Re: Entity Framework - the lay of the land

[Joseph Cooney]

Preach on.

On 16 Sep. 2016 10:50 am, "David Connors"  wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 at 10:33 Greg Keogh  wrote:
>
>> What do you suggest as an alternative?
>>>
>>> Writing stored procedures.
>>>
>>
>> What about the classical problem of "impedance mismatch". You have to
>> carefully maintain DataSets or similar and use DataAdapter to fill them,
>> then writing data back is a circus trick with the ADO.NET classes.
>>
>
> Otherwise referred to as doing high quality work.
>
>
>> Then they invented ORMs, why did they do that!? -- *GK*
>>
>
> I have given this considerable thought over the years. Normally I explain
> this with swear words but I think it boils down to two key factors.
>
> *Weltanschauung*
> The people who think that ORMs are a good idea have a code-centric view of
> the world. Careful declarative design of a data tier is outside of this
> world-view so they see it as overhead (plus they often have to bargain with
> smelly neck beard DBAs).
>
> *Free Lunch / Laziness / Lack of care for end result*
> Developers get excited over the prospect of auto-generation because OMFG
> look at all that code I did not write actually. Most developers don't wear
> the ops cost of their solutions and they certainly don't USE them and
> consequently don't give a toss if some EF-based turd they engineered takes
> 10 seconds to do things that should take 10msec.
>
> Things would be different if the average engineer were forced to walk a
> mile in the average IT pro / end users shoes.
>
> YMMV but I had a good rant on this a few years back:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMfRahO8fLo (jesus that was 6 years ago).
> I have softened my stance on Agile somewhat since then.
>
> Good outcomes always take more effort and energy. The universe has been
> that way for 13.8 billion years and isn't going to change any time soon.
>
> David.
>
> --
> David Connors
> da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
>

Re: Mobile passwords

[Joseph Cooney]

If
On 11 Nov 2015 3:59 PM, "Mark Hurd"  wrote:

>
> On 11 November 2015 at 16:05, mike smith  wrote:
>
>> Device entry of passwords is a nightmare.  If you multi-hit the virtual
>> keyboard even slightly you get accented characters which of course do not
>> work.  This is one time the ***  to represent a password field is
>> infuriating.  Yes, I know its wrong, now show it to me so I can see where
>> it is wrong!  Some apps have a check box to display the password or not.
>>  ++1 for these!
>>
>
> The only mobile device I've used (that was smart enough to browse anywhere
> that I cared how passwords are entered) is my Windows Phone, and the
> default password UI there seems to show the last typed key just long enough
> to note if it's wrong, due to fat or slow fingers.
>
> I assumed that would be the "obvious" compromise for the ** UI.
>
> ​> snip
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Meski
>>
>>  http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv
>>
>> "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure,
>> you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
>>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.)
>

Re: Excel behaviour in an app

[Joseph Cooney]

Looks like it is on their roadmap for ios and android.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-plans-to-bring-office-add-ins-to-android-sometime-later-this-year/
https://www.thurrott.com/office/3256/office-mobile-apps-to-gain-add-in-capabilities-in-2015

Judging by the examples they list, I think it probably CAN make REST calls.

Joseph

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Greg Keogh  wrote:

> Would it be possible to use excel, and do whatever 'special' stuff as an
>> add-in? Not sure if that is even a thing on office for android/ios.
>>
>
> Dunno, but then our app would cease to exist as a recognisable thing and
> would become an Office add-in. It's in interesting idea nevertheless, as it
> turns the whole problem inside out and we would market a version of the app
> as an add-in. If .NET authored Office add-ins can make REST calls then it's
> possible. Sadly, I doubt if it'd work on iOS or Android though -- *GK*
>



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Re: Excel behaviour in an app

[Joseph Cooney]

Would it be possible to use excel, and do whatever 'special' stuff as an
add-in? Not sure if that is even a thing on office for android/ios.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Greg Keogh  wrote:

> Folks, I'm wondering how people in here might tackle a technical problem
> we're about to encounter. People here often come up with surprising
> lateral-thinking ideas.
>
> We'll soon start on an app rewrite so it runs on all brands of tablet
> sized devices. We've been evaluating many development tools and languages
> and so far it looks like Xamarin is in the lead. Our technical challenge is
> to create Excel like behaviour in the app in the most realistic way
> possible. We want to load an XLSX file, display formatted cells and charts,
> updating cells and saving the changed document is a nice-to-have.
>
> There are no cross-platform native controls that mimic Excel, but there
> are web/JS products like Google Sheets
>  and
> GrapeCity's SpreadJS 
> which look like great candidates. They are of course HTML5 based, so they
> would have to be embedded in the apps in browser controls. I'm not
> normally that keen on "hybrid" apps that borrow web rendering, but I've
> used Google Charts in a phone app and the result was acceptable.
>
> Any ideas or comments on this problem of getting Excel behaviour in native
> apps would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks
> *Greg K*
>



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Re: Excel behaviour in an app

[Joseph Cooney]

So, build the REST API, build an excel add-in, build a basic app. Anyone
that complains that the basic app isn't excel-like-enough, tell them to
just use excel.


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Joseph Cooney <joseph.coo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Looks like it is on their roadmap for ios and android.
>
>
> http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-plans-to-bring-office-add-ins-to-android-sometime-later-this-year/
>
> https://www.thurrott.com/office/3256/office-mobile-apps-to-gain-add-in-capabilities-in-2015
>
> Judging by the examples they list, I think it probably CAN make REST calls.
>
> Joseph
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would it be possible to use excel, and do whatever 'special' stuff as an
>>> add-in? Not sure if that is even a thing on office for android/ios.
>>>
>>
>> Dunno, but then our app would cease to exist as a recognisable thing and
>> would become an Office add-in. It's in interesting idea nevertheless, as it
>> turns the whole problem inside out and we would market a version of the app
>> as an add-in. If .NET authored Office add-ins can make REST calls then it's
>> possible. Sadly, I doubt if it'd work on iOS or Android though -- *GK*
>>
>
>
>
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Re: Ozdotnet Ignite drinks?

[Joseph Cooney]

Google IO is $900-ish, and sold via lottery.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Stephen Price 
wrote:

> Seems like the norm.
> The Apple event WWDC costs 1599 USD and includes access to five days of
> sessions, hands-on labs, and special events. I dare say most people who go,
> have a company sending them so it comes out of a training budget.
>
> Its a double (triple?) sting for a sole developer who works for
> themselves... Event ticket, flight, accommodation AND a week off work.
> But... it's tax deductible, fun, educational, social, and you get a whole
> week away from your normal distractions to focus on all things dev.
> I could just stay home and watch training videos for a week, but if I
> stayed home, would I? Definitely not.
>
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 at 10:36 DotNet Dude  wrote:
>
>> I find white collars tighter than blue collars by a long shot. Probably
>> also has something to do with the fact that dev tools can become
>> obsolete pretty quickly.
>>
>> Anyway $2k for an event? Give me a break
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 23 October 2015, Stephen Price 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, Developers (like many people) are tight arses / poor bastards. I
>>> almost didn't go because of the ticket price, but got a Bizspark discount.
>>> Microsoft need a freelancer/sole dev ticket price for the non corporate
>>> people who are paying for it themselves.
>>>
>>> It also extends into tools. How many devs I've met who are too tight to
>>> fork out a couple of hundred for their own Resharper license etc. It's the
>>> tools of your trade for fucks sake! If you were a carpenter, you'd have
>>> your own tools. People spend thousands on hardware and then go all tight
>>> arsed on software and demand it to be Free (with a capital F)... /facepalm
>>>
>>> So you order yourself a new Surface? I'm hoping I get mine before I head
>>> off to Ignite. Ordered Surface Book, best specs I could get. Shiny!
>>>
>>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 at 07:21 David Connors  wrote:
>>>
 On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 at 16:10 Stephen Price 
 wrote:

> Anyone on the list going to Ignite and want to do a drinks and/or
> Indian meetup?
>

 Looks like it is just you and me again for the umpteenth year.

 --
 David Connors
 da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363

>>>


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Re: Mobile device photos

[Joseph Cooney]

I was unfamiliar with the Mercury browser too. Not sure what tech it is
based on, but by the Play store's metrics it has been downloaded between
500,000 and 1,000,000 times. This sounds like a lot, but then you look at
the numbers and see that Firefox has been downloaded between 100,000,000
and 500,000,000 times. Unless your metric show a compelling reason to do
otherwise I wouldn't support boutique 3rd party browsers.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilegendsoft.mercury=en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox=en

It would be worth checking to see if the android 'built-in' browser (which
is not Chrome) supports this, as it is likely much more widely used.

Joseph


On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:06 PM, David Burstin 
wrote:

> Mine worked on my HTC m8 using Chrome.
>
> What and why Mercury browser?
>
> On 22 October 2015 at 12:37, Kirsten Greed 
> wrote:
>
>> I went to the url on my android phone with it's Mercury browser but
>> nothing happens when I touch Choose File
>>
>>
>> --
>> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
>> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Craig van Nieuwkerk
>> *Sent:* Thursday, 22 October 2015 10:24 AM
>> *To:* ozDotNet
>> *Subject:* Re: Mobile device photos
>>
>> Basically all it does it bring up the camera where you can take a photo.
>> Then when you do a form POST it will be submitted like a normal
>> input[type=file]. It even displays a little preview of the photo next to
>> the input.
>>
>> Open this on your phone https://jsfiddle.net/wkwq6kLz/
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Greg Keogh  wrote:
>>
>>> I have done this before.

 >>> accept="image/*;capture=camera">

 This will basically work like a standard file upload input but will use
 the camera to select the file.

>>>
>>> Goog grief! That's like black magic. So you click the button rendered
>>> next to the  control and what happens?
>>>
>>> In my case it looks like the initial devices in the field will be iPads.
>>> I'll read up on the expanded  element and make a test page and try
>>> it on the weekend.
>>>
>>> *Greg*
>>>
>>
>>
>


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Re: Mobile device photos

[Joseph Cooney]

Chrome is great. My brother works on the chrome team. Are you saying I
can't trust my own family?

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:39 PM, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't let Greg hear you mention Chrome :p
>
>
> On Thursday, 22 October 2015, Kirsten Greed <kirst...@jobtalk.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> I think Mercury came with my phone.
>> Will try installing Chrome
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
>> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Cooney
>> *Sent:* Thursday, 22 October 2015 1:32 PM
>> *To:* ozDotNet
>> *Subject:* Re: Mobile device photos
>>
>> I was unfamiliar with the Mercury browser too. Not sure what tech it is
>> based on, but by the Play store's metrics it has been downloaded between
>> 500,000 and 1,000,000 times. This sounds like a lot, but then you look at
>> the numbers and see that Firefox has been downloaded between 100,000,000
>> and 500,000,000 times. Unless your metric show a compelling reason to do
>> otherwise I wouldn't support boutique 3rd party browsers.
>>
>>
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilegendsoft.mercury=en
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox=en
>>
>> It would be worth checking to see if the android 'built-in' browser
>> (which is not Chrome) supports this, as it is likely much more widely used.
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:06 PM, David Burstin <david.burs...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mine worked on my HTC m8 using Chrome.
>>>
>>> What and why Mercury browser?
>>>
>>> On 22 October 2015 at 12:37, Kirsten Greed <kirst...@jobtalk.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I went to the url on my android phone with it's Mercury browser but
>>>> nothing happens when I touch Choose File
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
>>>> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Craig van Nieuwkerk
>>>> *Sent:* Thursday, 22 October 2015 10:24 AM
>>>> *To:* ozDotNet
>>>> *Subject:* Re: Mobile device photos
>>>>
>>>> Basically all it does it bring up the camera where you can take a
>>>> photo. Then when you do a form POST it will be submitted like a normal
>>>> input[type=file]. It even displays a little preview of the photo next to
>>>> the input.
>>>>
>>>> Open this on your phone https://jsfiddle.net/wkwq6kLz/
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have done this before.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >>>>> accept="image/*;capture=camera">
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This will basically work like a standard file upload input but will
>>>>>> use the camera to select the file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Goog grief! That's like black magic. So you click the button rendered
>>>>> next to the  control and what happens?
>>>>>
>>>>> In my case it looks like the initial devices in the field will be
>>>>> iPads. I'll read up on the expanded  element and make a test page
>>>>> and try it on the weekend.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Greg*
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>> t: @josephcooney
>>
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Re: REST testing

[Joseph Cooney]

Postman app is quite good. It is a chrome app Greg, I know how much you
love chrome
On Sep 13, 2015 4:48 PM, "Greg Keogh"  wrote:

> Folks, in recent months I've been doing lots of REST call testing. I use
> the scratchpad of Fiddler to select and send some request lines, then look
> at the traffic in the inspector panes. The trouble is that my scratchpad is
> getting longer than a Thomas Pynchon novel, so I was wondering if others
> here have favourite techniques or tools for doing this sort of "playaround"
> REST testing, perhaps with a better way or organising your scripts -- *GK*
>

Re: Cross-platform charting

[Joseph Cooney]

I've had good success in the past with flotr2

http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2/

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Jorke Odolphi  wrote:

> Depends if they were sitting on chairs..
>
> I’ve had great success with - http://d3js.org/ -it covers that platforms
> i’ve needed to address: http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg
>
> The learning curve can be pretty steep – but I sense you seem to enjoy
> that :)
>
>
> From:  on behalf of Greg Keogh
> Reply-To: ozDotNet
> Date: Thursday, 10 September 2015 5:19 pm
> To: ozDotNet
> Subject: Cross-platform charting
>
> Hi Folks, I may have found a use for JavaScript (I can hear people falling
> out of their chairs from here!) ... indirectly. I'm keen to hear if anyone
> is doing what I'm about to try.
>
> My Xamarin generated app for phones on 3 platforms has to display charts
> and gauges of various types. I went looking for libraries to do this and
> found a variety with differing reputations and forum arguments about their
> pros and cons. I found Syncfusion for Xamarin which is a technical work of
> art and has renders for all 3 platforms that are single-line additions,
> then you feed the data in an off you go. I had it working in an hour, and I
> emailed them to confirm the price on their web link was actually $US99. No
> reply, but I noticed 3 days later that the price list has updated to show
> the price is actually $US1995, and the $99 is for the iOS target only.
> Methinks it was a mistake. So I've deleted Syncfusion.
>
> Ok, now for some lateral thinking: get "someone else" to draw the charts
> for me. Candidates are Google Charts
>  and the Microsoft equivalent (I've
> lost it, what's it called ... ANYONE?!).
>
> In the mobile apps I feed the data as JavaScript arrays into HTML and show
> it in the WebView control which works easily on all platforms. So on online
> service is doing all the rendering for me.
>
> I'm just about to try the Google one, but I thought I'd ask for comments.
>
> *Greg K*
>



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Re: Debugging AngularJS

[Joseph Cooney]

Wait 'til Greg discovers Atom is built on Chromium.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:10 PM, William Luu will@gmail.com wrote:

 The Atom TypeScript package is pretty good too -
 https://atom.io/packages/atom-typescript

 On 10 August 2015 at 14:48, Ben Laan benl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Everything mentioned above with Chrome can be done in IE11. And in my
 experience, it is quite usable now..

 as for JavaScript, I'd suggest you move to TypeScript and 'suffer' the
 modest compiler overhead. There are lots of examples of working with
 Angular online. Also, I am using VSCode for all TypeScript/Aurelia work
 (and some Angular before that) and it works well. It is only a lightweight
 editor, but TypeScript intellisense is there if you organise your code
 around a tsconfig file - to help TypeScript with finding all your types.

 On 8 August 2015 at 22:05, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote:

 Why is Chrome a virus? I'd like to know so I can stop using it if
 necessary


 You can't stop using it. You still don't get it, do you?! Chrome will
 find you! That's what it does! That's *all* it does! You can't stop it!
 It'll wade through you, reach down you throat, and pull your f***ing HKLM
 out! (with apologies to James Cameron) -- *Greg*




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Re: SSL for ASP.NET MVC

[Joseph Cooney]

Rather than defer the change from HTTP to HTTPS to post development, what
would the downside be to generating a self-signed certificate in IIS and
using SSL from the get-go?

Joseph

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Tom P tompbi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thank you Glav and Michael. Lots of info here. Will spend some time on
 this to figure out what's going on, it's all over my head at the moment

 Thanks
 Tom


 On 28 November 2014 at 10:13, Paul Glavich subscripti...@theglavs.com
 wrote:

 External content can be tricky since you do not control whether its
 available via https so check on that.



 Additionally, don’t do something like script src=”
 http://somewhere/jquery.js”

 As when you go to SSL it will complain about loading insure content and
 fail. For the most part, using MVC and relative Url’s you should not have
 to worry about it. If you need to embed some externals, you can optionally
 use the “//” syntax which adopts the browsers scheme when loading them so



 script src=”//somewhere/jquery.js”

 Will equate to http://somewhere/jquery.js or https://somewhere/jquery.js
 depending on whether your site is using SSL or not.



 Also, if using forms auth, you can enforce your login to be SSL via

 authentication mode=Forms

   forms loginUrl=~/login timeout=2880 *requireSSL**=**true* /

 /authentication





 You could leave this out in development config but include in release
 config. There is also the [RequireSSL] attribute as well. See
 http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2014/Jun/18/A-dynamic-RequireSsl-Attribute-for-ASPNET-MVC





 -Glav



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Michael Ridland
 *Sent:* Friday, 28 November 2014 8:49 AM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: SSL for ASP.NET MVC



 Hi Tom



 It can be more complicated than that, take a look at this.



 http://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/04/23/stackoverflow-com-the-road-to-ssl/











 On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Tom P tompbi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Noonie



 That sounds good. So it can be turned on later on if necessary.



 Is it necessary for me to demand SSL for LogIn type methods as those
 should definitely be secure in a live environment? It doesn't concern me
 while developing but it scares me to think the administrators may simply
 forget to turn on SSL and then LogIn details will float around not
 encrypted and the blame will find me somehow.





 Thanks

 Tom







 On 27 November 2014 at 20:35, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote:

 Tom,

 You can ignore all that stuff as it should have nothing to do with your
 web application.

 It's a server thing when running behind IIS etc. and all the magic
 happens lower down the stack.

 --
 noonie

 On 27/11/2014 4:20 pm, Tom P tompbi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Noob question here.



