That is, don’t buy T-Mobile if you want reliable network.

They offer a great web package, but there network is just shite. I know a few people on T-Mobile and quite often when I phone them I’m told I have phoned an incorrect number. You try again, knowing full well the number is correct and get the same message. If your persistant and keep trying all of a sudden it will ring and you’ll get through. If your a business and give out your number to clients, and someone phones it and gets that message, they are unlikley to try over and over again until it works as they will believe the message they hear. I also know that the same happens when people try and phone me.

I went to the Big Chill this year with a few people. All their phones worked fine except the 2 of use on T-Mobile who had no connection at all. Same for Nottinghill Carnival. Everyone is standing around me phoning and texting there friends and although I had a connection to their network, I couldn’t send or recieve texts of calls in the area of the carnival over the 2 days.

Now their network is completely down except if you are phoning T-Mobile, which I just did. I’m told that they don’t compensate for the whole network going down or any of the above because they have covered themselves in their contract. I’m also told by the T-Mobile representative that is quite common when people phone a T-Mobile phone they get told its an incorrect number, and that it happens to him. They never advertised this on their site or told me about this when they signed up.

If you have problems with T-Mobile speak out, and if your thinking about joining them, but need a reliable phone I would suggest looking elsewhere.

Last month at the LFPUG I gave a presentation with the aim to give attendees some knowledge about Flex effects in general, how the small Papervision3D effects for Flex framework works, and how users can use these classes to create their own effects.

I run LFPUG pretty much alone and put a lot of time and effort into getting a decent meeting together each month. We are an independent user group, as thats what our users choose to remain.

I like to think of it as a place where people can share ideas, code, concepts and also test out the water at presenting certain subjects. I also welcome anyone to present (except those out to adevrtise alone), to hone their presenting skills, and for many, its the first time they have stood up and spoke infront of the public. I personally present on a regular basis at LFPUG filling any empty slots, and sometimes I just don’t have the time to spend days getting materials ready, and doing dummy runs before presenting live.

In hindsight, watching the video back it would have made more sense to show these effects in action before diving into the code and would have been nice to have had some graphics and UML showing the framework and how it links together as I was explaining it.

That said I came across a post by an attendee, that was just downright rude. You can view the offending post here and the presentation files and video here .

I can’t reply to this post as the blog throws an error when I try to post a comment ‘WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '0' for key 1]‘, and therefore I decided to reply here.

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