I had managers say to me, when a project was finished that it was not what they wanted. I brought out a signed physical copy of the requirements specs and said that it was exactly what he asked for. He then said that it was not what he wanted. I asked why did he sign it then. In the end we had to "fix" a few things to meet his original ideas.
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Of course your resume/CV has the support experience on it when they called you in to interview. If they are so set against that type of a position in your past, then why did they bring you in to talk in the first place? I agree with Maximilienm that you can spin it as a good thing as well.
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I saw an old pickup with the plate: CRAP4MPG
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I have 11 ios apps in the store using MonoTouch. Definately good for a C# person.
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No. The mouse was a prize choice for getting an app made and then submitting it to the store. They also got 1600 XBox points and also Micorosoft has a program right now where you can also get $100 for up to 10 apps in the Windows 8 store and for up to 10 apps in the Windows Phone store.
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That was for just getting it submitted to the win8 store. Good or not.
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I have been and have helped the local microsoft guys run some as well. Definately have your laptop with you. I know it sounds obvious, but I will tell you that there were people there that did not and wondered how they were going to be doing the development. Based on the location, internet might be an issue, so have everything you need installed ahead of time. There should be people there that can help you out if you get stuck on something, but they might not know the answers either. Microsoft had prizes for the best apps. The first 3 got Slate 7 tablets, and 4th got an XBox 360 with Kinect. not all have this level of prizes. The latest Microsoft one that I helped at had free XBox points for anyone that submitted to the Win8 store and the app winner got an XBox. There were other prizes as well for people that submitted Win8 apps (XBox games, keyboard, mouse, etc) The networking is good as well if you are not focused on trying to get something done.
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I think you are just killing off the other articles so that you can win a Surface RT. ;)
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There is a new Azure contest here on the site and when I try to look at what some people have put in for it, I have noticed that quite a few articles are getting rejected due to quality of the article. A few of them did not link to the contest page, but other do. I understand where we want to keep the quality of articles up, but this part is saying that you need to explain in 2 sentences or less. The description for this stage is that you can also keep it breif and private. "post an article on CodeProject (in the Windows Azure Contest section) outlining your idea on what you'll build for the remaining stages. Most important: in 2 sentences or less explain how Azure might benefit or change the way you do things today. You can keep your article brief if you want to protect your ideas, or you can write up something juicy if you want to win the prize for this challenge." Maybe people are just trying to kiil off the other articles so they can win the Surface RT. ;)
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I calculated out that you would need 318,120.125 to cover the entire area. So that would be 318,121 to cover it totally. I used my Amusement park job experience to help me... ou all know the game where you have the large red dot that you have to cover with 5 silver circles. I can email you the math, later. No time to type it in here right now.
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User Generated Web Content - CodeProject, StackOverflow... think of all of the free code that is getting generated that we cannot tax people on. Plus who can you sue when things don't work right. this is just not acceptable.
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I have seen this as well and because we have some shared lab machines, another person might have the same project checked out into a folder and I would have mine in another folder. What I did is I stopped using recent projects on that machine. I got into the habit of just opening the solution directly from the source code window instead.
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I once got them saying that I had submitted my app to the wrong category and then when I resubmitted, it was fine.
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I will share it with some of my MS contacts, that might help ;-)
Steve Maier
I have 1 or 2 more 800's at the house, what I really should do is to do a video of this and a blog post about it. That might be my project tonight.
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I totally agree with you. I am not what the issue was and why it would not recognise that there was an update. But even after the first update, it checks for more updates and that says that it is totally up-to-date, and I knew that it wasn't.
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It took me a while to get the steps together from different places online. The steps did not reset the phone and all of the settings. All of those were still there.
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I updated my 800 over 2 weeks ago. It was not a simple update at all and kinda a PITA. I did NOT use NaviFirm, but I had an unlocked one that Microsoft sent me and I had taken it off all of my accounts so I could not get an update from a carrier. Like I said, this is a pain, but worked for me. It actually updated the phone 3 times, so I had to do these steps for each time. My laptop that I did this on is runing Win8 x64, not that it should matter. 1. Turn off all wifi and cell signals on the phone. You can put it in airplane or just turn those things off. 2. Connect the phone to the computer and run the Zune software. 3. Go to the Settings -> Update section. 4. This is the painful part... hit the button to check for updates, after about 3 seconds disconnect your machine from the internet. If you get an error that says that it cannot check for updates, then reconnect and try again. You also could get it to say that there are no updates. Again, reconnect to the internet and try again. This took me about 10 times to get it to show the update. 5. When the screen shows that there is an update, reconnect to the internet before hitting the continue. 6. After it is complete, check your version to see if you have the latest one. Like I said above, I had to do these steps for 3 separate updates to get all the way to 7.8. If you are on a carrier, it might be easier, but I know that this is how I updated my Lumia 800 up to 7.8. Good Luck.
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We do more informal/peer reviews now instead of hours in a conference room with a huge team. Typically the software leads for the team do the review with other senior devs. We have even done some over Lync remotely with screen sharing and a Lync call.
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