Re: Au dev hashtags?
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 #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 devs used similar ones - maybe it could eventually give some exposure to the AU industry etc etc?? Just thinking out loud. ps. if anyone’s doing winphone dev, check out http://www.developeddownunder.com/developers.aspx Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts
In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync
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 recalled reading about the IsAsync Binding property fewer years ago in WPF Unleashed http://adamnathan.net/wpf/. Well, IsAsync is miraculously easy and it works as advertised. You assign multiple binding properties, each one is expected to take a different amount of time, and it all just works. The basic example HEREhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.data.binding.isasync.aspxshows how to do it. Hundreds of lines of my ancient code was replaced with about 10 lines, so I presume I didn't ever notice IsAsync back then. Because the binding runs on a worker thread you can't return something forbidden to use across threads, so I had to return the string URI of the image and not an actual BitmapSource. I don't think you can do this in Silverlight, but I'm not certain. Greg K
Re: In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync
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 doesn't apply .. as typically is a problem for Background Thread workers etc to manage. 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... --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: 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 recalled reading about the IsAsync Binding property fewer years ago in WPF Unleashed http://adamnathan.net/wpf/. Well, IsAsync is miraculously easy and it works as advertised. You assign multiple binding properties, each one is expected to take a different amount of time, and it all just works. The basic example HEREhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.data.binding.isasync.aspxshows how to do it. Hundreds of lines of my ancient code was replaced with about 10 lines, so I presume I didn't ever notice IsAsync back then. Because the binding runs on a worker thread you can't return something forbidden to use across threads, so I had to return the string URI of the image and not an actual BitmapSource. I don't think you can do this in Silverlight, but I'm not certain. Greg K
Re: In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync
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 the right thing. It got me into the
good habit of coding like this when working with proxies:
proxy.FooAsyncCompleted += (a,b,c) =
{
// this runs later
}
proxy.FooAsync(args);
// This runs now
I find this quite readable -- Greg
Re: help with my php website
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 application. you add, edit, delete and update contact, and events, then you create an account and also login. so the site is at: http://marvinhunkin.bmtafeweb.* *com http://marvinhunkin.bmtafeweb.com. I use a screen reader Jaws For windows from http://www.freedomscientific.**comhttp://www.freedomscientific.com. have uploaded all the files to filezilla. now. I am getting the following problems. if any people who knows php, my sql, html, css, and is in Australia, might be able to help. I will outline the problems below. 1. the add contact form, does not redirect, and not sure. 2. the edit contact, edit event, update contact, and update event has errors. maybe not liking the php self form tag. also with the create account and login, get errors. and apart from the add contact page, it does redirect the other pages. and also, do I need extra security, for the create account, login, and feedback form. and when I get these issues fixed, better to have a list of users, then they can then click, and then goes to a page, and then have buttons, like edit, delete, update. with the delete contact and delete event, no errors, but have php code, appear on the form. a much more friendly way of doing this. also do I need a change password form, and so any possible code. trying my best, not to do it for me, but to suggest ways and how I can fix the errors, with sample code, and other examples. have googled, looked at previous projects. so want to get this project done in the next couple of weeks. got a deadline. also, any sighted people, have a look at the layout, html, css, and if it looks professional, as totally blind. and also, if I need to change images, if they are appropriate for this site. so, if any one is in Australia, as I live in South Australia, Australia. would be more preferable if possible, as same time zone, but if not, then any help would be appreciated. a local friend was helping out, but he cannot help, has a full time job, family, and I understand that. have asked on the student forum, but no one, helping me out. so if any one could help, I would appreciate it. thanks. Marvin..
Re: help with my php website
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. so looking for help. the site is a contact call centre application. you add, edit, delete and update contact, and events, then you create an account and also login. so the site is at: http://marvinhunkin.bmtafeweb.* *com http://marvinhunkin.bmtafeweb.com. I use a screen reader Jaws For windows from http://www.freedomscientific.**comhttp://www.freedomscientific.com. have uploaded all the files to filezilla. now. I am getting the following problems. if any people who knows php, my sql, html, css, and is in Australia, might be able to help. I will outline the problems below. 1. the add contact form, does not redirect, and not sure. 2. the edit contact, edit event, update contact, and update event has errors. maybe not liking the php self form tag. also with the create account and login, get errors. and apart from the add contact page, it does redirect the other pages. and also, do I need extra security, for the create account, login, and feedback form. and when I get these issues fixed, better to have a list of users, then they can then click, and then goes to a page, and then have buttons, like edit, delete, update. with the delete contact and delete event, no errors, but have php code, appear on the form. a much more friendly way of doing this. also do I need a change password form, and so any possible code. trying my best, not to do it for me, but to suggest ways and how I can fix the errors, with sample code, and other examples. have googled, looked at previous projects. so want to get this project done in the next couple of weeks. got a deadline. also, any sighted people, have a look at the layout, html, css, and if it looks professional, as totally blind. and also, if I need to change images, if they are appropriate for this site. so, if any one is in Australia, as I live in South Australia, Australia. would be more preferable if possible, as same time zone, but if not, then any help would be appreciated. a local friend was helping out, but he cannot help, has a full time job, family, and I understand that. have asked on the student forum, but no one, helping me out. so if any one could help, I would appreciate it. thanks. Marvin.. -- Peter Griffith MACS http://pgriffith.wordpress.com PH: 0408 832 891 08 8365 4993
MSDN mag
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 space, the Dynamics space etc who couldn't give two knobs of billy goat sh*t about Windows phone. I can't remember that last time I found a useful article about SQL server or Dynamics CRM in this magazine. 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?
Re: MSDN mag
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 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 space, the Dynamics space etc who couldn't give two knobs of billy goat sh*t about Windows phone. I can't remember that last time I found a useful article about SQL server or Dynamics CRM in this magazine. 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? -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
Re: MSDN mag
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 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 space, the Dynamics space etc who couldn't give two knobs of billy goat sh*t about Windows phone. I can't remember that last time I found a useful article about SQL server or Dynamics CRM in this magazine. 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? -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough - Adam Hills
Re: In praise of WPF Binding.IsAsync
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 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 the right thing. It got me into the
good habit of coding like this when working with proxies:
proxy.FooAsyncCompleted += (a,b,c) =
{
// this runs later
}
proxy.FooAsync(args);
// This runs now
I find this quite readable -- Greg
Re: MSDN mag
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 telling us what WinRT *can't do*). For years I was also slowly getting sick of McCaffrey's articles which were getting so academic that they were useless for real-world developers. So useless in fact that I was going to email the editors and politely tell them that although I'm a profound geek, I have absolutely no use for genetic algorithms, matrix decomposition, adaptive boosting or artificial immune systems. Even Petzold's relentless articles about perspective graphics and music synthesis aren't of much use or interest (even though I'm a musician). I have an almost unbroken set of issues going back to May 1993, and in the last 2 years I have felt the same shift of focus away from core languages, tools and frameworks into what marketing must think they want us to read. I scan all pages, but I find I'm increasingly flipping over more and more pages like you. Greg K P.S. I'd better go and look in the letterbox.
Re: help with my php website
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 weeks ago, he must have missed it. On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Peter Griffith pe...@gui-visuals.com.auwrote: 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. so looking for help. the site is a contact call centre application. you add, edit, delete and update contact, and events, then you create an account and also login. so the site is at: http://marvinhunkin.bmtafeweb. **com http://marvinhunkin.bmtafeweb.com. I use a screen reader Jaws For windows from http://www.freedomscientific.**comhttp://www.freedomscientific.com. have uploaded all the files to filezilla. now. I am getting the following problems. if any people who knows php, my sql, html, css, and is in Australia, might be able to help. I will outline the problems below. 1. the add contact form, does not redirect, and not sure. 2. the edit contact, edit event, update contact, and update event has errors. maybe not liking the php self form tag. also with the create account and login, get errors. and apart from the add contact page, it does redirect the other pages. and also, do I need extra security, for the create account, login, and feedback form. and when I get these issues fixed, better to have a list of users, then they can then click, and then goes to a page, and then have buttons, like edit, delete, update. with the delete contact and delete event, no errors, but have php code, appear on the form. a much more friendly way of doing this. also do I need a change password form, and so any possible code. trying my best, not to do it for me, but to suggest ways and how I can fix the errors, with sample code, and other examples. have googled, looked at previous projects. so want to get this project done in the next couple of weeks. got a deadline. also, any sighted people, have a look at the layout, html, css, and if it looks professional, as totally blind. and also, if I need to change images, if they are appropriate for this site. so, if any one is in Australia, as I live in South Australia, Australia. would be more preferable if possible, as same time zone, but if not, then any help would be appreciated. a local friend was helping out, but he cannot help, has a full time job, family, and I understand that. have asked on the student forum, but no one, helping me out. so if any one could help, I would appreciate it. thanks. Marvin.. -- Peter Griffith MACS http://pgriffith.wordpress.com PH: 0408 832 891 08 8365 4993
