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Rails-I mentioned one Ruby automation ute I wrote for softie admin at one company, and now I get loads of job ads aimed at Rails experts.
My favourite fun time is Mono c# on Linux(I'm tight, only free stuff); one toy I've written is a cross-platform encryption pad( GUI-based of course so that anybody's mum could use it).
Should I put the project up in an article, you think?
Maybe not.
When I put it on my anon FTP, the host had a 'policy change' and stopped anon. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: and now I get loads of job ads aimed at Rails experts.
I haven't update my online resume to include the Rails work I've been doing - I've got more than enough work at the moment and more in the pipeline, but its good to know there's a demand out there, even though RoR has only something like .2% of the web development market (some stat I saw on CP a couple months ago.)
Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Should I put the project up in an article, you think?
Suer, why not?
Marc
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Take care with the resolution available with an external monitor. I have a 2 year old Samsung that was very expensive, i7, 8gb, ssd, blah blah. It wont do more than 1024*768 resolution on an external monitor..
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_Josh_ wrote: It wont do more than 1024*768 resolution on an external monitor..
What connector is used to connect to the external monitor?
Can't believe anything that new couldn't do better.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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_Josh_ wrote:
It has hdmi and vga
HDMI can do 1920 x 1080 and I've had VGA doing greater than that on a DELL E43?0 and E61?0.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I know it's a little over your budget - but hey, the girls won't need uniforms for another three years 
Go the MacBook air
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Maybe you should look to have a DisplayPort also (this is for external displays with resolutions bigger than 1920x1200). i5 should be enough (I have an i3 and it's still good), but definitely go with more than 4 Gb RAM and an SSD.
If you can't explain something to a six year old, you really don't understand it yourself. (Albert Einstein)
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Take a look in the BT shop. (Unless it is restricted to customers only). I saw an i3 with 4G and a 320 drive plus a 20G ssd(don't ask me how that works) for £350. Built-in DVD RW.
Or pad out a used Elitebook with new bits for a couple of hundred(smelly I know).
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I recently bought a refurbished DELL XPS 1730 for development purposes that meets the mini-specification you cited in all particulars: 32 GByte SSD, 1 TByte normal hard disk, 4G Bytes RAM, DVD reader-writer, and so forth. $700 on eBay, and there were others available at the same price. I'm quite happy with it.
Among persons I know who've bought refurbished laptops, the experiences appear to be generally positive. The machines we've purchased have proved reliable...so far!
(This message is programming you in ways you cannot detect. Be afraid.)
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• i5/i7
• 7200rpm drive, but SSD much preferred
• RAM = 8G or more (RAM is cheap)
/ravi
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Why a laptop?
Do you really require it to be a laptop?
If you don't require mobility, better get a Desktop, you will get something twice better, if you select a Desktop, for the same price...
The aim is easy, get as much as you cant. RAM, Processor and Video Card (I you will not work with heavy video/images or gaming you can same some buck without an expensive Video Card)
Now if you really need a Laptop...
Again, get as much as you can pay, laptops are one buy without real possibilities of upgrade, so get as much as you can pay, be sure to get a lot of RAM (8GB as minimum) and Processor, for sure a Laptop will not be used for Video/Image unless you pay like 3000+ UDS for a Graphic performance laptop (stupid because a 1000 USD desktop will do better)
But my last advice is: if you will do heavy work, better get a Desktop, laptops always die by heat...
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You didn't specify what development tools you intend to use on your new laptop. I tend to do my development in VMs so when I finish a project I can either delete or backup the VM and move onto the next project. I work with the Microsoft development stack and found that development with Visual Studio and any version of SQL Server other than the CE edition on an i3 with 6GB of the 8GB RAM available dedicated to the VM brought the machine to its knees due to swapping. It would work with that configuration as long as I worked directly on the host O/S rather than in a VM. In this case the host and VM OSes were Windows 7 Ultimate. About 9 months ago I was upgraded to Windows 8 Enterprise on an i7 with 16GB RAM and have not had any problems using VS and SQL Server in a Windows 7 Ultimate VM with the VM getting 10 - 12 GB of RAM. The i3 laptop had a 5400 RPM physical hard drive and the i7 laptop has a 7800 RPM hard drive.
