I just got increase in my day rate as iOS dev. I used "increase in price of equipment" as one of the reasons :)

My friend was on work experience from college with one of ireland's largest bank about a decade ago. She was on night shift and was tired and deploying something and mistyped and accidentally shut down every ATM in the country. Had to wait ages for them all to come back online again.

1,2 hours..Lightweight! I once had a meeting in america that went on for 2 DAYS! till midnight both night. 3 months designing of this application. head guy says he knows best then drag everyone into a meeting to talk him through our design. To which he then argues every point out so eventually he does it all his way. Day 2 involved him sitting with us redesigning the whole thing in MS Project page by page. I remember my team lead thumping me in the leg as my eyes had started to close and head nod back. 6 month deadline arrive....missed, 8 months.. missed. 9 months team lead walks. half the team goes contracting. 1 year later no product delivered. parent company fires everyone inc the annoying manager who rewrote it all HAHAHAHAHA. Im now IPhone programming. if it doesnt get delivered its my fault noone elses ..scary but rewarding. tend to clarify your mind when you have real customers and not clients :and all the bugs are yours and not someone elses. feature creep is avoided :)

I know a major Financial company in the City of London that has 5 excel spreadsheet taking in reuters feeds and processing them in visual basic and running their whole company on these 5 spreadsheets. They process so much information each spreadsheet has their own server to run on :)

safari.informit.com all the IT books you'll ever need with out the back ache or bulging shelves. very uptodate. Even half finished IT books if you need your IT topics in BETA BETA Also Iphone app and website for mobile reading

its doesnt take long for a sucky film to suck :)

god its bombed over here in the UK. Everyones complaining about it. only got 34% on rottentomatoes.com DRAG ME TO HELL got great reviews

When you google the symptoms of swine flu as thats the only way youll get off this project if men in white suits tell your boss youre in quarantee and this bug wont fit in bugzilla

well it could use the 3d features of WPF. How about all your threads laid out in 3d space you debugging trace would be flying through code :)

MSDN mag has enterprise app code in Silverlight http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/dd434653.aspx

Just do what apple do. Create a platform...IPOD/IPHONE They only change 3 things every 6 months..(Email forwarding (cmon we all know that took a day to write))..have a big macworld announcement and the starving clients will praise you forever. :) 6 bugs /year...think thats a programmers best average? :)

In London the average for contractors: (given 7.5hrs in a day) (1.00 GBP = 1.49219 USD) Java/Serverside = £400/day = £53/hr = $79 C# slightly less Finance can go up to £500/650. Media (Web/RIA) 250/300/day Agency's add 20% on top. All of course if you have a job, 4000 lost their jobs in banks this week and now agencies pulling every dirty trick in the book to get references(fake jobs/ demanding references before offers etc.)

I rarely check the site. I love his daily news email. He's got v. sarcastic comments under each headline. Cheers me up :) especially on first day back afer 2 weeks off officially the most depressing day of the year

become a pilot on this baby http://gizmodo.com/5029950/first-virgin-galactic-white-knight-ii-photos go on admit it day 1 you'd push the go button and say "ENGAGE!" :-D

My friend used to write software for nuclear power stations, another wrote sw for satellites and a guy here wrote sw for the eurofighter. no stress there then...think Ill stick to overpriced recruitment software programming for the health industry. The most I can f**k up is to allocate the wrong doctor to an operation......whoops.! :laugh:

Yesterday I was watching FRINGE Weird, duracell-battery guy was electrocuting the love of his life in a lift, as you do. A song had been playing. So picked up my IPhone, pressed SHAZAM, tagged the song, it found it, downloaded it and was singing along to REO SPEEWAGON Cant Fight This Feelng before the lift plummeted to her death. So that was the cheesiest AND the nerdiest song I ever listened to..well this week anyway :) I grew up in the 80's that was 10 years of cheese.