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Well done. I had the Curtain bit too, can't believe I didn't get the Iron from that.
Iron - Goose.[^]
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I think it's the solution.
Googling Goose and iron:
Goose or tailor's goose was another iron name, and this came from the goose-neck curve in some handles. In Scotland people spoke of gusing (goosing) irons.
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Well Done Andy.
Almost two hours I lasted, not bad!
I had hoped to win, but you lot are getting better.
As you see above, a Goose is an Iron.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I spent a good while trying to figure out how states and Goose = fire, for Fire-curtain  .
Andy B
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I don't know how you got the solution but you deserve many a 5.
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When you think long and hard about it, everything can be a euphemism.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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A man walks past a beggar every day and gives him $10 and that Continues for a year. Then suddenly the daily donation changes to $7.50.
" Well," the beggar thinks, " it's still better than nothing."
A year passes in this way until the man's daily donation suddenly becomes $5.
" What's going on now?" the beggar asks his donor. " First you give me $10 every day, then $ 7.50 and now only $5. What's the problem?"
" Well," the man says, " last year my eldest son went to university. It's very expensive, so I had to cut costs. This year my eldest daughter also went to university, so I had to cut my expenses even further ."
" And how many children do you have?" the beggar asks.
" Four," the man replies.
" Well," says the beggar, " I hope you don't plan to educate them all at my expense"
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I'm currently translating some technical document from English to Japanese.
The English version was written by a Japanese engineer some years ago, probably based on a Japanese equivalent.
The original Japanese document is long lost, so I am now taking a mostly-well-written-but-sprinkled-with-Engrish-moments document and turning it back into Japanese.
If I find my manager rolling on the floor in fits of laughter next week, I'll know why... 
Hey, I'm not trying to be funny, but given the situation, I can so see this going very very wrong!
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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Rots of ruck!
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Will there be a ceremony involving swords, a Haiku and some Sake if it goes wrong?
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Well, I been at this job a couple of weeks now, and I'm glad this week is over!
Agile environment is about as agile as an elephant with ingrown toenails.
Comments in code? Why would you waste the characters?
MVVM - in name only.
Seems to me that most places I work at have very similar issues (hopefully I'm not the cause!!!) in that the developers are generally pretty damn good, but are just let loose with little technical management. So the code base is littered with 1001 ways of doing the same thing, broken design patterns and clever code that does the job it was designed to do, but is not very maintainable, and is about as flexible as my c*ck at a strip club (and, let me tell you, my poultry is exceedingly inflexible)
I really liked the sound of this job as it was a chance to be a hands on dev without the responsibility I've had in the past - but I am wondering whether I might have to step up and rattle some cages a bit in order to get some processes working.
Alternatively I just keep my head down, spend the money... and wait until PooperPig makes me enough to retire!
Sorry - whinging pom mode off.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: I really liked the sound of this job as it was a chance to be a hands on dev without the responsibility I've had in the past - but I am wondering whether I might have to step up and rattle some cages a bit in order to get some processes working.
Try it, but be ready to use plan B when you discover that you are fighting against windmills.
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Well, it's your choice to evaluate the balance between employment, income and "doing the right thing," but do keep in mind that the phrase "don't shoot the messenger" became an idiom for very good reasons.
The "status quo" in a work-group is often something that has "crystallized" out of many competing organizational agendas, and factors, over a long period of time ... it can have a tremendous "inertia" that resists any fundamental change: you, as a newcomer, may not be aware of many of the "vectors" of influence and dynamics of exchange that led to the present status quo.
Of course, that may be an advantage for you, in a way: that you see the "Emperor has no clothes on;" that what is dysfunctional technically "leaps out" into your awareness immediately.
Before you take on the "status quo," I'd say you need to have "allies," and be aware of the potential reaction to your "rocking the boat."
As Hamlet says so magnificently:
"Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die,"
I once hop-scotched over my boss' head to the division manager about technical issues I thought were impeding the long-term increase in quality and productivity at a certain company: I was out of a job, soon, and I was delighted to leave because they gave me a substantial going-away gift of early vesting of stock in the company that I owned, but was nearly two years away from "really owning"
best, Bill
~
Confused by Windows 8 ? This may help: [ ^] !
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what may be future development lifecycle to develop softwares in .net framework
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huh?
www.stealthadventures.co.za
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iyalarasi wrote: what may be future development lifecycle to develop softwares in .net framework
...for a full explanation, see: Liquid Nitrogen[^]
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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iyalarasi wrote: development lifecycle
1. read specs if available
2. code
3. test
4. code - fix
5. support
6. code - fix
7. code - enhancement
8. code - fix
9. CODE!
10. CO...DE
11. C...ODE
12. COD..E..
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death  ....
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I understand that the use of ChickenEntrails to select design patterns is the hot potato, and the insects leg joints.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Probably something hyped-up with an odd name that turns out to be a silly idea that doesn't work in practice.
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Looking at the Entity Framework 5 release, it has some nifty features I'd like to take advantage of (e.g., automatic query compilation, proper lookups of indexed varchar columns). However, many of those features will not work unless you have .Net 4.5, and we have .Net 4.
So, we just need to install .Net 4.5. However, .Net 4.5 doesn't work on Windows Server 2003, which is what our development server is on. So, we need to upgrade Windows.
And once we upgrade Windows, .Net, and Entity Framework, there are still some features we can't take advantage of (e.g., table-valued parameters), because we are on SQL Server 2005. We were supposed to upgrade to 2008 months ago, but it never happened. So, that will need to be kick-started too.
This could take a while to get all these ducks in a row...
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AspDotNetDev wrote: So, we need to upgrade Windows.
AspDotNetDev wrote: upgrade to 2008
Get the point now?
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If you are trying to make one, I do not get it.
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). Though, they have virtually no comments in their code; I'm hoping that's because they are changing stuff so frequently that they are putting code commenting off until later (though they seem like they might be the type who think well written code explains itself... hope not).