Before I retired I was designated a Developer/Architect but only for desktop systems. With 30+ years developing desktop solutions and 15 years in the finance industry I had a good domain knowledge. I was however totally useless when it came to major systems based on things like Hadoop, AI and analytics (read Python). I could help with a good design but did not have a handle on the technology. Tad McClellan wrote: you know something about the code, the infrastructure, Deployment too? Yes and not just "something", a deep knowledge of these is critical. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP

I'm the wrong person to ask. I have to work with Linq-to-Sql, which is basically dead. I have heard 'nhibernate' and 'entity framework' tossed around as buzzwords. I was really just trying to point out the need for having some sort of data driven skill set more than anything, which is why I would pursue something more generically useful over a framework that may be a passing fad. I would just see what pops up the most on the job boards QA forums and head in that direction. All my jobs have required new skills, but built on some piece of an old skill. The generic skill sets are the ones that keep me employed over the fancy frameworks.

Linq to SQL is a ORM, Object Relational Mapper, tool. It is more than just a way to run queries. It removes the need for the developer to hand create entities, execute queries and map the result sets to those entities. It gives the ability to track changes when objects have been modified. Plus a host of other things. You can still use stored procs with Linq to SQL. I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

There never was a chance that we would use RIA, for the same reasons you iterate, black box, MS defined and constrained functionality etc. We built our own, first building a code generator (modified the existing one which began life in VB5) to service the WCF requirements. This is basically simple boilerplate code for the object and CRUD work. This pushes 90% of our work into the VM and View, where we have some really cool snippets that eliminate all the donkey work and leaves us with the difficult stuff like making the dammed view do as it is told! It is painful getting a design idea wrong, you should see the crap we (I) created around dialog management before I got a handle on the child window concept. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

Worthy of www.thedailywtf.com[^]

There is case that Chinese characters work but English characters not work correctly. Chinese name can be safely represented in 4 unicode characters but it is not possible to represent English name in 4 characters. Sometimes, you need to force user to input ASCII in certain field, e.g. Product Code. Please see my blog for testing whether user is inputting ASCII or Unicode. petersgyoung

Rumor is UA is gonna start serving goose on long flights. What does an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac do? He lies awake at night wondering if there's a dog.

Didn't see your articles, so maybe that puts you back to gold, if so, welcome back! - S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!

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Missed the member ID in that link - should be: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Bookmarks/List.aspx?obtid=2**&bmid=213147**[^] ---- You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

It's that morbid fascination with the list of pre-approved articles. You just have to be able to see it in it's full horror. As soon as the novelty wears off it could be Greasemonkey time though. Not very community spirited, I know...

Jim Crafton wrote: Or notepad, I hear that's always an option... Notepad2 works better, believe me. It can not only handle tabs a bit better, but has syntax colouring. :) Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"

Don't worry, we won't get blamed, they have "Made in China" stamped on their butt. :rolleyes:

I thought my codpiece was a little snug... Software Zen: delete this;

Tad McClellan wrote: Your English is better then my manderan. I might even be better than your English! ;P Peace!!

It is about a man shagging his blanket! No, Really, a Matilda was a kind of blanket/sleeping bag. How strange for a nation to have that as a national song of identity? :) ------------------------------------ "One of these Days we go into one of these holes in the ground and never come out"- Villa "One of these day that happens to us all!"- Avon

Try the 37 hits - trust me. I hope the presentation goes well. Troft not lest ye be sponned on the nurg! (Milligan)

Tad McClellan wrote: Basware A quick Google search got the website http://www3.basware.com/Pages/default.aspx[^] The website seems to be in a state-of-the-art new technology. However, the homepage itself has five toolbar like buttons which are just images. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson

Not on Mac. You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK