eapen’s world

from the article: “When you’re getting ready to write a program, or extend an existing one, you don’t just dive in and start coding. “
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Top 10 replies by developers when their programs don’t work:
10. ‘That’s weird…’
9. ‘It’s never done that before.’
8. ‘It worked yesterday.’
7. ‘You must have the wrong version.’
6. ‘It works, but it hasn’t been tested.’
5. ‘Somebody must have changed my code.’
4. ‘Did you check for a virus?’
3. ‘Where were you when the program blew up?’
2. ‘Why do [...]

Excellent article on how to use CSS to get the best layout for your website. Specifically, any order columns, equal height columns, or vertical grids. A CSS MUST READ…
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Some very helpful Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS v1.0) tutorials

Did I mention that I am a Certified VoiceXML Application Developer?
Well… I just did.
Voxeo is the best place for developers to learn and test voice applications.
Tellme Studios and Voxeo have very good tutorials that can help prepare for the Certification exam. Of the two, I would say that Tellme Studios would [...]

having trouble starting SQL service with dot net SDK

I finally added the much needed 301 redirect to the old UofM website. So now the search engines (google, google and google) should start showing the correct URL for the search results.

If you didnt already know how to do that, here is a HOWTO for servers that run on Apache and use the .htaccess [...]

There was an interesting article on Wired about a programmer who used to sneak into Apple after getting laid off to finish his Graphing Calculator Project, which is now included in around 20 million machines!!
After several magazines refused to publish his article, he finally published it on his own company’s website Pacific Tech