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Gerry Schmitz wrote: So, those "obsolete desktop skills" will now put you ahead of everyone else in terms of creating a better web experience. I thought it would happen ... that it was just waiting for more bandwidth.
There are very few skills that become obsolete, especially in a field where "obsolete" is quite relative.
GCS/GE d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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There's currently little demand for "fat clients". If one was to decide on a career path and all one did is read job ads, one would conclude that all we needed is a little mobile screen and 2 thumbs.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: There's currently little demand for "fat clients".
Luckily fat developers are still in demand or I'd be homeless 
In my part of the world less than half of the job descriptions fit your description and they are underpaid and overcrowded. As of today the highest required jobs here are embedded development (no finger needed as interaction with the end user is minimal if present) and data science.
GCS/GE d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I'm really interested in this. I've become quite fond of WPF over the years, but have very few chances to use it any more because most of my job-oriented work is asp.net now.
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 thank you, good to know  , I will give it a try ...
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Hi,
I faced problem on Arabic text on word template as it get in reversed format like that
محمود عبد الكريم على عبد الوهاب
باهولا دبع ىلع ميركلا دبع دومحم
I'm using SaveAs function from Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
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0) Start with Google.
1) Start paying attention to your surroundings. Look at the top of this page and you will see in bright red letters that this isn't the place for technical queries. So if you want to make people happy, post this in the right place. Happy people give better help than annoyed ones do...
2) Post it here:http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/ask.aspx[^] but think first: Remember that we can't see your screen, access your HDD, or read your mind - we only get what you tell us to work from. So write your question based on that!
3) Explain exactly what you have tried, and where you are stuck. The more accurate you are the better the response.
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Microsoft office gives you support for changing the language by giving options from right to left it will change the display to show the menus and buttons right-to-left and/or change individual files so their contents read from right to left.
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What it rusted away is rubbish (8)
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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What
it rusted ITRUSTED
away (anag)
is rubbish
DETRITUS
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You're just trolling now.
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That's Sergeant Detritus to yous!
Sergeant Detritus: (Night Watch) “You listen up good right now ! You in the watch, boy ! It a job with opportunity ! I only been doin’ it ten minutes and already I get promoted ! Also got education and training for a good job in Civilian Street ! This your club with nail in it. You will eat it. You will sleep on it ! When Detritus say jump, you say… what colour !”
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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YAUT 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I would file this under everyone comes into each task with their own notions of what things mean.
No matter what you write down. the only thing they will see is Copy the VM. Not with networking and environment settings. All they see is copy the VM.
Sorry but this happens so often. People read the first 3 words Subject Verb Direct object and scurry off to complete the task. Assuming they "know" everything else about copying the VM
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I upvoted this just for the stolen server 
Cheers,
Vikram.
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oh you didn't join that meeting...
where people were trying to save the livelihood of hundreds of families. I'm not kidding, it was elephanting serious.
I was sitting in my car on my cell in this conference call. IT had no idea they were supposed to be backing up this stuff. In all fairness, IT really didn't know. We all do our jobs. I just happened to have backed things up the week before.
Then comes that guy. The paranoid "these people have no clue" guy. I cleared my throat and said, "Jim, I have backups from last week." It got really quiet. And the owner of the company said, "you have to be shitting me..."
I'm happy I was there. I know a lot of these people. We do serious work folks...
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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seriously you are correct. Umm, boss, we have no email server
*might* be an argument for a cloud solution but there be holes.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: For the first time in 25 years of consulting, I'm about to fire a customer.
I've never fired a consulting customer, but I did have one I turned down any further work. Their notion of "net 30 days" was "whenever I remember to do paperwork"  . I had to stop work on the guy a couple of times to get paid. It wasn't like the source of the money was a problem (largish university), he just hated dealing with ... paperwork.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: I turned down any further work
Yup that is firing a customer.
Gary R. Wheeler wrote: net 30 days
I laugh and  - the financial stability of a consultant sucks. Changing to a contractor may have taken my autonomy but the regular pay packet was wonderful!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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truth - as a consultant (all of you can chime in) I have found you take care of your network. we call these co-workers and friends who have their balls hanging in the wind with yours.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Try raising your rate first!
With all of switching around, they probably lost the original agreements.
Send them a new agreement to execute.
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yeah, I pointed that out, but I have a plan....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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To follow up my rant, Rick you owe me a beer. I'll buy the next round...
this morning came the team meeting call. I drove home the point - image is image. 1 == 1. The new VM is not equating to that. Explain to me what your definition of image is? Well, we migrated it... (after 3 months of copy the elephanting server ffs).
For what it's worth, I understand why the did what they did but "not appropriate for the lounge".
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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