I'm in the UK, so substitute "university" for "college" if it helps...

I did go to university, graduated with a good degree and tried to get a job just when the...

I would've thought a simple view would be OK for the previous example, and hard-code the "3" in it. This view can then be used everwhere, thus there should only...

I think everyone's getting a bit confused with "outages" from different perspectives;

1) From a user's point-of-view, an outage simply involves them being unable to use the system at all.

2) For...

Surely using the Chris Rock, you'd need to get copyright clearance to use it?

BTW: Why can't they sell windows servers? I don't see the significance nor the "end of the...

As both a customer and a programmer, I'm of the opinion that programs should NEVER do anything like this WITHOUT telling the end-user - even if it's a "currently installing 'xyz'...

My first two commercial jobs were through normal ads. The manager at my second job was dead set against recruiters and refused even to listen to any.

For my third, (and...

As a programmer heavily involved in database development, I normally avoid dynamic SQL within any code, but I've used plenty of it within stored procedures, which seem to give you the...

My definition would be; if one or more users are unable to use any part of the system, because of a problem with the system itself.

[If they're able to only...

Not quite the same as an internship, (we don't really have those here in the UK any more though my parents both did internships when they were my sort of...

I always thought that the only reason Microsoft releases so much stuff was because of the court cases, especially those in europe, where they were ordered to allow more inter-operability...

Sounds like most of the examples listed are more like habits than anything else, which I find everyone has plenty of.

I'm guilty of far too many; I like to keep...

The most important thing to get portability, (from a theoretical POV as I've never done it myself), is to identify what changes between platforms and stick them in a substitutable...

The one difference I was hoping for was an auto-complete facility like you get in Visual Studio. In my opinion, it's so long overdue that people might forget about even...

I bought myself a diesel, (1.8 litre turbo diesel focus actually), as I was doing a lot of driving to and from work, (100+ miles per day). Thankfully it's less...

"Nobody else has tackled getting their OS to work on 98%+ of the PC hardware in the world".

I always thought that 98% of the PC hardware was designed to work...