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Recent content by Flibble
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Tiling Window Manager for 4K monitors?
I have a nice shiny new 43" 4K monitor (okay, it's a TV but with proper 60Hz inputs, so close enough). To go with my existing quad 24" setup. However, that's a lot of screens and I'm trying to decide on something to split the 4K screen up into boxes (granted Windows 10 does this after a... -
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State of the Market
I think the sticking point here is how good is "good enough". I can still code, badly. I can manage projects to a much higher standard. I could fudge my way through a service transition, badly. I could manage the testing to a higher standard, but not as well as I could do the project...- Flibble
- Post #83
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Obtaining MS Project and Visio
You also have to pass the Partner Exam and are supposed to be selling Microsoft solutions -
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Solid training provider for SharePoint 2013 Online - in/near London?
These guys were okay: Private/Closed Training Courses -
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Plan B for younger contractors?
I know several guys who tried to become commercial pilots. As someone noted, it's not a normal employment market because there are so many people who want to be pilots. Hence instead of getting a job and then being trained, or at worst doing the basic qualification and then gaining... -
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The Queen has died. Long Live the King
24 hour news probably has a lot to do with it as well. The broadcasters need to fill the airtime up with something, so they will report the deaths of people who in the past would have been totally beneath the radar. Add in that we seem to have a lot of "burying bad news" (is there still a war... -
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SalesForce / Force.com - Training
Pluralsight have some courses and Salesforce themselves have trailhead. But if you are trying to go in "cold" and "blag" I'd counsel against it. The system is not structured the way any normal software developer would expect. It reminds me of old 1970s systems that have been bashed into the... -
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45 hour working week?
Sort of. From asking around it was the usual "sandwich at your desk" scenario. Just to add another one, I also remembered a friend was offered a permie role at yet another company (other than the three I have mentioned) and fortunately I told him not to hand in his notice until he had a...- Flibble
- Post #34
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Flood!!!
In all seriousness, it may be worth checking with a lawyer and/or insurance broker. I have this vague recollection that if you were not actually negligent you aren't liable and the other offices should claim off their insurance. But I am neither lawyer nor insurer so really need someone who... -
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£100 Per Week for Everyone
About 100,000 in the DWP but that's probably it. -
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45 hour working week?
45 hours seems to be the "new normal". I had two interviews recently and was a little shocked both times to be told the standard working day (*) was 9-6. Another that I didn't apply for stipulated working 40 hours per week (note, working, not attending - their working day was also 9 hours...- Flibble
- Post #13
- Forum: Business / Contracts
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Tesla model 3
What, you mean like a National Grid and sockets in the walls of houses? Nah, it'll never catch on :laugh -
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Job specs that ring alarm bells
Best one I had was the agent telling me, for a project management role: "they're getting rid of the last guy as he wasn't just giving the good news to management, he kept highlighting the risks to them" Er ... -
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"Full-stack" developer roles - IR35 alarm bells?
I had exactly this argument with the big boss at one firm. He claimed that he only hired full stack developers, to which my response was "what, you mean no-one here actually knows what they are doing?" It seems to be fashionable, along with throwing in "agile" to Project Management roles.- Flibble
- Post #6
- Forum: Accounting / Legal
