Reply to: C# Investment bank £330 P/D

[coolhandluke]

Not sure I would want to support a Windows Service \ HTTP Solution from IE 11 for 3000 tills.

Still hate WPF though.....

[unemployed]

It is if you want an application that runs on Linux, Mac, Android, IoS, Windows, Unix, etc.

one size fits all flippers too , seems coding is going the same way as VM`d hardware then.

[DimPrawn]

and I can run the London marathon in a pair of flippers but it's not the correct choice

It is if you want an application that runs on Linux, Mac, Android, IoS, Windows, Unix, etc.

[oliverson]

You can if you host a http service locally on the machine to talk to the hardware. Anything a WPF application can do can be done with a browser plus a local http service / webserver. It could be an application or a Windows service (OWIN).

and I can run the London marathon in a pair of flippers but it's not the correct choice

[eek]

You can if you host a http service locally on the machine to talk to the hardware. Anything a WPF application can do can be done with a browser plus a local http service / webserver. It could be an application or a Windows service (OWIN).

You don't even need to do that. Most barcode scanners just pretend to be a keyboard. Heck there are remote walkabout ones that come with built in web browsers and a small touch screen

[DimPrawn]

You can't interface with a barcode scanner or receipt printer easily from a browser.

You can if you host a http service locally on the machine to talk to the hardware. Anything a WPF application can do can be done with a browser plus a local http service / webserver. It could be an application or a Windows service (OWIN).

[unemployed]

Outside London that ain't bad.... In London it might rent you a mini-shed. I guess if you are content with that then fair enough.

What a load of tulip

[SpontaneousOrder]

I make that £4743 takehome a month. Don't be a dick, that's good money to someone.

£50 a day is a lot to a great many people. When you drop the context you can make any idiotic thing sound reasonable.

[fool]

^^ These.



While outside London someone may be a dick for not taking it, for some of the pressure that is exerted in Investment Banks £330 per day is on the low side. IBs are renowned for making unreasonable demands from time to time and I think the higher rate often goes some way to compensate for it.

Not sure about anyone else but within London I tend to aim for £100 per day over and above the same role I'd be looking at outside of London.

Actually you'd be a mug to take it when you can get more. Where you'll be being a bit of a tit is there's no doubt a guy out there who can't get more yet.

[ShandyDrinker]

Outside London that ain't bad.... In London it might rent you a mini-shed. I guess if you are content with that then fair enough.

You could get a decent flat and have a pretty decent life in a nice area. You wont be saving much at all though.

^^ These.

I make that £4743 takehome a month. Don't be a dick, that's good money to someone.

While outside London someone may be a dick for not taking it, for some of the pressure that is exerted in Investment Banks £330 per day is on the low side. IBs are renowned for making unreasonable demands from time to time and I think the higher rate often goes some way to compensate for it.

Not sure about anyone else but within London I tend to aim for £100 per day over and above the same role I'd be looking at outside of London.

[coolhandluke]

I've just finished a gig for a big UK retail company that had 50 odd contractors developing a new WPF App for its new EPOS system. You can't interface with a barcode scanner or receipt printer easily from a browser.

That said I still dislike WPF.

[fool]

Outside London that ain't bad.... In London it might rent you a mini-shed. I guess if you are content with that then fair enough.

You could get a decent flat and have a pretty decent life in a nice area. You wont be saving much at all though.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I make that £4743 takehome a month. Don't be a dick, that's good money to someone.

Outside London that ain't bad.... In London it might rent you a mini-shed. I guess if you are content with that then fair enough.

[PerfectStorm]

I make that £4743 takehome a month. Don't be a dick, that's good money to someone.

[ShandyDrinker]

I would say that the latest web UI can be as rich as WPF and as responsive, using SignalR, D3.js, SVG, jQuery plugins, Kendo UI, etc

I'd be surprised if WPF is being developed for new things, more support and maintainence roles I suspect. Good luck and hopefully there's enough work to see you through.

I think you'd be surprised. A lot of the higher paying C# roles I'm being contacted about this week are WPF which I'm genuinely surprised about given some of the earlier comments in this thread.

My rich client UI comment was made somewhat tongue in cheek... unfortunately you have to keep reinventing yourself and keep up with the latest and greatest which is why I can understand people wanting to get out.

I have no intention of starting a flame war of the type that my technology is better than yours... I just think you might be too dismissive of particular technologies.

If I have to learn new frameworks to survive then so be it!