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There once was a man named Clyde
Who went to the out house and died
Next door in the other
So did his brother
And now they're interred side by side
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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To make usability more sleek
UX suggested a small tweak
Developers beware
Read the spec if you dare
Implementing it will take the whole week
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A king who was mad at the time
Decreed limerick writing a crime
But late in the night
All the poets would write
Limericks without rhyme or meter
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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There once was a young lass from Cape Cod
Who thought that all babes came from God
But it weren't the Almighty
That got in her nighty
'Twas Roger, the lodger, by God!
Will Rogers never met me.
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There once was a loving machine
both concave and convex
it could serve either sex
entertaining itself in between!
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[I forget where this one comes from]
There was a young woman called Bright
Who could travel much faster than light
She went out one day
In a Relative way
And returned the previous night
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Persistent chap... 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Persistent chap moron
FTFY 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Persistent chap moron
I can think of better adjectives than 'persistent', too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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APOD: 2016 March 16 - A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland[^]
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thankfully it wasn't this![^]
Marc
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Yikes! Indeed!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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*Left Speechless*
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Hi All
Taking some time out I found this today Java Forever And Ever Movie (Java vs Windows .Net) - YouTube[^] posted on a friends face book feed. I can only get at Facebook from my phone so it took a little YouTube hunting to find. The film it parodies is that one with Kevin Spacey that I can't remember the name of (lots of rose petals) it's driving me nuts! 
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Was your friend's name Leslie[^], by any chance? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Possibly his middle name! Any idea of what the movie is...
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Sounds like American Beauty (1999)[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's it, thanks I will stop banging my head now! I saw it when I was at Uni.
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American Beauty, perhaps?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Oldie but goodie!
Though... boy is silly of course! Long live .NET!
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Hello all, in a previous life (4 years ago), I was a C++ and later C# developer on Windows - same company for about 10 years. The past four years I've been a Perl/Ruby developer on Linux.
Due to some concerns and issues at work, it's time for me to move on again.
I'd like to get back into C#/Windows development, but I'm noticing a HUGE difference between job listings requesting Perl programmers, and those requesting C# developers. The Perl listings will almost always respond, even if it's just to say "Sorry, we're not interested," or "Sorry, we've already filled the position." (I've had four Perl related interviews in the past few months; two were okay but I didn't want, one was terrible, and one was *great* - but there were literally thousands of applicants and I didn't quite make the cut.)
For C# positions, I've gotten.. Nothing. No response at all.
Part of the complicating factor here is that the position has to be full time remote (though I do travel as much as needed, and would continue to be willing to do so). I live approximately in the middle of nowhere (wife and I bought a house here), and we would absolutely hate to move. I would not rule it out, but it would require an enormous salary increase (cost of living here is almost nothing - I shudder to think of moving to San Jose for example).
Am I doing something obvious wrong? Are people really saying "whoa he hasn't used C# professionally for 4 years, skip this guy"? Do they think I'm somehow tainted by Perl/Ruby?
I'd really, really appreciate any help, suggestions, thoughts or consolations you might have to offer.
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I think your initial thoughts are correct. C# has changed a lot in the past four years and you are out of routine. It will take few weeks for you to get back into it.
Recruiters nowadays even ask you about the version of C#. If you are:
- bellow 3.5 you're out,
- no entity object you're out,
- no WPF for desktop (Winforms is mostly history) you're out,
- no MVC/jquery/IoC/HTML5 you're out...
It all depends on your level. They will not hire you as a senior but they might consider hiring you as junior- to mid- developer until you are ready to produce code in quality and speed required of a senior.
Regards,
T.
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I've actually kept up in my spare time. I'm considering taking a few MCSD exams - "Web Apps" and "Windows Store Apps." IOW, I take issue with being called "out of routine" - I'm well in it, just not doing it for a living.
I would not consider a junior position or "mid-developer" position - I'd like to use C#/Windows again, but not at such a salary cut and all that. Programming, at some level, is programming; I'm not terribly interested in companies who require that you fill a certain buzzword quota. :/
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