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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'M' | ||
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Number of Comments: 414 |
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| Number of Words: 26,540 | ||
| First Comment: 30 Apr 2003 | ||
| Final Comment: 27 Jul 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 6 |
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| First Topic: 02 Sep 2003 | ||
| Latest Topic: 08 Jun 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 27 Jul 2004 | Business with a reta.... | I ran a little retail biz for a short while and wr.... >> |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Impedance Mismatch S.... | Because Li Fan's top 5 searches are "Britney spear.... >> |
| 14 Jul 2004 | The End of Shrink-Wr.... | And people who actually enjoy desktop based applic.... >> |
| 02 Jul 2004 | Links in Gmail...Sne.... | If voting could really change anything, It'd be il.... >> |
| 28 Jun 2004 | Can you be a good C+.... | Hmmm, I think that's the kind of things (i.e. debu.... >> |
| Best practices archi.... | I third Adobe Photo Album. I have purchased three .... >> | |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Lookup tables vs. ex.... | So do they propose that you store enumerated value.... >> |
| 22 Jun 2004 | Dell Computers | As a lowly consumer, you cannot beat their Axim pr.... >> |
| Code Comlete 2nd Edi.... | Well, we sure as sh!t aren't making money writing .... >> | |
| How much RAM for XP? | I used a dell PIII 500MHz with XP and 256mb of RAM.... >> | |
| Induce Act - Shall w.... | Wait, let me get this straight... the government i.... >> | |
| single sign on recom.... | Not single sign on, but we would have the users lo.... >> | |
| Linux distribution | My scale of unix: Hard core - FreeBSD / OpenBSD.... >> | |
| Respect to Eric | This discussion is new to me (where have I been), .... >> | |
| 08 Jun 2004 | STUN RFC >> | |
| 28 May 2004 | End to End Testing? >> | |
| 28 May 2004 | Ethics of BCC'ing yo.... | Send to A, then forward to B. >> |
| Unix books | I also like The Unix Philosophy which leans more t.... >> | |
| I always learned fun new things from Unix Power To.... >> | ||
| Win2k forever | I have found WinXP to be much better in stability,.... >> | |
| Should I retire? | Problems of the common man. >> | |
| Resources on Oracle | 'And to all you members of the Microsoft Borg Coll.... >> | |
| Company I work on wo.... | Write down your case. Feed it to your manager. Ans.... >> | |
| Silly managers | Wake up and smell the corporate-paid coffee. Nobod.... >> | |
| 26 May 2004 | Screw math... | Matt, would you consider the continuum hypothesis .... >> |
| 14 May 2004 | Design Skills are Wo.... | 'The bigger problem with this is that it can hurt .... >> |
| 12 May 2004 | Best Printer for Bro.... | This might be a case where oursourcing your printi.... >> |
| Outsource workers wh.... | I have to say I love rs's and FNR's responses. .... >> | |
| 11 May 2004 | 'Their only flaw was that they were Australian.' .... >> | |
| Sybase | Sybase is a great DB platform to be on. You always.... >> | |
| 06 May 2004 | Job Title for future.... | Given where you want to go, how about "Software De.... >> |
| 30 Apr 2004 | A programmer who is .... | Any programmer who works for a for-profit corporat.... >> |
| 29 Feb 2004 | Caveat Emptor | For credit card providers, funding cash advances i.... >> |
| 28 Feb 2004 | Sathyaish, it sounds like you're joining the consu.... >> | |
| 24 Feb 2004 | Are Older Developers.... | Older developers seem to be better at the strategy.... >> |
| #$#%@^ policies | Did you put in a good word for him? Vouching for a.... >> | |
| Programmer Shelf Lif.... | I think it is many programmer's dream to become a .... >> | |
| Activity Tracking To.... | Not all companies are smart enough to track time t.... >> | |
| 23 Feb 2004 | Word is the perfect choice, though Notepad is slig.... >> | |
| Could .net fail? | +1 - User said anti-slashdot >> | |
| Subversion hits vers.... | Curious, with all the bad mouthing I have ever hea.... >> | |
| my career | 'Nobody hires an expert database developer any mor.... >> | |
| list of skills on re.... | A good rule is: have I used this in a project? Yes.... >> | |
| 22 Feb 2004 | Database Design: Ord.... | How many items are in your collection? How often w.... >> |
| 21 Feb 2004 | list of skills on re.... | List them all in bullet form, grouping them by lan.... >> |
| Personal Cell & .... | Repeat after me: 'Sure, you can have my cell p.... >> | |
| 20 Feb 2004 | 'One thing that does bug me is people with persona.... >> | |
| Job hunting *success.... | I had luck with Monster too! I don't understand wh.... >> | |
| Don't be funny | What mixed advice. Have fun at work. If others .... >> | |
| 19 Feb 2004 | What should MS do ab.... | I'll fall back on the open source thingy that know.... >> |
| Taking Steering Whee.... | Define 'win' - they only win if the same managemen.... >> | |
| As noted above, programmers are perpetually optimi.... >> | ||
| 'they hold the cards' I absolutely agree. The t.... >> | ||
| I had to re-read your original post and I still fe.... >> | ||
| One more thing to add to what Justin said - There .... >> | ||
| 'Our plan is to create a separate company, involvi.... >> | ||
| 18 Feb 2004 | I hate developers | As a developer, let me generalize - Humans are ins.... >> |
| How do I break the p.... | Remember the Object Police won't jump into your cu.... >> | |
| 17 Feb 2004 | Design Decision No.3 | Also, have you thought about running some usabilit.... >> |
| 'The top one has the reference that will go at the.... >> | ||
| Update on Feeling Ba.... | Better to loose some faith in corporations, not in.... >> | |
| Training the Boss | Aussie Chick - The new place I work has an upper l.... >> | |
| 16 Feb 2004 | Pitfalls of oursourc.... | I have proposed putting the company on a barge and.... >> |
| Seems like there should be a differentiation betwe.... >> | ||
| Cell Phone booster | http://boatantenna.com/cellular/boosters/da4000.ht.... >> | |
| How discouraging | Matt H. – Good clarification. I guess I was thinki.... >> | |
| Know your place – I am amused, I must admit. Howev.... >> | ||
| Here are a few things to think about: 1. There .... >> | ||
| Down with WYSIWYG? | “I would say that WYSIWYG tools generally produce.... >> | |
| Knowing you can get .... | “Yeah, because providing you with a paycheck for w.... >> | |
| 13 Feb 2004 | Starting all over ag.... | Eric - Well put! I just had this realization as I .... >> |
| How to convert an in.... | Check out Robin Ryan's book on interviewing. >> | |
| DB Tuning advice | http://www.sql-server-performance.com/rd_query_tun.... >> | |
| It is impossible to tell without the query and the.... >> | ||
| I am being setup as .... | Easy for me to say, but... Keep a professional .... >> | |
| Running Macintosh O/.... | 'The PowerPC processor is not emulated at this tim.... >> | |
| System Analysis | Whoops - Is it any surprise I replaced "test" with.... >> | |
| As vince said, these modeling tools are nothing mo.... >> | ||
| 12 Feb 2004 | Why do we have # and.... | From http://www.phonewarehouse.com/thedial.htm .... >> |
| 11 Feb 2004 | What's Your Greatest.... | What is your greatest weakness? I think the big.... >> |
| just how much math i.... | I think the more important question of mental qual.... >> | |
| Democracy Revisited | Russell, Creating software is like giving birth to.... >> | |
| Assessing a Software.... | Well, most software developers I have worked with .... >> | |
| bob - Hope you didn't feel I was jumping all over .... >> | ||
| 10 Feb 2004 | Good vs Bad Code | I have not seen some horror code like others on th.... >> |
| Assessing a Software.... | I have not been a manager, but I will give my opin.... >> | |
| System DOA | This reminds me of going to 'X Buy', a major retai.... >> | |
| 09 Feb 2004 | Trusting any reviews | I have found reviews to be very helpful on various.... >> |
| Unix / Linux Desensi.... | Check out The UNIX Philosophy by Mike Gancarz. If .... >> | |
| 06 Feb 2004 | Tool for limit netwo.... | My kids can do that. >> |
| Test Outsourcing-2 | True, but having come from a large corporation, th.... >> | |
| 'When doing final testing (release candidate stage.... >> | ||
| 05 Feb 2004 | Project Management S.... | http://www.project-management-center.com/pmctrn.ht.... >> |
| What's the daily spa.... | Maybe we can get SMTP servers categorized as WMD a.... >> | |
| It's NEVER legitimat.... | Since they have OS X, the Mac truly is a legitimat.... >> | |
| People are given this big lie that technology is s.... >> | ||
| Best resume examples.... | A resume is only one part of the story. Interviewi.... >> | |
| Mydoom a taste of vi.... | Maybe we could pass a law to require virus writers.... >> | |
| 04 Feb 2004 | What is Hacking the .... | Regarding: 17. The desire to make money off of .... >> |
| Becoming a Recruiter.... | If the opportunity presents itself, spend a day wi.... >> | |
| Shared Jumpdrive | Sorry, I just have to ask. What are you doing work.... >> | |
