Developer apathy...

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Price
I've come across something that perplexes me today... Just curious if others have hit it. I asked about the office when we'd be starting to use Visual Studio 2010, and if anyone was excited about it and all I got back was that people don't care. What the...??? Are people really so apathetic that

[OT] Vostro laptops

2010-04-13 Thread Stephen Price
Has anyone seen/used a Dell Vostro laptop? They seem to be targeted at business rather than consumers, and I was wondering how they compare to the studio laptops. I've got an M17x Alienware (they replaced my M1730 XPS when the graphics card died and they had no parts for it) which I'm happy with

Re: VS2010 Professional Pricing

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Price
Microway matched an overseas price for me (they added GST) for a VS + msdn subscription a year or so ago. They have a guarantee they will match any competitor including overseas prices. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.auwrote: Guys, Can anyone shed a

Re: Contracting to a single company

2010-04-29 Thread Stephen Price
My wife is doing my books. You should hear her complain about it. And I have to really pay her to do it. The ATO understand. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:12 PM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Trevor Andrew tand...@tassoc.com.auwrote: What they

Re: [OT] Odd Question/Situation

2010-05-12 Thread Stephen Price
Hmm... write/run a cool application or have my cornea's gouged out with laser beams. Tough choice... On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 12 May 2010 16:54, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: I had this cool idea of applying a distortion or blur

Re: How To do something every so often

2010-05-20 Thread Stephen Price
In summary; if (silky.IsRight DateTime.Now.DayOfWeek != DayOfWeek.Friday) { var Bill = 1 / 0; } else { programmersWithTooMuchTime++; ozDotNetList++; GregHarrisExceptionalTestMethod(); } I'm sure this could be refactored into the number 42. Also probably needs to be in some kind of

Re: ASP.NET Control databinding, member properties, dynamically fetch property name?

2010-05-26 Thread Stephen Price
So often those things are black and white. They can be done one way, and the other way can be argued wrong. But then on the other hand there are reasons why the other way can be right. When I come across people who believe in the inverse of myself it's usually in the middle of something that

Generated project files

2010-06-23 Thread Stephen Price
Hi all, One of our project files is being generated from a tt file, and each time I do a build the project file is replaced. This triggers the IDE to reload the project file while its doing a build. Anyone know a way to have it automatically ignore or load the project file and not ask me? (just

Re: Generated project files

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Price
the project file? To add source files? If so, can you make it take a filter, such as Compiler Include=*.cs /? *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:44 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject

Re: Generated project files

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Price
post-build, but this doesn't work for you (as I understand you situation) because I wasn't generating project files themselves, just configs). On 6/24/10, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: I've had a look at what's being added to the project file, and its a list of config strings

Re: KPI's for software developers

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Price
WTF's/Minute is a good measure. Sorry it's Friday. Ok ok, some serious things that could be measured would be lines of code/bugs covered in code inspections. MS exams passed. Unit tests written, percentage code covered. If there are bugs/defects, then the number of those fixed. If working agile

Re: KPI's for software developers

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Price
So what about the people who delete code? I know someone who measures himself on lines deleted. :) No name, but I think its a great idea! On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:44 AM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.comwrote: Definitely track it by the amount of code that write, the bugs they fix and soda

Re: KPI's for software developers

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Price
I've also heard that the death rate goes down when doctors go on strike. *scary* On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: I am never going to a hospital again On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Greg Harris g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com wrote:

Re: Generated project files

2010-06-25 Thread Stephen Price
, which I solved by generating the 'correct' file post-build, but this doesn't work for you (as I understand you situation) because I wasn't generating project files themselves, just configs). On 6/24/10, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: I've had a look at what's being added

Re: Native code references

2010-08-02 Thread Stephen Price
-Jones -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2010 11:36 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Native code references hey all, I find myself delving into the world of COM and Native code (ie

Re: Native code references

2010-08-03 Thread Stephen Price
the Copy to Output Directory to Copy always or Copy if Newer. That way the files will be copied to the bin folder. Regards, Michael O'Dea-Jones -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, 3

Re: toast notification messages

2010-08-09 Thread Stephen Price
thanks Ian. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) does not provide a notification icon implementation. However, the Microsoft .NET Framework does provide one: NotifyIcon, which is located in the System.Windows.Forms namespace. which this sample uses. This sample demonstrates how to configure and

Re: toast notification messages

2010-08-09 Thread Stephen Price
my post earlier. If you can convince you users/clients to install it then Growl for Windows was surprisingly easy to use. And it has a .NET binding as well. http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/ On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: thanks Ian. Windows

Re: verdict on kindle/ebook reader?

