Dave Wise

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Feb 21	comment	Can a CS degree benefit an older programmer? No, actually that is from over 20 years of dealing with recent grads and interns.
Aug 2	comment	any document which says exactly what range of numbers are .NET BigIntegers designed for? The question, as written, sounds like he was looking for real-world example as to why such data type would need to be created.
Jul 22	comment	If I finish one project, should I wait until the next day to start another one or begin right away? There is no question that stepping away from a project restarts the creative juices, and this is even more true if the previous project was especially taxing. However, most people aren't in the position where they can simply leave for the day as it may reflect poorly on the person's professionalism in the eyes of a client or manager. An unfortunate viewpoint of many who pay the bills is that if a person isn't heads-down all the time that they are slacking. The viewpoint is wrong on several fronts but it is almost universal and there are real consequences to going up against it.
Jul 21	comment	How to hire a good C# developer if I don't know C#? I was assuming that there would be some trust level already established with the person that would be asked to review the code, but you do have a valid point
May 2	comment	What's your approach to assuming someone else's project? Is this individual still with the company?
Apr 22	comment	Essential Technologies for Senior (.NET) Developer @ashes999, Then you would not be alone :) It is an excellent tool but hardly essential.
Apr 22	comment	Why does the Perl community have such a bad reputation? "Elitism" is pretty far down the list of things that cross my mind when I hear PERL as well.
Apr 21	comment	Things to do to get better as a Software Development Group Is your team supporting only the application you are writing or is the support role more of general support?
Apr 21	comment	Teaching programming, quickly to those adults that haven't programmed What is the primary technology that they need this for and what are they going to be doing with it? i.e. writing utilities to manipulate Active Directory? Writing Excel Macros for sales forecasts?
Apr 15	comment	Working code and user needs You just don't like sales folks do you? ;)
Apr 15	comment	Working code and user needs @Frustrated, good idea. done.
Apr 15	comment	Working code and user needs the original subject was that he was lamenting not being able to come up with friendly error messages. My point was for him to not worry about the message itself but instead just make sure he is using the resource files so that the actual message can be easily changed later, i.e. be a good programmer not a linguist.
Apr 15	comment	Working code and user needs @Rein Henrichs, I have seen this countless times. So much so that if you even try to write a Commercial package that does not use string/resource files, you may end up taking a chargeback on the project when they say, "Oh, we need it in Spanish by next week"
Apr 15	comment	Working code and user needs Usability is not user-friendliness. Most larger development projects just create a strings file that contains the programmer summary of what went wrong. This file is then updated by the business to be user-friendly. Once that is done, it is sent out for translation into all languages that are supported. Only the creation of the original strings file is the programmer's job. Developers guessing at what the end user will or will not understand is a bad idea.
Apr 15	comment	Can a CS degree benefit an older programmer? If all of the fresh graduates I had to deal with were from MIT, we would not be having this conversation :)
Apr 15	comment	Can a CS degree benefit an older programmer? I would agree with your theory as that should be the goals of higher learning. However the reality is that American colleges gave up trying to do that 30 years ago.
Apr 15	comment	Can a CS degree benefit an older programmer? Considering the speed at which both the world and this industry changes, the degree loses value by the day.
Apr 15	comment	Mimic the functionality of Urban Airship You would not believe the number of times I've had to spend a week writing a control that could have been purchased for $99
Apr 14	comment	Tricky logic puzzles - Are they really useful in assessing programming skills? @Jason, if a candidate for a technical position cannot communicate his thoughts reasonably well to a technical interviewer then there will be problems down the road with that candidate. I would agree with you if the candidate were being interviewed by the PHB, but that isn't usually the case.
Apr 14	comment	Tricky logic puzzles - Are they really useful in assessing programming skills? @Pavel, We stopped doing phone interviews entirely because we ran into too many cases where candidate A would be invited for a phone interview but instead make sure Best Friend and Techie B was the one who answered the call for the phone interview. Once Candidate A came in for the face-to-face, it was clear what they had done. It ended up just wasting everyone's time.