Re: [OT] Moving to web mail

2011-05-20 Thread Simon Haigh
Been using Gmail virtually since it went live. All my email eventually gets channelled there one way or another. On the desktop I'm accessing the POP via Thunderhead and have it set so that it doesn't delete the mail on the server. Gives me a local copy for when

Re: Govt .net jobs?

2011-05-19 Thread Simon Haigh
They say that money is a curse. But I'm open minded. I'd like to try having obscene amounts of money for a while (say 40 or 50 years) and find out for myself whether the saying is true or not On 19/05/2011 7:10 PM, noonie wrote: It's almost Friday, Did you hear about the contractor who

Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

2011-03-29 Thread Simon Haigh
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

Re: [OT] Anti-Virus replacement for AVG

2011-03-17 Thread Simon Haigh
+1 for Avast Simon On 3/18/11, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: I use AVAST and am pretty happy with it - I too gave up on AVG a few years ago.

Re: [OT] VM as desktop OS

2010-12-08 Thread Simon Haigh
Using VMplayer and either Ubuntu or Win 7 as the host. Simon On 12/9/10, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote: You work off Vm's..interesting..vmware workstation i assume? What host OS are you using? I am interested in parallels extreme but can't get a demo.. From:

Re: [OT] Virgin Blue

2010-09-26 Thread Simon Haigh
Reckon it was poor DR procedures. Regardless, I'm in Wollongong when I'm supposed to be in Brisbane. Simon On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Trevor Johnson code...@gmail.com wrote: Ouch, the airline blamed the chaos on an external supplier's hardware failure. Just curious, anyone know what

SQL/ADO.NET Timeout Error

2010-07-27 Thread Simon Haigh
Hi all. Not strictly a DotNet question but I'm sure somebody will know the answer. I have an SQL query that occassionally returns with a timeout error. We know that the default timeout for ADO.Net is 30sec and there are no default timeouts set on the SQL2K5 server. So we ran a trace and

RE: SQL/ADO.NET Timeout Error

2010-07-27 Thread Simon Haigh
. Regards, Michael O'Dea-Jones From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Simon Haigh Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:54 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: SQL/ADO.NET Timeout Error Hi all. Not strictly a DotNet question but I'm sure somebody

RE: Return multiple files from webservice?

2010-07-21 Thread Simon Haigh
Just for my interest, how would you do it for a non-windows client. Reason for the question is that we could potentially have multiple platforms types/applications using our webservices. Simon -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

RE: Return multiple files from webservice?

2010-07-21 Thread Simon Haigh
DOH My apologies for a stupid question. I blame the lack of coffee. (an error condition that has now been remedied) Simon -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 10:34 AM To:

RE: KPI's for software developers

2010-06-27 Thread Simon Haigh
Me tooBig trouble. What about a KPI based on the amount of rework directly attributable to the developer either because of bugs or poor coding (but not because the specs change)? The lower the number the better the result. My result would be extremely low. But only because I havn't

RE: KPI's for software developers

2010-06-24 Thread Simon Haigh
Only if the concluded project meets all the requirements (Assuming the full requirements were actually captured in the first place) Simon (Can you guess what I spent last week doing?) A project delivered on time *is* directly useful. -- silky

RE: KPI's for software developers

2010-06-24 Thread Simon Haigh
The management answer to this question is Ask the Project Manager. The correct answer may (or may not) be entirely different. Simon Consider the question instead What is the best way to get a summary of a given projects status and in a fashion that allows the estimates to be predicted to the

RE: [OT] Developers, developers, developers!

2010-05-26 Thread Simon Haigh
Living in wollongong :-) -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Trevor Johnson Sent: Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:01 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Developers, developers, developers! What are the perks...? On Thu,

RE: [OT] Odd Question/Situation

2010-05-11 Thread Simon Haigh
You'd be surprised just how many kids can't focus properly when the focal length is relatively short. Generally one eye focus and the other one Wanders. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 12 May 2010 03:16

Namespace question

2010-04-20 Thread Simon Haigh
Quick question about namespaces. Company policy has been that we have our namespaces as CompanyName.ApplicationArea.whatever. (e.g. MyCompany.Foobar.API) Recently we added a new Application area to our support team and we built up our namespaces as per our policy. Rightly or wrongly we used