RE: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Anthony
Where is this role based? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Heinrich Breedt Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2011 4:44 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft Hi Priyanka, Yes I would definitely be interested in this

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread David Connors
Can you guys discuss it off list with Priyanka? On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote: Where is this role based? *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Heinrich Breedt *Sent:* Tuesday, 31 May 2011 4:44 PM

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Heinrich Breedt
oops, did i just reply to the list *facepalm* lol On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:04 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: Can you guys discuss it off list with Priyanka? On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote: Where is this role based? *From:*

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread mike smith
Yes, you just did... and included a CV. Last time someone did that, their CV got dissected with a fine toothed comb. I'm not going to throw stones, I've mis-hit reply to all before when I didn't want to, and lived. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Heinrich Breedt

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread David Connors
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:31 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you just did... and included a CV. Last time someone did that, their CV got dissected with a fine toothed comb. I think I recall that one - someone took credit for a project someone else on the list delivered or

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Heinrich Breedt
LOL, cant wait, *rubs hands* take your best shot :P On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:32 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:31 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, you just did... and included a CV. Last time someone did that, their CV got dissected with a

Re: Word VSTO question

2011-05-31 Thread mike smith
Is there doco on the guts of Word documents? It has 'magic number start, but I never needed past that. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: An explanation I received is as follows: The ProtectedForForms property is set by default but (is) only

[OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, yeah it's me again, futzing overtime. I've been reading the results of web searches on expressions like cloud backup and I'm getting interesting results, but some of them (like Backblaze) want to treat you like a dummy and have some locally installed utility run backups for you. Some

RE: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Anthony
Try wuala From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2011 11:58 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Cloud backup Folks, yeah it's me again, futzing overtime. I've been reading the results of web searches on

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen Price
Hey Greg I was using Mozy until they stopped offering unlimited backups. I decided to look around and am now using Crashplan. I was impressed by the software and got their 4 year deal with the leaving Mozy discount they had running some months back. I think it was about $200 or so (forget exact

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Grant Molloy
Hi Heinrich... If your SMALL cv is 12 pages long, how long is your NORMAL or LARGE cv ? I remember doing CV classes with my degree and they told us to keep them to around 4-5 pages. What do other people on the list do? On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Heinrich Breedt

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread William Luu
I'm also using Dropbox, and it works well for storing things in the cloud and being able to access from anywhere that has a browser. I use it mainly to share files between my home PC and my iPhone (mostly PDF files). Will On 1 June 2011 03:10, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote:

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Michael Ridland
Nobody, want's to read a CV 4+ pages long, I try to make mine 2 pages. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Heinrich... If your SMALL cv is 12 pages long, how long is your NORMAL or LARGE cv ? I remember doing CV classes with my degree and they told us

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Heinrich Breedt
Yeah, its difficult keeping it small. I tried to cut down on my older engagements. you are probably right in that it is still too much. My large CV includes all detail of older stuff and my much earlier non IT experience On 6/1/11, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Heinrich... If your

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Michael Ridland
And I'm going to be using linkedin for my CV from now on. http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland -You can export to pdf -You can network -You can get recommendations -It's less likely to get dated -You can share good links -You can link it up with your twitter, slideshare and blog And you can

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Heinrich Breedt
I honestly would not know how to cut it down to 2 pages. On 6/1/11, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody, want's to read a CV 4+ pages long, I try to make mine 2 pages. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Heinrich... If your SMALL cv is 12

RE: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Greg Keogh
Stephen, Crashplan looked great until I noticed they have some kind of per-machine restriction on all but the top plan. This make no sense, as if I buy the space, then I expect to be able to use from absa-bloody-lutely anywhere, I mean, it's the space that counts, not where it comes from -- Greg

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread William Luu
You could also sync/backup your stuff to Windows Live SkyDrive - http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive On 1 June 2011 10:30, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Stephen, Crashplan looked great until I noticed they have some kind of per-machine restriction on all but the top plan. This make

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
Stephen, Windows Live Mesh works great. It's free for up to 5Gb and uses the Windows SkyDrive to store the data: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mesh?os=other It's more of a sync service than backup (if you delete a file it gets deleted from the cloud storage and it does not store older

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen Price
For you, its the space. I guess for them, its being able to target different clients. Pay for what you need or pay for what you can afford. I went for the top plan because of the more machines. Then again I tend to buy lots of software tools. Some people go out and spend thousands on their

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Preet Sangha
how much time do spend on average evaluating software? I know in general it's usually cheaper to buy than build but sometimes the time taken to evaluate X variations is usually daunting... On 1 June 2011 13:33, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: For you, its the space. I guess for

