"Data! data! data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
— Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by
Arthur Conan Doyle.
"I
like deadlines," cartoonist Scott Adams once said. "I especially like the
whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
"There is nothing like that feeling of spending days and days banging your head
against a wall trying to solve a programming problem then suddenly finding that
one tiny obscure and seemingly unrelated piece of the puzzle that unlocks the
solution. Oh yeah!"
- Chris Maunder, CodeProject Newsletter 28 Jan 2002
"Management at eSnipe,
which is me, is also feeling the pain of the 2002 bear market. So rather than
pout about it, I bought some stuff on eBay that I really didn’t need, but made
me feel better."
- Tom Campbell, president of
eSnipe
Friday, April 08, 2005
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VISUALIZE YOUR DATABASE WITH TREEMAPS Scott Stephens demonstrates how to generate a simple treemap that uses shades between green, yellow, and red to show which tablespaces have low percentages of free space. Then, he offers a sample PHP script that could generate that graph. http://ct.builder.com.com/clicks?c=114809-15231352&;brand=builder&ds=5
WORKING TOWARD MORE REALISTIC DESIGN GOALS Web designers go to great lengths to ensure uniform page rendering, employing all manner of CSS code hacks, browser detection scripts, and other tricks and techniques. Is it time to rethink design expectations? http://ct.builder.com.com/clicks?c=114813-15231352&;brand=builder&ds=5
USE THE FLEXIBILITY OF XEP TO RENDER AND PUBLISH XML PRESENTATIONS XEP, from RenderX, is a commercial-grade rendering engine that takes XML data and parses it into a viewable or printable format. See an example of how XEP works. http://ct.builder.com.com/clicks?c=103785-15231352&;brand=builder&ds=5
A SIMPLE XML DATABASE FOR YOUR WINDOWS APPLICATIONS Want to create a Windows application that lets your user edit and view structured data locally without connecting to a remote database? XML is the answer, and with Visual Studio it's a snap. http://ct.builder.com.com/clicks?c=96965-15231352&;brand=builder&ds=5
DON'T EXPLAIN AN IDEA TO A DEER IN HEADLIGHTS Communicating technical concepts to business drivers can drive even a tactful developer to the brink. In this classic article, you'll learn four things you can do to make the process easier. http://ct.builder.com.com/clicks?c=92847-15231352&;brand=builder&ds=5
History: Confronting your past: You may now be tired of hearing me say it, but I will say it again: Your repository contains every version of everything which has ever been checked in to the repository. This is a Good Thing. We sleep better at night because we know that our efforts are always additive, never subtractive. Nothing is ever lost. As the team regularly checks in more stuff, the complete historical record is preserved, just in case we ever need it. But this feature is also a Bad Thing. It turns out that keeping absolutely everything isn't all that useful if you can't find anything later. My woodshop is a painfully vivid illustration of this problem. I have a habit of never throwing anything away. When I build a piece of furniture, I save every scrap of wood, telling myself that I might need it someday. I keep every screw, nail, bolt or nut, just in case I ever need it. But I don't organize these things very well. So when the time comes that I need something, I usually can't find it. I'm not necessarily proud of this confession, but my workshop stands as an expression of who I am. Those who love me sometimes find my habits to be endearing. But there is nothing endearing about a development team that can't find something when they need it. A good SCM tool must do more than just keep every version of everything. It must also provide ways of searching and viewing and sorting and organizing and finding all that stuff. In the rest of this article, I will discuss several mechanisms that SCM tools provide to help make the historical data more useful. Read it all online and share your comments with Eric... http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/42366
Comprehensive CM with Razor http://www.cmcrossroads.com/link/1573 Visible Systems’ Razor provides a well-integrated trio of cross-platform (Unix and Windows) configuration-management tools: (1)Issues is the problem tracking system, (2)Versions is the version control system, (3)Threads is the release management system. Two things distinguish Razor from some of its competition. First, all three of these tools work closely together. It’s clear that they have grown up together, rather than having been built as disparate pieces and then later lightly integrated. Second, they’re all quite flexible. If you don’t like the user interface in Issues, or the precise workflow within the tool suite, Razor is meant to be modified, and the manual shows you how.
9:08:05 PM
Microsoft Help and Support: Describe the problem
In Solitaire, if you click on the close button on the title bar while it's doing its bouncing card animation, the program asks if you want to deal again instead of quitting. You have to choose No (or Yes), then click the close button to exit.
It should close as soon as you click Close, just as it does when it's not doing the animation.
Always Repeatable. Probably there since version 0.
No big deal. Just thought it was time I got around to reporting this.
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Full name:Eric Hartwell E-mail address:ehartwell@exoware.com Product:Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (All Languages) Problem:In Solitaire, if you click on the close button on the title bar while it's do...
8:52:17 PM Microsoft Wish: Outlook - Ease of Use - I would like to be able to edit directly in the email preview pane. (Without getting a tablet PC).
In response to yesterday's item about media-shifting, Jason Burton reports that he uses a free tool called Sermonex, written by Chris Lundie, to extract audio tracks from Channel 9 videos. ...
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