I believe they're the spring flower you get on a dogwood tree. A close look will reveal some Photoshop work. When I cropped the image there was a piece of wood behind me that looked like it was coming out of my head so I cloning stamped the background a bit. All the best!
Mike Devenney
Good call Joe, I've been on the beneficial end of a forgotten MSDN subscription. Sadly, I haven't convinced the powers that be that I need one of those yet. :(( The "drunk" developer you speak of sounds suspiciously like my old boss. Same situation, he just stopped working one day (fed up with our department's mis-management, he said) and started playing some online RPG. He would drink his lunch and come back hours later completely useless. Luckily, by then we were contracting out to a third party to develop the system and his coding (if you want to call it that) was only making a mess of our corporate phone listings page...
Mike Devenney
Sadly I'm not fishing for traffic with that subject. I'm building an IT department at a small company and the time has come for someone to "depart for greener pastures". I want to be sure that I'm thinking of everything that has to be shut down, closed, disabled, etc... after the employee is terminated. I've got the easy stuff figured out already (AD account disabled, web app logins disabled, company property returned, etc...) and would appreciate anyone with experience in this arena tossing their $0.02 in. edit: After reading a few responses I reread my own post and realized that I didn't mention that this will be the procedure that the entire company is going to use so non-technical suggestions would be appreciated as well. Thanks again for the input... I was amazed at how quickly the responses popped on this one. Thanks!
Mike Devenney
modified on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 11:40 AM
LunaticFringe wrote:
They're less expensive than the more expensive competitors
Much to my dismay, I've found that they are more expensive than the less expensive competitors. Sorry, couldn't pass that one up!
Mike Devenney
Ok, maybe the subject will give me away, but I used to be (all of 7 months ago), a C# developer splitting time between web development and some light PM work at a financial institution. Fast forward to Sept 2010 and we find Mike tasked with building an IT department from SCRATCH. As the year is coming to an end the buzz in management has been about budgets for 2011 and I don't know where to start. I've done some reading about how others would do it and I have always gotten great advice here on Code Project so I figured I'd cast into this pool and see what you all have to say. So, fire away and feel free to be sarcastic, demeaning and talk down to me, so long and you add some good advice to your posts! Thanks in advance for any help! :thumbsup:
Mike Devenney
Guy Harwood wrote:
*shudders at recollection of coding in access*
Ahh the heady days of my youth spent coding VBA... I can barely remember what it was like to end a line of code without a semicolon and have a hard time doing it when I wander into VBA to trick out a macro in Excel for a co-worker these days. Makes me feel old to think of how long ago that was (mid 90's). :omg:
Mike Devenney
Not sure what timeline you're measuring "the latest fad" by, but beer has been popular[^] for thousands of years and I've been a big fan for ~30 or so.
Mike Devenney
I'm torn while reading this. It's just nasty on one hand, but on the other, I've done it. Lucky for me nothing of ever sticks when I try this, we used high gloss paint in my closet. :laugh:
Mike Devenney
I wake up this morning to see that my post has all this activity and I thought to myself, man I love this place! Everyone is sooo helpful! Then I crunch through the hundreds of emails I get overnight telling me which of our batch processes decided it was time to sleep through the night and I get to my Code Project Daily News and there we are as one of the featured discussions! It's my first so bear with me... I'd like to thank the academy and everyone I worked with on this post, without you it wouldn't have been possible... :-O In all seriousness, I appreciate the help. I had to make a quick decision and having people who have been there, done that really helps at crunch time. I'll follow up with the specs on the new toy.
Mike Devenney
AWESOME... exactly what I was looking for. What do they run?
Mike Devenney
I found a Dell Studio that matches these specs, the I7 might be a little beyond what I can get away with, but I can beef up the RAM and get a nice video card (it's possible I get bored and end up playing some WOW on here) so that might be the winner. I can't find an option to add a docking station in the Dell build your machine wizard... do they not sell those any longer?
Mike Devenney
I'm moving to a new company and they asked me what kind of machine I want when I get there (this is a first). I've never developed on a laptop and want to be able to bring things on the road with me. I never gave any thought to what kind of horsepower a developer machine needs because I was always told what I would be using and just put up with the performance. Now that I get to pick I'm at a loss. They're a Dell shop and suggested that I build one on Dell.com and send them the link. My only requirement is that I can hook up two monitors. Other than that I want to keep it reasonable for them, so no crazy peripherals like a BluRay burner... Any suggestions/direction greatly appreciated!
Mike Devenney
leppie wrote:
If it ain't broken, no need to fix it
First time I've heard anyone say that and Vista in the same post. Although you technically you didn't say Vista, so that doesn't count.
Mike Devenney
There's a companion saying that Simon will add at times which, I assume, means the same thing. "Fannie's your aunt." Maybe you could start a Bob's Your Uncle cover band and call it Fannie's Your Aunt. :doh:
Mike Devenney
Awesome! Second random Brit reference in one week. Heard "Bob's your uncle" while my kid was watching Phineas and Ferb the other day. :thumbsup: Some explanation - I say random becuase I ride with a guy who will occasionally drop what we call Simon-isms while we're out for a long ride. Most times we let them go but Bob's your uncle got us wondering. Why do we never hear these things anywhere else? Now I've heard two in one week coming in from far and wide. Sorry for taking the topic even further off course, but had to share. As you were. :suss:
Mike Devenney
LunaticFringe wrote:
You might find that your local law enforcement see it a little differently. If a car has difficulty getting around a bicycle, it is incumbent on the motorist to wait until he can safely pass. It's called sharing the road, and it's the law. Impatience is no excuse for violating the law and causing injury to yourself, another motorist, or a cyclist, nor does it make it the fault of the cyclist.
AMEN. :thumbsup:
Mike Devenney
I wrote my first program in BASIC on an IBM PCjr running DOS 2.10. Being a kid at the time I didn't have any concept of the next big thing, although I remember having to load disk after disk into the 5 1/4" drive when playing King's Quest. When I wrote my first program commercially my co-workers were desperate to get off Visual InterDev and into this new .NET thing.
Mike Devenney
Haven't read all the way through the replies so this might be a repeat, but try using CrazyGlue on your fingertips. I played in bands through my teens and twenties and remember quite a few of my guitarist buddies using crazy glue when they were coming back to it after being away for a while. Don't do it all the time because you want to develop the naturally occurring callous, but it will get you through a gig. It's kinda nasty looking as it begins to wear off (and it takes a while to wear off) but hey, this is ROCK 'N ROLL man! :cool:
Mike Devenney
Great thread Chris, I took note of all of them and sent them to my home email address! Work PC is sadly still XP... *sigh* :thumbsup:
Mike Devenney
Amen. My wife thinks I'm a fly with all the sugar I add.
Mike Devenney