Bob had sent out a single VB.NET function with an accompanying class definition. Its sole purpose in life was to see if at least one of the terms, passed as an array of strings, existed in the second parameter, a document body. Jed was positive that somewhere, a Reverse Polish Notation calculator was crying.
Terry had spent the better part of the past decade digging through the trenches of QuidCorp's flagship application QuidFlow -- a program used to flowchart business processes.
Mike worked as a SQL developer for a non-profit, debt management company that handled student loans.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2010
Brandon hired a software development contractor to create a Web portal using ASP.NET to complete a custom software solution for one of his company's Software as a Service customers.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2010
The rumor of the beeping server started out as a hushed whisper between network administrators.
As an independent .NET consultant, Steve was often called in to help smaller development teams transition to the platform.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 03/01/2010
Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, an internal support application at Joe R.'s company suffered a slowdown in executing queries and returning data.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 02/01/2010
After nearly eight years of working as a C++ developer at Rik V.'s insurance company, a certain coworker was finally laid off.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 01/01/2010
With more than 340 billion trillion quadrillion (and that's no typo) possible values, the probability of having two identical GUIDs is basically non-existent.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 12/01/2009
Nobody believed the French. Not the entire country, or Frenchmen in general, but rather the folks who worked at the European Branch Office in Paris. The bug they described-their computer's internal date was randomly changing-reeked of user error and seemed far too implausible to be caused by the corporate reporting system.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 11/01/2009
DEVDISASTERS: After three long interviews for a .NET developer position, Maxim received a fairly generous offer and accepted it on the spot.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 10/01/2009
When all you have is a hammer, should everything look like SMS?
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 09/01/2009
A Junior Developer Learns that Seniority Doesn't Mean Smarter.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 08/01/2009
Offshore application development has its merits, but sometimes, as one dev team found, it's just not worth it.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 07/01/2009
Software development gone wrong: ASP plus Access not equal to secure Web portal.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 05/01/2009