The next several months of your life will involve removing a lot of semi-colons and curly braces... Oh, and adding funny little things like "then" and "end if". Good luck.. I don't think there is much difference between the languages (besides the obvious) other than VB runs slower than C#, generally.
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Based on what little information you are giving, it sounds like an incredibly bad idea. Puting the application on a web server is simple, and there are many easy ways to do it, but the implications are vast. I don't know what good articles are out there on the subject, but I will say that there are several IT professionals like myself who make a living out of doing exactly what you would like to do. I'm just saying that there is a lot more to it that what you might gather from a short article. Security issues, performance issues, platform issues, etc. It is a simple question, but it requires an expensive answer.
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Easier than reading. It's pretty simple to do a reverse lookup and get your general location based on IP. How many people have noticed that some banner advertising on websites is sending you more localized content? They are doing it by tracking your IP address, primarily. Big brother may not be watching you, but big money sure is...
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So what, is Ban Ki-moon going to personally come and arrest him? "International Law" is silly and largely unenforcable. I suppose a software company that has too much money could start an international law suit based on it.. I'm sure that will take a decade or so to resolve.. Dosn't Seagate still have an unresolved suit against Microshaft for stealing the Backup Exec software? Besides, legal or not, software piracy is world-wide and very common in the U.S.- as much as anywhere. It's more the personal ethics of it all. Are you personally willing to slap your name on someone else's work, legal or not? And for a consumer - are you willing to spend a lot of money buying software that's obviously been pilfered from a reputable company? Will you get the same kind of support when there are problems? Will you get quality updates? Training? Is it worth the risk?
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Anytime someone asks me to do something unethical, or immoral, I have to think about what they are going to do to me. It's similar to handing a known murderer a gun. As far as the work, I wouldn't feel bad about writing my own app that provides the same function, I might even hack it to see how they've done a few things, but generally, I would write my own, hopefully better, code... But working in a shop like that.. It WILL come back to you, I would worry about my paychecks clearing the bank, and I'd wonder if my benefits were for real, or if the police were going to raid the building on any given day, depending on how deep into illegal work they are. I mean, he's assigned the "new guy" a task to do something illegal, so how much bad stuff do they do around there?
Bart A. Edgerton www.ewebdev.net
I use AJAX, ASP.NET, MS-SQL at work, and AJAX/PHP/MySQL at home. Even though my work is a "3-tier" shop (I'm on the user interface team), I end up at least designing the DBRL table structure and by and large, I dictate what stored procedures and views are made. I don't know what the mid-tier guys do, because either they jack up the interface design we give them, or we have to break their code in the process of making accessible user-freindly interfaces. Of course, we have project managers (think pointy-haired) that wander around aimlessly, read up on the new "buzz words" and occasionally create pathetic spreadsheets for us to track our time with.
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I have been an Adjunct Professor at a major university for the past 6 years, teaching a web development class for a business/MIS degree. The amount of information I could teach in a single semester, 3 credit class was not even close to enough for the kids to be good at anything related to Web Development. This is the minimum curriculum I would suggest for a BSWD: XHTML/CSS User Interface Design/Meeting User Needs OOP/C Language programming (as a basis to learn other languages from) JavaScript/Client-side scripting Graphics Design for the Web Color and Design Philosophy Typeography Technical Writing I Math through Calculus II General Business Practices Project Management Web-based business planning XML/XSLT ASP.NET Perl/SSI/CGI PHP/MySQL AJAX/REST Java Network Engineering I Linux/Unix System Administration Microsoft Server Administration Other Technologies: Ruby, Python, Etc. Then get them spend a year as an intern in a large programming environment (more than 20 programmers), then I'd call them a capable BSWD. Tell me which of these skills isn't necessary.. Oh, and explain to me again how Web Development doesn't rate a degree program?
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Well, if tech schools start offering "web development" degrees before note-worthy universities do, then it will de-value the entire "profession". I think that certifications are much better than college degrees, personally. There just isn't a good "authority" that is offering credible certifications that are widely recognized. I mean, who are you more likely to hire to be a network engineer in a Microsoft shop, a BSEE or an MCSE?
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Have you tried it in different browsers? I wonder if its a client-side error or a server-side error. You might also check to make sure you don't have a reserved name issue. Bart Edgerton http://www.ewebdev.net
Here are the files: Calling page: function getProduct() { var xmlHttp, myurl; myurl = "edit/vs_sprite.php"; try { xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch (e) { try { xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { try { xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { alert("Your browser does not support AJAX!"); return false; } } } xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function() { if(xmlHttp.readyState==4) { document.getElementById("product_box").innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText; } else { document.getElementById("product_box").innerHTML="please wait..."; } } xmlHttp.open("GET",myurl,false); xmlHttp.send(null); } var c=0; var t; var tm=1; function timedCount() { getProduct(); c=c+1; t=setTimeout("timedCount()",tm); tm=12000; } timedCount();
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In IE7, the refresh keeps pulling the same record from the database, but with Firefox, it pulls a random record, as it is supposed to. Any ideas? Bart A. Edgerton www.ewebdev.net
Everything he said: also, li elements are block elements by default, so be sure to do something like this if you want them to appear on the same row: .ListBox ol li { display:inline; margin-right:1em; } Good Luck! Bart Edgerton www.ewebdev.net
My applications always seem to start out simple enough, depending on the complexity of the app. It's all of the stuff you have to do to "idiot-proof" it that makes it become more complex. It always seems like a lot is overlooked during the analysis phase that is discovered later in QA. Then, there's the code comments and documentation, which, in an effort to explain code, can make it more confusing. Which is less complex?: // Items to display on each page (1 to 50) $maxitems = 20; or // This is how many items will be displayed on each page // It has to be at least 1 // It can't be more than 50 // Don't change the name of the variable!!! $maxitems = 20; // Fix maxitems // DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES BELOW THIS LINE!!! function checkmaxitems() { if (isset($maxitems)) { if ($maxitems < 1) maxitems = 1; if ($maxitems > 50) maxitems = 50; } else { $maxitems = 20; } }
I think it's important that all of the members of the team have at least a basic understanding of all of the tasks involved, if not an advanced understanding. A DBA that dosn't understand interface design is as bad for a project as a project manager who dosn't know how to program. It's also helpful when most of the project team understands the use of the application that is being designed, I.E.- a bunch of techies that don't have a clue about accounting/management will write a poor business application everytime. Lets face it, in order to be a good programmer, you need to be diverse. http://www.ewebdev.net[^] Bart Edgerton
I think you should find one or two guru/consultants to sit in on the application process with you. They can help you weed out the wannabees. Just make sure they aren't looking themselves, or they will pull the best applicant away from you. Another thing you can do is employ a company like brainbench to have a small test prepared for applicants to take, they can provide you with a report of the skill level of your applicants. I've had to do this a few times for some jobs I've taken. Good Luck!