Almost every developer/sales rep has been in the situation where the customer asks which programming language the product is written in. If your application is written in C#/VB.NET, running on .NET, you're fine. No further questions. But what if you have to answer "SAL, using Unify Team Developer"? ...

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Different people have different opinions. This is especially but not exclusively true when it comes to commenting source code. Some say that source code without comments is like a complex machine without manual (who reads manuals anyway, but that's a different story...). Others don't care about comm...

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Every now and then I get requests from my users to add a very special feature to our ERP software which, as they claim, is so important that they are dying to have it the next day. Years ago when I was less experienced (and a little younger too) I tried to implement things as they were requested an...

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Recently my old keyboard broke and I thought I'd get myself a nice new one. I bought a cordess Logitech keyboard/mouse combination and it works very well. There's one thing, though. I use the same programming environment since many years and I learned various keyboard shortcuts in the...

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I was working on an old application of mine the other day, and when I say old I mean very old. It's a SqlWindows 5.0.2 application running against a 5.2.0 SqlBase on Netware 3.12. Development started back in 1993, it was finished in 1995 and runs more or less without problems ever since. I had to a...

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