I'm not sure that you could say all these people were continuously at the cutting edge of technology. Edison was very creative and self educated, but actually his lack of...

GilaMonster (1/15/2010)

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Randolph Potter (1/15/2010)

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One thing I've been begging Microsoft for, is country-specific pricing. I'm pretty sure this is difficult to manage to avoid abuse, but it would make it more...

My wife's new boss decided to shut down the the department (not IT, but at a major university where most students will be gone anyhow) for the entire week. Alas,...

I find it amazing that Apple has this 'warm fuzzy' reputation, when in fact they are far more controlling and restictive than 'big corporate' Microsoft.

Microsoft does not try to restrict...

I disagree with the artificial distinction between 'database' and 'file system'

The only real difference is one is under full control of the database engine, and one is under indirect control...

I'm posting as someone who in previous life wrote a lot of C++

Obviously any set based operation would be better in SQL.

Other types of business logic, or a complex custom...

Good article.

I am sure that Andy did not mean to try something that you are fully unprepared for, or let other people down.

But it does mean that we can really...

TV chef Alton Brown has a personal vendetta against single use appliances (hot dog cooker, for example). To degree that also applies to apps. There are exceptions, but an app...

too many options is often a prodduct of bad design.

Either the designer does not understand how the user is using the product, or is basically lazy to find out.

There...

A number of our enterprise applications use the Flexlm system. It automatically manages license counts, users can come and go (some applications even allow a user to 'check out' a...

I don't know how many times I've seen people use functions (especially user-defined functions) as if they were overhead free. After all, the form "function(parameter)" looks so simple, but could...

Jason Williams 42 (11/13/2009)

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I look at it this way. There are many spoken languages and no one is any better than the other. English isn't better than German...

to some degree it's personal preference.

with the common .net runtime structure, managed code, garbage collection etc, all the languages are essentially constrained to the same set of capabilities

C# is comfortable...

laurav (11/5/2009)

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Good for you Majorbloodnock.

To me, the goal should be to find your employees strengths. Mine definitely align with your description. And the point should be...

I agree with the position posted by others that any artificial barrier be removed (whether gender, nationality, religion or other basis). What we should not do, however is artificially try...