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This reminds me of the argument between a husband and wife. She was talking about mixed feelings, but her husband insisted that the concept was nonsense, because everything was ultimately positive or negative.
"Out of all your friends", she replied, "you have the biggest dick."
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Better than the opposite.
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I had the exact same thing happen...seemed to be something with SSRS bindings.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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At least I can rule out that as my problem.
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Yes: good for me, bad for you. 
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to the extent you waste your time over-analyzing it, and posting on the Lounge about it: yes 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Are children who are born in a whorehouse Brothel Sprouts?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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so children born in a warehouse would be live stock?
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I suppose their favorite pastry would be tarts? And, if they had a stringed instrument it they would strumpet ?
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If you do magic while facing sideways, are you turning tricks?
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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Do you do most of your dealings with the client face to face or are you more phone and email?
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Me, I am more face to face.
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I have managers between me and the users 
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That is the only way that works.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'll do face to face for major / new (and starting of course)
followed by written version - proper document (not just email - formatting lost etc.)
not a big fan of phone, if so always followed up with email (if they don't I will)
- again if it's big / significantly new I insist on face to face - can whiteboard etc
small items prefer email
I'm a stickler for "ensure it's written down" - even if trivial, just so it's recorded.
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I have a support team between me and clients... On those occasions I have to comunicate with them it is done by phone or personally almost equally, however everything is written in emails later...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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If it's the start of a project then face to face.
If it's a major or monthly update and I'm in a senior role then usually video conference.
If it's a major or monthly update and I'm not in a senior role then I'm usually not involved.
Day to day stuff via email, very rarely use the phone for anything, it's much better to have unambiguous communications and a paper trail
If the client company has hot women then face to face. Always face to face.
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All of my "clients" are in-house and we use a mix of phone and e-mail, depending on the urgency of the issue. I work for a very large, privately-held company and all of my work is for internal use.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Mostly via a support team so I never have to meet the actual clients. All clients for all projects are in-house (I work for a county government) so I rarely meet clients - although I have for some smaller projects.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That depends, how far away is the client, how much needs to be discussed, how important is the discussion, how well does the client pay...
I prefer face to face, but I prefer not spending hours in traffic even more 
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For me it's almost always phone/email/remote desktop.
I handle frontline support for the software I develop and 'rent/lease' to clients around the US. Over 20 years this now includes 2 major desktop apps, the 100 or so add-on modules/utilities that support them, and around 2 dozen web applications.
Devs dealing directly with the clients may be uncommon, but I believe it has benefits for both parties.
0: The developer gets to practice their people skills.
1: The client gets a direct line to the person who can most likely fix/improve something.
2: The developer sometimes gains domain knowledge.
3: Products improve quickly to eliminate those annoying client phone calls.
Regarding #3, this has been the biggest driver for me...to lessen the length of time I need to be on a call/remote to find and fix a problem. To this end, our main products have some really nice support features for submitting and receiving files for troubleshooting/fixing problems:
a: downsize/zip/upload feature for our managed sql server users to instantly post a customer database. The downsized file is in Access format. Our apps are agnostic (for the most part) so it's possible to stay online with a client while I download and hookup to his current database to find a problem.
b: download/run script files. The main apps also have the ability to download and run script files for anything from automating imports, to fixing a specific problem, to pre-configuring a new module.
c: easy to use updaters.
Having an automated deployment chain here is essential. It has occurred when an issue has been debugged, fixed, recompiled, and redeployed, (signed/sealed/delivered), and downloaded in < 10 minutes without leaving the remote. Stupid mistakes happen, but are dealt with swiftly!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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 that's an outstanding reply, and I congratulate you on your implementation. if only a mere mortal, like me, could create such an update facility !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Thank you for the kind words!
BillWoodruff wrote: if only a mere mortal, like me, could create such an update facility
Don't underestimate your abilities...it's just moving bits! Seriously though, if you need ideas, I'd be happy to help.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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