Archive for 'Opinion'

Death To Choice: An Anti-ALT.NET Rant

Updated: Because writing a blog post when you are frustrated is never a good idea, I have posted a clarificaton to this post. Also, I have added some emphasis in a few places to highlight a couple of things that I failed to draw enough attention to.

I like options. I really do. [...]

Always Ask About the Development Environment During an Interview

BlogCoward had a post this week that stated that the version of Microsoft Office that a company runs can tell you a lot about the “sophistication” of that company.

In the comments, someone commented that the versions of Windows and Internet Explorer they use are also good things to ask about in an interview. I [...]

Why A Developer Needs The Best Possible Hardware

For the last couple of months, I have been navigating the bureaucratic hurdles of my company to justify the purchase of new workstations/laptops for the developer’s on my team. For whatever reason, only one model of workstation and one model of laptop is purchased by my company regardless of job type. So, software [...]

Installer Etiquette

To anyone and everyone who creates installers for software.
Please name your installer setup.exe.
This goes for you too Microsoft.  I don’t want to have to hunt through 1001 files in a folder looking for some cryptically named EXE.  I had to install three pieces of software today, and all of them were named differently.  And no, an [...]