wooUK

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by wooUK 11y ago
I was also in a similar position as you as a valued lead dev with 15 years of experience working in a company that didn’t want to embrace newer technologies (stuck on WebForms, not moving to MVC, etc). I was not interested in progressing i
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by wooUK 11y ago
I've just rolled out a service using TopShelf having not used it previously. It really does simplify things. The best bit for me is being able to just hit F5 and having the thing run as a console application. No need to manually attac
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by wooUK 13y ago
I'm a developer who has worked in law firms for over 10 years. There is an interesting overlapping career for legal/IT literate people - the Business Analyst. A good Business Analyst can analyze legal processes and recommend suitable IT so
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by wooUK 14y ago
I've used .NET from the start and since 3.5/4.0 its just ramped up. Feels like every day there is a new acronym to master! ASP.NET MVC 4.0 projects now include knockout.js by default. So that may be around for a while if only to support .NE
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by wooUK 14y ago
My experience reflects yours. However of late I have had to crack open the source code for ASP.NET MVC & the Azure SDK. Not so much to correct a bug but to ensure functions that I am overriding follow a similar design pattern to the ori
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by wooUK 15y ago
I've been told that the newsagent next to the US embassy will keep your mobile in a safe for £10.
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by wooUK 15y ago
Ergo BBC reporters must use IE.
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by wooUK 15y ago
I've spent the past 10 years working in global corporate law firms as a software developer and have witnessed this change first hand. The legal profession is based around chargeable hours. This is not a good deal for the consumer of legal s
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by wooUK 15y ago
I think spending some time in a big company after graduation is very worth while. Preferably not a software company. At least you'll learn the culture, the way they work, their problems. With this knowledge under your belt you will be in a
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by wooUK 16y ago
Have you looked at ReSharper? It does usage highlighting ( http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/navigation_searc... ) The extra functionality it adds to VS 2008 & 2010 is really useful. I started using it about a month ago and k
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by wooUK 17y ago
You could run another HIT to get people to verify the submissions and reduce the error rate further.
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by wooUK 17y ago
I was an architect student now turned developer. The thought processes are very similar between the two disciplines however I personally find developing more rewarding. In architecture you are considered a 'young' architect if you are in y