ExtraLean wrote: The code utilizes an alarm class posted here on CodeProject Why not post a message on that article's message thread? [edit]Also - you've got the source yourself - break out the debugger and try tracing through the source[/edit] Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

I believe it's not so difficult to create your own system. In this case it will exactly fit your needs. [ITA] Tozzi ha ragione: Gaia si sta liberando di noi. [ENG] Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us.

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I think both sites exemplify the addage, "You get what you pay for". If you go and out-source to the lowest bidder, you'll end up with crap and likely as not, end up with non-functional software. If however you engage in a dialog to discover who are the serious bidders that actually want to assist you, you can achieve mutual success. The bidders get paid for their work and you end up with functioning software. Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Gently arching his fishing rod back he moves the tip forward in a gentle arch releasing the line.... kersplunk [Doug Goulden] Nice sig! [Tim Deveaux on Matt Newman's sig with a quote from me]

Too high for a job where I'm doing enough work to quote an hourly rate. $350 an hour ? Man, it's nice to know there are still dreamers in the world. For building MSI's anyhow.... Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

Thanks for sharing, Allen. Does the Red Carpet subscription come with full source code? Or just DLLs or OCXs? -- Edward Livingston (aka ExtraLean) -- "I still maintain that seeing a nipple is far less disturbing than seeing someone get their brains blown out." -- Chris Maunder

Not strictly the same thing, but we use http://www.curezone.com[^] as a reference for related issues. Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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This is pretty much specific to consulting/contracting. Usually "regular" programmers tend to be on salary. And of course, there are thing such as benefits, taxes, etc.... a company with great benefits might have a better overall package than one with a better hourly rate. (Especially here in the US, where many employers subsidize a great portion of health care insurance costs, but others do not...) And taxes vary by location. An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Ohhhh... now I see. :-O:-O This was my fault! :-O:-O I see now that I posted the link for Part 1 of the article's 4 part series! I am interested in the result for clicking on XCrashReportText.exe in the bin folder from the download on Part 4 of the article, located here: http://www.codeproject.com/debug/xCrashReportPt4.asp[^] And again, thank you, thank you!!! -- Edward Livingston (aka ExtraLean) -- "I still maintain that seeing a nipple is far less disturbing than seeing someone get their brains blown out." -- Chris Maunder

Rocky Moore wrote: I guess you have to aim to be one of the four that claim to have broken $1 million Yeah, I'd guess that those who are truly serious about making a living at it are those closer to that mark. Many of the lower ones are either just starting out or they are content with being at that level (i.e. they have a "day job" and just do it for an extra bit of income or for the "fun" of it) Rocky Moore wrote: Thanks for the post, was interesting.. No prob :-) -- Edward Livingston (aka ExtraLean) -- "I still maintain that seeing a nipple is far less disturbing than seeing someone get their brains blown out." -- Chris Maunder

Paul Watson wrote: Well I have no idea what your requirements are. I just want to be able to add a simple RSS feed to a website from within a desktop application. Something that I can launch, type in the title, body, etc and click publish. Paul Watson wrote: If your top requirement is ease of transformation to RSS then a flat XML file is your choice. One simple XSL later and you have RSS. So I could just use XSL to make the RSS into the "human readable" part of a webpage? Paul Watson wrote: But there are no RSS publishing systems that I know of. Nothing that is dedicated to it. I guess that since RSS really is just XML, that would make sense then. Paul Watson wrote: It is XML so pretty much any XML publishing system will work for you though. Ah, that must be the ticket then. Do XML publishing systems exist per se, or do you mean that in a sense of setting up something yourself to publish the XML stuff you create whenever you want to update the RSS? -- Edward Livingston (aka ExtraLean) -- "I still maintain that seeing a nipple is far less disturbing than seeing someone get their brains blown out." -- Chris Maunder

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I think you are missing the point (partially). Cisco4321 wrote: Also, no one should just write an application to do something with my system that I am not fully aware of. That is exactly what I mean... what if you *were* aware of everything that is sent, and given the opportunity to *prevent* it from being sent? How is this a problem? I guess it comes down to trust, as you say, it can't be *proved* that no personal info is being sent, but if you have a trust built up with your customers many of them will gladly send anonymous info back to you if you ask them nicely. Especially if you tell them it will help you make a better product for them in the future. I see no harm in that. :-D Just my $0.02, YMMV. -- Edward Livingston (aka ExtraLean) -- "I still maintain that seeing a nipple is far less disturbing than seeing someone get their brains blown out." -- Chris Maunder

Hmmmm...if you want to save the passwords in a form, which can be algorithmically decrypted, it isn't more secure, that saving it in plaintext :). If you only want BFU not to read the saved passwords in Notepad, you should use ROT13. It simply rotates the letters by 13 (A->N, B->O etc.). Or use a Vigenere cipher (see here). Robert-Antonio "Science is a differerntial equation. Religion is a boundary condition."

The Windows application is something I wrote, and is specific to our product and build process. The application is a simple property sheet, with three tabs. The first tab displays edit fields for the version number, build number, special and private build comments. The second and third tabs display the contents of the two header files that define constants that are compiled into our version resources. When the application starts up, it gets the two header files out of SourceSafe. As the user changes the fields on the first page, the application edits the contents of the second and third pages so that they match. If the user clicks on the build button, the app checks out the two header files, rewrites them with the values in the fields on the first page, and then checks them back in. The next thing the build application does is it starts a VBScript that performs the actual build process. The script retrieves the entire project structure for the product from SourceSafe into an empty directory. The script then iterates through the top-level directories beneath the build directory, running VS.NET from the command line and building each solution file it finds. After the compile completes, the script runs InstallShield through OLE Automation and builds the installation. The script then copies the installation files to a final directory from which our test group can install the product. As a final step, the script reformats various text logs from the compile and InstallShield steps into a single HTML report that summarizes the results of the build. This sounds like a lot, but it really isn't. Given that we will go through 50-100 builds from the time we go from beta test to first customer ship, having the build process be as simple as possible really helps. On a previous product we had a set of batch files to do the job. They worked fairly well, but they were a pain to maintain, and we had to edit version information into our header file by hand. With the new approach, a build can be started with only a few clicks. I spent one day on the Windows application, and 4-5 days on the script. This thing builds a product that consists of two user .EXE's, ~20 COM objects, 3 services, and a device driver. There's over 300 source files and probably in excess of 500,000 lines of code. There's just no way you could reliably build the whole thing without an automated process. Software Zen: delete this;

Hi Drew, What price did you get from them? I looked at the prices and they seem high compared to what I can get on eBay. Cheers, Tom Archer "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake * Inside C# -Second Edition * Visual C++.NET Bible * Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework