I don’t mean to say that TechNet and MSDN are bad – quite the opposite in fact. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a huge repository of documentation. But what always appears to be missing is the “overview” or “tie it all together” document, required so that the student knows what he doesn’t know...
A: When it's used in Word 2007. I so wish I was kidding. But apparently the Microsoft Office team have completely lost the plot. Part of my job is preparing documentation for clients. And part of that documentation is invariably source code or its equivalent (eg configuration files). Most programmers...
You know, Pete makes a really good point when he describes how not to answer a telephone . Recently though, there's been a disturbing increase in the number of companies who feel it's desperately important that they talk to me. Right now. It's almost always companies that I'm doing business...