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When you are working in XP, and you need to view a calendar to see what day of the week a particular date falls on, how do you do it? Well, if you are like 95% of non-corporate windows users (not getting your time from a domain controller or time server), you probably double click [...]

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I had an interesting experience this weekend. It served to remind me that even generally smart people can be complete idiots sometimes. And I’m talking about me and my family here, not the normal idiots I’m usually ranting about. So, KL and I go up to visit my sister and her husband, LC & DC [...]

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Don’t use an UPDATE or DELETE statement on a live, critical database from a query browser. Inevitably, you will forget to highlight the WHERE clause. The more time passes that you haven’t screwed this up, the more likely and damaging it will be when you do.
Don’t use email addresses in test data that resolve to [...]

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I might stop by from time to time to see what’s going on, but I’m out. This is just total bullshit.

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Great post over there today. My favorites have been the Every Turbo Boost in Knight Rider one and The Big Lebowski - The Fucking Short Version.

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This Greenhouse business is ridiculous. Most downloader-type applications are. Do I really have to:

Download the Greenhouse installer (2.6M)
 Open the file only to have it immediately start downloading what I can only assume is the core of some bit-torrent-esque windows client (Indeterminate size)
Start the application to go download the FREE content I’m looking for

Has the world [...]

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My first programming internship used VB6 (1998), and it was great at the time. My first real job was mainly Classic ASP (2001), and I didn’t have a problem with that either. We just got back a proposal from a consulting company to revamp one of our aging CD-ROM based products and my jaw hit [...]

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“We are where we are.”
This quote is John McCain. He’s used it on multiple occasions during interviews to dodge questions.
“We don’t know what we don’t know”
This I hear at least once a week. Both quotes mean nothing. Repeated use of them is grating to everyone that has to listen to it. Just say,
“I don’t [...]

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Here’s the interface for managing users in a version of postNuke that we are running on one of our websites:

40,000+ items in a dropdown box FTW! The HTML for this weighs in at around 2MB by itself. I hope this is fixed in a more recent version.

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Here’s a colleague’s nice way of talking about someone behind their back:
I’d Say It In Front of Her/Him, but they really are not good at <insert task>.
I’m not sure if this is unnecessarily mean or smooth and soft-skills best practice. Maybe both. Part of managing is getting the right people doing the right tasks and [...]

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