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
A painful legacy and death by aptitude -- software development gone wrong.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 04/01/2009
Software development gone wrong -- terribly wrong.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 09/01/2008
Finnish bank acquisition goes very awry.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 06/15/2008
Software development gone wrong.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 03/15/2008