RE: Anyone using HockeyApp?

2016-09-14 Thread Stephen Price
my comments last week) looks like it will take about 2 hours to upload. Hmmm, off to a bad start. -- GK On 25 July 2016 at 18:34, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com<mailto:step...@lythixdesigns.com>> wrote: Hmm. I just started working with HockeyApp for my own project. I

Re: [OT] Windows 10 anniversary upgrade

2016-08-14 Thread Stephen Price
Someone didn't read the terms and conditions... A license to use software is not ownership. Sure you may have paid for the hardware but all of the software and firmware has licenses. Dont like that then I think you're only real option is to go 100% open source at the OS level. Then if you

Re: Anyone using HockeyApp?

2016-07-25 Thread Stephen Price
Hmm. I just started working with HockeyApp for my own project. I didn't see anywhere any restrictions so am not even sure what plan I am on. Seems really nice! I've now successfully deployed to Android and iOS devices. the iOS was a big headache until I worked out I had to add the device UDID

Re: Headphones Review [OT]

2016-07-21 Thread Stephen Price
ome super special stuff for that price buddy On Thursday, 7 July 2016, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com<mailto:step...@lythixdesigns.com>> wrote: Hey all, I recall some time ago there were people raving about their Bose QuietComfort 25's. I have some before they refre

Re: Training/Mentoring a developer who doesn't seem to use many modern development productivity tools

2016-07-19 Thread Stephen Price
Not really much to add, but I do acknowledge you for taking an interest in your teams skill development. Its a rare trait. Sure you have a self interest in productivity, nothing wrong with that. Unfortunately theres a saying, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Keep

Headphones Review [OT]

2016-07-07 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I recall some time ago there were people raving about their Bose QuietComfort 25's. I have some before they refreshed the model (didn't see the point of upgrading, as it was just a cosmetic upgrade on an already awesome set of headphones). I've been using Sennheiser bluetooth

Re: [OT] Looking for work

2016-06-09 Thread Stephen Price
You could call the app "Tender". Sounds all kinds of wrong, I know. Get Outlook for iOS On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 7:56 PM +0800, "Scott Barnes" > wrote: There should be a Tinder / Grinder app for CV's... but instead

Re: [OT] Looking for work

2016-06-09 Thread Stephen Price
...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2016 2:21:20 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Looking for work 4) So you can roll them and race cars down a hill On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com<mailto:step...@lythixdesigns.com>> wrote: The reason

Re: [OT] Looking for work

2016-06-08 Thread Stephen Price
The reason man hole covers are round are: 1) the hole is round and 2) its impossible for a round cover to fall into a round hole. no matter which way you turn it, it can't fall down the hole. A square cover can fall down if you angle the shortest edge between the diagonals. 3) and because

Re: [OT] Looking for work

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen Price
o everything, you are now a full stack developer. That tells people you can do more than build a Web page. On 7 Jun 2016 11:26 AM, "Stephen Price" <step...@lythixdesigns.com<mailto:step...@lythixdesigns.com>> wrote: I've actually wondered about this myself. The roles I go

Re: [OT] Looking for work

2016-06-06 Thread Stephen Price
I've actually wondered about this myself. The roles I go for are the .Net roles. Generally speaking, my role is ".Net Developer" due to the C# .Net being the main skill required, but its rarely all you do. Javascript is a big component these days, and as it's been pointed out, so many client

Re: Universal library tests

2016-05-18 Thread Stephen Price
I think when I was playing in this area last, I didn't go with that UI test project. I went with a normal Test project and treat it (the Class under test) like a normal assembly. Was a while ago though so may be mis-remembering. From:

Re: Gadgets [OT]

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen Price
cuum cleaner count? :) On 29 April 2016 at 10:15, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com<mailto:step...@lythixdesigns.com>> wrote: Hi, my name is Stephen and i'm a gadget-oholic. It's been 12 hours since i bought my last gadget. Got me a minix neo 8 from jbhifi (last one in stock) h

Gadgets [OT]

