I am wondering if my situation is the norm or not. I find that many of the developers I work with are only programmers from nine to five. Learning anything new requires a mandate from the company. Is this type of developer the norm out there? ...
For me its accomplishing something by the end of the day. I've been in IT for a few years now and I've noticed that the thing that keeps my morale up is being able to say "I accomplished something" at the end of each day. I've found that accomplishing something is more important that my rate of pay or the tools and technology I use. If...
I am currently being offered a job for an IT development business (notice I already do my freelance job and pays well enough), this job sounds good and it would enable me to keep my current job while doing the other one. The thing is, they want to outsource me without giving me any credit whatsoever for the development but the full payme...
I've been offered the chance to do some short contracts - less than two months as a self employed contractor in the UK. I like the idea of working on a variety of projects but what rates should I charge? What else should I know? Some details (thanks to commenters) I'm located in West London, My experience is mostly in digital libra...
I personaly use : trac - as a wiki + bugtracker , yammer - to communicate with other co-workers, jabber - priv communication google docs - schedule , time organization ...
Hi, I have been building business database applications such as finance, inventory and other business requirement applications. I am planning to shift to Python. What would be the tools to start with best. I would need to do master, transaction forms, processing (back end), reports and that sort of thing. The database would be postgress ...
I started a real work just 2 months ago as a developer and I discovered that working 8 hours a day non stop is impossible. I mean I pass some time reading email, discovering Internet and doing some other stuff along with coding! Is that normal for a developer or developers just code for at least 7 hours a day. please share your experie...
I am in the process of learning about using the TFS SDK to fully control what Team Foundation does programmatically like: Creating new Workitems(is this the same as creating change requests?) Creating new team projects Creating a new Source code branch,etc. I am developing a Windows app that can include all these tasks so it can be ...
In layman's terms, what is a unit of work in regards to database objects? I'm researching how to convert database tables into C# classes and I frequently come across this term, but everyone seems to describe it as if you should already know what it is. ...
Is there such a thing as a 30 hour/week programming job? Well, I know there is, because I'm currently working at one. But it's a dead-end job, and I'm looking to move on. I had a recruiter almost hang up on me today when I told her that I'm looking for part-time work. Until I told her that, she was very interested in my resume; I do, ...
Hi All I need to find some good statistics from reputable sources on the benefits of software developers working in a team. We use Scrum - so anything linked to this in particular would be really beneficial but not essential. I have 5 developers of differing skill levels and I feel that they need to work as a team. However, if my b...
Is it possible to work on Windows Workflow project using Visual Studio express edition? if not is there any work around? ...
I've kind of asked this before but I don't think I asked it properly, so I'm changing it up and hopefully I should get better responses. I'd like to change the nature of my day job, Rails, with something that requires more thinking, something that requires math hopefully. I'd really like for the change to be gradual. That would help my ...
In simple terms: Why use Work Flow? Just for the somewhat graphical interface? Note: I don't plan to use MVC so applications implementing MVC with Work Flows are not what I'm looking for. ...
Hi, I work in a dungeon/cave. It is the basement. The atmosphere is great but I do miss sunlight. What do you do in such an environment? I found some devices that produces artificial sunlight but I think they can cause much problem. Ideas? ...
Hi I've transfered my wordpress site to a new ftp server, but my home link doesn't work properly. When I click on it, it goes to http://123.456.78.8/mydomain.com and I get a page not found message. I've discovered it needs a / at the end to work. Does anyone know a way to fix this before I put it on my live site? Could it be a database ...
Does anyone know utility which can measure work intensity. For example - keystrokes\mouse clicks per second, time spent in IDE\other developer tools, total lines of code per hour...etc. ...
I know this isn't specifically a programming question, but please bear with me. I'm currently a high-school junior. I have no idea what to look for in a college: what degree, what school, etc. I've searched all around the internet but can't really find anything that relevant. I know I need a degree, but I don't know which or what to s...
Hi, I am writing the work flow as, when user checked in any document in his document library , then that checked in document will transfer to another document library. Is any have such workflow already developed ? if yes please forward me code here or on [email protected]. If not : Then can somebody please tell me how can get all ...
Our company was one of the very few companies that did not enforce overtime. As such, all my team members promptly worked 40-48 hours a week and everything was good. We hired a few new developers and one of them has positioned himself to be a team lead. He has started working overtime, sending emails in the middle of the night which ha...