2010-09-06 Thread Stephen Price
iPad is great. I took mine to TechEd this year and didn't bother with bringing a laptop. Batteries seem to suck down fast but they last longer than any of my laptops. Safari Online would be better with a dedicated reader, which they are developing at the moment. Its due out this month and I've

Re: OT: Rant

2010-10-26 Thread Stephen Price
I have to use chrome to use the westpac website. IE crashes (not responding) if I go to online banking. Has done so on a number of my machines. Not sure what causes it, and not spent the time trying to figure it out. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 27

Re: Rant

2010-10-26 Thread Stephen Price
It's very easy to jump up and down about this sort of stuff when it doesn't work. Your email has made me pause and think about it, and let's be honest, this coding stuff we do is complicated. So many variable (pardon the pun), so much can go wrong. It doesn't always work as intended. If it was

Re: [OT] WP7 Handset/device

2010-11-04 Thread Stephen Price
simon.spectre.l...@gmail.com wrote: Settings Lock Wallpaper Screen time-out 30s/1m/3m/5m/never on mine On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: I was on Optus with my iphone. I got the shits with them in the end, the number of times I'd be in the city

Re: [OT] WP7 Handset/device

2010-11-04 Thread Stephen Price
PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: I was on Optus with my iphone. I got the shits with them in the end, the number of times I'd be in the city and it would be giving me a GPRS connection (no 3G) drove me crazy. Telstra have finally become competitive with their pricing. My HTC

Windbg

2010-11-04 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Piers Williams did a great presentation last night at the Perth .Net user group (thanks Piers). Today I decided to use my new found skills (yeah right) and try it all out on a crash that I'm getting. The book he recommended is great (Advanced .Net Debugging by Mario Hewardt) but

Re: Code Folding in VS 2010

2010-12-23 Thread Stephen Price
My 30 monitor is not in portrait mode, but my 24 monitor to the left of it is. It's great for reading web sites, PDF's, twitter etc. Once you have a portrait screen you miss it on machines that don't have it. Home machine: 24 in portrait, 30 middle, 27.5 right. It's great. Work machine: 17 left +

Re: Skilling Up

2011-01-11 Thread Stephen Price
I agree with Mike on the point of talking to your current employer. I did this 6 years ago when I was in infrastructure, and I scored myself a whole month seconded to the dev team. They were busy in a testing phase so I basically sat there for a month teaching myself VB.Net (one of those learn

Re: Cannot get GeoCode web service client to work.

2011-01-19 Thread Stephen Price
Have you had a look at whats happening using Fiddler? (or other suitable traffic monitoring tool) Might give you a hint as to whats being sent/returned. might even show you an error rather than just empty result On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Peter Maddin petermad...@aapt.net.au wrote: I am

Re: Cannot get GeoCode web service client to work.

2011-01-20 Thread Stephen Price
On 20/01/2011 11:25 AM, Stephen Price wrote: Have you had a look at whats happening using Fiddler? (or other suitable traffic monitoring tool) Might give you a hint as to whats being sent/returned. might even show you an error rather than just empty result On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM

Re: Using web services in IIS/WAS

2011-01-20 Thread Stephen Price
Hey what about the new lite IIS (forget its name now) I saw released recently... maybe you can develop against that (I'm sure you can), but in user mode/Non-Admin? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: If I want to publish wcf web services to iis/was I have to run

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-01-20 Thread Stephen Price
we'll call it Java! wait. ohh... I see what they did On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Tony McGee tmc...@pacific.net.au wrote: You're hired! Coffee as a Service (CaaS) is going to be the next big thing. On 20/01/2011 11:02 AM, Noon Silk wrote: Haha, wow, I would completely fail here. I must

Re: Developer PC spec

2011-01-23 Thread Stephen Price
Are people going with SSD hard drives for their desktop machines these days? (not just laptop drives) On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Wallace Turner w.tur...@fex.com.au wrote: This is my summary from msinfo32. I upgraded by buying just the cpu/ram/mboard. This cost $800 about 6 months ago.

Re: new screens ? (was RE: Developer PC spec)

2011-01-23 Thread Stephen Price
Samsung all the way (for me). At home I have 30 in the middle, 24 (portrait) to the left and 27.5 to the right. (All Samsung). Interestingly the 27.5 seems much brighter or over saturated compared to the other two. I had to mess around a lot with the settings a lot so that it didn't make the other

Re: Developer PC spec

2011-01-24 Thread Stephen Price
|To: 'ozDotNet' |Subject: RE: Developer PC spec | |Absolutely !!  Load times are significantly better. Just bought a new OZX drive |the other day (mainly for VM's) | ||-Original Message- ||From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- ||boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen

[OT] Perth geek dinner

2011-02-01 Thread Stephen Price
For anyone in Perth up for a Geek dinner on Thursday, please RSVP up on NerdDinner.com Perth Nerd Dinner: Alt.Geek Dinner on Thu Feb 03 7pm - RSVP: http://nrddnr.com/4130 cheers, Stephen

Re: Looking for 19inch server rack

2011-02-02 Thread Stephen Price
Have a look at http://www.4cabling.com.au/ Might be cheaper. I got a small rack (9RU) for home and it cost me $240. Mounted it on the wall. Yeah just had a quick look and they have some 42RU racks for under $1000. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Grrr, 42 RU,

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

Resharper naming rules

2011-02-06 Thread Stephen Price
Hey, I noticed some of the Visual Studio generated names (or it may be part of the template) has some names in the form of Application_Startup. The method names generated for events take that form too (when you type += then tab, tab). Do people normally rename those methods to

Re: Handling 3rd party assemblies with build servers

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen Price
+1 for a Third party/dependencies folder. Here its called Lib. I've used Dependencies in the past. Its good to have everyone using the same version. I had an issue with a fresh get of the solution yesterday and it turned out the reference was pointing at the release folder of a solution. The devs

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

2011-02-10 Thread Stephen Price
Just thought I'd share this... Red-Gate are providing me with 25 licenses (enough to cover every member on our meetup group) of Reflector Pro (not the free version) for the Perth Silverlight Designer and Developer Network user group. I know it doesn't change their about face on the free version

Re: Databases for Windows Phone 7.

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen Price
Wow. They aren't taking this very well are they? lol On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:00 AM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Nokia business plan generator http://nokiaplanx.com/ -David Burela On 15 February 2011 10:22, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Well Elop's a pretty

Re: [OT] post woes

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Price
Well, actually... On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:25 AM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: Oh man, you missed some great posts. :) Happy Friday. On 18 February 2011 10:21, Wallace Turner w.tur...@fex.com.au wrote: have not received a post since 4th Feb. Logged into ozdotnet and Mail

Re: Something for Friday

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Price
I know someone who starts everything with ...it's like... Maybe your colleague from 20 years ago is responsible. He could be the Alpha meme. Kill him and all of his spawns die. Witch hunt anyone? On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: How technical people derail

Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself

2011-02-23 Thread Stephen Price
David, I just set up my home dev machine (desktop) with an OCZ vertex 2 and have noticed some strange behaviour. An example is browsing my D: drive, creating a folder everything will hang for 30 seconds - explorer shows not responding and nothing seems to be responding. Cpu is sitting idle. Some

VS Powertools

2011-02-23 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I've updated to the latest VS power tools (after discovering the tool a couple of days ago). My Error List window pops up as I mouse over the new map view scroll bar on the right. I like the scrollbar but the Error List popping open (with no errors) is damn annoying. Closing it entirely