2016-04-28 Thread Stephen Price
Hi, my name is Stephen and i'm a gadget-oholic. It's been 12 hours since i bought my last gadget. Got me a minix neo 8 from jbhifi (last one in stock) https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/accessories/minix/minix-neo-x8-h-plus-4k-quad-core-media-hub-for-android/648244/ Seems like a very

RE: Coffee snobs

2016-04-07 Thread Stephen Price
I baulk at the price of these machines, as coffee drinking is a fairly new thing for me. 5 years or so. But recently, one of the guys on my last project was a very snobby coffee drinker ( he even drinks his coffees without disturbing the coffee art foam! lol ) This lead me to a new appreciation

Re: [OT] New laptop

2016-04-05 Thread Stephen Price
Do you have each website on its own machine or something? I'm using web apps (not vms) for all my websites. $200 per month is plenty. I have four websites, each with database (and dev slots with their own database) as well as blob storage and some other stuff like AD. Granted they are not

Re: [OT] New laptop

2016-04-05 Thread Stephen Price
il.com<mailto:therut...@gmail.com>> wrote: Geez had a look and it gets expensive real quick On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com<mailto:step...@perthprojects.com>> wrote: I've ordered mine. If the 1Tb version was available (no date on that

Re: NUnit 3 runners

2016-03-24 Thread Stephen Price
It's been some years since I used nunit, but it did have a stand alone tool for running tests. I resharper to run my tests. You can also use the built in visual studio test runner. I think there is some setup to get it to run your nunit tests, but it's not hard and should be documented on nunit

Re: [OT] Windows.old folder

2016-03-06 Thread Stephen Price
lol 20 gigawatts. Hate to see your power bill. [] From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 7 March 2016 6:50 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Windows.old folder Ian, I

RE: [OT] Windows 10 calculator

2016-02-28 Thread Stephen Price
Hehe, sure I’ll just Google his number… Amazing how long this thread has gotten over a calculator. Inconceivable! Sent from Outlook Mail for Windows 10 phone From: David Connors Sent: Monday, 29 February 2016 11:25 AM

Re: [OT] Windows 10 calculator

2016-02-28 Thread Stephen Price
Seriously though, I don't mind it at all. It adds numbers. I'm happy. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of Eddie de Bear (Gmail) Sent: Monday, 29 February 2016 10:39 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject:

Re: Azure File Storage

2016-02-28 Thread Stephen Price
You may need to add an endpoint to open that port. Is it classic vm or new one on the new portal? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, 29 February 2016 8:13 AM To: ozDotNet

RE: [OT] Philips (Benq) 4K monitor

2016-02-14 Thread Stephen Price
Just buy it. This is mine. Being able to use 4k at 100% scaling has to be experienced to comprehend. I even game on it (in 4k) so make sure you have a nice graphics card. I have NVidia gtx 980 which can drive 4 screens (2 of which are 4k) Resized photo attached... Sent from

RE: [OT] Internal Developer Training

2016-02-08 Thread Stephen Price
I highly recommend doing code reviews. Not only does it improve the quality of your code base, but its a two way learning avenue. The person reviewing the author’s code gets to understand what the code is doing. The Author thinks through their own reasoning while trying to accurately explain

[OT] Office 365 Azure AD sync

2015-12-01 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I've recently switched from Google to Office 365, with user accounts on the Azure AD side of things. I then thought I should set up the Azure AD connect thing which syncs the local AD accounts up to Azure AD but I discovered does not currently sync accounts back down to the local AD.

Re: [OT] Office 365 Azure AD sync

2015-12-01 Thread Stephen Price
now. If you do, ADFS allows for two way traversal. Are you currently using ADConnect or the older Dirsync ? Regards Greg Dr Greg Low SQL Down Under +61 419201410 1300SQLSQL (1300775775) On 2 Dec 2015, at 12:59 PM, Stephen Price <step...@lythixdesigns.com<mailto:step...@lythixdesigns.com&

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

2015-11-29 Thread Stephen Price
I like the 2011v3 as you can get more ram in them that the alternative chipsets. Max 64gb instead of 32gb For quiet pc's I usually go for Intel nuc but they are not a full size mb. Sent from Outlook On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:17 PM -0800, "David Burstin"

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-11-16 Thread Stephen Price
Still early days but so far it's the best laptop I've owned. Ever. On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 at 9:33 AM, Tom Rutter wrote: > Have any devs here had a play with the surface book yet? Thoughts? > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:18 PM, DotNet Dude wrote: > >> In

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-11-16 Thread Stephen Price
MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com>]

Re: [OT] SSL testing

2015-11-05 Thread Stephen Price
Maybe that rating site is a hacker site and anyone who has run the script is now compromised? On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 at 5:31 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > I ran this powershell on a win 2012 r2 machine and went from C to A with a >> reboot >> >>

Re: [OT] SSL testing

2015-11-04 Thread Stephen Price
I guess there are some advantages to running on Azure websites. I ran that ssllabs.com test against a client website that I wrote a year or so ago and got an A. No actions taken on my part (apart from setting up the Azure website to use the certificate). Nice to test it and know though. Thanks for

Re: [OT] Office 365

2015-11-03 Thread Stephen Price
le recommend >> (for a corporate environment), then I’d be keen to look into them >> >> >> >> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *DotNet Dude >> *Sent:* Monday, 2 November 2015 12:57 PM >>

Re: SSL Certs

2015-11-02 Thread Stephen Price
Personally, I'd pick the domain name you want people to use and get SSL for that. Then the other domain name is just to catch people who went to that one instead and route all your traffic to the main one. If you have just two domain names then I can understand the questionmark over how to use

Re: [OT] Office 365

2015-11-01 Thread Stephen Price
ns for commercial use, whatever that means.  > > On Sunday, 1 November 2015, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> > wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I know a few here use Office 365 (from previous threads) and was >> wondering if anyone is using the Office 365 Busi

Re: [OT] Office 365

2015-11-01 Thread Stephen Price
Not people, no. Managers. On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 at 4:04 PM, DotNet Dude <adotnetd...@gmail.com> wrote: > People still use sharepoint? Lol > > On Sunday, 1 November 2015, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> > wrote: > >> Actually did some more reading and i

[OT] Office 365

2015-10-31 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I know a few here use Office 365 (from previous threads) and was wondering if anyone is using the Office 365 Business? Trying to work out what it gives you and so far it looks exactly the same as the Home version except its more expensive. Perhaps business support is the extra? I'm

Re: [OT] Cable IP address

2015-10-28 Thread Stephen Price
My Cable modem IP rarely changes. I don't rely on it being that way anyway... Except for GetFlix, and there's an app that updates it in a second. (on their end). But yeah, very rarely have I noticed it change, six months or more maybe even a year. On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 at 15:21 Greg Low (罗格雷格博士)

Re: [OT] Cable IP address

2015-10-28 Thread Stephen Price
That's the one I got. I dare say I don't use all of its features but its pretty sweet. Like I said, being able to monitor local devices down to an IP address has been rather lacking for so many years. Finally someone does it out of the box. On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 at 17:53 Greg Low (罗格雷格博士)

Re: [OT] Cable IP address

2015-10-28 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, self hosting is so 2002. Its all in the cloud now. ;) On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 at 17:56 Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote: > That's the one I got. > I dare say I don't use all of its features but its pretty sweet. Like I > said, being able to monitor local device

Re: [OT] Cable IP address

2015-10-28 Thread Stephen Price
I recently upgrade my router to an asus one and FINALLY a router that can identify which device on my own network is using the bandwidths. The 2mbit uplink gets hammered and stuffs up the gaming. Really happy with it and so +1 for using tel$tra modem as a dumb bridge. On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 at 5:13

Ozdotnet Ignite drinks?

2015-10-22 Thread Stephen Price
Anyone on the list going to Ignite and want to do a drinks and/or Indian meetup?

Re: [OT] Clients

2015-10-22 Thread Stephen Price
Unless you know exactly what you are delivering and exactly how long it will take to deliver, fixed price is dumb. How many people exactly nail their estimates? If you can do that then fixed price is low risk. But software is normally a journey or discovering the unknown. How can you do fixed

Re: Ozdotnet Ignite drinks?

2015-10-22 Thread Stephen Price
, the old TechEd used to be 3 days, not 4. > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 at 07:21 David Connors <da...@connors.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 at 16:10 Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Anyone on the list going to Ignite and

Re: Ozdotnet Ignite drinks?

2015-10-22 Thread Stephen Price
Sure, and while they are at it they should give all delegates a Surface Book, 5 free t-shirts, and a hooker for the week. On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 at 11:28 Tom Rutter wrote: > If Im paying 2000 for the event at the very least I'd expect an msdn sub > given to me > > On Friday,

Re: Ozdotnet Ignite drinks?

2015-10-22 Thread Stephen Price
(with a capital F)... /facepalm So you order yourself a new Surface? I'm hoping I get mine before I head off to Ignite. Ordered Surface Book, best specs I could get. Shiny! On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 at 07:21 David Connors <da...@connors.com> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 at 16:10 Stephen Pr

Re: Ozdotnet Ignite drinks?

2015-10-22 Thread Stephen Price
2k for an event? Give me a break > > > On Friday, 23 October 2015, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> > wrote: > >> Yeah, Developers (like many people) are tight arses / poor bastards. I >> almost didn't go because of the ticket price, but got a Bizspark di

Re: Ozdotnet Ignite drinks?

2015-10-22 Thread Stephen Price
You're right. I crossed the line with the t-shirts. ;) On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 at 11:43 Tom Rutter <therut...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now you're just getting silly > > On Friday, 23 October 2015, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> > wrote: > >> Sure, and while th

Re: Cheapest MSDN renewals

2015-10-21 Thread Stephen Price
Subsidiary company would cost less than MSDN subscription. Sad but true... On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 at 14:19 David Connors wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 at 16:12 Craig van Nieuwkerk > wrote: > >> BizSpark is free. >> > > Might be challenging convincing Microsoft

Re: Office 365 platforms

2015-10-20 Thread Stephen Price
Get off my lawn!! On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 at 12:22 PM, DotNet Dude wrote: > Lol > > On Wednesday, 21 October 2015, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> That's the idea- unlearn old crap like silverlight and replace it with >>> new crap like angular *chuckle* >> >> >>

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-10-07 Thread Stephen Price
I've ordered mine. If the 1Tb version was available (no date on that has been released yet) I would have gotten that one. Shut up and take my money! Have disclosed said pre-order to my significant other, and I've successfully trained her to react with a simple eye roll. I'll likely "pay" for it

Re: [OT] Freelancer experience

2015-09-16 Thread Stephen Price
I know some people who use it (or similar sites like fiverr.com) and like Dotnet Dude says (wait, who ARE you dude?) the people who do the work do it at a super cheap price (with comparable quality). Not saying you can't find someone who does a good job on there, but its a bit of a lottery. You

Re: PayPal Integration

2015-09-13 Thread Stephen Price
I was looking at the options recently but have only gotten to the decision made step, implementation will come later. I chose https://stripe.com/au/features Don't have anything like a readers digest post but their docs look good with examples for many languages. I enquired about eWay some time

Re: REST testing

2015-09-13 Thread Stephen Price
Obviously, it's a trust issue. I think you should download the source code, examine all of the code so you know it has no security/privacy issues, remove anything that concerns you and then you should be able to install Postman. Source code here: https://www.chromium.org/Home I believe there is

Re: Odd text encoding

2015-09-12 Thread Stephen Price
Exciting times for all of us. It's been a fun ride so far, with more in store. :) On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 at 13:17 Ken Schaefer wrote: > Well, there are no guarantees about what we’ll see in the future, but > here’s some stats for what’s come in the past: > >

Re: Powershell UI + tabs

2015-09-09 Thread Stephen Price
l and cmd. > > On 9 September 2015 at 13:48, Corneliu I. Tusnea <corne...@acorns.com.au> > wrote: > >> Oh yes, that looks awesome. Thanks!!! >> >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Conso

Re: Powershell UI + tabs

2015-09-09 Thread Stephen Price
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> > wrote: > >> Scott Hanselman has a good blog post on setting up Console2, you can get >> it nice so that control c and control v for cutting and pasting... >> worth checking out. >> >

Re: Odd text encoding

2015-09-09 Thread Stephen Price
How did you get my Azure certificate? wtf?? Seriously though, the trailing == on the end (plus the overall look) makes it look exactly like an Azure publish certificate. On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 at 08:39 Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) wrote: > Perfect thanks Thomas. > > I'll just have to add a

Re: Powershell UI + tabs

2015-09-08 Thread Stephen Price
Console2 for all your command line needs. On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 at 11:20 Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a lightweight powershell UI that has tabs so I can have multiple > tabs open? > > Google searches yield random useless results. > > Thanks, > Corneliu. > >

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-08-28 Thread Stephen Price
I don't think the HP x360 Spectre I was talking about is a MS Signature model, but I do know Microsoft had a big part in its design. Some kind of partnership I think. Actually, you can buy it in a Signature edition. I found it listed in the US Microsoft store. I guess the difference is no

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen Price
I recently got a HP x360 (the pro version). 512gb ssd. 8gb ram, qhd touch screen. What I like about it is that it's a laptop first that can flip around into tablet. Compared to surface pro which is tablet first that can be used like a laptop. Subtle but important difference (for me). Also it's

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen Price
HP x360, Spectre that is. On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 at 5:33 pm, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: I recently got a HP x360 (the pro version). 512gb ssd. 8gb ram, qhd touch screen. What I like about it is that it's a laptop first that can flip around into tablet. Compared to surface pro

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen Price
-HiFi also have that laptop but the QHD screen version might be exclusive to Harvey Norman (or it was at the time?) On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 at 07:24 Tom Rutter therut...@gmail.com wrote: If u dont mind me asking where did you buy it from? On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Stephen Price step

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen Price
the top model anywhere but HP site. Also found a discount code so can get 15% off making the $2400 one down to $2040 On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Harvey Norman. I had an old Samsung that died 2 1/2 years after I bought it and I had

Re: Last words on AngularJS

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen Price
I think the problem you are experiencing, Greg, is that you are looking for the right way to write Javascript apps. Is that what you mean by best practice? I look at that as being similar to someone saying they are looking for the right woman. There is no right woman, there are just a large set

Re: Last words on AngularJS

2015-08-24 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, I've heard it said that .Net (ie Microsoft) had for a long time tried to shield you from having to learn Javascript. Webforms and Asp.Net protects you from having to learn all that horrible web stuff. MCV took a step to get you closer to the browser, and I think it's a good thing. So given

Re: Azure upload limit

2015-08-19 Thread Stephen Price
Not hit that issue, but the files I upload are small images so unlikely. Good to know there's a setting that helped. cheers Stephen On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 at 08:44 Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't you know it, seconds after I posted the upload problem, my last experiment with 20MB

Re: [OT] Preparing Windows 10

2015-08-08 Thread Stephen Price
Does your desktop have 400 icons on it? Just wondering how you launch your apps on your normal machines. Icons on desktop, pinned to taskbar, Start menu, Start search (that searchbox can be used to launch stuff), Windows R to run stuff, or browse via Explorer. Oh you could also open Task Manager

Re: [OT] Chairs for home office

2015-07-29 Thread Stephen Price
My favourite is laying down. Asleep is when I'm at my most creative, but my coding style slips a bit when I'm asleep so it's a trade off. On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 at 18:26 Bec C bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: Feelings aside I highly recommend both sitting and standing (alternate). It really helped

Re: [OT] home server

2015-07-26 Thread Stephen Price
775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Saturday, 25 July 2015 12:05 PM *To:* ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com

Re: [OT] home server

2015-07-24 Thread Stephen Price
Synology NAS. Any model, choose based on your storage needs. Does all your file sharing, media stuff etc. I even got Crashplan running on it It's brilliant On Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 2:51 PM ILT il.tho...@outlook.com wrote: I’d appreciate some advice, from those who dabble in this area (home

Re: [OT] home server

2015-07-24 Thread Stephen Price
/products/DS415play with 2 3tb red drives for now. On 25 Jul 2015 09:44, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Synology NAS. Any model, choose based on your storage needs. Does all your file sharing, media stuff etc. I even got Crashplan running on it It's brilliant On Fri, Jul 24

Re: Amusing story

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen Price
Are you sure he sent you the wrong data? Did your heart rate go up as intended? Did you check every link? On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 at 14:00 Tom Rutter therut...@gmail.com wrote: Reminds me of a time I worked for a big phone company and someone (note i don't say accidentally or by mistake here) sent

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen Price
...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, so what the hell is happening in the Android phone world. Greg - you make me laugh. Stephen Price - where are you? David. -- David Connors da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen Price
: *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Friday, 3 July 2015 1:07 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story Ken, lol. so true. There are some underlaying questions that need answering

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen Price
Perhaps his Ad blocking filtered out the warning messages? On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 at 13:12 David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: I never said I dislike Material Design, it's actually quite pleasant (until something else becomes

Re: Windows Mobile Development on Windows 8

2015-06-25 Thread Stephen Price
Not heard anything either way (sorry that's not much help) but if you are installing WM SDK, check that you are not installing a newer version than what you currently have working on your Windows 7 machine. From what you have said its more likely an issue with mismatched VS to SDK versions. As a

Re: Visual Studio 2015

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Price
like a good idea. The team are very accommodating if you email them, I'm sure they will extend the trial. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: If you are an Indie developer then its much cheaper, but you can't use it in Visual Studio. What

Re: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Price
OMG you use a web browser? On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, here's a Friday curiosity and frightener for you ... A few days ago I renewed my MSDN subscription. Last night I went to The Age newspaper web site and I see a rather surprising ad down the

Re: Visual Studio 2015

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Price
I've done it but not released anything. It seems workable if you have the Mac near you (or use VNC to remote to it on the same machine). It think its a lot easier to work with if you are coding in a vm on Parallels and then flip over to the Mac screen. I won't be pursuing my mobile dev via Xamarin

Re: Visual Studio 2015

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Price
If you are an Indie developer then its much cheaper, but you can't use it in Visual Studio. What are they saying, that Indie developers don't use Visual Studio? There needs to be something in between Indie and Enterprise. I'm certainly not an Enterprise and I'm not an Indie. I'm a

Re: Push to web clients

2015-04-07 Thread Stephen Price
http://macleodsawyer.com/2015/03/06/nine-truths-computer-programmers-know-that-most-people-dont/ You've pretty much described Fact #1. Everything is hacked together with duct tape and coat hangers. :) That's the beauty of it all. The power of Javascript is that you *can* hack it together. Does

Re: Async'ing a library

2015-03-27 Thread Stephen Price
Yeah, generally speaking, if you think you understand something, you must have it wrong. Also, as soon as you comprehend something, someone will change it. Just assume you have no idea and be done with it. Run with it until someone complains about it. :) On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Greg

Re: Visual Studio startup delay

2015-03-18 Thread Stephen Price
Wait, what? 2014? Did I miss a release somehow? Sent from my iPhone On 19 Mar 2015, at 11:09 am, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, sometime in the last couple of weeks I noticed that Visual Studio 2014 was taking a long time to start, but only when I ran it as Administrator.

Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2015-01-07 Thread Stephen Price
porting from existing .NET code easier. If you think things are missing that should be included and you’ve not listed them below, feel free to send them onto me. *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Tuesday, December

Re: Visual Studio C/C++ projects

2015-01-05 Thread Stephen Price
Nice! Object oriented comments. That should totally be a thing! :) On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Greg Harris g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com wrote: Some (many) years ago I was talking to this guy who was proudly telling me he had upgraded his Pascal program to use the OO features of Delphi.

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-23 Thread Stephen Price
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Re: WP - prepare for universal app development in Windows 10

2014-12-23 Thread Stephen Price
Universal apps are lovely. there you go. On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: It’s interesting to read the comments, and the Microsoft replies – about what is currently missing from “universal” and why Silverlight is more suitable, at present. Good grief! I

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
So how come when I ring up the ATO they don't know who I am? ;) On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: You can lodge a BAS with the ATO using it. (You can’t with IE 11)… That means that Google and the NSA now have full access to our tax records ;-)

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
@#$%^* that they can not help any of their staff to do their job! (does this feel like Friday?) On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: So how come when I ring up the ATO they don't know who I am? ;) On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Greg Keogh g

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
5.) Delete all social media accounts. 6.) Stop using any device that's connected. I forget the name of it but there is a security rating (class C? I forget) where no connectivity, no keyboard no monitor and no external drives are required. Or something along those lines. 7.) Become Amish. On Tue,

Re: [OT] Reading list

2014-12-03 Thread Stephen Price
While on the subject of books, I highly recommend Safari Flow (actually its been renamed www.safaribooksonline.com). Their books subscription used to be several levels, one where you could read all of their books and a lower priced one which worked like a library where you could check out a

Re: TraceSource without config

2014-12-02 Thread Stephen Price
They need to make them JSON as well. (like they did/are doing with project files.) They are just INI files in disguise. :) On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Chaps, I saw that page, and the code makes sense, but it's an unrealistic example as the same program makes

Re: [OT] Turning off outgoing mail possible?

2014-11-28 Thread Stephen Price
I always marvel at how people use email for business. As if it were guaranteed delivery. The technology has been around longer than the internet and I'd not be surprised if its not been changed in all that time. I'd like to hope it has but not looked into it. Might put that on my weekend reading

Re: Duplicate matching

2014-11-28 Thread Stephen Price
Am curious, is the idea of the exercise to write your own code to solve the problem, or to solve the problem? I've used Treesize pro to find file duplicates in the past. Also have used Directory Opus to find duplicates. Great for finding identical files with different names. Probably won't help if

Re: Duplicate matching

2014-11-28 Thread Stephen Price
-boun...@ozdotnet.com ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Saturday, November 29, 2014 12:30 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Duplicate matching Am curious, is the idea of the exercise to write your own code to solve the problem, or to solve the problem? I've used

Re: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-26 Thread Stephen Price
check out the XPS 15. Wow, 16Gb RAM? I didn't realise that was such an issue. 8Gb would be plenty for me I think but I guess going forward that will matter. How often do people change laptops? Is 3-4 years a stretch? Thanks Tom On 26 November 2014 at 17:02, Stephen Price step

Re: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-26 Thread Stephen Price
forward that will matter. How often do people change laptops? Is 3-4 years a stretch? Thanks Tom On 26 November 2014 at 17:02, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Welcome Tom! (OMG where did we get a new poster from?) Having more than a few laptops (both past

Re: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-26 Thread Stephen Price
to me for Windows. I'll check out the XPS 15. Wow, 16Gb RAM? I didn't realise that was such an issue. 8Gb would be plenty for me I think but I guess going forward that will matter. How often do people change laptops? Is 3-4 years a stretch? Thanks Tom On 26 November 2014 at 17:02, Stephen

Re: X509 certificate and trust

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Price
Hey Greg In the past I've handed the Silverlight xap file something random (lets call it a key to get in) in the init parameters. The client then gives that back to the WCF service as proof that the Xap file was launched by a known web server. You could renew it periodically or let it run for

Re: X509 certificate and trust

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Price
And then I read your email a second time and notice you said Silverlight PHONE app. Perhaps you could use something similar... but as it's not hosted on a web server, but instead its on the phone that might not work. Perhaps a call to a server with a login where a key is given out for that

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