Mike Gale

I guess this post illustrates areas where the web as we know it has gone wrong. Some points and suggestions: 1. Here we have an illustration of a lot of people whose brains danced around in May 2011, to a tune of the Google puppet masters. Who made an essentially …

While I completely reject the idea of a "retirement home" search engine, there is the *kernel of a something valuable* in here. First off. **Age doesn't define a person.** Army officers, actors, criminals... we all get old. Assuming that the army officer becomes very like the actor when he's old …

You haven't given much detail of what you're doing, details will, I'm sure, change the answer. Here's [B]some suggestions[/B]. 1) If you [B]know exactly[/B] how your reasoning is going to work, you can program up a custom solution pretty quickly. It gets faster as you do it more often! A …

To close this. LINQ to SQL (L2S) is still going, though the major effort has shifted to LINQ to entity framework. So you can still use L2S.

I'd go for what interests me personally. A connection to the topic can make you work powerfully. Idea generation is dead easy. If you find it hard have a look as some of Edward de Bono's books. Quickies in the DSS / ES arena: A tool to help pick [B]anti-virus[/B] …

You're using Visual Studio. Suggestion: [LIST=1] [*]Create a web form in your favourite language. [*]Make a front end for the application using drag and drop controls. Inputs, outputs etc. Use a submit button to repaint the form with results. [*]Test that out with trivial code (like just echo inputs back …

[B]Depends[/B] on your definition of ES. I see a wide [B]variety [/B]of definitions some of them quite ridiculous. My own definition gives a scale where [B]-1[/B] is "[I]absolutely not an expert system[/I]", [B]0[/B] is "[I]heck I don't know[/I]" and [B]1[/B] is "[I]sure it's an ES[/I]". I also believe that a …