Re: [OT] Win7 SP1 failure - hardware fragility

2011-02-24 Thread Stephen Price
Three 64Bit machines updated here, all went without a hitch. I even tempted fate by doing the laptop with less than 1hr of battery life left and the sp installer told me to get off my arse and go and get the power cable. Said it would wait for me. I was a rebel and ignored the message to close

Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself

2011-02-24 Thread Stephen Price
The no dust thing sounds odd. You may have cleaning faeries. They are the faeries that collect dust which is then used to create pixie dust. In any case it can't bode well for the health of your machine, all those faeries tramping over your delicate hardware. I've tracked down a possible symptom

Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself

2011-02-24 Thread Stephen Price
Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Friday, 25 February 2011 9:09 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Help - my computer has sh*t itself The no dust thing sounds odd. You may have cleaning faeries. They are the faeries that collect dust which is then used to create pixie dust. In any case it can't

Re: I.T. resume

2011-03-09 Thread Stephen Price
Oh, that is EVIL. I love it. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:18 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget to mention your 5yrs experience with .Net 4.0... I wonder if we could poison their data and claim

Re: I.T. resume

2011-03-10 Thread Stephen Price
No, as in using tables is gay... Ask any web dev. ;) p.s. yes, you got it. Sad I had to explain it to some people, hey Silky :p On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:26 PM, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.comwrote: As in queer-y? On 10 March 2011 17:33, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote

Removing an entity

2011-03-14 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Apologies in advance for the crosspost I have a Silverlight app and am using the Telerik RadGridView control. When I press escape to undo a newly inserted row, I'm getting an exception thrown that is essentially the Entity Framework removing the item from the source. What's strange is

Re: IE9 RTW

2011-03-14 Thread Stephen Price
Did you choose the nuke everything thats open option, or the i'll reboot later option? I went the later. I don't like to be told when to reboot. I'll do it when i'm good and ready. - control freak On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:58 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at

Re: VS version increment problems

2011-03-18 Thread Stephen Price
I'm using a Shared file between each project (Add Existing item, and make it a link). Then i have this in that shared file [assembly: AssemblyVersionAttribute(2.8.*)] [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion(2.8.0.0)] ...and remove the one in the AssemblyInfo.cs Manually increment the 2.8 to 2.9 etc.

Re: [OT] Anti-Virus replacement for AVG

2011-03-18 Thread Stephen Price
+5 ESET I have eset on my machine and my daughter had mcaffee. Her msn sent me a URL or something suspicious. I may have even clicked it to sis it out. ESET blocked it cold. I immediately upgraged to a 5 machine license and put it on all our machines. Not has a problem since. I run it so it gives

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
Is it me or do the Lenovo laptops look exactly the same as they did 20 years ago? On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:30 AM, William Luu will@gmail.com wrote: Consider waiting for the Lenovo Thinkpad X220 to arrive in Australia (currently only the X201 is available) as another option -

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
it with an SSD hard drive. Ah well probably better to get an after market one anyway. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Is it me or do the Lenovo laptops look exactly the same as they did 20

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
it) On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen, Get her a stable table.. She sits it on her legs, and the laptop sits on a flat surface allowing the vents to breath !! On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Thank

Re: Raising property changed events

2011-03-23 Thread Stephen Price
I was going to use this an opportunity to vent about the msdn documentation and then discovered that the page on this particular method is better than what I usually get on msdn docs. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assembly.getexecutingassembly.aspx

Re: Raising property changed events

2011-03-23 Thread Stephen Price
the docs as google will give you better and more concise information in half the time. .02c Davy When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I feel much the same way about xml -- *From: *Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com *Sender

Re: Raising property changed events

2011-03-23 Thread Stephen Price
. *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7:26 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Raising property changed events Assuming around 200 people on the list, if we each take 1000 pages we should

Re: [OT} Rated songs lost as well

2011-03-24 Thread Stephen Price
I'd just like to interject here with a public announcement. I'd like to announce the presentation of our newly created Drama Queen award to our poor unsuspecting Greg Keogh. I think everyone here will agree that Greg is the deserving recipient of this highly prestigious award. This award will be

