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    Windows Service developer wanted

    Hi,

    I'm looking for some help. I'm a project manager at a large investment bank with offices in London and New York.
    My development team has just finished developing a new payment system for clients to receive their dividends.

    You'll laugh at this, but the one part of the solution we overlooked was a mechanism to schedule the payments to run once per day.
    For security reasons, we're not able to use the standard Windows task scheduler to do this so our architect has advised me that a custom 'Windows service' can be used. None of the developers have experience in this area so I decided to hire a specialist contractor on a short term basis to deliver the remaining part. As the payments and interface code is already complete and just needs to be scheduled, this should be a relatively small and simple piece of work. Well... that's what I was led to believe during his interview anyway.

    Since the specialist arrived he's spent half of his time either drinking coffee, picking his nose or talking to himself. The rest of the time he's doing what looks like debugging 5 lines of code, then bashing his fists on the table when it doesn't work. Throughout this he's had his own laptop on the same web page that look like 'forums'. I've asked what it is he's doing several times, but he quickly closes his browser window, and tells me that he's onto Microsoft Support who've found an enormous 'bug' in Windows. Something about 'time action' apparently. Unfortunately for him I've been in this business for too long to fall for such rubbish from contractors.

    I'm so annoyed. The agency led me to believe this guy was the industry go-to windows service and C# expert, but that's obviously turned out to be agency bulltulip,....again! To be fair we usually spend more on contractor day rates than this one, so I guess you get what you pay for.

    As we're now initiating the termination of contract with the agency, does anyone on this forum want to finish the job?

    Thanks

    #2
    I've got five minutes to spare, sure, no problem.

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      #3
      I can think of one chap...
      Originally posted by MaryPoppins
      I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
      Originally posted by vetran
      Urine is quite nourishing

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        #4
        I'd stay clear of micromanagers like you.
        "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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          #5
          How about using the scheduler built into another industry-standard bit of software, such as Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server's agent service can schedule operating system commands to run (as well as SQL commands). Could this do what you need, whilst satisfying security requirements?

          Alternatively how about using windows scheduler, but build security checking into the job, so that if a hacker is able to run the job it won't do anything unless the other security checks pass.

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            #6
            I believe Windows has 'at' to run a timed job/batch/script. Similar to Unix cron but not as flexible I think. Also maybe Unix Services for Windows has cron?

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              #7
              Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
              Hi,

              I'm looking for some help. I'm a project manager at a large investment bank with offices in London and New York.
              My development team has just finished developing a new payment system for clients to receive their dividends.

              You'll laugh at this, but the one part of the solution we overlooked was a mechanism to schedule the payments to run once per day.
              For security reasons, we're not able to use the standard Windows task scheduler to do this so our architect has advised me that a custom 'Windows service' can be used. None of the developers have experience in this area so I decided to hire a specialist contractor on a short term basis to deliver the remaining part. As the payments and interface code is already complete and just needs to be scheduled, this should be a relatively small and simple piece of work. Well... that's what I was led to believe during his interview anyway.

              Since the specialist arrived he's spent half of his time either drinking coffee, picking his nose or talking to himself. The rest of the time he's doing what looks like debugging 5 lines of code, then bashing his fists on the table when it doesn't work. Throughout this he's had his own laptop on the same web page that look like 'forums'. I've asked what it is he's doing several times, but he quickly closes his browser window, and tells me that he's onto Microsoft Support who've found an enormous 'bug' in Windows. Something about 'time action' apparently. Unfortunately for him I've been in this business for too long to fall for such rubbish from contractors.

              I'm so annoyed. The agency led me to believe this guy was the industry go-to windows service and C# expert, but that's obviously turned out to be agency bulltulip,....again! To be fair we usually spend more on contractor day rates than this one, so I guess you get what you pay for.

              As we're now initiating the termination of contract with the agency, does anyone on this forum want to finish the job?

              Thanks
              Would it not be easier, and better value to get said contractor to just press a button once a day when it needs to be run?
              Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
              I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

              I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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                #8
                Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
                Since the specialist arrived he's spent half of his time either drinking coffee, picking his nose or talking to himself. The rest of the time he's doing what looks like debugging 5 lines of code, then bashing his fists on the table when it doesn't work. Throughout this he's had his own laptop on the same web page that look like 'forums'. I've asked what it is he's doing several times, but he quickly closes his browser window, and tells me that he's onto Microsoft Support who've found an enormous 'bug' in Windows. Something about 'time action' apparently. Unfortunately for him I've been in this business for too long to fall for such rubbish from contractors.

                I'm so annoyed. The agency led me to believe this guy was the industry go-to windows service and C# expert, but that's obviously turned out to be agency bulltulip,....again! To be fair we usually spend more on contractor day rates than this one, so I guess you get what you pay for.

                As we're now initiating the termination of contract with the agency, does anyone on this forum want to finish the job?

                Thanks
                Hmm...

                http://forums.contractoruk.com/techn...ml#post1951886

                Too subtle?

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                  #9
                  Are you going to explain CheeseSlice, or let them carry on taking it seriously?
                  Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                  I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                  Originally posted by vetran
                  Urine is quite nourishing

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                    #10
                    You need an expert? You need the job to just work? Then you need an automator!

                    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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