Frans...

You must love doing this. I have never seen someone so dedicated in maintaining their product and in support to their clients. It has to be a "labor of love".

By the way, I used to be a dentist (and I guess that I still am although I haven't picked up a drill in over 15 years). But my true calling was software development - because it's such a wonderfully artistic and creative pursuit. A labor of love, for me.

Can you imagine having a programmer drill on YOUR teeth?

Jeff

If FRANS's goal is build a loyal following for LLBL then he definitely achieved his goal with such outstanding (and patient) support and an un-paralleled product in the .NET world. BTW, I studied as an electronics and communication engineer and up-to a couple of years back my main job was a field service engineer for (out of all things) Nuclear Medicine and Ultra sound machines. Now, as a full time software development heading 5 developers I do find that the greatest driving force for working 13 hours a day (including most holidays and weekends) is the strong passion I have for the field.

But my true calling was software development - because it's such a wonderfully artistic and creative pursuit. A labor of love, for me.

I totally agree with JEFF on this. That’s why I choose this as my signature in the forum

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do

For me, the combination of the .NET platform and FRANS’s knowledge rekindled the excitement I had towards software when I first sat in-front-of that VAX terminal to write my first FORTRAN routine

I indeed love this job It's very hard work, and when a deadline approaches (you have to use these as well, to get a product shipped is a key feature you've to focus on in every product development cycle ) it sometimes gets a drag, but that's unavoidable. It's digging through that drag to make it eventually which brings you to the state to ship a product, so it's well worth it .

It's so rewarding, I mean: you do what you like to do most, and your users love what you create, that's what makes this job so great .

I was and am a geek since the first time I wrote a program, back in 1986 when I just got my first Toshiba HX10 MSX 1 computer and wrote a program to solve ax^2+bx+c=0 for given a, b and c with graph drawing! . I was 16 back then and after that I didn't want to study physics anymore, but CS!

But I'm indeed passionate about writing software, and I fully understand you two about what you say about writing software as I have that too . My wife now forbids me to do it, but I had times when I got out of bed at 4am to go to the bathroom and suddenly got the idea to solve a problem I had been working on the past day, so I fired up the computer and started coding, finding myself 2 hours later, very tired and not with a solution

I had times when I got out of bed at 4am to go to the bathroom and suddenly got the idea to solve a problem I had been working on the past day, so I fired up the computer and started coding, finding myself 2 hours later, very tired and not with a solution

man.. I though its was just me. Its nice to know that there other are geeks out there

Otis wrote:

But I'm indeed passionate about writing software, and I fully understand you two about what you say about writing software as I have that too . My wife now forbids me to do it, but I had times when I got out of bed at 4am to go to the bathroom and suddenly got the idea to solve a problem I had been working on the past day, so I fired up the computer and started coding, finding myself 2 hours later, very tired and not with a solution

Been there too...

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man.. I though its was just me. Its nice to know that there other are geeks out there

I suspect that we're ALL geeks.

omar wrote:

I had times when I got out of bed at 4am to go to the bathroom and suddenly got the idea to solve a problem I had been working on the past day, so I fired up the computer and started coding, finding myself 2 hours later, very tired and not with a solution

man.. I though its was just me. Its nice to know that there other are geeks out there

This is going to sound odd, but I sometimes do my best coding in the shower. I guess washing my hair has a way of stimulating my thought processes (and nothing else).

NickD wrote:

This is going to sound odd, but I sometimes do my best coding in the shower. I guess washing my hair has a way of stimulating my thought processes (and nothing else).

My breakthrough coding is done in the toilet .. I guess my brain cells have less to worry about at the time

omar wrote:

My breakthrough coding is done in the toilet

Uh, no pun intended (I hope)

omar wrote:

My breakthrough coding is done in the toilet

You're not saying you right crappy code?

omar wrote:

My breakthrough coding is done in the toilet

Yea, I know what you mean. Sometimes you have to flush all your resources before you can eat up more resources

omar wrote:

My breakthrough coding is done in the toilet

I'm guessing you mean 'on the toilet' not 'in the toilet'. If your 'in the toilet' you would have to be very small in stature, or have a very large toilet. Eitherway, it would be messy.

ok, I'm quitting before I get banned from this forum.

You could have used 'edit'

Fishy... I should be careful of what I say around you. I bet you your team have alot of fun with you around

Too much coffee + too few hours of sleep = lots of silly talk

Fishy wrote:

I'm guessing you mean 'on the toilet' not 'in the toilet'. If your 'in the toilet' you would have to be very small in stature, or have a very large toilet. Eitherway, it would be messy.

LOL Not only that, but it would have to be an incredibly small/large toilet with a computer terminal on which to code....hmmmmm...issues with electrical safety.....

I know what you mean though, I do all my best coding either on the loo too (rarely in it though), or walking to work (the joys of a 5 minute commute to work )