Contents tagged with TODONT
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//TODONT: Use a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process
A common requirement in business application is a scheduled process - call a webservice, process the data, and FTP the results to a business partner, for instance. Developers kick around possible solutions - BizTalk's overkill, DTS won't handle it well, what to do?
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isIE=document.all; //only kind of true
Internet Explorer 4 used document.all['elementName'] to refer to document elements while waiting for the W3C standard, which turned out to be document.getElementById('elementName'). IE 5 and above, plus all other modern standards based browsers, all support document.getElementByID(). IE 4 usage was below .5% in 2002 and isn't even being tracked anymore, so there's no good reason to be using document.all anymore.
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Joel got it wrong - Why learning C is a waste of your college time and money
Back in January, Joel Spoelsky wrote a Career Advice column. It gave some generally good advice to college students, the main points being: