Latest Blog Posts for Lambert on Software

• Saving Microsoft
  on Aug 20, 2011 in Architecture The Business of Software Android Charlie Kindel IOS (Apple) iPhone iPod Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio Windows Phone 7
  The last few years have been trying times for Microsoft.  Late to jump on the web bandwagon, they’ve never owned that platform the way they owned the desktop.  Internet Explorer remains a decidedly un-sexy choice for web browsing, and Microso...
• Dangerous Generalizations
  on Aug 8, 2011 in Disconnected rants ReadWriteWeb
  I read an article a couple weeks ago on ReadWriteWeb pondering, Are Indian Developers More Skilled Than Americans?, and I just couldn’t help cringing the entire time I was reading the article. This article was ridiculous on so many levels it&...
• Who comes up with this stuff?
  on Jul 13, 2011 in Disconnected rants
  Yes, it’s a real dialog box, and no, the information wasn’t very helpful.  I’m moved almost to tears, though, at the suggestion that somebody might care.  Please don’t do this to your customers. Tweet This Post...
• Did you test that SQL?
  on May 27, 2011 in Architecture Disconnected rants database Master data management SQL
  Although IT is a relatively young field relative to accounting or finance, I think a pretty fair number of people have picked up on some of the “big picture” ideas that drive modern development practices.  Whether you’re working wi...
• FileHelpers flat-file library
  on Apr 22, 2011 in .Net Development .Net ascii C# csv flat file
  A while back, I started doing some work on an application that does a lot of flat-file writing — specifically, fixed-width (positional) ASCII text files.  Now, this isn’t really exciting stuff, but like COBOL, it still makes a lot of b...
• I stand corrected
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Architecture
  All these years, I’ve been saying that one of the huge differences between software architecture and structural architecture is that nobody tries to change the requirements for the building while it’s being constructed. Turns out I was wr...
• Don’t be this guy
  on Mar 14, 2011 in Uncategorized
  I found this sort of amusing, though I’ll be the first to admit that the humor will be lost on some people.  This is a clip from a web site that’s promoting an infrastructure component that’s supposed to be enterprise-quality and h...
• Stored Procedure References
  on Feb 15, 2011 in .Net Development SQL Server
  Last week, I did a little work to track down unused stored procedures in a large-ish SQL Server database.  Searching for references in source code was interesting all by itself, but I also wanted to see which procs were referenced by other procedure...
• Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines
  on Jan 27, 2011 in Disconnected rants The Business of Software Bing Google Monopoly Quora
  According to an article on ReadWriteWeb, Q&A site Quora is blocking search engines from indexing its site — all, that is, except for Google, Bing, and a couple other big players.  If this is true, this is a really chilling development for...
• How *not* to help your users
  on Jan 6, 2011 in Disconnected rants The Business of Software community support
  I got an email this afternoon from “VMWare Communities.”  You’ve seen emails like this, I’m sure — here’s your status, and some stuff you might be interested in, and so on.  Emails like this are generally inten...

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