Slacker007 wrote:
Lesson learned: don't get your blood work done with low blood sugar levels.
Isn't that a contradiction? I had blood work done a few weeks ago and I wasn't supposed to eat anything before my appointment. Not very fun when they stick you 3 times before they are actually able to get any blood.
Why not build multilevel pig farms? Instead of building huge skyscrapers to contain commercial space, build skyscrapers with pig farms on each floor. Bacon shortages won't be a problem. :laugh:
I seriously thought you were going to wax eloquent on why you love Quality Center. I'm glad you're not crazy. :laugh:
We share the same bank account so technically "we" would be buying the phone, not I.
My wife desperately needs a new phone. Her phone was donated to her by father after hers died. She's up for a new phone from Verizon, but most of the non-smart phones they sell have ratings of 3 out of 5 or less. I like my Droid Incredible, so I thought about buying her a Droid or a WinPhone 7. Pros: Up to date GPS without lugging around our out-of-date Garmin She can check her e-mail for anything important without having to be at home. She can stay occupied in the car when I'm driving and look up stuff for me (like when traveling out of town).* The phones all have higher ratings than non-smart phones. Cons: It's $30/month extra. It's something else to distract her from other things she would rather do. Anyone ventured in this direction before? *Of course she could do this on my Android phone, but she doesn't use it enough to get used to it.
So are all these open jobs decent jobs or are they just crappy contract jobs, working for a company featured on Daily WTF?
Very true. I've thought about doing what you say. Though I couldn't ever imagine doing C# and .NET development without intellisense and some of the other features in Visual Studio. However, Rails developers talk about how Rails is so easy and clean that they don't need intellisense to write code.
Why does Visual Studio 2010 have to hang up all of the time? Says it's waiting for an internal process, or something like that, to complete. Of course the internal process never finishes and I have to kill Visual Studio. Is it really worth it to do .NET development for a living? Maybe I should switch to Ruby on Rails or Django and use vi. How can Microsoft changes thousands of USD for such crappy software. Do they use it for their internal .NET development? :mad:
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I received strange looks and comments in high school when I would program during our free "study" period. However, after thinking about some of my former classmates that I knew reasonably well, I'm one of the few who studied at a university and has a successful career. Not saying you can't have a successful career in some other field and without getting a degree, but many of my classmates lacked a drive to accomplish anything in life...at least it seems that way.
Just curious, how low of a GPA is a less than stellar GPA to you? I'm wondering for my own benefit, because I consider my GPA less than stellar.
What kind of development are you going on your Mac? Surely not Cocoa and Objective C :omg:
So when websites start supporting HTML5, are XP users in IE stuck if they don't use a solution like this? What happens when grandma running XP, who has never heard of Chrome and Firefox, tries to access an HTML5 site in IE 8?
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
Friends don't let friends use MySql.
Why not? Just curious what the reasons are.
You're getting paid to work, but if you're on salary taking a nap shouldn't matter. I imagine that most developers don't work 8-5 or 9-5 and taking 20 minutes to nap would probably no effect on how much time they spend working.
I've been developing professionally for about 3 years now. My primary job is all C#. I didn't study Computer Science at my university, so therefore I don't have a lot of the basic classes. I took some lower level CS classes, including assembly language, but no data structures. Would it be worth it to try to take a data structures course? Would it be worth it to try to learn it from a textbook on my own? At the moment my only choice is trying to take it online as the closest university is about an hour away. I feel like if I was asked questions about data structures in an interview I wouldn't have good answers. Would textbook knowledge be sufficient?
Sometimes I wish I could go back to school at least half-time, if not full-time. With a wife and two dogs to support, it's kind of out of the question. I don't like to idea of going back to being dirt poor again either. Now the problem is deciding how and where to take classes. The closest university with a decent CS program is an hour away and taking classes during the day is difficult with working all day. Plus, programming all day at work and then doing projects and homework in CS is grueling sometimes.
We have a WPF/XBAP application that the user downloads and executes once authenticating through an ASP.NET portal. After authenticating, ASP.NET passes the user's information (and some other configuration information) using a temporary cookie(s). The XBAP then uses this information to authenticate with a WCF service that the XBAP uses until the XBAP is closed by the user. Of course the security hole here is that someone could potentially retrieve the cookie information from memory before the cookies are deleted, load the XBAP from the click-once cache, and put that cookie information in IE for the XBAP to retrieve. Of course the steps to do that are a little more complicated then what I mentioned, but you should get the idea. Does anyone have any ideas on how the XBAP and it's communication between ASP.NET and the WCF service could be made more secure? I'm trying to think like a "hacker" so we can make this solution more secure, but I'm running out of options in my thought process. We've thought about requiring the user to also authenticate using a login screen in the XBAP, but all of us know what kind of reaction we would get from users if they had to login twice.
My question is this: why is there still such a disconnect between the academic world and the professional world? I work with C# and .NET all day long. That's not to say I love .NET all of the time, but it does get the job done quite often. It puts food on the table for my family. I've taken CS classes at two different universities. One university focused more on the practical and business side of programming. The other was very academic. I understand the importance of learning assembly and other such topics in academics, but the "software development" class I took was so mathematical and so far away from anything I ever do in the professional world. I say that because I was working full-time doing development while taking this class. Why haven't some CS departments put more focus on the professional aspect of development?
I totally agree with you. We've already submitted one sample application with a focus issue to Microsoft support. Still waiting to hear back on it. We have another outstanding focus issue in our application that I've been messing with for over a year now. I still can't understand some the bugs in WPF even after using it for a few years.