| 2 Q's on Design - We.... | Don't Make Me Think - by Steve Krug Read it! .... >> | |
| Programmer Productiv.... | To be fair, the pro-programmer has value in the re.... >> | |
| Measure in Beans. A Bean is a six minute increment.... >> | ||
| Real experience XML/.... | Are these external partners well defined yet? Do t.... >> | |
| Alternative for IIS?.... | For web hosting, I use the cool and refreshing Win.... >> | |
| Pain Points- Outsour.... | Seems like companies often don't want to set up an.... >> | |
| Worst Ever: 7350 Lin.... | saberworks: 'It's a big perl program, and everythi.... >> | |
| drinking >> | ||
| Oracle - where to be.... | 'When you have a database with a table that by its.... >> | |
| 03 Feb 2004 | The future of HTML | Eric - Miss the days of Gopher? :) >> |
| dumb CVS question: S.... | We have been fairly successful using CVS as: 1..... >> | |
| DVDs and customer ab.... | 'How could I explain the value of an original Dr J.... >> | |
| On second thought, maybe the DVD collection impres.... >> | ||
| 'I have 261 DVDs in my collection right now and no.... >> | ||
| Feedback on Vonage | How does the phone do in 911 situations? >> | |
| Identifying users wi.... | It is pretty easy to send messages from one user t.... >> | |
| 02 Feb 2004 | Testing Software - W.... | Maybe the CEO outsourced everybody and there is no.... >> |
| writing a paper on s.... | 'You can't just expect somebody to give the compan.... >> | |
| How common are sniff.... | Sniffing wireless networks is no worse than sniffi.... >> | |
| 30 Jan 2004 | Giving Notice? | If you can't be courteous and professional, then g.... >> |
| customer-set priorit.... | ' everything is going to be marked as 'important' .... >> | |
| 29 Jan 2004 | Documentation | I like that idea of keeping a text log. I have bee.... >> |
| Scrum sounds like fun, but the only point I would .... >> | ||
| For one, you need to keep a handle on what people .... >> | ||
| Feeling Bad About Le.... | You are giving two weeks notice. That is completel.... >> | |
| things more complica.... | Ah, despair: 'None of us is as dumb as all of u.... >> | |
| Is Enterprise Archit.... | So, are you saying you the ETA looks at the requir.... >> | |
| 'Quantitative Software Engineer' My guess is yo.... >> | ||
| In my old company, there were two types of archite.... >> | ||
| Implemention of the .... | Well, it seems there are a few options for this if.... >> | |
| 28 Jan 2004 | Home Web Server - wh.... | FreeBSD or better yet if it will be on the net, Op.... >> |
| 27 Jan 2004 | microsoft access... .... | For what it's worth, Access (when fully installed).... >> |
| Who Moved My Cheese? | uncle tom - if there were a post of the day, you w.... >> | |
| Managing Idiot Savan.... | Yes, but don't let him go without giving him the o.... >> | |
| Help him out. Tell him you think it is taking much.... >> | ||
| 3rd interview | Don't read anything into this. Companies interview.... >> | |
| Anon - Dude! When they call you to say 'we would l.... >> | ||
| Internal Software Re.... | Well, there are two ways to answer this. 1. Fro.... >> | |
| Leadership memo of t.... | Hmm... How much does a CxO make per hour. How many.... >> | |
| 26 Jan 2004 | "The beatings will continue until morale improves..... >> | |
| why the disparity? | Probably because so many people are out of work st.... >> | |
| Alternatives to AOL/.... | http://fusemail.com - Free for now. >> | |
| Outsourcing (BPO) - .... | Blame human nature. We put a huge value on having .... >> | |
| your freeware collec.... | iTunes >> | |
| 25 Jan 2004 | Redhat Professional .... | If you have the bandwidth and $.13 for a blank CD..... >> |
| 24 Jan 2004 | More Windows Brain d.... | Mike - Sounds like you need Cygwin. >> |
| 23 Jan 2004 | Merits of Visio? | What Elephant said! Visio is a good at 'modeling' .... >> |
| Common sense softwar.... | Is the link wrong? I get a "page not available" ms.... >> | |
| Web-based Project Ma.... | You get what you pay for. Seriously, for an OS pro.... >> | |
| "Measly little 100k .... | Ori, I think you make a very outstanding point. I .... >> | |
| 22 Jan 2004 | basic db question | There is no question Joe knows his stuff. He is th.... >> |
| Check out item #3 in this article: http://www.i.... >> | ||
| Need tech advice on .... | Just to satisfy my own curiosity, will both client.... >> | |
| Robot Scientist Crea.... | Robotic programmers? Cool, does that mean we will .... >> | |
| what's your choice o.... | SQL Server 2k - Query Analyzer rules! For long .... >> | |
