So i'm keen to know what other people's take on the following situation\discussion I had today has made me think about what im doing, just keen to find out what others think. Background: I joined the company for 18 months as the Group IT Manager that has 5 individual business units, approx 200 users, manage a small IT team, responsible for the IT of $500m turnover pa. Directors wanted someone with a mixed background (management,developer,db,network) all of the skills I have. 2 Months in new Role: Business Unit 1, I identified issues with main system, company was expanding rapidly, systems(software) would not be able to cope, doubt they can do what the company will want. Reported to directors - No action taken 4 Months into new role: Business Unit 1, Directors requested more automated reporting. Investigated and reported that due to issues in the main system could not achieve what they wanted - No action taken. Business unit 3, requests small web api to exchange info between third party. 6 Months into new role: Business Unit 1, Directors fall out, 1 Director is asked to leave, reason: Systems are not what they are led to believe. They decide they need to look at the systems and improve system Action: hire an 'Architect' Business unit 3, I delivered on-time and on budget API project. 7 Months into new role: 'Architect' joins. 8 Months into new Role: 'Architect' reports to Directors that he is getting on well but the system looks to have problems. 9 Months into new Role: 'Architect' reports to Directors that he is getting on well but the system looks to have problems. 10 Months into new Role: 'Architect' reports to Directors that the system is 'bad' and needs overhaul. Directors are surprised (hang on??? I told them this within 2 months). Action: Rebuild. 11 Months into new Role: 'Architect' checks in code, I review and report (as requested) to the Directors that the code is poor, meeting is called 'Architect' agrees with me that for 5 months his work is 's**t", cost so far $80,000.00 for 's**t' Action: Directors do not react... and few days later ask me to no longer be involved in the project, 2nd Developer is taken on 14 Months into new role: 'Architect' misses project deadline 16 Months into new role: Still no delivery 17 Months into new role: Part one delivered, project still in progress Cost: $250,000.00 18 Months into new role Project still being worked on. Business unit 2, requests a new version of web system. Directors request Group IT manager

Hey Dave, Thanks for reply, Yep looking for another ship to jump to really, hence why im still here, bills to pay. Just a case of keeping an eye open for the next opp. Just abit down on the situation, worked so hard these last 6 years helping build the company up, working way to many hours, and then to see some new management and and decisions being made that I dont think is good for the company (and I work in IT so what do I know?!), Our MD left two years ago replaced with a new one, (Who is a nice guy but is no leader) Coincident?

Ive been in my current job for nearly 6 years working in the private defence industry. I joined the company as a web dev\ Support and back in 2006, 2007, 2008 and part of 2009 times were good, the business was doing well and a huge flux of IT work needed to be done. Ive had a very mixed IT background, started as a web dev later tech support, network admin, more dev and now I would call myself a Jack on all trades which comes with both benefits and limitations. In 2008 the company had approx 100 staff and 2 people in IT, there was always way to much work than we could handle and always ended up with internal clients being unhappy that IT requests took so long. Its also easy for our internal clients to forget that not only did the two of us support 100 users, but we also had an ERP system, sql servers, exchange, ad, and about 25 physical servers in total, topped of with developing asp.net applications for external client integration and also a intranet system, oh and being part of a large Corp, carrying out all the political IT requirements and managing a WAN, and carrying out new projects. To say we were busy is an understatement, in 2008 the IT manager left, leaving just me and I was offered the role of IT Manager and six months later brought in a new tech support guy, within the first year about 80% of systems were changed and we brought in a futher 20 new systems (some off the shelf, many of them developed) In 2009 we again had the same problem, to much work and I spent 20% of my time dealing with internal issues ('why has this not been done yet, I asked over a week ago'), but now we had increased our systems by 20%, everyday it turned into a constant battle with users. Again it was requested to bring in more help for IT, in which the idea had already been asked a year ago. In 2010 the defence industry spend droped like a lead weight, and around 15 people left the company, but during 2010/2011 we took over another office, only about 15 people and all the IT moved from that office to our Office and a huge VM project will now run all the systems out of a single location, remember only 2 people in IT. In late 2011 we then finally took on another support guy (contractor) in which now we were finally more in a position to handle requests and respond quicker, we still had more requests then we could keep on top off, but the list was no longer growing quicker than we could close,it stayed the same. In 2011 staff left and weren't replaced now being about 75 left, in Early 2012 signs that this year

:sigh: true, without V1 and V2 there would be no space travel (V3)

Is it me or is there very little or no information with developing\calling the Microsoft.Office.Interop particually Microsoft.Office.Interop.MSProject? Ive googled, msdn etc.. Does anyone know of any really good links\resources or how to work with this? Im looking, at how to assign uniqueIds to resources, tasks etc and general info thanks

Im looking for a interactive gannt control for my web app (something that mimics MS Project) the only half decent control ive found is http://www.plexityhide.com/[^] but wanted to see it anyone else uses anything better? thanks

Hello, Im near completeion of a windows app and now need to generate my .ico for the forms(and shorctcut). Ive googled and looked around to convert\create .png into .ico but the applications I have found so far seem unable to convert my .png into .ico while maintaing quality. I need an app that can design all the way from 16 x 16 upto 256x256. Is there a industry standard app that does this? or what else do you use? thanks

doh! thanks that makes perfect sense.

