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In a gig I recently concluded, I wrote the backend for a system that will be used in mobile phones that allows the customer to activiate from home without any help.
The customer enters a combination of home phone number, ssn and birthdate. I look up your credit score and any billing history (if the customer has used the service before). I then display a range of applicable plans. Once the customer selects a plan, the billing system returns a new phone number that is displayed and the customer's phone is activated.
Sprint alone has stated that this system will sell 2 million phones per year using this system so I think I need another option on the poll 
Cheers,
Tom Archer, Inside C#
Mainstream is just a word for the way things always have been -- just a middle-of-the-road, tow-the-line thing; a front for the Man serving up the same warmed-over slop he did yesterday and expecting you to say, "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
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I'd certainly agree on this one -- stopping with 1,000 seems way to low to get a good representative of the number of programmers working on commercial software. I have two products with an installed customer base of over 100 million -- seems pretty silly to check the 1,000 checkbox...
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Does anyone know how to capture an event on a panel within a status bar. I want to put icons in the status bar and have click events on each panel (w/ icon) to open up child windows within an MDI. I know this must be possible.
Thanks
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I am developing an app that will be used to register pple as they come in to attend a conference. It will be used by up to 10 users simultaneoulsy but on most cases only 4 pple will use it. This will go on for about a week, 26 May to June 1. Everything is working fine except that it has to print the names of those who haven't come in b4 on a badge, much like an address label.
I have never done this b4 and I am using VB6 to do it. I wonder if anyone can help me with code that does it. There will be one printer between every 2 machines and I must come up with a way that will make this app know how to skip the positions of places already printed on.
Thanks.
Let's make things simpler than possible.
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I suppose i'd have to distinguish between paying customers and people who live with the nags and limitations of running unlicensed copies (and of course the people with cracks)... but i can't count any but the officially registered people, and they number in the low 10-Ks.
-c
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- My windows app has about 15-20 in-house users,
- the assembler code I help maintain is our distributed product, and so has in the 1000's of users, and
- my web-site registers a few hundred visitors per week.
So I'm pretty much all over the place.
BW
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
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Hello,
I wrote my own DLL (not using MFC) and I'd like it to appear with one of my icons instead of the standard Microsoft icon for DLLs. How can I do so ?
Thanks.
Robin.
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confalonieri wrote:
I wrote my own DLL (not using MFC) and I'd like it to appear with one of my icons instead of the standard Microsoft icon for DLLs. How can I do so ?
Try this forum : Visual C++[^]
-Nick Parker
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"There are between 50 and 100 downloads of nBASS from un4seen.com each week (and I guess more from your project page too), so there are probably quite a few nBASS users out there." - Ian Luck from un4seen.com, creator of BASS.
I constantly get "hooray" emails for nBASS. Oooh I love that goodness factor 
Maybe saying 100-200 was a bit pessimistic...?
Hey leppie! Your "proof" seems brilliant and absurd at the same time. - Vikram Punathambekar 28 Apr '03
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... becuase I am working on front end and installation software 
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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LOL. Other than the guys at Microsoft, I think you win.
Tim Smith
I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
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Hey leppie! Your "proof" seems brilliant and absurd at the same time. - Vikram Punathambekar 28 Apr '03
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the showgirls?
(I'd give you a link, but...) 
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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In my day to day development, I tend to work on systems that are so highly specialised and are used by 10 to 20 (max) people in an organisation as Decision Support Tools. However, in the process of developing these packages, I end up writing a whole bunch of support applications which are used internally by the company and the administrators of the client network.
To add a spin to the subject, in my spare time, I write shareware apps under the kinkycode.com banner which tend to draw a lot more usage on the whole (wish the subscription was as high as usage), so I wonder if one could derive an equation to gain a "usage mean" in this type of scenario...
*ponders* perhaps something like (considering that 80% of my time is spent writing the specialist DST software while 20% is spent on my own code):
((Professional Software Usage + Supplementary tools Usage - Internal usage) * 0.8) + ((Personal software usage - personal software beta testing usage) * 0.2)
Any comments?
cheers,
Peter
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99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs,
Fix 1 bug, recompile....
101 little bugs in the code...
