS does....   >>   13 Feb 2004   Manager asleep for 5....   "I don't tell you how to manage. Why are you telli....   >>      Threads Supported on....   There should be as many threads as there are CPUs.....   >>      The Apprentice (spoi....   They all sort of sucked. Again. Seriously, does....   >>   11 Feb 2004   What's Your Greatest....   'My greatest weakness is that I continue to work f....   >>      Flash Graph Componen....   We use the Dundas charting component for .NET. It ....   >>   10 Feb 2004   cdburn.exe   I've never heard of cdburn.exe. That ISO recorder ....   >>         http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm....   >>         I use ISORecorder, which leverages the built-in bu....   >>      SMS/Text Messaging   A ham's a ham, the world around. :)   >>         'bip-bip-bip beep-beep bip-bip-bip' That is ind....   >>      System DOA   I don't particularly like Dell, but they always se....   >>      Browser Wars II   The centralized and extensive Extensions library i....   >>      dual harddisk/partit....   I'll save you the trouble. It can't be done in XP ....   >>      Firebird 0.8 -> F....   'For Brad Wilson and everyone else who got their o....   >>      Why does the boot pr....   'From the point where I select the OS in the boot,....   >>   09 Feb 2004   C question: pointers....   There are no guarantees, so no, it's not portable.   >>      cloning load balance....   'Which is an even bigger reason to minimize the ti....   >>      VMWare Tips   Since you're directly connected to the 'net with j....   >>      Writing to DOCUMENT_....   'At the same time as I confirmed this, I also disc....   >>      RSS Aggregator   *sigh* There will never be an RSS feed for this si....   >>      dual harddisk/partit....   Semi-hardware mirroring controllers aren't all tha....   >>         'Drives break down all too easily now days, and po....   >>      Firebird 0.8 -> F....   So, I wish the Extensions sites weren't all horked....   >>         'Now I just hope they regain a little sanity and a....   >>         Just to echo the last poster, I just upgraded from....   >>      Converting Office Do....   http://www.adlibsys.com/1-2.html    >>         We use the Adlib eXpress Server, which is designed....   >>   08 Feb 2004   Trusting Book Review....   I'm afraid you can't really trust strangers to rev....   >>      Anders Hejlsberg on ....   'To be fair to Gosling, Hejlsberg has had nearly a....   >>      External Modem bette....   We live in one of those 'small places', and until ....   >>      PeopleSoft sucks.&nb....   'Inserting magic or special values in place of mis....   >>   07 Feb 2004   US employment   Something else I wanted to add. Nobody think it....   >>         Your resume isn't required to have every single pl....   >>      Mozilla and rich edi....   The editable content area is not necessarily IE sp....   >>      Media players   'My point though, is that a 3rd party should be ab....   >>         And, sorry, it should go without saying, but I'm t....   >>         Actually, I meant to say "software decoder". Yes, ....   >>   06 Feb 2004   C-runtime, what it r....   'Does this map to Win32 functions? Or Win32 maps t....   >>      SQL move record quer....   Giant gaping security hole #1: never directly cons....   >>      and the winner of th....   Since the thread already has 100 posts in it, mayb....   >>      Windows XP 64 Bit - ....   I think it's going to mean that AMD-64 machines ru....   >>         One of the benefits of 64-bit .NET, by the way, is....   >>      Media players   'That's certainly true for now, but does it really....   >>   05 Feb 2004   Windows XP 64 Bit - ....   'BTW, why the 64-bit proc? How much memory do you ....   >>      Media players   There are no players that do all formats. If you w....   >>   04 Feb 2004   why is my computer s....   Yes. OSes get bigger and slower, because they p....   >>      Marshalling UDT, Par....   The amount of data marshalled is still essentially....   >>      HTML rendering contr....   'the mshtml control itself can be fed data, i don'....   >>   03 Feb 2004   Two Thumbs Down for ....   For a Windows user, Lindows is definitely hands do....   >>      Marshalling UDT, Par....   It's not that one or the other is more efficient (....   >>      Gigabit Ethernet?   Let's also not forget that the PCI bus is nowhere ....   >>      The future of HTML   'easy to parse' Spoken like a person who's neve....   >>         'Is XHTML even relevant anymore?' No, but it ha....   >>      HTML rendering contr....   Funny, but: '2) Retrieve the post data when sub....   >>         'Run on a machine without TCP/IP installed' Tha....   >>      DVDs and customer ab....   As a Laserdisc enthusiast, I just want to say that....   >>      Books on platform di....   Another vote for STLport. It rocks. Also, consi....   >>   01 Feb 2004   windows Update not w....   Just used it to update one of my W2K3 VPCs. Worked....   >>      Throwing the Baby Al....   'Damn, plain-text authentication is perfectly acce....   >>      ASP.NET better than ....   Something is wrong. We have an ASP-model busine....   >>      Single Server Securi....   'I just want to point out that IPSec do little or ....   >>      External Hard Drive ....   Mine is Firewire and USB 2.0. You are right that i....   >>         +1 for the external Maxtor OneTouch drives. I love....   >>      More Apprentice   Statistically speaking, it's basically impossible.....   >>      ISP taking liberties....   Let me expound. There is such a thing as 'reaso....   >>         'Just let me know that *BEFORE* I sign up and have....   >>   31 Jan 2004   Single Server Securi....   On Windows 2000 and later, if you know what you're....   >>      Embarassing OOD / pe....   You've run across what I consider the single most ....   >>   29 Jan 2004   Tips & Advices f....   'Poor programmers are the rarest breed.' Yeah, ....   >>      ISP taking liberties....   'They have a responsibility to inform customers of....   >>         I'd say you should check your contract very closel....   >>      Dumb question number....   24/7 doesn't imply they're open 365 (or 366) days ....   >>      The Rich Client Stri....   Which is what you get with .NET.   >>      commoditize your com....   One would assume that a company the size of Fog Cr....   >>      Massive runtime down....   Oh, and the .NET service packs show up as critical....   >>         .NET 1.0 has actually had two service packs. Unfor....   >>      I'm a programmer and....   What's a "Java App"? Don't think I've heard of tho....   >>         Yep, SharpReader is a pig, no doubt about it. O....   >>      Linker Deja Vue   Simple answer? No.   >>      The important lesson....   Yes, the framework is downloadable without going t....   >>   28 Jan 2004   Linker available / f....   'Which version of .net? Let's assume 1/2 of that 1....   >>         'Reality check: MS is advertising .net as EASY TO....   >>         I'm not saying you can't write simple desktop apps....   >>         1/3 of the users who visit our public site have .N....   >>      Linker Deja Vue   .NET 1.1 is shipping inside of XP SP2. If our s....   >>      The important lesson....   Actually, they do. Security patches are issued ....   >>      Speaking of Linkers   'Which VERSION of .net will be preinstalled on Lon....   >>      A linker for .NET?   'But MS are forcing .Net down your throat, no matt....   >>         'I think Microsoft and Sun are operating under the....   >>      Some questions about....   The Received: headers will tell you where they're ....   >>      Any reason to switch....   I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Firebird's Exte....   >>      VMWare and licenses   From the legal standpoint, you only need 1 if you ....   >>         The virtual PC is just like a real PC. EVERYTHING ....   >>      MikeRoweSoft - the e....   That'd be my guess, MSDN Universal. By the way,....   >>      Home Web Server - wh....   I can't believe anybody would recommend a Windows ....   >>         The dispatcher runs in kernel space in IIS 6 mode ....   >>      Should MS take a tip....   'Maybe they should mail out Windows XP Service Pac....   >>   27 Jan 2004   My take on the resum....   God, I wish it would end.   >>      SQL Server Database ....   1 and 2. Upon application startup, the application....   >>      Blade Servers Versus....   'Also, they are unbeliveably noisy. forget about....   >>   26 Jan 2004   Is New York the plac....   NYC is not well known for ISVs. As I recall, the m....   >>      What about recruitin....   Presuming you're talking about the US: 1. There....   >>      Value of degrees?   Someone who has 12 years of experience doesn't nee....   >>      How much to put in a....   He wasn't joking. Start with a resume packed wi....   >>      Alternatives to AOL/....   Which is exactly why I recommend pobox. If you wan....   >>         Or, you can use the pobox remailer. I've had a pob....   >>   25 Jan 2004   MyIE2 kicks some ser....   I use Firebird for all the reasons you use MyIE2 (....   >>      Does C# owe its succ....   I don't think .NET will be pulling many people awa....   >>         'Over and above the JVM?' Yes. I find the CLR t....   >>      Redhat Professional ....   +1 for Mandrake on the "easy to install, easy to u....   >>   24 Jan 2004   Bizarre interview ti....   That's a pretty common question in my experience: ....   >>      Date cannot be NULL ....   'The reason testing a DateTime value against NULL ....   >>      MSDN Subscription qu....   I'll give you that it hasn't always been in there.....   >>         'Incidentally, MSDN (of any flavour) does not give....   >>   23 Jan 2004   More Windows Brain d....   Here's the problem: you're not an average user. Th....   >>      IE startup page   Because it's detected that your IE need to patched....   >>      Debugging COM Interf....   'I offered the interpreter so that you could test ....   >>      MSDN Subscription qu....   If you're still deciding whether you like the envi....   >>      Email Encryption / D....   I guess if you presume 100% of people use Outlook,....   >>         'exactly. not even Outlook Web Access can read sig....   >>      Sealed Classes C#   So then what is the justification for "Control" an....   >>      "The Office"   Agreed that HBO has the best television available.....   >>   22 Jan 2004   Email Encryption / D....   Signed messages are not (necessarily) encrypted. W....   >>      Encryption of Passwo....   Only if the username is unchangeable (or you store....   >>      plain text passwords....   And, let's be honest: if you have the power at som....   >>      Sealed Classes C#   There's a school of thought that says you should s....   >>         Sealing a class means you can't derive from it. ....   >>      Files in the DB   The KISS principle really leads one to put files i....   >>   21 Jan 2004   Linux as a Disruptiv....   'The other likely scenario is that someone else's ....   >>      Recommendation for a....   Try this instead: http://discuss.fogcreek.com/j....   >>      Why 'win'word and no....   'Wasn't Excel like the only app avilable for Windo....   >>      "The Office"   'If you weren't aware of it, the Office has been s....   >>      Mozilla Firebird   I'm not sure about the WMV problem. I play embedde....   >>      SATA vs. EIDE hard d....   I have heard that the Western Digital Raptors (the....   >>   20 Jan 2004   Mozilla Firebird   The only problem with ASP.NET and Mozilla is that ....   >>         'But it still takes two whole seconds to load.... ....   >>         'Can you explain to me a scenario in which a brows....   >>      SATA vs. EIDE hard d....   'You can also buy adapters between SATA and EIDE. ....   >>         Oh, plus, if performance is an issue, SATA has 10k....   >>         The primary difference is: SATA is the future, PAT....   >>      Is the ship sinking ....   'Borland has a lot of talented developers. They wi....   >>      hdd backup missing *....   You could rotate through a few external hard disks....   >>      Anyone know what thi....   Academically, it would be interesting to know what....   >>      controlling a Win2k3....   To solve the 'missing tasktray icons' problem, log....   >>   19 Jan 2004   Product Positioning ....   The only problem with the mini that I see is that ....   >>      Daisy-chaining USBs   And where are the USB hubs in the monitors? These ....   >>      Power brick rant   The problem, unfortunately, is that using an un-po....   >>   18 Jan 2004      Power consumption is the reason, yes. Modern CPUs ....   >>      Packet Sniffing Soft....   If you want to stop spyware, my suggestion would b....   >>      When to use 'const' ....   Also, you shouldn't use 'const foobar* method()', ....   >>      Edit rich text in br....   A newer topic covers some additional suggestions. ....   >>      Syndication, Dashboa....   Apparently, some huge percentage of Internet usage....   >>   17 Jan 2004   Internet Explorer: B....   'Ask Joel, he uses the IE OLE Control in Citydesk ....   >>   15 Jan 2004   Ever have guilt over....   Be thankful, too. At least in the US, most people ....   >>      Startup Versus Big C....   He said he has 13 years of experience, and that he....   >>   13 Jan 2004   Windows Console ques....   It's both a plus and a minus that Microsoft decide....   >>      taking a year off   I'd give yourself about 3 months to find a job. ....   >>      JVM On Windows 2000 ....   I'm curious... you really need to manipulate 10s o....   >>      Internet Tax is here   Yep, as long as I'd been filing taxes in both Mich....   >>   12 Jan 2004   Standards Compliant ....   Moving to table-less design can greatly facility a....   >>   11 Jan 2004   <b>New Massach....   'That's a bizarre claim ... they want him to sign ....   >>      How to Copy Files fr....   You don't need to format the disc for burning to r....   >>   10 Jan 2004      When using XP, if I look in Windows Explorer, it t....   >>         +1 for Nero. I've used both Nero and EZ CD Creator....   >>      microsoft shared sou....   Why would you need to compile it, anyway? The p....   >>      Windows RPC question   There's two options, really, short of setting up t....   >>      OOP Concept: Abstrac....   'I suppose Abstraction as the separation of Interf....   >>   09 Jan 2004   Java Static Methods   By the way, for those who say "do it always", what....   >>         In C# (not sure about other languages in .NET), th....   >>   08 Jan 2004   Research Triangle, N....   I don't know the NC area, but there's a Raleigh gr....   >>   07 Jan 2004   "No Hire"   Oh, and the interview process should be very trans....   >>         Of course you can talk about it, but I think the f....   >>      Amazing...even books....   Rebates are long known to be very very effective d....   >>      Who does the intervi....   Personally, I don't ever want HR involved in the p....   >>      DonationWare   I've done it. No, you won't make much money.   >>      static class members   1%, if you're lucky. :-p   >>      Yukon - Disappointme....   Of the three technologies, only Yukon is in beta (....   >>      Increase in spam   I have a number of personal e-mail addresses, incl....   >>      SourceGear Vault eva....   BitKeeper costs a TON of money if you're not worki....   >>      Thinkpad T40/t41 or ....   I need right ALT, for Virtual PC. You people are u....   >>         Oh my god, people. Win+M. Win+R. Win+L. All used m....   >>      Case-sensitive filen....   Agreed that it's not user friend or intuitive. Tha....   >>   06 Jan 2004   Yahoo dumping Google   >>   06 Jan 2004   Websites - Index Pag....   Methinks you missed the sarcasm.   >>      Yahoo dumping Google   No, I'm just saying that YAHOO can't compete with ....   >>      K   I'm not talking about necessarily upgrading existi....   >>         I don't think MSSQL 2000 is the last SQL that mid-....   >>      Scheduling programmi....   Yeah, when my schedule was in demand, I used to bl....   >>      Thinkpad T40/t41 or ....   Microwave. Cellular phone. Third mouse butto....   >>      Case-sensitive filen....   NTFS is a case-sensitive operating system. The Win....   >>      Personal DVD Backups   There's actually four formats of DVD. DVD5 and ....   >>   05 Jan 2004   Windows Script Help   No, it's not.   >>         'Still, I thought VB/VBA/VDScript was supposed to ....   >>      Personal DVD Backups   By the way, I have a game store near me with a pro....   >>         I should preface this by saying that my version of....   >>         I have DVD X Copy Gold, which includes both the or....   >>      The problem with CSV....   'Assuming you are using XML for certain purposes (....   >>   04 Jan 2004   Business/Working fro....   Yes. Unless your wife can support the whole family....   >>      Database versus flat....   In this day and age, we shouldn't be writing parse....   >>      Should I learn XAML ....   XAML is not a replacement for .NET, it's a supplem....   >>      Safe Mode Command Pr....   Might I ask... why are you using BeOS, when it's d....   >>      Technology ought to ....   Yeah, I don't get what the whining is about. Lo....   >>      Listing Employment H....   I actually split out what I've done from where I w....   >>      CD-Burning Question ....   'T. Norman, let me know in 2006 when my CAR STEREO....   >>      Single Line Up Arrow   If you're talking about Charmap, it doesn't copy f....   >>      Sanity checking FogB....   As is Lindows. I also think Lycoris/LX is Debian b....   >>   03 Jan 2004   Prototyping tool of ....   I vote for a variant of Kentasy: whiteboard and ma....   >>      Sanity checking FogB....   The irony is that, despite its terrible initial in....   >>         From a retail price perspective, Windows Server 20....   >>      Licensing Software t....   So you think it's worth thousands of dollars (tens....   >>         Our solution is not to sell code, but rent it. The....   >>         'The best solution for this I can come up with is ....   >>      Set List?   I'm not sure where Anon lives, but reproduction co....   >>         It was true 15 years ago that analog sounded bette....   >>      Forced subscriptions....   We were talking about the Shuttle XPCs, which gene....   >>         Definitely higher, from my perspective (sorry, I'm....   >>   02 Jan 2004   Code generation vers....   Reflection and code generation are two different t....   >>      Licensing Software t....   'Most dongles can be disabled by a determined user....   >>      Ferocious Pirates an....   'How would Joel interprete someone saying 'Hold on....   >>   01 Jan 2004   Design Decision   Why not make your own toolbar, and show it by defa....   >>   31 Dec 2003   Bought Empower ISV, ....   I was under the impression that you only needed to....   >>      legacy   I've only once ever heard that the developers who ....   >>      Recommend a free RSS....   If Bloglines doesn't support xhtml:body, then weep....   >>   30 Dec 2003   A coherent Linux str....   Yes, TiVo runs a modified version of the Linux ker....   >>   29 Dec 2003   Dilbert Relocation Comic   >>   29 Dec 2003   pseudo-RAID on a sin....   The heads move together, but only one data stream ....   >>         The solution thus far has been larger caches on th....   >>      IDE RAID   That's true. Serial-ATA makes a lot more sense ....   >>   28 Dec 2003   Mem   The name of the people killed in the 9/11 attack (....   >>   27 Dec 2003   phone interviews   Most phone screens I've been part of used rather s....   >>      Increaseing Speed of....   Oh, and as a final alternative, don't shut the mac....   >>         Oh, and for some reason, I thought you had 512MB. ....   >>         You may also wish to consider using Virtual PC for....   >>      More Linux Developer....   Ah, I see now the keyword which comfirms my suspic....   >>         How many of those "Linux" developers are really Ja....   >>      Some Thoughts on Fog....   Joel has pointed out that the PHP version is made ....   >>      IDE RAID   Dan makes an important point. These $10 RAID ch....   >>      Statistics - reading....   I agree with T. Norman. Better developers tend to ....   >>      Future of Window API   By the way, the 30 year comment was meant as a gen....   >>         It's not there yet, but it most certainly will be ....   >>         It also happens to represent the only way to take ....   >>         Dan, You sound just like the guys who talked ab....   >>   26 Dec 2003   Statistics - reading....   Not necessarily on reading code, though.   >>      FS-Portability of da....   You know what? I take it back, it was OSR2 that ad....   >>         'Use FAT32, and no it isn't supported by all opera....   >>   25 Dec 2003      That is correct. If you're dual booting, then FAT ....   >>      iTunes store design   How could it be for a crusade? Apple was on the US....   >>      Why The Flip Flop, J....   Mike, if by "platform indepedent" you mean the pla....   >>   24 Dec 2003   Working at Microsoft   And, also to be fair, that person worked at Micros....   >>      Advice on best MP3 s....   Yes, it's worth it, when you rip 3,000 CDs.   >>         Oh, and since your friend is computer-phobic, do N....   >>         +1 for iTunes. I shook it off because I'm already ....   >>      Latest on SCO/Linux ....   'Do note that the GPL was written by a lawyer.' ....   >>         Because the GPL is written is English, rather than....   >>   23 Dec 2003   Why The Flip Flop, J....   I'm going out on a limb here, but the dominance of....   >>   22 Dec 2003   Joel on installing D....   I've used Linux in one form or another for at leas....   >>      Bold topics.   I really like the anchor + cookie idea. It's smart....   >>   21 Dec 2003   Acceptable ways of d....   Well, for starters, the documentation can improve ....   >>      Outsourcing - making....   A good choice for archiving those e-mails is a pas....   >>      Forced Subscriptions   'c'mon, they could just have the tivo get its list....   >>         And, I'm not sure what ads the OP is referring to.....   >>         You see, the problem is, that TiVo is not just sho....   >>      Earlier printf quest....   I cannot emphasize enough how much reflection is h....   >>      Athlon 64   'It will be very interesting to see how much furth....   >>      C# .NET and NT 4   NT 4 has IIS on it (Peer Web Services is just IIS ....   >>   20 Dec 2003   Bold topics.   Don't blame Joel for bugs in your browser. (Eve....   >>      Nokia sucks :(   Nokia phones might suck, but their tires rock! :-p   >>      WinAmp5 and Firebird   I'm in the same boat... loved 2, hated 3. I love 5....   >>      Home Brew PVRs, anyo....   'I abandoned my home-built PVR project because the....   >>   19 Dec 2003   Replacement for PGPd....   NTFS permits encryption. Any encrypted files are t....   >>      Dell Inspiron 8600 (....   Don't forget Evergrey! :) I have no personal ex....   >>         For developers who are looking for a desktop repla....   >>         Certainly, for developers who use their laptops ty....   >>      Are IP addresses rec....   You'd be amazed how little information is availabl....   >>   18 Dec 2003   Home Brew PVRs, anyo....   Boy, I don't know if you'll be able to do double r....   >>      Athlon 64   It's the Athlon's future. The Athlon XP is at end ....   >>         All comments point to winner, even just running 32....   >>      Are IP addresses rec....   It's not a rumor. It was e-mailed out to all the p....   >>      Display the sin grap....   Oh, and MIDI files aren't sampled sounds at all. T....   >>         Pulse Code Modulation is basically the name of the....   >>         Am I missing something? It sounds like you're desc....   >>      Doom on Itanium   +1 for never using Via ever again. I've used AM....   >>   17 Dec 2003      It's amazing how a huge company like Intel can fai....   >>      Separating Interface....   Simply put, developing against interfaces allow co....   >>         And, honestly, if you don't get that, you don't ge....   >>         'Why would IWebControl and IWebPage be better than....   >>         The .NET teams did not practice what was preached;....   >>      Cultural Divide: It'....   Microsoft's development tools are always available....   >>      C# .NET and NT 4   The OS was released in 1996, for god's sake. It's ....   >>         Oh, and I believe that the SDK will not install on....   >>         To clarify a little... NT4 is treated as a CLIENT ....   >>      GPL Newbie Question ....   The GPL is a virus! :-p   >>      Has Joel even used K....   'Yeah... and to me Win2k and XP feel klunky compar....   >>   16 Dec 2003   Developers, WinXP SP....   Which aspects of the service pack do you feel have....   >>      Guide to building JE....   The common practice for apps using Access database....   >>      Fav mp3 players   iPod is very expensive, but its users are generall....   >>   15 Dec 2003   Has Joel even used K....   I've used KDE, and I have to say, your circle of f....   >>      Biculturalism   I think there is a difference between offering sou....   >>   14 Dec 2003   Drag and Drop using ....   Oh, and I just tested this with Virtual PC 2004. N....   >>         Why would you not install VMware tools, though? VM....   >>      Dual monitors ... at....   +1 recommendation for UltraMon. If you're using mu....   >>      Hiring someone who *....   I've never run across a clone of me w/o a degree. ....   >>         'It will be easier for me to compete against a Joh....   >>      Do monitors cause ca....   That was true for CRTs, for a long time, too. Thes....   >>   13 Dec 2003   Dual monitors ... at....   'Last I checked, neither ATI nor Nvidia allowed me....   >>   12 Dec 2003   programming drunk   My freshman year I had a professor who swore that ....   >>      What does it mean?   I'm sure the ad doesn't list every quality they're....   >>      software copy protec....   FogBUGZ is an ASP application, so at the very leas....   >>      Hiring someone who *....   I was saying that it doesn't matter in the final c....   >>         'Previous work experience is a pretty good indicat....   >>         'I personally weigh a degree along with experience....   >>      How "e" is the place....   There's 6 of us, and we all work from home 4 days ....   >>      technical interview   I agree with Me. I've never been asked to recount ....   >>         'I still say: read their code. I still wonder why ....   >>         A pre-screen over the phone to cut down the numbe ....   >>      New Development PC   Developers generally over-estimate the importance ....   >>   11 Dec 2003   Do monitors cause ca....   With 16ms refresh LCD monitors, there are no blurr....   >>         'I've said this before and I'll probably mention i....   >>         'Sitting in front of a monitor is pretty safe (bec....   >>      New Development PC   'On the topic of buying a new machine every year, ....   >>         'Did you consider getting 2 (possibly slightly sma....   >>      Disabling of Control....   'Disabling controls should be made a felony.' A....   >>      Bill Gates: agnostic....   http://www.celebatheists.com/entries/atheist_13.ht....   >>      Software Babe   'Excepting that I have never seen a chick with a m....   >>   10 Dec 2003   unicode article inac....   Oh, also, with 9x you can use the UNICOWS layer, w....   >>         Actually, the storage representation depends on wh....   >>      Choosing a laptop   Based on personal experience, I would stay away fr....   >>      how much this so cal....   Chris Sells works for Microsoft, and they're not k....   >>      Software Babe   Nice try, John. No game, no weiner. http://www.....   >>   09 Dec 2003   Delphi 8 (Octane) fl....   For the drag and drop crowd, this looks like a nic....   >>      Mozilla Firebird can....   There's really no good reason why it couldn't, eit....   >>      What to do whan I do....   'They are excellent programmers, but don't have a ....   >>      SQL question   Maybe you could design some views that make the da....   >>      Software % Pricing   Something else to consider when you use the ASP-mo....   >>         It's very common in 'software as a service'. Wh....   >>      Javascript & sel....   The behavior you're describing (incremental search....   >>      C# Games   They are wrappers, and the performance penalty is ....   >>      Does C# is going to ....   Why do people post pointless answers like that? Ar....   >>         Note the question. It isn't 'what should I use ....   >>   07 Dec 2003   Win32 admin: I'm pat....   Do the kids play GAME games, or do they play educa....   >>      Does C# is going to ....   And that's really the issue, isn't it. It's one....   >>      The real enemy of pr....   Time moves slowly. True, there are probably vir....   >>      Recommendations for ....   You might want to look into HEAT from FrontRange s....   >>   06 Dec 2003   The real enemy of pr....   Anybody who thinks Delphi's UI capabilities are su....   >>      Avalon's rearchitect....   Maybe what it proves is that, when you have 10,000....   >>   05 Dec 2003      I read the article, and my gut feeling was there w....   >>   03 Dec 2003   Conflict: Thrive or Avoid?   >>   02 Dec 2003   Craftsmanship   'My first instinct with this would be to see if it....   >>      Do you want to chang....   'Why can't it wait until expiration and then force....   >>      Poll on the use of R....   Joel has stated in the past that the design decisi....   >>      Why only 2 GB?   'Moving to 64 isn't as simple as recompiliing your....   >>   30 Nov 2003   POLL : Do you play v....   I play PC games (primarily Dark Age of Camelot), a....   >>   28 Nov 2003   and or or   'So when I am looking for a book on cooking, and a....   >>      Wizard-Style Web UI   The technique is fine, although the use of frames ....   >>   26 Nov 2003   and or or   This is why, generally speaking, you should never ....   >>         http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en 'wi....   >>      Wizard-Style Web UI   Let me just say... Back buttons are much much much....   >>      automated testing   UI interaction is not the appropriate place for un....   >>         I've used both JUnit and NUnit, and I'm really rea....   >>   25 Nov 2003   Death of Moore's Law....   We have inverted Moore's Law for disks. Instead of....   >>      Help in fixing an ho....   In New York City? As a salaried person, I'd expect....   >>      Reinventing The Whee....   I always look for a solution I can purchase, but t....   >>      ATL Server   Is MFC an ISAPI Framework, simply because it can b....   >>         Calling ATL a "framework for building ISAPIs" is s....   >>         When did ATL become an ISAPI framework? Hello, COM....   >>      15.4" AND (WXGA OR W....   I have a 15' SXGA+ screen (1400x1050), and by that....   >>   22 Nov 2003   Sabbaticals   I took a sabbatical for 5 months of 2001. It was c....   >>   20 Nov 2003   C/C++ programming qu....   '*a++ != *(a++) != (*a)++' I'm amazed that I go....   >>   18 Nov 2003   What say ye, desktop....   Done to death here. You can have zero-touch adm....   >>      Inexpensive Relation....   Just because you have a 4 CPU server doesn't mean ....   >>   16 Nov 2003   Search engine censor....   'I think that most people are not expecting 'unbia....   >>         'My point was that people view a search engine as ....   >>         'Be careful, Brad, or we'll turn the Spelling and ....   >>         Apparently, people use the word 'censorship' witho....   >>      RedHat:with morons l....   +1. For desktop usage, it would be darn near my LA....   >>      Significance of the ....   You asked about project success, not about popular....   >>         'Will a team of competant but uppity and troubleso....   >>      What's your blog rea....   Reading about 75. Almost all of them get updated o....   >>      Finding Funding for ....   I forgot half my sentence. You can expect a small ....   >>         You can expect a small startup to burn about $10-1....   >>   13 Nov 2003   I don't like upgrade....   Updates can selectively patch files, and completel....   >>      Subversion?   Apache 2 is hardly new. mod_perl is open source....   >>   12 Nov 2003   Help with System.Con....   System.Configuration is used to read the applicati....   >>      Employment Hours Sta....   I've worked pretty much in pure software companies....   >>         Yes, there are similar laws about mandatory overti....   >>      Piano Man Move Over.....   'Is it legal to claim PigeonRank as TM'd?' (TM)....   >>      West Michigan Joelst....   Detroit area refugee, and the best thing I can say....   >>   10 Nov 2003   Software developers ....   Cars were a pretty common incentive in the late 90....   >>      Downloading Linux   The biggest problem you're going to find with Debi....   >>   09 Nov 2003   motherboard crazy   I agree that the choices are actually easy when yo....   >>      Coding while watchin....   Oh boy, it's the 'bad TV trolls'. There is a lo....   >>      Kylix development ab....   'Wasn't one of the original goals to put an end to....   >>   08 Nov 2003   What Anti-virus do y....   Except when forced to by corporate policy, I've ne....   >>      Where to Buy Visual ....   You can definitely do better not buying from Micro....   >>         Buy an MSDN subscription online. You'll pay approx....   >>      Kylix development ab....   Even distributing as source doesn't cut it sometim....   >>   06 Nov 2003   What's on your quick....   'A shortcut to fast user switch*' Hold Windows ....   >>         Why not just arrange your start menu to suit, inst....   >>      Frog Creek web site ....   Wicket, it's not the new site when I view it here.....   >>         By the way, the 'eye-popping' version of the Mozi....   >>      Borland, 20 yrs and ....   I find the 'Delphi is better!!!1!' comments kind o....   >>   04 Nov 2003   FogCreek's site is n....   Current visitors to my site are primarily using 80....   >>      Borland, 20 yrs and ....   Some strategy is better than none. Usually. But it....   >>         I'm sorry, but anybody who thinks Borland is anyth....   >>   02 Nov 2003   Beating comment spam....   Anything can be done by code on the server side, c....   >>      Peopleware : doors b....   Dennis, You're perpetuating an urban myth. '....   >>   31 Oct 2003   JoS RSS feed doesn't....   I've been saying this for ages, and I'll say it ag....   >>   30 Oct 2003   At Least Microsoft P....   'Yah Ok, well if we're looking at all the prices f....   >>   29 Oct 2003      The .NET framework SDK is free. The GUI IDE is not....   >>         I'm not entirely sure it's FUD. I think the poi....   >>      Microsoft encourages....   Or maybe it will encourage people to use Mozilla F....   >>      DataTable & Busi....   I think his question was specifically about DataTa....   >>   24 Oct 2003   Unit testing ActiveX....   You don't unit test UI. You acceptance test UI, wh....   >>      Amazon now searches ....   Yeah, too bad their search is worthless now, becau....   >>   23 Oct 2003   Poor Man's Double Blind Audio Test   >>   23 Oct 2003   Empower Program for ....   Why don't you use the e-mail address on the web si....   >>      Poor Man's Double Bl....   Carver Amazing Loudspeakers (hybrid ribbons), pair....   >>         Mark, I've heard a lot people swear by up-sampl....   >>         'So the fact you found the VBR file to sound bette....   >>         Sorry, here's the full line description of the enc....   >>      Are Blade Server all....   I agree that it's all about size. Rack space at a ....   >>   22 Oct 2003   Background color for....   +1 for Andale Mono. It rocks. You can find it i....   >>      Good home-use laser ....   Investing a few hundred into a Laser Printer is wo....   >>         We have an HP LaserJet 6L. It's dirt cheap to run.....   >>      WinXP boot problems.....   No, unfortunately, he's not okay. He's right that ....   >>      IIS 6   Yes, the kernel mode HTTP parser and dispatcher is....   >>      Any music sites with....   I read a lot of those Codec reviews. Something tha....   >>      So Who Here Has Sign....   I checked with the Empower program, and ASP busine....   >>   21 Oct 2003   Arrggghhh! Fixed siz....   This is an IE bug. Use a different browser. :)   >>      So Who IS Going To P....   I was intending to go, funded by the company, but ....   >>      Any music sites with....   Oh, and I should point out that I can _definitely_....   >>         For the things I've ripped onto 160Kbit WMA, there....   >>         I have found, played through a $10k stereo system,....   >>   20 Oct 2003   overuse of css consi....   Sorry, I agree that it's not quite the problem you....   >>      WLAN and DMZ   The "DMZ" in these terms is the single machine tha....   >>      I finally got it abo....   It depends. OEM Windows XP with SP1 includes .N....   >>   19 Oct 2003   The great start up t....   Oh, and I'm one of a very small handful of people ....   >>         I personally believe that the bubble popped, not b....   >>      When was the last ti....   Garbage collection is also a wonderful way to elim....   >>   18 Oct 2003   Network config quest....   DHCP and Static IP addresses are not mutually excl....   >>      So Who Here Has Sign....   Mike, I just e-mailed that exact question to th....   >>      Apple user interface....   'I'm not sure why iTunes/iTunes Music store should....   >>      How does one program....   Bill, I agree, and that's what I meant about ca....   >>   17 Oct 2003   XML Languages as pol....   The value in using XML over some other scripting l....   >>      Apple user interface....   There are no licensing issues for WMA playback. Th....   >>         The big disappointment was, of course, no addition....   >>      How does one program....   Well, let me ask this: do people use a lot of try/....   >>         The more interesting half of the question related ....   >>      Manual vs. Automatic....   'Changing gears is something you do beacause the u....   >>   16 Oct 2003   An alternative to ex....   One of the major uses of exceptions is data valida....   >>      Manual vs. Automatic....   Sounds silly, but I've played driving games with b....   >>         Corrective assistance is not limited to automatics....   >>   15 Oct 2003      They are not often cheaper. They are occasionally ....   >>      Policy on exceptions....   'Indeed, it's hard to imagine hiring the top tier ....   >>   14 Oct 2003   Laptop hard drives   Did a web search for vendors. Not even sure where ....   >>         My first, last, and only recommendation for hard d....   >>      Leave your language ....   Automatic transmissions generally sap power and fu....   >>      UCS-2 means no Unico....   I'm 99.9999% sure that "Unicode string" in NT parl....   >>         It was already known, back in 1993 when Microsoft ....   >>      Exceptions considere....   'I don't like exceptions because, this one time, a....   >>      Little things all de....   'Practically speaking, if you're writing standard ....   >>   13 Oct 2003   UTF-8, textarea tag ....   That should say "market share".   >>         Ignore Netscape 4. The mark share is tiny, and the....   >>      PHP Unicode FUD   So when you decode a UTF 8 Japanese character, exa....   >>      VPN to the VPN serve....   It depends on how the VPN is configured, and how t....   >>      Larry Wall half-wron....   Yes, it's a Postel quote from the IETF.   >>   12 Oct 2003   Parameters to check ....   'You could also check to ensure a keyboard is inst....   >>      Headers and charsets   No, no. His point is that it should be the first t....   >>   11 Oct 2003   CMS: Support for WYS....   Radio does have it. RichTextBox (recommended above....   >>         There is a Flash-based WYSIWYG HTML editor that I'....   >>      Unicode and VB6   What font are you using? Try "Arial Unicode MS".   >>      character encoding q....   Yeah, I was simplifying some. There are very fe....   >>         1. No. No. No. No. :) Code points are unique. Code....   >>      The Language FOrmerl....   Cola.NET, of course!   >>      Step #231 in the spa....   Oh, okay, that was just dramatic. :) If you're a W....   >>         One word: SpamAssassin.   >>      PHP, Unicode .. othe....   Code pages are a bloody horror. Unicode is tolerab....   >>         Especially since ASP.NET is build on .NET, whose s....   >>   10 Oct 2003   what affects windows....   Something to bear in mind that isn't really obviou....   >>   08 Oct 2003   Preparing a server f....   Microsoft has a whitepaper on how to secure boxes ....   >>      MSDN Universal DVDs ....   This all makes no sense. Microsoft offers ISOs on ....   >>      free bug fixes = no-....   'While this is obviously true for the binary bits,....   >>      bionic office cure f....   > *multi resolutions up to 1280x960 ? Any LCD p....   >>   07 Oct 2003   Stupid SQL Tricks   Just about every database (including, I'm sure Ora....   >>         Can't help you in Oracle, but my first inclination....   >>      What source control ....   CVSNT is atomic. They said it couldn't be done, an....   >>         What specifically do you need help with? The CVSNT....   >>         CVS + Tortoise   >>      free bug fixes = no-....   Philo, you can't compare a physical product that w....   >>         'Face it, errors are YOUR mistakes. Why should the....   >>      Testing - Best Pract....   'Oh, come on, that's complete baloney and you know....   >>      How many developers ....   One of the XP philosophies is 'do the simplest thi....   >>   06 Oct 2003   Testing - Best Pract....   'If this actually works then why not do this for a....   >>   05 Oct 2003      We consider UI testing to be functional testing, m....   >>         Oh, and I'm in Denver as well. Peter Provost has m....   >>         'Of those of you who have experienced this, does t....   >>      bionic office cure f....   By the way, I just found out that Dell is selling ....   >>         By the way, you should consider it a SERIOUS probl....   >>         LCD's reflect less light, because the surface is d....   >>         Get LCD monitors.  I get zero glare off them.   >>      Source code for Half....   'This is not correct. Outlook should be configured....   >>      spolsky, you have co....   I think the threads about how wrong CityDesk has b....   >>   04 Oct 2003   How does disk defrag....   Not helpful to your problem at hand, maybe, but I ....   >>      Source code for Half....   The bug is an overflow in the preview pane. Merely....   >>      CVS hosting.   The FreeBSD jail system is not the same as a 'chro....   >>   03 Oct 2003   Source code for Half....   From what I've read, they didn't actually lose the....   >>      "C" 32 bit short?   The common way to deal with this problem is: 1.....   >>      spolsky, you have co....   heh, "Do not using". Man, it's soooooo Friday. :)   >>         1. Read the text on the posting page. Do not using....   >>      Windows XP & Mir....   As that article indicates, the option is there in ....   >>      HT vs. Dual CPUs   I do have a computationally expensive app that I t....   >>         I must be weird, because I just don't see that kin....   >>         Oh, and in case you think I'm just making things u....   >>         I should've saved all the links... I was all over ....   >>      Why doesn't Java hav....   const is one of those things that's hard and/or te....   >>   02 Oct 2003   HT vs. Dual CPUs   >>   02 Oct 2003   Windows XP & Mir....   And bear in mind that all these motherboard-based ....   >>         It's not true that XP doesn't support mirrored dri....   >>      HT vs. Dual CPUs   I don't do Athlons. My life is too short.   >>      Bionic office colors   +1 for not believing the photos. We have unusual c....   >>   30 Sep 2003   Personal firewall   'How does it know packets x are coming from applic....   >>         'A hardware firewall gives you set-it-and-forget-i....   >>         'So, how does ZoneAlarm work? I went to their web....   >>         Yes, ZoneAlarm is better than the blunt-force fire....   >>         Why would one need a hardware firewall for persona....   >>      Weird .NET / Athlon ....   I build new machines every 6-18 months, depending ....   >>      Why doesn't Java hav....   I think you mean C++'s "const", not "static". And ....   >>   29 Sep 2003   CVS hosting.   If you want a free alternative to CVS, the answer ....   >>         It depends on who you pick for hosting. If you get....   >>         CVS + SSH = the only daemon is SSH, which is alrea....   >>         CVS doesn't run as a daemon in a Unix environment.   >>         It seems to me that any Unix host that lets you ha....   >>      Weird .NET / Athlon ....   'It seems unlikely that there would be XP-certifie....   >>      Multi-threading reso....   'The main thing to keep uppermost in mind in writi....   >>      Dell a competitor of....   And the OS that competes with MS Media Center Edit....   >>      Do you Google just a....   'What if you googled someone and found that they s....   >>   28 Sep 2003   Spam killer for pers....   SAproxy is a POP3-proxy with SpamAssassin embedded....   >>   26 Sep 2003   Username field lengt....   Actually, I take it back. It was 80, and we made i....   >>         'I can't believe we only left 40 characters for e-....   >>      Why am I regularly k....   Phones are very slowly moving to 5 GHz. However, i....   >>         They have 5GHz devices. It's called 802.11a. No in....   >>      Incessant rebuilds w....   In point of fact, if you wanted to eschew VS.NET a....   >>         +1 for the build system in VS.NET being a fundamen....   >>      I had an idea drivin....   'Incidentally, Brad is being blinkered if he think....   >>         We need to face this fact: people like to drive. E....   >>   25 Sep 2003   Securing the Wireles....   I use all Linksys wireless gear. I have a Links....   >>         You might also wish to upgrade the firmware on you....   >>      Private offices, jus....   [Maybe it's a personality thing. I really prefer w....   >>   24 Sep 2003   Best Laptop mouse   Logitech just released a wireless optical mouse de....   >>   23 Sep 2003   The Story of the Blo....   I'm Mr. Pedantic Word Guy, too, and I've had to gi....   >>      Good News for Americ....   Isn't that sort of like comparing black to very da....   >>      What tool do you mis....   Instead of inventing USB-eating back channels, may....   >>         'Real hardware sound volume' Every pair of spea....   >>         I think the reason most Windows shops standardize ....   >>   22 Sep 2003   Small business smoke....   We use Virtual PBX, and we're very happy with it. ....   >>   21 Sep 2003   Dual Boot or Virtual....   While I love VMware, I also see the logic in getti....   >>      Style of XML tags an....   huh huh huh, you said 'correct'. All three of t....   >>   20 Sep 2003   Dell and Purchasing ....   I have a Compaq Presario 2701US. I replaced the dr....   >>   19 Sep 2003   Do you bill for lunc....   As a contractor, or a person who is forced to enum....   >>      Book on Design Patte....   'If those unrelated hierarchies happen to cross li....   >>         I disagree that Visitor creates dependencies. When....   >>      Computer at home   I work at home. Hard to delineate. Most every hour....   >>      CVS vs. Subversion   Just because software is released, doesn't mean it....   >>      Joel. You still doin....   For most people, if they consistently work more th....   >>      Computer Wallpaper   Burn-in is still possible with CRT-based projector....   >>   18 Sep 2003   Wireless LAN questio....   The honest truth is you're going to be VERY lucky ....   >>      Dell and Purchasing ....   Oh, and yes, prices change constantly. They keep n....   >>         The recommendations I'd make for a laptop that sho....   >>      Understaffed   That K-LOC tool is a joke. I told it to do *.cs an....   >>   17 Sep 2003   What is Change Manag....   It's one of those things that varies from company ....   >>   16 Sep 2003   chasm analysis for c....   Early market. From what I've seen, version 1.0 ....   >>      Superstars   I consider FogBugz to be best of class software. T....   >>      basic economics   If you ever want to specifically study the philoso....   >>      Best OS For Home Use....   Putting commonly accessible files on FAT32 makes s....   >>   15 Sep 2003   Motor giant Ford to ....   When I was at Ford Motor Credit back in 1994, they....   >>      Anyone else aghast g....   Guess what? Getters/setters ARE OO design. They al....   >>   14 Sep 2003   Speed Reading Techni....   I never took any formal training, but I have to ag....   >>      Software Configurati....   It seems to me that, if the size of the organizati....   >>      Best Anti-Spam &....   Best Anti-Spam tool that I've found is SAproxy. It....   >>      Unit-testing   Optimally, every build automatically runs all the ....   >>      Do home users use Ou....   It's worth pointing out that most PCs (especially ....   >>   13 Sep 2003      For general users, nearly zero. The people who use....   >>      program manager vs. ....   It differs at every company. Last company I wor....   >>      Adjusting requested ....   You made a 'good faith estimate' of your salary, b....   >>      IP rights again -dem....   'So how many people say demoing software developed....   >>   11 Sep 2003   Trying to be C++ con....   'Hmm, I think my point was that if I declared a co....   >>         Oops, that "they're" should be "their". :-p   >>         'Let's say you have a member variable of a class. ....   >>         You are returning the type directly, rather than i....   >>      FTP mode (passive or....   I've found that devices in-between can sometimes c....   >>         I think the best you can do to be foolproof is tur....   >>      demo violates IP agr....   Of course, I wouldn't divulge any secret details. ....   >>         Here's the answer I'd give to an employer that ask....   >>      Here we go again   'Obviously, it has less cruft since it was made ne....   >>      Smallest exe ?   'On www.linuxassenmbly.org there is an article abo....   >>   10 Sep 2003   Missing Link to a th....   I presume you mean this: http://www.signalogic.....   >>      Comment and Question....   Agreed, this is already well handled. If your aggr....   >>         I don't understand what you mean by <Posted Sin....   >>      who will do the UI ?   +1 to what Ken said. UI is generally the harder an....   >>      Open Folder Dialog f....   And can you write code to invalidate the user expe....   >>         'Does GetOpenFileName let you browse for a folder?....   >>      Win32 hosted DHCP se....   Stephen, the address is 192.168.0.1. Now, replying....   >>         'Why do you need two network cards?' You don't ....   >>   09 Sep 2003      Don't forget that ICS is not controllable. It's ba....   >>      Honors Major in Comp....   'Really? BSEE MIT == BSMIS Podunk University? If y....   >>      Computers, and black....   'Fact is the card counters and betters DID NOT CHA....   >>   06 Sep 2003   Why Johnny can't ree....   SALAD CREAM! (Somebody had to say it...)    >>      Prices ending in 9, ....   There is an assertion that the .99 prices were bas....   >>   05 Sep 2003   Build scripts: expli....   None of these is earth shattering, and none of the....   >>      Localization questio....   'IIRC (and I may not be!) there was quite a long ....   >>      What happened to Win....   The "debug" kernel was obsoleted by BoundsChecker.....   >>      OODB: Are they viabl....   Both OODBs and POSs (Persistent Object Stores) are....   >>      Computers, and black....   'If you play long enough you will lose. Most peop....   >>         'You can win at Blackjack by counting the cards; i....   >>         rz basically nailed everything: - You can't win....   >>      Rebooting after inst....   'I guess no service pack or security patch update'....   >>      Prices ending in 9, ....   'Hey, this was answered already in this thread........   >>   04 Sep 2003   Contract Negotiation....   Just another voice to say that 19% is actually pre....   >>      How to Dress?   'Are pants what we British call trousers?' Amer....   >>   02 Sep 2003   Preserving HTML form....   I'm pretty sure that he's mentioned that they're g....   >>      Database Triggers - ....   Write an extended stored proc that talks to your a....   >>      Database Stored Proc....   heh, good point. :)   >>         I don't find TSQL difficult at all. I'm very adept....   >>         'I'm still kinda fuzzy about why putting database ....   >>         'I just spent two days optimizing three SP's that ....   >>   01 Sep 2003   IM Licence to print ....   Repeat after me: Just because something is law,....   >>         MS Messenger doesn't use UDP. TCP roark:1702 ba....   >>         Considering IM is voluntary, free, highly competit....   >>      Multiple return poin....   The code is right. He wants the variant type to be....   >>      home computers confi....   Oh, should mention that the server runs an ATA RAI....   >>         ISP feeds into an 802.11g Access Point and Router.....   >>   31 Aug 2003   REALLY "low end" con....   If they don't get CityDesk, then take away their P....   >>      Customer Reviews at ....   One comment on bookpool: they have a single wareho....   >>      Developers in Suits ....   Here's $10. Go buy yourself a multi-tasking brain.....   >>   30 Aug 2003   how to delete linux ....   Boot the XP CD, go into the recovery console, and ....   >>      Customer Reviews at ....   'How much one can trust Amazon customer reviews?' ....   >>      Syntax highlighter?   You most definitely CAN withhold the source from n....   >>      Software Naming and ....   Yes, he does. We've been down that path already. :....   >>      Google uses Linux Co....   'Actually, that's exactly why it's worth pointing ....   >>         A few things to note. 1. While Google is 'runni....   >>      Recommend vendor for....   Oh, and let's not forget that some of the ones you....   >>         As I understand it, Microsoft offers the first lic....   >>         Last time I saw a discussion like this, a few peop....   >>      Unknown file...   'If he runs it on 'localhost' the local software f....   >>      A Kinder, Gentler Ti....   '(appleII + with a Hades 300 baud)' I agree, 30....   >>      Should we maintain m....   'By the way, there is one way to not be cracked - ....   >>      Developers in Suits ....   'PS: Who has time to iron when you're working 12 h....   >>         'Then again, I'm one of the few people I know who ....   >>   29 Aug 2003   Unknown file...   'anyone good at reading portscans?' A simple qu....   >>      Pagemaker Software   I used Pagemaker way back then. The truth is that ....   >>      throw() in C++ funct....   It was true in VC++ 6 that the throw specific was ....   >>   28 Aug 2003   Developers in Suits ....   'I really don't see how making someone wear a suit....   >>      Developing on 2003 S....   That should read "IE browsing is NOT slow".   >>         Sorry, I had some personal things blow up, and nev....   >>      Temporarily disablin....   Might I be so bold as to inject that the code you'....   >>         What you're talking about is File Protection, not ....   >>      To cookie or not to ....   'Session id's can work here too, though I think th....   >>   27 Aug 2003   Leaky abstractions a....   'A webform can have only one form tag, so why not ....   >>      Conectix Virtual PC   '2. Is the version on MSDN a full version or trial....   >>         '1. Is it as good as (i.e. does the same job as) V....   >>      What do you do when ....   'i lost 30 pounds and regained my youthful energy ....   >>   26 Aug 2003   Hiding website email....   'Sounds like forms are the only reasonable system.....   >>      Painless Software Pr....   We use an extremely high-tech solution: 1. A wh....   >>         MS Project is a symptom of the larger problem of h....   >>      Not all of Google's ....   The Google architecture is interesting. They have ....   >>   24 Aug 2003   Individual JOs Stati....   Ah, yes. Co-founder. Along with 3 others, one of w....   >>         'Brad, you are the boss... why do you care ?' I....   >>   23 Aug 2003   Waking up thread blo....   'That would look like this Thread A blocks on r....   >>   22 Aug 2003   How Long Will Kids Live?   >>   22 Aug 2003   XML - the only pract....   Unfortunately, some of RSS's problems are because ....   >>      Individual JOs Stati....   One has to hope, in position #12, that none of my ....   >>      Browser "User Agent"   Nothing happens. Mozilla sees the object tag and i....   >>      How Long Will Kids L....   'On the other hand, suppose that late youth (age 2....   >>   21 Aug 2003   Dynamic Website on a....   Even though it doesn't have a connection, that doe....   >>   20 Aug 2003   Technical College De....   'I mean only 6 people out of 35 in my class got jo....   >>      Request for Printer ....   I use a printer that fits everything except for 'n....   >>      Data Structure Algor....   'Data structures I use every day: Stacks, lists, q....   >>      "Good" worm causes h....   It stated that the worm was causing denial of serv....   >>         Funny, if you all read the article, you wouldn't h....   >>      Installers which wil....   Passive mode was added to FTP to support NATs and ....   >>      Should I buy a 64 bi....   You mean the Commodore 128, right? The Commodore 6....   >>   19 Aug 2003   "Good" worm causes havoc. Duh.   >>   19 Aug 2003   Installers which wil....   'In particular, I notice Microsoft has started doi....   >>      Should I buy a 64 bi....   'I was wondering - If I develop software on VS.NET....   >>      PDC?   It's already been confirmed that they will be givi....   >>      Disk space   The disdain for incremental backups is a tape lega....   >>   18 Aug 2003   PDC?   PDC is not a training event. It's a 'learn about t....   >>   17 Aug 2003   Help w/IIS 5.1 on XP....   I've really only seen behavior like this when acti....   >>      Did the girl get to ....   This forum isn't auto-censored. It's patrolled by ....   >>   16 Aug 2003   RAID for developers   Okay, here's the ugly truth. Most of these 'che....   >>      Low uptake on securi....   Hard to compare. Apples to oranges. One would assu....   >>      question on Joel tes....   'So, in milking the cow, should the milk object te....   >>   15 Aug 2003   Disk space   On the less expensive side, we just bought an OnTr....   >>      Mozilla Firebird Coo....   No, you're right. Firebird hides a lot of confi....   >>      MS Blaster Part II   The first TCP/IP stack from Microsoft appeared as ....   >>      MSBlast - I don't un....   'btw, according to another post here this hole was....   >>   14 Aug 2003   I guess Fog Creek's hosting...   >>   14 Aug 2003      I exploits a buffer overrun in the RPC code. The o....   >>      Is anyone else compl....   Because people take laptops to networks that the a....   >>         'Why should some of us be punished because other p....   >>         It should be noted that I think ISPs need to take ....   >>         It's not that it takes a month to patch, it's that....   >>      com and .NET   COM and .NET have some philosophically similar goa....   >>      brand-new environmen....   You can't really use Task Manager to assess the fo....   >>         Yes, we develop on Windows Server 2003, because th....   >>      Winning the Cookie a....   'Honestly, I don't believe that 1/10 of the people....   >>      Upgrading to visual ....   I thought people stopped wanting "C++ DLLs" once C....   >>   13 Aug 2003   Ship Mode   'How do I find a company that actually *does* agil....   >>         We used to call it 'crunch mode'. Every company I'....   >>         I'll make the obligatory agile plug, here. 'No ....   >>      should I begin the p....   'In my experience, decent C++ programmers are very....   >>      Why whine?   'Hey - I'm not talking about a rarely used compone....   >>      Upgrading to visual ....   'A couple of things about it are annoying me. 1, ....   >>   12 Aug 2003   Why whine?   >>   12 Aug 2003   Recommend Hardware F....   Well, if you need the honest to god stuff, the onl....   >>         Is there something wrong with a SOHO router like t....   >>      C++ Test - Questions....   'all destructors should be virtual - no exceptions....   >>         'But these are *not* hard questions for good, expe....   >>         'Brad's answer 'Const methods are those methods wh....   >>         The question with a Microsoft specific answer was ....   >>         Yes, someone with 5 years of C++ should probably g....   >>      Why whine?   I can only hope the admins delete this thread, as ....   >>         I was making a general observation. The most recen....   >>         I agree that, for VC++ 6 users (which I was), the ....   >>         Users can and should complain about their software....   >>         Losing source code is a legitimate reason to stay ....   >>      Is City Desk 2.0 wri....   'I think that many people who say that .NET is gre....   >>         'The reason I don't belive it was written in .NET ....   >>      Microsoft loses $521....   I'm inclined to agree with the sentiment here. Whe....   >>      PC progress slowing?   Pricewatch shows a street price of ~ $200/GB for C....   >>   10 Aug 2003   What *is* that icon ....   'Look at all the people trying to work out what it....   >>         John, there are still some patent issues, but not ....   >>   09 Aug 2003   How to check which t....   OS, yes. Database, no. Same tool as always. htt....   >>      CityDesk profitable?   Remember that 1.0 was basically not marketed at al....   >>   08 Aug 2003   Office politics - go....   'Brave words from one of the most famously fired p....   >>      A question on unit t....   Yes, another indication of the immaturity of the V....   >>   07 Aug 2003   Can "test cases" be ....   'I find my mind is capable of handling this cognit....   >>   06 Aug 2003      'The order in which you do things doesn't matter.'....   >>      vmware - installed s....   +1 for MSDN. That's the best part of their license....   >>      "Writing test cases ....   I've found that writing test cases first increases....   >>      Amen, Joel   Martin, Don't confuse 'currently illegal' with ....   >>   05 Aug 2003   Outsourcing and Stratification   >>   05 Aug 2003   S-Q-L or SeQueL?   I store Gwids in the Sequel Server.   >>      Outsourcing and Stra....   Wages are already depressed here. During the late ....   >>         Allow me to clarify. In my view, an architect i....   >>      software licensing n....   Sometimes, the pricing scheme is very complex, and....   >>      AAAARRRGGG!!! I hate....   No, but you could take away write permissions for ....   >>         You mean you guys are running as admin? For shame!....   >>      Joel Test Number Eig....   'If it requires thirty seconds to go and find the ....   >>      Web Usability and Te....   'Do most people here have the habit of maxizing th....   >>   04 Aug 2003   Netscape had it's pr....   16-bit versions of IE were available for a long ti....   >>      Equity distribution ....   33% is a lot MORE than is generally offered. In my....   >>      "...no software comp....   I think you guys are mis-reading Joel. He's not sa....   >>      Amen, Joel   Henry, There is no possible business justificat....   >>   03 Aug 2003   ASP to PHP Compiler?   Does Joel strike you as the type of person who'd h....   >>      Implementing Joel Te....   I agree that VSS is more than adequate for a 1-per....   >>         If you're doing .NET development, then the N-tools....   >>      When to design Web-b....   Once you say 'ActiveX is okay', why not design the....   >>   02 Aug 2003   ASP to PHP Compiler?   If it was for converting FogBUGZ (which I presume,....   >>   01 Aug 2003   Joel: "you can't hav....   Uh, product management is a function of marketing.....   >>      Are these reasonable....   Oh, and to be pedantic to the pedant: :-p STL does....   >>         But it's not irrelevant! Doing a search on a ba....   >>   31 Jul 2003   Web Services - is th....   There is substance, and people are using it. Howev....   >>      A question on unit t....   We use #ifdef to separate the unit test code from ....   >>      Slowly double-click ....   I use the single-click-then-F2 system (I use tradi....   >>      How popular is VB .N....   'Is the syntax between VB.NET and C# so similar th....   >>         That's why I say learn both. Put both on your resu....   >>         We use C#, and we'll require all code to be in C# ....   >>      James Levin kinda lo....   Ooh! Ooh! It's going to be a low fat vs. low carbs....   >>      Coots R US   'sorry, but I won't pay $1000 for a 17' LCD - I'm ....   >>      Are these reasonable....   'VB programmers shouldn't need to care what a hash....   >>      What % of developers....   Christopher, My point wasn't that there were NO....   >>   30 Jul 2003   Prevayler   'I think John was refering to .net's disconnected ....   >>         'But, that's what .NET is doing, anyway.' Huh? ....   >>      Oh dear - the bigges....   Actually, it seems like Microsoft made three big s....   >>      Are these reasonable....   'I think there is: because l is passed by value in....   >>         *relaxes in the bliss of knowing C++ is a distant ....   >>   29 Jul 2003   issues with working ....   Legally, you'll have to ask a lawyer. You may have....   >>      Sessionbased logins,....   You can add some simple things to increase the sec....   >>      What % of developers....   'You're going to block somewhere for something, wh....   >>         By far, the most useful debugging tool is a multi-....   >>         'Good lord, I hope that was a troll. I'd much rat....   >>         Let me also provide a little performance advice, i....   >>         There's a hump of 'gee whiz, cool' that goes along....   >>      1000$ a month in San....   I don't know where you live, but here in Colorado ....   >>      Calling all .NET Gur....   'I'd take Michael's comments with a grain of salt.....   >>   24 Jul 2003   When to use Stored P....   'Using stored procedures is usually faster, at lea....   >>      wincvs   'A timeout error is what I get if I change my CVSR....   >>   23 Jul 2003   Microsoft Schedule +   MS Project is a lot of things, but "painless" isn'....   >>      too many files!   You can get drives that burn CDs at 52x (faster, I....   >>   22 Jul 2003   UI: Daylight Saving ....   Without understanding the app, it's impossible to ....   >>      And a cupholder too.....   I just looked at the online retailer, and a hard d....   >>         I'd wager a guess that there's a RAM disk in play.   >>      Does VMWare degrade ....   The only thing that's "always running" after you i....   >>      Good Tech Blogs   The guy who runs the Artima Buzz contacted me to h....   >>      Who writes the docum....   I wasn't disparaging the Win32 API. I was merely t....   >>         By the way, CreateWindow() is to my mind a prime e....   >>      Dynamic Combo boxes   Unfortunately, a new language has permeated our so....   >>      wincvs   CVS server isn't running.   >>      Changing CSS with Ja....   "Better" in this case means "more full featured an....   >>         The irony being, of course, that Netscape 7 and Mo....   >>      Simple Guide to A-Li....   'Personally, I don't care for the whole blogging s....   >>   21 Jul 2003   VMWare Test Environm....   Hmm.. how many test environments do you plan to ha....   >>      Perfectionism and Te....   'I've slowly weaned myself from the temptation to ....   >>      Can a bad speller be....   'If it's, say, 1 in 1,000 developers with bad spel....   >>   20 Jul 2003   Wireless Network   There is still much debate about whether a cell ph....   >>      Anyone here a modem ....   Boy, it sure sounds like flow control issues to me....   >>      too many files!   'In the old days I could keep stuff backed up. Jus....   >>      Can a bad speller be....   'Richard, it's very rare, but I've worked with a f....   >>   19 Jul 2003   OS Quark.. Scribus?   Does it have perfect fidelity importing and export....   >>      Starting Up?   The phrases are different, really. "Start up" vs. ....   >>      Lingo Website Feedba....   Okay, here's my honest opinion. I could be wrong. ....   >>         Macromedia has an unregistered trademark for Lingo....   >>      Implementing an auth....   'It seems to me that to the honest user this is be....   >>   18 Jul 2003   I'm not defending Mi....   Just when you feel like you should be missing the ....   >>      Is Govt use going to....   'Why is it that you are locked in? I assume you me....   >>         'There is not so much a need for Linux, as a need ....   >>      Restrictions on # of....   NTFS has no limits. I can understand performance d....   >>      GiorgioG - Tell us a....   Just about any laptop can suffice for development.....   >>   17 Jul 2003   CFMX flouts Joel's "....   It seems as though IE itself may be dead, integrat....   >>      .NET web app hosting....   I used OrcsWeb for a while, and they're excellent.....   >>      Problem with Rename ....   'but as far as I can remember even the 16-bit comm....   >>         Are you running in the 32-bit command process (CMD....   >>      google - slates crit....   It still lists me as the top "Brad Wilson", even o....   >>      Dynamic to Basic   A 'dynamic' drive is a Windows term, introduced I ....   >>      part-time boss?   'If your boss is salaried and finishes everything ....   >>   16 Jul 2003   Web UI vs Windows UI   'Most of the time Javascript is only demanded for ....   >>   15 Jul 2003      'Brad, The original sharecropper article says simp....   >>      ASP.NET LinkButton a....   The file uploading input element in HTML is pretty....   >>   14 Jul 2003   Web UI vs Windows UI   The success of web UIs has nothing to do with the ....   >>      Choosing a bugtracki....   'Is there such a thing as a package that does too ....   >>      colored scrollbar   'Sometimes a non-standard UI is appropriate. Consi....   >>   13 Jul 2003      I'm curious why you have a perception that changin....   >>   12 Jul 2003   Interview Blues   'turnabout may not be so fair if he is hurting oth....   >>      Mouse Alternatives?   My question with typing Dvorak is laptops. Who mak....   >>   11 Jul 2003   To jump or not...   Changing jobs every couple years is pretty much pa....   >>   10 Jul 2003   Mouse Alternatives?   I'm seriously considering an iGesture pad.   >>   09 Jul 2003   game programmers   Fun is what games are all about. I play a lot of g....   >>      OK Cancel Apply   John, Precisely right! My wife is a programmer,....   >>   08 Jul 2003   Which printer is che....   Oh, and something to be aware of when buying an in....   >>         +1 for day to day laser usage for lower costs. We ....   >>      Cool Stuff   How often have you seen comprehensive, accurate, e....   >>      RSS Feed   And, unless something changes Joel's philosophy, n....   >>      Office 2003 - .NET?   Oh, and no, none of the core apps were re-written ....   >>         The one compelling thing for me about Office 2003 ....   >>      What color is the sk....   People don't hand me floppy disks. They hand me CD....   >>   07 Jul 2003   Password protect web....   A database isn't required. What web server are you....   >>      Cloned Programs?   Funny thing is, most word processors have similar ....   >>      A standards plug for....   I think Chris is exaggerating, but only somewhat. ....   >>      Upgrade Frequency   It's definitely easier on my eyes. I stopped havin....   >>      What color is the sk....   'What is the advantage of a laptop that comes with....   >>   06 Jul 2003   Regarding cracks - C....   Well, clearly, it doesn't have any impact at all u....   >>      user interface exper....   I've only ever worked one place that had a full ti....   >>      music once more   'Even in a radio station, the DJs wear headphones.....   >>      Upgrade Frequency   'LCD screen is no slower than that LCD screens tha....   >>      Ignorant newbie ques....   There is a free add-on library from Microsoft call....   >>      What color is the sk....   I'm floppy-free and don't miss it or regret it. Ma....   >>   05 Jul 2003   Upgrade Frequency   I upgrade my PC a lot, but it's more because I pla....   >>      Ignorant newbie ques....   Alyosha, You should distinguish between being a....   >>      Teaching good coding....   'Just creating a polymorphic interface can elimina....   >>   04 Jul 2003   Home office or offic....   Norrick, Get a lock for your door. Seriously. :....   >>      Do you folks use col....   Quick and simple. Take the Ishihara test: http:....   >>   03 Jul 2003   Teaching good coding....   It was CPS 586 (Operating Systems) before I saw th....   >>      vmware ipo watch   'I'm not sure that the mainframe consumer would ca....   >>         And remember that VMware provides a stellar produc....   >>      98.72% of all blogs ....   Marc, thanks for the kind words. :) As for '99'....   >>      What color is the sk....   Yeah, I don't get the objection to the find functi....   >>      Do you folks use col....   The UI is what the users use. So it stands to reas....   >>   02 Jul 2003   MS shifting developm....   Are there any entrepeneurial software companies in....   >>      Caching as a cause o....   You could look at it another way: it means you pro....   >>      I finally found one!   That was a good rule a decade ago, but we've all m....   >>      Bad Analogy of the D....   Okay, folks, you can stop micro-analyzing the thin....   >>         Really? I don't like to make generalizations, but ....   >>      Newsreader recommend....   If you also want integration with other types of c....   >>      Disable mouse wheel ....   The vertical scroll bar is moved off screen? Huh? ....   >>      Mozilla Thunderbird   I've been a staunch supporter of The Bat! for many....   >>      Dual monitors for de....   The first thing I learned when running dual monito....   >>         I experienced some issues when using multiple vide....   >>         'I've heard that Windows XP's dual monitor display....   >>   01 Jul 2003   What color is the sk....   'On a slightly related note, I'd be interested to ....   >>      Do you folks use col....   Actually, my objections to the color screencap are....   >>      Best interview quest....   Process is huge, because the wrong process can be ....   >>   30 Jun 2003   Dual monitors for de....   1. Yes. 2. I use an nVidia card, but I also pla....   >>      Best interview quest....   'How do you stay enthusiastic in a situation like ....   >>      Windows Server vs. L....   A large portion of .NET is targetted directly at J....   >>   29 Jun 2003   Link Colors observat....   This site overrides colors, too. It forces the whi....   >>      Aeron vs Mirra - Mor....   +1 for being goosed. I'm not small, either, built ....   >>      Anyone tried C# Buil....   The one thing I use the VS.NET IDE for is Intellis....   >>   28 Jun 2003   developer doing desi....   I'd say, set milestones for yourself. Have a certa....   >>      Compile Times   In VS.NET, there are internal parsers, obviously, ....   >>      Phone interviews   I remember when building everything was the only w....   >>   27 Jun 2003   Compile Times   You couldn't pay me enough to use C++ without temp....   >>         'The comparison between C++ and C# is hard because....   >>         It was me who made the claim. I have two comparabl....   >>   26 Jun 2003   How would you find a....   'The better you know MFC, the less you want to use....   >>      Desk Decoration   With absolutely no more than required to get my wo....   >>      VB FU?   Agreed, character encoding problem.   >>      G5's   Duncan, You're using incremental differently th....   >>   24 Jun 2003   ASP.NET Session mana....   No need to resort to two projects. Just use out of....   >>         One school: never use session state. Other scho....   >>      What Does a Degree M....   'I'm not sure why you bothered starting this threa....   >>   23 Jun 2003   Direct IP spam   There are broadcasts that can go out as administra....   >>      Rearranging Furnitur....   You're talking about "unit tests", Brent, not "acc....   >>      Snobbery and the IDE   Or blurring the lines between 'IDE' and 'Wizards'?....   >>      Features that unnece....   There are other ways to deal with people who don't....   >>         The problem is, the app should've differentiated b....   >>      Screenshots   If you can't get what you want be cranking the JPE....   >>      Paper Trails and CYA   With a name like Yanwoo, I'm assuming English isn'....   >>      What Does a Degree M....   'I believe in the value of a degree. There are man....   >>         A $100k hedge. Ouch. Glad it's your money, not min....   >>         I was asking from the point of being a hiring pers....   >>   22 Jun 2003   What Does a Degree Mean?   >>   22 Jun 2003   wondering if you kno....   Mozilla Firebird. :-D   >>   21 Jun 2003   Favicon on this foru....   It reminds me of Dick Tracy.   >>      Distracted manager   I assumed he'd already talked to his manager about....   >>         He's saying to make a 'paper trail' of all your bo....   >>      Teleworking   Yes, we're all within an hour's drive of one anoth....   >>         Our team is 3 engineers working 4 days a week at h....   >>      Finding People   It depends on how picky you are on hiring. I don't....   >>      .NET Forms Datagrid ....   A general warning to beware of Infragistics compon....   >>      Cowardly Programmers....   Don't take past failures as an indication of the s....   >>      Rename in DOS   It's probably more appropriate to call it a DOS em....   >>   20 Jun 2003   Where do you eat lun....   I hate to gloat, but +1 for working from home. I e....   >>      Rename in DOS   Norbert's "for" command was, I'm almost sure, goin....   >>      Mailing list hosts?   If you want free, Yahoo is decent. Not great, mind....   >>      Dealing with burnout   You don't have to change careers. Just change jobs....   >>      Win 95 Image   MS-DOS is actually still supported, mostly for emb....   >>         You don't get Win95 any more with MSDN, because it....   >>      Masters of Hype   Pfft, just read the news. McNealy's quotes in the ....   >>      Omniweb feature-brag....   Sorry, I agree with Joel. An HTTP 301 means a p....   >>      Google results quali....   'probably some managment guy thinks that google is....   >>   19 Jun 2003      Two external factors have combined to radically ch....   >>      Setting a Price, The....   In my biased opinion, you can't make it without a ....   >>      Symptoms of a virus ....   D:\ >> nslookup 62.232.35.70 Name: bootsit-5.b....   >>      product manager !!   The answer is: it depends on how your organization....   >>   18 Jun 2003   Reiser FS gets rewri....   Inasmuch as I've read, the files themselves are no....   >>         'I take that back, leave it to MS to bloat even th....   >>   17 Jun 2003   What to pick - C# or....   The vast majority of the learning time will be spe....   >>      Are deadlines bad fo....   'My point it this: I thought the reason for having....   >>      How do I make a radi....   You don't mention where you live. Radio Shack has ....   >>      ask JoS:: New mobile....   Mark that down to 16%. I have four more examples o....   >>   16 Jun 2003   what do you think ab....   I have accounts on all 4, because I know people on....   >>      What does this mean?   'I'm not being sarcastic or anything - and I under....   >>      Full Content RSS: I ....   There's nothing wrong with that solution, Philo, e....   >>         Yes, ETag still pulls a full feed every time somet....   >>   15 Jun 2003   Not my problem...   Oh, it's worth pointing out that the manifestation....   >>         'Okay, it is POSSIBLE that the developer wasn't lo....   >>      VS2003.Net Enterpris....   And the irony is that, now that it's fixed, almost....   >>      Source Code to this ....   Joel sent out an e-mail to his subscribers that ga....   >>   14 Jun 2003   Not my problem...   'Wow, who's glad they don't work for dingbat?' ....   >>         'Also i wonder if this isn't why Linux is such a m....   >>   13 Jun 2003      I had two thoughts that made me wonder if the prob....   >>      SourceGear Vault vs ....   Should be "it's just not much effort". :-p   >>         My experience has been that the major need for VS ....   >>      Free soda?   Oh, and coffee drinkers almost always consumer way....   >>         'The only reason companies give you free coffe ( a....   >>      Survey:: Personality....   ENTJ, all strongly.   >>   12 Jun 2003   Test The Nation   'DO NOT look up the book Bell Curve, I think it wa....   >>   11 Jun 2003   What do you listen t....   Mostly metal and progressive rock, although our (m....   >>      Code Quality From An....   I asked: does the code properly perform its job? T....   >>   10 Jun 2003   Missing C++ feature?   I don't know much about "pure" OOS languages, but ....   >>   09 Jun 2003   More Performance App....   'The unintended result was that some managers neve....   >>   08 Jun 2003   Missing C++ feature?   So, let me sum up. You'd have one set of behavi....   >>      The Let's Make a Dea....   +1 for the sad state of Bridge software. I was det....   >>   07 Jun 2003   Dell Desktop Opinion....   That's ridiculous. Dell is way overpriced, unless ....   >>         I wasn't aware that the 2.8GHz processor offered H....   >>      Back to the VC world   Josh, Year 1 is $200k. Year 2 is $200k * 1.3 (....   >>   06 Jun 2003   Analyst reports on S....   Chris Dibona was on The Screen Savers talking abou....   >>      Is Visual Studio use....   If we're talking about C++, until VS.NET, there wa....   >>      Code Quality From An....   A lot of these rules really lead back to the excel....   >>   05 Jun 2003   Is Visual Studio use....   Do you mean, are the GUI designers used for large ....   >>   04 Jun 2003   C++ question   If I had to remove one feature from C++, it would ....   >>      ASP/Access or PHP/My....   'MSDE (based on SQL Server 7.0)' Actually, MSDE....   >>   03 Jun 2003   Personal Web Server ....   1. WebMatrix's web server requires .NET, because i....   >>   02 Jun 2003   Memory Management Qu....   'By robustness I mean this: reference counting rel....   >>   01 Jun 2003      'I would say ref-counting is more predictable than....   >>         'I allocated the object 10,000,000 times on the st....   >>      A new web broswer   With tabbed browsing, why would you want to "branc....   >>         'Here’s another difference from IE behavior that I....   >>         When you install and use the Luna theme on Mozilla....   >>      Top 10 Indicators yo....   #2 - your "angel investment" meeting with the dogs....   >>      There's too much fea....   'Brad, it doesn't matter whether I disagree with y....   >>         'Brad Wilson alleges there's something wrong with ....   >>   31 May 2003   There's too much fear   >>   30 May 2003   DNS Propagation - an....   TTL is a hit-or-miss thing. Some DNS caches respec....   >>      Database to object m....   The type of product you're looking for is an "obje....   >>      CHMOD and Web Server....   What do you mean you don't have access to any of t....   >>      Probation Periods   Laws vary from area to area. Where I live, fail....   >>   29 May 2003   Any theories on this....   Yeah, well, the average IQ here is about 90 points....   >>      Probation Periods   'If you're a manager and you have to fire someone ....   >>         Related to the 'only hiring smart people' thread, ....   >>      uses of static   'First of all (pet peeve), 'static constructors' i....   >>         I actually don't know what you're saying. Are y....   >>         'Third, in the second example, the constructor B()....   >>      Surprised this news ....   Not that I agree with the big iron/dumb terminal p....   >>      Any reason to consid....   Anybody who means anything besides 'Windows PC and....   >>      Programmers Attack! ....   I don't really see that Access is a "lowbie" tool.....   >>   28 May 2003   Integration and The ....   The required process was a home-grown documentatio....   >>      advice on expanding ....   A lot of web jobs are going to mention VB, because....   >>      laptop manufacturers   I think tablets will be a great help here. My e....   >>         Most video output on PCs is actually designed to d....   >>         'No one mentioned HP?' I was under the impressi....   >>   27 May 2003      I have a Compaq Presario 2701US that I've used for....   >>      Google search result....   Well, I'm the #12 'Brad', but I think my name is m....   >>   26 May 2003   Simultaneous virtual....   Well you have three major issues, probably. Fir....   >>      Google search result....   My feeling is that using Google has become a more ....   >>      Any reason to consid....   'You will have a hard time creating native win32 a....   >>         When all other things are equal, choose the thing ....   >>   25 May 2003   Why this design spec....   'I agree that people should always design before t....   >>      Programmers Attack! ....   'Programmers' propensity to put down each other is....   >>      The Matrix   'Define 'evil'.' Philisophical assistance for y....   >>   24 May 2003   Extreme Programming ....   'I have seen no evidence that XP provides any sust....   >>   23 May 2003   QA Teams - do we nee....   It really depends on your team as to whether you n....   >>      .Net Dataset - worth....   My view -- and you can feel free to disagree -- is....   >>      Extreme Programming ....   Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but why do s....   >>      This is why I am not....   Oh, and here's something else to consider. Ever....   >>         Pretty much every development environment of any c....   >>   22 May 2003   .Net Dataset - worth....   I think you marginalized my use of the word "cente....   >>         Using a dataset as the centerpiece of an applicati....   >>      Experience with proj....   The only spectacular failure I've ever experienced....   >>      Language suggestions   '...I am not sure if Microsoft has an in-house AOT....   >>      Resolution conflict ....   Oh, and whether you think the resolution is too hi....   >>         Depends on the video driver as to what happens whe....   >>      Need help.  Win....   'I have a small/tiny DOS partition on the first pr....   >>   21 May 2003   This is why I am not....   But of course, I should point out that VS.NET 2002....   >>         If you open a 2002 project file, it will be upgrad....   >>   20 May 2003   Software Development....   I don't mean to rain on your process, but why docu....   >>      Build times   People should stop being assholes when others are ....   >>   19 May 2003      Boy, I don't miss C++ build times. :) Our C# mu....   >>      Salary.com is it acc....   