This should be really simple, but im having one of those mornings... Im trying to close my connection, but its staying open if (Border.BLL.Inventory.SqlConnect.GetConnection().State == ConnectionState.Open) { Border.BLL.Inventory.SqlConnect.CloseConnection(); } //BLL public static SqlCeConnection CloseConnection() { return DAL.Helpers.SQLconnect.CloseConnection(); } //DAL public static SqlCeConnection GetConnection() { SqlCeConnection conn = new SqlCeConnection(); try { conn.ConnectionString = Helpers.ConnectionCommand.ConnectionString; conn.Open(); return conn; } catch(Exception e) { if (conn.State == ConnectionState.Open) { conn.Close(); } Border.Model.Helpers.FileWriter.Write(e.ToString(), true); } return conn; } public static SqlCeConnection CloseConnection() { try { if (GetConnection() != null) { if (GetConnection().State == ConnectionState.Open) { GetConnection().Close(); } } return GetConnection(); } catch (Exception e) { if (GetConnection().State == ConnectionState.Open) { GetConnection().Close(); } Border.Model.Helpers.FileWriter.Write(e.ToString(), true); } return GetConnection(); }

Is it really worth it? as a business we use tortoise and visual svn. The amount of time I spend trying to resolve issue's in the f&**** program. I want to throw it out the window, b***** thing!

Hi guys im creating a folder then adding a user with permissions to that folder but how do I then set this security permission to apply to this folder, sub folders and files within this folder? currently it just applys to this folder only.(so when the app creates a file within this folder the file does not inherit the permission's from the folder)

DirectorySecurity dirSec = Directory.GetAccessControl(_dbPath);
dirSec.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule("Everyone", FileSystemRights.Write, AccessControlType.Allow));
dirSec.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule("Everyone", FileSystemRights.ReadAndExecute, AccessControlType.Allow));
dirSec.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule("Everyone", FileSystemRights.CreateFiles, AccessControlType.Allow));
dirSec.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule(IdentityReference, FileSystemRights.WriteData,InheritanceLevel,PropagationFlags., AccessControlType.Allow));
Directory.SetAccessControl(_dbPath, dirSec);

Ah right, I cant hide the column until the databound is complete, (otherwise it throws up wried results)

Hi, im binding my datagridview to a datasource (List) im then hiding a column, but I need to check that the datasource has bound, how do I do this? thanks

god damn the copy and paste function not working in (*£*%£Q"! VS10) now breath....

Hi, This is a new one to me but Ill set the scene, Would appreciate any support from people who currently or have done this. We have thousands of products that are going to go through a production line, the prodcut comes to us with a barcode already attached. I need my users to scan the item at each stage, ie received the item, assebled, test, etc... We are developing a .net (ideally asp.net but would do win forms if needed)that will need to record the barcode (unique id) and add several infomation items to that record along the line. So, I need to Find a barcode scanner that will read the bardcode, and I can interact with in my .net application (all data will be stored in sql). thanks

Ive been developing a app that uses a sql compact database (3.5). when the app installs the database connection path is designed to be dynamic (ie i dont know if there local drive will be c?) so ive written the follwing (feel free to advise if there is a better way to do this) namespace SomeNameSpace.DataAccess.Help.SQLCommands { internal class ConnectionCommand { internal class GetConnectionCommand() { internal const string LiveDatabase() { private readonly static string xDataSourceAccess = "Data Source=" + System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath + "\\Data\\database.sdf;Password=password1;Persist Security Info=True"; return xDataSourceAccess; } } } } but im concerned about have the password in free text, any example of how i can improve this? thanks

So ive been a Nokia and Symbian user for years, Nokia has always been the best,stylish, reliabe, user friendly and on and on.. now about 2 years ago I moved my entire life (calendar, contact, email, work email) onto one device, onto the Nokia N95 8GB, I didnt go for the Iphone due to travelling for work the cool camera and all that I mentioned in the first statement. However I did start to notice a few dents in the Nokia amour, never the less still a great phone. I then got the Nokia N96 and it all went down hill, unreliable, email would not work. no more! I swithced to a HTC phone with windows mobile, great something my email will really work with well. Less then 2 weeks the phone was dying, nothing worked. switched to another HTC with windows mobile, this time had the phone for 4 weeks, it was so slow, is it me or have all phone makers packed in the tools put left out the processing power???!! I then heard good things about the HP Data Messenger, heck its HP! So I bought it, first 2 months best phone I have ever had, but I did notice that the battery would only last a day, oh well I do use it a shed ill just get the bigger battery. So I spent the $50 getting the bigger battery, great phone now can last between 2 - 3 days. then it went all down hill (again). It started about 3 weeks ago when I was going on vacation, my phone like alot of people is my alarm, alarm set for 4am to get ready and head for the airport, 5am a knock at the door lucky my dad was driving us to the airport, %$*"* phone. (phone swithced it self off) over the last 3 weeks the battery seems to last about a day, phone is slow. today arrive late in the office, woke up at 5am this morning looked at the time on the phone (phone plugged into the charger) great still got an hour sleep before alarm goes off, 7am woke up phone dead, major £*%£)%£%&£)£)%£!"!"£$"%" p%£$" off.

good idea but same problem

Also its a transactional statement

Thats what im looking at at the moment, what happends if another user has entered a record to? possible issue?