I agree, too many people seem to come into programming as "just another job" rather than having a real passion for it. But of course the really shocking statistic is: "50% of programmers are below average" ... :-D

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Marc, I have had some success doing automation like this using autoit[^]. It's a scripting language you use to send keystrokes and mouse clicks to a applications. You can run it as a script or compile it into an exe - oh, and it's free. Regards, Derek.

Matt, Johanna Rothman[^] has published a book on hiring technical people and has a lot of articles on her site that you may find useful. Also, you can download an interview she did on hiring and asking good interview questions from http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail392.html[^] Regards, Derek Graham

Jim, You could try submitting an article to ACCU the Association of C and C++ Users. ACCU has a membership (Ok, I confess, me included) in the UK, the US and throughout the world. They publish two bi-monthly journals and recent issues have included articles about using Qt, Tcl etc for writing GUI apps. I'm sure an article on VCF would be welcomed although I don't know if there are any rules governing submissions by non-members. Check the website for submission details etc.