My company is currently looking for new developers (both permanent and freelance based) for a combination of web, Windows Forms and database (SQL) development work. We are more interested in a developer's ability to understand and solve real world problems, and deliver ease of use, accuracy and reliability - these are the key goals for our software applications and websites. And, while it is important that developers can leverage the best out of the technologies we use (primarily .NET 2.0), it's important that they are able to understand the users: what they really want, what they need, and how they behave - and that the developers can conceive solutions and parts of solutions that will work together. (Even if your 'end-user' is another developer, this ethos runs true). Of course, a good understanding of the technologies themselves is very important, but not through certification necessarily. If anything, we are put off by MS Certification when we see it on a CV as, in my experience at least, it indicates that a developer has great knowledge of syntax, but often has less understanding of real-world implementation and issues and less ability to really 'connect' with the way the end-user thinks and behaves. Those developers that can demonstrate a good understanding of people, business and problem solving skills in their software development are far more attractive to us. (And to those MS Certified developers out there who DO have good understanding of people, business and problem solving skills, you probably do exist - we just haven't met many of you yet!) ;) Chris Keeble PAM Software (UK) Ltd www.pamsoftware.com[^]

It happens on the home page, even though there is only one lounge link.

It's always tempting to want to see lots of code on screen at once, but if your methods etc are that long that you can't see it on a normal screen....well! :doh: