Re: [OT] External hard drives (CORRECTION)

2010-03-03 Thread David Richards
Ah, well I suppose you could use 6 x 32 GB usb flash drives in raid 0 :) More realistically though, without knowing how the files are being used, I'd say 2.5 drive (as big as you're willing to pay for) and a drive case that you have checked will support the size you buy. Some of the cheap ones

Re: ASP.NET Web Forms vs MVC vs ...

2010-03-18 Thread David Richards
I have to say, I've never done that in web forms. I think any language/environment gives you the opportunity to do things in a bad way. It doesn't mean you should. If that line of code scares you (as it should), don't write it. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will

Re: [OT] MSAccess developer wanted

2010-04-12 Thread David Richards
Writing on the wall? Is that how MSAccess stores its data? That explains a lot :P David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:20, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: I'd

Re: Managing application and database version dependencies

2010-05-06 Thread David Richards
I have a Version table that has a single column, single row with a version number in the form A.B.C.D. I started doing this to follow the same version standard as my apps. So the number would be: A - Breaking change B - Non breaking change (eg additional table, additional column with default) C

Re: OT - Magic Mushroom song from the 1980s

2010-06-08 Thread David Richards
I had a similar thing on my Amiga 500. It sounded so bad (as in harmful) that I paniced and reset the computer after only a few notes. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at

Re: How to validate directory path

2010-06-17 Thread David Richards
Ah silky, You must have a huge target painted on you with a little picture of a flame in the middle :) Not that I want to take sides here but the OP didn't seem to take offense to the offending comment so there's no need to pounce on someone in that regard. I highly recommend making sure you

Re: KPI's for software developers

2010-06-24 Thread David Richards
Until you later find out the client also bought the source code and you have to give it to them. I've had this happen with a couple of projects. Fortunately, I'm a polite commentor. :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!

Re: [OT] markzware online payment

2010-06-25 Thread David Richards
A quick google search shows refernces to westpac using birth dates. maybe check their website or call them? David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:37, Greg Keogh

Re: Return multiple files from webservice?

2010-07-20 Thread David Richards
How about zip files on server (into one file obviously) and then unzip on client. eg using sharpziplib. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:41, Anthony

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread David Richards
*golf claps* :) I'd rather push this idea the other way. Obviously 5 years experience is an approximation of the years in which you were experiencing the activity in questions. Perhaps decades would be a more beneficial unit. I've been developing for 13 years, that's 2 decades experience! Or

Re: Mixing development software versions

2010-08-03 Thread David Richards
Greg, I haven't experienced your specifi problem since I'm still using VS2008 on XP but I do work exclusively in VMs so I tell you what little relevant iinfo I can offer. For the mouse jittering, chech the hardware acceleration options (you may have already tried this). No idea where in Win7

Re: Rules regarding modifying members acces modifer through inheritence

2010-08-03 Thread David Richards
) then I'd say all is well. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 14:55, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 August 2010 13:32, David Richards ausdot

Re: Remote debugging outside of domain

2010-08-08 Thread David Richards
Have you tried logging on with credentials from the remote computer? ie, create a local testuser account on the remote server and log on with remoteserver\testuser. Is the trace option turned off in the app.config? David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a

Re: Remote debugging outside of domain

2010-08-08 Thread David Richards
Windows (or any other) firewall maybe? David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:50, Michael Lyons maill...@ittworx.com wrote: S close. I can see that it logged on the

Re: Data Structure - timeseries

2010-08-23 Thread David Richards
Jeff, How about a SortedListDateTime, YourDataClass ? Then do a search on .Keys (for example a binary search since they will be in order) to find the datetime closest to the one you want and then just retrieve .Keys[FoundIndex + 1] to get the next one. You can then use the two keys to get the

Re: Properties

2010-08-24 Thread David Richards
The OP wasn't asking if properties are more feature rich so no, I wont back you up on this one :) My opinion is, it depends. There is nothign wrong with using public fields if it makes sense. If you have a private class that will never change or changes are trivial to propagate then sure, use

Re:

2010-09-06 Thread David Richards
Greg, I agree with you, the reverse flicker is crap. I saw it while playing with one and that instantly put me off it. Ken, at first I thought the same, that all eInk was like that but every other eInk device I've played with doesn't do that. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the

Re: Remote control hardware / software

2010-09-26 Thread David Richards
Keep in mind SMS isn't a guaranteed service. Delivery could easily take minutes and sometimes hours or days. I'm not sure about now but I remember in the old days there was a good chance it wouldn't get delivered at all. SMS certainly isn't a good idea for time critical applications. Do you

Re: Message Loops

2010-10-14 Thread David Richards
Have you tried opennet? I seem to recall using something similar in opennetcf. ApplicationEx I think. As a word of warning though, I discovered issues with click events (and presumeably any event) being fired during the transition. ie, the events would be lost when I was returning from the new

Re: AsEnumerable unpredictable

2010-10-19 Thread David Richards
I have one universal answer that always seems to fit problems like these: magic :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:33, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: For months

Re: [OT] System Idle Process Running at 98% and I cant use my PC

2010-11-17 Thread David Richards
I've seen this with corrupt file systems or faulty hard drives (just had my slate hard drive fail the other day). I've also seen it with network issues; Maybe something is failing some kind of network activity. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of

Re: In praise of SQLite

2010-12-04 Thread David Richards
The most significant issue at the moment is an out of storage space error that starts occuring after a while of heavy use. Queries will no longer work. Even a simple select for a single value of a single column and no transactions to be found. The sqlce engine is somehow getting in to a state

Re: [OT] VM as desktop OS

2010-12-08 Thread David Richards
.. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Richards Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2010 5:09 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: The breakpoint will not currently be hit..nightmare!..solution?

Re: [OT] VM as desktop OS

2010-12-09 Thread David Richards
Yes, both player and workstation support multiple monitors. I use it with two monitors. I'm not sure if it properly supports an arbitrary number of monitors and an arbitrary layout. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  

Re: [OT](ish) Interview Questions

2011-01-19 Thread David Richards
throw new NotSupportedException(cup of coffee); David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:56, djones...@gmail.com wrote: I'm at your home and I want a cup of coffee,

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

2011-02-02 Thread David Richards
The first thing thing that came to mind was: The first one is always free. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 09:23, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: Very

Re: [OT] Lightweight laptop for dev and demos

2011-03-21 Thread David Richards
Give them a break. Faults can sometimes get through QA :P David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 13:17, Chris Walsh ch...@walshie.me wrote: The only thing they’ve tweaked

Re: Raising property changed events

2011-03-22 Thread David Richards
GetCurrentMethod is of little use to us netcf people since it doesn't exist. In fact, I believe there is no way to get the method name in netcf for a release build. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan,

Re: IE9: why do I hate it so much

2011-05-02 Thread David Richards
Tony, You should write a sonnet: Why do I hate IE, let me count the ways... :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:12, Tony Wright ton...@tpg.com.au wrote: As someone

Re: Can you detect a checkbox state chnage by user not code?

2011-05-03 Thread David Richards
Listen to it's click event. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:51, Anthony asale...@tpg.com.au wrote: Is it possible to determine if a check box has been clicked by a

Re: Can you detect a checkbox state chnage by user not code?

2011-05-04 Thread David Richards
How about listen for click and keypress. Disable AutoCheck and change the check state in the handlers. I think that would satisfy the OP requirements. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama

Re: Can you detect a checkbox state chnage by user not code?

2011-05-04 Thread David Richards
Not necessarily. I'm not making any assumptions about why the question was asked. I've had a vaguely similar requirement that I believe was legitimate. In my case, I was using a tri-state checkbox where I wanted a user to be able to select all or clear all sub items. However, partially selected

Re: [OT] VM Player and domains

2011-05-05 Thread David Richards
I have suffered greatly had the hands of this little problem. I'm fairly certain the default used to be bridged. After many, many wasted hours trying to find out why my new subversion VM wasn't working, to the point where I decided to recreate it from scratch, I noticed the default NAT instead

Re: [OT] Some of you might enjoy this

2011-05-06 Thread David Richards
It's funny 'cause it's true :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 16:33, Anthony Tjea anthony.t...@soesoft.com wrote: Regards *Anthony Tjea*

Re: [OT] Microsoft buys Skype for $US8.5 billion

2011-05-11 Thread David Richards
Actually, this could save us: Terminator: Target moved, rebooting for changes to take affect... David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 23:48, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au

Re: Smart sheet - how do they do it?

