... umm, that doesn't really sound like Aspergers. I know a little about it, because my son has it. Asperger's mainly means you can't read social cues (like non-verbal stuff) very well. To my knowledge, there aren't any medications that DIRECTLY addres this.
Bought a panansonic unit (no broadband, but includes lifetime subscription) for $160 on ebay. Spent $70 on a 120 gig drive. Upgraded to 120 hour unit pretty painlessly. Spouse freakin' loves it. I will never NOT have a PVR again barring serious fininacial difficulties.
worked at this consulting shop. One of the places I had to work at was a wire manufacturing firm. I worked in this small, cold office where they were building a new line just below me (very loud).
Going out in the "plant" was worse. They had dirt floors and no A.C. Very dusty. I felt bad for the mostly immgrant workers there. I would have to troubleshoot these computers running my program that were in sealed boxes with air filters/ventilators.
did I mention that the "software" I was extending and maintaining consisted of about 150,000 lines of VB code scattered in seven major programs and uncounted "utilities" that talked to five or six Access databases on the backened? Oh, and the whole system passed data to an old accounting system that we only had a 16-bit ODBC driver for, so all communication consissted of shelling out to Access 2.0 with a commandline switch for the macro file you had to build at runtime, then reading the result code back to see if it worked.
Also, I had to print bar code labels with these narly serial-port printers by sending raw commands directly to serial port...
Man, those were the days . I kept that job a whole six months!
The script debugger was already mentioned. but If you go into the IE 5.x downloads section and get the Microsoft Web Developer Accessories, it gives you some handy utilities. I know it says 5.x, but I've used these just fine in 6.xx. The "DOM tree" has a few issues, but can be handy for tracking down how to reference an object. View Partial Source, I find, saves me a ton of time, particularly when I am checking the generated HTML from a mixture of HTML/JSP code. I just highlight the HTML item I want to see the source for and right-click and choose "view partial source".. No more searching through the HTML source to see if I set the property right or my JSP is hosed.
hmmm, I turn off mine and it stays off until I turn it on. Not sure what your issue is. Maybe because I have both VS and Script Debugger installed. I dunno? I just check "disable script debugging." in tools ->> internet options.
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I've seen that too. webDAV is the schznitt, agreed. A great way to switch to apache without howling from those used to IIS.
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I would disagree. The number of easy-to-publish tools (webfolders, frontPage, etc) for IIS makes it far more lucrative for Windows folks. And if you have Windows Servers already, your're not looking at any more licensing costs there. I have worked at 3 places that have Unix/Apache on their internet/public site and used IIS internally.
you obviously don't have a baby. when you are in bed with sleeping baby next to you on the wireless laptop and wife is working in the home office, IM is a godsend.
screaming=kid wakes up = your 20 minutes of private time today is over!
Which is what you want when you just want to know how to, say, search and extract a substring in Jscript when you don't use it everyday... or a quick refresher on the different cursor types in an ADO recordset.
Or whatever. You know the kind of stuff reference documents should do.
Right. You wouldn't want stuff to be easy to find, have sample code that actually compiles, runs AND does what it says, and actually stays up for longer than an hour at a stretch. Try this example instead.
Sorry, just bitter. Oracle's docs are a heaping pile of crap.
BUT... in my experience, the hardest part of programming is having people who:
a: understand the company's business and spec. the application. and
b: Understand the technical stuff to ensure a quality product.
people who can do a and b together (with the communication skills to boot) tend to get paid pretty well -- like me. Failing that, you have to have people in group a and b who trust each other and communicate well. This means speaking the same first native tounge. No matter how complete the spec, there will be a hundred thousand things not in the spec that are decided by people talking together. Programming a decent size application is mostly communication and management challenges, not coding. This is why outsourcing (in my experience) always costs more than having it done in house, even by an outside consultant who is hired per-hour to sit inside.
Exactly. Go look at your copy of IEXPLORER.EXE. It's an 89k file. All it is is a visual wrapper around a bunch of.dll's. Go look at any vb code site and you'll see tons of "web browsers" that are really just someone else's wrapper around the api.
PLEASE don't mention Notes... I have to use this POS everyday. I don't mean to go on a rant here, but, well yeah I do:)
It has, without a doubt, the stupidest "feature" I've ever seen in a software program in my 20 years of using computers. Sometimes, I have to enter my notes password to EXIT THE PROGRAM. And it's insistent about it, it gets really, really angry if I don't. I understand what it is doing (I have stuff marked for deletion and my session has expired and it is trying to delete mail on exit, but I'm not connected) and I fixed it (change the server timeout to near infinity) -- but it's still dumb.
