I currently work for one of the big wall street firms (Not the ones you named, but very similar), and here's the trick I've found... If you work in the actual IT department, you'll end up working long hours, working weekends, working late nights, etc. If you get in on the business side (I'm the lone programmer for a small convertible arbitrage fund within the firm), you can get probably get away with 8:30-5:30, unless something goes wrong. Most of the smaller departments will have a few programmers on staff to write their custom apps, while the actual IT department writes the firm-wide applications and services. Of course, it really depends on the environment you're going for. If you're comfortable being judge, jury, and executioner (Designer, developer, and support), and you've got the skills to back it up, business side is better (And pays better). If you're more comfortable working in large teams on large projects, be prepared for long hours. It might be different in other firms, of course...

M.Shoaib Khan wrote: Anybody having any information about Prompt Technologies in New Jersey or California? This site may be of help[^] M.Shoaib Khan wrote: I have heard stories of people pissed off by few consulting firms; consulting firms hiring people on H1B's and then literally people waiting at bench waiting to be assigned to some project. And these companies do not pay anything untill they are assigned to some client project. That's definitely illegal. Regards, Nish Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog) Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)

M.Shoaib Khan wrote: Any easy to get profiling tool? any other way? Try profiler come with Visual Studio! "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow cheers, Alok Gupta VC Forum Q&A :- I/ IV

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M.Shoaib Khan wrote: Any drastic improvements in debugger or features? Nothing "drastic", but the debugger has improved a lot IMHO. Also, the compiler is somewhat better. My programming blahblahblah blog. If you ever find anything useful here, please let me know to remove it.

M.Shoaib Khan wrote: Thanks for your advise. I have accepted the offer. Keep us informed on how you get one. I think it would make for a wonderful series of articles as you learn about your new job and how you deal with the problems you face. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

I just got in to colege(and I hate it but that's besides the point) and I have a guy in my class wo is from Libia and he has already been to college there(he is 27 years old) and now he is going to do 6 more years of college in my country just because the degree he will get from ere will be recognized by a firm in the united arab emirates.However when I spoke more with him he also confessed that his father is already the head there and I asked him(naturally) if he would still go through all this trouble just to get a job there if this wasn't the case and he said that if this wasn't the case nobody would wait for him to finish college so they can hire him, because he isn't that important but if they would have accepted such a deal he would have gone throght the trouble to get a job there because it's a dreamland for coders.However he later told me that the next coder paradise will be in Sudan because there are a lot of skilled chaep coders coming from there and that this country will replace india and pakistan as the source of outsourced code and probably many coders will move there in the future. He said that if his father wouldn't have handed him this opportunity he would have gone to Sudan to be there before it fills up with coders from all over and he is no longer special but hey if he lies to me I lie to you, ok? don't blame me if neither the uae or sudan are any good. I am still trying to find work in romania as a coder. if anyone can help I won't say no peace

GMP[^] supports arbitrary precision floating point math.

If memory is continually allocated but never freed, the program, and probably most everythying else, will come to a halt. "Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." - Unknown

Tom Archer wrote: I wrote a 1200+ page book on VC++ and I'll freely admit that I frequently have to look things up in my own book. You just took recursion to a whole new level. :) Jeremy Falcon

Oh I was replying to original guy :D Eeks...

I've never experienced a pure virtual function call. However from what I hear it really can only happen in the constructor or in the deconstructor. Then off course it could be a side effect of using invalid pointers to these objects. Also MSVC6 has been known to allow abstract classes to be created in certain cases. It also never hurts to do a rebuild all. I’ve seen some really straight up weird occurrences cause me a good couple hours of confusion all completely melt with a simple rebuild all.

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M.Shoaib Khan wrote: any tips? Hey Shoaib Just be as relaxed as possible and you should do well :-) Nish

Its not a college job. actually their recruiter who hire ppl directly from universities has shortlisted me. His designation shows "Senior Recruiter" Microsoft College Hiring They have shortedlisted me for Software Design Engineer and Software Design Engineer in Test positions in Windows Client Business Group. Do u know about this "Written Interview thingie in which they post set of questions and ask u to send a reply.. They have told me that they would arrange a telephonic interview once i clear this step.. Any tips? Muhammad Shoaib Khan http://geocities.com/lansolution

I believe it's allocated on the COM heap. M.Shoaib Khan wrote: LPWSTR allocated with CoTaskMemAlloc() doesnot have size in its start, how does COM decide whether to check size from start of string or check for null terminating string?? When COM allocates a BSTR, it does something like this: struct _BSTR { int length; OLECHAR str[1]; }; BSTR SysAllocString(LPCOLESTR src) { int bstr_len = wcslen(src) + 1; // 1 for NUL character _BSTR* bstr = CoTaskMemAlloc(bstr_len * sizeof(OLECHAR) + sizeof(int)); bstr->length = bstr_len; wcscpy(bstr->str, src, bstr_len - 1); return bstr->str; } As you can see, a BSTR really isn't a LPWSTR. It just appears to be. :) -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]

Ok first of all about my browser and system details . Browser is IE 6.0 and system is P4 2.8 GHz with 512MB RAM. Please note that i am not opening XML and HTML pages in seperate "Browser windows". I have a main browser window, from which i open an IFRAME whose source is set to a very simple XML. it is xyz Then i open another IFRAME on top of previous IFRAME in which i load a simple HTML page. HTML page contains just two text inputs and two buttons. Thats it. When i move this IFRAME containing HTML on top of XML there is lot of flickering. BUT if i move it on some other IFRAME with HTML there is no flickering.. to me it seems like IE bug .. may be i am wrong.. Please now tell me what do u suggest?? how to prevent this flickering?? Regards Shoaib Khan

Have you tried Nokia's developers' website? http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,64431,00.html[^] Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"