Comment by matt b on Worst coding standard you've ever had to follow?
What is "explicit" about this code?
View ArticleComment by matt b on Is the agile approach too much of a convenient excuse...
I don't think it's accurate to call what you are describing "cowboy coding". This isn't an individual problem - it's a group problem. This is poor product and team management.
View ArticleComment by matt b on Does giving a developer a slower development machine...
Note to self: never work for MakerofThings7
View ArticleComment by matt b on What are the Top Developer Productivity Tools/Plugins...
"try using Eclipse auto refactoring" I've never had a problem with Eclipse renaming variables/types/methods and producing incorrect. @Jas when was the last time you've used Eclipse, is it recently? And...
View ArticleComment by matt b on Is Agile the new micromanagement?
Forgot not wanting to do agile, why would you want to work for a company that employs people that think these kinds of "rules" are a good idea?
View ArticleComment by matt b on How can I prevent a client from seeing my code written...
What kind of contract/agreement exists between you and your client? Do they own the code, or have you merely licensed usage of it to them? Or have you not worked any of this out?
View ArticleComment by matt b on Softpedia published some of my open source projects —...
But if your license for the code both allows someone else to host it and to use it in their projects, you don't really have a way to differentiate between people profiting from the code in true "work"...
View ArticleComment by matt b on Is a company order to switch to a certain IDE a red flag?
@FumbleFingers, I disagree strongly. It's possible that each developer is the most efficient individually using different tools than each of the other team members. As long as there are no conflicts,...
View ArticleComment by matt b on Algorithm for finding overlapping times
having the array contents already sorted seems like a prerequisite for the algorithm to work at all
View ArticleAnswer by matt b for AJAX driven "page complete" function? Am I doing it right?
You need a way for loadPage() to know when the user has taken some action which should effectively cancel the loading of the first page. For example, if they click on a "page 1" button and you call...
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