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During a hardware/software migration by our webhost two days ago, they decided that my ftp accounts should be all lowercase. I didn't notice until realizing that the website was not available from my office. No ping and tracert is stalling after several hops...I've been blacklisted!  Confirmed by connecting on a mobile...only problem is that it's out of my hands...I've no choice but to open a support ticket begging to be let back in.
6 hours later, the tech has removed the ban, whitelisted my IP address, and given me the cause for the ban...triggered by x number of failed ftp connections.  Funny, I happened to be troubleshooting another problem with a diy ftp utility. Got it working, with the exception of the main site...funny, the error message changed after several tries.  (at the time, I was unaware of the migration as my colleague had forgotten to forward the message from the webhost)
OK, now to deal with the ftp problem...login to cPanel and check the account...try it with lowercase as it's shown and it connects.  Progress!..but wait, that mixed case username is baked into all of those remote-client desktop applications...this breaks the update features...I had prepared for a pwd change, but not a username change! Cursing and swearing, then in a moment of clarity had to stop and laugh and take the most logical approach. Take the leap of faith and delete and recreate the ftp account. Problem solved!
Rant over. Thanks for letting me vent! It just irritates me when I have to deal with crap like this instead of coding...or lounging. And, if you've made it this far, have a great weekend!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh
What hijacked my world that night
To a place in the past
We've been cast out of? Oh oh oh oh
Now we're back in the fight
We're back on the train
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I had stuff like that happen a couple of times with GoDaddy and then finally the last time they bothered me I moved to smarterasp.net[^] and have been very happy since.
It is painful migrating off though. But once the original host does so many bad things that it feels like you're migrating anyways, then it doesn't matter. That's what happened to me on GoDaddy. They told me, "Oh you'll have to set up all your web sites again." 
Me: Good bye.
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Installed the latest SSMS and saw two version numbers on the about box.
In title: SQL Server Management Studio v17.9
In list: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio v14.0.17285.0
SSMS_About_Box
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Great, yet another update! Installing it now. I keep hoping they will get query designer to remember my last settings!
As far as the versions, it does seem like they would pick one or the other and stop confusing us!
Edit: No, the query designer hasn't changed. I'd still rather work with the query designer in Access 2002 than SSMS.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 14-Sep-18 13:19pm.
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I do have the impression that the new version starts up faster.
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That is just a feature that has been developped to prevent you from uninstalling it at first launch.
Don't worry, it will get worse fast.
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Was wondering if anyone been in an interview (interviewer or interviewee) as example of the existing product code is used?
I wonder if should do this in next candidate interviews, to head off any snarkyness if they join then start off on a bad footing.
"I said in the interview it was a work in progress, lots to do"
But hey, interviews stressful enough, visual aid may help. This to protect wasted time on flaky new hires.
Job interviews should be a 2 way interview.
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Well, I've fortunately never had the pleasure of interviewing a potential job prospect.
It seems to me, however, that it's your evaluating the interviewee, and not the reverse. Why should it matter to them what stage of development you're in?
If they get there and turn up their nose, there's always the door. Make sure there's a probationary period clause in any contracts/employment agreements - which allow dismissal without cause.
Oh - I forgot to ask . . . you are paying them for working if you hire them, right?
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No, I agree with the OP: the interview should be a two way process. The company is selling itself to you as much as you are selling yourself to them.
How many times have you met a company and thought "I'll work for them when hell freezes over"? I have, a couple of times - it doesn't matter how good the job might be if the company is sh*t and full of PHBes your just know will drive you round the bend to work for.
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OK - badly phrased.
I was thinking too much in direct context of the interviewee approving of the current status of their code.
In real life (chemist days) they'd roll out a red carpet for the interview - show you their pretty stuff - but they would not read you into a project. They would talk about project types and techniques. So yeah - there's a two way street about it. Still - a lot hinged upon your own presentation (a seminar) and how you can discuss what you've done and/or are doing.
Where I had the distaste for the imaginary interviewee is that the needed to approve your the status of the code base.
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What Griff writes. There's plenty of work out there, don't take a job just to have a job, if you can sense you're going to hate it.
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Yeah but I do not need to see their code, because code can be changed.
I have to get feeling what people are like in a company.
Unfortunately I am not good enough to assess it in 1 hour talk with someone.
I have to work there for a couple months to see if they are bunch of a*oles or there are tribal fights going on.
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maze3 wrote: Was wondering if anyone been in an interview (interviewer or interviewee) as example of the existing product code is used?
Probably impossible - certainly if I were an employer I wouldn't.
On the other hand, if I, as a potential employee, could see what I'm getting into, in most cases I would run away screaming.
[edit]On the other hand, rather than looking at code, it's a lot more useful to ask about processes, procedures, documentation, source control, etc. And when I'd asked those questions, in most cases I run away screaming too.[/edit]
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I don't think you need to (or even should) show them the code. However, building a powerpoint slide deck describing the project and it's current state might be a step in the right direction. On the other hand, a new hire only needs to be at the desired level of skillset in order to work on your code. Maybe the design has been too difficult to grasp, and if that's always been the case, maybe you've inadvertently discovered that your app design needs to be re-imagined.
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JSOP, advocating the use of a PowerPoint slide desk for something other than to keep middle managers busy and out of his way?
WTF happened?
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I'm not advocating, I'm simply suggesting an alternative to showing a potential new hire code .
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But...but...but...suggesting PowerPoint has any real use beyond the one I mentioned will lead me to re-evaluate my belief system. No good can come out of that.
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Trust the plan.
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Yes you should feel free to do so. Totally.
I do not think it is about the new hire ”approving the status of the code base”. It is about showing your culture. And being open with ”some of this multiple inheritance stuff has gone convoluted and we want to do it right the next time”. Such frankness can be highly appreciated, especially by people who already have a few battle scars. Or you can just ask him/her, wanna peek at our codez? and see their reaction... I have on occasions asked asked myself can i have a peek? With cooperative responses.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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One place I interviewed -- and would have declined if they had made an offer -- all the classes were singletons.
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At least they're using design patterns a design pattern 
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I'll say this much, if interviewers provide a prospect with some source code and tell him he's got the job if he can find/fix some bug they've been struggling with for months (they won't tell you that part), then...run.
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maze3 wrote: Job interviews should be a 2 way interview.
They are, it's just that most interviewee's do not understand their own position and limit themselves.
Which is good for me, means less competition 
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maze3 wrote: Job interviews should be a 2 way interview.
It totally is.
I once took a job that sounded really good, microservices, Azure, CI/CD, everything I was looking for at the time.
But when I got there they had nothing of the sort.
Turns out their "architect" had read about microservices, went to the development team and shouted something like "we have to do microservices!" and the person who interviewed me just kind of mimicked it.
No one in the team was feeling anything for microservices though, and management forbid the use of "the cloud" because it was "not safe" 
And so I sat there, doing the exact same work as before without microservices or cloud, except I now did it a 100 km's further than my previous job 
I was a contractor so I would be off after six months, but after four months I gave them my notice and ultimately ended up finishing a project and left after seven months.
If it was up to them I'd still be there though...
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