Joel Brown

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bio	website	mooseware.ca
	location	Mississauga, Canada
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I'm a professional software developer with more than twenty years of experience across many industries and the entire systems development lifecycle. I'm the principal consultant at Mooseware Limited.

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Apr 6	awarded	Enlightened
Apr 6	awarded	Nice Answer
Apr 6	revised	Are there any disadvantages to using the Agile methodology? Added antother example.
Apr 6	answered	Are there any disadvantages to using the Agile methodology?
Mar 26	comment	Choosing between words with different spellings for function names Use the dialect of English that is prevalent in the location where you are practicing (or practising).
Feb 26	awarded	Constituent
Feb 26	awarded	Caucus
Dec 27	comment	How to get hardware specific ID Agreed (+1), I would probably go with MAC address too, but in addition to spoofing there is the issue of machines with multiple network adapters, so even if someone isn't maliciously trying to impersonate a known user, you still have the issue of a user unwittingly trying to connect from multiple MAC addresses at different times. As you say though, can't be 100% sure no matter what.
Dec 3	answered	Should the analyst define the programmers and their seniority needed by the project?
Nov 25	comment	Securing credentials passed to web service If you are using SSL then the whole request is secured. Why not use plain text over SSL? That's what would be happening if you redirected the user to a secure page on the same server as the web service.
Nov 24	revised	How to check if 4 points form a square? Added a note about not requiring (or wanting) to use square root.
Nov 23	comment	How to check if 4 points form a square? Fair enough, note however that OP said explicitly 2 dimensions.
Nov 23	awarded	Good Answer
Nov 23	awarded	Mortarboard
Nov 23	revised	How to check if 4 points form a square? Included corrections regarding completeness of the test and short-circuiting
Nov 23	comment	How to check if 4 points form a square? @meshuai - I've been woodworking long enough to know that if angle ABC = angle BAD and segment AB equals segment CD then ABC = BAD = 90 degrees, but feel free to cross check as much as you like.
Nov 23	comment	How to check if 4 points form a square? @meshuai - If you like you can check both BC and CD, but once you know AB = AD = BC (plus AC = BD) then there is nowhere else for CD to go. It has to be the same as the other sides.
Nov 23	comment	How to check if 4 points form a square? @meshuai - If the diagonals are equal it can't be a parallelogram.
Nov 23	comment	How to check if 4 points form a square? @Blrfl - Yes, the order is irrelevant. I used ordered points to make the description clearer, but there is nothing in the algorithm that relies on ordering. I think the shortest circuit is five point to point measurements.
Nov 23	awarded	Nice Answer