The project is commercial, not open source but still free to our users. My first question still stand: Being a free commercial web application, can it be advertised here?
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
Well, we are free as in it won't cost our users nothing, but it's not open source :-D
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
Hi, At my work we developed a web application for billing and time tracking that is completely free and that will stay that way. It could be quite useful for IT people. My question is can I post the url here while introducing the application without going against any codeproject regulations? Thanks!
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
I agree with most of what you are saying but with some reserve. I do explore other languages for the intellectual rewarding it gives me, but on a personal basis. It is also a good way to ready myself in case I've got to move in order to keep working. This being said, the language and the framework that comes with it (true to java and .Net) are only part of the equation. The other part is mainly how you use it to resolve the problems you are given. There are tons of libraries to choose from (server or client side), patterns to implements or ready to use (ex: .Net MVC), programming approaches (XP, Agile, ...), analysis and documentation techniques (ex: UML with or without use cases), there are those meetings where we need to design the class structures, the database physical and logical representations, and so on. Those are what mainly keeps me outside of my comfort zone because those are the areas where it keeps changing the most and because the problems we need to addresses are constantly evolving. But at the end, the final product is the code that makes the solution lives and that's where the fun part is. Code means language. In my case, C# and .Net is where I still have a lot of fun and at the speed at which the language and the framework are evolving, my need to learn new tricks is perfectly feed. But I must say, after 25 years in this industry, I have changed languages a few time already and I might have to do it again in the future. If or when it happens, I'll try to pick an other language with which I can have some stability for a while and a lot of fun!!!
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
"Who cares about the language between those 2, they'll both be around in the future. Go with the job with the best company future, pays more, has better hours, and vacation days. Hell, I'll write COBOL if the compensation package is right." Well, you are right because this is your opinion. For me, your opinion does not fit mine. Programming is not just a job with a salary and other advantages. Yes they count, but some of us will identify with a particular technology, language, framework and so on. This being said, I would not work with my preferred language for half the salary offered by another job. The company is important, the projects, the technology and the people are important as long as you are not exploited in any ways (work hours, salary, benefits, ...) Normally, all those points needs to be addressed before you make a choice. I say normally because sometimes you've got no choice and you need that job, no matter what. So to resume my opinion, if you have the choice between two jobs with different languages, you need to answer this question: which of the two will give me more pleasure programming in? Then you will have given yourself a daily playground time and that's a lot of fun. For those who program to simply earn a living (which is also fine with me), just look at the salary and other benefits and thats your choice. IMHO, you are missing something.
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
lol, completely agree with you on this one.
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
I completely agree with you. Sometimes the use of GOTO in the first place might be one of the cause of the spaghetti code.
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
While I understand that sometimes a goto statement can solve a specific issue, I do not use it since the last time I programmed in GWBasic on my Sinclair 1000 computer (yes I am that old but still kicking). I believe there are always other better solutions than a GOTO and since I do not write OS code or device drivers, I do not need the extra performance that it can (sometimes) provide. IMHO, I believe that using GOTO in business/web application is an easy way out of a problem and its use should be discouraged. Train your brain into finding better solutions. Its much more fun.
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
It would be interesting to know what technology people would use to start a new RIA project with .Net. Ex: 1. Silverlight 2. ASP.Net 3. MVC and Javascript (jQuery, MooTools, etc) 4. Any other choices Pierre Boucher
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
Thanks Mustafa for your reply. Compare to the other replies where one can learn a good lesson on how to behave with others and not make an as... of oneself, your reply was actually interesting. ;)
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
Hi, I currently use an old vga pc projector in my basement that project on a specially painted 80inch board . I must say the whole family is very happy with it. It is noisy, but we got used to it. I currently have a tv receiver, DVD player and a Wii console on it and it is really fun to play. We also got an LCD TV for the living room so the projector is not the only mean we have to watch tv or movies. If you can afford it, I would recommend buying a used projector like I did, as long as you can still purchase a new bulb. Then I would complete it with a new mid size LCD HDTV. If I had to do it again, that's exactly what I would do. Regards and good luck.
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
For me it's 1. lowercase with c_style_separated
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
I think you need to find a good idea, something that does not already exist and make it work the best you can. Or find an existing product, web or otherwise and improve the idea and the user experience. I am studying MVC.Net right now and the latest sample application that was published was about NerdDiner (seen yesterday in the CodeProject mailing list). As weird as it may sound, it might work and generate some traffic. No advertising please. There are too much of them and hopefully nobody reads them anymore. For revenue, you could offer a free options with limited functionalities and payed subscriptions for the complete package. I am sure there are ways to do business again. I understand and respect what you said about too many hobbies and work as little as possible. But we will need to log long hours and be always ahead of the competition, even against the free ones in order to keep up doing business. Its a choice. I personally dreams of being my own boss, by I too have too many hobbies. So I do 9 to 5, and enjoy my work and my hobbies.
Pierre Boucher "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" Arthur C Clarke
1. "Books are my first choice" If you read books: 1. Would you read a book based on a Beta of the technology? No 2. Would you read a book based on a Beta of the technology, if the technology has been released? No 3. Would you read a book based on a previous version of the technology? No 4. Do you prefer any particular Author? If yes, which? No 5. Do you prefer any particular Series? If yes, which? O'Reilly In A Nutshell 6. Do you prefer any particular Publisher? If yes, which? O'Reilly
Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
I would add that good products made for Eclipse are excellent. Aptana is one of them. Unless I am mistaken, I is written entirely in Java. Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
Thanks Walt, you made my day. I'll be laughing through the day thinking about what you said, kids versus grandkids and how well you sleep at night. I have a 4 years old boy myself and now I understand his grandfather. Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
Thank you guys. I was wondering if someone would suggest some of the movies from your lists. 2001 - A Space Odyssey Alien(s) Logan's Run Solaris Soylent Green I would add The Andromeda Strain (1971) I think this message node is written and maintained by old (40-55) classic SF lovers. Pierre Boucher 'Bien souvent on se rend coupable en négligeant d'agir, et non pas seulement en agissant.' - Marc Aurèle, empereur et philosophe romain.
I understand what you are saying. I watched the same fantastic moments on the same B&W tv. Today, I am still amazed by what we do and the incredible results that are produced. Now, I pinch myself every time a fantastic picture, taken millions of miles from here, end up as my screen background in a matter of days or hours. We may be doing thinks wrong, but sometimes, humans are truly creating good things. Pierre Boucher
Did any one remembers Vivisimo? Now they are Clusty. Kind of nice interface back then with a feature nobody had: group results in a tree view kind of control. Now they are Clusty. I am sticking to Google though. Pierre Boucher "Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over." HAL9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
I often solve problems and create algorithms in the morning during my shower. Pierre Boucher