Good practices nonetheless, and not really win32 specific. Another fairly good one is The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas.
I've used mySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, and MSDE. I'm not sure I get your comment about MS SQL server. Like any other RDBMS, a little performance tuning goes a long way. As a matter of fact, until Oracle's release of 10g, MS SQL beat all commercial offerings in the TPC benchmarks.
MS has a buggy os and an awful model for business practice, but I think MS SQL server is a fairly nice offering. It's too bad it only runs on Windows servers though.
Actually, there's a long term cost too. Underground lines have full time maintenance associated with them, while above ground lines don't require as much (other than the occasional tree limb or high wind).
There are a few different kinds of underground lines.
High pressure, fluid filled (HPFF)
High pressure, gas filled (HPGF)
Self contained, fluid filled (SCFF)
Extruded dielectric (XLPE, for Cross Linked Polyethelene, plastic insulation, and one of the products my company makes)
HPFF are the most common in the US, and SCFF are the least common, mainly because they don't do well in extreme weather. The fluids are dielectric, 200 psi oil, and saturates the kraft paper insulator of the wires. The fluid is static, and removes heat from the wires by conduction. HPGF uses compressed nitrogen to accomplish basically the same thing.
HPFF requires a pressurizing source, usually a station at one end of the line, with an oil/gas resorvoir. HPGF requires a regulator and a nitrogen cylinder. The HPGF lines also require manual maintenance, as you can't just leave nitrogen gas cylinder's laying around.
Couple all of that with usual line maintenance, and you've got one expensive system, all in the name of keeping the sky unobstructed.
Yeah, like those horrible bombing and ground campaigns the US propagated on European soil in 1917-18 and 1941-45. Shame on the US.
What burns me up as a US citizen is how quickly the rest of the world condemns the US, but has their hat in their hand waiting for a handout when something goes wrong. Natural disaster? No problem, the US will help. Have a dictator slaughtering thousands of people simply because of their religion/heritage? No problem, the US will help out.
I realize the US's foreign policy hasn't been a gem, but it's really easy to criticize AND get free stuff too, isn't it?
I'm beginning to believe US foreign policy should be to have none.
p.s. Thank you UK for handing over the problems in the Middle East to us...
Itend to agree with regarding the future of development stateside. Unfortunately for me, my last few years of development has been the menial DB code. The flip side of that is it's been fairly intricate work, dealing with multiple DB's (Oracle, MS SQL, mySQL), hits an ISAM (paged) DB, and has a time concern, so bandwitdh has to be kept to a minimum. All this while maintaining a 5 tier architecture, rolling into web services this year. So maybe there's hope for me in the near term at least.
What separates US developers from those in developing nations such as India and China is the way our education systems are built. While theirs (being relatively new) emphasize memorization, ours emphasizes problem solving. That kind of lines up with your comment about more intricate development staying here, while the more menial development can be shipped overseas.
There are plenty of alternatives to Oracle as both a DB and an ERP. As a matter of fact, on the DB side, many customers realize this as Oracle's marketshare is still dropping, which you can find here and here.
SAP is still crowned victorious in the ERP solutions market. And quite frankly, DB2 and SQL Server are much easier to admin than Oracle, both with an extremely rich set of features, with SQL Server beating Oracle in benckmarks for some time now (until the recent release of 10g where Oracle beats SQL Server in the cluster market) seen here. Unfortunately for IBM, DB2 doesn't rank very well in either clustered or non-clustered.
Thank you for the clarification, and you're right, the article doesn't point that out very well.
You're comment about specialized judges is a very interesting one. Though IANAL, I wonder how possible that would be? It seems reasonable. I had a conversation with a local JP recently whose prior experience was that of being a mobile DJ. Elected judges don't actually have to have any experience in the legal field, or schooling for that matter, which is the fault of uneducated citizens voting them in. Appointed judges are a different matter. I would love to see anyone elses opinions on that subject.
Verizon had argued at its trial that Internet providers should only be compelled to respond to such subpoenas when pirated music is stored on computers that providers directly control, such as a Web site, rather than on a subscriber's personal computer.
In his ruling, the trial judge wrote that Verizon's interpretation "makes little sense from a policy standpoint," and warned that it "would create a huge loophole in Congress' effort to prevent copyright infringement on the Internet."
So Verizon didn't come through with shining colors, but at least the Rediculous Industry Assoc. of America to a hit too. At the very least it means a judge would have to issue a subpoena before any ISP would have to turn over records. And, from what little information is provided in the article, I would have to guess they're going to have a hard time since they tend to make arguements in court that border upon the silly.