| Files in the DB | We have found slowness in retrieving the larger fi.... >> | |
| There is really only one way to do this. Test, tes.... >> | ||
| SOFTWARE CANNOT BE G.... | 'its documentary ... are terrible' Obviously yo.... >> | |
| From the GNU Manifesto 'Programmers need to make .... >> | ||
| Database Analysis To.... | Well, there is a T-SQL Cookbook from O'Reilly that.... >> | |
| "Unix culture values.... | 'Why should someone else do something for you?' .... >> | |
| 21 Jan 2004 | Oracle sequences and.... | Ask Joe: http://www.celko.com/ >> |
| Well, SQL Server has the uniqueidentifier type. If.... >> | ||
| A plea for email add.... | Or maybe they will be used by the Microsoft Market.... >> | |
| Today's Dilbert | In this economy a "stretch goal" results in nothin.... >> | |
| For Sale: Abstract B.... | Maybe they can sell them on iTunes for 99 cents. >> | |
| Who's your favorite .... | Second for dotster. Like moving a decade forward f.... >> | |
| Uhh....Advice? | To add onto the comments above (which are great). .... >> | |
| Home Brew PVR update.... | Good guess. Never had the ROI for me considering s.... >> | |
| All this to record TV? Granted there is some good .... >> | ||
| The source of `bad c.... | 'A lot of times, crappy code takes 500 or 1000 lin.... >> | |
| 20 Jan 2004 | Wait, let me get this straight. Bad code is short-.... >> | |
| Very good points. My previous employer had no emph.... >> | ||
| Anyone know what thi.... | Eric, I am guessing this is reproducible with a.... >> | |
| Unacceptable Login N.... | I agree with MarkTAW, only use alpha-numeric chara.... >> | |
| 19 Jan 2004 | Product Positioning .... | I'd sure like to be on your gift list. >> |
| Like I said, I need to see it up close. At least y.... >> | ||
| Maxi = people who want more capacity Mini = peopl.... >> | ||
| Daisy-chaining USBs | Interesting, but still you get the desired effect. >> | |
| I believe the apple USB keyboard is an example of .... >> | ||
| 18 Jan 2004 | Outsourcing - the mi.... | I was pretty disgruntled myself, but you get over .... >> |
| 17 Jan 2004 | what is the best lan.... | Learning issues aside, sometimes the best lesson i.... >> |
| Is PHP viable for a .... | Powerful is a very subjective thing. I think of.... >> | |
| 'HP at the time was a far more powerful language f.... >> | ||
| 16 Jan 2004 | Python seems to be stable on multiple platforms. >> | |
| Lazy way to secure I.... | Why not shell out a couple of bucks per month for .... >> | |
| Internet Explorer: w.... | Funny, I have never had problems with IE. Though, .... >> | |
| Promise not delivere.... | You mean: "We only hire the best, available, who a.... >> | |
| Visual Sourcesafe an.... | I have not used it yet, but it certainly couldn't .... >> | |
| 15 Jan 2004 | I know somebody who found a possible product that .... >> | |
| Startup Versus Big C.... | 'Stability, of course, is more of a concern than i.... >> | |
| 14 Jan 2004 | I am so lucky I have.... | Bella, did I forget my little sarcasm emoticon? :} >> |
| Take a vacation. >> | ||
| Is the MCDBA a worth.... | I got my dream SQL Server dev job just recently wi.... >> | |
| Outsourcing | Keep the analysts. They transform the problem to a.... >> | |
| Why put pictures of .... | Leonardo, did you ask your boss how much s/he was .... >> | |
| 13 Jan 2004 | Last minute intervie.... | 'burn ALL of your code and documents… Illegal cons.... >> |
| Good point braid ged! Tell them part of the ter.... >> | ||
| Next big thing | 'terraformings of Mars and Venus' I am inclined.... >> | |
| 12 Jan 2004 | Last minute intervie.... | Are you on good terms with your previous employer?.... >> |
| My Next 'Save the Wo.... | I second Ralph Lee!!! I value my family, and as su.... >> | |
| Custom Client or Acc.... | 'IT usually prefer browser based applications as t.... >> | |
| Next big thing | Li-fan Chen - interesting topic. What comes nex.... >> | |
| 11 Jan 2004 | Can't Copy Money | Color copiers have been doing this for years. Lous.... >> |
| 10 Jan 2004 | Where to study Compu.... | JP - At the end of the day, what counts is solving.... >> |
| Sounds like you are not looking to get a CS degree.... >> | ||
| 09 Jan 2004 | Stored Procedure Organization >> | |
| 09 Jan 2004 | Let's talk about key.... | I am with you on this one. I prefer Dell's older b.... >> |
| What a novel approac.... | For director/VP levels, I have always preffered a .... >> | |
| Stored Procedure Org.... | Thanks for the suggestion. Perhaps adding to the s.... >> | |
