Hi, Congratulations on your achievement ! Yes, I think it's only natural to have a sense of 'ownership,' even a sense of being a kind of 'parent' to something you've sweated over, and struggled with. And in intense teamwork to have a strong sense of membership in the team, and to react when the team is changed, or finished with its task. And natural, also, to go through some different feeling-states, when what was 'your baby' is no longer in your 'control.' In my experience, there was one company I worked at where the management had a good sense of the need for 'ritual' (and I don't mean in any 'religious' sense) when certain milestones were met. They'd have a party, bring in lots of good food, invite the team members that had finished the 'golden master' to say some words. best, Bill "In the River of Delights, Panic has not failed me." Jorge Luis Borges

The thing with HTML5.0 is that the browser vendors are talking to each other now and trying to out compete each other on implementing the standard as it reaches various levels of complete. It's not really about the monolithic adoption of a giant standard, but the process each vendor is going through to implement, verify and change the standards for each feature. Each browser starts with extensions, in their own custom namespace usually as a first pass in implementing the standard. That is fed back into the standard. Once there is agreement on the standard and it is flushed out unambiguously then the implementations are moved out of the namespaces into the actual api/name. Once a feature goes through that process for the browsers, it's pretty safe to use. As far as one technology to rule them all goes, that will never happen. However you can do some pretty amazing things with a little bit of js and html these days. Curvature of the Mind now with 3D

SciGama wrote: var userCallback = e.UserState as Action<bool> :confused: Your question is little bit confusing for me. whatever If a class supports multiple asynchronous methods, or multiple invocations of a single method then UserState property is used to determine which task raised the MethodNameCompleted event by checking the value of UserState property

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NO NO NO NO I certainly do not look forward to coming to work I very much doubt my manager knows how to communicate without shouting. Everytime , even just to say simple thing , he is shouting and swearing. He wants everything done his way and we have no room for innovative ideas. He once threatened to fire a co-worker , after he used Entity Framework in a project. He insists we use ADO Recordset from the VB 6.0 age although we using .NET 3.5!! You can copy and paste our code into a VB 6 compiler and it will run. No .NET goodness!! Management trusts our boss. That obviously means we are not trusted. To paraphrase a co-worker, we are having a career break , there is no growth in terms of skill or anything. I definitely don't enjoy it and thinking of resigning even before I have another job! Any advice ??

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I gave mine up when I found out I was a lousy salesman, debt collector, accountant, entrepreneur basically. Went back to doing what I enjoy - creating software solutions. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

I can speak to this if you mean making software to sell to the public at large, if you mean being some kind of contract programmer for hire or consultant I can speak to that as well only to say don't do it - it's a fools game. Writing software once though, and selling it over and over to the public is a very different kettle a fish and very rewarding. The key to me doing it was being tired of the 7am to 6pm grind of being an on call network support tech and doing contract programming on the side and realizing what a fool I was for going through all that hassle to write software and get paid for it once when I could go through far less hassle and get paid over and over again for the same work. Yes I absolutely enjoy it (more so now that the hours are reasonable). Important points to consider: 1) As has been said become an expert in marketing or don't bother. Strong marketing outweighs any other negativity about your product including lack of originality or poor execution. 2) It *will* take at least 10 years of hard effort, long hours and a *lot* of learning about non programming related business issues before you're any good at it or can afford to take any serious amount of time off. You *will* be working far longer hours than you ever have as someone else's employee, if you aren't you're doing it wrong. 3) Easing into it is a good idea, do it on the side while gainfully employed. 4) Don't invest any money into the business that it can't pay back from ongoing profits. It's not a trucking company or a manufacturing company, you don't need employees and you don't need inventory and you don't need any equipment beyond the most basic computer and software and comfortable working environment. I.E. don't go out and get a loan or investors and start flinging money around, you don't grow a good business that way, only a lifelong crushing debt. A couple thousand for a good working environment and equipment is about the most you should consider. You will need every cent for marketing later on. 5) Since you will be starting out small and doing things wisely you will likely be working from home, understand the implications of this, it's a very different way of life from working in an office. 6) Most of the time you spend will be as a business person first and a programmer second or third or even lower down the line. 7) Make software in a field you are personally interested in and can be passionate about. "Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your ow

Cobol - yup for their core banking systems many of them are. Like the trading system MS attempted to build in the UK recently the new tech is just not fast enough and for core banking speed and stability is paramount. Now for their peripheral systems it is another matter. Banks and finance as an industry love their software, they are always there for the long term and they tend to understand the returns from software better. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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StarDock is an excellent example of a company that has given the big middle finger to DRM, provided top notch games, trusted the end-user and made a small fortune in doing so. When I had time to play games, I was hooked on several of their titles. For those of you not "in the know" you can visit them at TotalGaming.Net Solar Empire Moves 500,000 units[^] :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::.. Bad Astronomy |VCF|wxWidgets|WTL

Played on Uther at launch... After 3 level 60s (rogue, druid, mage) I got bored enough to quit. I thought I'd come back after the first expansion but never did. DDO is my MMO of choice. The world seems a LOT smaller simply because a 5 min run is about the longest you will ever have to do but I would actually say it has almost as much content as WoW in terms of playable area. Unfortunately the PvP is VERY limited and the solo content is lacking but it is always fun to enter a mission that is normally 5 manned either solo or with a single friend and be able to complete it. And I would prefer a few more dragons/dragonkin in the game... Other than that, great game

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