In a previous role, I worked with an architecture that expected you to declare name of the stored procedure in a code attribute at the top of the method -...

I've read all the above and still come down on the side of using stored procs for as much db access as possible.

They blackbox the schema from the client/app server/web...

yes, please do!

I'd add another recommendation for the Jack Reacher series.

Take a look a the work of Quintin Jardine as well. He does two series: Bob Skinner and Oz...

Steve,

Take a look at this article about the Prius from the current (Jan 08) issue of PC Pro:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/columns/134751/epilog.html

My concern with it is that if you want to make an energy...

Or as we know it round here - 'Orrible.

I saw something recently about ground-heat pumps. Maybe that's something worth your looking into - although the upfront cost would be quite high.

Yep, the comments should be fairly a high-level description of the coder's intent.

If the two don't match then the reviewer has to ask questions...

I've always thought that comments were a description of what you intended the code to do. You don't get this info by reading the code - you just get...

tHrash - not trash!

How about giving a track-day as a prize - you get to drive/thrash a Ferrari/Lambo/Aston on a track.

I'm quite happy with Amazon's page layout. It's far easier and quicker to read a table layout than "Walking down corridors, walking over to the checkout and being greeted...

"...for instance charging small appliances like cellphones and toothbrushes..."

Hey, here's an idea - why not use a manual toothbrush? If part of the energy generation issue is the rate of...

I hope I would have contacted Amazon to query the pricing.

DBuchan, I don't think I'd be on the "pink slip warpath". People make mistakes. Good people make...

Queen's Greatest Hits would be in there - the two CD edition. Does that count as one or two?

Of course, the number one album, the first one to mind, the...