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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?

Edit: Didn't see online part

I had the KB/mouse thing for the XBox. I thought it sucked and went back to the controller.

I picked up Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide by Dave Thomas when I picked up Agile Web Development with Rails. I've been going through that to learn about Ruby before diving more into RoR. I think you can find the 1st revision on the book for free on the web.

You misunderstood. In general, yes SQL is a huge waste of time. Especially when we work in the OO world. Who wants to have to do boring crap like transform my object to the peristence world? I just want it persisted! (<3 for ORMs) Only when is it absolutely necessary should you have to dive...

Care to elaborate what part of the software industry starts a BS at 60K and the location of the job (ie you aren't living in CA)?

http://www.dofactory.com/ for some examples but the Gang of Four book may be better.

Just gotta crank the volume up louder ;) What games you get? I just picked up the new Tom Clancy the other weekend. Kicks ass!

I graduated a 1.5yrs ago with a BS in CS from a state University. I got a job making 53K in Phoenix (since location plays a role in salary) a couple months after looking. Only experience I had was a large 2 semester project. No real-world experience. Had 3.6GPA so nothing spectacular. The...

Why the hell would you want to waste time writing something to translate your object model to SQL? Once you are past the learning curve of an ORM, it should increase your development time because you don't have to waste time writing stupid SQL. Plus, IMO it makes your code much clearer...

It was turned off in IE. I think our IT department turns it off with their OS builds.

Developing a web application. A page has textbox. It would be nice if it remembered previous inputs. Does IE do this (remember and then display them to you) by default or do you have to do something special for the page? Thanks

4 * 3 ^ 4 ;)

None. We do XP at my work place so I'm pairing with someone most of the time. And when I'm not pairing I still don't listen to music. It allows me to listen in on other conversations and if I overhear something I can contribute on or clarify, I do.

What are the students doing exactly? Do they have 1 class with a main method and a bunch of static methods? What type of programs are you having to do in your class? Are they that big? Maybe the programs aren't big enough to demonstrate the benefits of multiple classes. A huge benefit is...

Is this just for simple learning? You could look into using RMI (remote method invokation).

I think I understand what you want jTextField2.setText(stones.ToString()); // Following could throw exception if jTextField2 doesn't contain a real number e.g. "blah" int stones = Integer.parseInt(jTextField2.getText());

Of course nothing stops that but his solution mentioned restarting the IIS server which is a poor solution.

I've been in the job market for 10 months now post-graduation so I can recall what I went through. Knowing a special language isn't that important e.g. if you know Java and are applying for a job that uses C# you shouldn't be worried. You should already have good/strong OO skills so applying...

If the lists aren't that big I don't think using the singleton pattern is going to buy you much in terms of performance. Hitting the db for small lists won't be an issue. Oh, and having to restart the IIS server when you change the items in the list would be a giant HACK.

Uh, constructor chaining (that's the term for it) isn't bad. It is good because it removes code duplication - even if it is as trivial as instance variable initialization.

Why are you using triggers? It sounds like business logic that should be placed in its appropriate layer. Or is this all you can do because you're working with a steaming pile of shit.

You can't reference instance variables in the super call like that. So this is all you need for you GradStudent constructor that takes no parameters unless you want other default follows other than null and 0. public GradStudent() {} Plus GradStudent doesn't need the following because...

Uh, methods shouldn't be 300+ lines of code. My company uses _ and I use _ for my projects.

Could whip that up quickly in Rails. . .

You don't understand MVC. The listener (observer) isn't wasting any clock cycles. It doesn't do anything until told to do so by who it's observing (the observable) ie event driven. With the model and view you are using the observer pattern...