I just checked my title against my salary, and I s....   >>      "DD"-like util for W....   Seems to me it's HardDisk0, HardDisk1, etc., but I....   >>      Matrix Reloaded - on....   The whole free-will argument in the movie was just....   >>      Preventing illegal u....   Not all patching programs do a full CRC check. Cer....   >>      First to Market   First to market doesn't necessarily mean you win. ....   >>   18 May 2003   Matrix Reloaded - on....   Well, one could argue that the Frenchman didn't wa....   >>   17 May 2003   Preventing illegal u....   Here's the reality: you can't prevent anybody from....   >>      Missing C feature?   And, to clarify your misconception, .NET does not ....   >>         It's not even about calling it. It's about discove....   >>   16 May 2003   Cover Fire   I try not to dwell on the negatives in life. :-p   >>      Missing C feature?   Alright, I think the conversion is over done. H....   >>         By my estimation, reflection should require no mor....   >>         I agree that it's not in C, but I disagree that it....   >>      Anyone use Multiple ....   Yep, +1 for the "mixin" philosophy. I saw it used ....   >>      Access vs. MSDE   Actually, if you were talking about my points, I d....   >>         Heck, you don't even have to do that. The file for....   >>   15 May 2003   Pentium 4 Hyperthrea....   I've read 0-20% performance increase with hyperthr....   >>      usability of SSL web....   One gotcha to consider is whether you're planning ....   >>      Better system - home....   For every job where I went into the office, home m....   >>      Poll: Most used scri....   Javascript. In pure form, it is perhaps one of ....   >>      Access vs. MSDE   MSDE is actually a great option for an ASP-model b....   >>   14 May 2003   Java programmers ove....   Just to add a +1 that it's right. However, I far p....   >>   13 May 2003   Do You Drive?   I drive, and I LOVE to drive. German cars rule. :)....   >>      Wireless Connectivit....   I had a CDPD card for my laptop back a few years a....   >>   12 May 2003   Java 1.5 – a huge ph....   Oh, and it should be noted that .NET 2.0 is defini....   >>   11 May 2003   Configure VS.NET 200....   They balanced the effort of making 2002 compile 1.....   >>         That's right, it cannot be done. If you want to ta....   >>      The Craft of Program....   I think you'll find that the vast majority of engi....   >>      Bad interviews   I was answering the SECOND version, not the origin....   >>         Oh, and unless my fingers messed with me, the wors....   >>         Yeah, I've heard the problem before, and you need ....   >>   09 May 2003   Why didn't ActiveX D....   You mean, besides being limited to IE on Windows f....   >>      Need a new job, and ....   If you're looking for best bang for your buck, the....   >>      Java bytecode to CLR   The DotGNU project: http://www.gnu.org/projects/d....   >>      Why isn't Delphi mor....   I meant J++, not its .NET successor J#.   >>         I'll say this again in case it wasn't clear enough....   >>   08 May 2003      Why? Did VB6 stop working when they shipped VS.NET....   >>         Probably the single largest factor is: Microsoft d....   >>      Head-to-Head: PHP vs....   Besides, you're wrong. IIS ships with an SMTP serv....   >>      .Net develops advant....   Don't you consider it a benefit that there's no an....   >>      SILENT (&small) ....   In my SS51G, I have a Samsung combo CD-RW (32x16x3....   >>         I'm quite impressed with the performance, size, an....   >>      Where have all the a....   I expect there will probably be an "XP Second Edit....   >>      Lindows and user-acc....   I take it back, the only security setting during L....   >>   07 May 2003   Killing an Orphaned ....   What OS? I find it hard to believe that there's a ....   >>      The excellent times ....   I think things are extremely different for develop....   >>   06 May 2003   Lindows and user-acc....   As a developer who stuggles with the sh*t software....   >>   05 May 2003      There is a user account option in 3.0.5, although ....   >>      C# Programming Soon ....   Honestly, I'm not all that pleased with VS.NET. Th....   >>   04 May 2003   Programmers who are ....   'Do you think the constant churning of skills/tech....   >>      How long does your s....   Nobody said Windows was unique, especially when pu....   >>         By the way, replacing an 'in-use' DLL is a signifi....   >>         I was gonna make a joke about my server staying up....   >>   03 May 2003   Proper UI Design...   I use Trillian, and it lines the entire left side ....   >>      Compensation   It's funny... apparently a lot of you think that e....   >>      Software libre   Hey, that's what happens with VCs. If the company ....   >>   02 May 2003   Announcing a termina....   Re: Accidental firings I heard a rumor in 1993 ....   >>      No new desktop appli....   Ditto on JBuilder. I used it for a short while, as....   >>   01 May 2003   Announcing a termina....   I live in the US, and I've never received an actua....   >>      Quick Poll: Software....   CTO of a small startup, writing software for marke....   >>      John Carmack Program....   That was 2000, not 2002. :-p   >>      What internet did MS....   I disagree that they lost the browser war. I disag....   >>   30 Apr 2003   From absolute zero t....   Agreed. I'd never installed a CVS system, and I ha....   >>      No new desktop appli....   Well, if you think the differences between Java's ....   >>         Actually just emulating desktop software 'look and....   >>      Eric's article is la....   :)    >>   29 Apr 2003   What internet did MS....   The original version of Windows 95 was $99, and it....   >>         Prior to Windows 95, Microsoft was only vaguely in....   >>      Good programmers are....   That hardly seems unique to software development. ....   >>      Apple iTunes Store   'As a geek the only (very minor) problem I can see....   >>   28 Apr 2003   Justifying monitors   I wasn't aware of that card, actually. :)   >>   27 Apr 2003   Sooner or later domi....   I can't think of a company or time that's been bet....   >>         Actually, I disagree that it's all about Bill. I a....   >>      MS Dev Studio 6 and ....   You can have all three side by side. You'd want th....   >>      Donald Knuth - The A....   The importance in understanding the core data-type....   >>      Programmer's Secreta....   Cheap laser and LED printers are available now. I ....   >>         Like a leprechaun: 'fantasy'. :-p Seriously, I'....   >>      Installing Visual St....   I don't believe that it ships with Visual Studio. ....   >>      CVS Server setup in ....   Are you sure you're not missing a space there? "ps....   >>   26 Apr 2003   WiFi in EMF sensitiv....   802.11a almost certainly is not interfering with a....   >>      Justifying monitors   Yes, you can do it that way.   >>      Linux != future   I disagree that tablets are a niche. I expect that....   >>   25 Apr 2003   Justifying monitors   In the consumer space, no, nobody has ever had a q....   >>         Agreed 100%. Joel's test: "Do you use the best too....   >>      Database Written-Con....   You know, I forget now who has it, but I've actual....   >>         The problem with the RichTextBox control (we use i....   >>      Trouble Ahead?   It all depends, really. A few factors might be how....   >>      Ideal office   I would only put in a conference area for someone ....   >>         I have some desk pictures. This is the current ....   >>         I work at home 4 days a week, but when we move int....   >>      Unix hater's handboo....   Gregg, Sure, for the micro-percentage of people....   >>      Putting your whole H....   Oh, and for the record, I do use 1280x1024 on my p....   >>         So, I must presume you think people who print maga....   >>         How could you possibly conclude that someone's cho....   >>         Oh, and you can't appeal to authority with me by u....   >>         You do the world a huge favor when your site looks....   >>         Sorry, that was 27 gigabytes, not 27 megabyte. My ....   >>         3k x 25,000 hits/day x 365 days/year = ~ 27 megaby....   >>         The way browsers are configured by default, the ex....   >>      SMTP Replacement...   Bear in mind that it can be a gradual shift-over, ....   >>   24 Apr 2003   Shiva Netmodem?   If you're using PPP over the wire, and the Shiva s....   >>      Unix hater's handboo....   Does anyone find it richly humorous that Donald A.....   >>      Drowning in "Process....   Agile project management != chaos Lightweight pro....   >>      Putting your whole H....   There's no doubt the forum article list is wastefu....   >>   23 Apr 2003   software engg. at sc....   The help was essentially zero.   >>      Putting your whole H....   I agree that mechanical page generation is the rig....   >>      CVS & .Net help?   And a hint on verbage differences: VSS 'Get Lat....   >>      Pricing question (ag....   You guys are treating the component likes it's 'ma....   >>   22 Apr 2003   Experience   Unfortunately, experience is often an "HR filter",....   >>      CVS & .Net help?   Oh, and Chris' warning about binary files is reall....   >>         There's a pretty significant difference between th....   >>      Joel's 12 point Test....   Ditto on ZIP. They're crap technology. What's wron....   >>      HTTP Replacement   John, No, I don't think replacing SMTP would re....   >>         Good god, why? So we can ruin the scalability of t....   >>      Software Engineering....   I find it almost inconceivable that the test of li....   >>      Evil Wizards   All code generated on your behalf must be understo....   >>      SMTP Replacement...   Actually, Joel did a better job of explaining this....   >>      Pricing question (ag....   Considering I just made a tree that seems to be of....   >>      Rent/Subscription Ba....   There are other advantages to being able to use an....   >>      Opinions On Code Rev....   Yeah, we don't do it 100% either. We do it for kno....   >>   21 Apr 2003   Pricing question (ag....   $500 for a tree is absolutely insane. :(   >>      SharpReader   NewsGator is the only Outlook plugin for RSS readi....   >>         I'm a fan of NewzCrawler myself, as it seems like ....   >>      Rent/Subscription Ba....   +1 for never dealing with Exchange Server again. I....   >>         Philo, I'm not sure what you're saying here. Yo....   >>         Our (admittedly limited) research has shown a high....   >>      Thoughts on Amazon A....   I'm okay with Associates links. I actually partici....   >>      OpenOffice   The only app that Microsoft 'pre-loads' is IE by v....   >>   20 Apr 2003      RTF is a standard, but some of the interesting pie....   >>   19 Apr 2003      OpenOffice is an excellent piece of software. S....   >>      Managing   No, I don't think that's true. I've been coding fo....   >>      Opinions On Code Rev....   I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned the ultimat....   >>   18 Apr 2003   Making 'small money'....   I sold a piece of software on the web for $15, and....   >>      Buying a Laptop   Agreed with plane issues. I'd really like to see s....   >>   17 Apr 2003      Here's what I learned through various laptops: ....   >>      Knowledge sharing us....   Bruce disagrees with the insecure nature of wikis.....   >>      InstallShield: Don't....   My point is that if "foo.dll" has been changed, th....   >>         I think there's a reason that, despite Microsoft's....   >>      XHTML, CSS and valid....   The W3C hopes that it will, sure, but how do you s....   >>   16 Apr 2003   InstallShield: Don't....   +1 for having paid my hell dues to InstallShield a....   >>      Upgrade Installer   If your install is not broken, then there's no rea....   >>      Software development....   Agile development isn't ad-hoc or informal. The pr....   >>      how to sell a web ap....   The appliance server idea is actually a really goo....   >>   15 Apr 2003   What to do about sle....   I guess there's something to be said for living cl....   >>      Can't find the *&....   COM does not require type-libraries. They are opti....   >>         If all you have is the binary, you have to registe....   >>      how to sell a web ap....   When I first co-founded the company I'm with, the ....   >>

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