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

2011-02-03 Thread 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

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

2011-02-03 Thread Scott Barnes
Viva-revolution-Cooney style. If your holding a goldfish Joesph and a blond girl says me and thats it.. then you are destined for greatness in Anakrino :) --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going

Re: string.Format and curly braces

2011-02-03 Thread Noon Silk
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:02 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: I’m really interested in the scenario where you are passing user input as the format string – do you have user input with placeholders ({0}) that you need to fill? His problem is double formatting. Something like:

Re: Non-standard time zone handling (was Re: Fwd: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector)

2011-02-03 Thread Mark Hurd
OK we're in a situation similar to the StackOverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2939188 We have an existing code base that used UTC throughout and just relied on the standard XmlSerialization of DateTime. Then the client noticed their existing clients ignore the UTC of the Xml

Re: Non-standard time zone handling

2011-02-03 Thread Wallace Turner
On 4/02/2011 9:27 AM, Mark Hurd wrote: Then the client noticed their existing clients ignore the UTC of the Xml and assume it is local time, so we needed to switch to their local time, not our server's. (We're not in the position to say their clients are in the wrong.) But they are? I think

What is the name of little notification windows that come up on bottom right hand side of screen?

2011-02-03 Thread Arjang Assadi
What is the name of little notification windows that come up on bottom right hand side of screen? Like when outlook receives a new email. Is there something more recent with Windows 7 that replaces it? any one know of free/OS components for that by any chance? Regards Arjang

override app.config settings programmatically

2011-02-03 Thread Peter Maddin
I would like to alter some settings stored in my app.config file programmatically. I don't want to edit or update the actual app.config file, what I want to do is override some attributes after the application is running. The thing that I would like to change is the level of tracing in

Re: What is the name of little notification windows that come up on bottom right hand side of screen?

2011-02-03 Thread Stephen Price
Free... for now. Hey, it's Friday! ;) On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Integration with Growl for Windows is quite simple but it requires your users to install another (free) product. http://www.growlforwindows.com/ Michael M. Minutillo

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

2011-02-03 Thread Michael Minutillo
just pretend you're paying for 35 crappy iphone apps :p The number is not the point. They could be charging 35c and the reaction would (probably) be the same. The sequence of events looks like this * Product is free * Product is sold to Company who promise to keep providing a free version *

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

2011-02-03 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:59 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Wow, I feel like I was just told to shut up. I think I'll assume that wasn't you're intent. Otherwise you would have gotten such a frowny face it would have haunted you even more than this thread :) It's

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-02-03 Thread Scott Barnes
RE: Boss question. Yeah, negative will always trump positive in short term and long term memory recall as it was more memorable. At times we don't often realize the positive until we are faced with the negative and if a candidate spends a lot of time isolating the negative in an interview, give em

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-02-03 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: RE: Boss question. Yeah, negative will always trump positive in short term and long term memory recall as it was more memorable. At times we don't often realize the positive until we are faced with the negative and if

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-02-03 Thread Scott Barnes
No they told me they were looking for the I don't know moment. It had to do with knowing ones limits and less about working through the problem. Once yo know your limits you can rethink your attack on improving them .. rinse/repeat/rinse/repeat.. that sounded very Confucius of me but ...its

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-02-03 Thread David Connors
Another one you might want to add to your list Scott: Have you ever or would you post a heap of confidential and/or disparaging information about previous employment to the Internet in order to gain notoriety for your blog? - Relevance: Works out if they are a loose canon/liability. On 4

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

2011-02-03 Thread tonywr
Actually, I look at Reflector as a tool that helped advance the cause of dot net. Anyone who was interested had a chance to delve deeply into the framework to get a true understanding of how the technology worked. It was effectively an Open System. Once you put a price on it, the system

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

2011-02-03 Thread David Burstin
On 4 February 2011 16:54, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote: But for the love of cat-eating robots, this is about the least important thing to have ever happened in the history of the world. Hear, hear.