It’s started out somewhat sloppily. I started with the whole ‘returning null vs. returning an empty collection’ debate, and tried to explain why the answers were what they were, but it turns out to be a long-winded discussion, as there’s a lot of interpretation needed on the developer’s part. But I hope I at least helped reason towards a standard approach that has worked well for me personally.
Monthly Archives: December 2003
I Used to Really Like ‘Information Week’ -AND- Recruiters
I read this magazine religiously, as it gives an excellent view of the IT industry from the business side of things. Unfortunately, I was catching up on some back-issues I missed, and I ran across this article by the Editor in Chief. Geez, can you get anymore PC in everything you say? Not to mention numbers 1 and 2 are based on lies……
And on a different note, if you are a recruiter and leave me messages three times a week…there’s a reason I don’t reply: I’m not interested! If I am, I’d reply, but unlike wedding invites, the rule is ‘silence means no’. It means I just don’t have time to reply to everyone leaving me messages…..sorry!
Avant Browser rocks
OK, I know it’s been a week and a half, but what a week and a half it’s been. I’ll be posting alot more about that in the next few days. But I hope everyone had a good turkey day, as we look forward to the end of the year….
As some of you know, and as I’ve posted here before, I was on the bandwagon of Mozilla in a big way as the best browser out there. It has everything IE won’t have until Longhorn: tabbed browsing, tons of plugins, and a sleek rendering engine. But in the past week I’ve come to hate its one downfall. It’s not IE! There are so many sites where I can’t stand it anymore, it doesn’t render pages correctly! But it’s not Mozilla’s fault, it’s the fact that we have too many developers out there coding for one browser. Not to mention the scenario where most of Microsoft’s site is not friendly to it as well.
So after stewing over it for awhile, I decided to try out one of the IE ‘skins’ or applications that are built as a wrapper for IE. What do I mean? Well, I have fallen for another browser in the past few days, Avant Browser. AB isn’t really a browser per se, it’s really an application that is built on top of IE’s rendering engine in Windows. Granted it can therefore only run on Windows systems, but at least now I don’t have problems with those damn banking sites and MSDN!
Sorry, Mozilla! I was tooting the horn for you, but I can’t put up with non-compatible sites….just a lesson for those of you out there not coding to DOM-level browsers, get your crap together and promote competition!
BTW, I’ll pry change my mind in another month and be looking for another alternative….
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