Reply to: Good luck for tomorrow, NickFitz

[Zippy]

Glad to hear it's working out.

Like there was any doubt

[NickFitz]

So, how was your first week few days? Good?

Going back on Monday?

I survived, so I reckon I'll go back for more.

The canteen really is very impressive: quality food, dead cheap

Also, who'd have thought there'd be so many attractive women in the fashion industry?

[RichardCranium]

So, how was your first week few days? Good?

Going back on Monday?

[NickFitz]

Good stuff NF

Cheers 5X

[NickFitz]

Will you be able to adjust to a diurnal lifestyle?

That's going to be the tricky bit

[FiveTimes]

Good stuff NF

[RichardCranium]

Pies don't seem to be prominent, but I had an extremely nice braised lamb shank in a red wine jus with roast spuds for about three quid at lunchtime

Most excellent. My VooDooFlux Works Canteen Handback clearly states that a full roast dinner is a perfectly acceptable alternative to pork pie, lasagne & chips for lunch.

The canteen only does breakfast between 8 and 8:55, so I'll have to get in early if I'm to sample that.

And a cooked breakfast too? Superb.

I am home

I was quite surprised - despite it being the rush hour, it only took twenty minutes from desk to armchair

Oh, superlative.

So, all the benefits of hotel living ... but living at home.

Will you be able to adjust to a diurnal lifestyle?

[suityou01]

Nope, I am home

I was quite surprised - despite it being the rush hour, it only took twenty minutes from desk to armchair

You're stopping off for a pint on the way home tomorrow though, right?

[NickFitz]

Stopping for a pint on the way home though right?

Nope, I am home

I was quite surprised - despite it being the rush hour, it only took twenty minutes from desk to armchair

[suityou01]

Loads of top totty milling around the place, though virtually none in the place they keep us

Pies don't seem to be prominent, but I had an extremely nice braised lamb shank in a red wine jus with roast spuds for about three quid at lunchtime

The canteen only does breakfast between 8 and 8:55, so I'll have to get in early if I'm to sample that.

Stopping for a pint on the way home though right?

[NickFitz]

Too busy to investigate the totty & pies then?

Loads of top totty milling around the place, though virtually none in the place they keep us

Pies don't seem to be prominent, but I had an extremely nice braised lamb shank in a red wine jus with roast spuds for about three quid at lunchtime

The canteen only does breakfast between 8 and 8:55, so I'll have to get in early if I'm to sample that.

[RichardCranium]

Well, that was fun, in an odd sort of way

Too busy to investigate the totty & pies then?

[ThomasSoerensen]

good man

[NickFitz]

Well, that was fun, in an odd sort of way

I knew that the first week would be on a trial basis, as they prefer to see people actually do stuff rather than just do interview puzzles. I assumed that, as they were hiring a webdev, the stuff they would ask me to do would be along the lines of web development.

Instead, I was given a back-of-an-envelope spec for a Windows desktop .NET application. It involves a Windows Forms GUI, Data Binding, Active Directory, some kind of logging, and a few other bits and bobs, to be written in C#. Bear in mind that I haven't done any C# or .NET since about 2005, and then only ASP.NET. Oh, and I was to work in Visual Studio 2008, which I've never used before (except the cut-down freeby web dev edition).

Still, by the end of the day I'd got the main components of it working, so with a bit of luck I can get it finished off tomorrow

In addition, as "You have experience of giving training" (which I do, twenty-six years ago) they'd like me to prepare a talk ("just an hour or two") to explain the fundamental principles of XSLT to those of the other devs who aren't too familiar with it. I'm very experienced with XSLT, but given that I have a hard time properly explaining some of the more recondite aspects of it to myself, that promises to be an interesting couple of hours

Ah well, I suspect that if I manage to get through this lot with my sanity and my blood pressure intact, it should mean I've passed the trial. If they'd told me it was to be a week's ordeal, I would have had a better idea of what I was in for

[DaveB]

Good luck today NF.

BTW I'm only about 4 miles from your HQ

Oooh, closer than me then. 12 miles here

Any advance on 4 miles?

Anyone able to take a photo and post it? ( apart from Nick of course ).

Not that we are stalking you or anything