Could the misconception of arrogance/ego be avoided if both parties were on the same page? ‘I am now entering into a debate with you civilian’. Not sure… :)

While I think Microsoft has made a huge mistake in basing the anti forgery token on the legacy viewstate mac validation algorithm (and even haven’t managed to mask this legacy in more intuitive and descriptive error messages), your solution works fine.

I wish Microsoft could somehow demand or at least encourage the existence of in web.config in ASP.NET MVC projects, so this problem wouldn’t ever surface to begin with.

Again: Thanks for your solution! :)

I think this does/can work in the real world. I just think that the art of (or education to engage in) debate has been lost.

This is something that I’ve struggled with, because I am always looking for someone to disprove my ideas and get that feedback, but ultimately there isn’t a willingness to discuss or that my passion is misconstrued as arrogance/ego.

The best things it had going for it were its highly compressed program and its technician option. Both have since been removed, and the bid to concentrate on the B.Tech. has failed in my opinion. Now that I have some perspective, the problems that would lead to the college’s decline were already present when I was there - money was mismanaged, the building was rented instead of owned, and when management and ownership changed hands policies were inherited from an already-failed institution (Devry).

Considering that it’s a very old institution, it’s sad to see it go like this. If several key decisions in the late 1990s and early 2000s had been made differently I could easily see the college being far more prosperous than it is now.

One of the popular features of a technologist diploma from RCC was its transferability to an undergraduate Bachelor of Engineering at Lakehead University. When the university decided to also offer a transferral from the B.Tech. to my master’s degree I’m glad that I took the opportunity. However, I don’t see either transfer program lasting much longer. Many of my friends that had graduated RCC and transferred to Lakehead made the analogy of leaping from a sinking ship, and unfortunately I can’t disagree with them.

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Solution: I bought a MacBook.

Some variation of BDUF (like DUF) would have certainly been welcome.

Common sense and moderation are not characteristics of BDUF. Big is not moderate for the first place. Middle is moderate. DUF is working surely.

I’m not sure where the “best” education in IT is, but I would start by looking at well respecting public institutes in the region that your son would like to live / work in. I hope that helps.

I need to get a little more hardcore with my js zenness. This book would be wicked.

Cheers!

Your last link shows that RCC has been listed as a post secondary school in Canada. Similarly we can find a list that says that Tim Horton’s is a Canadian fast food restaurant - just because RCC is listed doesn’t mean it’s a well recognized school. Nothing has been proven.

I’ll say it again RCC Certificates aren’t equivalent to Ontario College Diplomas or University Degrees, and it appears that a couple Canadian provinces have issues with Yorkville University / RCC Institute of Technology:

Yorkville University is a private, for profit, … university … The university’s staff consists significantly of former staff from Lansbridge University which was ordered closed by the province of British Columbia and relocated to New Brunswick. The president of Yorkville Univeristy is Rick Davey, former manager of the failed Ontario wing of Devry college and the current manager of RCC Institute of Technology a trade school in Toronto … The university in ineligible for student loans in the province of British Columbia as well as others, graduates of their programs are not certified as counseling therapists in many provinces and regions including Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The province of Ontario does not allow Yorkville University to promote themselves or market in the province using the term “University”, nor does it recognize the schools graduates. The RCC Institute of Technology, is a private technical college located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada which became a division of Yorkville University in 2007. - Wikipedia: Yorkville University

I’m an advocate of continuous learning and post secondary education. I think everyone should go to a University or College, but steer clear of the for profit / private institutes like RCC / Yorkville University. Your time and money is better spent in the public realm. If given the choice, I recommend getting a recognized degree or a diploma from a public institute.

Here’s another related thread:

A community college is probably a much better idea. They are affordable, the credits are transferable, and are almost as easy to get into. They also look better on a resume.
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I went to RCC in Toronto. They are almost identical to Devry. Expensive, and the knowledge you get is probably out of date or useless at the very least. - Anyone have experience with ITT tech or places like that? Compare/contrast to traditional university experience?

LOL,You must have some serious loathing towards RCC. Any ways i will try and provide as much references as possible to prove you wrong again.

Before i start i will like to remind you that RCC is a recognized and authorized institution in ontario (view the list here).

You said “An Ontario College Diploma has more recognition and is NOT equivalent to an RCC diploma”. Do you have prove for that or your just adding personal sentiments to it, like i said before its just different name by choice otherwise all is known as college diploma i.e(Diploma). According to this CICIC website.

Those your friends that choose to work alongside with high school student and the Guy you said RCC was the biggest mistake in his adult life,well trust me they dont believe in them selves and people like you (Adam) contribute in limiting there capabilities just because they went to RCC. The statistics you provided was not and can never be general perspective of all graduates irrespective of the school the person graduates from ,Example my friend that finished with only diploma makes way more than that and me with Bachelor from RCC makes substantially more.

Adam you should know the fact,irrespective of where someone got there Diploma or Bachelor you will agree with me that this life is a continous learning even though you might be making millions you still need to upgrade and learn new things or advance the one you know already.Thats why peolpe with Diploma go for Bachelor after some time, and people with Bachelor go for Masters after some time, so i suggest Adam that if you havn’t done that already to go back to one of the public schools for your Bachelor if not Masters.

Hopefully i answered some of your questions and will continue to come back for more…

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Being a developer is certainly not all about coding, it’s funny how we get caught up in micro efficiencies like refactoring tools, text editors, and keyboard commands.

Thanks Ruz.

Thanks for chiming in with your opinion.

I have to continue to disagree. An Ontario College Diploma has more recognition and is NOT equivalent to an RCC diploma. You’ll need to provide some references to prove otherwise.

You’re right, RCC has some recognition within the Southern Ontario market, but outside Toronto, it is relatively unknown. Ontario College Diplomas are still better recognized.

You said:

industries accross Ontario and beyond has prefered RCC diploma students to that of so called public colleges because RCC has its history on the industry already.

Do you have a reference, or story backing your claim. Where did you hear this? How can you back this statement up?

Many of the RCC grads I knew ended up working alongside high school students who were getting the same salary. One friend described RCC as the biggest mistake he had made in his adult life. I suspect there are other RCC graduates with similar sentiments, but who are too embarrassed to speak up. Here’s an excerpt that suggests this is a common occurrence:

career college diploma or certificate holders [like what RCC offers] earned almost the same as high school graduates but they were more likely to be employed. Men with a high school diploma earned $35,200 compared to $35,300 for those with career college diplomas or certificates however the employment rate for those with high school was 92 percent compared to 98 percent for those with career college diplomas. - http://weacanada.ca/files/articles/0903careercolleges.pdf

It’s common knowledge that IT / Software / Electronic graduates will be able to find a job upon graduation, and after you’ve incurred the debt to attend a school like RCC you need to take any job you can get. The job guarantee that RCC offers its graduates seems to be an advertisement ploy. I mean, of course you’ll get a job after graduation!! You have to in order to pay your giant loans, but you also might be working an unrelated job alongside high school students who are getting the same salary.

RCC isn’t suited for everyone, but neither are publicly funded institutes, regardless of the path we follow, more education will advance our careers. I suspect that Greg realized that he needed more than an RCC education and thankfully his courses at RCC paved the way to a publicly funded university.

Like you mentioned, people with drive and ambition will succeed regardless of the educational institute they attended. Thanks again for the comment.

Thanks for all your effort to clearify what RCC is and isn’t,about the diploma first, the fact is RCC diploma and other public colleges diploma is the same thing call it OCD or just diploma all is called certificate opon graduation from a two years technologist program its just different name by choice and no industry to my knowledge has ever questioned RCC diploma certificates to that of OCD according to Adams definition, in facts industries accross Ontario and beyond has prefered RCC diploma students to that of so called public colleges because RCC has its history on the industry already.For any school to issue diploma certifactes in any technology field they must get approval from CCT/CTAB and OACETT otherwise the program is not accredited

About the Bachelor of Technology RCC is now issuing to its graduates, the degree is fully consented by the ministry of training and colleges/universities the same body that is reponsible for granting public colleges/universities the right to issue degree upon successfully completion of a four year study,so both RCC’s diploma and degree is aquiped to give its graduates unlimited opportunity be it working or doing future studies.

Adam I dont agree with your statement that most RCC student dont get job in the field,now point of correction no college or university will guarantee its graduates related job upon graduation be it MIT or Harvard U. but RCC goes extra mile to make sure that every graduates gets jobs in the field using different measures. I might agree with you in terms of cost but you know what that is why its called RCC private college off course it has to because Ontario gervernment is not giving them a cent.

A little about me,I graduated with both Bachelor of Technology and Diploma from RCC last Year August 2008, and in less than two weeks i gots a job as a Technical Specialist and after two months i got another offer As RF/Microwave Test Engineer from a different company which i am still with. so Adam as you can see from me and Greg who is completing his masters that as an RCC graduates you could do any thing once your willing to go for it.

Thanks again Adam & Greg

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And also, what’s wrong with you? You don’t answer text messages anymore? I see what’s going on here.

I agree and disagree with your points on design/widgets/etc. While I agree it is self-serving, more often than not, I find that when I use a poor design it can cripple my imagination. I get the feeling like I am boxed in and then I stop posting. So while it’s generally not important to users (hopefully it’s easy to use), it is important to authors—or at least this author.

For the next month I’m going to produce a post per week.

Thanks! Point taken… :)

When trying to promote yourself (with online content) as a larger than life professional figure, then advertisement based content might be better suited, but advertisement based content seems best directed at corporate level management since our peers (developers) see right through these ploys (which hurts personal credibility). Even then, writing advertisement based content could be pointless since corporate level management / hiring managers can’t invest the time to learn about all their potential employees, and if they did judge a potential candidate based on subjective / offensive content, then the company’s culture is probably a mismatch. But what do I know? :)

A good ad is one that grabs attention, well thought out, promotes a useful item by presenting a solution to a problem, and its scope rarely offends anyone. I hardly ever see ads that are self-deprecating, too revealing about the author, offensive, or far too subjective, and when someone uses it in this fashion in regards to online content, there shouldn’t be any issues. When someone posts public content that would have no place in an ad, such as photos from the wild party last week, it’s really irrelevant to anyone but a small group of individuals, therefore should not be posted online. It is material such as this that gets people into hot water. On a side note, of the actual commercials and other ads I’ve seen involving parties and copious amounts of available beer (i.e. Molson commercials), no one is usually seen drinking the beer, so clearly even these ads have had careful consideration of the qualities of a good ad, while promoting the beer company in such way that it ensures the actors aren’t performing any actions that can detrimental to their careers later on.

If someone truly wants to spark a debate about something highly objective or a touchy subject, by all means go for it, but when prompted for your real name, please use something like jabberwocky455, you’ll be thankful you did later on.

Robert Glass makes this interesting point:Software developers talk a lot about tools. They evaluate quite a few, buy a fair number, and use practically none. - Facts of Software Engineering Management

Here is an article on how to use it with the jQuery object. In other words namespasing with the jQuery
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