Databases for Local apps

2011-03-26 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Was thinking about a small app and it's not big enough to need an SQL database. I want it to be a single user deal and i'm just thinking ahead should it become commercial. I don't want a consumer (ie consumer targetted app, not enterprise) to have to have SQL or SQL Express installed to

Re: Databases for Local apps

2011-03-26 Thread Stephen Price
/code-first-development-with-entity-framework-4.aspx for a good walkthrough of how to use it On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Hey all, Was thinking about a small app and it's not big enough to need an SQL database. I want it to be a single

Re: Databases for Local apps

2011-03-27 Thread Stephen Price
Exchange is a dark horse? Or a hidden gem? On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:25 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: The dark horse is of course ESENT http://managedesent.codeplex.com/, which I’ve raved about before as a hidden

Re: Databases for Local apps

2011-03-27 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah I remember you talking about it. If you are still using it then it must be good. I don't recall any frustrated ranting from you about it so it must be pretty good. (still talking to me now?) Oh, and I second your vote to change it to Documentation award. Alternatively we could assign you

EF gurus

2011-03-27 Thread Stephen Price
Hey there, Are there any EF gurus about? This is a further email about the issue I posted recently where pressing escape to undo a new row on a RadGridView is throwing an exception on some entities but not others. I've tracked down a difference but can't seem to find anything about SourceSets.

Re: EF gurus

2011-03-27 Thread Stephen Price
Arjang On 28 March 2011 14:24, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Hey there, Are there any EF gurus about? This is a further email about the issue I posted recently where pressing escape to undo a new row on a RadGridView is throwing an exception on some entities

Re: EF gurus

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Price
March 2011 15:05, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Yep, totally understand. Not using EF isn't an option for this project as it's already being used. That leaves finding a work around as the best option. Sort of like jumping off the cliff then having to deal with the fall

Re: [OT] Good sites to sell furniture?

2011-03-29 Thread Stephen Price
Best thing to make it go is to put a For Sale - $100 on it. More effective than the Please leave sign. I've heard of Fridges sitting for a week, then put a for sale sign on it and its gone in 5 mins. You might even get some honest person give you $100 for it, but they'd have to be quicker than

20th century interwebs

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Price
OMG! http://www.techedbackstage.net/2011/04/01/teched-and-the-ipocalypse-what-you-need-to-know/ That should teach all those leeching bastards a lesson. Leech all they want now, on their own dime. With todays improving (so slowly) bandwidths you wouldn't think it would be a problem. What bloody

Re: [OT]Web hosting with lots of disk space

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Price
If it's just disk space you want, have a look at www.servage.net 750Gb plus if you refer (or are refered) other people you get bonus space. Wait... what? If you use my coupon code CUST49247 when you select to signup then you get unlimited disk space for free! That should keep you going. :) On

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-04-05 Thread Stephen Price
oh, and the replacement Alienware m17x they sent me is 5.3kg So 3.5Kg is 1/3rd the weight. :) On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Wallace Turner wallacetur...@gmail.comwrote: No wonder you are *sighing* lugging around 3.5kg! On 5/04/2011 10:29 PM, Stephen Price wrote: A friend just pointed

Re: [OT] Windows 7 and Parallel port card

2011-04-11 Thread Stephen Price
Good luck with that. I find best way is to remove all songs and re add the folder. It all depends if your music is IN the iTunes folder or if you added it from another folder (and let iTunes copy what if converts into its own folder). If you have bought music via iTunes then it will be a mix of

Re: [OT] Windows 7 and Parallel port card

2011-04-12 Thread Stephen Price
...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Monday, April 11, 2011 8:44 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Windows 7 and Parallel port card Good luck with that. I find best way is to remove all songs and re add the folder. It all depends if your music is IN the iTunes folder or if you

Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

2011-04-12 Thread Stephen Price
The laws of Copyright are fun, no? I've learned a fair bit on the subject through my cartooning. Basically you can't copywrite an idea, only a work of art. So I can do my own version of something I saw somewhere else and its considered a new work of art. The piece is copywrited, and owned by the

Re: Melbourne SDDN - Thursday 27th April

2011-04-27 Thread Stephen Price
... and the Perth one is tonight!! http://www.meetup.com/Perth-SDDN/ Silverlight 5 beta stuff, beer and pub food. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. A reminder that tomorrow night is Melbourne SDDN (Silverlight Designer Developer Network).

Re: IE9: why do I hate it so much

2011-05-02 Thread Stephen Price
My wife has a weird IE9 thing where if she highlights some text on the page, presses control C to copy it, then pastes it into the Address bar (to do a Google search for it) it actually pastes the last copies URL into the address bar. It's SO weird. I've tried to reproduce it on my machine and it

EF + EntityGraphs

2011-05-02 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, Anyone here used EntityGraphs from the RIA Services Contrib? http://riaservicescontrib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=EntityGraphsreferringTitle=Documentation Just wondering if anyone has had any issues or anything. Considering using it and wanted to check if any feedback of any kind.

Re: Any recommendation on where to get Professional Indemnity Insurance for independant contractor working on ABN?

2011-05-04 Thread Stephen Price
The cover provided by ACS membership is sufficient for weekend/volunteer work, etc. If you intend it for your day job then you'll need something more comprehensive. ACS recommended me to a broker in NSW who gave me a good deal. Lots of options depending on the work (my current one jacked up the

Re: Any recommendation on where to get Professional Indemnity Insurance for independant contractor working on ABN?

2011-05-04 Thread Stephen Price
True, but if all you are using them for is for the insurance then more cost effective to get the insurance yourself. If you use their other services like the invoicing and time sheet stuff then it suits better. There is an advantage too with companies such as CXC where if you change contracts a

Re: [OT] TabletPC recommendations

2011-05-05 Thread Stephen Price
I've just bought an ASUS Eee slate. Windows 7, i5, 64Gb ssd, 4Gb ram. Wacom screen (pen) and touch. Comes with bluetooth keyboard. Still waiting for it, but have heard its really nice to use. The reviews of all the tablets from a recent tech show rate it as the best tablet currently available.

Re: [OT] Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Price
I upgraded my Professional to Premium (halfway through the professional subscription). It was annoying there was no upgrade path, I basically had to purchase a new subscription from scratch. You should just have to pay the difference, perhaps with prorata. Anyway, I got mine from microway.com.au

Re: [OT] Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition

2011-05-09 Thread Stephen Price
Interesting, My professional license has just expired this month which means it was only about 12 months ago I got the Premium license. It didn't specify same country on the logo. Yup, checked the dispatch date. 3/3/2010. I guess it depends on who the sales person is and how much discount they

Re: JetBrains enters the .NET decompilation business

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Price
Just to note on that that RedGate have had a reversal in their decision to not provide a free version. Short version is there will be a free version that won't get further updates, which I'm assuming will not be timebombed. Jetbrains and Telerik have released decompilers. Competition is a good

Re: Smart sheet - how do they do it?

2011-05-12 Thread Stephen Price
Long press opens context menus in various places on WP7. So yeah, long press looks popular. Having just got myself an eee slate EP121 (loving it so far!) I'm discovering all the joys of non tablet friendly apps. Windows 7 is not bad for it but hear Windows 8 will be improved in the touch

Re: SSD minimum size question

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Price
Wait, what? You have a laptop that has three hard drives in it? What laptop is that? On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) g...@greglow.com wrote: Hi Tony, I’ve put 3 of the new Crucial M4 512G’s into my notebook and have been *really* happy with them. Regards,

Re: Govt .net jobs?

2011-05-19 Thread Stephen Price
That must be where the saying are you taking the piss? comes from? TGIF On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Grant Molloy graken...@gmail.com wrote: There is a theory floating around in the Local Govt in which I work that somewhere in the building there is a fountain of piss. Some people take

Re: [OT] Moving to web mail

2011-05-20 Thread Stephen Price
I've been on Google Apps for a number of years now. I've got about 4 domains plus my old gmail account all coming into my GoogleApps account. My only regret is not setting up the main domain as my main email account. Its a very minor complaint (basically means I log in with my primary domain which

Re: [OT] Moving to web mail

2011-05-20 Thread Stephen Price
Is spam still an issue these days? Oh wow, look at that. 1586 spam emails in my spam folder for the last month. Gee, I don't miss spam. ;) On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Simon Haigh smha...@gmail.com wrote: Been using Gmail virtually since it went live.  All my email eventually gets

Re: clever friday code

2011-05-20 Thread Stephen Price
. -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, 20 May 2011 16:59 To: ozDotNet Subject: clever friday code Hey all, I'm looking for a way to get at the value of the parameter of a method call

Re: [OT] Windows Phone 7 Plans

2011-05-23 Thread Stephen Price
My mother in law bought a WP7 Mozart from Telstra. I was gobsmacked. The thing is, she would have bought whatever they pushed at her. The fact they sold her the WP7 and *not* an iPhone was hell impressive. Big thumbs up to whoever that salesperson was, or possibly Telstra. Their prices are pretty

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen Price
Hey Greg I was using Mozy until they stopped offering unlimited backups. I decided to look around and am now using Crashplan. I was impressed by the software and got their 4 year deal with the leaving Mozy discount they had running some months back. I think it was about $200 or so (forget exact

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen Price
For you, its the space. I guess for them, its being able to target different clients. Pay for what you need or pay for what you can afford. I went for the top plan because of the more machines. Then again I tend to buy lots of software tools. Some people go out and spend thousands on their

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen Price
taken to evaluate X variations is usually daunting... On 1 June 2011 13:33, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: For you, its the space. I guess for them, its being able to target different clients. Pay for what you need or pay for what you can afford. I went for the top plan because

Re: [OT] Cloud backup

2011-05-31 Thread Stephen Price
I was a happy Mozy user for three+ years. I left for a couple of reasons. They removed their ultimate plan (mine still had a year and a half left on my plan) but if I wanted to add another machine to my current plan then I had to cancel my plan and resign up to their non unlimited plan. I don't

Re: Any one using Rockford Lhotka's CSLA?

2011-06-01 Thread Stephen Price
We used it on a project I was on 8+ months ago. I was focussing on the UI so didn't have that much to do with it, but now I'm learning RIA Services on the project I'm on. I wish we'd used RIA Services then but you get that. Also, the dependency on CSLA stopped them from updating to Silverlight 4

Re: unit testing gone mad

2011-06-05 Thread Stephen Price
I follow the suggested naming from The Art of Unit testing by Roy Osherove. MethodBeingTested_Inputs_ExpectedResult ie: Constructor_PassInDependencies_IsNotNull CreateInstance_PassValidJobId_CreatesInstance or whatever. I just make it up as I go along, but by following the three part template

Re: [OT] Backups

2011-06-05 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah I wouldn't use source control for backups. I remember some years ago I was using svn for my graphics... Some of the photoshop files were a few hundred meg in size (some as much as a gig) and I discovered svn hides all this stuff in hidden .svn folders. I ran out of space so fast I abandoned

Re: VS2010 crashing

2011-06-13 Thread Stephen Price
I've noticed that Visual Studio 2010 with sp1 installed seems quite fragile. It crashes regularly for me. I normally have a huge number of different tools installed and used to have no problems. I've not sat down and tried to troubleshoot what's causing it but it just feels like sp1. I could be

Re: REST call (obvious solution)

2011-06-18 Thread Stephen Price
Did you ask your cat? On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I just realised that I don’t add that extra information manually to the Request, it’s the extra part after the uri. So if I request https://place.com/v1/blahblah then it generates GET /v1/blah/blah HTTP/1.1

Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

2011-06-21 Thread Stephen Price
://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/a-sneaky-change-in-windows-licensing-terms/156 --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: The laws of Copyright are fun, no? I've learned a fair bit on the subject through my

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