Recent content by Stupendous

What is your current development process? You do any unit testing? Continuous integration? Maybe your job isn't a good place to work. My group practices XP so when I joined the paired programming was great for learning a lot very quickly.

I would take the freshmen CS weed out class and see how you do. If all goes well I would switch your major to CS.

I'm in Phoenix with a bachelors. I had 3 years of .NET experience from school. No real world experience. Only job I ever had was doing IT stuff with minor programming. My base pay, bonuses (profit sharing and performance with respect to peers). 2005: $53K, $2K 2006: $58K, $5K 2007: $73K...

Have you tried building the computer outside your case? I recently built a system with the same motherboard. I had weird reboot issues and RAID issues. I built it outside the case and everything worked fine. I put it back in the case and everything was fine. I must not have had the...

Figured it out. Apparently when I tried re-seating the motherboard I put it right back where it was. I just put the computer together outside the case. The reboot problem is gone and I just successfully installed Windows XP in RAID 1 with no problems. I guess the short by having the...

Forgot to mention I tried that and it worked. But I still had the problem where it shuts off when it should reboot. Also, I was able to successfully get Windows installed in RAID 1 on my first Windows install attempt. I even rebooted and successfully installed all drivers and some programs...

EDIT: Figured it out. See last post. Whenever I try to restart the system it shuts off instead. I can try to restart it by exiting the BIOS, the reset button on the case, or through Windows (end of install or from Start menu) but the computer shuts off instead. I've also had it tell...

My PS just went and took out my Asus P5WD2 motherboard where I had RAID 1 setup. From what I've read moving RAID arrays is dependent on the southbridge. The southbridge on the motherboard is ICH7R with Intel Matrix Technology. If I replace the motherboard with one with the ICH7R southbridge...

Cheap is key. I'm sure a lot of people say oh it's only $1 so I'll buy it. Get hundreds of thousands of people to do that and the money adds up quick for you. I'm not sure I would quit a job after having a one hit wonder like that because that much money is not a lot to retire on. Plus...

Any wireless bridge should work. I use a Linksys WRT54G flashed with DD-WRT. Flashing with DD-WRT is simple. And configuring it as a wireless bridge was easy, too. I picked up the router off craigslist for $30. If craigslist is big where you live I would look there for the router.

NHibernate is an ORM and that is a completely different topic. To use it would require a big change on how you persist things and the rest of your project as well. You would not use it for just creating your database schema. I've never worked on a project that has not used an ORM so I'm not...

Here is how we do things for database tests: -Manually create the test database since this only has to be done once per environment (once for local development, once for the unit test database used by our continuous integration builds) -Before the test run create the schema if the unit test...

December 2005 - April 2006: 360 #1. Turned it on one day and got the RROD. April 2006 - October 2007: 360 #2. It would work and then freeze. I could restart and it would be fine or give me the RROD. It took 2.5 weeks until it permanently gave me the RROD and then I called it in...

I'll comment the why's on little things I'll have a hard time remembering. We don't comment every class and method in our system. It's rather wasteful to spend time documenting a class when later on we'll refactor it. If I have a question I'll just refer to our unit tests. Over two years...

Anyone interested in getting together occasionally for some 360 LANnage? Gears of War, whatever?