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Peter Mares wrote:
99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs,
Fix 1 bug, recompile....
101 little bugs in the code...
I love it!
James
"It is self repeating, of unknown pattern"
Data - Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Out of those many who will answer > 1000 how many are web-developers developing public web-sites?
It is a touch unfair lumping in web-applications with Windows apps.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
brianwelsch wrote:
I find my day goes by more smoothly if I never question other peoples fantasies. My own disturb me enough.
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I chose to limit myself just to the administration side of things because they will be the ones making the most use out of the few sites I have done.
I do have one that I'm working which is more of an advertisement than something they need to do work, so I'm not sure how I would classify it.
James
"It is self repeating, of unknown pattern"
Data - Star Trek: The Next Generation
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James T. Johnson wrote:
I chose to limit myself just to the administration side of things because they will be the ones making the most use out of the few sites I have done.
It is a complex scenario really.
Some of our sites are just marketing sites with content, on the admin side though they have full-fledged CMS capabilities. So in terms of feature use only a few people use the features of the site while thousands just "read" the website.
Other sites though are e-commerce and involve shopping baskets, ordering systems, search etc. on the public side and those are used by thousands as well.
Then we have intranets and shrink-wrap web-apps with a few hundred users and a couple administrators.
So depending on what I am selling my apps are used by either several people or several thousand people
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
brianwelsch wrote:
I find my day goes by more smoothly if I never question other peoples fantasies. My own disturb me enough.
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Paul Watson wrote:
It is a touch unfair lumping in web-applications with Windows apps.
Naah, an app is an app is an app.
--
They seem to live in Panavision
On a TV screen or in a non-stop dream
UNIDENTIFIED MEN!
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Paul Watson wrote:
It is a touch unfair lumping in web-applications with Windows apps.
Yeah, you are right. As one requires proper programming and the other is just toying around in VBScript.
Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm having one of those days... in-fact I'm having one of those lives.
Michael
'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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Michael P Butler wrote:
As one requires proper programming and the other is just toying around in VBScript
Well I sure am not going to stop you if you want to toy around in VBScript, so long as you leave me alone to write my proper programmes.
Funny though how what I "code" (quotes inserted by the Snooty Real Programmers Association) is used by thousands of users on average and in one case over 15000 unique users (an e-commerce site we did, damn we should have charged more that baby! Client is raking in a lot of money every month through it.) Surely if all I produce is some text files and a bit of VBScript it should be relegated to a couple users in outer mongolia for data capture only?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
brianwelsch wrote:
I find my day goes by more smoothly if I never question other peoples fantasies. My own disturb me enough.
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I obviously work with the wrong kind of web-developers then as most of the stuff they produce is just a couple of text files hung together with some dodgy VBScript code. (Don't even let me get started on their JavaScript).
I wonder, do web-developers look down on or look up to VB programmers?
Michael
'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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Michael P Butler wrote:
I wonder, do web-developers look down on or look up to VB programmers?
It seems to me that web developer covers too wide a category these days. I work for an online financial services firm, people are very testy when it comes to their cash. For that reason all the actual processing is done in SQL Server stored procedures. Yes, the front end is displayed using ASP, but that's a rather small part of our time. However, there are plenty of HTML editors out there calling themselves web devs. It's not really worth the trouble worrying about it as far as I'm concerned - but possibly that's because I wasn't burdened with a male ego at birth 
As Paul said, web app's are used by many people, but then probably not as many people as use MS's app's. I think the survey is fair
What prevents people from seeing is the ghost of recollections of the past, in their eyes. - Carl Kyhlberg
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Michael P Butler wrote:
As one requires proper programming and the other is just toying around in VBScript
*Cough cough* ASP.NET *cough* C# *cough*
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer.
People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage...
-Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
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I answered > 1000. I have 2 apps which are used by more than 1000 people. One is a Windows GUI app written about 5 years ago for Lucent Technologies and the other is my current baby which is a Web app.
I think you are right in saying that 1000 web users is not the same as 1000 Windows users for most web sites, since most websites are just content delivery mecanisms, not interactive experiences. When the web app is a truly interactive, then the 1000 users is more along the same lines.
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