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Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 16th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 3,216
Posted By jwenting
Did you really have to revive a thread more than 3 years old with 2 posts, one by a banned member, and one by a member who's not been seen in 3 years?
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 6th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 855
Posted By jwenting
yup, to the eternal regret of people doomed to work with their results.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 6th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 790
Posted By jwenting
the best I've seen by far is Atlassian Jira.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 6th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 697
Posted By jwenting
ah, another "manager" who thinks spying on his people is management.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 5th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 914
Posted By jwenting
what about you come up with something of your own? If you lack even the brains to come up with a project idea, how are you ever going to succeed in this business and work independently?
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Aug 5th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 492
Posted By jwenting
Spamming forums with your website address is NOT the way to get users.
It's a perfect way however to get a lot of people annoyed at you.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 9th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 684
Posted By jwenting
VB6 is end of life, period.
It should never have been invented, and should never be used.

VB.NET is a nice way for kids to get started with real programming who previously got suckered into...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 8th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 2,320
Posted By jwenting
any development done by professionals for pay,
Most larger "free" projects follow similar structures (hardly surprising, as most of them are run by professionals rather than schoolkids thinking they...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 8th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 963
Posted By jwenting
programming a game isn't something for people with no experience in designing and creating software.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 28th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 2,320
Posted By jwenting
no, do NOT get stuck knowing only a tiny little thing.
You're setting yourself up for a career of looking for jobs that aren't there.

Niche players are overall idiots who try to make every...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 25th, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 2,320
Posted By jwenting
you need knowledge about the business and business processes of your customers.
If you're writing warehouse management software, learn about logistics.
If you're writing software to do bookkeeping,...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 25th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 974
Posted By jwenting
not interesting.
Just buy an osciloscope, they're cheap.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 25th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 701
Posted By jwenting
senseless self-agrandisement...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 21st, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 704
Posted By jwenting
by talking to the customer to find out what he needs.
by hiring people who know what they're supposed to do when it comes to designing software rather than asking questions on some internet forum...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 21st, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 734
Posted By jwenting
yup, the language specification for each language will have it all.

But I have to disappoint you: the approach you've chosen is woefully naive!
Not only does syntax highlighting need to do a lot...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 21st, 2008
Replies: 11
Views: 2,320
Posted By jwenting
ever more you'll notice that if your main skill is plugging away at code, turning technical designs into source using an editor, that you're quickly going to become an interchangable resource easily...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 21st, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 1,389
Posted By jwenting
A ready made system (including all payment handling) is offered by a company I do volunteer support for (mind, they don't pay me, I just get to use their products for free).
While centered around...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 10th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 787
Posted By jwenting
I wonder why kids are too lazy to even come up with their own project ideas.
Doesn't bode well for them actually getting around to implementing those projects...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 9th, 2008
Replies: 18
Views: 1,874
Posted By jwenting
One of the most relaxed exam experiences I ever had was walking into that room and finding out that it was an exam I'd not specifically studied for.
I'd mixed up the dates of 2 exam sessions, the...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 8th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,040
Posted By jwenting
Almost ALL schoolkids think their school is bad because it doesn't let them do what they want to do.

If you're bright you'll recognise that what most kids want to do is anything BUT schoolwork so...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 8th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 812
Posted By jwenting
in fact with older Microsoft exams it was often beneficial to not have prior experience with the subject matter because the Way as prescribed by the exam requirements was often contradictory to how...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 8th, 2008
Replies: 18
Views: 1,874
Posted By jwenting
writing code on paper is little different from writing it on a computer when you get used to it.
Maybe I'm getting old but it's how I actually learned programming. We used a mainframe and each...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 6th, 2008
Replies: 18
Views: 1,874
Posted By jwenting
whatever happened to actually learning and understanding what you're supposed to know rather than waiting for the last minute to cram for the exam?
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 19th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 3,451
Posted By jwenting
you should have deleted it as this is a request for pirated software which is a clear violation of the TOS as well as an incitement for peope to commit a crime (or help OP commit a crime which in...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 10th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,398
Posted By jwenting
Nope. Start with installing MS Office (or another word processor), so you can create your design documents.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 10th, 2008
Replies: 49
Views: 6,275
Posted By jwenting
Someone who no longer has to ask that question.
When you have done some programming at school you're NOT an experienced programmer.

When you've done it full time as a job for 5 years you probably...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 27th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 1,785
Posted By jwenting
still waiting for that project idea generator...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 25th, 2008
Replies: 8
Views: 1,398
Posted By jwenting
do homework during a programming course? Don't be silly, all you need to do is find some fool on a forum somewhere who can be tricked to do it for you.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 24th, 2008
Replies: 23
Views: 3,610
Posted By jwenting
All that stuff didn't even exist when I was graduating :)
We had to make do with nuclear reactors and particle accellerators ;)
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 23rd, 2008
Replies: 21
Views: 2,705
Posted By jwenting
Microsoft LS4000.
Ergonomic, essential for preventing RSI with long term use.
Firm action, good tactile feedback.
Well built, built to last.
Rather heavy and large, so stable on your desk.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 20th, 2008
Replies: 49
Views: 6,275
Posted By jwenting
he never learns, does he?
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 20th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 746
Posted By jwenting
and another lazy kid who can't think for itself asks the exact question a thousand other lazy kids have asked before just in the last few months.

No kiddo, we're not going to do your thinking for...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 19th, 2008
Replies: 49
Views: 6,275
Posted By jwenting
even Bablefish would do a better job of translating from your lingo into English than you do.
Its output is at least syntactically correct.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 18th, 2008
Replies: 49
Views: 6,275
Posted By jwenting
Not that they'd probably be worth reading even if they were decipherable...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 17th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 6,781
Posted By jwenting
anyway, thou complain too loudly that thou are not creating anything illegal ;)
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 9th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 925
Posted By jwenting
but that's too much work. After all it would take a few minutes instead of a few seconds, and that's time away from the playstation...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 5th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 1,597
Posted By jwenting
it's hardly surprising that the growth of malware is explosive.
2nd generation script kiddies have access to ever more clever tooling as the first generation script kiddies enter university CS...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 3rd, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 784
Posted By jwenting
whichever it is, I doubt it allows for unmatched quotes...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 2nd, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 3,358
Posted By jwenting
ONLY 42000?
I'm currently getting something like 2000+ per DAY, That's 42000 every 2 weeks or so...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Mar 25th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 630
Posted By jwenting
which may or may not tell you anything whatsoever.
A compiler may or may not put any specific strings in there, and those strings may or may not uniquely identify that compiler.
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