[OT] Quiet PCs from quietpc.com.au

Hi, anyone order from these folks before? Looking for a silent/near-silent PC and these look pretty good (quad core i7, etc): http://quietpc.com.au/sys-x490 Cheers Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

Re: [OT] Quiet PCs from quietpc.com.au

Great thanks Dave  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts === I welcome VSRE emails. Learn more at http://vsre.info/

Re: [OT] New laptop

Hi Stephen, are you using the new dock/multi monitor http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msaus/en_AU/pdp/Microsoft-Surface-Dock/productID.326743400 Notice there are some negative reviews Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com

Re: [OT] New laptop

Cool, thanks  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts === I welcome VSRE emails. Learn more at http://vsre.info/

Re: [OT] New laptop

Anyone have any thoughts on the upcoming quad core Xeon based lenovos? http://www.notebookreview.com/feature/lenovo-thinkpad-p50-and-p70-first-look-preview/ Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

Re: Sharing a database file

Hi Greg, just wrote this blog post yesterday - might be of use: http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Painless-NET-Windows-Service-Creation-with-Topshelf.aspx if you go the Win Service route. Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com

Re: [OT] New laptop

Yeah - looks pretty nice, 512GB / i7/ 16GB for $4,199 AUD Compared to similar spec Lenovo ThinkPad W541 (no touch/pen/etc) $3,649.00 AUD (though I think the Lenovo is 5th Gen i7 not 6th Gen as in Surface Book?) Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog:

Re: [OT] New laptop

What’s peoples views on Lenovo ATM given there have been a few PR things happen in the last 12 months…? price v performance v reliability? Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts

Re: Best unit testing tools

Two .NET BDD tools: http://docs.teststack.net/bddfy/index.html http://www.specflow.org/ Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts

Free Clean C# eBook

Hi all, Recently started writing this free eBook on Clean C# code, thought it may be of interest: http://cleancsharp.com/ Cheers, Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com

Re: SQLite déjà vu again

BrightstarDB - http://brightstardb.com/ may be of interest… Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts === I welcome VSRE

Re: Hacked together standing desk

Cool, thanks Bec  I’m building up slowly, yesterday I did a total of 2 hours standing (not all in one go) Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts

Re: Hacked together standing desk

Yeah I did look at some of those, there was a really cool adjustable one, but Perth Ikea never had the bits in stock, also this AU kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2052694050/the-bystander-wooden-standing-desk Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter:

Re: Hacked together standing desk

I guess there’s load of hacks to make standing possible, from what I’ve read standing 8/9 hours is prob not what to aim for… Whichever way you do it check out the posture images on the web - e.g. elbows 90 degrees or slightly lower when standing, etc. Today I’m combining Pomodoro Technique with

Re: Hacked together standing desk

Thanks for that Anthony - looks pretty sweet! Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts === I welcome VSRE emails. Learn more at

Hacked together standing desk

Just finished making this - it’s not pretty but cost $200 total to make… Typing this email while standing up - seems stable with only very slight almost imperceptible wobble…. Will be interesting doing a full weeks work next week standing up… Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer

Re: Hacked together standing desk

No back problems. Wanted a stand up desk because: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/25/health/la-he-dont-sit-20130525 Also it’s an aid to metabolism/weight loss/fitness. Not sure if I’ll end up doing all day standing (I suspect that it’ll be a combination of standing/sitting throughout

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

Thanks Grant, I did her that because they’re not “ergonomic” (slight curve in the keys to fit wrist position better) that they may not be suitable for people that use ergonomic ones at the moment - I currently use a Microsoft Comfort Curve 3000 Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer

Code Mechanical Keyboards

Anyone used/using one of these (or similar keyboard)? http://codekeyboards.com/ Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts ===

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

Thanks Craig, that looks interesting - not sure about the big flat front bit but says it uses Cherry MX switches similar to the code keyboards and it’s reasonably priced… Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

Cool, personally don’t need all the extras (speaker plugs etc), look like a CODE 87 Key Clear will be about $210 including delivery to Perth It’s weird, I’ve never really thought too much about keyboards before and yet I spend 40+ hours a week with it! Are mechanical keyboards supposed to be

Xbox Music Developer API

Hi all, was having a play with this yesterday http://music.xbox.com/developer You can search for artists, albums, get album and artist art, get album tracks, and stream 30 second previews of tracks. There’s a pilot program which will also allow Music Pass users to play full songs, etc which

Re: [OT] Windows phone recommendation

I’ve had a Lumia 920 for a while now, really nice. Wireless charging is great too  The 930 is coming to Aus pretty soon I think… Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts

Re: [OT] Browser use

I tend to us Firefox for general use - mix of chrome, ffox, ie for dev work Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Bec Carter Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎22‎ ‎May‎ ‎2014 ‎9‎:‎43‎

[OT] AU Windows 8 dev comp

Happy Monday all, Has anyone entered this MS DPE AU competition - prize is $8,000AU? http://www.lalaninja.com.au/2014/04/23/8x8x8-a-quest-to-find-the-best-windows-8-designer-developer-talent/ Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog:

Re: [OT] Specflow

Hi Kirsten, it’s worth mentioning that you don’t need to use SpecFlow to do UI automation if you don’t need that business-readable representation of the tests/scenarios. If the test are just for the devs/automation testers then may be able to do without the additional layer. Also check out

Finding a designer for open source project

Hi all, If anyone’s got an open source project and needs a designer (for a logo, CSS etc) I made this to try and put designers in touch with open source projects: http://bit.ly/osdesignerfinder Hope it’s of use to someone. Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter:

[OT] Couple of fun/useful(?) things

Couple of things which I though may be fun/use/interest: to create random names if you want to create a new .js open source project and need a name  : http://bit.ly/jsname You can also check if the name is in use on GitHub etc. This was the first thing I've deployed to Azure websites, was

Re: Data validation on a business object done by a rules engine - looking for a SIMPLE rules engine

Not sure if this would be of use or how complex it is to use: http://rulesengine.codeplex.com/ Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Greg Harris Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎8‎

[OT] Albums to Code To Survey Result

Sorry all, I posted these result last week but forgot to mention - for those who filled out the survey: http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Albums-to-Code-To.aspx Cheers Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

Re: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quietprogrammingenvironment?

