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My criteria when employing a developer
I had interview today, so reading Scott's set of .Net questions was rather topical. I was thinking, if I was recruiting a developer, what weight would I give to the number of questions they could answer from the list compared to their knowledge or experience...
It is not what you know but the people you know
For the first time in my career I am having to look for a new job because of a change in the strategy of the company where I work means that my skills are no longer required. It is a scary situation as the IT market is still a difficult one. One of things...
Looking back to 2004 and wondering about the future
I really need to post a lot more. I have got it the habit of reading more than writing. 2004 was a strange year. It was a year where many people in IT serious started wondering whether they had a career that would take them through to retirement or even...
A dose of reality
I have been a very prolific blogger recently as I have been very busy working on a project. We all want to work on glamourous projects but this was one of those bread butter jobs which really wants to work on but it pays the bills. A big company who has...
Do we learn from history? Or when you started in the industry influences the solutions you propose
I have been thinking about writing about this subject for a while. However, the posting by Jason Sales prompted me to actually write a blog entry. When I started in computing there were no PCs, just mini computers and mainframes. The UI was mostly a green...
How many versions of Visual Studio do I have to maintain ?
The most expensive part of any project is maintaince. You think everything is working well and suddenly you get a phone call and you need to resolve a bug in the application. The trouble is the application was written with an earlier version of the .net...
Embedding Gecko(Mozilla rendering engine) in a .Net application
Over the weekend I had some spare time, so I thought I wonder if you can use the Mozilla rendering engine(Gecko) within a .Net application as easily as you can IE ? This could be important in areas where people have concerns about using IE. It turns out...
Sourcegear Vault does not work after installing Visual Studio Express betas ( with solution)
I am using the excellent Sourcegear Vault product for version control and I was surprised that it would not work after I installed the Visual Studio Express beta products. The database seemed to be ok but I would get an error message if I tried to connect...
Don't write off rich client apps, or why a J2EE application was rewritten
Recently I had discussion with a friend about a project he was working on. He said he was converting a J2EE application to a .Net application. Naturally my first question was why ?? I was glad to hear that someone was doing commercial .Net development...
How many months are there in a year ?
Silly question, but interesting if you are writing a program and you want to return the months based on the culture of the user. Instead of having to hand code all the month names all you have to do is write the following piece of code: string [] _monthNames...
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