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  • Thursday Thoughts

    The more projects I see the results of where the customer lives in a vacuum, the more convinced I become that for a project to be very successful there must be close ties between the developers and the customers. For those of you familiar with the latest buzzword methodologies like Agile and XP Programming...

  • An Argument For C#

    <Begin Musing> I was reviewing some code the other day from one of my developers who recently made the jump from classic ASP to ASP .NET and I found that the developer was using a lot of the old VB core functions like cint(), dateadd() etc instead of their new .NET Framework counterparts. In my...
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  • More "broadband" pain

    Another weekend, another chance at a learning opportunity missed. I was hoping to download and install the latest CTP of SQL Server 2005 but once again my "broadband" provider is happily charging me $44/month for high speed service that isn't what any reasonable human would call high speed. If I was...
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  • Beware your contract

    A very common mistake I see being made by developers involves the signing of their employment contracts. Oftentimes there are clauses, like invention clauses, in the contract which can have a signficant impact on your personal time and pet projects. The purpose of this article is to make you more aware...
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  • Self-Made Slaves

    It's politics day on CodeBetter.com, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to weigh in on a few concepts about wages, unions, personal finances, and the IT business in general. The American Dream Sahil makes an interesting point in his post about the "American Dream" and people living beyond their means...
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  • Another Reason Asset Management Is Important

    Link from the BSA: http://www.bsa.org/usa/press/newsreleases/BSA-Collects-from-Marketing-Solutions-Company.cfm Notice that this company was not in compliance with their software licenses (something that can be tracked in Easy Assets .NET) and the cost? $65,000 Suddenly spending a few thousand on a good...
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  • Firing Clients

    Excellent article here for you wannabe consultants about abusive client relationships that you should end at the first opportunity. Here's some of my own comments on these 11 clients you need to fire right now: THE DISILLUSIONED consistently expresses disappointment with your work even though it is of...
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  • Interview with Darth Vader

    Trying to console myself for missing TechEd due to it filling up so damn fast. So here's something I found humorous: http://www.yourish.com/archives/2005/june5-11_2005.html#200506601

  • Inheritance And Interfaces

    A common question I get from developers new to OO programming and VB .NET is what the difference is between inheritance and interfaces, particularily when should you use one over the other. At its most basic level, the difference between inheritance and interfaces is that inheritance is intended to allow...

  • Cleveland .NET Jobs

    Just wanted to let all you blog fans know that School One in Cleveland is hiring 3 .NET Developers. "Growing Educational Application and Technology Services Company seeks full-time developer with BA/BS and approx. five years professional experience creating scalable, custom web apps using ASP, MS SQL...
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