OH, someone who doesn't have a Tivo or replayTV yet. I never watch commercials anymore (but then again, I never watch live tv. Even if I'm not recording, I'll pause it and go do something else for a half hour just to avoid watching commericals).
Seconded. SpamBayes rocks. Make a junk mail folder and move all your spam there for a few days to be ready to train it when you install by having a clean, spam free inbox and a folder full of the spam you get.
Free install and setup in a few minutes and works flawlessly for me.
Interesting thing is, as a guy who owns an old house, the new houses are going to more and more of a "closed" model. Slab foundations where all the plumbing is buried in concrete. Good luck adding onto the plumbing without hiring a "propietary" plumber.
yep. they used to (not sure if still do) have a freeware read-only version of their win9x which would let you read your NTFS partition on a dual boot 9x/2000 box.
Exactly. I've had my replayTV for a week, and I already do that. It's especially great for football. there is so many gaps between plays. I turned on the florida-FSU game in the first quarter, paused it for an hour and did some work outsside, came back and STILL caught up to the live in the third quarter, where I paused it again and played a video game for a while, came back and watched the rest in about thirty minutes.
the quick skip 30 seconod is perfect, since there's about 35 seconds between plays usually. It's like watching a coaching show with only the actual plays. Unfortunately, Flordia's 'no huddle' offense messed it up. It was a little too quick.
ReplayTvs HAD this feature (called 'Commercial Advance') which, from what I've heard, worked pretty well -- although certain shows confused it and you had to turn it off), however the company voluntarily removed this feature from the newer ReplayTV's in an agreement with the TV industry.
right. But if I'm a real estate agent, and my friends buy a house without even asking me about it, wouldn't I be a little miffed? And yet, my family and friends get computers all the time and don't bother asking me.
My policy is the same as the parent poster: You don't ask me before buying an HP with a combo sound/ethernet/modem half-height pci card (i am NOT making this up!), don't bother asking for support.
I realize folks are ragging on FP, but it brought web apps to the masses. No more paying your ISP to write PERL Cgi scripts if you wanted an interactive site.
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... umm, that doesn't really sound like Aspergers. I know a little about it, because my son has it. Asperger's mainly means you can't read social cues (like non-verbal stuff) very well. To my knowledge, there aren't any medications that DIRECTLY addres this.
Bought a panansonic unit (no broadband, but includes lifetime subscription) for $160 on ebay. Spent $70 on a 120 gig drive. Upgraded to 120 hour unit pretty painlessly. Spouse freakin' loves it. I will never NOT have a PVR again barring serious fininacial difficulties.
worked at this consulting shop. One of the places I had to work at was a wire manufacturing firm. I worked in this small, cold office where they were building a new line just below me (very loud).
Going out in the "plant" was worse. They had dirt floors and no A.C. Very dusty. I felt bad for the mostly immgrant workers there. I would have to troubleshoot these computers running my program that were in sealed boxes with air filters/ventilators.
did I mention that the "software" I was extending and maintaining consisted of about 150,000 lines of VB code scattered in seven major programs and uncounted "utilities" that talked to five or six Access databases on the backened? Oh, and the whole system passed data to an old accounting system that we only had a 16-bit ODBC driver for, so all communication consissted of shelling out to Access 2.0 with a commandline switch for the macro file you had to build at runtime, then reading the result code back to see if it worked.
Also, I had to print bar code labels with these narly serial-port printers by sending raw commands directly to serial port...
Man, those were the days . I kept that job a whole six months!
The script debugger was already mentioned. but If you go into the IE 5.x downloads section and get the Microsoft Web Developer Accessories, it gives you some handy utilities. I know it says 5.x, but I've used these just fine in 6.xx. The "DOM tree" has a few issues, but can be handy for tracking down how to reference an object. View Partial Source, I find, saves me a ton of time, particularly when I am checking the generated HTML from a mixture of HTML/JSP code. I just highlight the HTML item I want to see the source for and right-click and choose "view partial source".. No more searching through the HTML source to see if I set the property right or my JSP is hosed.
hmmm, I turn off mine and it stays off until I turn it on. Not sure what your issue is. Maybe because I have both VS and Script Debugger installed. I dunno? I just check "disable script debugging." in tools ->> internet options.
I've seen that too. webDAV is the schznitt, agreed. A great way to switch to apache without howling from those used to IIS.
I would disagree. The number of easy-to-publish tools (webfolders, frontPage, etc) for IIS makes it far more lucrative for Windows folks. And if you have Windows Servers already, your're not looking at any more licensing costs there. I have worked at 3 places that have Unix/Apache on their internet/public site and used IIS internally.
