Re: [OT] Some of you might enjoy this

2011-05-06 Thread David Richards
It's funny 'cause it's true :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 16:33, Anthony Tjea anthony.t...@soesoft.com wrote: Regards *Anthony Tjea*

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-06 Thread Greg Keogh
I've just been through an interesting exercise in helping the missus buy a laptop. It's interesting because her previous one is a MacBook Pro and I've never needed a laptop, so we're both relative newbies on the subject. I see people in here talking about developer laptops in the $2000+ and far

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-06 Thread David Burstin
I'm running a Studio XPS, with 2 VMs running on it simultaneously, VS2010, R#, SQL Server - no problems at all. I rarely use the battery for more than an hour, and it has no problems. Never dropped it, so can't comment on ruggedness. Ditto warranties and repairs. HTH On 6 May 2011 16:44, Greg

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-06 Thread Greg Keogh
I'm running a Studio XPS, with 2 VMs running on it simultaneously The promo page on the XPS http://www.dell.com/au/p/xps-l702x/pd says you can watch 3-D videos on it. Got your glasses? When will we be able to code in 3-D as well? -- Greg

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-06 Thread David Burstin
No 3D glasses for me. Here's why: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-3d-scam-reject-and-repeat/47724 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-3d-scam-reject-and-repeat/47724 On 6 May 2011 17:16, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I'm running a Studio XPS, with 2 VMs running on it simultaneously The

RE: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-06 Thread Greg Keogh
No 3D glasses for me. Here's why: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-3d-scam-reject-and-repeat/47724 Damn right, with some good links as well. I was dragged to see Avatar and buy some 3-D glasses when it come out. I could tell already from the advertising that the movie would sacrifice brains

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-05-06 Thread Michael Minutillo
I imagine a future where we pay a premium at the movies so that it will be in 3d and all sit watching the film with our 2d glasses on http://www.2d-glasses.com/ http://www.2d-glasses.com/I enjoyed the 3d in Thor the other night specifically because it was not overdone. It wasn't a 3D movie it was

Re: Dynamic ORM?

2011-05-06 Thread Nathan Schultz
I don't know of any dynamic ORMs. I do script the creation of my LINQ2SQL schema, so once the underlying structure changes it's a matter of running an update script. Also a good suite of unit-tests of your mappings is also helpful as it will catch breaking changes you've missed. On Fri, May