Re: ASP.Net, ADAM, Membership Providers and Role Providers

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Tony Wright ton...@tpg.com.au wrote: Hi all, I am currently trying to get ASP.Net working with ADAM (which is the lightweight Active Directory for Applications) on a Windows XP SP3 machine. I have configured ASP.Net membership and role providers in the

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-25 Thread David Connors
Hi Tony, I'm not intent on winning any argument and I think you really fundamentally misunderstand my position. I have only suggested that people should accept a multitude of viewpoints and not accept something being given to them them prima facie. Current pro-AGW research is far from beyond

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:44 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: I wasn't trying to win an argument. My position remains flexible and nuanced. Mm, I think I need to add this as a disclaimer to the end of all of my emails. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com) Software Engineer

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-25 Thread David Connors
On 24 February 2010 08:56, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: really eye popping reading. Conspiracy to delete data, fudge data and models, ensuring the deletion of mail at Hadley and uPen on impending If you take 10 years of emails and correspondence between people in an

[OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread David Richards
Greetings all, Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one question in an email? In fact, I'll generalise that and say people often don't read an entire email. I had this today (already) but this happens to me all the time (it's probably more like 25% of the time but I think

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:41 AM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Greetings all, Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one question in an email?  In fact, I'll generalise that and say people often don't read an entire email.  I had this today (already)

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread David Connors
It is funny you should say this. One of the guys i work with at a partner company and I always say include only one fact per email. :) I try to do that but when requirements get complicated it can get hard. -- David Connors Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7)

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread Iain Carlin
My rule of thumb is if the email starts to get too complicated pick up the good old phone :-) On 26 February 2010 08:25, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: It is funny you should say this. One of the guys i work with at a partner company and I always say include only one fact per email. :)

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread Arjang Assadi
People don't read more than the first 2 lines of emails. For example I stopped reading after I'll generalise :) Regards Arjang On 26 February 2010 08:41, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Greetings all, Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread Jonathan Parker
The problem with using emails as requirements documents... Q: Where are the requirements for the cruise control software? A: I'll forward you the email trail of the discussions I had with Toyota. a year or so goes by Q: Don't you know the cruise control should disengage when you brake? A: Sorry

Re: Intresting Stuff in (.net) world? [OT-TGIF]

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I remember a post on this forum about framework for ditributed stuff ( aka intresting stuff ). Distributed how? You mean Parallel Linq? And other such things? http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/ Or do you

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread David Richards
You mean that's not the norm? :) Requirements docs are like bigfoot. You are assured it exists but when you see it, you are disappointed to find it is little more than just do it. Plus its wearing a digital watch. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a

Business Rules , what are the Tools/Methodologies to categorise/Implement them in .net?

2010-02-25 Thread Arjang Assadi
what are the Tools/Methodologies to categorise/Implement business rules in .net? In the book Wisdom of the Gurus in Business Rules chapter by James J. Odell the fact that most of times business rules are actually by product of how a system should behave has been mentioned. My Question is how is

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread Jonathan Parker
What is needed is a replacement of email. A format that allows editing and versioning built into the email client. Then you can say. Ahh. Jim changed this line of the email on this date and then Jane changed it again a week later. It will save millions of dollars in bandwidth costs too. On Fri,

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread noonie
Ah... _That_ already exists. It's called Google wave. https://wave.google.com/wave/ -- noonie On 26 February 2010 12:00, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.comwrote: What is needed is a replacement of email. A format that allows editing and versioning built into the email client.

RE: Business Rules , what are the Tools/Methodologies to categorise/Implement them in .net?

2010-02-25 Thread Ben.Robbins
Surely there must be some sort of canonical form to implementation, otherwise we are not software makers and just duct taping hodge podge together. So there is a canonical form to bridge implementation. That explains why all bridges look the same. No? I studied both Computer Science and

Re: Business Rules , what are the Tools/Methodologies to categorise/Implement them in .net?

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Harris
Silky, I have to disagree with you... C#/VB is not the cure to all problems; there are other languages out there! I have not used a business rules language as such, but I can see real value in a language where you can show an end user the source code of a set of business rules like...

Re: unit testing in visual studio

2010-02-25 Thread silky
Well, I believe you can read the current random port that it wants to use from the config (so if you desired, you could do that). However, you should be able to simply change the project properties so that instead of using the inbuilt asp.net webservice, it uses your local IIS one. Infact, you

Re: Business Rules , what are the Tools/Methodologies to categorise/Implement them in .net?

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com wrote: Silky, I have to disagree with you... Be my guest. C#/VB is not the cure to all problems; there are other languages out there! I never said otherwise. I have not used a business rules language as such, but I

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jonathan Parker jonathanparkerem...@gmail.com wrote: What is needed is a replacement of email. A format that allows editing and versioning built into the email client. Then you can say. Ahh. Jim changed this line of the email on this date and then Jane changed

Re: Business Rules , what are the Tools/Methodologies to categorise/Implement them in .net?

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: I wish I could agree with that, but how does what we as software engineers do differs from the building or bridge engineers, surely they don't build bridges or building on what they perceive to be the right way.

Re: unit testing in visual studio

2010-02-25 Thread Geoff Appleby
But you're pretty fool. --Original Message-- From: silky To: Geoff Appleby Cc: ausDotNet ReplyTo: michaelsli...@gmail.com Subject: Re: unit testing in visual studio Sent: Feb 26, 2010 14:45 On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Geoff Appleby geoff.appl...@gmail.com wrote: Heh. I'm a fool.

Re: unit testing in visual studio

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Geoff Appleby geoff.appl...@gmail.com wrote: But you're pretty fool. ... So, what system are you using to run the unit tests though? Test Driven.NET? I'm now slightly intrigued as to why it's randomly changing the port on you. -- silky

Re: unit testing in visual studio

2010-02-25 Thread Geoff Appleby
Just the built in test projects that are part of 2008 team developer. --Original Message-- From: silky To: Geoff Appleby Cc: ausDotNet ReplyTo: michaelsli...@gmail.com Subject: Re: unit testing in visual studio Sent: Feb 26, 2010 14:51 On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Geoff Appleby

Re: unit testing in visual studio

2010-02-25 Thread silky
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Geoff Appleby geoff.appl...@gmail.com wrote: Just the built in test projects that are part of 2008 team developer. ohhh, I see. Well, I've never used that. Have you looked at things like this? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404693(VS.80).aspx --

RE: Splash Screen..thread safe

2010-02-25 Thread Keir Nathan
You should use Invoke to open the splash form on the main UI thread. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zyzhdc6b.aspx Nathan From: ausdotnet-boun...@lists.codify.com [mailto:ausdotnet-boun...@lists.codify.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Sent: Friday, 26 February 2010 12:50 PM To: 'ausDotNet'

Re: unit testing in visual studio

2010-02-25 Thread Geoff Appleby
No I hadn't. But it have me an idea. Inside that file that I'd never thought to look inside. In there the web service URL had a port specified of 0. So in notepad I changed it to and its all behaving as expected now. Cheers :) --Original Message-- From: silky To: Geoff Appleby

Re: unit testing in visual studio

2010-02-25 Thread Geoff Appleby
And how many times have you said that? :) --Original Message-- From: silky To: Geoff Appleby Cc: ausDotNet ReplyTo: michaelsli...@gmail.com Subject: Re: unit testing in visual studio Sent: Feb 26, 2010 15:18 On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Geoff Appleby geoff.appl...@gmail.com wrote: No

RE: Splash Screen..thread safe

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Keogh
Hi Anthony, I've just send you OFFLIST a copy of my splash screen class from a few years ago. Just in case it might help. The main form creates an instance of the splash class which runs its own message loop in an STA thread. You can call methods of the class to display progress messages from

Re: [OT] Multiple questions in an email

2010-02-25 Thread David Richards
I agree. I also think people are beginning to imagine email to be the same as things like IM, SMS, etc. Obviously it's not. I can take my original question/statement and expand it to include instructions in email. More often than not (not an exaggeration this time) people don't read my

Re: unit testing in visual studio

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Hurd
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Geoff Appleby geoff.appl...@gmail.com wrote: No I hadn't.  But it have me an idea. Inside that file that I'd never thought to look inside. In there the web service URL had a port specified of 0. So in notepad I changed it to and its all behaving as