Whenever the reminder box comes up the first time I just don't do anything and click to the previous window I was at. This initial dialog is modeless so if...

Thanks for the article. Confirmed my desire to remain a career craftsman/coder. My boss was a technical person who moved into management and pretty much everything you mentioned happened with...

I do work at the university I graduated from, Winthrop University. 😀 While attending I noticed the old dumb terminals and dot matrix printers they were using and really wanted...

I tried various flavors of Linux for a week on my home machine. I actually preferred PC Linux OS 2007 over Ubuntu 7.04, Mandriva 2008 and Suse 10.3 were pretty...

I got burned, twice, by a (former) friend/co-worker from sending her nasty emails that she then dutifully forwarded to my boss. :pinch: I've always thought myself to be careful when...

Man, that Aptera car looks funky as all get out but I'd so buy it! 300 MPG for only $30,000!!! If they can actually manage to produce it, not just...

russ dalton (11/20/2007)

- bit fields are bad. i've been bitten by them in the past and avoid them now. It's too easy to take something that should be...

We had exactly this issue at my university in regards to social security...

B.S. in Computer Science here. I ended up working for the university I graduated from and thought about pursuing a masters in Computer Engineering but didn't really relish the required...

Speaking of time zones, how do you adjust the time zone settings on this forum? I made my last post at 10:29am EDT but it displays at 3:29pm, I'm assuming...

This is one reason I'm liking the idea of storing dates in UTC rather than local time. It would be a bit of a hassle to display the dates later...

Another UT2004 fan here! 😀 Absolutely love that game. I like to play Civilization IV too, talk about a time waster, erm weekend waster. Thanks for the headsup on Titan...

I definitely agree with your bit about learning things in school you never thought you'd need. Just recently I was working on some programming that involved a bit of linear...

I got a new machine in December and installed Vista Business on it. Seemed okay, but after several blue screens I ended up going through Vista Ultimate and Enterprise before finally...

Unless I read the wrong blog post, Steve, it advocated that we design for the other 90% not ignore them. There was a quote that currently designers, not strictly software...