 How would I go about adding SSL to a MVC site? Is it simply a matter of
 turning a switch on in the server somewhere and the admins can do it or do
 things need to be done in code? I am reading a whole variety of ways such
 as adding attributes, filters, configuration settings, cookie properties,
 certificates and so on. Seems complicated. I was under the impression I
 could do without it in development and have it simply turned on once it
 goes live. Is this not the case?





 Thanks

 Tom









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Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

[Joseph Cooney]

I have 2x das keyboards which also have mechanical switches. After using
for a long time anything else seems terrible by comparison.

Joseph
On Oct 24, 2014 12:35 PM, osjasonrobe...@gmail.com wrote:

  Anyone used/using one of these (or similar keyboard)?

 http://codekeyboards.com/

 Jason Roberts
 Journeyman Software Developer

 Twitter: @robertsjason
 Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com
 Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts

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Re: [OT] Quiet

[Joseph Cooney]

Looking at data like http://langpop.corger.nl it seems like c# is alive and
well. Java, PHP and JS are really the only languages of similar popularity.
I imagine JS will probably pull ahead as more stuff goes to node, or
server-side presentation logic moves to the client.

Joseph
On Sep 19, 2014 10:15 AM, William Luu will@gmail.com wrote:

 Tech moves quickly.

 But C# is far from legacy, it is a mature, yet still evolving language.

 C# 6 is coming - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn683793.aspx
 and
 http://roslyn.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=CSharp%20Language%20Design%20NotesreferringTitle=Documentation
 And some short videos on it -
 https://www.wintellectnow.com/course/detail/what-s-new-in-c-6-visual-basic-dotnet-14-and-visual-studio-14




 On 19 September 2014 10:01, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote:

 Just the other day a friend of mine mentioned how at a meeting with the
 big guns at her office they were referring to C# as legacy. Am I now the
 new VB6 equivalent? N. Help.


 On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 Awfully quiet on here. Have people left?


 Indeed I was thinking that in recent weeks. Either .NET is obsolete and
 no one wants to talk about it, or after a decade in the group everyone is
 now a ninja guru and have no questions.


 Anyway anybody have a surface pro 3? Thoughts so far? Ok for dev work?


 No surface, however I was going to take my wife's brand new iPad to a
 meeting today to take notes, but I couldn't even figure out to close a
 browser window on it, so I'll come back to the idea later.

 *Greg*

Re: [OT] Surface

[Joseph Cooney]

Another possibility is that people are using other channels to have their
questions answered. I've heard of this site called stack overflow...

Joseph
On Sep 18, 2014 10:41 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote:

 On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 Awfully quiet on here. Have people left?


 Indeed I was thinking that in recent weeks. Either .NET is obsolete and
 no one wants to talk about it, or after a decade in the group everyone is
 now a ninja guru and have no questions.


 I just checked the member could - sitting at 322 active members (i.e.
 people mailman hasn't removed due to bounce detection).

 David.

Re: [OT] Browser use

[Joseph Cooney]

Aside from all the good qualities of Chrome as a 'normal' browser user, I'm
so habituated on the Chrome dev tools that I couldn't change even if I
wanted to.

Joseph


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:32 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.comwrote:

 I never thought I’d change my default browser but I had to do so with
 IE11. Moved to using Chrome as a default. I eventually I got to a point
 where I just had to get things done and whether or not Microsoft believe
 they did the right thing by removing the agent string entries, they “broke
 the internet” for too many people.



 I don’t think they understood the politics of this. If someone is browsing
 ok, and updates to IE11 and then so many sites don’t work, they won’t blame
 the sites, they’ll blame what they just updated.



 There were lots of Microsoft’s own properties that wouldn’t work with IE11.



 You can’t even lodge a BAS return here in Australia with IE11 and if you
 talk to the ATO, they just say “Use Chrome”.



 Wish it wasn’t so.



 Last month was the first month where I noted more Chrome use than IE use
 at our web  site, and we’re a Microsoft related site. That’s a big change
 for us from 6 months ago. It used to be an IE majority for us.



 Apart from the lack of compatibility with so many existing sites, I quite
 like many things about IE11. I just can’t get work done when it’s my
 default browser.



 Regards,



 Greg



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 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *anthonyatsmall...@mail.com
 *Sent:* Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:23 AM

 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: [OT] Browser use



 Just want to spread my use of technology amongst many companies instead of
 a few…it also inspires competition and innovation.



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [
 mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Stephen Price
 *Sent:* Thursday, 22 May 2014 1:18 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: [OT] Browser use



 So you would rather support a small non powerful company that uses your
 data any way they want?



 The underdog so to speak?



 Personally, I'd rather use the browser that does everything I want it to
 and none of the things I don't. Targeted advertising? Sure I want that. I
 *WANT* to see ads for the latest and greatest Tablet or Monitor. I *don't*
 want to see tampon ads. Sign me up. Shut up and take my money!



 If said company becomes an issue, I'll change. I'm a fickle customer, more
 so than they are. I'm using them more than they are using me.



 On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:25 AM, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote:

 I use Firefox, Chrome is great but I do not want to support a company that
 is so powerful and use your data what ever way they want.







 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Craig van Nieuwkerk
 *Sent:* Thursday, 22 May 2014 12:06 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: [OT] Browser use



 I am pretty much with you. I find IE works better with VS so use it for
 most development unless I need to do a lot of client side debugging in
 which case I use Chrome. I then use Chrome for everyday use. I only use
 Firefox for cross browser testing.



 Craig



 On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com
 wrote:

 I disagree. I think?



 I find I use Chrome and IE. For development it depends what I'm doing. If
 I want to hit a breakpoint in VS then IE does that. If I want to use the
 debugger in the browser then I use Chrome. IE keeps changing their
 Developer tools and even though they are improving I still find Chrome more
 productive for debugging.



 For actual USE I use Chrome for most things but occasionally something
 doesn't work right and I switch. Pluralsite for example seems to hang after
 a while in Chrome. No issues in IE.

 Not used Firefox in some years. Toggling between two is fine. A third
 becomes too much.



 On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:53 AM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I was using Firefox on some machines, but recently moved to Chrome as a
 political statement, not because I love Google but rather because I wanted
 to show my dissatisfaction with Firefox's political 
 correctness/censorshiphttp://readwrite.com/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-mozilla-resigns-ceo#awesm=~oEX2WzjEhsumsR.
 (And in case you were wondering, I do support marriage equality but even
 more than that I support peoples right to disagree with me. Agree?)



 On 22 May 2014 11:43, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote:

 This thread got me wondering if anybody here actually uses a browser other
 than Chrome. By *use* I mean to personally browse and not to just test
 sites across different browsers. Even on my now dead Macbook I used Chrome
 and just find it nicer than Safari or IE.

 Just curious :-)





 On 

Re: Favicons

[Joseph Cooney]

Iconfx or icofx (can't quite recall the name) was open source until
recently and there are free versions still around. I think the gimp can
make windows icons too.

Joseph
On Feb 27, 2014 4:55 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote:

 Ok thanks. New can of worms. ;)

 It seems to be working (on a different computer atm) but when I dragged it
 to the taskbar (how you can pin a website) it shows a large version of the
 default one. I think I need to add those multiple sizes to the ico. If I
 edit my current one in VS it shows the small one but not alternate sizes
 (like how the default one does...)

 Which leads me to a new question, what's the best (easiest/cheapest) way
 to import images into an ico file. Any freebie ICO editors about? I don't
 fancy doing it by hand in Visual Studio. Hmm I wonder if VS has an import
 image in its editor? Not looked before...


 On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.comwrote:

  From memory, if IE fails to find a favicon.ico file in the past, it
 doesn't ask for one again (basically, why generate another request that
 will result in a 404?) Not sure what the timeout period is, but if you
 bookmark the site/add to favourites, it makes another request for
 favicon.ico.



 Cheers

 Ken



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price
 *Sent:* Thursday, 27 February 2014 3:19 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: Favicons



 Oh ok...

 I cleared the cache. I could see it with Chrome but not IE. Not sure
 what's up with that. Cached somewhere as you say but clearing the cache vis
 F12 dev tool menu didn't seem to help. Maybe need to close browser entirely.



 I added the route then took it out... so not sure if your screenshot was
 with or without. I think I'll add it back in and do some more testing.



 Looking with fiddler, it's not that its failing to download/find the
 favicon.ico file, it looks more like the browser isn't even asking for it.
 (IE11)



 thanks for the help.





 On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Fredericks, Chris 
 chris.frederi...@hp.com wrote:

  It may be local to you, a cached page somewhere.  The icon is showing
 in IE11 on my desktop and in IE8 and Chrome 33.0 on my laptop:









inline: image001.png

RE: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

[Joseph Cooney]

Xaml from the early days of WPF is circa 2002 or earlier. I think the GU
was still hacking out ASP.NET on planes as a PM at that time.
On Feb 13, 2014 2:43 PM, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote:

 I wasn't aware that Scott Guthrie had responsibility for Silverlight and
 XAML initially.


 --

 Ian Thomas
 Victoria Park, Western Australia

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *mike smith
 *Sent:* Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:28 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer
 blogosphere)



 inline  (but not const)



 On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:19 PM, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote:

 Silverlight end-of-life is a widely-felt gripe with developers, from my
 reading (eg, just today - Visual Studio Magazine - *Satya Nadella's
 To-Do List* 
 [linkhttp://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/02/11/satya-nadellas-to-do-list.aspx]
 - Andrew Brust). There are several offerings of advice to the new CEO, and
 to Scott Guthrie as interim head of Enterprise and Cloud at Microsoft.


 --

 Ian Thomas
 Victoria Park, Western Australia

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh
 *Sent:* Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:49 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: Migrating TFS



 Greg? Where are you?

 This is your cue.



 Ah! What! I'm awake ... I saw Silverlight mentioned as dead and
 abandoned. Guess what I've been doing all day today .. expanding a large
 Silverlight 5 app. We have no alternative, we've spent years developing the
 app and it's in use by some gigantic companies internationally.





 So is COBOL and FORTRAN



 What the hell else can we do? Seriously! Discussion here last year pointed
 out that HTML5 is the only alternative to delivering rich apps on the
 browser desktop, but it groans under stress and I was warned that it just
 can't show attractive interactive charts of the type available with the
 ComponentOne SL libraries.





 Hope that MS are feeling nice and release it to SourceForge.



 Also, I have subscribed to MSDN Magazine (MSJ as it was) since 1993 and I
 agree that it is generally uninteresting these days because it's mostly
 about JavaScript, Stores, Azure, Windows RT and Windows 8 (the latest
 groovy stuff you're talking about). I find I flip through new issues and
 chuck them aside. I like academic articles, but Petzold's and McCaffrey's
 articles are so abstract they're in the twilight zone.





 MSJ - used to be a good magazine.  Matt Pietrek, Paul DiLascia ( If this
 code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote
 it.) were awesome.  It's a puff piece now.



 My day to day development experience is consistently as infuriating and
 unpredictable as ever. Projects won't build, IIS goes haywire with code
 500s, versions clash, dependencies are all over the shop, kits don't work,
 samples are simplistic, designers crash, I'm coding XAML UIs by hand, I
 have to learn WiX, I have to run VS2013 and VS2012 side by side due to COM
 problems, my VS2013 is diseased, and so on. I get up in the morning and the
 things that worked the night before are all on the fritz. Sometimes I miss
 punch cards.





 Wix, damnable stuff makes your eyes bleed to read it.



 However, I don't want to fuel the jovial atmosphere of impending doom that
 pervades this forum ;-)



 Greg





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Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1

[Joseph Cooney]

Plex has a great ecosystem for mobile devices too.

Joseph
On Jan 29, 2014 4:10 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote:

 Checking out Plex server, it looks great. Oh and as an added bonus i just
 discovered my NAS has a Plex installer.
 Synology rocks.


 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote:

 XBMC was good when XBOX first generation were moddable.. today its like
 most OSS ... it eventually ends up in the boredom graveyard filled with
 promises and slow releases...

 Plex Media Server spanks XBMC now.. and it will be my favourite until
 eventually another rises to beat its dominance...and then i to will favour
 this..

 ---
 Regards,
 Scott Barnes
 http://www.riagenic.com


 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM, David Connors da...@connors.comwrote:

 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes 
 scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote:

 Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never
 came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a
 generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your
 Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an
 instruction packet to tell it you do it from here..


 Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally
 it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I
 guess).

 The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It
 just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does
 nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your
 favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In
 that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content
 provider or app you want.

 I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like
 YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own
 purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features etc.

 [ .. ]

 As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which
 on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ).

 David.

RE: DLNA access from Windows 8.1

[Joseph Cooney]

I think I paid for the iPhone and android ones.
On Jan 29, 2014 4:57 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote:

  Yeah, even found wp8 plex app. Sure it cost me money ($5.90 seems a bit
 high but hey whatever) but gives me something to spend my Nokia credit on.

 I wonder if the iphone app is free or paid?
  --
 From: Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com
 Sent: 29/01/2014 2:26 PM
 To: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 Subject: Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1

 Plex has a great ecosystem for mobile devices too.

 Joseph
 On Jan 29, 2014 4:10 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com
 wrote:

 Checking out Plex server, it looks great. Oh and as an added bonus i just
 discovered my NAS has a Plex installer.
 Synology rocks.


 On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote:

 XBMC was good when XBOX first generation were moddable.. today its like
 most OSS ... it eventually ends up in the boredom graveyard filled with
 promises and slow releases...

 Plex Media Server spanks XBMC now.. and it will be my favourite until
 eventually another rises to beat its dominance...and then i to will favour
 this..

 ---
 Regards,
 Scott Barnes
 http://www.riagenic.com


  On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM, David Connors da...@connors.comwrote:

   On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes 
 scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never
 came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a
 generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your
 Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an
 instruction packet to tell it you do it from here..


 Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally
 it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I
 guess).

 The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It
 just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does
 nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your
 favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In
 that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content
 provider or app you want.

 I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like
 YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own
 purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features 
 etc.

 [ .. ]

 As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which
 on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ).

 David.

Re: [OT] Facebook advertising

[Joseph Cooney]

Has anyone read 'the circle' yet by David Eggers...seems relevant.

Amazon suggested it to me ;-)
On Dec 2, 2013 3:32 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 I'm glad the subject of 1984 finally came up in the context of
 advertising. When I read Orwell's book in early high school it had a deep
 and lasting influence over me. Even since I have been very sensitive to
 propaganda, double-speak, weasel words and varieties of fallacious argument
 techniques; and the primary sources of these things are politics and
 advertising. So for me:

 Assert.IsTrue(advertising == propaganda);

 Encrypted advertising?! Now there's a challenging idea. Ignorance is
 strength.

 Greg K

Re: SCreen Recorder

[Joseph Cooney]

It is possible to do mp4 screen recording using sharpdx and their media
foundation wrappers (or write your own media foundation wrappers if you
like). I had some code once that did it, but not anymore. It was pretty
fiddly.

Joseph
On Nov 28, 2013 9:09 AM, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote:

 Anyone suggest a third party control or code to record screen video within
 an application?





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Re: dotnetobfuscator

[Joseph Cooney]

All managed code obfuscation can be broken, usually fairly easily. Mixed
mode C++ /CLI for your IP sensitive code is one option, but to a determined
reverse engineer even un-managed code is no big deal. The cost of
protection should be in line with the value of the IP you're trying to
protect.

Joseph
On Nov 27, 2013 11:37 AM, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote:

 Looking at obfuscating my code..anyone recommend a an easy\cheap
 solution?   Is a dotnet 4 app harder to reverse engineer than a dot 3 for
 example?



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RE: NBN Petition

[Joseph Cooney]

I'm still confused - based on what we know now of the published nbn
pricing, once all the sweetheart deals and honeymoon periods are over, what
will a dedicated GB connection to my house cost under the nbn? What will an
'allocated' or whatever you want to call it 1gb connection cost?
On Nov 13, 2013 10:26 AM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:

 It’s still a lie. The whole premise is bogus. The lie is in claiming that
 this was ever reasonable.



 I have Bigpond cable. It is supposed to give me 100Mbps down and 2Mbps up.
 Does it always give me that? Of course not. It would never make business
 sense. I share my capacity with others on the cable. Am I affected by the
 fact that I don’t always get the top speed? Not really – in the entire time
 I’ve had it I have been unaffected by this. I still get a decent download
 speed the whole time, and it’s never dropped noticeably for me. When I work
 from home, others are at work. Why would the ISP need to purchase a
 continuous stream of data to support my use when there are others that
 aren’t using theirs?



 So when Malcolm Turnbull says it’s going to cost $20,000 to connect up
 every household, I call BS, because, quite simply, it was never suggested
 before he said it, it was never practical, it was a statement designed to
 deceive the public and it is complete and utter BS.





 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Evrat
 *Sent:* Wednesday, 13 November 2013 10:55 AM
 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: NBN Petition



 Turnbull’s point was  - ‘don’t anyone think that the Labor NBN was going
 to give everyone 100% always available unfettered 1 Gbps’ .. There’s no lie
 in that ..



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [
 mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Tony Wright
 *Sent:* Wednesday, 13 November 2013 8:23 AM
 *To:* David Connors
 *Cc:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* RE: NBN Petition



 Actually it was you trying to propagate Malcolm Turnbulls lie that a 1Gbps
 was going to cost every household $20,000. But keep going trying to reflect
 from this lie, by all means.

 Sent from my Windows Phone
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 *Cc: *ozDotNet
 *Subject: *Re: NBN Petition

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 On 12 November 2013 20:36, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:

 Its quite simple really. The whole premise of CVC being delivered to 93%
 of the population is bogus and deceptive. This is the statement that was
 suggested. The statement was factually correct but based on a complete lie.



 Now you're not even making any sense at all. CVC is measured and charged
 at the POI, not the customer connection. It applies to all traffic as it
 egresses the NBN and enters the RSP.



 It is utterly bizarre to advocate for it.



 Anyway, as I said, both board members of NBN Co and Turnbull are on the
 record as arguing either against CVC or for a massive reduction. We can
 only hope they follow through.



 Go google nbn cvc



 =

 Hackett has argued that the CVC costs are far too high, creating an
 artifical scarcity in bandwidth that doesn't exist.



 =

 Hackett has consistently criticised NBN Co’s CVC pricing over the past
 six months, arguing that it was “insane” and warning that no small ISPs
 would survive their walk through the “valley of death” transition from the
 current copper network to the fibre future envisioned by the Federal
 Government, if they wanted to maintain their spots as national providers.



 =

 iiNet has ongoing concerns over the economics of NBN Co's current CVC
 [Connectivity Virtual Circuit] charges. At the moment, the NBN's fee
 structure treats the abundant capacity on the NBN as if a scarcity existed.
 When access to abundance is irrationally constrained by NBN Co, bogus
 scarcity is created – like an artificially enforced famine.



 =

 NBN pricing in terms of access may be manageable if the CVC charge is
 brought into the world of the rational. iiNet continues to be very
 concerned about input costs from NBN Co which are disconnected from
 real-world costs.



 =

 Mr Malone said it was incomprehensible that international capacity
 costs were much cheaper than domestic transmission, which he described as a
 chokepoint. The cost of domestic transit is completely drowning out the
 cost of international capacity, he said.



 =

 After four years, it is fairly obvious that the previous NBN policy is an
 absolute failure: both in terms of failure to execute timely construction
 of the network and the inability to create a pricing framework, as
 evidenced by excessive megabit transmission (CVC) charges, which would
 actually encourage optimal use of the network and spur all those economic
 benefits currently touted for FTTH. 

RE: NBN Petition

[Joseph Cooney]

I'm confused. What WOULD a dedicated gigabit connection cost under the NBN?
On Nov 12, 2013 5:10 PM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:

 It was deceptive rubbish.



 He implied that it would cost $20,000 for every household.



 It’s a blatant lie.











 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Connors
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 November 2013 5:58 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: NBN Petition



 On 12 November 2013 15:51, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:



 [ ... ]



 That is a typically deceptive political response and is a load of complete
 Liberal Party BS and Malcolm Turnbull lost any credibility he had with me
 when he said it. It won’t cost $20,000 a month for ANY household. A single
 household never needs a continuous stream of data getting a maximum of
 1Gbps at all times, so it is shared among a whole bunch a households. So a
 single CVC line might be split between 10 to 20 houses.



 There is nothing incorrect in what he said, 1gbps flat chat is $20K a
 month wholesale. End of story. More over, that's *significantly more
 expensive* than what you can buy today.



 If Joe Punter uses less, great for him, but a school or a SME might want
 to use more.



 It begs the question, what is the average the NBN is designed for? Any
 sort of application that involves bulk data transfers is out of bounds cost
 wise - which is somewhat ironic.



  On top of this, CVC charges will have to come down over time due to
 economy of scale. See:
 http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-Historical-And-Projected.php

 Historically, transit pricing has dropped by around 1/3rd every year
 since 1998.



 CVC and IP Transit are *completely different things*. NBN Co doesn't even
 sell IP Transit.



 You need to pay for both. And you pay CVC even if the data is 'on net' and
 never leaves your RSP (i.e. watching the TV or downloading freezone).



 CVC isn't going to go down ever because there is no incentive for it to as
 competitive technologies are outlawed (except for LTE, etc)



 David.

RE: NBN Petition

[Joseph Cooney]

The price in other countries seems irrelevant. Those conditions don't exist
here, otherwise the service would exist already, and we wouldn't be having
this conversation.

So, given the distinction you've created between 'dedicated' and
'continuous' what would the prices be for those two different types of
services under the NBN?
On Nov 12, 2013 5:18 PM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not $20,000.



 There is a difference between “dedicated” and “a continuous 1Gbps stream
 of data”



 A number of CVC lines are purchased. Data transmission is spread over the
 entire lot.



 If you look at international prices, 1Gbps costs around $105 per month. In
 Japan, it is possible to get a 2Gbps connection for $20 per month.



 So why would Australia cost $20,000 per month? Ridiculous. No one would
 purchase it. So they would be forced to lower prices to a point where
 they’d get people to open their wallets.







 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Cooney
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 November 2013 6:14 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* RE: NBN Petition



 I'm confused. What WOULD a dedicated gigabit connection cost under the NBN?

 On Nov 12, 2013 5:10 PM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:

 It was deceptive rubbish.



 He implied that it would cost $20,000 for every household.



 It’s a blatant lie.











 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Connors
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 November 2013 5:58 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: NBN Petition



 On 12 November 2013 15:51, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:



 [ ... ]



 That is a typically deceptive political response and is a load of complete
 Liberal Party BS and Malcolm Turnbull lost any credibility he had with me
 when he said it. It won’t cost $20,000 a month for ANY household. A single
 household never needs a continuous stream of data getting a maximum of
 1Gbps at all times, so it is shared among a whole bunch a households. So a
 single CVC line might be split between 10 to 20 houses.



 There is nothing incorrect in what he said, 1gbps flat chat is $20K a
 month wholesale. End of story. More over, that's *significantly more
 expensive* than what you can buy today.



 If Joe Punter uses less, great for him, but a school or a SME might want
 to use more.



 It begs the question, what is the average the NBN is designed for? Any
 sort of application that involves bulk data transfers is out of bounds cost
 wise - which is somewhat ironic.



  On top of this, CVC charges will have to come down over time due to
 economy of scale. See:
 http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-Historical-And-Projected.php

 Historically, transit pricing has dropped by around 1/3rd every year
 since 1998.



 CVC and IP Transit are *completely different things*. NBN Co doesn't even
 sell IP Transit.



 You need to pay for both. And you pay CVC even if the data is 'on net' and
 never leaves your RSP (i.e. watching the TV or downloading freezone).



 CVC isn't going to go down ever because there is no incentive for it to as
 competitive technologies are outlawed (except for LTE, etc)



 David.

RE: NBN Petition

[Joseph Cooney]

I would have thought if it was worth it to you to have that fast internet
then you'd pay for it, and if it wasn't worth it then you wouldn't. That's
how markets usually work.
On 5 Nov 2013 14:01, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:

 To keep it simple, I can look at a single function and see what it would
 be like under an NBN.



 Backups for disaster recovery.



 I currently backup to a NAS within my environment. The backup of a server
 usually takes between 20 minutes and 1 hour, over my internal 1Gbps
 network. I have Telstra Cable, which is 100Mbps download speed and 2Mbps
 upload speed. If I want to backup offsite to ensure I don’t succumb to
 risks such as fire, my current backup will take roughly 500 times as long
 to backup to the cloud, and I currently have one of the fastest connections
 you can get outside of the NBN.



 Will I go and fork out a few grand to backup for the extra fibre to the
 node? The answer is no. I have better things to spend my capital on.



 Yet if I had a fast enough internet upload speed, I could backup all my
 servers to the cloud within a practical timeframe. Economies of scale would
 bring down the price of storage due to the volume of people that would be
 backing up to the cloud. And it wouldn’t just be business, either. An
 average person might want to set up backups from their home computers to
 the cloud as well. During the backup process, virus detection could
 identify people who had viruses and root kits on their machines during the
 backup process and alert them straight away. This would significantly
 reduce the amount of viruses getting around as well. Just a thought bubble.



 But, oh, no, there are no good reasons to have high speed internet are
 there.



 Secondly, the entire purpose of the NBN was to replace the degrading and
 antiquated copper wires. If there is an agreement that the copper wires
 need replacing, and the Liberals obviously believe they don’t need
 replacing, then the question is, what do we replace it with. The answer is,
 that whatever we replace it with, we may as well get a decent speed out of
 it at the same time.



 If the Liberals want to keep their copper, well good on them. But I don’t
 know why the rest of us should have to suffer from their ignorance and
 short sightedness.



 Only around 45% of the population voted for the Liberal Coalition (meaning
 the Liberals, the Nationals, The Liberal National Party and the Country
 Liberals). The other 55% voted for other parties that either had a
 different opinion or no opinion on the NBN, and the difference on the two
 party preferred vote is less than 4%. So no, I don’t think the election was
 a petition at all. If 4 out of 100 people vote for a different government
 at the next election, we would change governments again. The way the
 politicians are behaving, perhaps we could get lucky. We got rid of Rudd
 and Gillard at the last election, perhaps we could get rid of Abbott at the
 next one.



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Maw
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 November 2013 2:20 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: NBN Petition



 (petition == the will of the people) == rubbish.

 Obviously :)



 On 5 November 2013 13:10, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote:

 I find your version of democracy very entertaining.

 Well the only alternative that I can see is getting people to vote on
 every single issue. Is that what you are advocating?

 Petitions are, in general, useless, unless you have an alternative
 petition for people NOT in favour of the proposal, AND you can get them to
 participate.



 Petition == the will of the people == rubbish.

Re: [OT] FTP client problems

[Joseph Cooney]

Re: prescription - it isn't polite to make fun of people with mental
illnesses.

http://www.riagenic.com/archives/934

Joseph
On 17 Oct 2013 13:47, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 Chaps, FileZilla or Wireshark! The former I haven't used and I won't learn
 anything if works or nor, unless it has some tracing facility. The latter I
 haven't used for more than a year and it's complicated and I'll have to
 configure it and interpret the results. I guess it's Wireshark then.

 Greg K

 Scott, I'm sending a prescription repeat to help your condition.


 On 17 October 2013 11:25, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote:

 Try again with FileZilla and set the FTP mode to Active and try again.

 David.

 David Connors
 da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363
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 On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Jorke Odolphi jo...@jorke.net wrote:

  Are you using ISA or some other firewall/proxy? That’s generally what
 causes a 501

 ** **

 Best bet is to wireshark the process and attach the cap – very hard to
 figure it out otherwise.

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh
 *Sent:* Thursday, 17 October 2013 9:28 AM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* [OT] FTP client problems

 ** **

 Folks, I'm getting conflicting behaviour in FTP clients on our new
 server. We installed an app in this new server and it died attempting to
 GET a file from a remote FTP server.

  

 So I ran ftp.exe from the command prompt to do the same thing as the
 app does in code to see what happens (thinking that ftp.exe is a nice
 vanilla test). It takes my user and password okay, but an 'ls' command says
 501 Server cannot accept argument. I tried PASV mode and it does the same
 thing.

  

 Next test from Windows Explorer asks for my credentials and then lists
 the FTP server's file okay.

  

 So that's weird ... the app and ftp.exe fail, but Windows Explorer
 works. Can anyone suggest why? Different authentication modes? This is a
 serious problem that has stopped the rollout of the app.

  

 Greg K

  

 P.S. I know that FTP is ancient, but it's being used for historical
 reasons. I've told the app's author to use HTTP instead and have supplied
 some sample code.

Re: Virtual visual studio development machine – looking for some setup advice

[Joseph Cooney]

This is pretty much how I work (local VMs, one per client/project, or
remote VM supplied by the client that I rdp into). Code is checked in
frequently and VMs are backed up to external drives so in the event of
hardware failure I can be back up and running quickly.
On 3 Oct 2013 10:43, Greg Harris g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com wrote:

 Hi People,

 I am about to setup a new development machine for a new development
 project and I was after some suggestions…

 I want to be able to run multiple separate environments at the same time
 so that I can test software in these environments and just trash the
 environment as needed when done.  Also, the same idea sounds valid for my
 visual studio development environment.  This would give me the advantage of
 being able to wind back to a prior known, good stable environment as
 needed.

 This would also give some additional benefits:

- Disaster recovery when on the road:  If I am seeing a client on the
other side of the world and my laptop dies, I can go into the local store,
buy a new machine and start up a VM on the machine and I have all of my
environments back again at reduced stress.
- Quickly move to new physical machine as needed to get additional
resources.
- Separate environment for each project.
- Ability to build a VM and send it to the cloud for production use.

 I am thinking that at any one time, I would be running VM’s for:

- Stable stuff like office, file system and database
- Development (Visual Studio)
- Test environments (typically only one, but maybe more)

 I realise that I am going to need to give the physical machine a LOT MORE
 memory and disk (but disk is cheap, probably use an SSD, OK not cheap).
  The other resources should share well.

 My guest VPC’s will all be some form of Windows OS (both 32 and 64 bit)
 hosted on Win 7 Pro 64 bit.

 The initial concerns I have are around the user interface

- UI responsiveness, I have seen on some VPC’s the mouse jitter around
and it be unclear where you are pointing, this can be very disconcerting.
- I tend to use two or three monitors at a time, the VPC must support
this.

 I am thinking that I will keep as little as possible running on the host
 OS, so that I (almost) never need to reboot it.

 I have already found some useful references on the web:

 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/633774/optimize-development-virtual-machine

 http://www.andrewconnell.com/HOWTO-Squeeze-Every-Last-Drop-of-Performance-Out-of-Your-Virtual-PCs

 Before I go and burn a lot of time on this, I wanted to review this with
 the list…

 Questions:

- Do any of you do this?
- Does it work well?
- What should I lookout for?
- What tools should I use?

 I assume that the best options available for hosting my VM’s are one of:

- VMWare http://www.vmware.com
- Oracle Virtual Box http://www.virtualbox.org
- MS Virtual PC
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3702

 MS Virtual PC is 2011, does that mean it is stable or they have moved on
 to something else?

 Thanks in advance for your help :-).

 Regards
 Greg Harris

Re: [OT]Virtual File

[Joseph Cooney]

What soap stack does iPhone have that understands JavaScript redirects?
On 23 Sep 2013 13:31, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote:

 alternative 1:
 Change the response for the  http://www.hello.com/webservice.asmx to be a
 javascript redirect to the other location





 On 23 September 2013 13:15, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote:

 This appears to be only a directory redirect not a file redirect

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 You can put a redirect on the server e.g.: 


 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/888325/how-to-redirect-a-url-path-in-iis
 

 ** **

 On 23 September 2013 12:54, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote:

 Is it possible to redirect a webservice.asmx file to another location

  

 I have a iphone app that point to http://www.hello.com/webservice.asmx
 but it should be pointing to http://ws.hello.com/webservice.asmx  is
 this possible without need to update the iphone application?

  

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Re: Expression Web

[Joseph Cooney]

Interesting point of history - expression web used to be called..drum
roll Microsoft FrontPage.




On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote:

 FYI: The Product Manager (just one) for Expression Web (Ed - previously
 Adobe Dreamweaver) was one of the smarterst minds in devdiv and the team
 writing the code behind that product were also equally up to the smarts..
 so for me I always wondered why so much great talent got mothballed...  The
 only thing that ruined Expression Web was the ass hats who control GPL
 codes for the company and devdiv vs Windows stupidity spilling over.

 ---
 Regards,
 Scott Barnes
 http://www.riagenic.com


 On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote:

 Moreover Adobe won.. really the core issue with Expression product line
 was it was built to take on Adobe to try and win over the hearts  minds of
 designers to the Microsoft tribe. Its why you'll search anything related to
 Silverlight/WPF/Expression between 2007-2009 usually has an Adobe or
 Microsoft Evangelist (myself included) punching it out over who's got the
 biggest digital * ...

 Adobe won... and when it came down to justifying Expression Web's future
 it had little to do with actual adoption (which didnt size very well) and
 also the funding stream for the product got caught up in the MSDN ledger
 codes..

 In that MSDN argued that BEFORE Expression products came online the
 subscribers existed therefore why should they splice off a portion of the
 funding to score in the Expression team's coffers? even though the download
 numbers were in millions... to them anyone who downloaded were just simply
 kicking the tyres not doing anything with it... so now the Expression team
 were left to not only ask for more funding (keep the lights on per say) as
 a product line but they also had weak if not any income stream to pull from
 (hence you saw those really weird deals with Expression Studio and Windows)
 to try and stimulate outside MSDN purchases.

 Then Bizspark also came along and annihilated any chance of a non-MSDN
 subscriber from buying the product given if you were a start-up Microsoft
 would just hand you the MSDN subscription for free if all you did was
 provide them with an ABN or LLC (US).

 Inside Microsoft there are no free products.. if you have $0 income you
 better be standing before an executive of some sort every 3months
 explaining how your product made another product's adoption rates spike a
 little. If you can't show positive revenue or influence (with evidence
 depending on how dumb the executive you brief - with us we found Steve B
 not as bright as people paint) then you better start getting your LinkedIn
 profile up to date or making better friendships with another division. (It
 could be different now with the re-org but i've not heard much in the way
 of difference... if anything its a little more crazy given the companies in
 this weird SteveB is out caretaker mode).



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 http://www.riagenic.com


 On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Sam Lai samuel@gmail.com wrote:

  I think they saw/foresaw that market disappear thanks to web apps and
 services like Wordpress, Blogger and other 'CMS as a service' sites.

 To be honest, it has probably made the web a nicer looking and more
 accessible place, lowering the barrier to entry substantially. For the rest
 who prefer to code, they'd know about VS Express, VS, Webstorm, Eclipse,
 Netbeans, Sublime Text, etc.
  --
 From: Greg Keogh g...@mira.net
 Sent: 15/09/2013 6:04 PM

 To: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 Subject: Re: Expression Web

   It lost out due to Sharepoint Designer or whatever that has now
 mutated into and there was no point competing with Sharepoint Designer + VS
 Express as it just created way to much internal bad blood.


 But no home user, or low-tech user is going to ever see SharePoint
 Designer or VS Express (I don't use either). The old FrontPage filled an
 important product hole I thought and I really liked it back in 97-98 when
 it arrived (at least it killed HotDog and similar crap). Then it quietly
 disappeared and turned up mutated as Expression Web. Now it's gone again.
 Has Microsoft simply abandoned the product line of web design apps for
 home users?

 Greg K






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Re: Code commenting

[Joseph Cooney]

TFS annotate?
On 13 Sep 2013 14:47, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote:

 Anyone suggest a method to autmaticlly comment code when lines have
 changed?  Would be great to be able to see who changed what when viewing
 the code.

 ** **

 At the moment,, we write comments like //xxMOD 12AUG13   XX=PROGRAMMER
 INITIALS

 ** **

 WE use TFS but we like to write comments in code sometimes.  Any
 extensions able to do this?

 ** **

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Re: Code commenting

[Joseph Cooney]

Annotate is the 'glass is half full' name for blame in TFS.
On 13 Sep 2013 14:50, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote:

 A lot of source control systems give you that out of the box. I know Git
 and SVN both do with the BLAME command. I wouldn't want the comments
 scattered throughout the code.


 On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote:

 Anyone suggest a method to autmaticlly comment code when lines have
 changed?  Would be great to be able to see who changed what when viewing
 the code.

 ** **

 At the moment,, we write comments like //xxMOD 12AUG13   XX=PROGRAMMER
 INITIALS

 ** **

 WE use TFS but we like to write comments in code sometimes.  Any
 extensions able to do this?

 ** **

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Re: [OT] NBN revisited

[Joseph Cooney]

Re: taking Murdoch to court...never quarrel with a man who buys ink by the
barrel.
On 5 Sep 2013 10:07, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote:

 He won't get the numbers and this morning I was in a cafe eating breakfast
 and saw him on Sunrise talking about how he's going to take Murdoch to
 court for slander.. and even still I sit there thinking this guy has to be
 given a seat in the senate ...if only to make question time more energetic
 to watch... :)



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 On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:

  There are multiple ways to cook an egg. Clive’s policy platform isn’t
 necessarily the best one.

 ** **

 Pro “free market” (as opposed to “pro-business) is what’s generally best
 for *consumers* (even though it’s not good for an individual business),
 whereas business people tend to become “rent seekers” lobbying for favours
 for their industries. Adam Smith noted something similar ~300 years ago in
 the Wealth of Nations, and nothing’s changed.

 ** **

 Silvio Berlusconi is an example of a successful businessman who’s
 “pro-business” attitude didn’t really extend to making life better for the
 general population.

 ** **

 Cheers

 Ken 

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Evrat
 *Sent:* Thursday, 5 September 2013 8:37 AM

 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: [OT] NBN revisited

  ** **

 Any pro-business force in parliament can only be good for the country. If
 business isn’t doing well we can’t afford anything else .. 

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [
 mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Tony Wright
 *Sent:* Thursday, 5 September 2013 7:52 AM
 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: [OT] NBN revisited

 ** **

 Oh I thought the only people ridiculous enough to vote for him were
 Queenslanders.

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [
 mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Scott Barnes
 *Sent:* Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:02 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: [OT] NBN revisited

 ** **

 Is anyone else just a little bit curious to see Clive Palmer in
 Parliament House or is that just me..

 ** **

 I mean the comedic value alone is worth it

 On Wednesday, September 4, 2013, wrote:

  Well said…I believe Julian Assange would get my vote..i see honesty in
 him…mmm..that could bring a change!

  

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 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Tony Wright
 *Sent:* Wednesday, 4 September 2013 6:02 PM
 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: [OT] NBN revisited

  

  

 Wow, he didn’t even know what the policies of his party were. I think I
 know them better than he does!

  

 What are the 6 points of the 6 point Stop The Boats plan

 “Er, the first one is stop the boats”

 What are the other 5 points?

 “Er we plan to stop the boats”

 No, the other 5 points?

 “Er we plan to stop the boats”

  

 He should have said, well, so it’s a 6 point plan but all 6 points are to
 stop the boats.

  

 What a vacuous bunch of pollie we have.

  

 Are these people worth $5? That’s how much our first preference vote is
 worth together for the upper and lower house. I don’t think they’re worth
 it. Mine isn’t going to Liberal or Labor. I’m finding someone closer to
 what I believe in and voting for them first and then voting for the party I
 want in. Why reward such mediocrity?

  

  

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [
 mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On
 Behalf Of *anthonyatsmall...@mail.com
 *Sent:* Wednesday, 4 September 2013 4:11 PM
 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: [OT] NBN revisited

  

 Full interview of Jaymes Diaz, Liberal Candidate for 
 Greenwayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrQPXXHUilU
 this is pretty funny and disturbing video!

  

 This guy is pretty useless..this politick has 

RE: Silverlight on Windows 8

[Joseph Cooney]

Yep. Supports flash but not Silverlight.
On 28 Aug 2013 11:40, Bill McCarthy bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au
wrote:

 I thought it does support flash

 |-Original Message-
 |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-
 |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price
 |Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:31 AM
 |To: ozDotNet
 |Subject: Re: Silverlight on Windows 8
 |
 |Greg,
 |Windows 8 IE browser (the full screen metro one) does not support plugins.
 So no
 |Silverlight, no Flash etc.
 |
 |It's more commonly known as a Silverlight Coup de grâce.
 |
 |Enjoy.
 |
 |
 |On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
 |
 |
 |   Folks, I'm getting a weird conflict running Silverlight 5 apps on
 Windows
 |8. In the Metro shell's browser it knows I don't have SL5 installed on the
 first visit
 |and asks me to install a file (with x64 in the name). It then flips over
 to
 the old
 |shell and installs the file okay. Now SL5 is working in IE10 in the old
 shell, but the
 |Metro browser keeps asking me to install Silverlight over and over, and if
 you do
 |it says another version is already installed.
 |
 |   So there is a catch-22 dead-end. Some web searches hint that SL5 is
 not
 |supported in the Windows 8 Metro browser. I could not believe this would
 be
 |true. Is it, or am I missing some trick?
 |
 |
 |   Greg
 |

Re: Future of .NET

[Joseph Cooney]

The mono project and xamarin seem to be doing great things with and for
.net. Apart from some bright spots, devdiv have jumped the shark.
On 22 Aug 2013 15:16, Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was told at Uni (1980) that COBOL was going to die real soon... Since
 then COBOL paid off all of my first mortgage.
 It was not until about 1994 that COBOL stopped earning for me and I am
 sure that there are a lot of people out there still paying their way with
 it.
 .NET may be on the start of a down turn, but if it is, it has a long way
 to go, for now I am happy to stay with .NET, but Microsoft scare me, they
 have to look out for what they think is best for Microsoft and we could get
 swept up with the good or the bad of that, we have to accept that we have
 little control of the ride we are on!  Would other options be better, I
 doubt it, just different.

 Interesting to look at the job trends, look at:
 http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobtrends/trend/q-asp.net+programmer%2Cruby+programmer%2Clamp+programmer

 [image: Asp.net Programmer, Ruby Programmer, Lamp Programmer trends graph]

 There is a down trend which is not good, I don't know why the data stops a
 year ago
 It may have all changed in the last year?


 On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote:

 In 2008 there was a tipping point in the .NET scene overall and the
 timing was likely due to the post .NET adoption peak or high as to grow
 further meant you had to go to outlying areas of the market. It also had to
 do with the amount of investment and evangelism that went on in Academic
 institutions also dropped significantly (due to scenarios where teachers
 didn't like ASP.NET or WinForms due to their blurring of basic OOP
 principles mixed with costs associated - compared to python, java, php, etc)

 Microsoft decided to react and it's really been a 3-5 year campaign on
 driving adoption in the outlying areas - specifically going after pretty
 much the entire landscape(s) of competitors at once ... i mean if they
 aren't fighting and campaigning to convince you all that Google is the
 enemy then its Apple and when not Apple it's back to the LAMP is evil etc.

 The problem is they've lost perspective by shifting everyone from
 strategies that start and finish on the fiscal year time lines they in turn
 have created this area of uncertainty where you have a lot of .NET coders
 out there writing WinForms, WebForms, Asp MVC, WPF, Silverlight etc all
 being told they really need to stop doing this and go with HTML5/JS for
 Windows8/Wp8 or C++ for more intensive scenarios. If you then still reject
 they then concede XAML/C# is fine but you still need to write code
 differently because even the name spaces are different (yet you can't
 figure out why given well..they behave and act the same as their
 counterparts...) which you then realise that was a forcing function on
 adopting new over old.

 By not giving a transition period between 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 to now..
 they've basically pushed the crowd of .NET further away from a sustaining
 model of adoption. It then asks everyone who are loyal to the brands and
 technology that comes out from Microsoft to consider two things - Can you
 trust us to stick this strategy out given our past and Have you really
 considered us against the alternative?

 If this were a political party soliciting you for your vote its as if
 they've told you vote for us and will probably tax you more can't say for
 sure :)

 So yeah, adoption cycles are going to fluctuate around what happens post
 Winforms/Wpf  of past... I'd wager that gaming industry will influence the
 outcome given they have a lot more to win/loose around this entire
 uncertainty (given device/desktop/console buying power is massive).

 That's where a lot of start-ups occupy today - gaming/kickstarter style
 space.




 ---
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 http://www.riagenic.com


 On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Andrew McGrath 
 andrew.mcgr...@workslink.com.au wrote:

 .NET 2.0 coding still has some uses

 Had to stick to it to create a .NET IDE for the webusing Visual Web
 GUI (essentially .NET WinForms that runs via your browser) and Xamarin.

 Can now write .NET code once and run it on web, natively on Android,
 iOS, Mac and PCuseful in some scenarios.

 AFAIK, still need native on mobile devices to be able to interact with
 SQLite as I don't think Javascript + PhoneGap gives you that.

 --
 *From*: Nathan Schultz milish...@gmail.com
 *Sent*: Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:17 PM
 *To*: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 *Subject*: Re: Future of .NET


 I don't think Microsoft was ever popular with the Startup community. The
 last time I did anything in that area LAMP was all the rage.
 I have one mate in the Start-Up community who has used ASP.NET MVC on a
 project, and said it stacks up okay against Rails. But he hated Entity
 Framework (he said he wasted days trying to get it 

RE: Future of .NET

[Joseph Cooney]

Fool me once - shame on you. Fool me twice.you know the rest.
On 22 Aug 2013 15:36, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote:

  Have faith my friends. Have faith. Do not confuse the strategy of a
 single p  l of that of the company or that of DevDiv.

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Cooney
 *Sent:* Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:22 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: Future of .NET

 ** **

 The mono project and xamarin seem to be doing great things with and for
 .net. Apart from some bright spots, devdiv have jumped the shark.

 On 22 Aug 2013 15:16, Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com wrote:

  I was told at Uni (1980) that COBOL was going to die real soon... Since
 then COBOL paid off all of my first mortgage.

 It was not until about 1994 that COBOL stopped earning for me and I am
 sure that there are a lot of people out there still paying their way with
 it.

 .NET may be on the start of a down turn, but if it is, it has a long way
 to go, for now I am happy to stay with .NET, but Microsoft scare me, they
 have to look out for what they think is best for Microsoft and we could get
 swept up with the good or the bad of that, we have to accept that we have
 little control of the ride we are on!  Would other options be better, I
 doubt it, just different.

 ** **

 Interesting to look at the job trends, look at:
 http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobtrends/trend/q-asp.net+programmer%2Cruby+programmer%2Clamp+programmer
 

 ** **

 [image: Asp.net Programmer, Ruby Programmer, Lamp Programmer trends graph]
 

 ** **

 There is a down trend which is not good, I don't know why the data stops a
 year ago

 It may have all changed in the last year?

 ** **

 On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  In 2008 there was a tipping point in the .NET scene overall and the
 timing was likely due to the post .NET adoption peak or high as to grow
 further meant you had to go to outlying areas of the market. It also had to
 do with the amount of investment and evangelism that went on in Academic
 institutions also dropped significantly (due to scenarios where teachers
 didn't like ASP.NET or WinForms due to their blurring of basic OOP
 principles mixed with costs associated - compared to python, java, php, etc)
 

 ** **

 Microsoft decided to react and it's really been a 3-5 year campaign on
 driving adoption in the outlying areas - specifically going after pretty
 much the entire landscape(s) of competitors at once ... i mean if they
 aren't fighting and campaigning to convince you all that Google is the
 enemy then its Apple and when not Apple it's back to the LAMP is evil etc.
 

 ** **

 The problem is they've lost perspective by shifting everyone from
 strategies that start and finish on the fiscal year time lines they in turn
 have created this area of uncertainty where you have a lot of .NET coders
 out there writing WinForms, WebForms, Asp MVC, WPF, Silverlight etc all
 being told they really need to stop doing this and go with HTML5/JS for
 Windows8/Wp8 or C++ for more intensive scenarios. If you then still reject
 they then concede XAML/C# is fine but you still need to write code
 differently because even the name spaces are different (yet you can't
 figure out why given well..they behave and act the same as their
 counterparts...) which you then realise that was a forcing function on
 adopting new over old.

 By not giving a transition period between 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 to now..
 they've basically pushed the crowd of .NET further away from a sustaining
 model of adoption. It then asks everyone who are loyal to the brands and
 technology that comes out from Microsoft to consider two things - Can you
 trust us to stick this strategy out given our past and Have you really
 considered us against the alternative?

 If this were a political party soliciting you for your vote its as if
 they've told you vote for us and will probably tax you more can't say for
 sure :)

 So yeah, adoption cycles are going to fluctuate around what happens post
 Winforms/Wpf  of past... I'd wager that gaming industry will influence the
 outcome given they have a lot more to win/loose around this entire
 uncertainty (given device/desktop/console buying power is massive).

 ** **

 That's where a lot of start-ups occupy today - gaming/kickstarter style
 space.

 ** **

 ** **

 ** **


 

 ---
 Regards,
 Scott Barnes
 http://www.riagenic.com

 ** **

 On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Andrew McGrath 
 andrew.mcgr...@workslink.com.au wrote:

 .NET 2.0 coding still has some uses

 ** **

 Had to stick to it to create a .NET IDE for the webusing Visual Web
 GUI (essentially .NET WinForms that runs via your browser) and Xamarin.***
 *

 ** **

 Can now write .NET code once and run it on web, natively on Android, iOS,
 Mac and PC

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

[Joseph Cooney]

I am a big fan of the das keyboard mechanical keyboards. I have 2, one for
home, one for work. Slight preference for the older II series.
On 15 Aug 2013 13:59, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote:

 You really ought to try a mechanical keyboard. They are more expensive but
 they are solid, well built, and will last you a lifetime if you look after
 them. My (non-touch) typing has improved by a factor of 2, and I was pretty
 fast before this. Look at Armor for a wireless one or SteelSeries for a
 wired one.


 On 15 August 2013 13:51, Wallace Turner wallace.tur...@gmail.com wrote:

 Do not accept that the ergonomic keyboard will make your life easier. I
 used one for well over a year before I realised I hated it. its too big,
 its inconvenient. when debugging step out is a pain in the neck as I'm used
 to using my left hand alone to do this (Shift-11) as my right hand is on
 the mouse so i can inspect variables or whatever I need to do when
 debugging.

 I'm back on a compact keyboard - works for me.

 http://www.dhgate.com/product/new-dell-mini-1012-series-uk-black-keyboard/143650991.html?utm_source=plautm_medium=GMCutm_campaign=wisshenutm_term=143650991f=bm%7c143650991%7c104006-Keyboards-Mice-Input%7cGMC%7cAdwords%7cpla%7cwisshen%7cAU%7c104006007-LaptopReplacementKeyboards%7cc%7cgclid=CIvSya7F_rgCFcYipQodXjoAkA


 On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea 
 corne...@acorns.com.au wrote:

 Hi David,

 I'm a big fan of keyboards and I've tested heaps and heaps of them and I
 always go back to the ergonomic ones from Microsoft.
 I know you don't like them but I think they are very very good and once
 you get used you'll never want to go back.

 I'm currently using the Microsoft Natural 400
 http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000

 I have one at home and one at work and they rock. The split angle is
 small enough to allow easy use with one hand in the rare moments that I
 need to use a single hand and keep a hand on the mouse.
 The older ergonomic ones were having a higher angle making them
 impossible to use with one hand.
 I also looked at that new Manta Ray and I think I'll buy one. I like
 that the keypad is separate and I love the long delete key (my previous
 keyboard had that long delete and I enjoyed it.

 To make my life easier I always remap most of VS commands that I
 frequently use to use only the left hand with no need to use the right hand.
 - Alt+1 - Build Selected Project
 - Alt+2 - Find References (Resharper)
 - Alt+W - Highlight References
 - Alt+Q - Goto Definition
 and few more so you can keep a hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard
 :)

 I think no keyboard shortcut should ever need two hands.
 Whoever came up with the Ctrl+Shift+F12 shortcut and Ctrl+Shift+B?
 Have you tried to press Ctrl+Shift+B with one hand? My hand hurts just
 looking a the keyboard to try to figure out how to press that.






 On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Richards 
 ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote:

 A bit off topic and a bit on topic.  I've been in the market for a
 good developer keyboard for a while but never seem to find anything I 
 like.
  I was just wondering if others on this list had found a decent keyboard.

 A few qualifying points:

 I don't want a number pad or at least I don't want one on the right of
 the keyboard.  Not that I have anything against them, I just want my mouse
 to be closer.  I've tested this using a cheap (and crappy) laptop like
 keyboard and there is a noticeable difference in comfort.  I can just as
 easily by a separate number pad keyboard to position elsewhere.


 Or not at all.  If you touchtype, they are almost unused.  Funny I
 didn't realise this, I just picked up my somewhat used KB and held it to
 reflect light.   Right.  The numeric KB is still matte, the main KB numbers
 are shiny with wear.


 I would prefer the cursor keys and the other navigation keys to be in
 a reasonable location.  My crappy keyboard as some of these along the
 bottom.  It also sacrificed the right Control key in favour of a Scroll
 Lock key.  Who uses scroll lock any more?


 What does it even do?


  I don't like those ergonomic keyboards that split the keyboard to
 be comfortable for two hands.  I don't know about the rest of you but I
 spend at least as much time with one hand on the mouse and the other on 
 the
 keyboard as I do with both hands on the keyboard.  So the ergonomic 
 aspects
 are actually a hindrance when typing with one hand.


 Disagree.  Going back to flat KB's is a major pain now for me.


 I don't care about media buttons or any other specific use button.  I
 never user them.  They just make the keyboard bigger.  20% of the keys on
 my current keyboard will never be used.


 Agree, and get rid of the effing flock key and all the media shifts on
 the f keys.


  Obviously I want the keys to be comfortable to use 8 hours a day.


 Dude, at 

Re: jQuery debugging

[Joseph Cooney]

My brother works on the chrome team. Are you saying there is something
improper about the work he is doing?
On 9 Jul 2013 13:38, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 Thank chaps, I'll have to look into Chrome, although I've never previously
 allowed it only my work machines because it's like a virus, everything from
 Google is like a virus.

 I would like to mention that in the previous hour I've been cobbling
 together my price-calc html page, I have needed to run a web search on how
 to code each individual line: set and get a checkbox, detect textbox
 changes, disable a control, set text in a span, etc. all absolutely
 fundamental things you need to do. The inconsistency and patternless
 quagmire is beyond human endurance. Did the inventors of JavaScript, jQuery
 and DOM invent this stuff to hamper the progress of the human race? The
 inventors of this mess should be hunted down if they're still alive and
 strangled with their own entrails. Examples that need a search for each
 line and I find absolutely no consistency at all (the first one is utterly
 cryptic):

 Is a checkbox checked -- $('chk1').is(':checked')
 Set text in a span -- $('#span1').text(thevalue)
 Set text in a textbox -- $('$text1').val(something)
 Disable a control -- $('radio1').attr('disabled', show)

 Even worse, most search results have screenloads of people arguing about
 what bit of sample code is correct. There are sometimes 6 suggestions of
 how to do a single thing, and 4 of them don't work. The official jQuery API
 server is offline which makes my experience even better. I'm sure I'll feel
 better once I can see some sort of pattern in the jQuery/DOM chaos.

 Greg K

 On 9 July 2013 13:04, Jorke Odolphi jo...@jorke.net wrote:

  Chrome has by far the best debugging experience – very similar to how
 it works with .net – and its the same experience on each platform -
 (although osx makes you do unnatural acts with key combinations). I've
 found I've been writing code on the console to validate it, and its super
 easy for debugging ajax as well. Some very nice profiling things there as
 well – really lets you tune the rendering etc.

  I tried the tool chaining with VS and it was just too hard to make it
 work, although I do rate VS as the best JS editor (before sublime :) )


   From: g...@mira.net g...@mira.net
 Reply-To: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 Date: Tuesday, 9 July 2013 12:31 PM
 To: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 Subject: jQuery debugging

   I'm trying to create a single html page with jQuery inside to
 interactively calculate a price total based upon the settings of other
 controls. It's a classic sort of make you order page.

 Can I get a familiar debugging experience like I'm used into in Visual
 Studio while writing this page and scripts? I haven't written any
 JavaScript for years and I have no idea what's available to help me these
 days. There must be some people in this group writing plain JavaScript or
 jQuery in their html pages, so what do you do to keep productive?

 Greg K

Re: Message Queing

[Joseph Cooney]

I've had good experiences with zeromq, in a fairly limited context.
On 21 Jun 2013 11:48, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote:

 Hi,

 Anyone can recommend a good message queuing system that works well with
 .Net?
 I'm only aware of ActiveMQ and MSMQ. I know ActiveMQ is Java based and I
 want to stay away from MSMQ as previous experiences were not that positive.

 Azure is not an option as I need this to run internally.

 Thanks,
 Corneliu.

Re: 2 problems

[Joseph Cooney]

Some people have a problem and think I know, I'll use floating point
numbers, now they have 1.7 problems.
On 28 May 2013 11:32, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote:


-

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, I know, I'll use
regular expressions. Now they have two problems.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1653418

 Multithreading's my favourite.

 --
 Meski

http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv

 Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure,
 you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills

RE: 2 problems

[Joseph Cooney]

I'm not the originatorbut I was on my phone and too lazy to track down
the source.
On 28 May 2013 11:53, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.com wrote:

 J Nice one Joseph!

 ** **

 Regards,

 ** **

 Greg

 ** **

 Dr Greg Low

 ** **

 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913fax
 

 SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Cooney
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:38 AM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: 2 problems

 ** **

 Some people have a problem and think I know, I'll use floating point
 numbers, now they have 1.7 problems.

 On 28 May 2013 11:32, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote:

 **· **Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, I
 know, I'll use regular expressions. Now they have two problems.

 https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1653418

 Multithreading's my favourite.

 ** **

 --
 Meski

  http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv


 Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure,
 you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills

RE: Super Sync Sports

[Joseph Cooney]

Why do you say that?
On 28 Feb 2013 16:02, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.edu wrote:

  By the way, where does ASP.net come into that?  Writing a site in all
 HTML with no .net code is ... primitive.  

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Evrat
 *Sent:* Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:30 PM
 *To:* ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 *Subject:* Re: Super Sync Sports

 ** **

 ** **

 Immersed in snow on my android phone??!! Amateur question - is there a
  html5 editor (pref free) that can integrate with visual studio for
 programming? Or is expressions the only thing?

 ** **

 ** **


 Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Bloody interesting look at the future of immersive computing. 

 ** **

 On 28 February 2013 11:33, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote:

 All HTML5. This is amazing.

 ** **

 http://www.chrome.com/supersyncsports/
 

 ** **

 -- 

 David Connors

 da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363

 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors

 Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors

 Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors***
 *



 

 ** **

 --
 regards,
 Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland 

Re: Windows 8 Tablet, Can I run the application I develop for myself without needing to go through the App Store?

[Joseph Cooney]

You can side-load metro apps you develop yourself on Win8 enterprise, or pro if 
you go through a special activation process, or if you get a developer key.

Sent from my phone

On 31/10/2012, at 3:18 PM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote:

 To use use windows 8 Tablet, can one develop and use applications without 
 having to go through the App Store?
 
 Thanks for links/ideas
 
 Regards
 
 Arjang

Re: Greetings

[Joseph Cooney]

Agree. For example, what UI framework are you using? Winforms? WPF?
Silverlight? More details, please.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote:

 It might help.
 if you post some snippets of your code.
 we can talk about something specific.
 sorry couldn't.
 resist. I'm bad


 On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.comwrote:

 hi.
 well.
 i was using a rich text box, for a set of menus in a vb project.
 but my lecturer said to change it to a plain text box.
 but, now it is not liking the LoadFile or SaveFile for the file name.
 how to fix this.
 my lecturer i think is still on vacation.
 any ideas.
 trying to do a class project.
 and also not liking the print options, like Font Style, etc.
 any help.
 have searched online and the code looks the same.
 and also got some type and value problems.
 can any one point me in the right direction.
 marvin.





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Re: [OT] Anti-Football League Greg Keogh

[Joseph Cooney]

I think hatters make hats...

Sent from my iPhone

On 29/09/2012, at 2:23 PM, Jimmy P m...@thejimmyp.com wrote:

 Hatters gonna hat
 
 On Saturday, September 29, 2012, Nick Hodge wrote:
 Sportsball is the opium of the working class
 
  
 
 From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
 Behalf Of Tom Rutter
 Sent: Saturday, 29 September 2012 2:19 PM
 To: ozDotNet
 Subject: Re: [OT] Anti-Football League  Greg Keogh
 
  
 
 Haha do Greg's feeling apply to all footy codes?
 
 On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote:
 
 Hi All,
 
 Usually Greg posts the Anti-Football League stuff to this thread around now, 
 and I haven't seen it yet, but reading theage.com.au I did find this: 
 http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/upping-the-anti-on-afls-big-day-20120928-26r7e.html
 
 Cheers :)
 --
 Les Hughes
 l...@datarev.com.au
 
  
 
 
 
 -- 
 Cheers,
 
 Jim P
 @pjimmy
 

Re: Server Monitoring

[Joseph Cooney]

I thought 'splunk' was the 'money is no object' option?

Sent from my iPhone

On 25/08/2012, at 7:19 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote:

 If money is no object, SolarWinds
 
 If you want something vaguely approximate that is cheaper: WhatsUpGold. 
 
 
 On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au 
 wrote:
 
 Hi DotNetters,
 
 Any one has any recommendations for a service/platform/application that I can 
 use for monitoring my cloud servers (W2K8,SQL2K8)?
 I'd like to monitor classic stuff: availability, IIS, SQL, maybe a bit of 
 disk and CPU. The only important one really is availability (http/https).
 
 Regards,
 Corneliu
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 David Connors
 da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363
 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors
 Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors
 Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors
 

Re: [OT] Anyone using Kinect?

[Joseph Cooney]

The XBox one works fine with the SDK, however the XBox kinect doesn't have
'near mode' if you're particularly interested in that
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kinectforwindows/archive/2012/01/20/near-mode-what-it-is-and-isn-t.aspx

More info is in the FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/news/faq.aspx

Joseph

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.auwrote:

 I have a Kinect that came with my Xbox.

 Can this be use used with the Kinect for Windows Commercial SDK or do you
 have a buy a “special” unit?

 ** **

 *Regards Peter Maddin*

 

 ** **

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Ian Thomas
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 3 July 2012 1:13 PM

 *To:* ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 *Subject:* [OT] Anyone using Kinect? 

 ** **

 Is anyone using Kinect? Where is the hardware on sale in Oz? 

 ** **
 --

 **Ian Thomas**
 Victoria Park, Western Australia




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Re: .NET hosting + Sql server

[Joseph Cooney]

Azure or EC2?

Sent from my iPhone

On 19/06/2012, at 9:18 PM, Tom Gao t...@tomgao.com wrote:

 Hi Guys,
  
 Looking for a cheap .net host with sql server. Just wondering who everyone is 
 using.
  
 Thanks,
 Tom

Re: Win8 Release Preview

[Joseph Cooney]

I just started thinking of that metro screen as a full-screen start menu and my 
yearning for one went away.

Joseph

On 07/06/2012, at 9:58 AM, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) 
andrew.coa...@microsoft.com wrote:

 I’m not sure I get the yearning for a start menu. Maybe I use it differently 
 from others, but the metro screen lays out my commonly used apps nicely, and 
 anything else I need I can find just by typing the first couple of letters of 
 its name. The metro screen comes to the front when I hit the Windows button 
 (like the start menu does in 7) and all my keyboard shortcuts work (and then 
 some).
  
 Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping 
 Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113
 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • 
 http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat
  
 From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
 Behalf Of David Connors
 Sent: Thursday, 7 June 2012 9:41 AM
 To: ozDotNet
 Subject: Re: Win8 Release Preview
  
 On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Bill McCarthy 
 bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au wrote:
 IMO, windows 8 is close, but it could be a lot better. I love the windows
 phone like UI **concept**, and I love the idea of the similarities between
 the different form factors, BUT the current release preview looks to me to
 be designed for content consumption not content creation. Where, for
 example, is My documents gone ?
  
 I think you're right - it is very close. The problem is that there is a lot 
 of traditional desktop functionality that has become a casualty of MS' iPad 
 fear. 
  
 I reckon if the start menu came back and they got rid of the need for hot 
 spots in the corners it could be a lot more usable.
  
 Metro vs desktop apps schism is pretty difficult to live with.
  
 -- 
 David Connors
 da...@connors.me

Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

[Joseph Cooney]

I like the look of the RC. Will be interested in using it a bit.

On 09/05/2012, at 11:07 AM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote:

 Thoughts?
  
 From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
 Behalf Of Ian Thomas
 Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:59 PM
 To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 Subject: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface
  
  
  
 Ian Thomas
 Victoria Park, Western Australia
 
  

Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

[Joseph Cooney]

My experiences with entity framework have been far from universally
positive. Code first I find slightly discomforting from the get-go because
of the plethora of attributes that end up on your model (especially when
used in conjunction with ASP.NET MVC... ) everything from the UI to
persistence ends up getting glued on to your model and this is somehow OK
becuase it is done with attributes?

EF keeps getting better with each release, but that is faint praise. In 4.5
they allowed pre-compilation of query expressions, which had previously
limited performance of one project I know of to about 5 concurrent users
before the CPUs melted through the case. In 4.5 they also apparently fixed
bugs like this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/682429/how-can-i-query-for-null-values-in-entity-framework

The biggest problem I've seen with EF is the performance. Have a look at
some of the queries it generates to do simple-seeming selects and then
ponder how you would go about tuning said query. At the end of the day EF
seems like a really leaky abstraction over database access. It can work if
you're constantly looking 'under the covers' at the SQL it generates, and
are prepared to constantly think about how you need to structure a
particular linq expression or API call to work with EF, but it has always
felt to me like it causes more problems than it solves.

Joseph

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote:

 One Word: EF Code First! and I haven't looked back ever since.
 DAL is dead, Long live Entities

 Regards

 Arjang
 On 13 April 2012 10:59, ifum...@gmail.com wrote:

 Been using llbLgen for years but finding that EF would do what i need.
 

 ** **

 Would save me a step(time) using EF in vs 2010 instead of generate DAL
 using LLblgen

 ** **

 Anyone have an opinion on this?

 ** **

 ** **

 Anthony





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Re: Distributed Logging Experiences

[Joseph Cooney]

I've seen people use msmq to write a log entry locally and have it read from 
the local machine into a centralized location, but that was on a system with 
only about 20 web nodes. I've also seen ppl write to the windows event log, and 
use monitoring tools like SCOM to aggregate (also on about 20 nodes). 

I'm curious to know what you're doing that requires that many nodes. I know a 
lot of household name web sites that run on a 10th or 20th of that.

Sent from my iPhone

On 06/04/2012, at 11:20 PM, Dave Walker rangitat...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey guys,
 
 looking for ideas or proven experiences involving logging from larger 
 applications e.g. 200+ web nodes. Our current system of log4net into files on 
 each server is quickly proving to be a nightmare - We are struggling to find 
 out when, where, how and why things are breaking because of the rapid growth 
 we have experienced.
 
 E.g. things we have thought about include log4net into a DB that we can pull 
 into a centralised location, MSMQ, file watchers etc.
 
 What have you guys done in the past?
 
 Thanks,
 Dave Walker

Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

[Joseph Cooney]

I'm disappointed that MS went after this instead of making an editor that can 
open a moderately large text file without halting for a few minutes.

Joseph

On 24/02/2012, at 3:15 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote:

 We showed off the new look today: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/
 
  
 
 Thoughts?

Re: US Hosted VPS

[Joseph Cooney]

Yes re: permanent ip. +1 for ec2 recommendation.

Sent from my iPhone

On 17/02/2012, at 1:26 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 Quick question, do I get my own perm IP Address with EC2?
 
 
 
 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 Amazon EC2 works well, and can be easily scaled up or down to suit 
 requirements.
 
 Craig.
 
 
 On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi
 
 Can anyone recommend a good US based VPS company?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital
 Managing Director
 P. 0404 865 350
 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au
 W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au
 T. www.twitter.com/rid00z
 L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Managing Director
 P. 0404 865 350
 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au
 W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au
 T. www.twitter.com/rid00z
 L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland
 
 
 
 

Re: Logging to database without installation

[Joseph Cooney]

Any reason not to use log4net, which has a built-in SQLite writer (as well as 
many others?)

Sent from my iPhone

On 16/02/2012, at 10:39 AM, ifum...@gmail.com wrote:

 I trying to develop a simple logging assembly that doesn’t rely on any 
 installation.   Should i use sqllite or sql server compact 4(do i need to 
 install anything?)
 
  
 
  
 
 Anthony
 
  
 
  

Re: Hosted Source Control/Issue Tracking recommendations

[Joseph Cooney]

Other than github and bitbucket?

On 17/10/2011, at 1:09 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Guys, 
 
 I've been asked to evaluate cloud hosted source control and issue tracking 
 and was wondering if you guys have any recommendations.
 
 We're currently looking at:
 Hosted TFS
 Fogbuz/Kiln
 I personally prefer a DVCS based solution as this really is the future but my 
 my colleagues and I are familiar with TFS so may be it's a get up and go 
 quickly solution for them
 
 -- 
 regards,
 Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland

Re: Hosted Source Control/Issue Tracking recommendations

[Joseph Cooney]

bitbucket has issue tracking.

Although I prefer mercurial git seems to work for me, and a number of other
people, on Windows.

Joseph

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.comwrote:

 Bitbucket doesn't have an issue tracking system like the two I mentioned.
 Git is not being considered as mercurial has better windows support.

 But thank you for the suggestions.


 On 17 October 2011 22:38, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Other than github and bitbucket?

 On 17/10/2011, at 1:09 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Guys,

 I've been asked to evaluate cloud hosted source control and issue tracking
 and was wondering if you guys have any recommendations.

 We're currently looking at:

- Hosted TFS
- Fogbuz/Kiln

 I personally prefer a DVCS based solution as this really is the future but
 my my colleagues and I are familiar with TFS so may be it's a get up and go
 quickly solution for them

 --
 regards,
 Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland




 --
 regards,
 Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland




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Re: Opening .MSI databases

[Joseph Cooney]

There is super-orca

http://www.pantaray.com/msi_super_orca.html

Not sure how it compares to les msi erables. AllI know is it is more super
than the regular orca.

Joseph

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote:

  Yes, I should have mentioned that I have used WiX v2 and its tools, and
 of course Orca. I found that using Orca was quite awkward.  

 Apart from its cute name, les msi erables (latest version) if very easy to
 use – latest version is nice (and actually it uses WiX DLLs). 
  --

 **Ian Thomas**
 Victoria Park, Western Australia
   --

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Clark
 *Sent:* Friday, October 14, 2011 6:55 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: Opening .MSI databases

 ** **

 Orca http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905 is the official tool, but
 I haven't used it in ages and I found it a bit painful.

 ** **

 On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au
 wrote:

 Bing! New 
 versionhttp://blog.scott.willeke.com/2010/12/lessmsi-v108-is-now-available.html,
 2010. But I’d like to know of other tools available. 

  
  --

 Ian Thomas
 Victoria Park, Western Australia
   --

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Ian Thomas
 *Sent:* Friday, October 14, 2011 4:33 PM
 *To:* ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 *Subject:* Opening .MSI databases

  

 I need to open an .MSI data package (installable file) to extract just the
 .CHM (Help) file. Does anyone know a simple utility? 

 In the past, I used “Les Mis” – actually, *lessmsierables* written by
 Scott Willeke, but the last version he produced was 2005-11-10 and although
 it has C# source code, I suspect the package structure might have changed
 and I know (from trying it just now) it is not UAC-aware. I’d rather not
 change his code in an attempt to improve it, if there is something else. *
 ***

 (I don’t want to install WiX, either). 
  --

 Ian Thomas
 Victoria Park, Western Australia

 ** **




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Re: WinRT vs World+Dog

[Joseph Cooney]

Wpf was unable to ditch the ui thread and message pump stuff because it caused 
problems with the clip board (and possibly other things). Probably the same 
thing with WinRT.

On 28/09/2011, at 11:24 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:

 On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote:
 If you think that WinRT got rid of UI threads and message pumps, you’d be 
 wrong. :)
 
 
 
 That is really disappointing.
 
 -- 
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 Codify Pty Ltd
 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: Website request slow performance / timeouts

[Joseph Cooney]

Related fun: black hole routers http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314825

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.auwrote:

 For what’s is worth I had a similar problem with sending data via FTP using
 a FTP control.

 The firewall would drop packets if it did not like the negotiated data port
 .



 When this happened the application (this happened when the command line FTP
 in a windows shell was used) would hang.

 No time out or exception.



 I had to use WireShark to observe the FTP communication dialog.

 As the negotiated ports vary, most of the time it would work fine but every
 now and then this would happen.



 The Firewall did log the fact that it was dropping packets but the
 administrator did not think it important enough to let me know ( I am only
 user among many).



 If you are using a desktop application one can kill it.

 If it is a service that operates continuously then it’s a real headache.

 I had to write another service that monitored this service and kill it if
 was hung.

 The operating system would then start a new instance.



 Regards Peter

 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Michael Lyons
 *Sent:* Thursday, 9 June 2011 1:46 PM

 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: Website request slow performance / timeouts



 We think we have narrowed it down to a firewall issue and are getting the
 vendor involved. From what we could see we were randomly getting a bunch of
 packets which seem to be being mysteriously dropped when transversing the
 trust/untrust zones of the firewall, nothing in the logs about it though.
 Only way we figured it out was via Wireshark at the start of this week;
 fiddler offered a hint via recreating SSL connections randomly. 99% sure
 it’s the firewall but there’s still a little room for it to be something
 else.



 Thanks guys for your help, definitely using the failed request tracing on a
 permanent basis from now on.



 -

 Michael



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Paul Glavich
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 7 June 2011 1:17 PM
 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: Website request slow performance / timeouts



 Sorry for late response. I hardly get onto this list anymore due to time
 constraints.



 It won’t be easy, but perhaps grap Wireshark/Ethereal and monitor the
 traffic looking for TCP/IP packets getting dropped, if using SSL, excessive
 SSL negotiation, certificate revocation paths taking a long time and things
 like that. Have seen similar issues where the TCP packets were getting
 dropped/retried due to (if I remember correctly as it has been a while) bad
 TCP settings 9something to do with the header, framesize I think) on an
 internal firewall. That particular problem took ages to find though.





 -  Glav



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Michael Lyons
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 31 May 2011 3:09 PM
 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: Website request slow performance / timeouts



 No maximums have been set, only minimums. IIS VM has 2 cores and 1Ghz
 reserved for it with a maximum of about 4Ghz.



 I’ve had failed request tracing on for anything that takes longer than 5
 seconds and so far it has caught only one instance out of a number of times
 I’ve seen it happen. Total time for the failed instance was just over 5
 seconds.

 Strangest thing though was the duration for the ManagedPipelineHandler it
 has “NO_END”. The HttpRedirectionModule started before it, so I assume it
 ran a response redirect and aborted the thread causing the NO_END



 I’ve also checked that garbage collection isn’t interfering and it’s
 definitely not an issue.



 ---

 Michael



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *djones...@gmail.com
 *Sent:* Monday, 30 May 2011 4:00 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: Website request slow performance / timeouts



 Hi

 Recently, they moved my production website and database on to virtual
 machines.

 We experianced slow downs, timeouts on the website and blocking table locks
 on the database.

 The only thing was that each Morning, the first person to connect
 recalculates the cache for everyone else ( batch job before start of day ).

 Before the migration, the page took 22 seconds to load and pegged out all 8
 cpu's on the db machine.

 After migration, it timed out after 15 min, using 2 cpu cores and 25% cpu
 capacity.

 The team that did the move took the average processor usage and set that as
 the max available cpu usage on the db and websites.

 It's fixed now.

 Davy

 When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I feel
 much the same way about xml
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 *From: *Michael Lyons maill...@ittworx.com

 *Sender: *ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

 *Date: *Mon, 30 May 2011 14:23:51 +1000

 *To: *'ozDotNet'ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com

Re: SQLite bulk insert performance

[Joseph Cooney]

I wouldn't bother e-mailing the SQLite folks. This is by design, and is a
well known behaviour with SQLite. From memory if you don't explicitly have a
transaction then one gets created for each operation, which slows things
down.

Joseph

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 Here’s a serious heads-up for you:



 Last night I was bulk migrating about 20 rows from my old SQL Express
 database into my new SQLite one. I wondered why it took about 10 minutes to
 insert 1000 rows into one table, and when it got to the 6 row table I
 was curious about how long that would take. So I left the machine running
 while we met friends for dinner at a Turkish restaurant. Four hours later
 it’s still running the same step. I noticed that a journal file was
 flickering madly in Windows Explorer, so I guessed it was some transactional
 problem.



 My code is plain ADO.NET like this:



 using (SQLiteCommand ...)

 {

 using (SQLiteCommand ...)

 {

 for (...)

 {

 ExecNonQuery(... INSERT ...)

 }

 }

 }



 This morning a few web searches hinted that I had to use PRAGMA
 synchronous = OFF. That’s too weird, so I put a using DbTransaction around
 the bulk inserts and now the whole migrations runs in 10 seconds.



 I’m going to cc a copy of this post to the authors of SQLite, as this is a
 shocking gotcha. I’m utterly gobsmacked by the poor performance of the
 inserts without a transaction around them.



 Greg




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Re: SQLite bulk insert performance

[Joseph Cooney]

True, but I think the cost associated with creating a transaction is
different with SQLite. I think SQLite needs to opening, writing to, and
closing the journal file each time it creates a transaction which is
apparently expensive. Maybe since SQL Server is a service it keeps keeps the
journal file open.

Joseph

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Hurd markeh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Isn't that exactly the same as the default mode for SQL Server?

 On 29 May 2011 12:52, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote:
  I wouldn't bother e-mailing the SQLite folks. This is by design, and is a
  well known behaviour with SQLite. From memory if you don't explicitly
 have a
  transaction then one gets created for each operation, which slows things
  down.
 
  Joseph
  On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
 
  Here’s a serious heads-up for you:
 
  Last night I was bulk migrating about 20 rows from my old SQL
 Express
  database into my new SQLite one. I wondered why it took about 10 minutes
 to
  insert 1000 rows into one table, and when it got to the 6 row table
 I
  was curious about how long that would take. So I left the machine
 running
  while we met friends for dinner at a Turkish restaurant. Four hours
 later
  it’s still running the same step. I noticed that a journal file was
  flickering madly in Windows Explorer, so I guessed it was some
 transactional
  problem.
 
  My code is plain ADO.NET like this:
 
  using (SQLiteCommand ...)
  {
  using (SQLiteCommand ...)
  {
 
  for (...)
  {
 
  ExecNonQuery(... INSERT ...)
 
  }
  }
  }
 
 
  This morning a few web searches hinted that I had to use PRAGMA
  synchronous = OFF. That’s too weird, so I put a using DbTransaction
 around
  the bulk inserts and now the whole migrations runs in 10 seconds.
 
  I’m going to cc a copy of this post to the authors of SQLite, as this is
 a
  shocking gotcha. I’m utterly gobsmacked by the poor performance of the
  inserts without a transaction around them.
 
 
  Greg
 
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Re: Smart sheet - how do they do it?

[Joseph Cooney]

Gtk or gwt?

On 12/05/2011, at 4:39 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 I saw the demo running and I was also amazed by the smooth and rich 
 experience and wondered how it was done. Viewing the page source only showed 
 some frames with no clue about what was in them. Right-clicking produced 
 application context menus. I could find no direct evidence for Silverlight or 
 Flash driving the thing. I was totally stumped by how it was done. Perhaps it 
 was GTK, but it seemed better than the best stuff I’ve seen done in GTK.
 
  
 
 I just went to their contact web page and posted a question asking them how 
 their developers created the UI. Let’s see if they respond and reveal their 
 magic!
 
  
 
 Greg

Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

[Joseph Cooney]

Why would you get paid extra to work at home?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, djones...@gmail.com wrote:

 It's also justification to make people work at home for no extra money.

 .02c

 Davy

 When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I feel
 much the same way about xml
 --
 *From: * David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com
 *Sender: * ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
 *Date: *Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:05:22 +
 *To: *ozDotNetozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 *ReplyTo: * ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 *Subject: *RE: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

  Sounds like a justification for spending less money on work machines. I’m
 failing to see why this is a good thing.



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Molloy
 *Sent:* Tuesday, March 29, 2011 4:21 AM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp



 The ideas good, but I wouldn't want to take a home pc to work and leave it
 there, laptop maybe...

 Good on suncorp for trying something different..

 The company I work for gave me a Quad Core with 8gb Ram, and then put the
 standard SOE (XP 32 Bit) on it, in which I have to run a VM to do the dev
 work..



 All ass about as far as I'm concerned..

 They've got the cash to put out for the box, something stupid like $8k
 through their supplier, but won't give me the environment to make my life
 easier..







 On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com
 wrote:

 I've always thought that if your team are not coming into work complaining
 about how crap their home computer is compared to their work PC then you're
 not looking after your developers. I'm currently working from home Tuesdays
 and Thursdays (the boss thinks productivity is higher if you go dark, which
 I think has some merit). 30 monitor and 27.5 montior at home. 2 x 24 at
 work. Got a newer desktop at work than home... I did have to buy myself an
 SSD drive for my home PC to try to keep up with my work PC. :D

 Pertty cool idea people being able to bring their own machines to work.
 Downsides I can see, more people using laptops (possibly more future cases
 of workers comp from hunching over a laptop rather than eye level monitor?)
 and putting the responsibility of your hardware back on the worker. No car
 == no job, may become no laptop == no job.



 Should help cut down situations where people are using 8 year old laptops
 to try to do their job. Man what a way to abuse your staff. unless they are
 contractors of course...  (no no, it's ok. I'll take the 1Gb ram machine. )



 On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Simon Haigh smha...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not as exciting as it sounds.  Definately not going to be be a open slather
 policy about bringing your favourite device to work and plugging it into the
 network.  From what I've heard, all access to the company network will be
 through the Citrix portal.

 Still it might be the justification I need to buy a new high powered laptop
 and push a little harder to be able to telecommute.  :-)

 Simon



 On 29/03/2011 7:11 PM, Paul Stovell wrote:

 I think this is pretty exciting:



 The BYO (bring your own) device program at one of Australia's largest
 insurers means staff will be able to break free from the shackles of their
 company-issued PCs and plug in their personal laptops, tablets and
 smartphones into the enterprise network.



 We can supply you with desktops here, but if people want to bring in their
 Macs or other devices, then that's their choice. People should use the
 device they feel the most productive in.



 It is part of Suncorp's fundamental strategy to attract, develop and
 retain top talent and to give them a great place to work, and try to inspire
 them to do great things. Mr Smith said Suncorp's goal was not to have
 infrastructure be a constraint to people's innovation and ingenuity.



 From The Australian:




 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/suncorp-goes-byo-in-hardware-as-staff-are-encouraged-to-plug-in-their-devices/story-e6frgakx-1226029655986












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Re: Propagate Database changes to application

[Joseph Cooney]

What type of client is it? Do you control the means by which data is written
to the table? Are clients deployed to the internet or intranet? What kind of
database are we talking about here (I assume you mean SQL Server, since you
mention SqlDependency) but which version?

Joseph

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi list,

 I'm looking to have an application automagically update it's view of the
 data when the data in the connected database table changes.
 I've seen two main ways to do this so far.
 1. Poll the database every n seconds
 2. Use the System.Web.Caching.SqlDependancy object.

 Does anyone else know of any other better or smarter way of doing this ?

 thanks
 Grant




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Re: Propagate Database changes to application

[Joseph Cooney]

Re: client type - I was more wondering is it a web app? Windows app? 
Silverlight? Windows intranet app could do udp broadcast of changes from the 
server or something like that.

Sent from my iPhone

On 29/03/2011, at 8:18 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks everyone for feedback..
 
 Joseph,
 SQL Server, yes, version either 2008 or 2008 R2.. More than likely R2, but 
 not nailed down yet.
 Client type is a DAL DLL.. I want the DAL to know when the data changes, and 
 the client will subscribe to DAL events, and then DAL can fire off event when 
 data is changed, and App can decide what to do about it.  Kind of like a 
 publisher / subscriber model implementation.
 
 I'm not 100% sure I'm going about it the right way or have the events in the 
 right place (ie in the DAL)..
 
 
 On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 What type of client is it? Do you control the means by which data is written 
 to the table? Are clients deployed to the internet or intranet? What kind of 
 database are we talking about here (I assume you mean SQL Server, since you 
 mention SqlDependency) but which version?
 
 Joseph
 
 
 On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi list,
 
 I'm looking to have an application automagically update it's view of the data 
 when the data in the connected database table changes.
 I've seen two main ways to do this so far.
 1. Poll the database every n seconds
 2. Use the System.Web.Caching.SqlDependancy object.
 
 
 
 
 Does anyone else know of any other better or smarter way of doing this ?
 
 
 
 
 thanks
 Grant
 
 
 
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 w: http://jcooney.net
 t: @josephcooney
 
 

Re: Databases for Local apps

[Joseph Cooney]

My vote would be for sqlite. Iirr it supports EF, is quite fast and rock solid.

On 27/03/2011, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote:

 Hey all,
  
 Was thinking about a small app and it's not big enough to need an SQL 
 database. I want it to be a single user deal and i'm just thinking ahead 
 should it become commercial. I don't want a consumer (ie consumer targetted 
 app, not enterprise) to have to have SQL or SQL Express installed to use it.
  
 I've heard of SQLite but not sure if there are other alternatives. I'd like 
 .Net support and Linq and single file based if possible. What have other 
 people used for such an app?
  
 cheers,
 Stephen
  
  

Re: [OT] Anti-Virus replacement for AVG

[Joseph Cooney]

Microsoft Security Essentials has an option to control how much CPU it uses
during a scan - 50% is the default IIRR. I've used security essentials on
several machines for the last 2 years and have never seen this problem. It
could be some interaction between Thunderbird and Security Essentials.

Joseph

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Unicorn.Consulting 
unicorn.consult...@gmail.com wrote:

  On 18/03/2011 9:03 AM, Chris Walsh wrote:

  Microsoft Security Essentials works fine.

 Like using 50% of processor when Thunderbird is open. YMMV, but I dumped
 this junk fast.
 Matt



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [
 mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Greg Keogh
 *Sent:* Friday, 18 March 2011 9:29 AM
 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* [OT] Anti-Virus replacement for AVG



 Folks, after much web browsing, discussion and head-scratching about a year
 ago I picked AVG free edition over the dozens of choices. It seemed to have
 a good reputation and it didn't seem too intrusive.



 Since then, one friend with AVG free has had a machine infected 3 times,
 another friend had 2 infections, and my wife's work machine got one hit. In
 most cases I could go into safe mode, disable the infection registry entries
 and then AVG would detect and clean the virus. One machine was so utterly
 screwed twice that it had to be formatted each time. In all cases AVG was
 disabled or deleted by the infection.



 AVG seems to be worse than useless, so I'm wondering what AV product people
 here recommend for home PC use and satisfies the following specs:



 1. It actually stops viruses (no kidding?!?)

 2. It's not too intrusive in the UI (banners, popups, tray icons, context
 menus, etc)

 3. It doesn't have side-effects (degrades performance, conflicts with other
 apps, etc)



 I reckon that asking for all of these things together is too much, but I
 might find a compromise.



 Cheers,

 Greg



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 Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin




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Re: OT: External Security testing of websites

[Joseph Cooney]

Putting a big 'fuck you guys' message on 4chan is a great way to have your site 
pen-tested. Otherwise it's pay out 15-20k for some grad from 
[expensive-consulting-company-with-agressive-legal-dept] to run some scripts 
and copy-and-paste the output from the script window into a word document.

Sent from my iPhone

On 15/03/2011, at 3:03 PM, Simon Haigh smha...@gmail.com wrote:

 How do people get their websites tested by 3rd party security firms
 without publishing them to a live environment and running the risk of
 the site being hacked and/or internal networks being compromised.
 
 Do people have a 2nd 'sandbox' environment which is totally isolated
 (airgapped) from your main business networks or do you just take the
 risk.
 
 Thanks
 Simon
 
 On 3/15/11, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:
 [Window Title]
 Windows Internet Explorer 9
 [Main Instruction]
 Internet Explorer 9 is now installed
 [Content]
 Some Internet Explorer files were in use during setup. Restart your
 computer
 to use Internet Explorer 9.
 [Restart now] [Restart later]
 Fail.
 
 Yes, you still can't close IE completely...
 
 and
 
 http://www.itnews.com.au/News/251183,non-microsoft-hypervisors-miss-ie9-acceleration.aspx
 
 VMware, and I don't know which others.
 
 
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 you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
 
 
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Re: Get version of native Windows 32 executable

[Joseph Cooney]

Qt looks pretty nice. It's a shame it's future is now under a cloud re:
Nokia.

Joseph

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:31 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:

 On 1 March 2011 14:18, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote:

 David #2
 Yes, I did that after seeing the response from my test code. The
 MinGW/GCC-compiled executable doesn't respond to
 FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo - an empty string is returned. All the
 property details except size, type, date modified are blank.


 Yeah typical effort from the FOSS movement. I really don't understand the
 whole MinGW effort and all this nonsense with getting crap like Apache and
 so on going on Windows. Most of the resulting software is terrible to
 use. That said I did have cause to build a QT based app a couple of weeks
 ago and it* wasn't terrible.*

 The steps to get any sort of resource embedded in a PE format executable
 when using GCC/MinGW etc. would be beyond painful.

 Maybe if you're concerned about your app being incompatible with future
 versions of the MinGW app you could just hash the executable file as a way
 of detecting a change?

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Re: Which IoC container should I use?

[Joseph Cooney]

I 3 Autofac.

On 21/02/2011, at 10:23 AM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote:

 G'Day,
 
 What IoC containers do you all recommend? There are so many around!
 
 Cheers,
 Bec

Re: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

[Joseph Cooney]

Like many things in software development (and life) I think it's all about
managing expectations. By choosing the word they did in their initial
announcement red-gate set the expectation that there would continue to be a
free version of reflector in perpetuity, so some people (I think
understandably) feel a bit put-out when they don't meet that expectation.
Will I buy a copy of reflector when it's released? Sure. Am I happy about
having to keep track of reflector license keys, and not being able to assume
everyone has and uses reflector? Not so much. Do I look forward to having to
carefully scrutinize everything red-gate say in case of future
back-pedaling? No. For example in their most recent communique red-gate said
Version 7 will be sold as a perpetual license, with no time bomb or forced
updates. How should I take that given their change of heart on the free
version?

