I guess it is probably a good idea to avoid the word conservative in your post titles as well. Unless, of course, you want Google Adsense to start showing political links featuring Bush, McCain (note spelling below), Romney, etc…
The following defect was logged yesterday: Each day at 4pm PST our users are denied seamless access into [third party website].
Though I am sure the author of the code may be of another opinion, aren’t these types of defects kind of fun? They are like brain-teasers which you want to solve without looking at the [...]
My current focus is on stabilizing about a dozen applications which I recently inherited. By “stabilizing” I mean I am in the process of cleaning up, documenting and fixing somebody else’s code.
These applications have been in existence for years. They were first coded in Classic ASP, then rewritten in .NET 1.1 and finally ported over to 2.0. A [...]
Now that I’m a dad, I had to laugh at the comic below, but the truth is these fighting words aren’t going to come out of my kid’s mouth. “My blog gets more traffic than your blog” is more likely. This will, of course, be accompanied by a heated exchange of blog statistics served up by a [...]
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Earlier this month, Jeff Atwood dubbed December 1st, Support Your Favorite Small Software Vendor Day. If you haven’t already, read the post and the comments. You’ll find it is chock-full of free to low cost software endorsed by fellow developers which could most-likely use your support.
While reading the post, it struck me that one of my co-workers actually [...]
Not so long ago, one of our applications failed when we tried to handle the 32,768th user entry. Though the database was able to manage the request, the application held onto the row’s identity in an Int16 property. The overwhelming response to the error was “That was really, really dumb.”
I tend to agree on a couple of accounts. [...]
Have you had a chance to look at Google Code Search? It truly will help you find function definitions and sample code by giving you one place to search publicly accessible code through the use of regular expressions and language and filename filters, but this is taking a backseat to what Code Search can really [...]