| 07 Jan 2004 | Personal information.... | My former dentist office was broken into and all t.... >> |
| 26 Dec 2003 | MySQL or Postgress | Mauricio - Sounds like your description lends itse.... >> |
| 20 Dec 2003 | Nokia sucks :( | Stephen Jones - you want a Siemens S46 phone. >> |
| 21 Nov 2003 | Users revolt against.... | Website asside, if anything, design has become mor.... >> |
| MS Exchange Server :.... | Matt L. - Are you telling me the form I had to fil.... >> | |
| 20 Nov 2003 | World Class Programm.... | Are referring to the other post suggesting that pr.... >> |
| "warm-chair attritio.... | The good news: 'The Baby Boomers will be retiring .... >> | |
| Economy is bad. Employers no longer treat employee.... >> | ||
| Being pushed | Besides working the legal/HR angle, you might want.... >> | |
| I had to train my replacement starting in August a.... >> | ||
| The Irony of Outsour.... | uncronopio - That is a decent point. I remember my.... >> | |
| 19 Nov 2003 | Pocket¨PC Syncroniza.... | I have used the siemens pocketpc phone for several.... >> |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Potential Employer - Potential Customer >> | |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Great Places to be a.... | I think this sort of creativity lived at Bell Labs.... >> |
| future of programmin.... | I predict the future will be paved with poorly imp.... >> | |
| Any techies who made.... | Whoops, sorry, Tim not Ted. >> | |
| I did not do this, but my boss has. He has had a p.... >> | ||
| Inexpensive Relation.... | You don't get something for nothing. There is a.... >> | |
| One other thing I just remembered. Check out Sybas.... >> | ||
| For what its worth, our company, which can very mu.... >> | ||
| Developing software .... | Makes you wonder if Apple would have saved money i.... >> | |
| Loyalty? | Richard Kuo wrote: 'The number of 'f*** the employ.... >> | |
| 17 Nov 2003 | efficient / fast sof.... | I don't think anybody is arguing that King David. .... >> |
| Philo - 100% correct 'Clear, specific specificatio.... >> | ||
| how much your salary.... | Last year was about 3%, and this year I am getting.... >> | |
| Project Management S.... | Jim, we have tried many PM packages that help get .... >> | |
| The real problem wit.... | T. Norman – I think you make an important differen.... >> | |
| Interesting Work | From a job perspective, I work with databases. I w.... >> | |
| 15 Nov 2003 | Tasks for new progra.... | Assuming they will not be doing DBA type work and .... >> |
| Are you asking for some technical questions to gua.... >> | ||
| Why do I want to hos.... | I agree, nothing contribute to a project like a go.... >> | |
| 14 Nov 2003 | Dressing up for job .... | SomeBody - sounds like that post would work real w.... >> |
| Think of it as a wedding. This is not how you are .... >> | ||
| Why do I want to hos.... | 'Unfortunately, many projects don't have the luxur.... >> | |
| I too think this is a nice idea. Being both a T-SQ.... >> | ||
| Website Accounts sea.... | Those kind of numbers scream database to me. Th.... >> | |
| Ok, seriously, why W.... | Phillip: 'I can't even imagine wanting to use Wind.... >> | |
| I like WinXP because in my expereince it has a muc.... >> | ||
| Linux hack attempt | Unix config file are very useful and appropriate f.... >> | |
| 13 Nov 2003 | Open Source Software Contributor Demographics >> | |
| 13 Nov 2003 | How does one join MP.... | I have been reading about ID3 tags recently. It ap.... >> |
| Making really Zero-D.... | These are not all in the category of fatalities, b.... >> | |
| Outsourcing Employee.... | If only we could get prisoners to program for $.25.... >> | |
| Without revealing the true nature of our business,.... >> | ||
| I just heard our CIO tell us that there are only t.... >> | ||
| Speed | I have to agree with Somebody on this. I believe B.... >> | |
| Linux hack attempt | Ori - Not caring about market share lets one focus.... >> | |
| So, is the question: who do you trust more, people.... >> | ||
| Back doors, bugs, hackers – There is nothing ruder.... >> | ||
| Employment Hours Sta.... | Outsourced – What is this “company pension plan” t.... >> | |
| 12 Nov 2003 | Bored Bystander - I think it can be generalized to.... >> | |
| Outsourced - I would think this would make them le.... >> | ||
| Do the same laws of hourly versus exempt employmen.... >> | ||
| 11 Nov 2003 | .org addresses | I believe so. I have been for about four year. >> |
| A small rant about L.... | Gp - I too check out Slashdot once per day and som.... >> | |
| Software project VS .... | Marty Potokar wrote: “tight/rushed schedules, sub.... >> | |
| What's China got to .... | 'Why should code submitted randomly by some hacker.... >> | |
| Speaking of Marketin.... | Aussie Chick, You did the hard part by identify.... >> | |
| after cv...contract | 'but it can't be outsourced' Care to share with.... >> | |
| Sorting out job titl.... | I am having a tough time accepting what you are al.... >> | |
| Writing a software s.... | Sounds like you need an Extreme Client! :) >> | |
| Developing a Replace.... | From Apple's website on Darwin: 'Beneath the appea.... >> | |
| 10 Nov 2003 | All I want for Chris.... | After the second movie, I am not particularly inte.... >> |
| Have not seen the movie yet, but isn't that the Al.... >> | ||
| Writing a software s.... | Sathyaish - There is some great advice on this boa.... >> | |
| Reporting options fo.... | Philo, but end users would not know how to do this.... >> | |
| XML??? I can just see Joe Marketing having a field.... >> | ||
| Downloading Linux | Stephen, I am guessing what David means is long te.... >> | |
| 09 Nov 2003 | Developing a Replace.... | BB - I am with you on this. Every six months I'll .... >> |
| Downloading Linux | Jan - I have always used http://linuxiso.org and i.... >> | |
| 08 Nov 2003 | so I heard through t.... | Lucky for you the decision on who is right is a st.... >> |
| What Ballmer meant t.... | 'If we make it pretty they will use it.' Apple .... >> | |
| 07 Nov 2003 | iTunes and iPod | I would fathom that the windows iTunes will do som.... >> |
| Dynamic SQL Queries | Can anybody point to any documentation showing tha.... >> | |
| getting ora 12571 er.... | Shai - I believe it is a DBA/SA's job to keep a sy.... >> | |
| 06 Nov 2003 | Incredibly Stupid Qu.... | 'The feeling of attachment is one that programmers.... >> |
| To continue with the bar talk. Is the 'free as in .... >> | ||
| 03 Nov 2003 | Internet Access - wh.... | If your locale is lucky enough, why not a combinat.... >> |
| 02 Nov 2003 | Alerts Management On.... | I third... or is it fourth or fifth Perl. Perl is .... >> |
| 360 students | www.MarkTAW.com wrote: “Database Administrators … .... >> | |
| Programming for fun .... | I am a 'business systems' programmer, but more spe.... >> | |
| 30 Oct 2003 | Capability Maturity .... | How about the Alyosha Software System? :P >> |
| Microsoft encourages.... | OT wrote: 'My boss, the owner, didn't give a sh*t..... >> | |
| 24 Oct 2003 | Here comes the monoc.... | '...could spell trouble for companies that haven't.... >> |
| Would you consider t.... | Dennis Atkins - Well put! >> | |
| 23 Oct 2003 | What online radio do.... | I always listen to my vast collection of *legal* m.... >> |
| Does anyone *like* t.... | nathan is right in that there is less paper maneuv.... >> | |
| Why RDBMS? | Don't forget too that your data will probably outl.... >> | |
| Are Blade Server all.... | I think it is all about size. Blade servers are ni.... >> | |
| More on internationa.... | Aussie Chick - Was it the presidential visit today.... >> | |
| Examples of Interfac.... | In the past I have used an application called Reme.... >> | |
| 22 Oct 2003 | Background color for.... | I really like the WinXP (or NT) command prompt. I .... >> |
| Curse of the 4.0 | Didn't Sun confuse the heck out of people going fr.... >> | |
| Offshoring work | I agree. I interviewed with a company that had a d.... >> | |
| "Good specs" - Why start now? >> | ||
| Philo - wow, thanks for the link. I have been aler.... >> | ||
| Test Team Chaos | Take all the testing money and divide it up amongs.... >> | |
| Time pressure when p.... | Deadlines are part of the fun of the job. I imagin.... >> | |
| 21 Oct 2003 | Identity Management | Ram - This is what I do for a living. Email me and.... >> |
| ITunes: What rubbish.... | SomeBody, streaming content doesn't work so well o.... >> | |
| overuse of css consi.... | Basically you don't like big web pages no matter w.... >> | |
| 20 Oct 2003 | Licensing/Unions | Stephen, Yes, very good point. I will concede that.... >> |
| Welcome to the "just good enough" society. In term.... >> | ||
| Specialization - Whi.... | This is along the lines of picking stocks. Can som.... >> | |
| Microsoft to rule in.... | I have never used MS Messenger. Is there some repo.... >> | |
| Made Me Laugh... | Feature or bug? I don't care, but when I maximize .... >> | |
| When I hit the green "+" button on the top of a Sa.... >> | ||
| Tony, I am with you. What do mac-heads have agains.... >> | ||
| Improving the market.... | These all seem to be universal problems IMHO. Leaf.... >> | |
| 17 Oct 2003 | Apple user interface.... | Yes I agree, this was my experience with Windows M.... >> |
| I have tried the iTunes over the last 24 hours. I .... >> | ||
| 16 Oct 2003 | Creating a secure we.... | Seems to be a common theme of people getting nause.... >> |
| 15 Oct 2003 | Top 5 tax deductions.... | Ted - I too think an accountant is the way to go. .... >> |
| 14 Oct 2003 | new job, but the act.... | You are the new guy, so take advantage. Your goal .... >> |
| 13 Oct 2003 | Application Logs | Most of the "enterprise" applications we work with.... >> |
| yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss .... | What is wrong with expressing all dates in UTC Uni.... >> | |
| Bulk data entry | Two thoughts: 1. I get the impression the free .... >> | |
| Converting a manual process to a computer based pr.... >> | ||
| Email client used at.... | Off topic... Is Outlook Express really insecure.... >> | |
| How does one generat.... | With the first two examples mentioned, Sun's Java .... >> | |
| 10 Oct 2003 | leave company => .... | To backup Philo, there was a study published not t.... >> |
| palm, pocketpc, lapt.... | I just commit everything to memory. :) I am all.... >> | |
| 09 Oct 2003 | machine vs. human ch.... | I think the IBM Deep Blue was a brilliant return o.... >> |
| 08 Oct 2003 | Are we all crappy co.... | My biggest disappointment with the paid work of cr.... >> |
| IT staffing: permane.... | If that were an easy answer, whatever would new CI.... >> | |
| 07 Oct 2003 | career advice (again.... | Find a company that develops their managers. There.... >> |
| Buying Your Own Tool.... | If you offered a solid case on why product X will .... >> | |
| 29 Sep 2003 | Time tracking softwa.... | Check out: http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabinde.... >> |
| 28 Sep 2003 | be careful about wha.... | This sounds like the urban legend that when going .... >> |
| Portals vs Aggregato.... | Prakash - Call up MS and ask for a 180 day evaluat.... >> | |
| Uncommonly Awesome O.... | I used to work in an old training room with my tea.... >> | |
| Spam killer for pers.... | I am a windows person, but I must say I am impress.... >> | |
| Developing a product.... | Don't get married. If you are already married, goo.... >> | |
| 24 Sep 2003 | Banning email? | Why not get every employee in your company into a .... >> |
| Best Laptop mouse | I'll swear by my Targus USB optical mini-mouse. It.... >> | |
| design problems in p.... | When I work at home, I use a good quality speaker .... >> | |
| Living at the office.... | 'Can I really have the best of both worlds???' .... >> | |
| 23 Sep 2003 | When is a bug a bug? | I am with Philip on using "issue". We have issues .... >> |
| Potential new busine.... | Off topic - Isn't Open Source software the "low bi.... >> | |
| 19 Sep 2003 | Computer Wallpaper | Woops - forget my last post. I forgot this is the .... >> |
| God forbid a user should become attached and comfo.... >> | ||
| 18 Sep 2003 | Blame it on the economy. My fear is that they make.... >> | |
| Construction sorrows.... | Spam - point taken, but if my Project Manager for .... >> | |
| Dell and Purchasing .... | Ram D. Ask your firends and family if their wor.... >> | |
| Looks good to me. I am using a Dell Latitude with .... >> | ||
| I'll second Philo on Dell being a great laptop com.... >> | ||
| Gov't employee actin.... | Cubist - funny! eclectic - Contact the DB vendo.... >> | |
| Cross Platform UI to.... | You said cross-platforms. What does that mean, lin.... >> | |
| Oracle complaints? | Philo Compare consultant or salary costs for Or.... >> | |
| Did Microsoft really.... | As Dave said, Xerox invented many technologies and.... >> | |
| What is Change Manag.... | http://www.pinkelephant.com/consultingservices/pin.... >> | |
| 17 Sep 2003 | Sun's Marketing Prob.... | To be fair, Apple's idea of usability is not congr.... >> |
| Obscure Javascript p.... | I agree with Steve. Work in a refresh, then a dire.... >> | |
| interviews but no jo.... | I just hate doing this. If other people interview .... >> | |
| 16 Sep 2003 | How Secure? | If I were going to be a professional hacker, first.... >> |
| What are your though.... | caleb: I know how you feel as I work with 20 year .... >> | |
| When did it end? | T. Norman Wrote: 'No, Microsoft means overpriced s.... >> | |
| 15 Sep 2003 | I think the more compelling question is when did p.... >> | |
| Motor giant Ford to .... | Our fortune 500 company is also making a big switc.... >> | |
