maybe you should try working with a database instead of commenting on quality, Lan boy
I'm quoting this moron above. I've worked with: DB2, SQL Server (6.5 to 2000), Oracle (7,8, and 9), PervasiveSQL and a little POSTGRES. Dollar for Dollar, I'd take SQL 2000 on a dedicated, quality boxen runing 2000 over any of them.
A good point, and one I've made before. However, I think the move to web-based apps will probably help there, but it is taking years for large companies to complete that move.
Well.... my problem is: there's a bunch of free portals -- my cable provider has one. But I don't think they are as well designed and robust as Yahoo's. I might pay a few dollars a month (certainly no more than $5)
Well, I've used my yahoo for years, and I program for a living. It's great, completely customizable home page. I have saved news clippers, follow my sports teams, look at the weather, plus I have saved locations so I can quickly say "what is the closest book store to my office?". Also, I can check movie times (theaters I pick of course), TV schedules), be reminded of birthdays etc... It's really very nice.
wow. I just started contracting at a place that contracts at a large governement agency after being at a.com for 1 and a half years. I work on site and most of my observations run the opposite of yours.
1. Hour flexibility: Supposedly, this division works 7 to 4. In reality, I come in at 7:30 and no one is here. People leave when they feel like it starting around 2:30.
2. Lots of military types: No argument here.
3. Chairs: Entire division just got SWEET bodybuilt chairs. Cost: about $600 apiece.
4. work v. Vapor: Umm, the only people who work are contractors. Even then, we're the third contractor on this project. The first two didn't deliver anything, but still got paid.
5: See above. Marketing is FAR more important. You only get a contract by knowing someone (or paying them under the table, but that is another discussion.
6: specialization.... I think this is far more specialized here. Dev guys don't touch the servers (support does), dev guys don't touch the data (a DBA does).
7: Degrees v. Cert: My MCSD is a big reason I got this job.
you should get a "quick search.exe" in your links toolbar. If not, I posted the wrong link. look in www.microsoft.com/ie then go downloads for ie 5 and look around. I'm pretty sure that's it.
even better, get the "web accessories for IE". this says IE 5, but works fine for IE6. It adds a quick search applet, that lets you type "y search terms" and run a yahoo search. Google isn't included, but you can customize it easily to make "g search terms" search google. It rocks.
Everytime I read this it means something different. Now I think it's about programming, but that's probably because I'm a programmer:) It's not the best Philosophy book I've read, but it is the best book I've read.
Exactly. At a place I worked at users in every department wanted tons of reports in vastly different ways. Solution? Make simple views of the database (with the complex joins and stuff already done), buy seats of crystal reports, teach one or two users in each department to use (two day class). Crystal is drag and drop. Not hard. They loved it.
stuff that used in a company as an internal reference only doens't need margin information? What about when they want to print it out and take it into a meeting?
cutting and pasting it into exchange would be quite a trick... should they use a WSS (Web Storage System) form, or should they just paste it right onto the desktop of the server as a notepad file?
people have been writing.NET apps for well over a year. There are web sites (including some of MSDN, for instance), running on.NET.aspx pages. You can by books on.NET for pete's sake.
Welcome to America, where you're innocent of a crime until proven guilty, but all I have to do is say you owe me money and the burden of proof is on you to prove you don't and get it erased from your credit report.
oh come on? "ethically bankrupt"? This would happen at just about every business. I guarantee you, at least at any I ever worked at. That doesn't make it any less wholesome, but don't pretend that Microsoft is ethically any different, it's just a matter of scale.
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maybe you should try working with a database instead of commenting on quality, Lan boy
I'm quoting this moron above. I've worked with: DB2, SQL Server (6.5 to 2000), Oracle (7,8, and 9), PervasiveSQL and a little POSTGRES. Dollar for Dollar, I'd take SQL 2000 on a dedicated, quality boxen runing 2000 over any of them.
Yeah, SQL Server really sucks (NOTE: SARCASM INTENDED).
A good point, and one I've made before. However, I think the move to web-based apps will probably help there, but it is taking years for large companies to complete that move.
