All I read was "new project ... a new technology". Run. RUN! Do a little side project in Silverlight to test the waters, but starting a new project with a new technology that noone has experience in is asking for trouble. WinForms for the win.
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No idea, but I'd bet they both advertise to be the biggest.
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Haroon Sarwar wrote:
did you get to meet SpongeBob?
Nope. Apparently he had a VB project that needed finishing.
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Took a trip down to Bathurst[^], Eastern Cape, South Africa over Christmas and managed to get a picture of me wearing my Codeproject shirt[^] (thanks Chris) next to the world's biggest pineapple. Bob seeemed happy. :-p
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Ashley van Gerven wrote:
- insurance for driver/postal service strike - insurance for hijackings - insurance for stray bullets - insurance for stray elephants
Think these are the reasons why Amazon will no longer ship to the SA Post Office!
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blackjack2150 wrote:
Stephen King's 'It'
It's about R100 / $10. Technical books - which is what I'm presuming Leppie is talking about - are extremely! expensive.
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Sounds good!
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I'm heading off to Port Elizabeth[^] with my girlfriend to give a talk at a local user group next month and was wondering something I've never really considered before: is it unromantic to pick a B&B that has WiFi?
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
Charge 24/7
Sounds great and would make me a Robert Kiyosaki poster child, but I have this sneaky suspicion that I would lose clients too quick. :-P
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Christian Graus wrote:
Then I'd *work* and charge for weekends.
I guess an issue could come in when the company's offices aren't open to allow me to do enough work over the weekend to compensate.
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My thinking about weekend charging is twofold I guess. 1. soft way of suggesting to client that work gets done during a week, and they fly me home *before* weekend 2. compensation for time away from family, xbox, et al.
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That makes sense. Thanks for the input. Trust me ... there is *nothing* to do here! :-|
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Even if one doesn't do any work over a business trip weekend? mmm, I guess that's fair. Obviously I wouldn't want to stay away from home for too long, so I want to charge them a decent amount to prevent/discourage this.
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Won't be charging for sleeping, although that would be perfect ... :-) The customer is paying all expenses (hotel, food, laundry, etc...) btw.
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I've been doing some international traveling lately for a client and have so far come up with this pricing structure. (hourly rate is as per standard rate at local office) -2 hours airport time -outbound flying time (6 hours) -normal business time while in foreign country (repeat for a couple weeks) -2 hours airport time -inbound flying time (6 hours) Now, my big question is, is it fair to charge for 8*2 hours over weekends while away? Substantiation would be: time away from family/other businesses/other clients. An alternate approach could be to up the hourly rate by say 20% on the same above basis and then *not* charge for weekends. Thoughts?
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I presume the whole chrome framework is the same as Firefox - in which case the FF add on docs may be a good starting point. Either way, if you find an add on that has interesting functionality, try and unpack the xpi to see how they wrote it. I've done a few FF addons, but have yet to get into Thunderbird addons. Will be interested in hearing about your experience.
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Hey ProfK! When I'm back from Lagos (next week), you're welcome to swing passed my place and connect to Xbox live for some quick-and-cheerful games.
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I do mostly agree with the other posters about the low value of MS certs, BUT it's often high level HR people that filter CVs. And, to them, having several certs is a good thing. So, certs may get you the interview, but *real* knowledge will probably get you the job.
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Me too. Thought, did I say this already? Evidentally, "I" had.
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Will take a look, thanks. Been using Treesize[^] for a while and am quite happy.
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