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: Windows 8 and the Start Button

2012-10-04 Thread noonie
Not yet... but getting closer. It is sad that it's taken too long :-( On Oct 4, 2012 4:50 PM, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: On 4 October 2012 15:51, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Eventually, they won't have a choice. :) Linux *awkward silence*

Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread Greg Keogh
Folks, I just heard about TypeScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypeScript . It superficially seems like a good idea. Has anyone tried it? I'm downloading the VS2012 MSI http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34790 for it to see what it's like. Let's face, anything that makes

Re: Windows 8 and the Start Button

2012-10-04 Thread Mark Hurd
And the Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade has caused problems itself... -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 4 October 2012 16:54, noonie neale.n...@gmail.com wrote: Not yet... but getting closer. It is sad that it's taken too long :-( On Oct 4, 2012 4:50 PM, David Richards

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread Davy Jones
I haven't looked at it and probably won't. As far as I can see, the only new thing is static typing? JavaScript already has oo. There are enough technologies around js already why confuse matters more? Davy Sent from my starfleet datapad. On 4 oct. 2012, at 10:27, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net

[OT] Almost Friday: New Programming Language, Objective CorporateSpeak++

2012-10-04 Thread Les Hughes
http://www.floopsy.com/post/32660494624/programming-language-objective-corporatespeak :) -- Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au

Re: [OT] Almost Friday: New Programming Language, Objective CorporateSpeak++

2012-10-04 Thread Preet Sangha
[?] 2012/10/5 Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au http://www.floopsy.com/post/**32660494624/programming-** language-objective-**corporatespeakhttp://www.floopsy.com/post/32660494624/programming-language-objective-corporatespeak :) -- Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au -- regards, Preet,

Re: [OT] Almost Friday: New Programming Language, Objective CorporateSpeak++

2012-10-04 Thread Davy Jones
Needs a Dynamic synergy { } And #IPO. Conditional Davy Sent from my starfleet datapad. On 4 oct. 2012, at 13:06, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: 338.gif 2012/10/5 Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au http://www.floopsy.com/post/**32660494624/programming-**

RE: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread David Kean
While I'm still skeptical, the one advantage over other similar projects (such as Dart), is that it interops with existing JavaScript. I think my favorite quote so far is, hate JavaScript, then you'll love TypeScript! From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]

Re: VS2012 doesn't support setup projects

2012-10-04 Thread Donald
it seems to be the case, see blog below from Visual Studio ALM http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2011/03/17/visual-studio-setup-projects-vdproj-will-not-ship-with-future-versions-of-vs.aspx Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266747.aspx Some people

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread William Luu
One tip I found (via twitter) is to generate source map for TypeScript which will help with debugging (In Chrome and Firefox) - http://www.aaron-powell.com/web/typescript-source-maps On 5 October 2012 09:23, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: Recently I spent 9 months full time doing

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread Scott Barnes
JavaScript is dead to me.. I bow before the typescript ecma 6 overlords .. Now to convert CSS to resource dictionaries and I may actually high five HTML again On 05/10/2012, at 9:24 AM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: Recently I spent 9 months full time doing Javascript building a

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread William Luu
With regards to CSS. I've recently begun looking at a Project called Less CSS - http://lesscss.org with an associated .NET dynamic compiler - http://www.dotlesscss.org Like TypeScript, Less CSS is still CSS but with extra syntactic sugar on top (as well as other features). Has anyone else had

Installing Windows Azure PowerShell Cmlets

2012-10-04 Thread Nicholas Oxby
I can't install http://wappowershell.codeplex.com/ on my Win7Pro 64bit machine. And the https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/downloads/ from the Web Platform Installer installs but then I can't add the snapin for WAPPSCmdlets. I get this error: Add-PSSnapin : The Windows PowerShell

Re: VS2012 doesn't support setup projects

2012-10-04 Thread Glen Harvy
You can’t open this project in Visual Studio 2012 RC because it doesn't support that project type. We recommend that you use InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio (ISLE), a free deployment solution that directly supports most Windows

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Ridland
Yeah I use SCSS would not do web without it(well now anyway) there's a plugin called web workbench that will auto convert to normal css on save. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:52 PM, William Luu will@gmail.com wrote: With regards to CSS. I've recently begun looking at a Project called Less

Re: VS2012 doesn't support setup projects

2012-10-04 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
** ** ** What am I supposed to do with all my vdproj files? This is a small disaster for migration to VS2012. ** ** Basically, your screwed. Need to convert all the installers to something else. That's what we did, but only has one installer. In the short term, you can use VS2012