It is quite easy to write crap in...

Florian Reischl (11/14/2009)

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I just don't understand why features like "Option Explicit Off" or "On Error Resume Next" are still supported. I've started with VB long time before .NET was available...

Ok, just to head off any flames about VB programmers as inferior, let me simply say good programming practices are language agnostic, and no language is inherently better or worse...

It's not a rumor,...

I was struck by the poster that said human languages are pretty much the same.

I must disagree. They really aren't.

Sure, they get the day-to-day jobs done. "I want food"...

@baconm

If I understand Brian's post he's not entirely out in left field, although I think running with *no* data integrity is a huge mistake.

I think what he's saying...

I'm in agreement with G². Surrogate keys (which my company calls RIDs) are the only way to go for primary keys in entity tables--tables which contain entities. Aside from eliminating...

David Korb (8/3/2009)

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Those gatekeeper systems serve mainly to maintain legal monopolies for the benefit of the people already in the profession, with the secondary benefit of providing higher quality professionals.

I'm...

I've always viewed software as a craft, and viewed myself as a craftsman *not* an engineer. The definition of craftsman I like is: "a creator of great skill in the...

"Credit card companies, banks, and other institutions often have complex rules for how they handle and process data. I think this more of their secure methods of handling data should...

Mark Horninger (7/20/2009)

At any rate you can't argue the face that if someone take thier time and effort to learn and get certified it shows a level of committment learning...

Let's divide that 80/20 into functionality and correctness, hmm?

Provide 80% of *either* and you deserve to get fired.

Especially if 20% of the functions have some kind of problem, even...

Clould databases suffer from several shortcomings:

1) Bandwidth

2) Security

3) Availablility

Given all that, you'd be insane to trust your business on line--even if your business doesn't impact tens of thousands of customers...

This topic has two main thrusts, voice input and data validation.

Voice recognition as a general input device will never work. Ever. In certain domains it's a perfect fit--such as giving...

Steve,

Trouble is, I don't think the basic issues *can* be solved on a broad (all companies) basis. I trust ADP because they started back in the day when "network" meant...