Re: Au dev hashtags?

2013-09-26 Thread Scott Barnes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57dzaMaouXA #hashtaglolololololol --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:20 AM, osjasonrobe...@gmail.com wrote: There’s some awesome dev talent in Australia, on Twitter I sometimes use #win8devAU for win 8 apps

In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync

2013-09-26 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, just a heads-up. I had the classical challenge of showing a strip of thumbnail images in response to grid row selections. I was about to clone some code I wrote many years ago that did something similar, but it was a tangle of code which put requests in an asynchronous queue. Then I vaguely

Re: In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync

2013-09-26 Thread Scott Barnes
Well WPF is a different beast and IsAsync was used more to do with making long calls (image loading etc) that may occur from the web/IO not block the actual UIThread. Given in Silverlight nearly everything about it is Async or is embedded within the .xap it's reliance on the same concept really

Re: In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync

2013-09-26 Thread Greg Keogh
I still remember the day we announced that we would only support Async with Silverlight .. over a million developers lost their minds over it and send rage quit emails to the teams... I was also a bit surprised and angry, for 10 minutes, then I realised that it was cruel but it forced you do

Re: help with my php website

2013-09-26 Thread David Connors
Marvin, This list is for .NET and related technologies. You'll have better luck on a PHP forum. On 26 Sep 2013 13:49, Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.com wrote: hi. a blind website development student. my lecturer not able to answer. so looking for help. the site is a contact call centre

Re: help with my php website

2013-09-26 Thread Peter Griffith
Marvin, I have forwarded your request onto Greg Lehey (now in Melbourne) who ran a MySQL User group in Adelaide to see what he can find for you PG On 26 September 2013 13:18, Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.com wrote: hi. a blind website development student. my lecturer not able to answer.

MSDN mag

2013-09-26 Thread Grant Maw
I got my MSDN magazine in the post today and it's all about Windows Phone. July's edition was the same. I get the whole thing about their marketing and the stiff competition in the phone market but I wonder if they realise that there are still some of us working in the database space, the asp.net

Re: MSDN mag

2013-09-26 Thread mike smith
It went downhill when it changed from Microsoft Systems Journal (MSJ) to MSDN. On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: I got my MSDN magazine in the post today and it's all about Windows Phone. July's edition was the same. I get the whole thing about their

Re: MSDN mag

2013-09-26 Thread mike smith
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/backissues00.aspx On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:28 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: It went downhill when it changed from Microsoft Systems Journal (MSJ) to MSDN. On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: I got my MSDN

Re: In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync

2013-09-26 Thread Scott Barnes
In windows 8 it gets easy to work with Async code. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I still remember the day we announced that we would only support Async with Silverlight .. over a million developers lost

Re: MSDN mag

2013-09-26 Thread Greg Keogh
MSDN mag was once something I read cover to cover. Now, I glance at the front page, maybe read the editorial, then throw it into a drawer never to be looked at again. Am I the only one? Hell no! I'm fed up with articles about phones, Windows 8, Store Apps, Javascript and WinRT (mostly

Re: help with my php website

2013-09-26 Thread Stephen Price
I did some searches for him and found a couple of meetup groups that might be closer to the mark, or at least be web development focused. Nothing specific to php that I could find. He's also on a php list now but not sure if hes had any response. He didn't get your previous email David from a few