The Lounge

It has been a good run for sure. I had several good years at the start, even got CP MVP twice. I got to meet a few of you in person; Nish, Mike Dunn, and Christian Graus at a microsoft event in Seattle, and Roger Wright on a crazy road trip I took to Arizona. Then I got married and had kids so I now spend way less time here. As a hobby programmer I learnt a lot from all of you. This site is also my only web presence so if this place disappears I will also disappear off the webs. Time to board a plane to see the inlaws for Thanksgiving weekend. Within you lies the power for good - Use it!

5teveH wrote: His mind-set is 100% that of a developer He has that "blind spot". What you are describing is a business problem. Titles have nothing to do with it. The basic hierarchy is - Customer - Requirement/business cases - Architecture - Design - Implementation - Test - Delivery - Repeat steps as necessary. And there are other factors that influence that. - Providing a solution that is robust, fast, etc. - Updating old code - Security - Making sure that something is delivered so money can be made to pay the bills. - etc The roles that any one person might successfully fulfill depend on their own experience and their coworkers skill as well. An 'architect' might be able to fulfill the first 4 roles but not be great at the detail work needed for the levels under that. A developer might seem to have adequate knowledge of both the business and the code but fail when the business changes. Of course failures can come from many places. I know of specific case where a service was created, delivered and successfully used but a contract very early in the company history guaranteed they could not make enough money to keep going. In another case a design or perhaps implementation decision lead to a multi-billion dollar company failing in less than a year due to a security problem. Or a developer that was handed a detailed design and decided to ignore it producing a solution that did not meet the business needs the design dealt with. This is all impacted by complexity. A single man shop would need to provide all of that. But when a company has thousands of employees single employees just cannot learn everything needed to manage all roles. I have worked at companies where test automation was handled by a team of employees.

dandy72 wrote: Which doesn't make them valueless. But you said "...books were just taking up place in a number of boxes on the floor of a closet." You wanted the storage. You didn't want to build an addition onto your house to provide that storage. Which is the same problem the library has. Except multiplied by thousands.

Quote: sort of makes me wonder why buried utilities aren't mandatory but I'm ignorant there Money, money, money. The cost to underground is multiple magnitudes more expensive. Hence it is normally only done in expensive areas where someone else is helping to pay (developers) or it’s an area of importance. A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.

megaadam wrote: I was unaware that PS7 is easy to get. Want a copy? :-D I don't know where/how it might be available online these days. I bought my copy in 2003 -- from an online "OEM" seller.

Yes, and "sun in Edinburgh". They do not even mention that as a bug :| "If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"

charlieg wrote: I've used Quicken for decades Gotta agree with you there, buddy. Their customer support is corrupt too, as far as I'm concerned. Jeremy Falcon

seems to me they spelled it Joe pfffffffft (Lil Abner?) :) >64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.

We're in Albany. Thanks for the offer, it is very kind of you and appreciated! :) Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!

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raddevus wrote: Oh, it's fixed now. The home link took a lunch break. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon

Behold. Ye olde crappy joke. "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

Her brother Zero invented nothing. "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

I hope they find it and he gets an exemplar punishment. M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Oh, and to be fair, browser compatibility is where the real pain the booty comes in. Unfortunately, most browser makers (cough, cough Microsoft) hate following standards. Was even worse in the past when there was no standards committee as everyone was fighting for web dominance. But, thank God it's much better these days. Anywho, the site `Can I Use` will be your new BFF for web development as it'll list browser compatibility. You can automate all of this of course if you have a proper dev environment set up in Node, but for a quick check it's still a great site to know. Here, I'm checking to see which browsers support viewport units like `100vh`. So, they've been around for about 10 years now, which makes them pretty safe to rely on with this. For people with an old browser that doesn't support flexbox or viewport units, it just won't span the entire viewport unless there's content. No biggie. Site still works. [Viewport units: vw, vh, vmin, vmax | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc](https://caniuse.com/viewport-units) Jeremy Falcon