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Observations of the incident show evidence inconsistent with a hydrogen fire: (1) the Hindenburg did not explode, but burned very rapidly in omnidirectional patterns, (2) the 240-ton airship remained aloft and upright many seconds after the fire began, (3) falling pieces of fabric were aflame and not self-extinguishing, and (4) the very bright color of the flames was characteristic of a forest fire, not a hydrogen fire (hydrogen makes no visible flame). Also, no one smelled garlic, the scent of which had been added to the hydrogen to help detect a leak.
I tend to get on an XML soap (no pun intended) box when I see articles about it, so here goes...
XML is great for sharing data between non-congruous systems. It's horrible, however, for storing data in any large quantity, and even more horrible for treating as a searchable text file. It's inherintly large and full of ascii/ansi/utf characters that are completely unnecessary when performing byte by byte text searches. For large amounts of data, you're right... RDBMS is the current way to go... maybe OODBMS will be in the near future, but I still haven't tinkered with it myself and don't have any opinions developed yet.
XML is not the data end-all... same as __insert_your_own_programming_language_here__ is not the end-all of programming. It's a nice tool, but tends to be overused because it's still a buzz-word.
Sure you can upgrade anything in it, at least the tower/mini-towers. Any EIDE/ATA HD is compatible with any other EIDE/ATA HD. The problem with eMachines, and some don't see it as a problem, is they use one off processors (usually, obviously not in this case) and cheap mobo's... usually with 3 PCI slots. I speak from experience on this one.
Last week I wrote an app for one of my users in about two hours. Obviously, that did not give me time to add exception handling, or really test it, other than the usual "yes, it gives her data, and it looks right."
She needed it in that amount of time, and I had no choice, other than to say no. So I handed it over with a disclaimer regarding it's stability. This week I'll find time to tune that app up, but who knows if she's handed it off to coworkers, etc.... and in that case, another buggy app just hit the masses.
I liked the previous burger analogy. All she needed was a burger, not a bridge.
I think what he meant was the IETF needs to get their act together to offer a standard solution part of your post. It's a pretty generic comment, and goes along with "MS needs to do something about their security." What's the something? Be a little more specific if you have an idea.
I would have thought that previews would be the answer, but it appears that's not the case. I agree, though, that getting any kind of sample before buying is pretty important to sites that would sell single downloads.
The funny thing is the business model is nothing new. You used to be able to walk into a record shop, listen to an album on their player, buy it it you wanted to, or just buy singles. Singles back then were whatever the label decided to put out as one though... now you can buy anything off the album as a single, but don't have the b-side to go with it.
Ok, so it's a little different. I wonder if anyone is going to move to the "buy one hit song and the second of our choice is free" model.
Yeah, but PayPal makes it publicly known that they are quick to turn over personal info to agencies, even without a search warrant... not to mention companies that "help them with marketing to banks.
Knowing that a good amount of money and time goes into each track recorded, I have no problem at all with the $1 download.
What I do have a problem with, and I'm glad Jobs pointed this out, is paying for a full album, only to find out all of the tunes but one completely blow. About the 5th time that happened to me was when I almost completely stopped paying for whole cd's, at least form major labels.
In software, there's always another way to do it. In a sense, some proprietary copyrights (when not abused) simply spark innovation. If Joe Developers writes an app everyone likes, then Sue Programmer can work on making a similar/better product. How many office suites were there before MS squashed the competition like a bug? For a while there, each was trying to outdo the other in features, and the public benefitted from that competition.
Back to the (when not abused) part, however. Fast forward to today where innovation is either quelled by copyrights, or innovators are eliminated by buyouts and monopolies.
Because most of my career has been writing Windows code, I go with Windows DNA and stuff them in Tools|Options. I guess it all depends on what you're used to. I have no idea where you'd look for them in a typical Mac program. And it seems to be all over the place in any Linux/KDE apps I've installed.
Everyone's got their own idea as to where it should live, but having a standard and sticking to it would make my life a little easier as the "I'm really a programmer but my family thinks that translates to desktop support for even the most trivial of issues" guy.
This may be Offtopic(-1) but Crystal Reports has options under the File menu also. I get calls from users all the time who can't find options that way. It would be nice if all programmers stuck to some standards huh?
I was glad to stop using Lotus Notes a few years ago, and all of my experiences with Lotus ended with v4.??. Extremely quirky piece of software... hopefully between then and now they've got the kinks worked out.
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Hey, that's pretty cool, I'll have to read up. Then I'll sue!
Good practices nonetheless, and not really win32 specific. Another fairly good one is The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas.
You should wait until I release my version of Code Complete, titled Code Imperfect. Available soon on shady websites near you.
