Developers Anonymous

What an event! Iwas lucky enough to attend the show and I can trueky say it was amazing! I think the only part that didn't appeal to me was the Biztalk Server segment.

It obviously had its funny points when the SQL kept "crashing" until the poor fellow finally realised that the SQL service had been stopped ;)

The best presenation for me was the VS2005 / SQL 2005 / WebServices demo. I have forgotten the guy's name (because I came back to work and stayed through the night), he's from America and in short he was just awesome. The entertainment was awesome, Ed Jordan presented and sang (what a pity), we had two sessions with a comedian and BEST of all, PRIME CIRCLE LIVE!

Thank you Microsoft for bringing PRIME CIRCLE live, and for the software, but especially Prime Circle.

Check http://www.sadeveloper.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=64839 for a live pic snapped by StevenMcD

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Deployment Days are probably the most important in the life of a developer. Everything has been running brilliantly until one very intelligent person decides to alter an output file to make it more "user Friendly".

"HEELLLOOO IDIOT!! NO PERSON READS IT!!!!!!" Now SQL procedures are messed and people look at the developers as if we didn't do our job!

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Someone asked me for my opinion one which I'd use, VS2003 with SQL 2000 or VS2005 with SQL Express. The only thing I could think of in my reply was the time constraint! Everything in me would be leaping toward VS2005 with SQL Express BUT the timeframe could be a problem if he has a timeframe. Not sure if he does. The only thing that would stop me from choosing VS2005 is a time constraint due to the fact that certain small syntax changes might be a pain.

Am I right in this train of thought? How many of you guys are lucky enough to be developing in VS2005 full time already?

Man o' MAN! This topic title is not to be taken 100% serious. Its figurative, before someone nails me from above!!!

I'm busy with project very quickly nearly its completion date. Like a good little developer, I'm about 1 day ahead of schedule. Another app of ours needed to be fixed ASAP and who gets it? The guy who knows nothing about this app. Not only does this app make use of Oracle (Which I've used before yesterday) but I understand nothing of the Business logic!

I told my manager, "Thanks for the trust and confidence but its dangerous because I'm not sure A) Whats actually wrong and B) Whats going on in the code"! To cut a very long story short I managed fix a problem but not the other 4! No worries though, the responsible kiddie came back to fix it up the following day (this morning).

Point is, does everyone else also have this? Are you working on a project minding your own business then suddenly, WHAM! You stuck with someone else's problem that they can't come fix because they are "too sick to work"?

Many people have different ideas on this one, to me, tuesdays are the worst. Excpet for this week!

Yesterday I got NO work done and just felkt completely drained then when I could go home home, all the traffic lights were out along marlboro and to top it someone had a tiny accident NEXT TO the highway but it seems every1 and their brother wanted to check it out!

Took me 40min to do 10km!!!!!

I like this tuesday!!! :)

Why is it in IT world we are always lookin to move on? I have setup an interview for later this week, it is a C# position which I've been trying to get for several months now. Yet I feel quiet guilty.

Guilty because a company gave me a chance to work for them. I needed a job and was hired as a VB.Net developer. This just isn't my passion but I couldn;t turn it down since I really needed to money and didn't have a job. Now I'm settled in the company and I'm handling a rather big project. Now after 4months I'm saying, "Its been fun, bye!"

But I'm still young and need to get into C# because that is where my true passion lies! Isn't life just plain nasty?!