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  • P PIEBALDconsult

    Is it too early to post another of these? It's such a good example of the art. " Job Description:- We are looking for Senior DOT.NET Developer for one of our client in CA who should have with solid 7 - 10 years of DOT.NET Framework and WinForms development experience with WCF, WF, Microsoft Enterprise application blocks and Smart Client technologies. " What is this DOT.NET of which you speak? Your client should have seven to ten years experience? And remind me again... how long ago was .net 1.0 released? Wasn't it only six years ago? (2002-01-05 according to Wikipedia) I thought by now employers would have stopped suggesting that candidates should have been using .net since the betas. I read the C# spec way back in 1999 when the compiler was vaporware, does that count?

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    PIEBALDconsult wrote:

    And remind me again... how long ago was .net 1.0 released? Wasn't it only six years ago? (2002-01-05 according to Wikipedia)

    You have it right. When I was working for a large nameless retailer who must remain nameless but whose intials are TJX, we started working with .NET in June 06 and became early adopters of 2003 starting in Sptemeber of 2002. When POC was finished and the team was being upsized in the spring of 2003, HR started looking for programmers with "a minimum of four years of .NET experience in a production environment." That was bad enough. But then we got some applicants who claimed they had it. . . .

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    • P PIEBALDconsult

      Is it too early to post another of these? It's such a good example of the art. " Job Description:- We are looking for Senior DOT.NET Developer for one of our client in CA who should have with solid 7 - 10 years of DOT.NET Framework and WinForms development experience with WCF, WF, Microsoft Enterprise application blocks and Smart Client technologies. " What is this DOT.NET of which you speak? Your client should have seven to ten years experience? And remind me again... how long ago was .net 1.0 released? Wasn't it only six years ago? (2002-01-05 according to Wikipedia) I thought by now employers would have stopped suggesting that candidates should have been using .net since the betas. I read the C# spec way back in 1999 when the compiler was vaporware, does that count?

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      I got my hands on an alpha version back in Dec of '00. It had the uncanny tendency of BSODing my machine while trying to display intellisense.


      I'm largely language agnostic


      After a while they all bug me :doh:


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      • P PIEBALDconsult

        Is it too early to post another of these? It's such a good example of the art. " Job Description:- We are looking for Senior DOT.NET Developer for one of our client in CA who should have with solid 7 - 10 years of DOT.NET Framework and WinForms development experience with WCF, WF, Microsoft Enterprise application blocks and Smart Client technologies. " What is this DOT.NET of which you speak? Your client should have seven to ten years experience? And remind me again... how long ago was .net 1.0 released? Wasn't it only six years ago? (2002-01-05 according to Wikipedia) I thought by now employers would have stopped suggesting that candidates should have been using .net since the betas. I read the C# spec way back in 1999 when the compiler was vaporware, does that count?

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        Lost User
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        The consultant is a tool (and therefore fully qualified for the role) but that doesnt mean that the job is not worth looking into.

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          The consultant is a tool (and therefore fully qualified for the role) but that doesnt mean that the job is not worth looking into.

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          Well no, but if the company hired him... Anyway, it's a six month contract four hundred miles away. We moved here from southern California. The email does say I can forward it... interested?

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          • P PIEBALDconsult

            Well no, but if the company hired him... Anyway, it's a six month contract four hundred miles away. We moved here from southern California. The email does say I can forward it... interested?

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            Lost User
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            PIEBALDconsult wrote:

            Well no, but if the company hired him...

            As an employer its just as hard to find a decent consultant as it is as a perspective employee

            PIEBALDconsult wrote:

            Anyway, it's a six month contract four hundred miles away. We moved here from southern California. The email does say I can forward it... interested?

            It'd be a few 1000 miles for me so no but thanks :)

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            • M MidwestLimey

              I got my hands on an alpha version back in Dec of '00. It had the uncanny tendency of BSODing my machine while trying to display intellisense.


              I'm largely language agnostic


              After a while they all bug me :doh:


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              Oakman
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              I got in on the first beta. I remember reading a screaming fit in one of the forums set up to discuss this brand new programming environment, wherein a wise and thoughtful man complained because he'd installed the beta on his (only and therefore) production machine, and it broke MSWORD six ways from Sunday.

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              • P PIEBALDconsult

                Well no, but if the company hired him... Anyway, it's a six month contract four hundred miles away. We moved here from southern California. The email does say I can forward it... interested?

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                Lee Humphries
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                PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                Anyway, it's a six month contract four hundred miles away. We moved here from southern California.

                I live in the Solomon Islands - An all expenses paid trip to somewhere that's not a "least developed country" would be nice for a break. Although I think I'd want to be paid in Euro's or Aussie Dollars considering the way the USD is tanking, and I'm guessing will continue to do so for some time yet.

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                • P PIEBALDconsult

                  Is it too early to post another of these? It's such a good example of the art. " Job Description:- We are looking for Senior DOT.NET Developer for one of our client in CA who should have with solid 7 - 10 years of DOT.NET Framework and WinForms development experience with WCF, WF, Microsoft Enterprise application blocks and Smart Client technologies. " What is this DOT.NET of which you speak? Your client should have seven to ten years experience? And remind me again... how long ago was .net 1.0 released? Wasn't it only six years ago? (2002-01-05 according to Wikipedia) I thought by now employers would have stopped suggesting that candidates should have been using .net since the betas. I read the C# spec way back in 1999 when the compiler was vaporware, does that count?

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                  Chris Maunder
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                  Technically mere mortals could have been playing with beta 1 of .NET 1.0 in June 2000, so you could have nearly 8 years experience, but the first year of that would be one of frustration

                  cheers, Chris Maunder

                  CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                    Technically mere mortals could have been playing with beta 1 of .NET 1.0 in June 2000, so you could have nearly 8 years experience, but the first year of that would be one of frustration

                    cheers, Chris Maunder

                    CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                    Pete OHanlon
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                    It was indeed. The only samples I could find were in VB.NET; and this strange Garbage Collector - what was that language you spoke of stranger?

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                    • P PIEBALDconsult

                      Is it too early to post another of these? It's such a good example of the art. " Job Description:- We are looking for Senior DOT.NET Developer for one of our client in CA who should have with solid 7 - 10 years of DOT.NET Framework and WinForms development experience with WCF, WF, Microsoft Enterprise application blocks and Smart Client technologies. " What is this DOT.NET of which you speak? Your client should have seven to ten years experience? And remind me again... how long ago was .net 1.0 released? Wasn't it only six years ago? (2002-01-05 according to Wikipedia) I thought by now employers would have stopped suggesting that candidates should have been using .net since the betas. I read the C# spec way back in 1999 when the compiler was vaporware, does that count?

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                      I had heard about postings for someone who had taken 'Microsoft Foundation Classes' and had always thought it was a joke. However, last month I actually saw a job posting for a "Programmer who has taken Microsoft Foundation Classes"

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