Probably not. But many things can happen before that day...

I thought the hole was just a diversion to raise anticipation. Everything seemed to point to a rather boring end and then it happened! Most entertaining. If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.

I do lurk on Reddit, I've had an account for a while but I've only really got into it over the last few weeks. I do like the fact that someone has gone to all the effort to create a reddit specifically for things that are not quite amusing enough to be called fully amusing. “Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed” “One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated” Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)

Due to language and was getting a little, ahem, naughty near the end there (I didn't finish watching it). But hilarious. Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

Yes, I think so.

As of three years ago, the only change was that their "driver" craps took a half gig of disk space. X| Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

That's be a nice addition, but I've long since abandoned using the tree in Query explorer and management studio. I use the catalog views instead. They made some great improvements in the DB engine in 2005, and at the same time managed to make the new UI a disaster. :doh:

My boss keeps talking about it, I don't know what he's talking about, I just go my merry way.

not if i was the CEO of the company

Mate... DeskSpace is great! Finally a great virtual desktop solution for my pc. Keep wondering why Vista doesn't have this by default...

AlexCode wrote: Now we get in loop... Again to expand we got to have more space right? To have more space means that something will have less space. No, you just get more space because the space itself just got bigger. With the house you are just rearranging things around the space not changing the space itself. This blanket smells like ham

For me, to be a Software Architect is to: 1. Be the face for the customer right after the commercial department gets in 2nd place 2. Define how the application will be done 3. Define the tools needed and choose 4. Estimate the time needed to execute mostly based on: 4.1. What do do 4.2. Milestones 4.3. How many people and what the capabilities of who will execute it 4.4. ... 5. Give a price for the job 5.1. Get back to point 3 if needed to adjust price or time If you're working for the company that will execute: 6. Define who will do it 7. Build a team with the chosen ones 8. Get it started If you're part of the team: As I never worked on a team where I was "only" an architect, I always impersonate the Project Manager or the Team Manager person depending on the team size and a developer. For me this is the very basic process to have any warranty that the project will be delivered on schedule and on budget.

ThePotty1 wrote: Which would you prefer... It depends... right now I wouldn't choose a face lift, but it all depends on the customers needs. I don't know how COBOL would handle things like Web Page Integration, Web Services Integration, Plug-in Architecture, High level of abstraction implementations... These are just a few that automatically popped out of my head and most are key areas for you to sell a software to a modern company. If the software is to be held in-doors, then almost anything will do if it works, but more and more customers want their applications to deliver services directly to customers, want the IT Department to respond JIT to the commercial demands making the process mo agile not to act like a technological corn. Like I said more than once already on this thread, if the company already has its own COBOL application and is satisfied with it's absolutely correct to keep it while it keeps doing its job. What I question is the new implementations, basically what future will they have?, will they be able to stand side-by-side with the company's needs?, even if it can handle it, at what price? Cheers! Alex