Bunker Hollow

I thought this was an interesting comment: "Perhaps tired of hearing Americans' constant critique of his countrymen, HCL Technologies'  highly respected chief executive Vineet Nayar recently told an audience in New York City that American tech graduates are basically 'unemployable', according to an InformationWeek ...

Thanks for that detailed explanation Matt!  If possible I would like to do in house for the learning experience.  Just a quick question though, when you say you are not guaranteed a static IP, does that mean they are too expensive to purchase?  Or have they officially run out of them? 

Hi Matt, I am considering designing my own web site in a year or 2.  Just wandering if you could add your input to what the advantages and disadvantages of hosting a web server on my local server versus one of the big players such as Go Daddy.  Some fairly obvious ones I can think of is cost and security.  You will have to get a ...

I am a big fan of the Microsoft Integration Services Step by Step book for learning the fundamentals.  You can find it at most public libraries or Amazon for $30.  Not sure of any online tutorials.

Personally I prefer C#.  My company is also a C# shop.  What sucks is that if you want to make custom extensions via Script Task (Visual Studio for Applications) in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services you are forced to use VB.Net.  C# is not an option for some reason.  The only way around this is to create your own C#.Net ...

I got a lot of interest and debate when I brought up this subject at work.  Just curious to hear everyone's thoughts.  Is there any advantage (besides a cleaner syntax) of using C# over Visual Basic.?