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  • RE: Would You Do Your Hobby for a Living

    Tom Stafford-438908 (5/28/2010)


    Most people would be surprised how doing your hobby as a living is not as much fun as you think it would be. Playing guitar, having to...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Would You Do Your Hobby for a Living

    Ben Wilson-179630 (5/27/2010)


    i would quite happily give away databases to scuba dive full time, as long as i could earn the same money! i have enough other hobbies that i...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Where a Rose is not a rose…

    RobertYoung (5/24/2010)Since ASCII (BCD/EBCDIC is another kettle of fish) is cased, they would have to write routines to un-case the encoding wherever. It's so much easier to let it...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Where a Rose is not a rose…

    djackson 22568 (5/21/2010)[hr

    I once worked with a guy who, coding in C/C++, was unable to write an IF statement and get it to work. The reason is that (assuming...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Where a Rose is not a rose…

    Charles Kincaid (5/21/2010)


    Phil, as for shouting the code across the crowed room you put me in mind of the late Victor Borge. The "Phonetic Punctuation" would come in...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Where a Rose is not a rose…

    Seen it? I drink several cups a day! 😉

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Where a Rose is not a rose…

    Your comment about how to convey the curly braces, square brackets, etc., verbally made me stop and think . . . suppose you had been dealing, via video conference, with...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Contracting: REFUND FOR REWORK?

    When I do independent/subcontract work, I have a very simple, 2-page contract that covers both my and my client's . . . uh . . . ASSets. This contract...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Company Rewards

    kennydevries (4/16/2010)


    RalphWilson (4/16/2010)


    ...Needless to say, one of the ngs I do NOT want to hear offered is a "Team T-shirt". 😉

    However, after reviewing some of the other responses, I'm torn...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Company Rewards

    Take your choice on how to phrase it, "in the good old days" or "back in the day" but, when HP first started out and was a small, single factory...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Company Rewards

    One place I worked, my team (there were 3 of us) worked 69-80 hour weeks for about 9 months so that we could get a project out the door. ...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Company Rewards

    Like one of the other respondents, I, too, tend to extend the life of my home computers beyond the normal write-off period for companies. On the other hand, most...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Don’t Change Anything

    Greg Edwards-268690 (4/9/2010)


    GabyYYZ (4/9/2010)


    Greg Edwards-268690 (4/7/2010)


    When you change the data type, you can lose quite a bit. Dates have special functions and edits, and this is probably even more important...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Don’t Change Anything

    Matt Miller (#4) (4/8/2010)


    RalphWilson (4/8/2010)


    nelsonj-902869 (4/7/2010)


    Take the time (and bite the bullet) to write a preprocessing module to edit the batch coming into your database and edit the darn field....

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

  • RE: Don’t Change Anything

    nelsonj-902869 (4/7/2010)


    Take the time (and bite the bullet) to write a preprocessing module to edit the batch coming into your database and edit the darn field. Any record not...

    Ralph D. Wilson II
    Development DBA

    "Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the ax."
    A. Lincoln

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