+1 for the Bose, had them a few years, used in open plan office to good effect for stopping background air con hum etc. but won’t cancel someone having a conversion next to you. Scary think is when you take them off you notice how much ambient background noise there is. Anyone enjoy working

Re: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

Thanks Nathan, will check it out. Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Nathan Chere Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎14‎ ‎February‎ ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎48‎ ‎AM To: ozDotNet Maybe use

Re: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

Don’t what’s going on there lol Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Fredericks, Chris Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎13‎ ‎February‎ ‎2014 ‎8‎:‎58‎ ‎AM To: ozDotNet

Re: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

hehe - that made me smile  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Greg Keogh Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎13‎ ‎February‎ ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎17‎ ‎AM To: ozDotNet Works for me

Re: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

Hope to - gonna blog the results which should be fun - anyone know if you can create Xbox Music playlists to share (or other ways to create sharable playlists??) Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

[OT] Favourite Coding Album

Hi all, thought it would be cool to write a fun blog post with programmers fave albums I used Excel web app survey to create it which is pretty cool http://bit.ly/programmermusicsurvey Spread the word, will be cool to see the results  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer

Re: Windows Phone list?

Also joined  Is there a list for AUS Windows 8 Store app devs? Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: ILT (O) Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎21‎ ‎January‎ ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎58‎ ‎AM To:

Re: SQLite VS2013 available

Thanks for the info Greg, there’s also SQLite for Windows Runtime store apps which I’ve been using - you can install the extension: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1d04f82f-2fe9-4727-a2f9-a2db127ddc9a Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog:

[OT] Xbox one update and IINET

Hi, if anyone just got their xbox one and is with IINET and can’t perform the update, changing DNS to 8.8.8.8 (google) seems to fix it and lets you download the update… Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

Re: In [delayed] praise of NuGet

Thanks Greg, also you can enable the following in VS2012 to auto-download missing packages during a build  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Greg Keogh Sent:

Re: Virtual visual studio development machine – looking for some setup advice

Hi Greg, I had some experience of working in Visual Studio 2010 2012 in a virtualised environment (VMware based remote severs) and even though the servers were local there was always those little almost imperceptible lags (death by a thousand cuts) - it was functional, just not pleasant - esp

Au dev hashtags?

There’s some awesome dev talent in Australia, on Twitter I sometimes use #win8devAU for win 8 apps #wp8devAU or #wpdevAU for win phone (8) apps Just wondering if anyone else uses hashtags to recognise AU devs / projects. Wonder if a generic one could be #devAU ? Would be cool if all AU

Re: Unity Learning Curve

That’sawesome Scott, thanks for taking the time to write that summary, it’s sounds like there would be a moderate learning curve but nothing some time and perseverance wouldn’t solve - it looks super-cool and always good to expand the horizons etc  Cheers again Jason Roberts Journeyman

Unity Learning Curve

Hi all, I have an idea for a game (2d, story-led, with a small number of mini-games for story progression). I want to release on Windows Phone (8) and possibly Win 8 stores. While I could do this in XAML/C# I was thinking Unity might be a better fit Has anyone built and published a Unity

Re: Mocking up a designer surface

Some great points there for sure, also it’s interesting (from a “Silverlight is dead” point of view)that the VB6 runtime still ships with Windows 8  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

Re: out of memory..urgent

Not sure if it’s of use in this case but you can use char.GetUnicodeCategory to check validity of a Unicode character varvalidCharacter='q'; varucCategory=char.GetUnicodeCategory(validCharacter); varisValidUnicode=ucCategory!=UnicodeCategory.OtherNotAssigned; varinvalidCharacter=(char)

Re: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

It’s pretty amazing that 32,000 people will transfer from Nokia to Microsoft... Could be a great cross-pollination of ideas, marketing skills, etc. Wonder whether there will just be Microsoft Phone or whether they’ll keep (or be allowed to keep) the Lumia brand? Jason Roberts Journeyman

Re: [OT] mSATA SDDs

Sweet, thank Ken, that would be awesome!  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Ken Schaefer Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎20‎ ‎August‎ ‎2013 ‎12‎:‎22‎ ‎PM To: ozDotNet I think the

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

That mouse looks like some crazy borg-transformers love-child  Like the idea of programmable buttons though, any good for big-handed oafs like me? Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

Cool, thanks David  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: David Richards Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎21‎ ‎August‎ ‎2013 ‎11‎:‎37‎ ‎AM To: ozDotNet Jason, The mouse is

Re: [OT] mSATA SDDs

Cool thanks for that info Ian, I was thinking of replacing my main SSD in my Lenovo X220T this year, I think it also supports a secondary SSD (perhaps mSATA). I guess I could always just buy a shiny new ultrabook instead  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason

Re: Here's a thought: give them to devs.

I’d happily take 20 or so and create a video wall in my house  Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Tony Wright Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎24‎ ‎July‎ ‎2013 ‎2‎:‎42‎ ‎PM To: