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2 days a week works fine for me and my company , I need limited face to face meetings , and everyone knows my schedule. I do it primarily to avoid traffic , I work in one of the central business district in Johannesburg and getting in can vary between 30 mins and 90 mins , depending on who has run into who on the feed roads , working from home I start relaxed and not frustrated and wanting to throttle some one.
AND the coffees better
Mike
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I'm surprised that no one mentioned this yet, so maybe it doesn't apply to everyone, but I have an issue with working from home, and that is that the family doesn't appreciate that although I am home I am actually working. This means that at any given time, I have to be available to go shopping, look after an unwell child or just simply babysit, etc.
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http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/31/building-for-the-internet-of-things-and-the-demise-of-the-client-server-model/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=linkedin[^]
This is an interesting view. Back 30 years ago when I started to learn IT it was on 6805 circuit board and I was studying electronics and automation. There was no interaction with any UI, programs were more like micro-programs and autonomous. Then my last graduation was A.I. At a time where there was not yet the internet as we know it, I worked few years for a digital acquisition and processing company, but I never really used A.I and automation.
Windows made its debut and it became more attractive to use a screen, so UI IT became the main IT and the revolution of the internet came.
Maybe we are at the beginning of a new era where A.I and automation (as in autonomy) and interconnection would be combine... sounds a lot like a robotic era!
That could be an interesting future!
Software Architect, COM, .NET and Smartcard security specialist.
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Developers, listen up: Everything you’re doing now will be irrelevant within the next ten years. That's where I stopped reading. The internet is built around the model he claims to be obsolete.
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That reminds me of a manager I worked for. She could sling the vocabulary pretty well, and used the words appropriately. It was only after you got to know her that you realized she didn't understand a word she was saying. Ironically, this didn't reduce her effectiveness as a manager in the slightest, and she was one of the best people I've ever worked for.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In TSQL, thats:
SELECT REPLACE(www,tsr,ai) FROM [alldata].[data].[alltime]
So start learning SQL today ...
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...is actually my old iMac.
My trusty old Toshiba has been appropriated by someone who evidently wants to do actual work on it, and I've been struggling with the problem of how to have a nice big screen, a small keyboard (my desk is a little cramped), and convenient access to a Windows and MacOS box.
So the 5 year old iMac that was our dev machine is now my new Windows machine at home (and MacOS machine for debugging iOS stuff) and I have to say I forgot how nice the Mac screens are.
Has anyone dabbled with the new all-in-ones that have come on the market to compete with the iMacs?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I e only played with the all in ones at the shops - and haven't been that impressed - generally just don't look as good or feel as well built as the Mac. Of course they are cheaper but they also don't run Mac OS too well!
I've been using my 27" Mac aas a windows 8 machine (vm) for a while and, full screen win 8 is great running vs2012 (I use dual monitors so the oth screen is my 'Mac' screen.
I had to buy a proper Mac keyboard though - the itsy Bluetooth ones are fine for a bit but I missed the numerical keypad and the lack of a delet key cramped my style a lot!
If you are doing any Mac programming I would recommend trying jetbrains' AppCode - swapping between it and vs is much easier than with xcode
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Interesting points. I'm using my 27" Mac with dual-boot (Win7). I tried Parallels but sometimes found the VM a little sluggish. Since dual-booting Win7 runs really smooth and I'm but a click or so away from booting back into Mac-mode. How did you manage to get a dual monitor running. From what I read it's a pain in the ass to setup and use? Macs don't have VGA cables and that's all my HP monitor has. Hence it sits up in the loft, unused.
If I were to do Mac coding, I'd go for AppCode myself. Just about anything that JetBrains makes is exceptionally good. I've been using Resharper for a few years now. I'd never consider anything else and AppCode seems to have excellent reviews as well.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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I'm using VirtualBox on the Mac - and found Windows 7 slightly laggy sometimes, just those occasional mouse delays, but haven't found it so with windows 8 (although only been using that for a short while)
If I rebuild my Mac I will probably go the dual boot option also - just for ultimate performance and games playing ability really - and as my hard drive is on a recall list, that might be sooner than I thought.
dual monitor was easy with a DVI monitor, anyway. Had to buy a dongle thing to convert miniDisplayPort to DVI and that was it - plugged it in and it "Just Worked" No pain, in Ass or elsewhere (I had also read of folks having problems but I think they were software probs that have been fixed in the OS releases). VGA monitor - not so sure, but I did see this[^]
AppCode is definitely the dogs doodads for me. Taking time to discover all the tings it can do (but not so long as it did with XCode!)
To be fair, XCode isn't bad at all for a free product (I bought AppCode at 75% off - yep - I"m a cheapskate)
Best feature in AppCode so far -
Command-C / X / V for copy paste work on an entire line when nothing is highlighted (e.g. click somewhere on a line, press Command-C and the whole line is copied to the clipboard.)
This works just like VS2010 and is something that, after I discovered, I used all the time - so much so that I still kept trying to do it in XCode and ended up pasting all sorts of rubbish n my code!
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