2011-05-12 Thread David Richards
Actually, long-press is the replacement for right click. WinMo has it, Android has it, I've seen it used in ios apps but I'm not sure it's considered standard there. Not sure about WP7. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  

Re: [OT] Moving to web mail

2011-05-20 Thread David Richards
Welcome to the 21st century Greg :P Security - From memory, it's possible for presumeably select google employees to see your email. I recall a new article about an employee who got in trouble for doing so. I suspect they take it seriously as they now get audited every two years for privacy

Re: [OT] Freezing computer

2011-05-27 Thread David Richards
I agree on the hardware front with a few amendments. My order of most likely hardware cause: -Dust -Power supply -CPU (if you overclock) -Motherboard -Hard drive -CPU (if you dont overclock) -Memory (often just requires reseat) I've seen USB devices do this, especially if you didn't have

RE: [OT] Renting a data projector

2011-07-14 Thread David Richards
Actually, I dont think you can dispute the speed of light. I vaguely recall reading the metre was redefined so we would have an exact measure of the speed of light. Ie, its exactly 299792458 m/s (assuming I remembered that correctly). Just joining in the nitpicking :) On 14/07/2011 9:34 PM, Greg

Re: Set property of texbox by name

2011-07-25 Thread David Richards
If you're in the full framework, how about a control array? If you're in the compact framework, maybe create a dictionary using Button1 etc as the key. Initialise this in the form constructor. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards...

Re: Set property of texbox by name

2011-07-26 Thread David Richards
James, This may work but it would be incredibly slow. Better to use a reference to access the control you want directly. eg something like either Ben's or my previous post. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp

Re: Set property of texbox by name

2011-07-26 Thread David Richards
3.47 milliseconds. With 5000 buttons it was 16.78 milliseconds. Did I miss something? Cheers. James. -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Richards Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:46 To: ozDotNet Subject

Re: Set property of texbox by name

2011-07-27 Thread David Richards
David, When optimizing code then you will be looking for your best bang for buck and focus on slow parts of an app. In this case, we are not optimizing but selecting which code we are about to write. If you have a choice or two pieces of code with similar effort to implement both but one is

Application crash

2011-08-03 Thread David Richards
Greetings all, I'm looking for some ideas on how I can debug a windows mobile app. The main difficulty being the application crashes without any logged exception, without an unhandled exception prompt and without a native exception prompt. It just disappears. It is apparently random, occurring

Re: Application crash

2011-08-04 Thread David Richards
Thanks for the idea Ben but the application doesn't have any explicit finalizers. The few that are used in referenced libraries shouldn't be able to generate an error and if they did, I would have expected to see this behaviour in other apps since they are used in every other app we have. Having

Re: Embed file name into compiled source

2011-09-12 Thread David Richards
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet but I use: System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase or you can use GetCallingAssembly if that makes more sense. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  

Re: ozdotnet vs ozwinrt etc

2011-09-26 Thread David Richards
ozwinux? Sounds like an unholy alliance between windows and linux. I think the universe would implode. I see nothing wrong with creating a new list but I wouldn't force or even encourage migration. I would advertising its existence rather than say its a replacement. Let people migrate if they

Re: PictureBox Image sizing / border question

2011-11-15 Thread David Richards
When I had to do this, I created a control that was a picture box in a panel. When the Image property is assigned, resize the picture box to the same aspect ratio but with the largest dimensions that will fit in the panel. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall

Re: VS2008 - stuffed up layout of my windows

2011-12-08 Thread David Richards
And don't forget: Tools - Import and Export Settings - Export selected environment settings to save them once you've finished setting them up. That was you can restore them if you stuff them up again. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of

Re: SQLite FK constraints warning

2012-01-10 Thread David Richards
Greg, Greg, Greg... /sigh Didn't you discover this six or so months ago? I seem to recall someone saying you had to put a pragma in the query or some such. I still don't use SQLite so I don't really know. But I do remember you bringing this up some time ago. David If we can hit that

Re: SQLite FK constraints warning

2012-01-10 Thread David Richards
David, I think that was in addition rather than instead of, but I'm not going to bother checking. Of course, I've written code for the first time only to discover it already done with my name on it :/ Me: No, those scripts don't exist. Colleague: Here they are, and they have your name on them.

