I was thinking more of something like "1".tolower might work. “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens

I always LOL at those job titles followed by some unforgivable writing errors... like "Senior technical recruiter" it's like she is saying: "I have recruited like 100 people for many job positions, and I think I know how to do it. If they rotate a lot, that's not my problem."

True, but they consider those 'features' :sigh: TTFN - Kent

Dan Neely wrote: it shifts a huge cluster elephant of diff noise out of the files I care about 95% of the time. Exactly! And then, ironically, I saw "partial" abused by programmers, oh, let's write these methods here, those methods there, so that our class is smaller and it looks better, and we can just extend our class by adding another file defining a partial class! :sigh: Marc Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!

Marc Clifton wrote: Ugh, I guess there's no good answer, especially since I'm translating XML into DB transactions, and the XML schema and the database schema have really no similarities. Haha, leaving infamous morsels of talking for a while of yapping away. No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde

Good luck, Marc! :thumbsup: /ravi My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com

This guy is going to tell you that Ruby is "better" than .NET; so, if you want the job, you better agree. Start by Googling why Ruby is "good" (no compiling?) and .NET is "bad" (needs a compiler). Then regurgitate it back to the "tech". (Chances are, he got most of his opinions from the web and has never actually worked with .NET ... in my experience). (And what is "traditional" of C# versus F# ?)

Has everyone written their Y2.038K unit tests yet? We don't want to wait till the last minute, like Y2K, when the legacy 32-bit time_t range is about to run out. :)

Sea_Sharp wrote: not a good career choice They are all good career choices, even if they become obsolete ten years from now.

I traded my hobby for programming for a career in programming in 1989 by applying to a "head hunter" service and then proving my talent on the job. And while I don't dismiss a degree in computer science I don't think it is necessary to become a professional programmer. As a hiring manager for a global technology company I look for transferable skills: the understanding of how to think conceptually, collaborate and overcome boundaries; build clean systems that last and are readable and maintainable. If you can demonstrate to me the basics understanding of being a professional developer rather than someone who has learned to write code, I would consider your application over someone with a 4 year degree who can't build a clean, sustainable legacy code base. Just my 2 cents.

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Peter Shaw wrote: NodeJS, but that's a discussion for another thread Personally, I'm not particularly excited by anything javascript related. :) Peter Shaw wrote: We need to get together on Skype or something and have a pow-wow ... That would be great -- how about sometime early next year? (That sounds more ominous than it actually is). Merry Christmas to you too! Marc Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!

Mochi is a dynamically typed programming language for functional programming and actor-style programming. Matz should not be allowed to create languages. X| Marc Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!

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How about: Ruby On Rails: It's the PERL of the Whatever-Ruby-On-Rails-Does World!! I don't think you can get a better slogan than that. Hahaha, PERL. Right. Yeah, uh huh. Ruby On Rails. ho ho ho, ha ha ha. I pity the fool. :)