One of the biggest complaints I hear about .NET from developers, friends who used to be developers, and just about anyone who worked in RDBMS's like Visual FoxPro, Access and...

Stephanie J Brown (9/17/2008)

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I would dearly love to see a database of lobbyists and who they are pandering to. No organization should be exempt (not even the environmental organizations...

Great editorial, and a great message to inspire IT people to do more volunteer work.

However, with regards to governmental data; there are already many databases out there that average Americans...

Happy Birthday to you Steve, and to all celebrating one this month.

What do I want for my birthday? Nuttin!!!

Actually, 4 years ago (on my 50th) I officially announced to...

Its too bad that printed manuals are going the way of the dinosaur because at one time, many users would say that a program's usability was in direct relation to...

When I was a young programmer for an LA-based Healthcare company in the late 70's, I was also going to school and we were required to take User Interface Design...

Can these numbers actually be correct? Your editorial states 10,000 lost each week at the 36 largest airports. That means on average 278 laptops per week, or roughly...

Steve Jones - Editor (8/29/2008)

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Good to hear some of you getting away. And nice one, blandry. We went on a couple vacations and the kids struggled without the xbox/ipod for...

Jacob,

Thanks for a great post! I have been doing these dynamic queries for years and thought I had them pretty well laid out and nailed down, but you showed...

Every year I vacation with my family at a cottage on a remote beautiful lake in Maine. Been doing that for about 15 years. The only sound you...

It's worse than that - look at Major League Baseball. Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, Mark MacGwire, Jason Giambi, and so many more Steroid...

webrunner (8/25/2008)

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What always gets me is that cheaters always know that they are not playing by the rules, so where is the self-satisfaction of a job well done supposed to...

Consider...

"Failures are the guideposts on the road to success and every great invention in any arena had to be reached by the trial and error of the failure process."

If we...

Consider...

Someguy - Blandry - I regularly find myself starting comments by saying, "I wonder if I can find a diplomatic way to say this?" …If I can give you...