+1 for Rider. Using WebStorm and IntelliJ daily at work, being able to use Rider for personal projects is like a comfy pair of shoes.

I miss VB6

I always ask people to make an address book. Good demonstration of Hibernate and MVC. Make it as complex or simple as you like.

Literally the EXACT same thing happened to me. Identical timescales and everything. Unfortunately while you took the red pill I took the blue one. How is your career going now? And how is the start up? Would love to know what would have happened if I'd said "Fuck off"

Azous hit the nail on the head. Although I think he was actually going in there to powder his nose.

I love vim so this sounds like great advice. Thanks and merry Xmas!

The more dangerous part is that because there were no errors this time, your PM and customer then think deploying straight to prod, on a Friday, is fine every week. Who needs UAT??

Have you looked at Dynatrace for inspiration?

Been learning Zkoss the past few weeks. Not so popular but easy to use

But hey! There's a reason I write code and don't run a business!

Unfortunately it's a competitive market place and my employers do not understand that absorbing the cost of modularising our code now, will help reduce estimates and win business later, so they include the extra time in our estimates to pass that cost on. This makes us even more expensive than competitors who have done the white labeling exercise so we just code it from scratch all intertwined and bespoke because it's cheaper up front........again

I know that guilt. I've been teaching myself nodeJS this week. Written a dummy hop based payment provider in between support tickets. Peak-shmeak

Do we work for the same Boss??

Exactly the same for me. Inset day at school so Dad worked from home to look after me. Gave me this book to shut me up!