Joseph

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Tony McGee tmc...@pacific.net.au wrote:

  While it's a shame the free version won't be available anymore I'm not
 disappointed at Red Gate. I'm only disappointed in the sense of entitlement
 coming from some members of the .NET community on this.

 We've had the free ride for such a long time so it's easy to forget
 someone's time and effort to maintain Reflector isn't free.
 The new price seems very reasonable for the benefit the tool provides to a
 lot of developers.
 It's a great tool, so if it provides $35 worth of value why not just buy
 it!?


 On 3/02/2011 4:41 PM, James Chapman-Smith wrote:

  It even prompted me to write my first blog 
 entryhttp://www.enigmativity.com/blog/2011/02/03/Red+Gate+Will+Be+Charging+35+For+NET+Reflector.aspxin
  nearly two and a half years about it!




 http://www.enigmativity.com/blog/2011/02/03/Red+Gate+Will+Be+Charging+35+For+NET+Reflector.aspx





 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [
 mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On
 Behalf Of *Michael Ridland
 *Sent:* Thursday, 3 February 2011 08:49
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Fwd: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector




 How absolutely ridiculous, I'm very disappointing in red gate.


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 An open letter to the .NET community

 Red Gate has announced that it will charge $35 for version 7 of .NET
 Reflector upon its release in early March. Version 7 will be sold as a
 perpetual license, with no time bomb or forced updates.

 As many of you know, our original intention was to maintain .NET Reflector
 as a free tool. But, after two-and-a-half years of providing it without
 charge, we realized that we could not make the free model work. We know that
 this will cause pain for some people in the .NET community, and we apologize
 for the change in policy.

 As a commercial company, we need to charge at least a nominal amount to
 keep .NET Reflector up-to-date and relevant. Without revenue coming in, we
 cannot dedicate a team of developers to ensure that Reflector remains a
 valuable part of .NET developers' toolboxes.

 As always, your feedback is important to Red Gate, so please contribute any
 thoughts on this subject to our .NET Reflector 
 forum.http://www.red-gate.com/MessageBoard/viewforum.php?f=141?utm_source=simpletalkutm_medium=email-specialmailingutm_content=ReflectorForum-20110202

 Sincerely,
 Neil Davidson
 Co-CEO, Red Gate Software

 Link to more:

- Read answers to frequently asked questions about Red Gate's .NET
Reflector 
 decision.http://www.red-Gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/announcement-faq?utm_source=simpletalkutm_medium=email-specialmailingutm_content=ReflectorFAQ-20110202
- Video interview with Simon Galbraith, Red Gate co-CEO, about the
future of .NET Reflector. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKnEjiSGZLA
- New features in V7 of .NET 
 Reflector.http://www.simple-talk.com/community/blogs/clivet/archive/2011/02/01/99118.aspx?utm_source=simpletalkutm_medium=email-specialmailingutm_content=CliveBlog-20110202
- Forum for feedback and 
 discussion.http://www.red-gate.com/MessageBoard/viewforum.php?f=141?utm_source=simpletalkutm_medium=email-specialmailingutm_content=ReflectorForum-20110202
- Free downloads of .NET 
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Re: Fwd: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

[Joseph Cooney]

I'm going back to anakrino. Who's with me?

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 3 February 2011 10:48, Glen Harvy g...@aquarius.com.au wrote:
  What's .Net Reflector?

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300497.aspx




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Re: Fwd: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

[Joseph Cooney]

I'll probably buy a copy. I'm just disappointed that the quality of the app
seems to have gone down under Red-Gate's stewardship. That and it never
feels good to fall for the bait-and-switch. I guess they needed a way to
recoup all the money the paid to Lutz Roeder in the first place.

Joseph

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:20 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:

 On 3 February 2011 10:19, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm going back to anakrino. Who's with me?


 35 smakers too rich for your blood joco?

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Re: EF4 custom views

[Joseph Cooney]

That was my experience with EF also. First thing I tried (a few years back now) 
was to get 'plug-able databases' working. I.e. Target sqlite or SQL server 
based on configuration change. The consensus on forums was to create two 
parallel sets of EF classes and wrap them both in a custom interface (which I 
would have to define and write the wrapper code for). Definitely a 'get off the 
bus and walk' moment for me.

Ado.net or linq2sql get the job done.

On 01/02/2011, at 8:01 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

 I've ordered the other book on EF4 that was mentioned yesterday. After
 reading the Learman book for many weeks, I find when I sit down to code that
 the very first seemingly simple and fundamental thing I want to do is
 obscure or impossible. The books and magazine articles never prepare you for
 what will happen in a real app.
 
 EF4 has shocking up-front difficulty barrier to using it in a serious app.
 It seems that you need a PhD in EF4ology before you can get started.
 
 If and when I eventually do get EF4 working to my satisfaction I will report
 on it, and I'll report on the two EF4 books.
 
 It's not Friday, but as an aside: You are the only second person I have ever
 heard use the word 'greenfields'. A colleague used it two days ago and I
 thought he was talking about a company called Green Fields. Is this another
 Americanism creeping into our language? Or is it from some other discipline?
 My current pet hate is the word impacts. My latest IT books (including
 Lerman's) are using it everywhere in sentences like setting this option
 will impact performance. Will the word affect be deprecated from the
 English language? Even the ABC news and local newspapers are now reporting
 how this will impact that. I'm surprised I can't hear all of these
 collisions.
 
 I'll have to dogfood the impact and architect a solution before we verbize
 anymore nouns.
 
 Greg
 

Re: [OT] Selling 30 monitor, good place to advert, apart from usual places

[Joseph Cooney]

How much do you want for it?

Joseph

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey guys,

 I'm trying to sell my 30 Dell monitor, have advertised on gumree,
 ebay, some usual forums, still no interested buyers.

 Anyone know of any other good places people lurking around for sales?

 Cheers,


 Winston




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Re: FW: New Horizons Learning Centres Brisbane - Lending a Helping Hand

[Joseph Cooney]

Thomas helped out a few years back by providing a free venue for myself and
a few other folks to do some free WPF community training. Donations for
those attending the training (a few years back now) went to drought relief
IIRR, so I'd say this is the real deal.

Joseph

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Dylan Tusler 
dylan.tus...@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au wrote:

  For flood-affected business in Brisbane, New Horizons has some
 complimentary assistance, training and offices. (See below)

 Seemed like a genuine enough offer, so I'm forwarding it here.

 Apologies for the intrusion if you are not Brisbane based and/or flood
 affected.

 Cheers,

 Dylan Tusler.


  --
 *From:* Thomas Pollock [mailto:tpoll...@nhaustralia.com.au]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 18 January 2011 10:00 AM
 *To:* Dylan Tusler
 *Subject:* New Horizons Learning Centres Brisbane - Lending a Helping Hand



  Dear Dylan,

 My name is Thomas Pollock; I am the General Manager of New Horizons
 Learning Centres of Brisbane.

 Suffice to say that things have been incredibly trying for the citizens of
 Brisbane and Queensland in recent times; countless businesses and homes have
 been destroyed and far worse, lives have been lost. No real words can begin
 to describe this tragic event.

 One thing that has struck me over the course of the past week has been the
 level of kindness and humanity that has been displayed by Queenslanders
 across the state; which I have personally found inspiring. I would like to
 now, through my business, attempt to assist those affected by the floods.

 As a training organisation we are inherently limited in our ability to
 assist individuals in providing natural resources (food/water/shelter),
 however, New Horizons Learning Centres of Brisbane would like to extend a
 helping hand to those affected through what we do best, training.
 *
 What we would like offer:

 *New Horizons would like to assist organisations that have been affected
 by the flood by opening up our training courses and facilities for
 complimentary enrollments. If you have staff whom are unable to get to the
 office due to flood damage we would like to offer you the ability to send
 them to New Horizons to attend a training course, *without charge*.
 Individuals will be able to attend courses between now and 28th January
 2011.*

 *We would also like to open our corporate training/meeting rooms to those
 in need of facilities to meet with staff members to discuss future business
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 *We realise that these are minor offerings in the grand scheme of things,
 however, we hope that it can somewhat assist those on the road to recovery.
 Please do not hesitate to contact us on *07 3835 2600* or *
 infob...@nhaustralia.com.au* if you have any questions or would like to
 discuss the courses which are available.

 I wish you all the best and hope that you and your family are safe.


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Re: Spell check

[Joseph Cooney]

More context please. For visual studio (if so, which version)? For
ASP.NET(and if so, which version)? For WinForms? For WPF? For
Silverlight? For
Windows Mobile? Compact Framework? Does it need to run on mono? Do you need
to be able to customize the dictionary? What languages does it need to
support?

Joseph

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Kirsten Greed kirst...@jobtalk.com.auwrote:

   Hi All

 Can anyone recommend a spellchecker add in

 Thanks

 Kirsten




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Re: Code Obfuscation tool

[Joseph Cooney]

I don't mind eazfuscator, and SmartAssembly also seems good. Hanging out on
the .net reverse engineering message boards for a while I came to the
conclusion that all of these tools can be broken when enough effort is
applied http://reteam.org/board/forumdisplay.php?f=28. I did a small
write-up on my findings here
http://jcooney.net/post/2010/06/06/The-sad-(but-inevitable)-state-of-NET-Obfuscation.aspx

http://jcooney.net/post/2010/06/06/The-sad-(but-inevitable)-state-of-NET-Obfuscation.aspx
Joseph

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Michael O'Dea-Jones mich...@wardyit.comwrote:

 Hi all,



 Can anyone recommend a good code obfuscation tool for .Net?



 Regards,



 Michael O'Dea-Jones






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Re: gr1d.org - A persistent online multiplayer prorgamming game

[Joseph Cooney]

At least one of the developers is Australian too, so I think that means it's 
definitely 'on-topic'

On 21/12/2010, at 12:21 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 Hey all,
 
 Last week I started playing a game called gr1d (at http://gr1d.org/ ). It's 
 basically an MMO RPG RTS thing where you control software agents by writing 
 driver programs for them in .NET. It's still in beta so there are glitches 
 and bugs and the occasional downtime but it's been fun so far. Anyway, the 
 servers were reset on Sunday night (all accounts wiped) to kick off the 
 gr1d.org 0.9 competition (details: 
 http://gr1d.org/forum/Competition%20Lounge/a28db00e-dffd-4706-9059-07dfb510c061
  ) so now is a pretty good time to jump in if this sounds like something you 
 might get into. It doesn't require a great deal of time and attention 
 (although some nights I seem to give it both anyway) and the level of 
 programming skill required to play is not scary.
 
 Anywho, if you decide to join I am wolfbyte (Address: 
 7eaa38eb-7a74-49a3-a7ab-ecfabed7d4f1, Level 4 Engineer based in Connaught 
 Place). See you in The Arena!
 
 P.S. Sorry if this comes across as spammy but I considered a game that 
 relies on .NET programming skill to be novel and on topic.
 

Re: In praise of SQLite

[Joseph Cooney]

SQLite is the 900lb gorilla in the room of in-process databases. It is in
every mozilla install, android device, iOS device. It's the default database
for Adobe AIR apps. Skype. Symbian. McAffee. It is widely used by pretty
much everyone except Microsoft. It's fast (in my tests it was about 2x
faster than SQL CE 4 straight out of the box, although I recently made some
perf changes to my code in the way it calls SQLite that make it about 10x
faster than SQL CE 4, but I don't know much about tuning SQL CE perf). From
my tests ESE from Microsoft is the only in-process database technology of
comparable speed. But ESE doesn't have a SQL interface, full text search etc
like SQLite does. SQLite has some weird notions about types, but it still
manages to be very fast. Their approach to software reliability is quite
interesting  600x more test code and scripts than actual SQLite code.

Joseph

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Mark Ryall mark.ry...@gmail.com wrote:

 sqlite is amazingly ubiquitous these days.

 Most mozilla (or mozilla based) projects use sqlite for any relational
 storage (including html5 databases) - firefox, songbird, thunderbird, etc. -
 as did google gears.  Other miscellaneous applications seem to favour it
 these days - calibre ebook manager, delicious monster etc.

 It is really easy to get started with, has plenty of tools available and
 works on all platforms.

 On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Nic Roche nicro...@hotmail.com wrote:

  Hi Greg,

 You may be aware of this, but there is a simple GUI tool at
 http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/

 Also SQLite is the default db on the Android platform...

 Regards,
 Nic

 --
 From: g...@mira.net
 To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 Subject: In praise of SQLite
 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:13:01 +1100


  A couple of years ago I asked in here what people recommended for an
 “RDB lite” with little to no installation footprint. Some people recommended
 SQLite, but for some reasons I can’t remember I rejected it as unsuitable.
 I’ve been running with SQL CE since then simply because it was from
 Microsoft, it was free, well documented and it had a familiar style. CE does
 have an installation footprint, which is small, but still a nuisance
 sometimes.



 I just revisited SQLite http://www.sqlite.org/index.html and ran a few
 tests with a VS2010 solution and the ADO.NET 
 providerhttp://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/.
 Hey, I’m impressed ... it just works. The ADO .NET code follows the familiar
 coding style (connection, command, adapter, etc). The raw SQLite uses a
 plain C API which is indigestible for .NET developers, so the provider is
 the miraculous part that makes things easy for us. Best of all, there is
 zero installation footprint, you just reference the DLL. The SQLite VS2010
 designer is working but incomplete, so I look forward to seeing it expanded.
 I’m pretty sure I’m going to abandon CE in future projects and use SQLite
 instead.



 Cheers,

 Greg





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Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

[Joseph Cooney]

Yeah, tfs integration is very good. There is a dvcs that has integrated bug, 
work item tracking and wiki (called fossil) from the makers of sqlite. I 
haven't used it, but it will be interesting to see how long tfs retains this 
advantage.

On 06/11/2010, at 6:01 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote:

 I’d be surprised if it’s as large as DevDiv – it’s not the Framework that is 
 huge, it’s the largest product (in code size) that we make; VS. ;)
 
  
 
 I suspect a GB wouldn’t be bad, I easily pull down over 10 GB in my 
 enlistments from TFS, so assumingly a DVCS could easily handle that, only 
 with faster commits  and history.
 
  
 
 However, if you want the integration – TFS is definitely the way to go 
 (however, I am biased J).
 
  
 
 From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
 Behalf Of Joseph Cooney
 Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 8:30 PM
 To: ozDotNet
 Cc: ozDotNet
 Subject: Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?
 
  
 
 There is a mercurial vide from 2006 where they say some folks have gb-sized 
 source trees. Mono use Git - which would be roughly the same size as a devdiv 
 branch (an assumption based on the fact that they deliver equivalent 
 functionality using the same language, unless you folk store VMs or something 
 else big in your source tree that they don't). Linux kernel uses git, but 
 they are well under a gb, as is Mozilla with hg.
 
 
 On 06/11/2010, at 4:32 AM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote:
 
 How big are the databases that you are using? I’d imagine that there would be 
 huge savings in using a DVCS for small self-contained repositories, however, 
 there would be a given size where using one would no longer be an advantage. 
 For example, I can’t imagine a DVCS working at Microsoft; a full enlistment 
 in one branch in DevDiv is around 300 GB (times that by 100s of branches) – 
 having everyone pull that down and all the history along with it, would not 
 be fun.
 
  
 
 From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
 Behalf Of Mark Ryall
 Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 11:19 AM
 To: ozDotNet
 Subject: Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?
 
  
 
 I'm using svn again now after using git and hg for a few years (tfs was in 
 there too - i don't want to talk about that).  I always liked svn and found 
 it adequate but don't anymore.
 
  
 
 There's nothing a DVCS provides that you can't live without - just as 64Kb of 
 RAM was once perfectly adequate.
 
  
 
 There are just a whole lot of things with DVCS that suddenly become easier or 
 possible.  While you might not have considered these things earlier (because 
 you couldn't), you really miss them when you can't.
 
 They are insanely fast - especially git.  You will notice how fast they are 
 every time you need to do a commit.  Insanely fast encourages more frequent 
 commits.  The fact that after a clone, you end up with the entire history of 
 a project locally (including every branch) in far less time than svn would 
 take to check out a single code line (due to all the thousands of tiny 
 control files it needs to create in every directory) is the winner for me.
 
  
 
 Hosting is free or really cheap (bitbucket/github/launchpad).
 
  
 
 For an open source project, fork/send pull request is a much lower barrier to 
 entry for collaboration than checkout/email patch file.  If you accept a pull 
 request, that person's commit becomes part of your codebase as them without 
 you needing to provide direct commit access (as opposed to their changes 
 being committed from a patch by you).
 
 I prefer to avoid branching where possible but they make branching 
 effortlessly easy.  Merging with git/hg is trivial and is properly tracked 
 unlike with svn.  Merging is always awful but git in particular seems to have 
 some preternatural ability to help you get it right.
 
 DVCS won't make you taller, more muscular or attractive though (i've tried - 
 it really doesn't work) so use your best judgement.
 
 On Wednesday, 3 November 2010 at 6:43 PM, silky wrote:
 
 On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 
 
 argumentative? silky? GTFO!
 
 
 :)
 
 
 
 
 
 Most of my experience with DVCS has been with
 mercurial (hg) which I've used for about the last 2 years for my personal
 stuff. Before that I used SVN. I think the difference (from my point of
 view) is that hg works well in a super-set of configurations to TFS/SVN. If
 you were a solo developer with TFS installed locally then hg probably
 wouldn't be that much better (it certainly handles branching, merging and
 backing up more cleanly than TFS/SVN). But most people don't work that  way
 - the server is remote. If you want to look at the 'history' for a file or
 do a diff it's a network operation. Checking out is a network operation (at
 least for TFS it is...not sur e about SVN). In the case of TFS

Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

[Joseph Cooney]

I've used TFS on and off since about 2006 (mostly because I was working at
MS, as they are fond of TFS), but haven't used TFS 2010. It's biggest
strength IMO is integration - requirements, work items, bugs, builds, source
code and project documentation all from within Visual Studio. It's biggest
weakness is that it's not a distributed version control system (git,
mercurial). If you're just going to use it as a revision control system
you're missing out on 80-90% of what TFS has to offer (and thus it might not
be worth it). TFS 2010 is a major update to the product (v2 really, since
2008 was really a v1.1) so I'm doubtless overlooking some cool features
there 'cause I haven't used it.

Joseph

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote:

 Hi All,

 I was just looking to get a little feedback on CVS tools/etc?

 I am to start another project with a small team, and was wondering is TFS
 is worth using (I haven't even seen it run yet... wondering if it is worth
 the time...)

 Also, has anyone after using TFS decided to go back to subversion/etc? If
 so, why?

 Thanks :)
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Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

[Joseph Cooney]

argumentative? silky? GTFO! Most of my experience with DVCS has been with
mercurial (hg) which I've used for about the last 2 years for my personal
stuff. Before that I used SVN. I think the difference (from my point of
view) is that hg works well in a super-set of configurations to TFS/SVN. If
you were a solo developer with TFS installed locally then hg probably
wouldn't be that much better (it certainly handles branching, merging and
backing up more cleanly than TFS/SVN). But most people don't work that  way
- the server is remote. If you want to look at the 'history' for a file or
do a diff it's a network operation. Checking out is a network operation (at
least for TFS it is...not sure about SVN). In the case of TFS 2008 when the
server was off-line work ground to a halt. With hg sometimes there _is_ no
central server. I've had good experiences collaborating with other devs
using hg with no central server set up, just sending patches back and forth
for synchronization. You can set up your development processes such that
your DVCS is fairly centralized (like things would be with TFS/SVN) - devs
commit and push/pull often. Then you just get the perf wins of local disk
I/O vs. network I/O and better merging capabilities.

High-level summary (from my POV) - DVCS well in a super-set of
configurations to old skool SVN/TFS/CVS

Joseph

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:28 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I've used TFS on and off since about 2006 (mostly because I was working
 at
  MS, as they are fond of TFS), but haven't used TFS 2010. It's biggest
  strength IMO is integration - requirements, work items, bugs, builds,
 source
  code and project documentation all from within Visual Studio. It's
 biggest
  weakness is that it's not a distributed version control system (git,
  mercurial).

 Without sounding too argumentative; exactly why should I care that
 version control is distributed?

 The stated arguments seem to be that you don't need to be online to do
 commits, or that there is a local history, or some other such things.
 I really just don't ever find the need for anything like that; am I
 doing something significantly different to everyone else?

 I mean, I've glanced over this:

 http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-version-control-illustrated/
 and it seems none of the benefits are really appropriate in a
 'typical' environment.

 I guess what I'm asking is - is anyone, working in an office or alone,
 getting specific benefits from git or whatever, that come *purely*
 from it being significantly different from SVN, and exactly what are
 they?


  If you're just going to use it as a revision control system
  you're missing out on 80-90% of what TFS has to offer (and thus it might
 not
  be worth it). TFS 2010 is a major update to the product (v2 really, since
  2008 was really a v1.1) so I'm doubtless overlooking some cool features
  there 'cause I haven't used it.
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Re: Chair Recommendations

[Joseph Cooney]

I've had an Aeron for about 8 yearsI love it. It is super comfortable to
sit in, and shows virtually no wear. I've never been to a physio so I don't
know what they say My 2c.

Joseph

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:27 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:

 I asked my physio this once. He said all those fancy high back
 aeron/whatever chairs are the worst thing ever for your spine.

 You should get an ordinary typist chair which is height/back/everything
 adjustable. I think he said no arm rests is the best.

 I swapped my fancy leather chair for one on his advice and have not looked
 back - SO much more comfortable.

 On 5 October 2010 16:24, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey

 Does anyone have any advise on chairs, I would like to know your
 experiences with different chairs? Health issues surrounding them? Where I
 can source quality chairs?





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Re: Chair Recommendations

[Joseph Cooney]

Yeah, I think that's about right.

On 05/10/2010, at 6:51 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote:

 Holy moly, how much did it set you back? Last time I saw it, it was at like 
 1300, discounted even...
 
 On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote:
 I've had an Aeron for about 8 yearsI love it. It is super comfortable to 
 sit in, and shows virtually no wear. I've never been to a physio so I don't 
 know what they say My 2c.
 
 Joseph
 
 On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:27 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:
 I asked my physio this once. He said all those fancy high back aeron/whatever 
 chairs are the worst thing ever for your spine. 
 
 You should get an ordinary typist chair which is height/back/everything 
 adjustable. I think he said no arm rests is the best. 
 
 I swapped my fancy leather chair for one on his advice and have not looked 
 back - SO much more comfortable. 
 
 On 5 October 2010 16:24, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hey
 
 Does anyone have any advise on chairs, I would like to know your experiences 
 with different chairs? Health issues surrounding them? Where I can source 
 quality chairs?
 
 
 
 
 
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 Software Engineer
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 t: @josephcooney
 
 

Re: Org Charts in .NET/WPF?

[Joseph Cooney]

Try the 'tree' layout in graph# on graphsharp.codeplex.com

Sent from my iPhone

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wrote:

 __   
 
 
 Has anyone done any dynamic Org Chart work in WPF or Silverlight/ASP.NET?
  
 I'm wondering if there are any resources out there already worth 
 investigating.
  
 Dylan Tusler.
  
 
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Re: Extensible Storage Engine

[Joseph Cooney]

I wanted to do a tech.ed talk on ESE but it was rejectedah, what might
have been.

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:

  Folks, a couple of years ago I asked in here for recommendations about
 what lightweight “in-process” database I could use easily from .NET apps. I
 eventually settled upon SQL Server Compact Edition due to familiarity with
 its big brother and the footprint was quite small, just a single MSI install
 of a few MB of runtime files. There is another contender that no one
 mentioned back then...



 Only days ago I pinned down the existence of the Extensible Storage 
 Enginehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine(
 MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684493%28EXCHG.10%29.aspx).
 I knew something like this was out there for Exchange Server storage, but I
 was misled by comments that it was the JET engine. The article link
 clarifies what “JET” means.



 It turns out that ESE is implemented in a single ESENT.DLL with a
 documented API, and it’s an ISAM file of all things (memories of COBOL come
 flooding back!).



 It would be fabulous to be able to use ESE from .NET projects, but sadly,
 there is no managed wrapper around ESE, and one look at the huge C API
 scared me off any hobby attempts to make one. Yesterday on CodeProject I saw
 that someone is planning to release a managed wrapper, but it’s still so
 early that nothing is available for download. I also saw that someone has
 implemented collections using ESE as the backing storage, which seems a bit
 pointless.



 Anyway, just a heads up -- Greg






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Re: [OT] 2560x1600 widescreen LCDs

[Joseph Cooney]

Greg would still beat you total # of pixels by about 50 (assuming your
23 monitors are 1680 x 1050 - a fairly common resolution at that size). If
they're 1920 x 1080 then you probably beat him by about 50.

Joseph

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote:

 I've recently purchased 2 x 23 wide screen LG LCD's for $200 each.. 46 of
 widescreen for $400.. much better than $1500 for 30..

 I guess it comes down to whether you can justify spending the money..

 On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:34 PM, djones...@gmail.com wrote:

 It's three machines, using input director to share one keyboard / mouse.
 Screens 1 2 3 are in a line. 4 and 5 are above 1 and 2

 BBM pin:2589AEE0
 --
 *From: *Greg Keogh g...@mira.net
  *Sender: *ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com
 *Date: *Sat, 3 Jul 2010 19:19:31 +1000
  *To: *'ozDotNet'ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 *ReplyTo: *ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com
 *Subject: *RE: [OT] 2560x1600 widescreen LCDs

   I never found bigger screens to increase productivity, they just give
 me a larger code window.

 I prefer 2 or more screens when writing code. I'm currently sat looking
 at 5 screens.



 I have a gut feeling that one large screen has certain ergonomic (and
 human perception) advantages over multiple screens. I find that swinging my
 head and eyes over to my second screen too frequently is uncomfortable.
 Sometimes by accident I will start typing something long on the second
 screen and I realise I feel a bit queasy and I move the window to
 centre-front and suddenly it all feels better again. I try to keep
 infrequently used windows on the second screen, ones that I glance at but
 don’t “work” at. For example I have Outlook on the second screen, but I read
 and compose emails on the first screen.



 I reckon that if I had a huge screen then I wouldn’t just fill it with a
 bigger code window, I’d dock more stuff open and around me to use the space
 wisely (I’ll have to wait and see if I’m so disciplined in reality). I also
 theorise this is true because our eyes and brain like to look at one
 continuous surface rather than many disjoint ones.



 How on earth have you wired-up 5 screens and how are they positioned and
 supported?



 Wallace, we must always try to justify spending money on hardware by
 convincing ourselves and others that it will increase productivity. I told
 my wife that a spa, turbo Porsche, private helipad and wine cellar would
 help my productivity, but she just said I’d have to work harder and send out
 more invoices.



 Greg





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Re: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

[Joseph Cooney]

This as intended as a spoof of cheesy ads (according to the original MSR
site
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/video_everyonehasasonginside.html
)

It isn't a real professional ad, it's filmed at the Microsoft campus. The
green coffee cup with the MS logo on it is a dead give-away (see attached).
I'm willing to bet everyone in the video has PhDs in machine learning,
except maybe the little girl who is probably just a masters student.

Joseph

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Tiang Cheng
tiang.ch...@staff.iinet.net.auwrote:

  Microsoft hits a home run with yet another awesome software ad.



 http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/stories/s2907954.htm



 It’s a real product …

 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/



 …and I’m a PC.



 Tiang




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Re: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

[Joseph Cooney]

One man's cheesy is another man's water-boarding - I like that

So have you tried songsmith? I see it is included in the MSDN. I might
download it tonight.

Joseph

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:03 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:

 On 1 July 2010 20:34, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote:

 This as intended as a spoof of cheesy ads (according to the original MSR
 site
 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/video_everyonehasasonginside.html
 )


 One man's cheesy is another man's water-boarding.

 It isn't a real professional ad,


 That much is clear. :)


 it's filmed at the Microsoft campus. The green coffee cup with the MS logo
 on it is a dead give-away (see attached). I'm willing to bet everyone in the
 video has PhDs in machine learning, except maybe the little girl who is
 probably just a masters student.


 From the MSR link, in the best tradition of anyone from America's inability
 to understand irony: We’re going for over-the-top comic irony.

 Quite. Or rather: The ironic part is that the ad shows the nasty piece of
 software that produces nothing but an aural affront to anyone with a modicum
 of taste - BUT once you install it you really see that it is a nasty piece
 of software that produces nothing but an aural affront to anyone with a
 modicum of taste.

 Hang on ...

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Re: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

[Joseph Cooney]

OK, relax everyone.there is a free trial...downloading now
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/download.html


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.comwrote:

 Aw shucksSongsmith shows up as an item in the 'designer' section of
 MSDN subscriber downloads, but when I click on it it says I'm ineligible.
 Looks like you need an MSDN academic subscription (and possibly also to be
 tone deaf) to be allowed to download it.

 Joseph


 On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:47 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote:

 On 1 July 2010 21:35, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote:

 So have you tried songsmith?


 Not with two small kids in the house, no. I don't hate my wife.

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Re: .NET Obfuscator Software..free!

[Joseph Cooney]

Eazfuscator is OKaccording to the reverse-engineering forums pretty much
all the .NET obfuscators can be broken, but they seemed to rate
SmartAssembly (not free) the highest.

Joseph

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:53 AM, .net noobie dotnetnoo...@gmail.com wrote:

 http://www.babelfor.net

 *Protect software components realized with Microsoft .NET Framework in
 order to protect intellectual property and makes reverse engineering
 difficult.*
 * *
 *Supports .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010*


 I have never used it, just saved the link for a rainy day :)


 from this blog post

 http://www.andybeaulieu.com/Home/tabid/67/EntryID/198/Default.aspx
 Obfuscating Silverlight (for free)



 On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote:
 
  I assume that if the client doesn’t ask for the code then i don’t give it
 out.  I would increase my fee if they want the code anyway
 
 
 
  From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Michael Minutillo
  Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2010 3:07 PM
  To: ozDotNet
 
  Subject: Re: .NET Obfuscator Software..free!
 
 
 
  Well most clients I have dealt with in the past end up with the source
 code.
 
 
 
   After all, clients have been accepting obfuscated code since time
 immemorial already! (Well, at least since the 1980s.) That's what compiled
 code is! Unless you wanted to reverse engineer to assembly language, pretty
 much everything was obfuscated.
 
 
 
  In the form of a product that is true. But if that were the case I would
 expect the OP would have wanted to obfuscate the entire solution. As there
 is a single binary to be obfuscated (and it gets used a lot) it sounds more
 likely that it is being used in custom software that is developed for a
 single client. For the client:
 
 
 
  If they purchase a library then they get a support contract so if things
 go wrong they get fixed
 
  If they use an open source library then they get the code so they can fix
 issues or pass them on to someone to fix.
 
  If the developer hands them a library which is neither they could be in
 trouble.
 
 
 
  If you are selling a product with support then this is OK because you
 have an agreement with the client that you'll fix anything that goes wrong.
 If you were to have a falling out with the client over an invoice or
 something (it happens) then they effectively have a piece of software that
 only you (someone they no longer wish to do business with) can maintain.
 
 
 
  As a client I would consider that an unacceptable risk.
 
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Dylan Tusler 
 dylan.tus...@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au wrote:
 
   That is potentially a pretty dangerous risk for a client to accept
 isn't it? Unless it contains some kind of proprietary algorithm or something
 I'm not sure it's a great idea.
 
 
 
  That's a pretty weird point of view.
 
 
 
  After all, clients have been accepting obfuscated code since time
 immemorial already! (Well, at least since the 1980s.) That's what compiled
 code is! Unless you wanted to reverse engineer to assembly language, pretty
 much everything was obfuscated.
 
 
 
  Dylan.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: benefits of using vs 2010

[Joseph Cooney]

, Greg Low (greglow.com) g...@greglow.com
  wrote:

  Too true Mitch.



 Unfortunately, most of the folk I know that used to submit a lot of bugs
 and suggestions have stopped doing so. There are way too many “by design”
 responses. And most suggestions (rather than bugs) have no response until
 the product is about to ship, then they come back with “closed won’t fix”,
 without comment or even a name of who to talk to.



 It just isn’t a good feedback mechanism at present.



 I’ve even had entries submitted in detail, that a bunch of people have
 voted for, many have commented that it’s important, and it’s been closed as
 “closed not reproducible”. Again, with the decision attributed to
 “Microsoft” and no other name present. You’d think if a number of people
 think it’s important and you can’t reproduce it, you’d reach out to the
 person posting it at the very least.



 I can’t make sense of many of the statuses either. I’ve had another one
 that said “can’t reproduce” but also then said “fixed in SP1”.



 Regards,



 Greg



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Mitch Wheat
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 11 May 2010 10:22 AM

 *To:* 'ozDotNet'
 *Subject:* RE: benefits of using vs 2010



 While I'm sure the folks at Microsoft do their utmost to fix bugs, it
 doesn't take long to 'burn' bug submitters with This is by design
 responses



 Just my 2 cents.



 Mitch Wheat



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Kean
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 11 May 2010 8:19 AM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* RE: benefits of using vs 2010



  Sadly most of the worst bugs from VS 2008 are still there.



 Can you tell the ones that you keep running into? Or can you head over to
 Microsoft Connect and file these? Customer feedback is a *huge* factor in
 what bugs in fix – if we find the bugs internally but no customer has
 reported them, these fall in priority against other bugs that customers have
 filed.



 *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:
 ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Mark Jarzebowski
 *Sent:* Monday, May 10, 2010 5:09 PM
 *To:* ozDotNet
 *Subject:* Re: benefits of using vs 2010



 I've switched most of my current apps to VS2010.



 It's looks nicer and is more pleasant to work with.



 Sadly most of the worst bugs from VS 2008 are still there.



 Also not much there to improve productivity for coal face developers.


 Regards . Mark Jarzebowski
 Director Software Engineering
 Business Model Systems
 Kew Victoria
 www.bms.com.au

 On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote:



 Anyone using vs2010?  Is it worth upgrading some projects?





 regards

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Re: GUI Design and storyboarding

[Joseph Cooney]

Blasamiq mock-ups seems to have a fair bit of critical mass amongst that
sort of crowdcommand line 4 eva I say

Joseph

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Geoff Appleby geoff.appl...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hey Guys,

 Stumbled accross this earlier, and it looked pretty neat:
 http://www.carettasoftware.com/guidesignstudio/
 Its been ages since i've had to think about speccing out a gui design
 properly (most of the time I'm a
 make-it-look-good-and-lay-it-all-out-nicely-while-i-code-it person) so iv'e
 got no recollection of what tools are out there anymore.
 Anyone played with it? Or have anything else to suggest instead?

 --Geoff

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Re: WPF Book Recommendations?

[Joseph Cooney]

Yeah - WPF Unleashed FTW. There is a WPF in 24 Hours book by SAMS that is
surprisingly good too for those who like to work through a series of
exercises.

Joseph

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote:

 Like everyone else. I'm all thumbs up for WPF Unleashed. If you're also
 into the nitty gritty bits of authoring your own panels and controls etc,
 have a look at WPF Control Development Unleashed.

 Also have a look at WPF Essential, although not as much eye candy, but it's
 not bad as well with some areas.

 Pro WPF is also a big chunky book, but I find that some bits about about
 printing etc was pretty good in there.



 On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Matt Siebert mlsieb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks all.

 I remember reading another 'Unleashed' book years ago (C# Unleashed I
 think) and it was terrible - felt like I was reading something like the
 idiots guide to OO programming...

 Given the recommendations here though I think I'll take a look at WPF
 Unleashed.  I also see that Apress has Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows
 Presentation Foundation in .NET 4http://apress.com/book/view/1430272058 due
 for release fairly soon, and I liked their Pro C# book (what I read instead
 of C# Unleashed years ago).

 David, $10 a month for Safari sounds like a no brainer! - how did you get
 it that cheap?  Safari is looking pretty good since I have a few other
 topics I'd also like to focus on fairly soon.

 On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.comwrote:

 All the WPF guru's here recommend this book for beginners too  :  WPF
 Unleashed - Adam Nathan.

 Sorry never used Safari


 On 29 March 2010 14:55, Jonathan Parker 
 jonathanparkerem...@gmail.comwrote:

 I haven't done any WPF development but I've read WPF Unleashed and liked
 it.








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