Re: SEU vs. ?

I guess i've just been living in the dark ages for too long....

i've only had 3 employers in my entire dp life - my first NEVER put pcs on
peoples desks.  too cheap.  we worked almost exclusively on twinax. (that
was 7 years ago when I left)

my second (i was a part owner of that one), I was more management than
consultant, we worked on a shoestring budget - no laptops.   When I did
work outside the office, it was at large corps who had 'policies' that you
couldn't stray from.

the third, i've been at the same client for 2+ years, and it took me 6
months just to get them to get up to the right ptf levels to even run CODE.
In the mean time, I'm working on 10+ small projects at a time, doing
maintenance, etc. and it's hard for me to justify 'learning' a new IDE on
thier dime.

but again, they are all just 'excuses'.  I NEED to do it, and I will
eventually.

Rick

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Richard,

>I've
>never walked in the door of client, hooked my own fully configured pc up
to
>thier network and started working.

OTOH, have you ever explained to them that by using your own laptop (or
their PC
which is not underpowered), that your productivity will be higher?  I
routinely
use my own laptop at clients.

Of course, I wouldn't do that to a *new* client without talking to them
about
it.  But they may just be ignorant to the benefit of a more powerful
workstation
for developers.

And they may be very receptive to making you more productive, especially if
the
project is T&M.

Doug