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    Poll: How Has The Recession Effected You As A Developer?

    I put together a poll to find out how the recession has effected developers. Take the survey & view the results here: http://www.schnieds.com/2008/1...fected-developers.html Please only take the poll if you maintain a career as an active software developer. - Aaron...
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    Best Price / Performance / Reliability NAS???

    Thanks for the input so far. I hadn't really thought about an old computer as my server, I will have to put some thought into that. Maybe something from eBay or a super-cheapy black Friday jobby. The big thing is that I really don't want to spend any time administering it, I just want it...
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    Best Price / Performance / Reliability NAS???

    I want to get a NAS for my home network. I would really like to get a 1TB version and not spend more than $300. Is that possible? What do you recommend? Thanks!
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    What's a game you wanna see?

    My vote would be for a massive KOTOR3
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    Lord of the Rings Online Thread (old)

    Question for you Loremasters out there. Do you cast "Sign of Power: Wizardry" before a Flanked! is triggered and then get the morale boost or do you trigger "Sign of Power: Wizardry" when the is Flanked! activated?
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    T-Mobile Coverage on Oahu in Hawaii

    Cool, thanks for the information everyone... wife is going to talk to the neighbors today. Everyone I talked to locally so far has AT&T, which is why I decided to post. :)
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    T-Mobile Coverage on Oahu in Hawaii

    Hey, My wife and I live in the Mililani Mauka area on Oahu and have had AT&T for years. We have had no problems with AT&T and the coverage is great. However, our 2 year contract is up with them so we started looking at what else is out there. We found that we could get an equivalent T-Mobile...
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    Lord of the Rings Online Thread (old)

    I still have buddy keys available also, PM your email address if you want one.
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    Lord of the Rings Online Thread (old)

    Anyone know of a good LM build guide? I am thinking that will be my first alt...
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    What's the difference between a software engineer

    Titles are a strange animal as they seem to mean something different to each organization that uses them. Over the years I have held a variety of titles: -Web Programmer -Software Engineer II -Lead Senior Developer -Senior Systems Analyst The funny thing is that quite honestly the...
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    Lord of the Rings Online Thread (old)

    Just wanted to add my account info to the list: Server: Brandywine Character: Thailimor (currently lvl 37 Guardian) If anyone needs a buddy key, PM me your email address. -Schnieds
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    Lord of the Rings Online Referral Program

    If Sentrosi2121 & KeithTalent run out of keys you can PM your email address also and I can hook you up with a referral. -Schnieds
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    Official ATPF's User Skillset List

    .NET / C# / VB.NET/ ASP.NET / ADO.NET SQL Web Services XML
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    Lord of the Rings Online Thread (old)

    Ok, I am going to start playing soon.... What do you think is the best class / build to play? I am leaning towards a Dwarf Guardian right now because I won't be able to play much and I want to be able to solo a lot.
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    Going to hawaii in mid July

    What do you like to do? Restaurants? Ocean stuff? Hiking? Site seeing? Lots of stuff to do here. Perfect time of the year for small south shore swells if you want to surf... in fact I am going tomorrow morning. :)
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    Book recommendation for C#?

    This is the best book I have: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-ASP-NET-2-0-Bill-Evjen/dp/0764576100 -Schnieds
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    Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

    I use VPC 2007 to do development in all day long at work. Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server, etc. Runs great! You can't play 3D games, but that is the only limitation I know of. One tip though, you need a fast HDD. If you have more than one HDD, put your VPC images on your non-OS drive.
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    Best PDF converter?

    Been using this for years... Free, fast & awesome: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
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    ASP.NET vs PHP: What is the better job market?

    ...I am a .NET guy, so this opinion might be biased... I would go with .NET. If you check out Monster.com, Dice.com, CareerBuilder you will see .NET everywhere now. The really nice thing about it is if you learn ASP.NET thoroughly, you will also be learning ADO.NET and a server side language...
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    Two Worlds MMORPG & Single Player

    Does anyone know if the XBox360 world will integrate with the PC world in Two Worlds?
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    Learning the "essential" web2.0 coding languages?

    This is excellent advice. When you get the basics down, I highly recommend you check out ASP.NET for your server scripting technology. You can download the IDE free here: http://www.asp.net/downloads/essential.aspx?tabid=62 And then get tons of great free training here...
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    Help Visual Studio .NET 2003 to 2005

    Couple of very important things that you need to take into account: Visual Studio 2003 works wth the .NET Framework v1.1 Visual Studio 2005 works with the .NET Framework v2.0 This means that if you do perform the upgrade and get it compiling correctly, you will be tied to the 2.0...
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    Anyone playing Neverwinter Nights 2?

    Hmmm... that sucks. Back in the day I used to have the latest & greatest GPU in addition to cutting edge hardware. Now I don't have time to game much, so I keep my other hardware pretty nice for development purposes, but I haven't put any money into a GPU in years (I got the 6600 GT free from...
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    Anyone playing Neverwinter Nights 2?

    Thanks for the excellent info everyone, especially Schadenfroh - your post was very detailed and helpful. I found it on Amazon used for $20 w/ shipping so I think I will pick it up and give it a try. I loved KOTOR and although I know NWN2 won't measure up to that game, I am still looking...
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    Anyone playing Neverwinter Nights 2?

    Hey, I haven't played a game in many months and want a good RPG to play. I read some mixed reviews about Neverwinter Nights 2. Most of what I read said that the game itself was great, but bugs made it not so great. Has anyone here played it or is playing it? Have they released patches to...
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    Programming on Visata

    I am pretty sure that they have been free for commercial use from the start. They are a stripped down version of the real deal that MS started giving away over a year ago. There is a big push right now to get more people developing in .NET, which is why MS is offering free for commercial use...
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    Office 2007 = not nice

    Maybe re-install Office 2K7? I have Vista Ultimate & Office 2K7 Pro and no problems at all, in fact I really like Office 2K7...
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    Tear my site apart....

    - Add some style to your text to make it stand out. For example, bold, different sizes, maybe Verdana. - Get a pic with a nice Aloha shirt and not your white T. NO SUIT... you don't live on the mainland. ;) - Replace the java buttons with some CSS buttons. - Add a bigger margin between the...
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    Search code for website

    If you are using ASP.NET, I highly recommend UltimateSearch from Karamasoft. http://www.karamasoft.com/UltimateSearch/Overview.aspx It actually indexes the rendered HTML from your pages, so it will index information that is being pulled from a DB backend no problem. It is also extremely...
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    Microsoft .NET framework 3.0

    Don't think of 3.0 as an upgrade to the existing framework, it isn't. The term "3.0" is just a bad decision by someone in MS product marketing. It is just an extra set of libraries that provide additional capabilities to the .NET Framework, but it does not change the existing .NET 2.0 Framework...
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    Post the best Simpsons quotes

    Best one so far...
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    Disney's Blizzard Beach any good?

    Wish I could, I only have one day to play though. ;)
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    Disney's Blizzard Beach any good?

    I am going to Orlando on a Business trip in about two weeks. I will have Sat the 24th to have some fun and I am thinking about hitting Blizzard Beach. It looks pretty cool and I saw a pretty cool deal on the Travel Channel about it a few years ago. This is my first trip to Orlando and I just...
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    Why is it that after a workout I feel so tired?

    How often do you work out? If you are lifting heavily are you supplementing with protein?
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    I need to move dedicated Windows servers and they are going to swap the primary hard drive...

    All of my website and users data is on the C: drive, along with the Windows 2K3 installation. It is setup this way because Plesk control panel is installed and uses the c:\inetpub\vhosts directory. So the engineers proposal is to move the c: drive, including the Windows 2K3 installation, to...
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    Any Google Analytics users in the house?

    I agree that this would probably be the cleanest way to do it.
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    What are Microsoft's plans for .NET Studio Vista support?

    Yeah, it works great. I have the beta version of SP1 installed. I get a message that I have to run VS 2005 as Administrator and if I don't do that I can't set breakpoints and debug code. Other than that I haven't found a single issue.
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    I need to move dedicated Windows servers and they are going to swap the primary hard drive...

    Hey, I am a software developer by trade and have some background in server stuff, but am no expert in it. I have a dedicated Windows 2K3 server through a fully managed hosting company. They have always been top notch with their service and support and my server is very stable. I host my...
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    Free PDF printer