Very nice comment. As far as i see, all this social networking are just creating a bunch of spam emails at the end point. Moreover, it continuously steals our valuable time.

Simon, you made a good point ! Thanks mate !

It proves that you are a good tester !!! Switch your title on a NEW Year ;)

I had also similar situation. What i did was explicitly declaring the type that it number is casting to. Ex: decimal _test = 6 / 4 - will return 1 However decimal _test = (decimal)6 / (decimal)4 will return 1.5

It is really looks great.. Thanks for sharing..

A good source control (Source Safe, TFS - Team Foundation Server, Vault and etc.) and several environments (Dev, Test, Staging, Production) are required to make sure that bugs will not find their way to your release code. Basically, developers should be free to write their code on Dev. Test environment should be updated once development is ready to make any releases that are working on Dev. After testing is passed on Test environment then deployment should be done on Staging server which should have Data synchronization with prod. After finally QA approves staging version is in a good shape to go, then deployment on Production is planned and done. http://www.sesp.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Publications/TestingTools2007/swtesting/node4.html

Good answer...

I would look at some non-paid tempr. positions first. It might be helpful to get a first hand-on experience on what happening in real commercial software development. Three months in such a place may open your view on what you need to strengthen or learn. After what you may put this experience into your resume and be more brave in looking for the job.

Good catch ! :)

Well, i also support the folk who says Scratch is better for kids to start. Starting from basic or logo might not be as efficient as from Scratch.

I also have used MS Visio product years ago. Flowcharts actually helps to see the bird view on the process that is going to be automated.

Well, being a certified programmer does not hurt once you really studied for this exams and have years of experience in .NET development. It just add a value in your soft. However, value and/or credibility of this certified professional goes down whenever lack of practical experience became evident. Thus, getting this certificates just for fancy title or BIG BUCKS does not work. You should prove your compitance with accurate decisions and solutions in your company/community.

Really agree with comments. Very nice and practical advices... :-D

Absolutely agree !

Great Job ! Thanks :)