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    Combining Big Spreadsheets

    If you have time on your hands, and don't mind being hands-on, perhaps look at Python (the programming language) and the pandas library for the data cleanup. Thereafter, you're free store the data wherever you choose. You don't need a great deal of Python programming skill to use the pandas...
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    Are You Big Enough for Your Clients?

    Thanks for the replies... will get in touch where we think there's something to work on.
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    Are You Big Enough for Your Clients?

    We're a specialist IT consultancy with a small footprint and one of the things we find is there are times we have to turn down work because we don't have (access to) sufficient numbers of reliable and skilled professionals. It is our intention to retain our small footprint, and to draw from a...
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    Do you Use Unit Testing and TDD

    Unit testing yes. TDD No. Our frequent observation is that TDD is often used as an alternative to up front documented analysis and design. A major problem we find is that the absence of the former results in (TDD) unit tests not being anchored to documented requirements. A few years ago we did...
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    How is it to hire a ASP.Net Developer

    You don't know how soothing that comment was for me! Also, there are free fully configurable DAO code generation tools. You can author your own code generation templates in place of those used by the EF code generator. ORM frameworks? I say forget them. I developed an ORM framework using C++...
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    Leaving education

    The economy may well be in a better shape by then, but if the graduate to graduate vacancy ratio remains high (currently 2 to 1), graduates may find they are over-qualified to flip burgers at their nearest fast food outlet, if that's the only thing available.
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    how do you know if page is asp or asp dot net

    You could try using something like Fiddler and inspect the response. You should get something like 'X-AspNet-Version: nnnn' if using asp.net.
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    storing images in databases, question

    A Microsoft report here claims that Sql 2005 performs better than NTFS when processing small binary objects, and vice versa with larger objects. The blob Filestream feature of Sql 2008 is claimed to provide a more consistent level of read performance across small and large binary objects...
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    storing images in databases, question

    If you're using MS technologies (asp.net / SQL Server/ IIS), you could write you're own http handler to serve images from the DB (or grab the source from the internet), and use the output cache of IIS to keep a hold of the images. In this scenario the processing overheads involved retrieving a...
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    storing images in databases, question

    Which DB server are you using? MS Sql Sever 2008 has a feature whereby blobs can be managed directly on the filesystem, and the client application accesses them via a filestream handle, managed by Sql Server. The advantage of having binary data in the DB is that it remains synchronised with...
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    Secure RPC/SOAP

    No dispute there, but ChannelCommerce is thinking about writing a desktop app, and as such is not constrained to transport security only. :)
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    Secure RPC/SOAP

    Hi ChannelCommerce Be mindful that SSL concerns the transport of data. You'll still need to think about authentication/authorization, i.e. prevent unathorized clients from connecting to the RPC service. Also, your application will want to be sure it isn't connecting to spoof RPC services...
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    best web language for employability

    Learning the language will be the easy part I'm afraid. Finding your way round the .net framework will be the really hard part, and you'll need to understand the non-web aspects of the framework too. Also bear in mind that Microsoft do major releases of the framework every couple of years, so...
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    Restriction of Trade Clause in Contract - How does it read?

    We (the supplier) have been introduced to a client via a resourcing agency, and the agency have insisted on a restriction of trade clause being worded as follows (agency name substituted with X): We 've had the contract independently reviewed and have been advised to seek re-wording of the...
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    Court access to Ltd Co Accounts

    As far as I'm aware, the CSA usually looks at net income, and takes in to consideration how many children are already living with the non-resident parent, as well as how often 'maintained' children live with the non-resident parent. The more time a child spends with the non-resident parent...
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