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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I'm sure they're a great company
I have some experience with them. But seeing as I won't rave about how great they are, and don't want to be sued if I say otherwise, I'll leave it at that.
Marc
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You just need to remember that the acronym stands for "Scatty" Putrid Application and you'll never be surprised by what you get.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have to attend a week-long training course on a product called QlikView (pronounced "ClickView" - and don't get me starting on the libtard spelling of the product name). I'm not happy. Forty hours of mind numbing crap I don't care about and don't want to learn about. I think I'd even rather do VB programming.
The "powers that be" think this is going to solve all of their dashboarding issues. Just wait until this stuff chokes and pukes when we throw 37 different human-modified Excel spreadsheets at it. I had to write an import app that STILL has to be baby-sat because of the humans involved in the production of the spreadsheets. I'm gonna laugh my redneck ass off when that happens.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 1-Dec-15 15:16pm.
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I do not know how you will use QlikView, but we a solution, where we feed it from our database (via views) and the solution is very nice and stable - so I would say that the product was good for us...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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We dropped it and wrote our own reporting system
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Pointing something at a database is one thing. I heard the Colonel that is implementing this say that it should do the job of importing directly from the spreadsheets. It's clear he doesn't have anything even remotely resembling a clue as to how much bullsh|t is involved in my particular process.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: pronounced "ClickView"
If it is English, and English pronunciation applies, then no.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The question is, will you still be the happy, go lucky John, we all love, when you come back?? Or will you rewrite all of your existing CodeProject articles, in VB.
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Slacker007 wrote: rewrite all of your existing CodeProject articles, in VB to government specs..
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We use QlikView, works very well, some bloke from the business does it all, we've never had to let any developers anywhere near it.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Why the bloody hell are they sending a developer on this course, this is a business tool, send a data monkey scientist they are the ones who will need to know how the dammed thing works. All we have to do is supply the underlying data sets required from the database.
A week, I hope they take you guns away from you before you go because there is no way you are going to be reasonable after 3 days of training on an end user application which you will almost certainly never touch, 5 days would cause carnage!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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if you're lucky - you won't have to provide internal support for it.
don't ask 
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VS2013 cannot properly resolve namespaces in WPF when the code is on a network share. What this means is that if you create a UserControl (in ANY namespace in your solution), and you try to add that user control in the XAML of another control or Window, you will be told that your UserControl doesn't exist in the specified namespace. The only workaround for this is to put ALL of your code on a local disk. I've discovered that it's impossible to get the code to compile if I create a base UserControl class from which to inherit. Instead, I have to duplicate code in half a dozen UserControls to get the freakin' code to compile. This has been a problem since WPF was introduced, and I would not be at all surprised to find out that VS2015 suffers from the same f*cked up "feature", because Microsoft has demonstrated a propensity for not fixing the important shit in their crap products.
This is especially problematic for me because I work on a DoD network, and they DON'T BACKUP LOCAL DRIVES, not to mention the fact that our IT department specifically DELETES anything not related to the OS every night.
I have to store my code in the MyDocuments folder with is redirected to a remote shared drive.
Working on a DoD network is stupendously absurd, because they intentionally make it onerous to work as a developer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I assume you've tried updating devenv.exe.config?
="1.0"
<configuration>
<runtime>
<loadFromRemoteSources enabled="true"/>
</runtime>
</configuration>
By default, remote assemblies do not run in the .NET Framework 4 and later. To run a remote assembly, you must either run it as fully trusted or create a sandboxed AppDomain in which to run it.
And I'd guess that VS2015 doesn't have this problem:
In the .NET Framework 4.5, assemblies on local network shares are run as full trust by default; you do not have to enable the <loadfromremotesources> element.
"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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I can't change the config because it's in a restricted folder and requires admin rights.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I start to understand why you hate everyone and everything! 
"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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See? Everyone thinks I'm just an asshole, but the truth of the matter is the I'm faced with an overwhelming deluge of daily absurdities that should long ago have seen me in the headlines for shooting up my workplace.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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And I think my work environment is bad, I've been waiting 6 weeks for them to work out how to give me local admin rights but at least I have the prospect of getting local admin rights, but you can't even get at the config files for an app you are working on!
I have to apologise, I always think of you as a gun crazy redneck, now I begin to understand how you got that way 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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To be honest, I don't really like guns.
However that does not absolve me from my duty as an American to have one, "being necessary for the security of a free state". If I'm not ready and willing to fight to preserve the Constitution, I can't very well use it as a shield.
All that being said, I don't see the term "gun crazy" as being applicable. Sure there are some folks that might be, but I don't have what I see as a lot of weapons. Two rifles, a shotgun and two pistols. I know guys that own dozens of weapons and tens of thousands of rounds of ammo, and calling any of them crazy in any context is probably a mistake.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I don't see the term "gun crazy" as being applicable.
Not at all. When my grandfather passed away, there were three components to his estate: two farms, his machine shop and related tools, and his gun collection. The gun collection was the highest-value component of the three.
Software Zen: delete this;
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I don't really like guns
Now that is a revelation, I thought you were a gun nut as well as a petrol head who like fuchsia .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Sorry, had to upvote that comment 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You really need NOT work for the government. Get another job. I actually feel sorry for you. 
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I understand the pain. I did a 4 year stint at DHS, CBP.
The mantra was "Work Smarter, not Harder". They also said you were not allow to write scripts/code to automate any tasks, even the very repetitive ones, like creating users. 
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