I've used mySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, and MSDE. I'm not sure I get your comment about MS SQL server. Like any other RDBMS, a little performance tuning goes a long way. As a matter of fact, until Oracle's release of 10g, MS SQL beat all commercial offerings in the TPC benchmarks.
MS has a buggy os and an awful model for business practice, but I think MS SQL server is a fairly nice offering. It's too bad it only runs on Windows servers though.
Sure, but those feeds to houses require didding up grass and dirt, rather than digging up streets causing traffic jams.
There are a few different kinds of underground lines.
HPFF are the most common in the US, and SCFF are the least common, mainly because they don't do well in extreme weather. The fluids are dielectric, 200 psi oil, and saturates the kraft paper insulator of the wires. The fluid is static, and removes heat from the wires by conduction. HPGF uses compressed nitrogen to accomplish basically the same thing.
HPFF requires a pressurizing source, usually a station at one end of the line, with an oil/gas resorvoir. HPGF requires a regulator and a nitrogen cylinder. The HPGF lines also require manual maintenance, as you can't just leave nitrogen gas cylinder's laying around.
Couple all of that with usual line maintenance, and you've got one expensive system, all in the name of keeping the sky unobstructed.
Yeah, like those horrible bombing and ground campaigns the US propagated on European soil in 1917-18 and 1941-45. Shame on the US.
What burns me up as a US citizen is how quickly the rest of the world condemns the US, but has their hat in their hand waiting for a handout when something goes wrong. Natural disaster? No problem, the US will help. Have a dictator slaughtering thousands of people simply because of their religion/heritage? No problem, the US will help out.
I realize the US's foreign policy hasn't been a gem, but it's really easy to criticize AND get free stuff too, isn't it?
I'm beginning to believe US foreign policy should be to have none.
p.s. Thank you UK for handing over the problems in the Middle East to us...
majority of Yanks are bewildered as to why the world either mildy dislikes or hates their nation
You're actually wrong there... most of us do know why the rest of the world doesn't think much of us.
bugger off and let the rest of us sort out our own shit
I agree with that too. We'll start with funding of any other foreign nation.. oh and the World Bank too.
and then promptly invading the moon.
That man in the moon is asking for it... he looks at us funny!
Itend to agree with regarding the future of development stateside. Unfortunately for me, my last few years of development has been the menial DB code. The flip side of that is it's been fairly intricate work, dealing with multiple DB's (Oracle, MS SQL, mySQL), hits an ISAM (paged) DB, and has a time concern, so bandwitdh has to be kept to a minimum. All this while maintaining a 5 tier architecture, rolling into web services this year. So maybe there's hope for me in the near term at least.
What separates US developers from those in developing nations such as India and China is the way our education systems are built. While theirs (being relatively new) emphasize memorization, ours emphasizes problem solving. That kind of lines up with your comment about more intricate development staying here, while the more menial development can be shipped overseas.
There are plenty of alternatives to Oracle as both a DB and an ERP. As a matter of fact, on the DB side, many customers realize this as Oracle's marketshare is still dropping, which you can find here and here.
SAP is still crowned victorious in the ERP solutions market. And quite frankly, DB2 and SQL Server are much easier to admin than Oracle, both with an extremely rich set of features, with SQL Server beating Oracle in benckmarks for some time now (until the recent release of 10g where Oracle beats SQL Server in the cluster market) seen here. Unfortunately for IBM, DB2 doesn't rank very well in either clustered or non-clustered.
Then there's the issue of licensing....
Thank you for the clarification, and you're right, the article doesn't point that out very well.
You're comment about specialized judges is a very interesting one. Though IANAL, I wonder how possible that would be? It seems reasonable. I had a conversation with a local JP recently whose prior experience was that of being a mobile DJ. Elected judges don't actually have to have any experience in the legal field, or schooling for that matter, which is the fault of uneducated citizens voting them in. Appointed judges are a different matter. I would love to see anyone elses opinions on that subject.
Verizon had argued at its trial that Internet providers should only be compelled to respond to such subpoenas when pirated music is stored on computers that providers directly control, such as a Web site, rather than on a subscriber's personal computer.
In his ruling, the trial judge wrote that Verizon's interpretation "makes little sense from a policy standpoint," and warned that it "would create a huge loophole in Congress' effort to prevent copyright infringement on the Internet."
So Verizon didn't come through with shining colors, but at least the Rediculous Industry Assoc. of America to a hit too. At the very least it means a judge would have to issue a subpoena before any ISP would have to turn over records. And, from what little information is provided in the article, I would have to guess they're going to have a hard time since they tend to make arguements in court that border upon the silly.
Except it's been decided that the cause was not the hydrogen, but rather the prevailing atmospheric conditions and the unorthodox method of landing at Lakehurst.