Of course, YMWV (your mileage will vary).
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: a dev ready laptop
I won't need over 15" screen as I have an external I've got 2TB, and growing, external a DVD player would be useful or should I move to an external
With everything external like that, why are you considering a laptop at all? You'll be pretty well lashed to a particular physical location with all that stuff hanging off the box. At that point, you might as well get the extra performance you can have by getting a desktop for your money.
If you do decide on a laptop anyway, I'd make sure it has USB3 or something fast like that for the disk. Using a USB2 disk for the kind of development I do is painfully slow.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Depends what you are developing for, if the computer is you main computer or not. I use three, a desktop with multiple screens, a laptop (asus game republic) which has 16gb and dual SSD disk with 1920x108 screen and a surface pro 128 (same res screen).The surface Pro can plug into a HD monitor. You want either Windows 8 or Ubuntu. I am not sure you are defined on what you want to develop. your price range is really looking at the lower range machine in what I would not consider development machines.
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I use VMs, deal with images, video rendering, dozens of browser tabs open. I can make really good use of an i7 & 8GB of memory to the extent that I wish I had 16GB. Depends on how big the project and what your using it for specifically: VMs, Video, 100 tabs open, etc. Get and SSD if you can .. the difference is very, very noticeable.
Karl
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Strawberry Sun[^].
Not the usual deep space image but beautiful, nonetheless.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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It's no wonder why in many cultures the red sun/ moon symbolize the lost of lives
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I thought I'd have fun figuring out the "real" unemployment figure in the US. Here's what I've come up with:
[edit](various edits as I realize I can't do math. It's amazing I can program.)[/edit]
US population: 314 million
Normal retirement age: 67
People age 65 or older: 41 million http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/
Disabled, under age 65: 14 million http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/
People under 18, 23% or 7 million approx http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
Full time employees: 117 million http://www.statista.com/statistics/192361/unadjusted-monthly-number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-us/
Part time employees: 24 million (16 and older): http://www.statista.com/statistics/192361/unadjusted-monthly-number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-us/
314
- 41 retired (oops, was 67, used retirement age by mistake!)
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273
- 14 disabled
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259
- 72 under 18 (arg, I can't do math!!! This was 7!)
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187 <--- this should be the # of employable people.
FT + PT employed = 141 million
% unemployed = (187 - 141) / 187, or ~ 25%
[edit] comparing apples and oranges, yes I know, thank you everyone [edit]:
Unemployment: supposedly 7.6 % (these are the number of people out of work that are seeking work)
Yeah, I know I'm using 16 and above and under 18 but the different is negligible. So what portion of the population am I forgetting to subtract from the "employable"?
Marc
modified 29-Aug-13 10:44am.
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Aren't you just using a comparing two completely different stats?
"Unemployment (or joblessness) occurs when people are without work and actively seeking work."
Not the same as "percentage not-working out of employable people".
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harold aptroot wrote: Aren't you just using a comparing two completely different stats?
Well, the term "unemployment rate" is typically interpreted as "people not working" by the layman, but yes, the stat is as you stated, which deceives us in thinking this is the actual % of people unemployed. I doubt many people actually understand the difference.
Marc
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The layman is an idiot, I grant you, but if they really think the number could be that low with that interpretation, I'm surprised they remember to breathe.
I mean come on, 7.something%? That might account for a couple of not-working groups, but certainly not for all the "other adult members of a household with a single source of income" (mainly housewives and whatever the male version is called, and some students).
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Marc Clifton wrote:Well, the term "unemployment rate" is typically interpreted as "people not working" by the laymanNo, it's not.
My wife switched to full-time mother when we had our first child. She wasn't "unemployed".
I was in (1) university, and (2) graduate school for the majority of a decade: I was not "unemployed"
How do those in military service fit into your figures - if at all?
There are doubtless many other scenarios where those in your pool of people who you count as unemployed are, in fact, properly not classified as such.
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That is why the government drops people off after they "quit looking".
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