It was a bar conversation, we are just throwing around ideas. In our organization, our data will exist in internal MS SQL servers. Our task will be to write web applications to contextualize and work with this data (CRUD) and report for upper management and execs all internal information, nothing web facing. We have always just done everything Microsoft, because it is here and everything else in the environment is, however, I don' see many other people talking about or recommending it. I just wanted to see if there was a clear favorite, or a go to web dev environment that everyone agreed on. I kind of figured it depends would be the answer.

Just a quick question , if you could start fresh for an enterprise web app, with a sql backend what would you use. Currently we use C# in a visual studio MVC project, then razor forms. If we could start all over how should we do it?

@penguinwrangler said in Chromebooks and Facebook:

@scottalanmiller Well, I am buying it for him so it will be the cheapest 4GB RAM model I can find. Probably a refurb from Newegg.

Facebook in general on a 4GB model is a little clunky. I wouldn't go super cheap, shoot more middle of the road model.

@ccwtech said in Raid Drive recovery:

Have you downloaded R-Studio?

I was going to before I found a backup of the Website I needed to restore. I ended up spending my limited time bring the old code up to date instead of testing the software. Thanks for suggestion.

I called G-RAID, and you guys are dead on. The new devices have a different hardware RAID controller, so I would have to find an old enclosure on ebay, or pay out for data recovery. I was lucky enough to find a copy of the 1 important piece of development that wasn't super out of date, so I have given up on the drive and the data. I will just move on from here. Thanks for the advice and lesson learned.

I have a little G-Raid Studio Thunderbolt 2 6TB external hard drive with two drives mirrored to each other. The chassis seems to have failed and will not spin up the drives. I removed the drives and plugged them in to my laptop individually in both Mac and Windows and it seems to see the drive but not mount them due to an unknown format. I just want to recover the data and move it to real business hardware, any advice?

@penguinwrangler As far as weight-loss goes you will typically get better results with weight-loss with strength training than cardio. When you do cardio, you burn more calories than sitting. When you lift weights you burn more calories, then your body will spend more calories rebuilding muscle the next day, then that new muscle now takes more calories to move, so you burn more in your day to day life. I am not saying you don't need cardio, but if your goal is weight loss at least consider doing a mix. I lift 3 days a week and ride my bike 6 miles round trip to and from work for my cardio. I started about where you were and I have slowly worked from 300lbs about 8 years ago down to 185, then back up to 200, and on a cut now to get to the 170's. Weight training is what took me from 220 to 185 and made a huge difference for me.

Also, you can not exercise off a bad diet. an 30min on the treadmill barely breaks even for a single bottle of soda.

I stumbled across this Google sheets document over the weekend. I am trying it out to track my current weight cut over this summer. I’m not doing the diet, just using he tracking tool. I thought I would share if anyone else wants way more data than they need.

https://www.reddit.com/r/4hourbodyslowcarb/comments/24hukd/i_made_you_guys_something_likwidteks_epic_weight/

So, as it stands the title changes has to go through the C** Level and Exec. VP, is it worth the fight, or is it petty.

I have been with a company for 3+ years now. Before this job I had constantly made up job titles from DB Manager, to Network Admin, to Systems Admin, when in reality I was an IT generalist with a CIS degree running a 1-2 man operation for a company with less than 500 employees. Now I am at a new job and my role is basically a Manufacturing Systems Integrator/ .Net Developer, but my job title is a made up title specific to this company ending in Technician and it doesn't reflect what I really do day to day. I have started pushing to upper management that I would like an industry standard job title, because I don't feel that my title respects the work I do. I am getting push back. I just wanted to open a discussion on if this is just ego, and title doesn't matter, or does it? Is is fair that I want to be called a developer or integrator, because it is what I do. It is hard to determine if I am being compensated fairly when my title is made up, but does that matter? What say you all?