| testing automation t.... | 'Such tool should be relatively easy to implement .... >> | |
| Anyone else aghast g.... | I just love the OO world as I am new to it. I wond.... >> | |
| search word from a l.... | There is a program called Perl which can do this f.... >> | |
| Best OS For Home Use.... | Red Hat is okay if you have common hardware, don't.... >> | |
| 13 Sep 2003 | MySQL Installation &.... | When I have used MySQL in the past, their online d.... >> |
| Overcoming Procrasti.... | As B# was elluding to, disconnecting can do wonder.... >> | |
| Adjusting requested .... | Sounds like no offer has been made yet. Asking for.... >> | |
| What's your latest p.... | My current project is to train my two Indian repla.... >> | |
| ot: brain parsing of.... | See tip #13 http://www.adobe.com/products/adobe.... >> | |
| Why outsourcing ofte.... | This is the same problem most insourced IT shops f.... >> | |
| 09 Sep 2003 | Can credit bring an .... | Stay out of credit. You will be in better shape th.... >> |
| Any free XDrive like.... | Why not use one of those USB memory keychain thing.... >> | |
| 08 Sep 2003 | Sun, JDK, PATH:A few.... | For what it's worth, you have to adjust your path .... >> |
| Loading session valu.... | Philo - If you have MS Application Center test, it.... >> | |
| 06 Sep 2003 | Decision makers that.... | I have rarely seen managers held accountable for ".... >> |
| 05 Sep 2003 | Questions and Commen.... | I don't think this situation is unique to IT jobs,.... >> |
| OODB: Are they viabl.... | In regards to this question, I have heard from "ot.... >> | |
| 04 Sep 2003 | Project Management a.... | PM's are the hot thing in our company right now. D.... >> |
| It's about results. | I know in my company the corporate IT developer ha.... >> | |
| technical books | Inside SQL Server 2000 is a good book so far. A.... >> | |
| the open source busi.... | Not sure what you mean in this post. Does the comp.... >> | |
| Linux stabilization .... | In regards to point one, I believe OSS does have a.... >> | |
| 03 Sep 2003 | Requirements Creatio.... | Requirements are so 1998! We use Microsoft Word.... >> |
| 02 Sep 2003 | Database Stored Procedures - Good, Bad, Ugly? >> | |
| 31 Aug 2003 | home computers confi.... | Two work computers. Three home computers. One prin.... >> |
| 30 Aug 2003 | Seeing outsourcing a.... | I think open source software has contributed to th.... >> |
| 22 Aug 2003 | XML - the only pract.... | I use XML on my resume. >> |
| In Search of Stupidi.... | Sounds like they are OSS material. >> | |
| transport mechanism | FTP is what we use with our vendors. Works great. .... >> | |
| 19 Aug 2003 | Agile/XP programming.... | 'I find it annoying that all the managers that ref.... >> |
| 18 Aug 2003 | Financial Realities | Are you the only one that wants a packaged product.... >> |
| Bigger than Munich (.... | As long as there is a need for programmers, I will.... >> | |
| Technologists, Manag.... | anon wrote: 'You're living in a fantasy dream-wor.... >> | |
| I have no idea where you live, but here in the USA.... >> | ||
| VSS and CVS interact.... | Depending on which way you want to go, there are s.... >> | |
| 17 Aug 2003 | Hierarchical or flat.... | I agree, our organization had much better results .... >> |
| Oh, no! Monocu.... | System Administrators unite! Why just administer t.... >> | |
| So, in this case it is espoused by 'Siemens Busine.... >> | ||
| Eureka Moments | Like my mom says, 'when you start to get frustrate.... >> | |
| 16 Aug 2003 | Does "vendor lock-in.... | T. Norman - I like your description. The questi.... >> |
| TCO is so nebulous. Sitting around thinking about .... >> | ||
| Markets or uses for .... | You can always recycle it, or use it for kindling..... >> | |
| Database Design tool.... | Good question! I too use Visio and find it does ev.... >> | |
| Writing Mathematical.... | I just tried using the Eq Editor in MS Word XP and.... >> | |
| 15 Aug 2003 | Outsourced Overseas | As far as convincing them that the numbers don't j.... >> |
| 07 Aug 2003 | Advice: Small to Big.... | I've only worked in a big company and you get out .... >> |
| Do senior people hav.... | 'This has to be ingrained in the corporate culture.... >> | |
| "Jobs are moving off.... | I think an important distinction should be made be.... >> | |
| switch to *nix - not.... | This only confirms my resolve to start my two year.... >> | |
| 30 Apr 2003 | No new desktop appli.... | >Ask yourself- what was the last great, new deskto.... >> |