Interesting. I find in teaching that many people say that they can't do algebra. I use the recipe analogy to illustrate using equations with great success. For example, A Yorkshire Pudding takes 1 cup of flour, one cup of milk, 1 tsp of salt, and two eggs to make 6 servings. How many eggs do I need to make 12 servings? Nearly everyone can figure that out, then I represent it in equation form and show them that they've been doing algebra all along, just didn't know what to call it. A good analogy is worth a dozen teachers.:-D "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

Pete Madden wrote: ...now why is that? No overhead (e.g., salary, rent, insurance) is involved. "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

I will look into banking with a credit union. I got shafted by Bank of America and I can't take anymore.

Neither, I would like to invent some "new great thing" and sell it off and live off the royalties (and require the buyer to assume all responsibilty). If you work in products, you can have your product sued out from under you by someone claiming their patient of all knowledge applies to your product and you must license it from them. If it is services, there is always someone willing to work for less unless it is not enough to survive. In either camp, you will always find someone who will provide the product or service cheaper or better and will always live in a battle. This is why, you must work at something you are passionate about and does not matter if someone else takes if from you, the satification is enough for you. You may become wealthy and live a good long life enjoying it, but regardless of what happens, you will still be happy. Rocky <>< Latest Post: SQL2005 Server Managemnet Studio timeouts! Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]

Pick one and see what you like - the market is dominated by Quicken and Money. I have old copies of both running around. Drop me an email and I'll send you one.:) Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.

I work out at the gym Sunday afternoon and drink heavily Sunday night to ensure that my body will suffer as much as my brain on Monday. It seems only fair... "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

Opera 8.51 also has this problem.

ok let's say you have this... <table> <tr> <td> Repeater#1 </td> <td> Repeater#2 </td> <td> Repeater#3 </td> </tr> </table> and your problem is... when you bind your third repeater, nothing shows in the browser? if this is what you've got, chances are your repeater is rendering bad HTML (missing closing tags or something). Just to make sure, if you select in your browser menu, View > Source you see HTML rendered that should be visible in your browser? if this is so, then it's most likely a problem of bad HTML. daniero

Roger Wright wrote: and asking for guidance, especially if you're fairly new, is entirely appropriate. Absotively and posilutely! Ask me any question once, and I will explain it if I have the time. However, if you don't want to know "how" the solution works and only want me to write it for you.... I am usually not as responsive. Even then I will tell you where to find it in one of the reference books, or open the reference book for you. Hopefully, you learn where to find the answers on your own, or as you said, Roger, add the knowledge to a toolbag for use later. I do get very very irritated when the same problem comes to me multiple times when I answered it once, or showed someone where to find. Especially if they successfully completed the task last time, but are stuck again. Ask me how to build a clock, I will tell you the first time. Ask me a second time, I will hand you a book on clock-building. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

thanks!

No no no. He's a pimp. The blog is his ho. ;P If dreams are like movies Then memories are films about ghosts You can never escape You can only move south down the coast Hey Mrs. Potter, don't cry...

You would think, but not always. My brother, a librarian, occassionally has the unfortunate task of weeding through all the 'great books' that get donated. Most of them get recycled. Libraries cull and recycle books regularly. If the books aren't borrowed periodically and they don't represent a needed portion of the overall knowledgebase then they get chucked. I know he does watch for rarities that pop up every now and then. Last I talked to him about it, he was seeing if they could set up some way to sell the rare ones to generate funds for the library. Cheers, Drew.

While I see your point, it probably does matter to the company. It wouldn't make sense if all their apps were written in C#, except for one writen in VB.NET which was started by the new guy.

I use and like DNN, even for small sites typically. It is easy to host hundreds of simple sites on a single instance of DNN which means a smaller foot print for the sites (if needed). The main draw for my to DNN is how simple it is to build sites rapidly and the client can modifiy them if they desire without futher work on my part. I can build a typical small business website consisting of one of my standard skin templates that I have available already, along with buidling out 5-10 pages of html/pics (assuming I have to type in the content and make some choices of exactly how I want it to look), all within an hour or two, including making the site live. Clients also like freedom that if anything happens to your business, they can still modify their site themselves. It adds a nice touch of ownership to a site that they usually do not get if you right a custom site that they cannot modify themselves. Also, they vast array of modules that are available (some good and not so good) allows cleints flexibility with small or no extra cost. If just down the road a week or two, they hear that businesses should have a blog, boom, you drop in the blog modules and in less than 20 minutes, they have their blog live. Support forums come to mind a little down the road, no problem, drop in one of the many forums modules and boom, you have forums all running on the site with little effort. On top of this, there is limited RSS built in along with a site search. Yep, sold on DNN! Performance could be better, but I am sure it will get there. Still very good and stable (at least the version I use), allowing you to knock out simple sites and have all the power there to expanding them when needed without having to rewrite anything. Rocky <>< Latest Post: SQL2005 Server Managemnet Studio timeouts! Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]

To go along with that, at one contract that I had, we used CodeSmith[^] to generate all of our database code for a corporate ASP.NET system that they were selling. It worked very nicely once you had the template setup. You then just pointed it to the tables that you wanted to generate code for and let it go. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD

Using ASP.NET 2.0 is only possible with VS2005 or Visual Web Developer Express

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: There is no discrepancy. I don't like foreigner programmers that take out-source jobs, and the last time I checked, this had absolutely nothing to do with who makes cars. Don't you think American jobs go away to foreign countries if Americans buy cars made outside America? Or does that logic somehow not apply and you care only about programming jobs because you feel personally threatened because what you do is not that special either and could be done equally competently by foreigners? How is it that almost all the companies with CMM Level 5 certification (which guarantees a certain level of software quality) are outside the US? John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Do you need help with simple mental processes all the time, or is today special? It is obvious to the entire world who requires assistance with mental processes. I know it is a tough world out there. Get a six-pack and watch "Dukes of Hazzard" or NASCAR racing on TV.;P.

Also if you need to purchase a big item, you could possible get a co-signer. Someone with good credit that will make your payment if you cannot. This is how I got a loan for my first car. Brett A. Whittington Application Developer

Given the fact there was a major disaster going on while that discussion took place I'd give your boss the benefit of forgetting. What I would do is say: "On MM-DD my child is supposed to arrive. I'd like to go ahead and use the comp time you and I discussed during the hurricane that will follow her birth (yes, that's a joke but you might leave it in for humor). I'd like to take X number of days off after she is born and I'd like to comp those days off. I know that when you and I discussed this last there was a rather large storm system thrashing where we live and you've been quite busy since then. This email is just a reminder of that discussion but also a request (with your permission) to go ahead and make arrangements for me to use that time off." I wouldn't open a door for them to back out or go back on their word. Obviously if they intend to do that they will anyway and you haven't any say in that. But if you are polite in your initial request and you hedge a tiny bit towards the assumption that the comp-time won't be a problem I think that's your best approach. - Rex Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.

Pete Madden wrote: Right now I am making 40K and my wife 36K. The new job offers me 60K. You mentioned that the new job is 1000 miles away from your current residence. Have you compared the cost of living in your new destination. This can amount to 20-25% difference. Consider local and state taxes, cost of insurance, housing costs ( either rental or purchase ) , and property taxes. This expense is often greater than you would expect. Richard Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain