It looks like readiness testing in the Army is getting interesting:
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2011/03/01/1075110?sac=Local

It will be interesting to see what % of soldiers fall off the beam and flunk that test :o) The title says more running which I guess is true if you look at multiple running tests instead of just the original 1. However, the 2 mile run has changed to a 1.5 mile run so that's shorter. IMHO, the tests make sense and are more applicable to real world situations.


>I thought you ex military types would be unpacked in about 5 mins. You must have too much stuff. :-)
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>Have you worked out where your nearest pub is yet
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>>Yes. :o) Still unpacking though...
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>>>Have you moved now ?
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>>>>You snooze you lose :o)
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>>>>>>I was surprised to see this in the CodeProject Daily News today:
>>>>>>http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/ITProfessionals/ProfessionalDevelopment/should-i-abandon-vb-net
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>>>>>Get out of my head, man ! ( I had this open in another window and just logged on to UT to post about it <bg> )
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>>>>>I guess I just don't see what the big deal is, one way or another. I have found the transition to C# ( and back again - I still develop a big app in VB since that is how it started ) to be almost unnoticeable, after an initial orientation. With Coderush and other add-ins even the bracket and semicolon stuff happens pretty much automatically.
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>>>>>I think a much bigger shift is to EF and WPF from my BOs wrapping datasets and Winforms. That is where the fun is. Still wrapping my head around that. It is definitely a world that motivates one to use C sharp - especially for the Linq lamba syntax. Very hard to find good VB-Linq stuff whereas if you are comfortable with C# there is an amazing wealth of stuff.
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>>>>>BTW, Pluralsight just added another 2 hours of Julie Lehrman specifically on Linq to Entities.
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>>>>>These days it is about 5 hours a day on WPF, EF, Devforce, MVVM light - and that all means C#