I could do it pretty quick with a regExp search/replace in UltraEdit, my fav text editor.
you obviously don't have a baby. when you are in bed with sleeping baby next to you on the wireless laptop and wife is working in the home office, IM is a godsend.
screaming=kid wakes up = your 20 minutes of private time today is over!
Which is what you want when you just want to know how to, say, search and extract a substring in Jscript when you don't use it everyday. .. or a quick refresher on the different cursor types in an ADO recordset.
Or whatever. You know the kind of stuff reference documents should do.
Right. You wouldn't want stuff to be easy to find, have sample code that actually compiles, runs AND does what it says, and actually stays up for longer than an hour at a stretch. Try this example instead.
Sorry, just bitter. Oracle's docs are a heaping pile of crap.
BUT... in my experience, the hardest part of programming is having people who:
a: understand the company's business and spec. the application. and
b: Understand the technical stuff to ensure a quality product.
people who can do a and b together (with the communication skills to boot) tend to get paid pretty well -- like me. Failing that, you have to have people in group a and b who trust each other and communicate well. This means speaking the same first native tounge. No matter how complete the spec, there will be a hundred thousand things not in the spec that are decided by people talking together. Programming a decent size application is mostly communication and management challenges, not coding. This is why outsourcing (in my experience) always costs more than having it done in house, even by an outside consultant who is hired per-hour to sit inside.
Exactly. Go look at your copy of IEXPLORER.EXE. It's an 89k file. All it is is a visual wrapper around a bunch of .dll's. Go look at any vb code site and you'll see tons of "web browsers" that are really just someone else's wrapper around the api.
PLEASE don't mention Notes... I have to use this POS everyday. I don't mean to go on a rant here, but, well yeah I do :)
It has, without a doubt, the stupidest "feature" I've ever seen in a software program in my 20 years of using computers. Sometimes, I have to enter my notes password to EXIT THE PROGRAM. And it's insistent about it, it gets really, really angry if I don't. I understand what it is doing (I have stuff marked for deletion and my session has expired and it is trying to delete mail on exit, but I'm not connected) and I fixed it (change the server timeout to near infinity) -- but it's still dumb.
OH, someone who doesn't have a Tivo or replayTV yet. I never watch commercials anymore (but then again, I never watch live tv. Even if I'm not recording, I'll pause it and go do something else for a half hour just to avoid watching commericals).
I think home servers are becoming a bigger deal. Also small businesses who don't have a computer room.
:)
I have a home server, but I just put the thing WAY up hi on a shelf and it works
Seconded. SpamBayes rocks. Make a junk mail folder and move all your spam there for a few days to be ready to train it when you install by having a clean, spam free inbox and a folder full of the spam you get.
Free install and setup in a few minutes and works flawlessly for me.
Interesting thing is, as a guy who owns an old house, the new houses are going to more and more of a "closed" model. Slab foundations where all the plumbing is buried in concrete. Good luck adding onto the plumbing without hiring a "propietary" plumber.
yep. they used to (not sure if still do) have a freeware read-only version of their win9x which would let you read your NTFS partition on a dual boot 9x/2000 box.
Exactly. I've had my replayTV for a week, and I already do that. It's especially great for football. there is so many gaps between plays. I turned on the florida-FSU game in the first quarter, paused it for an hour and did some work outsside, came back and STILL caught up to the live in the third quarter, where I paused it again and played a video game for a while, came back and watched the rest in about thirty minutes.
the quick skip 30 seconod is perfect, since there's about 35 seconds between plays usually. It's like watching a coaching show with only the actual plays. Unfortunately, Flordia's 'no huddle' offense messed it up. It was a little too quick.
ReplayTvs HAD this feature (called 'Commercial Advance') which, from what I've heard, worked pretty well -- although certain shows confused it and you had to turn it off), however the company voluntarily removed this feature from the newer ReplayTV's in an agreement with the TV industry.
:)
The old ones are doing brisk business on ebay
right. But if I'm a real estate agent, and my friends buy a house without even asking me about it, wouldn't I be a little miffed? And yet, my family and friends get computers all the time and don't bother asking me.
My policy is the same as the parent poster: You don't ask me before buying an HP with a combo sound/ethernet/modem half-height pci card (i am NOT making this up!), don't bother asking for support.
.. there's someone who doesn't have the latest sets of MSDN?
I realize folks are ragging on FP, but it brought web apps to the masses. No more paying your ISP to write PERL Cgi scripts if you wanted an interactive site.
They use Opera for rendering their pages, so that won't be a problem as Opera is ported to Linux, MacOS, BSD, Symbian and Windows.
A web-design app that uses a browser used by 1% of the broswing public? Where do I sign up?