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This is always a problem in forums for experts. My advice (worth every penny) is that all you experts refrain from answering these types of question unless some newbie...

The poster didn't ask which language we preferred.

I would ask this question on the correct MS forum.

hi Joe I would like ur book too but don't email it to me I would like you to skywrite it plz. I live in Dallas.

I consider myself a VB6 guru (published author). Some people still natter about this question, but in my opinion, knowledgable people in the industry have already reached a consensus...

As a general rule of thumb, focus all of your resources narrowly and intensely on the internal functions that directly serve your customers, and outsource everything else. For example,...

Ah, but notice...

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Personally, I think everyone getting into computers should have to learn hand assembly of machine language using only a hex keypad and hex register...

Jeff Moden (12/12/2008)Shifting back to the subject at hand, my saving grace is well tested/documented code snippets, standardized headers, and several other "goodies" stored on a memory stick. For...

You said, "The march of technology makes bone-heads of us all." I take your meaning but I must disagree. The fact that changes in technology make our knowledge...

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I was getting into an argument with some Agile XP people who were making out that they were the first to see the central importance of unit-testing (snip)...

Best technology speaker hands down: Bill Vaughn (http://www.betav.com/blog/billva/). The perfect combination of business and technical expertise, presented in a manner that doesn't make your head explode. ...

Dumb databases? I hate that. It's all in advertising and marketing muscle. Some systems use database as storage only. No constraints, no procedures, no views, no triggers. This is silly....