Here is my top 10 from this list of 101 ways to know your software project is doomed:

Developers use the excuse of “self documenting code” for no comments All of your requirements are written on a used cocktail napkin Progress is now measured by the number of fixed bugs and not completed features Your source code control system […]

I stumbled upon an interesting article titled: Comments Are More Important Than Code. In this article, the author, Jef Raskin, writes:

Good documentation should be readable on its own, with bits of code showing how the design is implemented (and making it run, of course). Reconstructing code from good documentation is far easier than […]

Last May I published a list of top Oracle blogs ranked by Technorati authority. Since then, I have had requests to publish an updated list. I was reluctant to do it because creating the list takes quite a bit of time. However, last Sunday afternoon, I was able to automate the creation of the spreadsheet. […]

As we say bye bye to 2006, I would like to thank you, my dear reader, for reading my blog and spending part of your time leaving comments and feedback.

For me, the highlights of 2006 were:

The birth of my baby Julie The blogger of the year award The visit to Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

I would also […]

One of my ex-coworkers emailed me this photo. The subject of the email was: Winner of “not my job” award.

When I looked at this photo, the word “laziness” started flashing in my mind. My thoughts then wandered to laziness as it related to programming. I then asked myself: what is laziness in programming? Here are […]

I came across this Chinese website that has hundreds of e-books about Oracle, Microsoft, Dreamweaver, Flash, Java, PHP, mySQL, Linux, Cisco and many many more, all ready for your online reading pleasure. I do not think this is legal. At least, it is as legal as software piracy.

We are looking for a full time developer with Oracle and ColdFusion experience. To be qualified, you need to have a minimum of three years experience in:

ColdFusion, HTML and JavaScript Oracle SQL and PL/SQL B2B E-commerce development and support

Experience in Microsoft BizTalk and SQL Navigator is strongly desired.

It also helps if you live or […]

According to Microsoft’s new adCenter Labs Demographics Prediction tool that enables you to “predict a customer’s age, gender, and other demographic information”, Oracle.com is female oriented with following confidence: 64% female and 36% male.

So, I was tasked with changing a simple ColdFusion application. The application was written by a former co-worker who was also a “ColdFusion developer”.

The application has an HTML form in a login.cfm page that submits to a login_action.cfm page.

Now, take a look at this login_action.cfm, what am I supposed to do? Go hang myself? The […]

Spam is a disease. It spreads like a disease. There is email spam, blog comments spam, and now Frappr spam. The Oracle Bloggers Frappr Group, and for the first time since its creation, has been hit with spam. Luckily I caught it early and deleted the spammers and their messages. So, to protect the group […]