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Thanks you two! I'm blushing ..
Well, just to update ...
It's been 2-1/2 years since I quit my job.
I'm still at home, paying the rent by writing programs.
I'm still using PBP/ASM.
I'm still sitting in the same chair 14hrs a day.
And I've still got the hemorrhoids.
(gotta get a new chair)
It's worth every minute of it!
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DT
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Hmm, If you like your chair, keep it!. Now they treet hemorrhoids with laser once and for all!Originally Posted by Darrel Taylor
Consider it as it is (I know) very painful....
Ioannis
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Online PBP Course
Actually it surprises me as to why Darrel doesn't design / run some online course(s) for PBP. Setup a website specific for the purpose, design a course with theory and practicality (assignments), get the course accredited somehow and charge people $500 to enroll. Lot of Universities are all for online education (it is without a doubt the future)
Trent Jackson
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"Do what others won't, so you can have what others don't !"
That is very good advice, that is how I've kept a job for the last 25 years. I would like to thank everyone on this forum for their time, patience and knowledge. I understand all of you take time out of your day to lend a hand, and to think your giving advice for free. I manufacture prototype pcb's daily for different customer applications, I draw up the circuit do the board layout and produce the finished pcb, all by myself, and we have customers worldwide. However, there are times when I hit a brick wall and other than googling for a suggestion or idea, I am grateful that I can come here and ask for advice without worrying that I being led down a dead end street. It is great that I can count on the advice given here to be true and correct As I said earlier, I know ya'll take time out to help us and some have made suggestion about paypal type support. There have been times I would have been willing to pay out of my own pocket for solid advice just to get a project finished.
I would especially like to thank Skimask, Mackrackit, Joe.S, Bruce, Darryl Taylor,Dave and Melanie for their help, and hope that everyone who visits here who has called a tech support hotline only to hear they'll be charged for telephone support, stop and think,ALL THESE PEOPLE HERE ARE HELPING US FOR FREE!!!!
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Wait until you get the bill next month!!!
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An actual wish for the list
How about an online Syntax checker? Or something that could at least count the amount of code you used and suggest a suitable PIC for the job? Or perhaps let you know if what you've done will even fit into the PIC you specify? I'm not asking for FREE answers, just a sanity check. I would like to know if what I'm doing will fit into the PIC I've chosen so I can go on and lay out a PCB. I'm thinking of something similar to Advanced Circuits' DFM service that will analize your Gerbers and tell you if you have DRC problems.
Something like that would be very helpful while waiting for your development bundle to get through the purchacing department. While I wait all I have is Notepad and the PicBasicPro manual and the PIC datasheets.
Besides that, I would add that most of those that use these forums do what others CAN'T, and therefore get what others only wish for... job satisfaction
The less you expect, the more you get.
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Online PBP Courses=Excellent Additional Income!
I love the idea that was mentioned about online courses for teaching PBP. I have only found one company that actually teaches PBC and PBP, but it's a three-day course and you have to be present at their current location to participate. Oh yea, the cost of enrollment in the course is only $1995 per student...Here's the link: http://www.rcgresearch.com/
I would be all for an online course that taught PBP! I've bought numerous books, read the manual twice from cover to cover, and have even had the local library order books I don't have so I can read them and decide if they're worth puchasing for myself. I'm sure your current income situation is pretty demanding with your time and energy, but just imagine if you, Darrel, and possibly others with a lot of experience in PBP programming and HTML got together and developed a complete online course on PBP. I know it will initially take quite a bit of time and effort to develop such a course, but imagine the rewards within the next few years afterwards. Charge $500-$1000USD or more for enrollment, send out a certified "degree" or "diploma" to passing participants, and answer a few questions from them during the course if need be and you'll pretty much be set. If you design the course yourself, you should really only have to pay a fee for hosting of the site and whatever percentage of the net profits to others that have assisted in development. I'm sure that microEngineering Labs would be more than willing to list your online course under it's "Developer's Resources" section, and the forum owners here would most likely be happy to help in advertisement of it also.
This really could be your ticket to a very comfortable retirement. If you do decide to do this, you should offer a hefty discount to forum members (like me) who have been encouraging this...Or let a couple of forum members (pick me, pick me!) test and contribute editorial and technical reviews and/or corrections to the first version of the course (I'd make an excellent grammical and punctuation editor)...
I'd volunteer my time (just like you have yours to helping members of this forum) to help with whatever I could-ideas, suggestions, editing, etc. if this were to become a reality. At this time, there are no competitors that I know of (at least for online courses, anyway), and as somebody else had pointed out-we're evolving to online courses for almost everything these days anyway. I would really love to see this develop-think it over and imagine how your retirement would play out...
-Adam Collins
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You'll have trouble filling seats with "serious contenders" unless it's actually accredited by a recognized institute.
Unless you're holding a bachelors degree in education (or similar) I would never bother seriously considering it.
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