Well.... my problem is: there's a bunch of free portals -- my cable provider has one. But I don't think they are as well designed and robust as Yahoo's. I might pay a few dollars a month (certainly no more than $5)
Well, I've used my yahoo for years, and I program for a living. It's great, completely customizable home page. I have saved news clippers, follow my sports teams, look at the weather, plus I have saved locations so I can quickly say "what is the closest book store to my office?". Also, I can check movie times (theaters I pick of course), TV schedules), be reminded of birthdays etc... It's really very nice.
wow. I just started contracting at a place that contracts at a large governement agency after being at a .com for 1 and a half years. I work on site and most of my observations run the opposite of yours.
1. Hour flexibility: Supposedly, this division works 7 to 4. In reality, I come in at 7:30 and no one is here. People leave when they feel like it starting around 2:30.
2. Lots of military types: No argument here.
3. Chairs: Entire division just got SWEET bodybuilt chairs. Cost: about $600 apiece.
4. work v. Vapor: Umm, the only people who work are contractors. Even then, we're the third contractor on this project. The first two didn't deliver anything, but still got paid.
5: See above. Marketing is FAR more important. You only get a contract by knowing someone (or paying them under the table, but that is another discussion.
6: specialization.... I think this is far more specialized here. Dev guys don't touch the servers (support does), dev guys don't touch the data (a DBA does).
7: Degrees v. Cert: My MCSD is a big reason I got this job.
you should get a "quick search.exe" in your links toolbar. If not, I posted the wrong link. look in www.microsoft.com/ie then go downloads for ie 5 and look around. I'm pretty sure that's it.
even better, get the "web accessories for IE". this says IE 5, but works fine for IE6. It adds a quick search applet, that lets you type "y search terms" and run a yahoo search. Google isn't included, but you can customize it easily to make "g search terms" search google. It rocks.
and the patch for code red was available for months before the infection. Who's liable? The sysadmin, IMHO.
But is business willing to take that long, expensive road to software? I think not.
link to text online: http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~ciochett/lit/zen.html
Everytime I read this it means something different. Now I think it's about programming, but that's probably because I'm a programmer :) It's not the best Philosophy book I've read, but it is the best book I've read.
Umm, they decided a while back not to retire 4.0 MCSE's. You remain certified on NT 4.0
ok..
1. Database changes: So you redo the views. That's the advantage of views.
2. Business rules change? See #1.
3. don't understand. So change the data. How does this affect reports? Reports are refreshed upon open.
4. How is this different if users are writing their own reports v. you writing them? For that matter, how is 3 different in this case?
Exactly. At a place I worked at users in every department wanted tons of reports in vastly different ways. Solution? Make simple views of the database (with the complex joins and stuff already done), buy seats of crystal reports, teach one or two users in each department to use (two day class). Crystal is drag and drop. Not hard. They loved it.
amen, brother. This is the reality of software development in every place I've worked.
Hey, I love the phillips dvd player I got. cheap, nice Svideo output, reliable. Plays a cdr/cdrw full of mp3's nicely to boot. No worries.
stuff that used in a company as an internal reference only doens't need margin information? What about when they want to print it out and take it into a meeting?
cutting and pasting it into exchange would be quite a trick... should they use a WSS (Web Storage System) form, or should they just paste it right onto the desktop of the server as a notepad file?
people have been writing .NET apps for well over a year. There are web sites (including some of MSDN, for instance), running on .NET .aspx pages. You can by books on .NET for pete's sake.
get a lawyer. You can't go to jail for sex harassment.
he's a minor right? Parent's probably consented.
Welcome to America, where you're innocent of a crime until proven guilty, but all I have to do is say you owe me money and the burden of proof is on you to prove you don't and get it erased from your credit report.
oh come on? "ethically bankrupt"? This would happen at just about every business. I guarantee you, at least at any I ever worked at. That doesn't make it any less wholesome, but don't pretend that Microsoft is ethically any different, it's just a matter of scale.
I found this thing sometime and it rocked. Great set of VBscripts for AD stuff http://www.people.virginia.edu/~pjh5u/code/adsi_ap p.txt
... my first thought was "Geez, I wonder what Javascript function is throwing back the old NaN (Not a Number)... musta forgot a '+' operator..."