Re: Checking if I can write to a folder

2012-04-01 Thread David Richards
Michael, Yes you can have access to write without delete, I've had this happen before. You can also create without the permission to edit. eg, web.config in inetpub. I'm not sure I'd consider that a hack. It certainly simplifies the process immensely but you could also use it as a kind of

Re: Installer logging

2012-04-10 Thread David Richards
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 14:29, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: The installer is surrounded by confusion -- Greg Greg, That's because you forgot: #undef CONFUSION :) David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan,

Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-11 Thread David Richards
Muhammad, If such a thing existed, it would be used by spammers. That's why confirmation emails are sent with links that go back to your server. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Thu, Apr

Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-12 Thread David Richards
will be appreciated. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Muhammad, If such a thing existed, it would be used by spammers.  That's why confirmation emails are sent with links that go back to your server. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest

Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-12 Thread David Richards
Try doing that on a PDA (aka smartphone). DAL is by no means dead. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:05, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: One Word: EF 

Re: [OT] Removing private details on Internet

2012-04-23 Thread David Richards
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:10, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: And BTW, how long has whitepages been so easy to lookup and parse? How can you stop getting those damn phone books? What else are you going to put your monitors on? David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  

Re: [OT] PC Anniversary

2012-05-24 Thread David Richards
I got my first PC around that time. Maybe '91 or '92. Prior to that was C64 and A500. 4MB RAM, 128MB HD. Those were the days of the turbo button, industrial deafness from printers and an audible click whenever you changed screen resolution. What I find interesting is when you look at your

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread David Richards
Greetings all, I've been staying out of this conversation because I hadn't actually used windows 8. I decided to install it and see what all the fuss was about. So my impression after a couple of minutes poking around follows: I decided the UI design was terrible within seconds. It's clearly

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread David Richards
I agree, I always have my task bar at the top or side. With multiple monitors, it goes on one of the secondary monitors. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes  will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!  -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 8 June 2012 10:50, Bill McCarthy

Re: Australian Postcode data source

2012-07-04 Thread David Richards
Ben, Doesn't it depend on exactly how you're using it? I think it's non-commercial in the sense that you can't give external access to the data. I get the impression if you intend to use it internally it's ok. For example, as a lookup for some internal application rather than one you're trying

Re: Enum problem - case-sensitivity

2012-08-05 Thread David Richards
Ian, use c#. At least for the classes being generated from the schema. I'm not in a position to confirm this but I would think the enum is fine in c# since its case sensitive. I'm not sure how the default value reference is relevant to this issue. On Aug 6, 2012 3:58 AM, Ian Thomas

Re: Enum problem - case-sensitivity

2012-08-05 Thread David Richards
like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 6 August 2012 07:13, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Ian, use c#. At least for the classes being generated from the schema. I'm not in a position to confirm this but I would think the enum is fine in c# since its

Re: Anyone using structs in C# Business Applications?

2012-08-16 Thread David Richards
Yes, I use them to give a strong type to things like int. For example, if I have an application with Jobs, Locations and Items, they will all have an ID that will most likely be an int. I don't want to accidentally pass a Location ID into a function expecting a Job ID so each has a struct

Re: Anyone using structs in C# Business Applications?

