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Recently, I've been poking around at some small business contacts I have, looking for s/w development ideas. A lot of the small businesses have niche custom programs that help them run their business, but they are abysmal in implementation. So, I see an opportunity. The other day, one called me out of the blue - they aren't really happy with their current admin support people... I've thought about dabbling in this area, heck, it's what I do for the extended family now - IT support for wife/children.
Any of you developers out there also doing any admin work for customers? Is it a reasonable investment of time and money?
Opinions appreciated...
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied.
My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
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charlieg wrote:
Any of you developers out there also doing any admin work for customers? Is it a reasonable investment of time and money?
Yes. Not as much as I used to, but I'm still called on from time to time. A lot depends on the customer, it can be frustrating if they call you every day with trivial little problems that require you to visit their office. (A good remote desktop connection is a must, both to their servers and their desktop machines).
There isn't much money in it as a stand-alone gig as you'll never be able to match the prices that some IT companies do. But as a way in the door to sell a software solution, then it can be pretty useful.
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Michael,
I appreciate the response. The emergency calls are what I fear the most. Interestingly, you've stumbled onto the exact reason of my interest. I'm hoping I can leverage the exposure to some custom development opportunities. We shall see.
Take care,
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied.
My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.
My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams
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not only admin, support also, i don't like that so much but its part of muy new job, also SQL
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&HELLO 
i want to write a program in Assembly which shows the position of the pointer (x and y axis)on the screen 
want to be a simple one
Please send it to this address if possible
fight_2_death@hotmail.com
 dont like assembly 
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Prince_wont_die wrote:
dont like assembly
why are you asking people to do your work for them? Sounds like you want people to do your assembly homework for you...
If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa
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Hi friends,
my project problem it is very intresting. In my project there are 4 users customer,admin,supplier,requestor.Project is going smooth........ smooth .. ... suddenly inbetween the project flow session id is changing... means iam getting requestors information in customer module or customer information in requestors module ... this is the worest situation iam facing... I am not getting this problem solution b'cos iam not getting the error (error is at client place...).
How can I solve this problem,
Thanks,
Regards,
Pavan.
-- modified at 5:59 Wednesday 15th November, 2006
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I thought this might be good place to post this. Please let me know if I'm posting in the wrong place. I'm developing my very first software for a medical research group. The software itself is not overly complex, its basically a front for connecting to a database. Not the hardest thing to do I admit, but I'm finally getting my feet wet in programming since graduating college (B.S. Computer Engineering).
Anyhow, said group is going to pay me for my time and effort for the program. But thus far its been a very informal situation. My day job is to be the group's office administrator, fellowship coordinator and receptionist (don't ask...it pays my bill and is helping me through grad school right now). I'm not completely naive, and my concern is should I have a contract in place? If so, what types of terms would be reasonable? I imagine this program will need to be updated with a new version at some point in time (the researchers are having a hard time making up their mind what the "vision" of the program is)...and should I be rightfully concerned that without a contract that I'm locking myself into years of maintaining this software without additional pay. I completely trust and respect the researchers...but at the end of the day, I know it comes down to how much in research budget they have left and friendships be darned.
And then the next question is does this mean that I'm a self-employed person contracting myself out? Or would it make more sense to be my own company? Are there any pros and/or cons to each?
First time free lancing software developing...any suggestions so I don't end getting bamboozled? Thanks!
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Overworked, underpaid, glorified "secretary" 
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Hi All,
Does anyone know abt how to avoid Postback in a webpage using Adobe Flex2??? instead of usual Ajax. need some code 4 reference. Kindly help
Regards,
Yogesh J.
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For a start, I would post this in the relevant section. This one's headed Work and Training Issues. Head on over the the Web Development forum.
Arthur Dent - "That would explain it. All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something big and sinister going on in the world."
Slartibartfast - "No. That's perfectly normal paranoia. Everybody in the universe gets that."
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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in message board when we had a anwer for our quesion ,,it send an email to our mail box...i'm using yahoo...in that mesage there are a link to reply.
problem occur there..when we just cliking on that..it will open new internet explorer...i dont have to reply that time..i just close that window without to load that( i don't let to open) i close that...then many internet explorer
windows are openning like loop..we cant stop that..it happen last our memory stuck...it's not good....
tell me plz what problem...have practice on my problem see whether happen or not.
don't forget to reply me.
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"I'd like to help but I don't feel like Googling it for you."
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What's the point in replying to messages as much as 9 months old???
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Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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I have recently been asked about the feasibility of custom coding word templates so some buisness operations would be done when the word documents created from these templates were opened or untill that task in the creation of the document was properly started. Given the usage was strictly internal to a company and selective partners, I see no reason why not. However I can not say I see anyone custom coding assemblies (DLL's). Visual Studio Office Tools has been around for a number of years. If this was the best thing since sliced bread I think I would have seen a little usage, but no, nothing. So I have to ask why not?
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I guess most people put code into VBA and use that. Policies block out users from the Macro menu, so they can't edit the code.
I've even seen it done in enterprise content management systems.
I think it depends also on what you're trying to do.
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote: Visual Studio Office Tools has been around for a number of years. If this was the best thing since sliced bread I think I would have seen a little usage, but no, nothing. So I have to ask why not?
because the tools used to suck... but the new VSO 2005 is great, especially for Excel work. The Office 12 stuff is supposed to be a lot better.
I did a lot of work with Word back when it used WLL (Word Link Libraries), which were basically just C Dlls renamed. This was back in the Word 6 days, after that they abandoned WLL and moved to VBA.
The one Office product that most people wanted to customize was Outlook, but it was a nightmare of COM pain to try and write addins.
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I got laid off last year from a 15 year mainframe job, and have been studying C++ with WIN32 and MFC since then. I started learning C# with .NET 2.0 recently, and have reached a fork in the road of my self learning. I read what I could about MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD certifications on MSDN, and bought VS 2005 with MSDN Pro subscription. So, I would prefer to go forward with .NET 2.0 learning than backwards.
Would becoming certified really prove to help me? With so many jobs in my area requiring a BS in CS and x+ years real work experience, I feel I need something to prove that I have ability, but see the MS certifications as being rather platform specific. I am also not sure whether I should take the web or application developer route.
I got into the mainframe stuff after it had really peaked (airline reservation systems and online credit card authorization processing). The market value of that kind of programming has pretty much died, due to mergers and the fact that the work can be done in India.
So, I want to learn stuff that is more on the leading edge, but am wondering if web programming has matured.
A secondary question would be if anyone knows if there are any organizations in Silicon Valley that help with such career decisions and bridge the gap between an individual and the various companies that are hiring?
Thanks.
-- modified at 16:07 Monday 25th September, 2006
Oh, I also don't understand why one would need 2-3 years experience developing web applications (for the MCDP - Web developer one). If you have on the job experience already, you either already know the material or have been doing things another way (like Java). Wouldn't a certification be similar to a degree from a school? How would one even get that first job and then decide later that have a certification would matter over their job experience?
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Help from Visual Studio .net is not working. Can any one help me out.
Thanks in advance
Sampath
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I think you will need to be a little more specific. Is it not installing? Have you looked at the installer logs? What OS are you installing on? Is it just not running? It is hard to read your mind from where i am sitting, so any additional info will help us to help you out. 
Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD MCTS
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I thought I sensed trouble in the force!!
"a fool will not learn from a wise man, but a wise man will learn from a fool"
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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hi,
iam working with VC++ ,eVC++ and c#.net(window programming)
these languages are have demand or not in future.
Thanks
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Each of those can have many difference markets for use. There are alot of programs that still use VC++ and C# is going strong now too. I do not know much about the embedded VC++ market, but you should be able to find work with any of those languages. Remember there was a ton of work for people that knew that old language COBOL in 1999 and 2000. If VC++ and C# had no demand in the future what would you think would have a better chance? The languages that you use now should be fine.
Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD MCTS
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Hi Prem,
Y u are worried about the future of language? remember 1 thing that the computer will be there till thje end of the world and as per human nature he will keep growing as per time so if u r working vth such languages it may u vll go 4 others in the future. For now i can say that VC++ and c# has very good market. So don't worry
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remember 1 thing that the computer will be there till thje end of the world and as per human nature he will keep growing as per time so if u r working
I am a little worried about that comment, they said the same about million other products that have now fallen by the wayside!! Just because the computer may be around for another 10 years or so. It does not necessarily mean the demand for programmers will be high.
I think, that if you're wondering about the demand for the future, is it is best to keep to a platform neutral language, C++ , but also it entirely depends what you end up working as. Computer landguages and use tend to be product/market/platform specific.
I for one am impressed by the recent increase in Javascript that is encroaching in the market, where interpretted languages is enjoying a slight surge again!!
"a fool will not learn from a wise man, but a wise man will learn from a fool"
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
My Website || My Blog
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Hi guys,
I am thinking of taking MCTS (all of the three Web,Windows and Distributed flavours).
Now, is it worth investing time/money in MCSD.NET as well as MCTS or just do MCTS?
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