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How long long is your total time in Project Setup HELL

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  • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

    Not quite sure what you mean... Open up Visual Studio (or Eclipse, or what-have-you), click 'File -> New project', if applicable choose the template of your choice, et voilá! Takes about 5 minutes on a slow computer. I guess that's not what kept you busy for an entire day (or I've got some bad news for you...).

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    Kenneth Haugland
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    I see you marked his post with 'NoEffort' and 'GimmieCode' :laugh:

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      I see you marked his post with 'NoEffort' and 'GimmieCode' :laugh:

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      Sander Rossel
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      Need prjct urgentz plz!!!11 :laugh:

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      • M Mark_Wallace

        Yoda Bytes wrote:

        I tried the for my WHOLE first day of employment to setup that project and went home as a failure.

        Are you saying that you couldn't finish because it was a lot of work, or that you kept getting it wrong and having to restart? Either way, it's nothing to quit over -- unless, of course, you fed them a lot of bull during the hiring process. I need more information before I can call you an idiot with conviction!

        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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        BOTH ARE TRUE. And I can be convicted with conviction of possessing the intellect of a converted convict.

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        • S Slacker007

          What do you mean by project setup, exactly? I don't think anything with the word "project" in it, takes less then 8 hours; just guessing. :) If you are quitting after the first day, I would question that motivation first, before your skill set for "setting up" a project. You don't make it in this business, by quitting. Just saying...

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          Yoda Bytes
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          From when you receive the project until when you run the project. Should I just expect the bag of files I'm given to actually run right the first time?!

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          • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

            Not quite sure what you mean... Open up Visual Studio (or Eclipse, or what-have-you), click 'File -> New project', if applicable choose the template of your choice, et voilá! Takes about 5 minutes on a slow computer. I guess that's not what kept you busy for an entire day (or I've got some bad news for you...).

            My blog[^]

            public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
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            throw new NotSupportedException();
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            newton saber
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            Maybe he's talking about a C++ project in Visual Studio. All the libraries and linking and everything can become terribly difficult. I remember back from the days of VC++ 4,5,6 etc. It can be a real wormhole you fall into, trying to get build order and all that. It's far more difficult than the C# stuff. I'm saying this as a C# dev.

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            • I Ian Shlasko

              I assumed he meant the time it takes to install all of the required third-party libraries, configure the IDE, etc... Essentially the time between pulling the code from the repository and being able to successfully compile it. Visual Studio makes that really easy...

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              Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)

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              Slacker007
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              Ah, I see. Well, if he inherited a mess, then it most likely could take a day or two, at least, to sort things out. However, nothing to quit over.

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              • Y Yoda Bytes

                I fancy myself a 'good' programmer, as do most employed coders i suppose. But one thing that being a good programmer doesn't make you good at is setting up projects. I actually had to turn down a job as the 'sole web programmer' at a makeup start-up because I couldn't setup the project in 8 hours. I tried the for my WHOLE first day of employment to setup that project and went home as a failure. I was too darn ashamed too return the next day and give another hopeless attempt. So as I am in setup HELL with this dang nabbit c++ and starting a new HELL MODE, I just want to know how much time would yall estimate you've spent in Project Setup HELL? 50 hours lifetime total is my estimate.

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                Mycroft Holmes
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                New project - 2-3 hours for silverlight/wpf but then we have been working with our framework for 4-5 years. Taking over someone else's code can take forever, especially if the source is crap or you have limited knowledge of the tech used. Quitting after 1 days effort is well... rather sad, unless you have recognised that you are incapable of doing the job.

                Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                  I fancy myself a 'good' programmer, as do most employed coders i suppose. But one thing that being a good programmer doesn't make you good at is setting up projects. I actually had to turn down a job as the 'sole web programmer' at a makeup start-up because I couldn't setup the project in 8 hours. I tried the for my WHOLE first day of employment to setup that project and went home as a failure. I was too darn ashamed too return the next day and give another hopeless attempt. So as I am in setup HELL with this dang nabbit c++ and starting a new HELL MODE, I just want to know how much time would yall estimate you've spent in Project Setup HELL? 50 hours lifetime total is my estimate.

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                  AndersonChau
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                  Once my Eclipse IDE said some of jar files are corrupted , I was not able fix the problem after a day. I then formatted the PC and reinstall all the stuff again, it took me 2 days to get the workspace working. I hate those freaking classpath that are scattered throughout of my computer.

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                  • I Ian Shlasko

                    A week and a half. Java/GWT with about a dozen different internal and third-party frameworks all cooperating and competing. Really makes me appreciate Visual Studio and C#/.NET... Granted, it was my first time using a Java IDE in over ten years, but still... EDIT: Oh, and sorry, that's not lifetime... That's one project.

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                    I have the exact same experience with GWT. No matter what third-party library you use, at some point it will be deprecated. I never understood why we're using that stuff in the first place. (I'm a C#/.NET junkie) Recently, we tried to switch to Vaadin. (Sort of GWT with a shell) When installing it, we followed every step laid out on the website, then I create a new project: errors! Red squigglies all over the place. Just by creating a new project! Never mind that stuff. Java and everything associated with it is dead to me. C#/.NET/Visual Studio all the way! The phrase 'It just works' is so true.

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                      I have the exact same experience with GWT. No matter what third-party library you use, at some point it will be deprecated. I never understood why we're using that stuff in the first place. (I'm a C#/.NET junkie) Recently, we tried to switch to Vaadin. (Sort of GWT with a shell) When installing it, we followed every step laid out on the website, then I create a new project: errors! Red squigglies all over the place. Just by creating a new project! Never mind that stuff. Java and everything associated with it is dead to me. C#/.NET/Visual Studio all the way! The phrase 'It just works' is so true.

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                      Alex Stukalov
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                      Yeah, had kind of same experience. That's why in our dev platform we pay a lot of attention to this "Project Stetup" step. I would appreciate you check it out and share your view on what we do [^]. From my perspective if framework cannot be launched in 10 mins then just f*ck it and move to another one. So, this idea is one of the fundamentals ones, that stands behind the CUBA Platform

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