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 I have a 36-year old son!
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill
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Awesome keep it up.
James Binary Warrior.
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Sitting at a desk almost 9 hrs a day. Does take a toll on the health. Why doesn't this site have articles for developers who want to stay fit while spending quality time at working?
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I have a sit/stand desk. I tend to stand most of the day now, the only time I sit is when I've gone for a run before starting work.
I can highly recommend standing up to work, I get less aches than when I used to sit all day. My ankles/feet hurt a bit for the first 3 days of standing, but that just went away.
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Is typing at the keyboard easy when standing? I mean just to protect the back it is recommended to have supports for the hands while typing. How did you maintain your typing speed?
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I have an electric height adjustable desk, so I can adjust it to suit what I'm doing. I've always had my keyboard 6 inches or so from the edge of the desk and used that but of desk as a rest.
The whole desktop moves up/down with the press of a button, I have my screens on a dual arm mount. So, the whole "workspace" moves to the height I want it at.
I could never stick with holding my posture correctly while sat down. I also hated the arm supports. But standing really works for me as I shift my weight from foot to foot, and fidget all day without straining my back.
I've also got a wireless headset for skype chats, so I can pace around while talking to people. Another side effect of that is that I stand back from my desk when on calls, so am less likely to fire up a browser or look at some other window!
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I want some of my colleagues to stop fearing the technology they rely on for their livelihoods. Next year I don't want to hear such things as:
"Interfaces are too hard because I can't find the implementation"
"Remote paging and sorting is inefficient because if you query a database 1x a second you'll bring the server down, load everything into memory, even if it is millions of rows"
"what use is WCF, it's too complicated. I just want a webservice"
"I prefix all my classes, interfaces and enums with 'X' so I now they're mine"
"I'm allergic to fancy CASE tools so I'll do the UML you want on paper and you can use Visio or whatever"
We've got a massive round of promotions/restructuring coming up and if one of these people the quotes emanate from gets a higher position than me I'm going somewhere else.
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You missed one quote. "But that is the way we have always done it." I hate that one and hear it way to much. Hope you don't get passed over for a promotion for one of those people. I just got done at a place that sounds a lot like where you work now. Where I used to work the people are stuck back in the early 80's. Most of them haven't even heard of web services.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, you know how I'm feeling at the moment.
the irony is that many of them haven't always done it this way. they're Delphi developers who have only made the switch to .net in the last two or three years. I've used .net since the first beta release some 12 or so years ago, yet apparently they know better. that's the reason why we have stuff like homebrewed SOAP service implementations, ADO.net DataSets reimplemented from scratch, roll-your-own GridView paging in 200+ lines of code copy pasted everywhere and Html that still employs font tags and height and width attributes instead of using CSS.
should I get one of the architectural positions up for grabs not only will our design process require formalised UML designs before a single line of code is written, there will be a requirement for genuine unit testing and I'll also be tasked with doing code reviews and rubbish like I've encountered won't even make it into testing. I'm not in my job to be everyone's friend, I'm in it to produce the highest quality I possibly can.
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I would start looking for a new job outside that company. You probably wouldn't be able to make a big difference in the architectural position. That is unless the developers report directly to you. If they do I would say yes grab it and try to change things. If that isn't the case it will be a lot harder battle to win. Either way it will be a hard battle to fight.
If it was me I would just move on and try to find another job out there working for a company that fits how you develop. Found that is usually the best thing to do rather than change how every one else works. A lot less headaches and usually you end up happier in the end. You should be able to find out if the company is a right fit for you in the job interview. Just ask a lot of questions in the interview and it should tell you if the job is right for you.
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Just in case anyone is complaining about missing options, www.clistctrl.com [^] is here to help you.
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And a Happy New Bacon to us all!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Since I'm vegetarian, is there a valid replacement for Bacon?
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Bacon is a vegetarian meat 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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OK, I'll give it a try 
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But bacon is a vegetable[^]
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Maybe... Tofu?[^]
Regards.
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Wow, this looks incredible!
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What ever we get, we keep on demanding more. Somehow i felt i want to tick most of the options listed. May this Christmas bring joy and happiness to everyone who deserves it.
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Not everything you wish comes true 
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Well we picked most of the same things. I was voter 2..
John
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hope everything you pick come true same for me  
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Thanks Mohamed and wish you the same
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