So this is what Microsoft call progress?

[DimPrawn]

Get a fooking job already.

WHS.

Christ more whinging doleys not fit to support the needs of British companies. Gets some Bobs in quick!

[Spacecadet]

I was asked to develop an app in rapid time during my last role due to another guy wasting 4 months on an utter piece of crap. I ended up developing a suite of Classic ASP apps 10 x faster than the guy tried to do it in .NET 4.0. I have used .NET 4.0 and no doubt it is a superb technology but Classic ASP is so light weight, efficient and quick to develop in (once you have a few years experience in it) I don't see why it isn't used more often to deliver strategic/in house solutions.

I quote often see the other side of the argument, people who refuse to let go of T-SQL and embrace SSIS. What this means is reams and reams of unintelligible T-SQL code which must have taken weeks of eye bleeding coding to replicate something which would take me 2 minutes of drag and drop in SSIS.

[DimPrawn]

I quote often see the other side of the argument, people who refuse to let go of T-SQL and embrace SSIS. What this means is reams and reams of unintelligible T-SQL code which must have taken weeks of eye bleeding coding to replicate something which would take me 2 minutes of drag and drop in SSIS.

If it takes 2 minutes, how long is your contract?

[Spacecadet]

If it takes 2 minutes, how long is your contract?

As long as I can string it out for

[DimPrawn]

As long as I can string it out for

That's why I like to dis tools like that and have everything written in the lowest level code I can get away with. If it takes 50m lines of code, all the better.

[Spacecadet]

That's why I like to dis tools like that and have everything written in the lowest level code I can get away with. If it takes 50m lines of code, all the better.

Nooooo

You give a time estimate which is just a bit shorter than using the old method. e.g 4 weeks instead of 6
then you spend 3 weeks posting tulip on here (and invoicing)
then a week getting the work done (and invoicing)

[AtW]

This place is full of highly paid people with low ethics.

Except for suity.

[AtW]

It's .CON crash all over again:

[suityou01]

This place is full of highly paid people with low ethics.

Except for suity.

I really really need to let those blasted ethics things go.

£5 for a gnosh. Form an orderly queue.

[MarillionFan]

This place is full of highly paid people with low ethics.

Except for suity.

Is that near Kent?