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Agree with you.. what you said is true.. you never know there's always a 4th universe element who can spam 
Ranjan.D
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That's all we need - Spectral Spam...the Ghost in the Machine! 
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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I'm willing, but my terms are as follows:
1 - I will not do any of the work for you
2 - You are required to demonstrate that you have searched for an answer yourself up front - I am not going to ask you "did you google ...", rather, you and your group are going to have to show me what you have googled in your quest to understand and learn.
3 - After passing #2, I will most likely only answer questions generally so that you can learn how to learn.
My first question is, why don't you guys get together with other students who have already taken the class and can mentor you?
Marc
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I was wondering the other day if you are a CP Mentor. As you don't have a Mentor icon in your profile I guess officially not?
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Matthew Faithfull wrote: I was wondering the other day if you are a CP Mentor. As you don't have a Mentor icon in your profile I guess officially not?
I certainly wasn't on the list - I applied.
Marc
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Great, I'm sure you'll be in great demand, not too many of us who actually enjoy mentoring. By happy non coincidence my AOP toolkit should be joining the mentoring queue sometime in the next 10 days. 
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Matthew Faithfull wrote: By happy non coincidence my AOP toolkit should be joining the mentoring queue sometime in the next 10 days.
Nice - I've always been interested in AOP. Looking forward to it.
Marc
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Dear Marc
I noted that you are willing to mentor, so; I would like to be part of your group; there is so much that I want to learn properly.
About Me:
1. I work on my own – not employed, looked and decided to do things on my own. So, challenging with no formal certificate to be employed. I did a leadership and I believe that I know I lot to do most things – properly.
2. I read a lot; I now want to move to LightSwitch, JQuery, WPF and Unit Test. That’s where I will need more help. I have downloaded books from the link you submitted, and also downloaded your book on Unit Testing.
3. I have been working on myself for years and also doing some contracts (freelancing), now I noted that I am behind, that’s the pain of working on your own. I have been doing repeated things, same way without going with the current changes.
4. I have three clients, but I won’t ask you to do my work. I am want to mentoring in the above mentioned, I believe you the one who wrote – Social Site article? Using the above, then I realize that I really need to move with the current trends.
I think I have explained enough, I will be starting with LightSwitch and UnitTest midweek (None of my current system are UnitTest). I will be nice to start doing things the right way. Hope to contact you when I get stuck - after doing my reseach.
How will I contact you? Email? I live in South Africa.
Thanking you in advance.
I remain joe!
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Quote: I need a mentor
Best of luck trying to find a mentor (nobody has the time), but here is some free advice:
1) Your best place to start if you need entire articles on specific problems, is right here on Code Project. Browse or search through the articles to see if there is anything covering whatever you are working on.
2) If you have questions on some smaller part of an application, like the proper syntax for a specific statement, try the website of Stackoverflow.com. There you can find thousand of postings. That website I have very often found very useful.
3) There is always Microsoft, but a beginner may find their articles too high level in the beginning.
4) You can find almost anything on the web these days for a very attractive price: Nothing. It's free.
5) Budget to buy several tons of Starbucks, or your favorite brand of coffee. (Not decaf - that's an ineffective waste of money.) Be prepared for some long, lonely nights with only your computer for company. That's just a coder's way of life, especially in the beginning. Mistress Internet does not mind spending all-nighters with you and her services are free. All coders know this. Do not expect any hand-holding in this work.
6) If you stick to it and make the necessary sacrifices you will find the end result to be worthwhile.
Good Luck!
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(perhaps unsurprisingly)
welcome to the forum and what an excellent question! Dont listen to the moaners here because you're in luck, Chrisan Grauss is your man. Hes very experienced in helping beginners and loves nothing more than to mentor chaps like yourself.
Drop him a message - i know you'll find him excellent to work with.
Bryce
MCAD
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Okay, that's borderline cruel! 
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I'm seriously going to create accounts just so that I can up-vote you more than once.
seriously funny.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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It appears that the Calibre Portable[^] installer limits the installation path to 59 characters. WTF? The launcher is the same way, but with no error messages, just no application.
I vote this application a 0 for this absolutely inane decision.
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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Reminds me of my encounter with SQL Server and trying to get it installed on a compressed drive. It doesn't like that at all, but it doesn't give you a straightforward message to let you know that's the problem. I don't remember exactly, but I think it just fails at some point during the install.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: WTF?
Is it possible that one of the readers supported only allows that?
It also says it is open source so presumably you could fix it if you wanted.
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The normal installer does not limit the path. 
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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I skimmed through the 9 page paper on congestion control. Now I have aplitting headache an only you to blame for bringing this up in the first place.
/ravi
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Mission accomplished
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Did you bbq with MikeH?
/ravi
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Nope. Waffle House and A/C gave me the runs. I was firmly planted on the throne all last night. I'll still be here next weekend if he's available then.
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Ugh. Hope you feel better, man. When are you back in T.O.?
/ravi
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Not sure. Intergraph has an office in Mississauga so I expect I'll be popping by sometime but I honestly can't say when Ravi.
However, I'll be sure to trumpet the fact of my arrival weeks in advance. We'll talk to Chris about having a party at work and letting the hamsters out of their cages. I'll bring the Pizzas
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Excellent!
(I thought you were located in Canada, but I guess not.)
/ravi
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I am in Canada, well currently visiting HQ in Alabama but I live and work in Calgary; My territory is literally anything west of Toronto. I have returned to my home in Alberta, but have rather transplanted myself to Calgary rather than Edmonton.
I have not yet been to the Ontario office, but when I do, I'll be sure to look up everyone there.
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