I'm very young in here! For me, the big thing was PHP and PHP ready-made tools (portals, forums).

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I think similar questions will remain there for a while. A couple of years at least! I have collected some information from StackOverflow and combined that with my own experience with many ORMs which produced this discussion: Which ORM? LINQ To SQL, Entity Framework? LLBLGen? NHibernate?...? http://weblogs.asp.net/meligy/archive/2009/10/31/which-orm-linq-to-sql-entity-framework-llblgen-nhibernate.aspx[^] I hope it might help those who are looking for this kind of questions. Mohamed Meligy Senior Developer, Team Lead Backup (.Net Technologies) – Applications Delivery - TDG Injazat Data Systems P.O. Box: 8230 Abu Dhabi, UAE. Mobile: +971 50 2623624, +971 55 2017 621 E-mail: eng.meligy@gmail.com Weblog: http://weblogs.asp.net/meligy

If this is a website using Visual Studio , then the key is to convert it to Web Application Model. If you are not clear on what I mean, check this: http://weblogs.asp.net/meligy/archive/2008/08/03/converting-vs-2008-website-to-web-application.aspx[^] Regards, -- Mohamed Meligy Information Analyst (.Net Technologies) – Applications Delivery - TDG Injazat Data Systems P.O. Box: 8230 Abu Dhabi, UAE. Phone: +971 2 6992700 Direct: +971 2 4045385 Mobile: +971 50 2623624 E-mail: eng.meligy@gmail.com Weblog: http://weblogs.asp.net/meligy

I'd say go for Softsys Hosting[^]. They're cheap, notably up to date, provide active support, and, their uptime is OK (didn't make strong tests to uptime though).

Yeah, once you try Resharper, just semicolons and parentheses become very small part in editor features :). But yeah, it takes time to get used to, and to stop getting used to as well! For me, it was really painful at beginning. I ended up adding duplicate semicolons and having to delete them instead of just writing one! After a while, it became just the nature of things. I learned what to expect and then stopped thinking about it while typing. The funny thing is that when I sat on VS without Resharper later, it was really painful to miss all the functionality there. This is the problem with non standard tools!

Here he tells why he thought so: http://www.ytechie.com/2008/04/why-im-a-better-software-developer-than-you.html[^] Note: Yeah yeah, yet another guy saying so, I agree :)

I think everybody who used the following stuff will agree with me in the following list: (Ordered from longest to shortest) * Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack (Cause By Microsoft: The SP size was reduced by making it edit existing files rather than have replacements) * Visual Studio (Makes sense though for the size of the files, although some argue this size itself makes sense) * SQL Server 2005 (The biggest question to me!) * Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (Shouldn't actually count as pre-release to now, but, I think the reason is not that but might be similar to VS2005 SP1) * SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 & 2 (Must be related to the time SQL Server install itself plus upgrade checks) * Internet Explorer () As you see. the list is small but really essential. Any typical developer would face most of these when flushing a machine or getting new ones. I didn't include Windows or MSDN because I believe based on the tasks performed by Windows installation, and the size of MSDN, it's just quite normal. As referred to before, the longest illogical parts of most Microsoft products installs and Windows Installer installs (MSI) in general, is the time taken for backup files. To be specific, it's NOT even the time taken to CREATE backup file, but, it's time taken to CLEAN them!!

"you type a variable name in Visual Studio's editor, accidentally capitalise the first two letters" That's too much to do :D I'm too lazy for that. I write the first two to three letters of the type, then hit SPACE, then hit CTRL+SPACE waiting for Resharper to give intellisense to the for the variable name suggestions and choose one :). Mohamed Ahmed Meligy Senior Software Engineer Silver Key Tech - Egypt Branch http://GeeksWithBlogs.NET/Mohamed

Good one. However, many put such information in their signature and profile anyway :D Mohamed Ahmed Meligy Senior Software Engineer SilverKey.us - Egypt Branch

I use - Pascal casing with "_" prefix for proivate members. - Pascal casing for local variables. - Camel casing for public properties, and all methods. This is meant to make reading code "easier". It's also Mirosoft naming BTW, you can find it in the class library developer guidance. Mohamed Ahmed Meligy Software Engineer SilverKey.us[^] - Egypt Branch http://GeeksWithBlogs.NET/Mohamed[^] -- modified at 0:42 Tuesday 16th January, 2007

SVN itself has een way sooo great. Just stay away from any VS integrated client and you'll be totally fine! The windows explorer based client is pretty cool though. Mohamed Ahmed Meligy Application Developer Silver Key (www.SilverKey.US) - Egypt Branch http://geekswithblogs.net/mohamed/

I'm from Egypt. We work in web development (using C#) We have 2 developers over 5 (or 6, as our analyst sometimes writes code) in the office I work in. Still, I know better ratio of female developers in other (and even bigger companies). Our project manager is a female too BTW. Generally, female developers I see are although not so independant (I do NOT mean they get others to do their jobs, but, they're not ashamed to ask about something they don't know), they're typically AT LEAST moderate developers, quite productive and generally more calm than male developers I usually see! Also, working with them is usually more comforable than with male ones. They make you feel each one is doing his part. No competetion is there; which usually exists (even in a very limited range) when working with male ones! (Yes, competetion is good for knowledge, but you get tired of it when you compete on something that doesn't really deserve sometimes, and when it's your everyday routine. I thamk God it isn't:)) Mohamed Ahmed Meligy Solution Developer -- modified at 20:49 Friday 7th April, 2006