2012-08-22 Thread David Richards
Arjang, Didn't my earlier example demonstrate a benefit in just such a plain vanilla application? That's certainly where it has been used. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 23 August 2012

Re: Windows 8 and the Start Button

2012-10-04 Thread David Richards
On 4 October 2012 15:51, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Eventually, they won't have a choice. :) Linux *awkward silence* David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama

Re: [OT] BigPond You Tube throttling

2012-10-30 Thread David Richards
I'm on optus and for a brief period I tried their 100MB option. I noticed youtube videos would never fully download. It would load ahead a short amount and then stop and just keep pace with the video. I wonder what affect this has on the numbers. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of

Re: Australian Weather Web Services

2012-11-27 Thread David Richards
With regard to weather sources in general, I've found international sources don't seem to have accurate weather data for Australia. In particular, I'm referring to apps/widgets on my phone. I no longer use anything that doesn't use BoM as it's source. With that in mind, I'd suggest comparing

Re: field/button/control labeling enforcement in Visual Studio sometime: who agrees with this proposal?

2012-12-11 Thread David Richards
Surely something like this could be done with a tool that could be run as part of the build process. For example, like FXCop. It could tell you where you don't conform to the necessary requirements and the lazy programmers could fix it. This strikes me as being more a decision of the company

Re: does anyone know a good technique to keep track of your braces in C#?

2013-02-13 Thread David Richards
I'd also add that braces, parentheses, or anything that comes in pairs, should be inserted at the same time. ie, immediately type your opening and closing braces and then move your insertion point in between them. If you're putting existing code in new braces, you still try to do this as a

Re: does anyone know a good technique to keep track of your braces in C#?

2013-02-13 Thread David Richards
Someone else would have to answer that. We're still using VS 2008 where I'm working. In fact, we still have projects stuck in 2005 and 2003. I've had that behaviour in Eclipse and it takes some getting used to. Especially if you normally add the end brace yourself. David If we can hit that

Re: Is Surface really failing?

2013-05-08 Thread David Richards
I have to say, I'm really surprised anyone could ask this. I don't know a single person that likes windows 8. I don't mean they think yeah its ok but windows 7 is better, I mean they think hate, loath, detest. It is one of the worst user interfaces I've seen, second only to itunes. When I

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread David Richards
It's not just invalid characters. I've had sites that only accepted an email address ending in .com or .net. The .name address I had was apparently invalid. Similar to Greg's solution, I have a domain registered with a service that supports wildcard email redirection. Well they used to, they

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread David Richards
: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Richards *Sent:* Monday, 13 May 2013 12:11 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam? ** ** Having said that, gmail doesn't support a period in the username properly. I have a firstnamelastn...@gmail.com address

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread David Richards
[mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Richards *Sent:* Monday, 13 May 2013 2:25 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam? ** ** I can only assume it was a bug in validation at the time. From memory, people in the UK had to use @googlemail.com

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-12 Thread David Richards
[mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Richards *Sent:* Monday, 13 May 2013 2:25 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam? ** ** I can only assume it was a bug in validation at the time. From memory, people in the UK had to use @googlemail.com

Re: BankWest: Dear Sir/Madam?

2013-05-13 Thread David Richards
) It's a marked increase in security. On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:58 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: True, most of the spam goes into the spam folder. But it gets about 50-100 a day. My main account gets at most 1 spam email a week and maybe 1 or 2 false positives

Re: If-else vs switch - declaring inner variables (a philosophical question)

2013-06-03 Thread David Richards
David, Try putting braces in: switch (x) { case 7: { string foo = a; break; } default: { string foo = b; // Compiler not happy because foo already declared within the switch scope

Re: Lightweight database

2013-06-03 Thread David Richards
Greg, You could try just serialising to xml files. Of course, no transactions, not really much in the way of relationships. But it's very simple. It kind of depends on the situation. I recently had to convert an app that was using sqlce to using xml files because of reliability issues on the

Re: If-else vs switch - declaring inner variables (a philosophical question)

2013-06-03 Thread David Richards
Well that is a different problem. You are declaring variables in a way that is meaningless since they can never really be used anywhere. Going back to your original... case... I think the real issue is the apparent inconsistent syntax of the switch statement. I think adding the braces kind of

Re: If-else vs switch - declaring inner variables (a philosophical question)

2013-06-04 Thread David Richards
I always assumed it was because without braces (yes they're called braces, not curlies... which gives me a whole different image *shudder*) it's clearly wrong. You've probably made a mistake in this case so the compiler is being helpful. With braces, you're probably going to add some more code

Re: If-else vs switch - declaring inner variables (a philosophical question)

2013-06-04 Thread David Richards
Actually, visual studio does this: A local variable named 'foo' cannot be declared in this scope because it would give a different meaning to 'foo', which is already used in a 'parent or current' scope to denote something else David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will

Re: Silverlight challenge

2013-06-28 Thread David Richards
How about an export button? The user would download a file suitable for the target app. David On 29/06/2013 1:36 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: As I guessed, only available outside the browser. We haven't considered letting the users run our SL5 out-of-browser and I've never run an

Re: Silverlight challenge

2013-06-30 Thread David Richards
Greg, Sorry, I was walking through Target while I read/replied :) What I was trying to say was rather than generating an image, generate a file the target application could recognise or convert from. For example, we had a client that wanted to export table results to excel so I generated a CSV

Re: Scaling HTML

2013-07-12 Thread David Richards
An iframe on it's own wouldn't do it. But I think there is a zoom property in the DOM somewhere. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 12 July 2013 15:13, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Scaling HTML

2013-07-12 Thread David Richards
: www.sqldownunder.com ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Richards *Sent:* Friday, 12 July 2013 4:02 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Scaling HTML ** ** An iframe on it's own wouldn't do it. But I think

Re: [OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-15 Thread David Richards
You're not saving the CSS. In the example you gave, try grabbing the CSS file as well: http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/community/RssPretty.xsltview-source:http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/community/RssPretty.xslt David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a

Re: [OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-15 Thread David Richards
? ** ** ** ** Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Richards *Sent:* Tuesday, 16 July 2013 9:03 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] RSS feed formatting

Re: [OT] RSS feed formatting

2013-07-16 Thread David Richards
Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Richards Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 10:49 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] RSS feed formatting Its referenced in the file. Just

Re: Managed IIS Module installation

2013-07-22 Thread David Richards
Greg, I've never done this so this is another wild guess. Have you tried the GAC? David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 23 July 2013 10:49, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Is the .dll in the

Re: Share File Between Two Servers

2013-08-09 Thread David Richards
If the two servers have a spare NIC, connect a cable directly between them. Then create an ftp server on each that will only listen on that specific NIC. You probably wouldn't need any real security between them but I'm not expert in that regard. It would be easier if you could do the same with

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread David Richards
Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 1.0a. They are still my favourite but seem not to be sold anymore. http://greengateway.home.pl/allegro//DSC_02411.JPG On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: A bit off topic and a bit on topic. I've been

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread David Richards
with one hand? My hand hurts just looking a the keyboard to try to figure out how to press that. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: A bit off topic and a bit on topic. I've

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread David Richards
:04 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: A bit off topic and a bit on topic. I've been in the market for a good developer keyboard for a while but never seem to find anything I like. I was just wondering if others on this list had found a decent keyboard. A few qualifying

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread David Richards
Mike, I saw it on arstechnica. I didn't think it was even out yet. If it wasn't ergonomic, I'd get it as soon as it was available. David If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate! -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 15 August 2013 14:05,

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread David Richards
I had a mechanical keyboard many years ago and from memory, it required a harder tap on the keys. Plus it was noisy. Unless they have changed in recent years (which is likely) I'd be worried about it slowing me down, requiring harder tapping or just generally being annoying in the office. I

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-15 Thread David Richards
I've done some more searching. I can't believe it never occurred to me to include compact as a keyword when searching for these keyboards. Has anyone used either of these keyboards?

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-15 Thread David Richards
on Thursday (leaving Tuesday here time) and if anyone knows where I can buy the new MS keyboard locally and wants one, I can probably pick a few up and bring them back to Straya (one for myself too!). Cheers, -- Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au Quoting David Richards ausdot

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread David Richards
Just an epilogue for those that are interested. I've got my new mouse and keyboard set up and have been using it for a couple of days. The closer mouse is much more comfortable and the keys on the new keyboard are very nice to type on. The separate wireless number pad is quite good too. I'm

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-20 Thread David Richards
Jason, The mouse is adjustable. The palm rest comes in two heights and can slide in and out to suite. The thumb part with the buttons can be adjusted forwards and backwards. The pinky rest can be removed. There are other models where the thumb part can also tilt outward but I read somewhere

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