Lucky you. Our boss always asks as to stay the extra hour - even when we have nothing to do. You should look into our timesheets - 14 hrs a day. But what they don't report is - 3-5 hrs of productivity, rest spent in coffee breaks, personal email, reading news, browsing CP

Use Informatica

Venkatraman wrote: Mine is now restricted to salads and two fruits(one banana and one any other fruit)... Paying for your earlier sins . Is it ? Well, mine is full course south indian meal .

Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: I thought you would've figured that out by now Well , What have we got in Ban - Infy, Sify, Wipro, Intel, Mascot, Polaris ? Any one of these Give me your domain and I can make a better guess . So you guys like Ban or miss chennai !!

Venkatraman wrote: I am taking interviews Congrats man, what's up ?

Vikram Punathambekar wrote: Those fellows can't even write a program to swap two numbers without using a third varible in C. Neither can they write a function to swap two variables. It is more a reflection of those fellows intellect. The truth is in all my projects I never wrote any funda algo or swap two numbers etc. No linked list nothing. Just lots of straight forward if/ else constructs , switch case, DB access code. Truth is VB being a RAD (Remove Analysis and Design) tool doesnot encourage people to learn how stuff works. So you find lot of ignorant people who can do VB and they are not VB programmers just as people who can use printf function are not C programmers. Common refrain among IT managers is systems developed in VB is easy to maintain .Reason being you can easily find people who know VB. Truth is any medium sized VB project is very difficult(even difficult than C++) to maintain unless the original team were a very disciplined lot. On a side note, I am currently in Chennai. But did my Eng at GCT CBE .

Vikram Punathambekar wrote: Lemme guess, are you a VB user? Being from India myself, I can confidently make this statement: The VB users (I won't call them programmers) here are useless. No offense, pls define a programmer for me and how programmers who use VB are not programmers but users.

Roger Wright wrote: A lot of good talent here gets abandoned rather than retrained in newer technologies, though, because the newer tech can be had more cheaply offshore. Becoz of the service oriented nature of the business, most of the companies here have a decent training program. Generally professionals here are very aware of the new technology trends and are adapters to them. But the downside of it, none of us get to become functional (domain) experts, which means we never move up the chain and are forever living with the fear, whether we would become obsolete with our tech skills. Are there any attempts made by professionals in US to encourage employers or govt to contribute to their retraining needs ?

Paul Watson wrote: No "offshore is no risk" convincing is required as we do have local technicians as well for onsite work. This is surprising. During the last India-Pak standoff, we had to do lot of convincing, though we had few people onsite and an emergency plan to relocate all project members to onsite. So how do you explain, scenarios like what happens when riots/war break out? How do you sync code between onsite/offshore ? etc etc

Surprised to hear such a good comment, though you have been affected . Definitely it would be beyond me.

I presume you have no experiance dealing with consultancy firms which employ foreign workers on H1B Visas or other work permits. You should see some of the advts they take out here. 3 years in .net is the minimum criteria !!!

What have been your experiances ? Do they assume at the outset that you are capable person or it takes some proving to earn that ? Mine - they are distinctly uncomfortable, unsure of our capabilities. It takes a lot of time to earn their confidence.

I wouldn't blame the corporate decision makers though. The share holders( ie the american public) expect profits. So the corporate guys do what they got to do. And the part about American competitiveness, I didn't understand. Expect a very few companies, the kind of work that gets down here can be classified as little above call center, back office processing. Very few turnkey big developments, No product development, may be product maintainence and no high end consulting. Essentially the space we occupy is the bottom most in the value chain.

I work for a Offshore Development center (a misnomer actually). So what is the general opinion in the west like !!

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On a related note, can somebody point me to some good resources on secure coding. Resources that explain in layman's term Buffer Overflow , Sql injection , Format string problems, Stack overrun and what other means exist to compromise a program Thanks

Any suggestions on a Free Java IDE for Windows (preferably not written in Java) Thanks

Any pointers to implementations which compare two images ? Thanks

Hai all, We have a sql server table (which contains a Guid col + others). For processing the data in this table (about 0.1 million records a day), we move the data to access db on the user's desktop. Currently we are using ADO to access the sql server and update the local access db (using batch update). It takes about 10-15 minutes for the whole operation. Is there a faster way to do this ? We have a requirement to move records from SQL to access based on certain filter criteria . Any pointers will be greatly appreciated

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