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Originally posted by wendigo100Does Coral still exist?
http://www.swep-eds.com/CORAL/CORAL%20Page.htm
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Originally posted by TheOmegaManI solve problems and make new ones. I take other peoples' ideas, and I mince them in a blender. From the maelstrom, I pluck an idea and plant it in freshly made dung. With care and sunlight, the idea grows into an ideology, and a new bowel movement is bourne. It's a life and death struggle on the very edge of insanity.
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I solve problems and make new ones. I take other peoples' ideas, and I mince them in a blender. From the maelstrom, I pluck an idea and plant it in freshly made dung. With care and sunlight, the idea grows into an ideology, and a new bowel movement is bourne. It's a life and death struggle on the very edge of insanity.
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Originally posted by XenophonProject management; portfolio management; programme management; change management... basically any two bullsh1t words that help me get a good rate.
tim
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Originally posted by zeitghostI remember 3M came up with that idea 30 years ago... I suspect it was bulltulip then... and...
Nortel had this little story that you could remain an engineer and get the same salary as a manager.
And then they had a policy of all managers got cars and engineers didn't (when having a company car was really worthwhile).
tim
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Project management; portfolio management; programme management; change management... basically any two bullsh1t words that help me get a good rate.
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Originally posted by SockpuppetIs that ADA stuff and how did you wrestle the contracts from bearded unix types....or are you a bearded unix type.
Yep mostly ADA stuff. No I've no beard but have done a little unix and lots of VAX/VMS.
Wendigo, don't know of any curent coral systems, but that was my first 'language'.
On the subject of architects, I've only known one and he was a right tosser.
IMHO there's been no decent architects since the victorians.
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Originally posted by zeitghostSimilar sorts of salaries offered for a lot of engineering jobs... basically crap.
No wonder all the kiddies are doing media studies... you still get a crap job stacking shelves in Tescos, but the course is easier.
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Originally posted by zeitghostTakes 7 years to become an architect...
Back in the mid 90s, I was browsing one of his archtect's magazines, and I wouldn't have got out of bed for some of the salaries being offered in the jobs section. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, they get good dosh.
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Originally posted by DimPrawnIt's amazing how your earning potential changes when you change your title from trainee programmer to senior enterprise architect.
No fecker cares what your last job title was
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Originally posted by zeitghostThe Sainted Margaret contributed by junking all the Industry Training Boards back in the 80s...
Pah! One of my mates had a brother who did a proper brickies' apprencticeship of several years.
And on the subject of architects, their training takes a long time, but typical salaries are crap unless they hit the big time.
Oh, to keep on topic, sysadmin, disaster recovery, disaster tolerance, monitoring tools blah blah, and the enjoyable task of beating Oracle DBAs over the head every now and then.Last edited by Sysman; 15 December 2006, 16:33.
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IT INfrastructure PM....but thinking of starting a business importing stuff from China and my uncle to sell in UK..
anybody interested in futons....!!!
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