I'm afraid to answer because it forces me into thinking about *why* someone would do this in the first place... ugh.

I just keep going back to read this part:

AspDotNetDev wrote:

4 hours working, then DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) and a shower at home (over 2 hours including lunch), then 4 more hours working

Love the DDR part. We're getting Just Dance 3 for my son this Christmas. I hadn't thought of that as being part of my daily work/break routine.

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

For God's sake, do it right!
 
I have seen too many /quick jobs/ that evolved from helping one person to becoming used company wide. Where the code is shyte, the extensibility is greatly reduced and at some point the whole shedangs need to be redone.

So true! I watched something that we started to call the "revolving iterative prototype" slip into production under the radar and then suddenly the business unit using it (yep, real users, not tech savvy IT types who might be understanding if something was a little shaky). The users wanted to start adding features, requesting bug fixes and after a year or so made a formal request to expand it to a suite of applications. :omg: When I left the company some 7 years later some parts of the expanded suite were still in use. I was the last developer in the company who was there when it was born and, luckily, managed to put a good bit of distance between myself and the suite in that time.

Mike Devenney

UGH! I didn't sleep for a week. (I *was* 8 at the time...)

I'm using it to remote into machines at two of our other locations to help non-technical users get things installed or fixed. I'm glad someone else asked this as I had been wondering and just too busy to get onto CP and post the question.

I'm working for a company just passing their two year mark. Part of my job is setting processes in place that will help us survive our growth. My latest challenge is out of my league so I'm reaching out to anyone who would care to answer... We have tested a hosted web solution and think it meets our needs, but the company seems to be a little small. By small I mean that you get the same guy when you call support, every time. When we first signed on for the trial I was told that our new accounts would be active once this guy got back from lunch... All signs of a smaller company and while not a source for immediate concern I need to find out how robust they are before we sock all our confidential company data into their system and basically bet our business on their staying in business. So, I'm looking for thoughts on how to proceed. Is there a rulebook for what I should and shouldn't ask, a process to follow, a legally binding document that I could get them to sign that says they'll surrender their source code if they go out of business, etc...

When did yogurt get an "h" in it?

I just started working with an Architect a few months ago and learned something about how titled Architects and Engineers feel about the IT field borrowing their titles. To have some fun, find your local architect (building, not software) and tell him that you're a Software Architect (even if you're not). Wait till you see him/her go bright red in the face. I've never held the position, but when he started our first conversation with, "Just tell me that you don't call yourself an architect...", I figured I had to. I still haven't told him... might never. :laugh: Mike Devenney null

I want to create (or borrow if one exists) a "news ticker" for our website that aggregates RSS feeds from vendors and news outlets into a section of our webpage. I want to maintain the functionality of being able to click through to the stories as you would when using an RSS reader. Is there something out there that already exists and I'm just not looking for the right thing? I know I've seen this on other websites and was just wondering if this is something that every website has developed on their own? Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

Can I use a Windows 7 professional machine to host a small intranet site?

Might want to rethink your user name on the next site you join as well.