I was kind of hoping someone would jump up and down shouting "look here wonderful stuff we/they wrote!"
LenaBr
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Looking for software for a clientHi That would be the next phase. They do the installation, training, and all repairs and troubleshooting ("Is the phone plugged in?" during the meeting) and warranty services. Small shop growing fast.
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Engelbert Humperdinck!He wrote opera Hansel and gretel[^]
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Looking for software for a clientBeen there done that - Did the costumes for the opera Hansel and Gretel. Different daughter here.
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Looking for software for a clientI know but I don't want to do it for free and I hate marketing so I thought if someone had something I could get him to buy it. Hey I want to help you sell something!
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Looking for software for a clientThanks but this is too simplistic for his needs. He actual has the non on line version for his accounting. He needs to have an inventory system with BOM and serial numbers associated with it that will be used by the order system.
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Looking for software for a clientI am looking for software (not free stuff) for my daughters boss. He wants to run his order entry, inventory and sales on a web site so that nobody will need to be in the office. They sell and install fancy telephone systems, so it needs quotes and sales items exploding into its component parts. Currently this is done in excel spreadsheets. They have a web server running Apache server but they are not hung up on it running there. Now I could write this from scratch no problem but he just about fell of his chair when I quoted what custom software would cost him :omg: so I thought I would ask what there was out there people would recommend. I posted this in the web development forum too but I thought I might get more general responses here.
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Looking for software for a clientI am looking for software (not free stuff) for my daughters boss. He wants to run his order entry, inventory and sales on a web site so that nobody will need to be in the office. They sell and install fancy telephone systems, so it needs quotes and sales items exploding into its component parts. Currently this is done in excel spreadsheets. Now I could write this from scratch no problem but he just about fell of his chair when I quoted what custom software would cost him so I thought I would ask what there was out there people would recommend.
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Funny interview answersAnd you probably missed the best candidate for the job. I don't know who in his right mind thinks that giving this kind of questions for a job interview and over the phone shows them anything except that people under extreme stress don't perform very well at intensely intellectual games. I am doing the interview circuit right now - I have 30 years programming experience, I rarely get support calls for my stuff but I can't program my way out of a wet paper bag during a job interview. I basically hand in a blank piece of paper when the idiots hand me a test. This is not to say I can't perform under pressure - I have dictated code over the phone in a foreign language in order to get a payroll back up and running (not mine). Anyone with any brains will have researched the effectiveness of test at job interviews and realized they only predict that a person can do a test under extreme personal pressure and absolutely nothing else. In fact when you check out the personality types of the best programmers you will realize that you are weeding out the best of the best with these interview techniques so good luck with your mediocre picks.
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Kung Fu vs MuscleAt nine my frills and pink daughter beat the crap out of 2 bullies a head taller then her. She had her 3rd belt (whatever colour?) in Tae Kwon Doh
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your first programming gigBack in 1974 - summer job for Cdn dept of Agriculture - statistic and research services. Programmed a Univac 11 in Fortran to do matrix calculations subroutines. For Operations research programs. It paid my next years tuition and most of my living expenses and confirmed that statistics was NOT what i wanted to do and programming was much more fun. Plus it was a hell of better way to spend the summer then making rotors in a plastics factory. The office was air conditioned!
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Wow, writing software is hard :pYes - after writing commercial software for over 20 years doing this inside corporate stuff with captive users is a breeze! Users can be "disciplined" for causing screw ups - yay! You will find that a good 75% of your code will be catching the idiots entering bad data and trying to do things backwards. And don't, please don't, hard code tax percentages! I have spent far too many boring hours hunting through pages and pages of code for GST percentages.
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Losing your temperTrue. What really annoys me is when people get all up tight because you find a bug in their stuff. Yeesh it is your software I am having a problem with - not you. Please don't run to my boss saying I am a meany because I said something of yours doesn't work!
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Losing your temperYes but you can let people know you are angry without screaming four letter words at them. My first real systems were in the garment industry back in the 70's - Let me tell you those guys really knew how to express their feelings without once swearing or making every body out to be an idiot. At one time we ended up trading a disc drive to compensate for system issues. Sometimes you walked out of those meetings reeling and wondering if war had been declared but them they would take you out for a nice kosher lunch and every one would be the best of friends again - but at least you knew exactly where you stood - no surprises. Much easier to deal with then the Western busines guys who you never knew if they liked the system or not.
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Why are computers so unpronouncable?but in 1066 they became French/Norman. Those germans came later because they kept looking a the ceiling and thinking of England or maybe they didn't.
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A ConfessionI have Ubuntu as partition on my home computer. I use it when surfing the net and for most tasks but I still have to use windows XP for my visual studios and SQL and other support functions. I love when I am surfing and those Windows boxes pop telling me my computer is compromised and I should down load this software. And this on knitting pattern sites!
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What to do when there is nothing to doI have been waiting a year for my client to finish writing the company specific documentation needed to implement a system that was booked to go live 18 months ago. Right now I am waiting for IBM to install some gpg software on the server so we can decrypt files we are getting from a supplier programmatically. They are in touch with their legal department to see if they are allowed to install a version of winpt and create 2 lines of commands to decrypt 2 files every night. The whole processes has lasted 6 months. In the mean time the client down loads the files every morning, decrypts them on his laptop and re uploads the decrypted files and runs what was supposed to be an automatic nightly batch.
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That's right Google. You better run.Mark Wallace wrote:
That could be a new survey: "Can you name a country where taking a photograph in a public street, where there are no top-secret military installations, is illegal?"
Quebec Canada. You can take pictures of people but you can't show them unless you have their permission. Google just added street views here but they are heavily edited with privacy software.
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The impermanence of our generationBut in one fire all those photos are gone - ask me how I know - at best you end up with dirty wet glued together blobs, but my scanned in jpgs were still online.
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PDF library recommendationsWe use PDFSharp to generate pdfs programatically because our printer insisted on getting pdfs and only by going through the printer are we allowed to mail anything. I don't allow the "client" to edit them because they need to reflect exactly what is in the data base for HR reasons. They can edit the templates before they generate the pdfs if they are really frantic - that way the image of the pdf in the data files is the same as the sent one.