The other day I was present in an interview for a lead software developer position that my company was offering. I was asked to sit in to ask the potential candidate technical questions. Unfortunately the interview did not go at all well for the candidate. This was partly because the interviewee didn’t have a detailed understanding of [...]
Archive for November, 2004
Interview tips for developers
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Management on November 13, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Krystalware.com
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Blogging on November 10, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Chris Hynes has some great material for ASP.NET file uploading on http://Krystalware.com. Chris wrote a dedicated ASP.NET file upload control that avoids caching data in memory an enables direct client to server posting of file data. Chris also has a personal blog at http://programcsharp.com.
www.koders.com
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Code on November 9, 2004 | 1 Comment »
My colleague, Chris Hynes (http://krystalware.com), sent me a link to http://www.koders.com/ today. Koders is a search engine dedicated to finding source code for developers. I haven’t investigated the site in depth and only glanced at the site, but I plan to experiment with what I can find soon.
Microsoft / Comcast Cable Deal
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Broadband, Microsoft on November 9, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
US pay TV firm Comcast will next week deploy set-top boxes featuring Microsoft software, in a crucial test for Microsoft’s cable TV ambitions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3994993.stm
Halo 2 Released
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Games on November 9, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Xbox video game Halo 2 has been released in the US on 9 November, with a UK release two days. Why is the game among the most anticipated of all time? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3994949.stm
Microsoft pays Novell half a billion
Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged Microsoft on November 9, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
The case between Microsoft and Novell came to a conclusion today when Microsoft agreed to settle with half a billion dollars payout. Novell was suing Microsoft over loss of business relating to Novell’s gateway product called NDS. NDS was introduced several years ago and enabled users to retain password and user management on Novell servers. [...]
Microsoft to Patent the Internet?
Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged Microsoft on November 8, 2004 | 1 Comment »
http://www.shaftek.org/blog/archives/000169.html Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet’s basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at Merit Network Inc., believes that might be the case. Blunk expressed these concerns about Microsoft’s Royalty Free Protocol License Agreement in a recent note to [...]
Yesterday’s Dilbert
Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged Humorous on November 8, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Who says software engineers have to wear a suit and tie when meeting a customer….
Burn CDs from .NET
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Code on November 8, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
The XP Burn Component allows your .NET applications to burn files to CDR/W discs on a Window XP or Windows 2003 Server system. This component does not work for systems which have a different OS installed; though it will detect that case and give a reasonable error message. This component talks directly to the system’s [...]
Incremental Backups with NAnt
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged Code, NANT on November 7, 2004 | 5 Comments »
Update 8/4/2005: I have received various comments concerning the original text of this post, mostly people asking me for the full source. It has been a while since I played with this project, and I have long since moved on. However, since I’m getting lots of lovely feedback about it, I felt I should update [...]
Navigation
Twitter Updates
- Anyone buying Facebook stock? 14 hours ago
- Found out why none of my USB devices weren't working - missing USB.INF file in c:\windows\INF 1 week ago
Categories
- Applications (99)
- Business Advice (24)
- Everything (297)
- Gadgets and Tech (26)
- Miscellaneous (41)
- Software Development (137)
- Web Sites (2)
Tags
Archives
