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As I did a Johnny Paycheck* last week, I'm going back to contracting. Anyone in the UK recommend or otherwise particular agencies for C++ (primarily VC++) contract work?
Good or bad experiences welcome...
Steve S
*For those unfamiliar with the gentleman in question, he had a hit in the country charts with "Take This Job And Shove It" .... I'm even-tempered, most of the time, but there are times to draw a line firmly in the sand, and deck the first b*****d to cross it, albeit metaphorically...
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Whereabouts in the UK are you wanting to work?
Most of the agencies I know about are for C++ in a gaming capacity.
Such as www.opmjobs.com
Swaying to the Rhythm of the New World Order.
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Ideally the Midlands, for the time being. Doesn't help though, as I don't do games; never have, and almost certainly never will. Being colour-blind doesn't help, nor does getting motion sickness watching someone else play Quake III 
Steve S
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I'm at Lincoln University at the moment doing Games Computing ... lots of fun.
Swaying to the Rhythm of the New World Order.
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I've been wondering how to find contracting work in the UK as well, but as an American with limited experience working in the EU I'm sure that you've had an easier time finding work than I could provide. (Have you considered Luxembourg?)
I have managed to get on the list for a company called New Wave Resourcing. The do C# placement, but a lot of positions require C++ as well. Let me know if you'd like more information. And let me know if you find a company in the UK that is keen enough for MFC experts that they're willing have them imported from across the pond.
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 I have a table,it includes three columns :
studentID, name, score. There are a few records in the tale. The data in the table will be transferred across network. Now I want to write a class to packs these data into a packet in the client end,and unpack the packet in the server end.How to do it?
Thank you!
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This is a wrong forum. Try in another forms which related to your using language.
Mazy
"Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high risk activity." - Edward Hoagland
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liu123jian123 wrote:
How to do it?
First follow what Mazy said.. then u will get the answer 
He who controls others may be powerful,
But he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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What would be the appropriate length of a software engineer resume for a person with less than 5 years experience. I've heard from one source that 1 would be appropriate. Another source said that you can write more than one page because I would be better off putting all my skills and experience into two pages rather than condensing my skills and duties from my previous jobs. Anyone have an opinion?
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I would say 2 pages would be a minimum, but try not to make it strech to over 3.
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I've been working in IT for years, back when it was DP, in fact, and I skip detail in the earlier stuff (who needs to know exactly what I did 20 years ago?) so that mine fits in 3 pages, but a potential employer can work out if I'm the right kind of guy from the first page.
On the other hand, it might explain why I can't seem to get any interviews right now!
Steve S
Spencer for hire: All reasonable offers considered.
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1 page is best, 2 is acceptable. 3 is probably too much.
Remember, even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
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2 Pages
I've known companies to bin anything over 2 pages when many applicants apply.
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I have 7 years of programming experience and I make sure my resume is only 1 page. People don't want to slog through a long list of information. They want a crisp clean efficient way of getting the information. If the resume is longer than 1 page, the details will get lost and you'll have fewer hits on your resume.
*shrug* that's my two cents anyhow
Good luck
J
MCSD C#.Net
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<HelpMePleaseFor$>
The author of this letter do not know which forums to put it in to get best response from please help the author by coping his request
to any forum or group that you know it's better and faster to reply
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Hello
I'm Yaser zia sistani
And Iranian c# Developer
I want an app and anybody who help me in finding it or/and buying it
or who give me some c# source code to develop it will payed
according to the price that he wants.
Program that i want :
c# app with source code that let a user in an intranet
manipulates its data in a sqlserver database
which means:
1-create and manipulate sql server tables,views,stored procedure
preferably by a good sql designer gui
2-create web forms dynamically from web by
selecting the tables,views, stored procedures
from a sql server database and let user save the form
in sqldb or xml file
3-create web reports with save capability and good
report generator or designer
easy to use and powerfull gui are beter for our personel
4-security is needed in all above needs
I want a full package to buy ,please send me the price and brochour
If you have some libraries that helps me approching this goal
I can buy them from you with good price
Please help me Really I will pay for it.
But Please hurry up
Yaser Zia Sistani From Iran
A C# Developer
yzsfsg@yahoo.com
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the company i was just hired to had contracted another company to code them an ecommerce site from scratch. it is in an asp.net system running on sql server 2000. the initial estimate was in the 20k range, for web design, sql and os licenses , database design and coding of the asp.net components. The site as-is is not exactly what my company needed, the database design is very poor, and the program they generated for inventory is rudimentary. In short, i need to get in and make the necessary changes currently, and also have the source so our company can continue to innovate and market itself online.
When i came on board i emailed the company that made the site because i couldnt find the sourcecode files. The responded that it was proprietary code of their business, and that i could not have access to them. I have called them twice with our lawyer to try and negotiate the release of the code developed from scratch, for us. Our lawyer is not versed in the code/internet law, so i am hoping some of the developers here can lend some insights.
One of the main arguments on their end is that releasing the code would be a security risk. even we employed them to develope the code for us from scratch, they have resold it to three other companies. they claim that us having the code would be a security risk because our it staff (read:me) would be able to find holes and crack into other businesses systems. our response is we would sign a NDA saying that the code will only be used for our site and business, and at no time will i release it or resell it to anyone else, or for personal use. this ties into their next argument, which is:
Releasing the code to us "for free" is unfair because they have supposedly spent "$70,000" developing it. basically trying to get us to purcahse the code we already paid them to write. We would only hold the rights to use this in house, so purchasing it for any price seems unfair on our end. I personally thought the original price of 20k was excessive, and that was before i knew we didnt have the code to make changes.
They currently use our site to advertise their services on their own website, and use it as an example of the product they sell, which is what they developed on our bill. So right now all our lawyer can think of is pulling our info from their site, as we never agreed to let them use us to advertise, nor did they ask.
I am looking for feedback on the following:
a) this deal is not indicative of typical asp.net contract work
b) we have legal recourse in the matter
c) technical workarounds for having a asp.net site compiled into a dll
Thanks ahead of time for the community's expertise, I personally have never been involved with a legal matter like this.
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JVillan wrote:
...contracted another company to code them an ecommerce site from scratch
*disclaimer* I am not a lawyer, and I am not advising you in any legal capacity *end disclaimer*
Therein lies the problem. Your company is at the mercy of whatever the terms of the original contract were with the contractor. Did your company's management read the contract? Are the terms of performance and customer satisfaction spelled out? Did your company sign off on any kind of acceptance of the work completed by the contractor? Find the contract. If your company has an attorney, he or she ought to be able to analyze a contract, even if they are not familiar with IS contracting.
This is not necessarily indicative of typical contract work... but it can happen. What's that old cliche? "Caveat Emptor" -- "Buyer Beware".
An ASP.NET site compiled into a DLL can be reverse-engineered, but if the contractor was that savvy about protecting its intellectual property, the DLL is obfuscated so that that won't work very well -- not to mention that their license and/or contact agreement might very spell out that reverse-engineering is a breach of contract, which in turn could subject you to legal and financial risk.
Sounds like you might want to start a new project...
What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable . . . and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.
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John Kuhn wrote:
An ASP.NET site compiled into a DLL can be reverse-engineered, but if the contractor was that savvy about protecting its intellectual property, the DLL is obfuscated so that that won't work very well
How???
John Kuhn wrote:
Sounds like you might want to start a new project...
With a 'better' contract signed... if 'JVillan' still wants to outsource  ;P
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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S P S wrote:
How???
Sorry -- how to reverse engineer a DLL or how to obfuscate code?
I'm not an expert on reverse engineering software, but it is my somewhat basic understanding that since .NET code is compiled first to IL code and then JIT'ed to run, you can take the IL code and dis-assemble/de-compile it back to code that is pretty darn close to what the original author wrote.
I'm not an expert on obfuscating code, either, but there are some components out there, like the "dotfuscator" (i think that's what it's called...) that protect against reverse engineering -- at least to those who aren't that likely to really dedicate themselves to cracking your code.
What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable . . . and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? -- Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.
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Thanks
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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a) I can only speak for the company I work for - we give the client the the code, if they ask. Usually they don't, and we just keep it indefinitely in SourceSafe.
c) Technically, their comment about security is a bad sign. Security is not about hiding the code, it is about writing secure code. If their comment is true, it means they *may* have left themselves a backdoor, and have the ability to take your site down on a whim, or borrow whatever info they wanted.
Finally, as others have said, it is easy to decompile a .NET dll.
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Releasing the code to us "for free" is unfair because they have supposedly spent "$70,000" developing it. basically trying to get us to purcahse the code we already paid them to write. We would only hold the rights to use this in house, so purchasing it for any price seems unfair on our end. I personally thought the original price of 20k was excessive, and that was before i knew we didnt have the code to make changes.
They currently use our site to advertise their services on their own website, and use it as an example of the product they sell, which is what they developed on our bill. So right now all our lawyer can think of is pulling our info from their site, as we never agreed to let them use us to advertise, nor did they ask.
I am looking for feedback on the following:
a) this deal is not indicative of typical asp.net contract work
b) we have legal recourse in the matter
c) technical workarounds for having a asp.net site compiled into a dll
Thanks ahead of time for the community's expertise, I personally have never been involved with a legal matter like this.
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Hey people,
I was one of the lucky (read extremely lucky) few had a job offer before graduation. I've been working with ASP .NET for about 10 months now and would like to know if an MCAD/MCSD is worth it, both professionally and financially.
Ideas?? Suggestions??
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It's gotten me into a few interviews that I might not have gotten into otherwise. Not sure it's worth the time and expense though.
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