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If you are like me, you get a couple phishing scams every week. Where most folks just delete them, I like to report them to the company they are trying to impersonate. Microsoft has this page dedicated to helping individuals determine phishing scams,...
I know this really falls under “Business Info” and not the typical tech discussions, and I hope it isn't too far in the noise category. There have been a few discussions going regarding questions about consulting, or how to get into consulting...
Geez, I don’t know why I haven’t bumped into this before, but while doing some research on Test Driven Development for my current client, I ran across the Object Constraint Language . [corrected his name from Josh to Jason. doh!] Jason Gorman...
Rory doesn’t shy away from asking the hard questions, and this time it is a real brain twister – “Why do you code?” Well, why do I code? I’ve thought about for a long time (way before Rory asked), and when I distilled it...
I’ve been concentrating so much time on learning new technologies over the last couple years that I’ve been remiss in reading my non-computer books. So to help get me back in the swing of things, I decided to hit my personal library and pull out some...
I’ll continue the Your Career thread , but with a different twist. First off, I’m going to the PDC, and as an indie consultant, I’m taking the time off (without pay), and paying my own way. The major reasons I go to events like this are: Devoting time...
Dr. (colonel) Richard Colin Campbell Ames in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert Heinlein: ...whatever you've done, whatever you've been, is all, totally, one hundred percent, your own fault. All. Once you come to terms with this, your next step...
A great way to see into the inside of a company is to check out their public job postings. With all the rumored work being done on the Longhorn UI, I was surprised to see this posting on the MS job site . It is one hell of a job req, and this person will...
Here’s the last in my series of non-coding blogs. As someone who has done some hiring of programmers over the last couple months, I can say from experience that it is not just a case of too many programmers and not enough jobs, or outsourcing causing...
Continuing my trend of business related blog entries, I thought I’d comment on Martin Spedding’s latest blog entry, “Outsource Coding, When Not If” . Some of what he is saying I agree with, but outsourcing has been around forever, and has had limited...
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