Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email
The problem with using emails as requirements documents... Q: Where are the requirements for the cruise control software? A: I'll forward you the email trail of the discussions I had with Toyota. a year or so goes by Q: Don't you know the cruise control should disengage when you brake? A: Sorry I didn't read that part of the email. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: People don't read more than the first 2 lines of emails. For example I stopped reading after I'll generalise :) Regards Arjang On 26 February 2010 08:41, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Greetings all, Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one question in an email? In fact, I'll generalise that and say people often don't read an entire email. I had this today (already) but this happens to me all the time (it's probably more like 25% of the time but I think the exaggeration is justified). This is particularly annoying when the main question isn't the first one (such as today's incident). eg, Please tell me A and B but I really want to know about C will usually just get me the answer to A. I don't want to have to twitterize my emails into single sentences of a few small words. I wonder how many people on this list didn't get past the first sentence :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama
Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email
What is needed is a replacement of email. A format that allows editing and versioning built into the email client. Then you can say. Ahh. Jim changed this line of the email on this date and then Jane changed it again a week later. It will save millions of dollars in bandwidth costs too. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Greg Harris g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com wrote: Sounds like SSW rules to better email http://sharepoint.ssw.com.au/Standards/Communication/RulesToBetterEmail/Pages/SendTasksOneEmailAtATime.aspx But you can not make a 100% rule it depends on the work style of the person you are sending the email to. If there is more than two items, start with... Hi Fred, There are two things I need from you - X - Y
Re: F11 via Javascript
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1030928/browser-fullscreen-window-fullscreentrue-not-working On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Hey all, I'm wondering if there is a way to put your browser in fullscreen mode (same as pressing F11) via Javascript. My searching has turned up some scripts for opening new windows in fullscreen, but not for the current window. It's looking like something you can't do (probably for security reasons, to stop ppl hijacking the browser). thanks in advance, Stephen
Re: OT - wondering; c# direction
Maybe it's time for an entire overhaul of .NET and the CLR? This is a very interesting podcast where Juval Lowy tries to explain why every class (including .NET classes) should be WCF services. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=520 I haven't looked at it but apparently Juval has a utility that will allow you to define a POCO class which it will convert into a WCF service thus removing the need to have settings in the config file for each class. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:58 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 11 February 2010 18:19, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if I am alone, out here, in thinking that C# is (possibly) going in a strange and bad direction. We can notice that it is tending to more of a dynamic/scripting-like language, with less compile-time checks (or worded another way, more freedom) with features that you could argue are generally harmful, and only sometimes useful (Extension Methods being the primary example, anonymous classes being another). I've not looked closely enough at the dynamic features in C# 4 to comment, but .NET has strong fundamentals and I appreciate Nick Wienholt's comments re Hejlsberg. He has produced environments with incredible pedigree in both his Borland and Microsoft days - I think he is a genius and a true asset to MS more so than most other people who are held up as MS 'rockstars'. I just hope MS are not spooked into doing something completely insane with .NET on the basis of the apparent popularity of dynamic languages in the freetard community. From following the dynamic crowd for the past year and a half or so, I have concluded that it is a religious movement; at least that is the only reason I can figure out why anyone would endure a Steve Yegge talk or blog post. The same people probably believe Erlang propaganda. Their bossman needs to give them more work to do so they can stop trying to figure out how to invent 1995. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
Re: OT - wondering; c# direction
Ahem it's a podcast not a video. I listen to podcasts while doing other boring yet necessary things such as driving or exercise. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:13 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: That podcast robbed me of thirty minutes of my life (I couldn't handle the entire 60 minutes) and reaffirmed my belief in podcasts. I haven't watched it yet, but I tend to agree, I've can't think of one good thing that I've seen on the internet about programming that has been in the form of a video (well, with the obvious exception of dashy videos). Your analysis suggests that there is not much point reviewing this point of view for this particular video. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact -- silky http://www.mirios.com.au/ http://island.mirios.com.au/t/rigby+random+20 deflective oaf! Remote, trendily uncomplicated beneficence: fortunetelling completion profit.
Re: Resharper and StyleCop
Sorry to resurrect this thread but I thought people might be interested in this feature. In R# 5 there is better ASP.NET/HTML http://asp.net/HTML support. On of the features I just discovered is that when you change an opening tag R# will update the closing tag automatically. I.e. if you have h2bla bla bla/h2 and you change the h2 to h3 then R# will update the closing tag to /h3. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:22 PM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote: I think the thing I use Resharper for the most is for navigating around a project. I pretty much use F12 and control-shift-f, exclusively, for navigating around my projects. I agree that Find all references is pretty bad/annoying in VS. I can't live with my ctrl-shift-f though. CTRL+T is for searching for a type and ALT+\ is for searching members within a type. Also SHIFT+F12 is find all references which is much better than the VS one. ALT+Home for going to the base class/interface and ALT+END for going to a sub-class/interface implementation. There's also a lot of validation of ASPX/ASCX files which helps to catch errors that would otherwise not be caught by VS. -- silky http://www.mirios.com.au/ http://island.mirios.com.au/t/rigby+random+20 SET did torture. REHOUSE foaminess.
Re: [OT] Versioning
NAnt (or nant contrib) has a build task that will generate a CommonAssemblyInfo file which you can then reference (as a link) in all your projects. Then you can have each assemblyinfo file in the project have a description and title but leave out the version number and any other settings that are common to all the projects (e.g. copyright). Here's info on getting it working with CCNET http://igloocoder.com/archive/2008/01/04/versioning-applications-using-nant-and-cruisecontrol.net.aspx On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:39 PM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: TGIF! What assembly versioning convention do people here follow? I assume theres a Microsoft standard that I havent found yet. I'm yet to get fully into this (but I'm getting close). What I've implemented at home (on dashy) is major.minor.build.revision So the download file generated is in the form of: filename-0.0.463.1263.zip Thus it hasn't made it to a first version yet, but has had quite a few builds and significant commits against the repo. Of course, it's all auto-generated (which is the point, and awesome, and fun). CruiseControl.NET can easily push through the build number, and I assume Hudson can as well (I'm moving to that at for my CI server now), but it should go without saying that this structure will imply a significantly different build number if you switch build servers mid-project (i.e. you may need to set a 'base' build number once, after doing the switch, just to make sure it all matches up). That said, with this version I haven't put it to the test of using it for any decision-making in-code. But nevertheless, it's what I use, and I quite like it. Cheers Bec -- silky http://www.mirios.com.au/ http://island.mirios.com.au/t/rigby+random+20 paean-KLEPTOMANIAC mousiness heckle.
