He left.. He was Microsoft certified, I guess there’s just something’s you can’t teach!

Nope, I have just deleted this method and used the transaction.length and it compiled fine. I could understand it if you want to manipulate the length, so I checked the history of the file in source control to see if it ever did and it's always just returned the length.

Am I missing something? Why would you do this?

protected int GetTransactionLength(string transaction)
{
return transaction.Length;
}

is this not less code

transaction.Length

than this?

GetTransactionLength(transaction)

This may seem small, but it's just pushed me over the edge. It comes from a program that should be simple and beautiful but it full if this sort of stuff, it’s driving me nutts!

I thought Chromium was the Project name for Chrome?

I have to say that I think chrome is very good... I don't think that they could have spent a lot of time on the EULA as it states this - "10.2 You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google, in writing." It is opensource which means people can modify it, it even says you can do it in the comic.

I'm only about 4 chapters in. But what I have read so far I have enjoyed, it's not changed the way I think about code, just reassured me that other people also enjoy the elegance of code. I guess it's what makes me tick, seeing a complicated problem solved with simple code so that's why I'm enjoying it so much. (I also spend a lot of time looking at rubbish code so it makes a change to see some good code)

I'm currently reading Beautiful Code Edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson (oreilly) It got me thinking, what's the most beautiful code I have every written. This is the best I could come up with 10 Print "you smell" 20 GOTO 10 I did think that the use of a goto seems to be unfavourable in the modern programming world so I updated it while(true) { console.writeLine("you smell"); } But it's just not as beautiful Anybody else remember any beautiful code from there younger years?

Vista has finished doing whatever it was doing and I am browsing with the minimum of noise, web browsers do have disk i/o (i'm not a complete idot) but is would be very low as in compared to re-index of a large binary file. Your right - no one did force me to buy this disk, maybe I should have researched it better, lesson learned for next time... Do I have the right to rant? Or do I not have the right because I should have known better?

yep, only to make up for my lacking in intellagence... You know what they say about men the boost about size :laugh:

SQL Server 2008 will have support for what you are trying to do - http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/SQL-Filestream[^] so until this is out your on the right tracks with your own solutions.

I'm a Nikon man myself, it's kind of a personnel thing, your right that they are all about the same, they all take good pictures. I would take a trip to the camera shop and have a play, see which one feels the best for you I just re-read your post and saw the bottom line :sigh: ...

I have spent a lot of money / time on my current pc, quad core, fast memory blah blah... Anyway I have a nexus silent pc / power supply and a very quite heat sink so my pc is lovely and quite - EXCEPT my 10,000 rpm hard disk, I don't mind it so much when I'm working her hard but when I'm just browsing code project and all I can hear is click click wine click arrgghhh it's enough to drive you mad:mad::mad: maybe I should upgrade to xp....

XP can't see SATA drives, but some motherboards have a IDE mode which makes the SATA drives appear as IDE drives, therefore works (this can be turned off by default). If your motherboard has not got this feature then you will have to use the drivers supplied by the harddisk manufacture (F6).

Large business will not risk using a product without a support contract, the cost for a support contract with a open source product is normally cheaper than MS licensing cost over say 5 years. But MS are willing to negation the cost to work out to be close to the open source choice, and due to the human nature of sticking to what we know, most business will not change (there is always the exceptions)... The IT industry will always want to make money, open source or not, open source is just a different model of charging and gives people the option to use it for free, which business won't do because it's to high risk not to have a support contract... I read somewhere that people use Microsoft because it's does not need any thought. So if open source products can give people a reason to think about the choice of using Microsoft, they may gain a bigger market share. It would be nice to see open source gain a bigger market share that equals Microsoft, at the end of the day - competition brings progress.

-+- Beth Mackenzie -+- wrote:

Does your colleague believe that you should always hone skill sets to become a better ICT engineer? Does your colleague recommend new sources of info to read? Blogs or books etc?

I would say yes. But that does not mean that everybody does...

I have been having a disagreement with a senior colleague who is insisting that experience is everything in IT Development and if you have been working in IT for a number of years then it makes you a good developer... or in other words you can’t be a bad developer if you have been coding for many years. I just can't see how that makes any sense, is it just me? If you have been doing something for a long time it does not mean you are good at it?

Had some problems getting asp.net to work after installing .net before iis... This is my first post, so hello everyone:)

It's meant to help you get in "flow", apparently that is when you look at your watch and go oh Shoot I missed lunch. Linux can do shine desktops too... http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/shots.xml[^] -- modified at 5:11 Friday 29th December, 2006

Have you looked at WMI. You can download Scriptomatic from Microsoft which should get you started.