Brilliant. Being from this side of the pond, I can also tell you that steps #21 + #22 also involve getting a little damp (unless you use the ferry of course).

I don't really have any phobias - I'm a brave old soul. However I did used to know a mate who's Mom was absolutely petrified when she saw a feather!! Oh the fun I used to have with that one ;P

I use WingDings - it makes coding kinda interesting ;)

Can't believe a link to Strawberry Shortcake has been posted on this board!!

I've just checked - all the roads are green - i.e. no traffic. Admittedly it would be about 3.15am ;)

Here's what I've often experienced in the UK when using such companies to recruit on this side of the pond. a) Many 'IT recruitment consultants' hardly know anything about the industry, other than a few buzz words here and there. So you try and explain your perhaps specific requirements and they go 'yeah - I've got just the person you're looking for' and guess what - it's not even a remotely close match. b) I reckon a lot of the more knowledgeable 'IT recruitment consultants' are actually techies who the relevant recruitment company have consistently failed to place, but to the ears of the 'very knowledgeable' (!) recruitment consultant they are talking to, sound brilliant and eventually get offered a job in recruitment. So you enter a vicious circle of stupidness in these organizations. (It's a theory - but I don't think it's that far from the truth!) c) And then there's the fact that they are really just commission based salespeople at the end of the day (and not very good at it either). So all they can do is churn out irrelevant resumes to companies looking to recruit which is very, very frustrating (and I tend not to use the company too much longer!)

Paul Watson wrote:

What is the command line support like with VSTS? I love svn over the command line.

Why on God's Earth why? The most logical place for any version control to be is to be available whilst looking at your solution in VS2005. Historically we've used Sourcesafe 6 for our Delphi products (which wasn't as integrated but at least you got a GUI), and we're just beginning a massive rewrite in C#.NET. We couldn't really justify a move to VSTS (not that big), so we appraised (but rejected) CVS + Subversion as they just didn't integrate into VS2005 as well as the plug-in for our legacy SS6. We know there are issues with SS6 (some of which are overcome in SS2005), but we just don't see the need to move to something else (when we've happily been able to trust SS6 for 8 years or so). What can you possibly do with a command line interface which wouldn't better be served by a decent GUI interface or better still a source control system which is well integrated into the IDE? p.s. Pre-SS6 we used a command line based system - hated it!

I can't believe none of you guys have mentioned Lawnmower Death... :laugh: