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Possibly a little easy, but I like it!
Do you want the answer now, or let the others have a go?
Well, that decides that one! 
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It was indeed a nice easy one - mainly because my commute was disrupted by a bus strike so it was totally off the top of my head.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Quote: They threw me in a jail filled with rejects from the communicable disease ward. Every wacko, drippy, open-sored low-life was in that joint, all of them wanting to hire on as my proctologist.
which movie?
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Up?
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One Night in Paris
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The Graduate
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The CodeProject Forum
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Debbie Does Columbia???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Lady and the Tramp
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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I don't know if that's funny or painful.
Ipad? It just connects.
Two android phones and three android tablets? They just connect.
Windows laptop & tablet? "Checking network requirements".
I'd bet that they're not "checking" anything; they just put that message up to cover the fact that they're cr@p at connecting.
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I have no idea what's MRV and I don't care!
A friend posted this video for an upcoming soon video game...
I find it hilarious. That is all!
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I have to admit that I wondered where the turtle was sitting.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Windows laptop & tablet? "Checking network requirements".
Running XP SP3 and Win7 SP1 - and I never see those messages. Are the Win8/Win10 enhancements?
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Yup. They hang around for what feels like an hour, then it's 50-50 whether it'll connect with Internet access or not
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Here's a though (poorly informed, perhaps): Could the message you see be a way to distract you whilst they download updates into your system?
I hate downloads that are automatic on startup (hence my successful battle with AVG before I removed it) unless I authorized them to do so.
Of course, this might mean M$ is fibbing.
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Given that they've recently taken to playing dirty tricks on users, it wouldn't surprise me greatly, but it's more likely to be another ridiculous bit of completely unnecessary bloat.
Interestingly, if I pull the Ethernet cables from my weven machines, they connect to the wi-fi within two or three seconds.
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Is it a good idea to take jobs using different stacks and tech? I know that in our profession, we have to be able to keep up with the new technologies and are always learning, but how much is too much?
As a new Web Developer, I have a foundation now in the ASP.NET and general .NET stack. Personally, I love working with ASP.NET and Microsoft technologies, and I don't mind expanding my knowledge on front-end frameworks such as Angular and vanilla JS/jQuery to be used within my MVC applications.
However, it is also said (and I agree) that the languages and frameworks are just tools, and a programmer is a programmer; although we can (and probably should) specialize. Nearly every time I meet someone, they want me to work on their website which is using a different technology.
The problem this is kind of causing is that I'm spending so much time learning all of these different random frameworks such as Angular, React, WordPress (not a framework, but still its a separate skill)/PHP, etc... ANd not enough time ACTUALLY CODING.
I have 2 schools of thought on this:
1. Turn down everything that doesn't involve ASP.NET/C#/MS Stack, which is my current forte/what I enjoy working with.
2. Try to keep learning things such as WordPress simply because it is in high demand, and hope that I can somehow be a "jack of all trades."
The thing is, I don't really want to be a jack of all trades; I want to be that guy that knows ASP.NET/.NET CORE (eventually) so well that I am well-known in my area as a developer/consultant. HOWEVER, right now, I'm not some super experienced ASP.NET vet and it is easier to try and pick up jobs here and there by expanding the stacks I'm willing to work with.
For example, I got on a project recently where I'm going to eventually use ASP.NET MVC for the back-end but right now, they have a Wordpress site and they want me to do some work on their current site in the short-term. So now I gotta stop working on my other MVC/JavaScript projects and go learn more about Wordpress templates and stuff.
Any guidance on this would be appreciated. I love learning, but I don't want to be just a learner, I want to be a doer. Plus, customers have no idea what all this means, they just want a working website and don't get why you can't fix it for them right away.
modified 8-Sep-16 19:38pm.
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: but I don't want to be just a learner, I want to be a doer.
Frankly, it's impossible nowadays to separate the two, you have to figure out a good balance, which typically means at first learning only the essential minimum, then expanding slowly.
The advantage of knowing various platforms and languages is that you can learn the best practices from each, and b*tch about the kruft.  Overall though, some very common best practices start emerging, like writing small functions, what good documentation for the team really means, what useful unit tests really are, and even meta-skills like project planning and estimation, working with "technicolor" personalities, etc.
So really, IMHO, the skill is in finding that balance between learning and doing, which takes accumulating experience.
Marc
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Take it from someone who has specialised, WPF and LOB solutions. Don't do it if you want to be in the developer game long term. Once you stop shoving new tech in the top of the funnel it all dries up.
The sage advice from Mr Clifton, who AFAICT has a handle on more tech than most, about a balance is critical. You can't learn everything, pick and choose the ones that interest you or going to give you the best ROI.
And unless you are short of work do not take every project that turns up. Your rep will be enhanced by doing an excellent job on a few projects rather than a whole raft of different projects.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: hope that I can somehow be a "jack of all trades
According to recent news articles, a lot of which have been featured in CP's Insider News, the industry is pressing hard to find full-stack web developers who have a working knowledge of everything. You can still have a focus in one area but it really pays dividends to know how the file bytes on a content database server hard disk become this very text on your screen and all the little hoops it has to jump through to get there, and there are a lot of them. It's my own personal opinion to learn the fundamentals of it all but concentrate on a specific web stack. I myself like what I can build in MVC/Razor with a SQL Server backend but I will never stop cursing at IIS. You find what you like and stick with it. You don't have to know it all but it helps to know just enough to easily rediscover it with a few keywords and Google.
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Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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IIS is rather crazy.
Just out of curiosity, what would you think of Apache + mod_mono on Win32? (I did a port of mod_mono to windows based on a patch I found for an older version, and got it working right off the bat. I am rather proud of that).
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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Being that my professional experience with Apache is superficial, I couldn't answer that one. I know that Apache will run on a Windows server but I can't say that a web app will run any better if it was built with ASP.Net/IIS (all my shops have been MS shops). All of them have their strengths and weaknesses. When it comes down to it, it's really about personal preference and what will get the job done. Sure, you could build an entire website in a week using Bootstrap or a CMS like WordPress or DotNetNuke. They do their job well but, as a developer, you will never understand the intricacies of TCP/IP, HTTP/CSS, and the framework of the month unless you build a few of them from scratch.
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Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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