peterchen wrote:

unless you expect an INTEGRATED development environment

In which case, you could just integrate Tortoise with VS on your own quite easily, and it works really well: http://blog.vorpal.cc/category/development/tortoisesvn-in-visual-studio.html[^] :-D

Jim Crafton wrote:

He lost me at: "Unlike most existing yacc/lex-style solutions Irony does not employ any scanner or parser code generation from grammar specifications written in proprietary meta-language. " What?!? Since when is the BNF/EBNF form used by yacc/lex and variants "proprietary"?

Allow me to translate for you: "We find it too difficult to parse BNF into C#, so rather than generate the code for you, you have to do it yourself." That's where the Irony comes in. They built a parser, but can't parse BNF themselves.

martin_hughes wrote:

fordc03 wrote: Do you need a certification? Yes, in the same way a degree helps to prove what you're worth.

I agree to a point. Both a degree and certifications are useful in showing what you (are supposed to) know before you have any experience. After you've been working for a while, your track record should be your proof and certifications (and degrees to a lesser extent) become rather meaningless. Unless of course your employer needs your certifications to fulfill their MS Parter requirements...

It should really come down to what is important to you right now, and in the foreseeable future. If you absolutely need the security and extra cash, then go with the big company for now. But if you can get by with the lower pay and handle less security, then go with whichever one you enjoy more (sounds like the smaller company). I've never actually taken a job because of higher pay. Actually, every time I've left a job, it was for the same or even less pay, but other factors were more important (closer to home, better environment, more growth potential, etc.) S. I got no sig.