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Nathan Schultz
For backup I use McAfee Online Backup - although it's probably neither the cheapest nor the best. It works for me though and it runs invisibly. I also use synchronization services; which offer some backup features (your data is never in any one place). I used to use Live Mesh beta, but had some

RE: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread TIERNEY Brendan
4 - 5 pages is what recruiters want. 14 pages is over the top. -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Heinrich Breedt Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2011 9:46 To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft I

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen Price
I guess you could consider it as a hobby. :) I remember back in my Amiga days thats all I used to do. Download beta software and tinker with it. My machine was usually pretty unstable due to it being so loaded up with beta software. lol Usually there's a problem to solve so you don't need them

Any recommendations on 3rd Party ASP.NET Controls

2011-05-31 Thread Glenn Crouch
Currently working on a new ASP.NET Project for a client - and have noticed that there are a number of 3rd Party ASP.NET Controls around - since I have primarily been a Delphi Developer, I'm not sure how good these products and/or companies are... I've often found cheap products and even free ones

Re: Any recommendations on 3rd Party ASP.NET Controls

2011-05-31 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
So any feedback welcome - thanks! I have used Telerik and they work pretty well. One thing I found with a lot of the third-party web controls though (including Telerik) is that they are pretty heavy. It is very easy to end up with web pages approaching 1mb if you are not careful! This is less

RE: Any recommendations on 3rd Party ASP.NET Controls

2011-05-31 Thread Greg Keogh
I have used ComponentOne and Infragistics and some other smaller widget kits and I have a warning: All of these big vendors produce highly over-featured over-complex controls with large and dense documentation that wastes a lot of time unless you have enough staff to assign someone to become a

RE: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Greg Keogh
James, I'm trying Mozy as I like the way your screen shot shows you can select folders and most importantly ... use filters. I like the idea of making backup sets that watch certain folders. It seems to be working well, but the client side home screen UI is not very informative. I ran a test

RE: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Greg Keogh
James, it's okay, I eventually found this: About Deleting, Moving, and Renaming Files When you delete a file from your computer, the file is marked for deletion on the backup servers. The file is permanently deleted from the servers 30 days after it was deselected. When you use the MozyHome

Re: Any recommendations on 3rd Party ASP.NET Controls

2011-05-31 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Once you get into these kits you might as well consider yourself married to them. I have to agree with this. Rather than just providing some nice UI enhancements they seem to want to take over the whole app and are not easy to get rid of. Craig.

Re: Any recommendations on 3rd Party ASP.NET Controls

2011-05-31 Thread Michael Ridland
Yes I agree, it's not enjoyable. It's just so much cleaner and enjoyable working with raw html and javascript. Sometime's it's a great idea to leverage such controls when the control itself would be a huge task create, eg a reporting engine or a rich text editor. But for some data in a webapp I

RE: Any recommendations on 3rd Party ASP.NET Controls

2011-05-31 Thread Glenn Crouch
Thanks for the prompt feedback - it helps a lot :) Glenn Crouch, mailto:supp...@esbconsult.com ESB Consultancy, http://www.esbconsult.com Home of ESBPCS and ESB Calculators Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia ESB Calculators on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/esbcalc ESBPCS on Facebook:

Re: building the domain model - what tools to use?

2011-05-31 Thread Tristan Reeves
Is there any reason it has to be a *visual* designer? There are non-visual (scripted, or template based) solutions available. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Kirsten Greed kirst...@jobtalk.com.auwrote: Dear all I want to have a visual tool that will generate business objects and the

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Heinrich Breedt
Thanks scott, really appreciate your comments and will def take them to heart (wow, from mistake comes some real good after all :) ) On 6/1/11, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Resumes are part factual evidence and part information architecture. The purpose for you in this case with

Re: .NET Consultant role - Microsoft

2011-05-31 Thread Scott Barnes
Don't thank me yet, you may actually get the job ;0 heheheheheh --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Heinrich Breedt heinrichbre...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks scott, really appreciate your comments and will def take them to heart (wow, from mistake

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen Price
I was a happy Mozy user for three+ years. I left for a couple of reasons. They removed their ultimate plan (mine still had a year and a half left on my plan) but if I wanted to add another machine to my current plan then I had to cancel my plan and resign up to their non unlimited plan. I don't

RE: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Ian Thomas
Ok, so how would Mozy handle a situation where you connect a single machine, which is a Windows Home Server 2011 (which handles backups from a small network very well)? I mean in terms of the plans - volume/bandwidth, etc. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western

RE: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Glenn Crouch
I have been using Jungle Disk with Amazon for a few years and am very happy - and only costs a few dollars every month - and we have about 10 G now backed up there... Glenn Crouch, mailto:gl...@esbconsult.com ESB Consultancy, http://www.esbconsult.com Follow us on Twitter: