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Reason #358 why I hate Flash

By dlambert ⋅ November 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

I use four PCs on a regular basis (two work PCs, plus a laptop and desktop at home), and all three run Windows — one Windows Server 2003, one Server 2008, and two Windows 7.  All of these boxes are either on 24×7 or hibernated between uses, so the only time I reboot them is [...]

Dangerous Generalizations

By dlambert ⋅ August 8, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

I read an article a couple weeks ago on ReadWriteWeb pondering, Are Indian Developers More Skilled Than Americans?, and I just couldn’t help cringing the entire time I was reading the article. This article was ridiculous on so many levels it’s hard to count, but the two biggest problems I saw were (1) lumping all “American” and [...]

Who comes up with this stuff?

By dlambert ⋅ July 13, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Yes, it’s a real dialog box, and no, the information wasn’t very helpful.  I’m moved almost to tears, though, at the suggestion that somebody might care.  Please don’t do this to your customers. Tweet This Post

Did you test that SQL?

By dlambert ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Although IT is a relatively young field relative to accounting or finance, I think a pretty fair number of people have picked up on some of the “big picture” ideas that drive modern development practices.  Whether you’re working with a waterfall process or a more agile process, for instance, most people understand that you just [...]

Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines

By dlambert ⋅ January 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

According to an article on ReadWriteWeb, Q&A site Quora is blocking search engines from indexing its site — all, that is, except for Google, Bing, and a couple other big players.  If this is true, this is a really chilling development for the competitive landscape of the Internet. Image via CrunchBase Google is plenty big [...]

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