Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

2012-05-09 Thread Stephen Price
Thank goodness I have a high rez monitor. Your post was readable on one line. Just. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Put the Quick-launch Ctrl+Q bar into office and I'll be happy. I'm not an office power-user but trying to figure out where

Re: Users who compulsively highlight or click text as they read it -are you out there?

2012-04-17 Thread Stephen Price
I don't think I highlight but I often move my mouse along the line of text as I read. I wonder if there's a sub group of mouse hoverers, to contrast the highlighters and clickers. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:34 PM, William Luu will@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I do the double click on a word or

Re: Users who compulsively highlight or click text as they read it -are you out there?

2012-04-17 Thread Stephen Price
I'm going to destroy your planet, for that... :p On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: We clickers split up from the hoverers way back in XEROX wars :p http://codermike.com On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Stephen Price step

Re: File/folder sync options for Windows

2012-04-07 Thread Stephen Price
Is that price on their web site per year? Also i didn't see any space quotas. I'm using dropbox and just scored a bonus 7gbfor a year for having completed a list of tasks. I guess they want me to use the space and then next year have to pay (counting on me nit wanting to go back to my current

Re: Win 8 Tablet gestures

2012-04-03 Thread Stephen Price
Makes me kind of wonder how these tablets are going to take off... I don't recall hearing of anyone having an issue with closing an app on an iPad. I'm also worried that making an OS that can do both PC's and Tablets will suck at both rather than being great at both. Time will tell I guess. Being

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Stephen Price
Damn it. Now I can't use cost as an excuse for not getting off my arse and learning more about Azure. Ok, I've put it on my list of things to learn, right after Db. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13639/Db-The-Future-Is-Coming http://thenextlanguage.net/ I'm really excited about the

Re: Win 8 Tablet

2012-04-01 Thread Stephen Price
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Re: Win 8 Tablet

2012-04-01 Thread Stephen Price
] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Sunday, 1 April 2012 11:29 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Win 8 Tablet ** ** Hey Peter, I didn't have the acpi issue. Bluetooth drivers, I installed the win7 ones in compatibility mode and it works fine. Sent from my iPhone On 01/04/2012

Unhooking events from Handler

2012-04-01 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, I've got a Static class that's behaving like an EventHandler in that you assign values to it via an operator + or - method. I need a method on this thing or some way that I can unhook the ones from one particular class (called from the dispose of that class) so that it can remove only

Re: Unhooking events from Handler

2012-04-01 Thread Stephen Price
://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee658248.aspx search on the page for 'static event' should find the best ways to do this. Typically the child will unsubscribe itself inside Dispose() On 2 Apr 2012, at 02:21, Stephen Price wrote: Hey all, I've got a Static class that's behaving like an EventHandler

Re: Unhooking events from Handler

2012-04-01 Thread Stephen Price
event' should find the best ways to do this. Typically the child will unsubscribe itself inside Dispose() On 2 Apr 2012, at 02:21, Stephen Price wrote: Hey all, I've got a Static class that's behaving like an EventHandler in that you assign values to it via an operator + or - method

Re: Unhooking events from Handler

2012-04-01 Thread Stephen Price
()) obj.Dispose(); _objects.Clear() } public void Dispose() { Flush(); } } On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: So looking at Michael's example, the viewmodel would register the object and then in its Dispose method, call the Dispose

Re: Unhooking events from Handler

2012-04-01 Thread Stephen Price
Now for some reason, my reply has conjured up images of an evil overlord with his hand on Micheals brain, sucking out all of his powers... Hmm... time for another coffee. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Your mind is indeed a sponge. Squeeze

Re: Win 8 Tablet

2012-03-31 Thread Stephen Price
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RE: Win 8 Tablet

2012-03-31 Thread Stephen Price
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Re: Win 8 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Stephen Price
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Re: Win 8 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Stephen Price
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Re: Win 8 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Stephen Price
Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Tuesday, 27 March 2012 6:58 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* RE: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au I got an asus eee slate which isn't bad. Come along to XDDN tomorrow evening at 43 Below @ 6pm. I'll be showing off win8 on it. Google XDDN Perth and you can find more details

RE: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Price
I got an asus eee slate which isn't bad. Come along to XDDN tomorrow evening at 43 Below @ 6pm. I'll be showing off win8 on it. Google XDDN Perth and you can find more details on meetup.com Cheers, Stephen On Mar 27, 2012 6:47 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.au wrote:

Re: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au

2012-03-27 Thread Stephen Price
the sender immediately**.* ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Tuesday, 27 March 2012 6:58 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* RE: [OT] www.affordablelaptops.com.au ** ** I got an asus eee slate which

Re: [OT] My new monitor is unreadable (SOLVED)

2012-03-22 Thread Stephen Price
Hmm... ok, so my new monitor has arrived here at work. Unboxed it, giggling like a little girl the whole time. Plugged it into the DisplayPort on my port replicator and best resolution I can get is 1920x1440 I think it was. Tried it on the DVI port and thats even lower. 1920 x 1080. Sure its way

Re: [OT] My new monitor is unreadable (SOLVED)

2012-03-22 Thread Stephen Price
Fixed it! First time a driver update has given me something as sweet as 2560x1440. :) On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:36 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Hmm... ok, so my new monitor has arrived here at work

[OT] New laptop for developer, has 16Gb RAM

2012-03-22 Thread Stephen Price
So how's that new laptop going? did you get touchscreen on it? (I notice that seems to drop the available resolution). Had a look at the photos, and it seems boxy. Very thick and square looking. It's important to consider how it looks, people judge you. ;) Oh sure it has fruit but if its ugly

unit tests and exception

2012-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
Cross posting this, I'm on too many lists. Hope that doesn't offend... I've got a unit test that is throwing an exception. (Finally got it hitting my catch block) Its a smoke test so has a loop in it for every view. I want it to NOT fail the test if an exception is hit. I want it to output to

Re: unit tests and exception

2012-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
) { } } On 22/03/2012 10:59 AM, Stephen Price wrote: Tried that. It then passes the test as soon as the exception is hit. not what I want, I just want it to handle the exception. Interestingly, its saying theres a null exception unhandled despite me having a catch. How do you handle nested exceptions

Re: unit tests and exception

2012-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
] *On Behalf Of *Wallace Turner *Sent:* Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:13 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: unit tests and exception ** ** Run the unit test debugging and ensure you have break on exceptions ticked: On 22/03/2012 11:10 AM, Stephen Price wrote: Ok, I must have an unhandled

Re: unit tests and exception

2012-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
Debug.WriteLine(Error {0} while loading {1}, e.Message, uri); uri being the string uri of the view in question... On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:24 PM, DotNet Dude adotnetd...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Cross posting

Re: [OT] My new monitor is unreadable

2012-03-15 Thread Stephen Price
I'm about to click the buy, then saw your email... checked the price and Dell have theirs for $718.99 due to $180 off when buying online. 20% off for 48 hours, deal ends today. (That link shows it for $799) Both have the 3 years warranty which you can increase to 5 with Dell (I'm not going to

Re: OT: windows environment variables not working (SOLVED)

2012-03-15 Thread Stephen Price
at 2:12 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: Ah, not sure on the model of port replicator I have here, but checked and it has two DVI's and under that two dual mode displayports (according to the logo next to it) so by the sounds of it, if I get one of these monitors I'll be good

Re: [OT] My new monitor is unreadable

2012-03-14 Thread Stephen Price
It's nice to finally see some monitors like this on the market. I've got a 30 Samsung at home 2560x1600 and at work I've got 2 x 17 monitors (plus the laptop screen). Had monitors on order since I started here 3 months ago and still don't have them. Internal ordering nightmare. Tempted to go and

Re: OT: windows environment variables not working (SOLVED)

2012-03-14 Thread Stephen Price
Ah cool, I see you sorted your issue Greg. :) Must order one of these for work. Wonder if my laptop can drive dual link... its a Latitude E6420. Not a bad laptop, I guess. Work supplied. David, don't you have one of these? Have you used the monitor Greg has on it? On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:04

Re: OT: windows environment variables not working (SOLVED)

2012-03-14 Thread Stephen Price
! The wife won't be overjoyed, despite it providing me great happiness, but she'll learn to cope. ;) More happiness == more overtime == more money. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:03 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote

Re: Windows 8 Consumer preview

2012-02-29 Thread Stephen Price
I'm a Samsung fan. (Was going to say bitch... yeah. I'm their bitch.) Got me a Samsung TV, Phone, all my monitors, tablet. A sexy Windows 8 touchscreen Samsung laptop would make me complete. At least until the next gadget comes along. lol On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, David Burela

Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

2012-02-27 Thread Stephen Price
OMG I forgot about the ribbon. I want a ribbon. *runs* On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:17 PM, David Rhys Jones djones...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I read Scott's blog, and then went back to the Microsoft blog to take a second look. *Things that I use a lot that are missing.* Solution Explorer,

Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

2012-02-24 Thread Stephen Price
Going against the grain here. I love the new look, the simpler glyphs/icons. Love the sexy black theme. Everything should have a sexy black theme. Definitely make the UI resolution agnostic. Everything needs to resize to whatever size monitor you have, and even multi screens. To further reiterate

Re: New laptop for developer, has 16Gb RAM

2012-02-23 Thread Stephen Price
Laptops are like phones (and women, come to think of it). There's always a better one available in less than six months. You want to upgrade it in less than six months. There's never a perfect system specs, IF ONLY you could take those specs from that laptop and combine with the specs from that

Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

2012-02-23 Thread Stephen Price
I'd be happy if you could open a SMALL text file from explorer without having to wait a few minutes. Why do you think that everyone has a notepad replacement installed? If Visual Studio loaded fast we wouldn't need them, VS would be the best notepad replacement. Impress me. I dare you. Make VS

Re: Silverlight vs XBAP

2012-02-12 Thread Stephen Price
Microsoft plan to remove Silverlight so that existing applications will stop working. They won't replace it with anything similar. We'll have to learn a totally new technology. Or take up help desk support jobs. Nah, we'll be fine. Silverlight will keep working. You can stop panicking now. ;)

Re: Other developers don't like dependency injection

2011-10-26 Thread Stephen Price
Try not to think of it as right and wrong. Alt.net is a guide. It can help you find the path. On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: So I've been working with this client for a few years now, all the other developers aren't alt.net type. They're older and

Re: 32bit apps

2011-10-21 Thread Stephen Price
, but this will invalidate the assembly if it is signed. * Launch the app from a 32-bit console, which should only be able to spawn 32-bit processes, I think... haven't tried this myself. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: If you have a .Net app compiled as AnyCPU

Re: New laptop

2011-10-11 Thread Stephen Price
Ok, I just priced up a Dell XPS 17 laptop (not buying, just looking at current specs) and was surprised to notice the highest screen resolution I could choose was 17.3 (43.94cm) FHD WLED TL (1920x1080). Thats the 3D version (they also have a touch screen version but the resolution is lower 1600 x

Re: ozdotnet vs ozwinrt etc

2011-09-26 Thread Stephen Price
Lets merge them all into a new list called OzDotNet. Oh damn, that's taken. Would posting C++ or HTML5 to OzDotNet be met with frowns and flames from the purists? What about XAML or UI questions? I don't think it would considering we frequently discuss what laptops everyone's using and whos the

Re: How to diagnose WCF 'NotFound'

2011-09-20 Thread Stephen Price
Now I know what WCF really stands for. Wrestling Championship Federation. Have you seen my bear, Tibbers? :) On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Add a WCF error handler behaviour which changes the http return code to 200 even if there is an error (on the server

Re: Launching email client

2011-09-20 Thread Stephen Price
I'm looking for; System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(wrestle:g...@mira.net ?subject=grizzlyoption=cobras); Seriously though, only double your pay? We could pass around a collection tin and make this happen guys! On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: *Ye I think this

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-19 Thread Stephen Price
on this subject so as i get closer to finalizing my talk, i'll def upload and provide some more hands on approaches maybe? --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Is there any design guidelines

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-18 Thread Stephen Price
Is there any design guidelines for the new Metro styled apps yet? I'm designing an app at the moment that's loosely following the Zune app in style, but I also want it to fit in with the Windows 8 Metro apps as well so that when its released it fits in nicely. Seems to be lots of block colours

Re: Microsoft BUILD / Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen Price
I installed it on my Asus eee slate last night. First attempt left me in an endless boot loop telling me there was a problem. Maybe it was because I installed it in a pub? Backed up hard drive and formatted it, installing from scratch. Went much better second time. It makes my slate so much nicer

Re: Window Management software

2011-09-07 Thread Stephen Price
I use displayfusion, and used to use ultramon. Prefer displayfusion, it has a few features that ultramon does but not quite as well. (widescreen wallpapers for example). both are pretty good On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Raghu Rana raghur...@gmail.com wrote: You could also look at

Re: Web Development

2011-08-11 Thread Stephen Price
I think it's pros and cons, not cons and pros. come on, there's a standard here, pick up your game. ;) On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Michael, I also used to think that webforms is the wrong way of doing web development, but have found that

Re: System.Data classes and ListT

2011-07-20 Thread Stephen Price
Ok, who wants to banish Greg? Bags not. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, I get the impression that the DataSet and its child classes classes are falling out of favour, is that true? However, I personally find them to be very convenient and full-featured

Re: [OT] Renting a data projector

2011-07-13 Thread Stephen Price
I got an Epson from Harvey Norman for about $900. It's resoloution isnt top of the line but it does the job well enough. I've been using it for almost 2 years (once a month) so it's worked out quite cost effective. If you fancy a flight to Perth and back you can borrow it for the weekend, but I

Re: g+ anyone?

2011-07-12 Thread Stephen Price
Sent. :) On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Tjea anthony.t...@soesoft.comwrote: If anyone still has invites :) anthonyt...@gmail.com -- *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] on behalf of Scott Barnes

Re: TestQuest

2011-07-12 Thread Stephen Price
, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Yup, Sysinternals tools are great. Not in the office today so will have a look at that tomorrow. Checked with one of the other guys and he has Resharper 6.0 installed but also does not have the TestQuest sil files. The mystery is killing me. hehe

TestQuest

2011-07-11 Thread Stephen Price
I've got Visual Studio constantly writing to a file in my temp folder called ..\AppData\Local\Temp\TestQuest-2011-07-11-08-28-37.sil I've done a search for it, no idea what it's for. I've disabled all of my plugins and addins in case its one of them, but it's still doing it. my Devenv.exe task is

Re: TestQuest

2011-07-11 Thread Stephen Price
/automated-testing-tool-for-mobile-devices-testquest-countdown-3-released/ On 11 July 2011 20:33, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: I've got Visual Studio constantly writing to a file in my temp folder called ..\AppData\Local\Temp\TestQuest-2011-07-11-08-28-37.sil I've done a search

Re: TestQuest

2011-07-11 Thread Stephen Price
/malware sweep. ** ** Regards Peter ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price *Sent:* Monday, 11 July 2011 4:33 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* TestQuest ** ** I've got Visual Studio constantly writing

Re: TestQuest

2011-07-11 Thread Stephen Price
.)(Hons.) On 12 July 2011 01:08, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Yeah, I wondered so did a full scan. Its a work machine and it uses Trend. It might be something installed as part of the image, but I doubt that as I installed Visual Studio myself. Virus scan found nothing

Re: TestQuest

2011-07-11 Thread Stephen Price
, and see what complains. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.comwrote: Yup, Sysinternals tools are great. Not in the office today so will have a look at that tomorrow. Checked with one of the other guys and he has Resharper 6.0 installed but also does not have

Re: [OT] Perth Broadband

2011-07-05 Thread Stephen Price
+1 iiNet. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: +1 iiNet – also have many clients and friends who use either iiNet or Westnet. Very helpful – the main obstacle if you have an ADSL service (ie, copper PSTN) is Telstra, but iiNet as first point of

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

Re: [OT] Software ownership (was BYO Computer @ Suncorp)

2011-06-21 Thread Stephen Price
I think they would have to explicitly state that in the work agreement signed. I recall an employer I worked for a long time ago gave us new agreements to sign which were particularly barbaric in this regard. Many people refused to sign them without side projects getting an exception. If they own

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: 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: 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: 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: [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: [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] 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: [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: [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] 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: 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: 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: 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: [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: [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] 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

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] 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

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: 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

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

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