Observations of the incident show evidence inconsistent with a hydrogen fire: (1) the Hindenburg did not explode, but burned very rapidly in omnidirectional patterns, (2) the 240-ton airship remained aloft and upright many seconds after the fire began, (3) falling pieces of fabric were aflame and not self-extinguishing, and (4) the very bright color of the flames was characteristic of a forest fire, not a hydrogen fire (hydrogen makes no visible flame). Also, no one smelled garlic, the scent of which had been added to the hydrogen to help detect a leak.
Or were you being sarcastic and I missed it?
I tend to get on an XML soap (no pun intended) box when I see articles about it, so here goes...
XML is great for sharing data between non-congruous systems. It's horrible, however, for storing data in any large quantity, and even more horrible for treating as a searchable text file. It's inherintly large and full of ascii/ansi/utf characters that are completely unnecessary when performing byte by byte text searches. For large amounts of data, you're right... RDBMS is the current way to go... maybe OODBMS will be in the near future, but I still haven't tinkered with it myself and don't have any opinions developed yet.
XML is not the data end-all... same as __insert_your_own_programming_language_here__ is not the end-all of programming. It's a nice tool, but tends to be overused because it's still a buzz-word.
Sure you can upgrade anything in it, at least the tower/mini-towers. Any EIDE/ATA HD is compatible with any other EIDE/ATA HD. The problem with eMachines, and some don't see it as a problem, is they use one off processors (usually, obviously not in this case) and cheap mobo's... usually with 3 PCI slots. I speak from experience on this one.
Ahhhh, but....
Last week I wrote an app for one of my users in about two hours. Obviously, that did not give me time to add exception handling, or really test it, other than the usual "yes, it gives her data, and it looks right."
She needed it in that amount of time, and I had no choice, other than to say no. So I handed it over with a disclaimer regarding it's stability. This week I'll find time to tune that app up, but who knows if she's handed it off to coworkers, etc.... and in that case, another buggy app just hit the masses.
I liked the previous burger analogy. All she needed was a burger, not a bridge.
I think what he meant was the IETF needs to get their act together to offer a standard solution part of your post. It's a pretty generic comment, and goes along with "MS needs to do something about their security." What's the something? Be a little more specific if you have an idea.
I would have thought that previews would be the answer, but it appears that's not the case. I agree, though, that getting any kind of sample before buying is pretty important to sites that would sell single downloads.
The funny thing is the business model is nothing new. You used to be able to walk into a record shop, listen to an album on their player, buy it it you wanted to, or just buy singles. Singles back then were whatever the label decided to put out as one though... now you can buy anything off the album as a single, but don't have the b-side to go with it.
Ok, so it's a little different. I wonder if anyone is going to move to the "buy one hit song and the second of our choice is free" model.
Yeah, but PayPal makes it publicly known that they are quick to turn over personal info to agencies, even without a search warrant... not to mention companies that "help them with marketing to banks.
Don't forget the paid subscription comes complete with the same 3 day old rejected by other posters 3 days ago stories too!
What a deal!!!
Knowing that a good amount of money and time goes into each track recorded, I have no problem at all with the $1 download.
What I do have a problem with, and I'm glad Jobs pointed this out, is paying for a full album, only to find out all of the tunes but one completely blow. About the 5th time that happened to me was when I almost completely stopped paying for whole cd's, at least form major labels.
In software, there's always another way to do it. In a sense, some proprietary copyrights (when not abused) simply spark innovation. If Joe Developers writes an app everyone likes, then Sue Programmer can work on making a similar/better product. How many office suites were there before MS squashed the competition like a bug? For a while there, each was trying to outdo the other in features, and the public benefitted from that competition.
Back to the (when not abused) part, however. Fast forward to today where innovation is either quelled by copyrights, or innovators are eliminated by buyouts and monopolies.
Because most of my career has been writing Windows code, I go with Windows DNA and stuff them in Tools|Options. I guess it all depends on what you're used to. I have no idea where you'd look for them in a typical Mac program. And it seems to be all over the place in any Linux/KDE apps I've installed.
Everyone's got their own idea as to where it should live, but having a standard and sticking to it would make my life a little easier as the "I'm really a programmer but my family thinks that translates to desktop support for even the most trivial of issues" guy.
This may be Offtopic(-1) but Crystal Reports has options under the File menu also. I get calls from users all the time who can't find options that way. It would be nice if all programmers stuck to some standards huh?
I was glad to stop using Lotus Notes a few years ago, and all of my experiences with Lotus ended with v4.??. Extremely quirky piece of software... hopefully between then and now they've got the kinks worked out.