I'll second what Matt said. With a proper suite of trusted, automated tests, this is do-able... especially if there is proper separation of functionality instead of a monolithic approach to...

Pshaw. We are. Everybody does what Disney tells them to do. Who'd've thunk it?

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Actually, as true as those may...

As weird as it may be, I tend to agree with Steve that the DCMA is a travesty. Anything that damages fair use is wrong. I realize that various media...

Add me to the list. I got a letter last month (three weeks ago?) from a company in the financial services sector that I've never heard of claiming to have...

In previous lives when I actually managed people, budgets and projects, I had all of my prospective team mates read, agree to and sign a framed copy of the Agile...

Ruh-roh. Bob's pulled in politics... a Godwin event can't be far behind. :hehe:

Long term, the gold standard is cost of ownership for many companies, especially enterprises that are developing a Tier 1 utility database platform. For a database, that includes DBAs, training,...

Phil's recommendations of exit-inducing praise are good and work for a lot of people... but it won't work for people who hold a long-time grudge and don't have an exit-ready...

Adam Machanic (9/19/2008)

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developmentalmadness (9/19/2008)

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The only shortcoming here with LINQ is they didn't go quite far enough, because the don't properly parameterize strings and numeric (decimal etc) types which have a...

Having paid many, many developer-months to produce a code generation framework to avoid the repetitive CRUD work in a previous life (with .NET 1.0), I'm a big fan of software...

Merry birthday, Steve. I'm sure you'll enjoy the day.

As for me? I'll probably go to work on my birthday, as always. I celebrate and give myself whatever I want all...

jcrawf02 (9/12/2008)

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David Reed (9/11/2008)

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I also worked for an IP law firm that did a lot of suing back in the '90s, and the bill rates were nice. Does that make...

We have existing laws, but our legal system (in the US) makes it nigh impossible to apply them to "new" things in the electronic world. Besides, laws against burglary have...

Interesting calculator of hourly rate: http://www.erlglobal.com/index.php?pageName=rate

I can work 60 hours per week and take 2 weeks of vacation, no sick time (might have to take some after the election, though),...