Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Barnes
*Stares at XAML runtime*... *stares at WPF*... *stares at .NET Developers* ...i figure if all you really did was change the namespaces out and strip away the Windows 8 Start menu shit, you're back to Win7 and WPF crap would work..only devs would be clueless that the rendering pipeline was changed.

Re: Migrating TFS

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Barnes
Like I said, in some parts i'll call bullship! and in other you'd have to say outloud yeah...my bad... ... Learning for Silverlight = Poor. Performance of Silverlight = Great (multi-threading, gpu/cpu access etc). You just probably needed more guidance but even as I type this I hear myself Yeah

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread David Connors
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: *Stares at XAML runtime*... *stares at WPF*... *stares at .NET Developers* ...i figure if all you really did was change the namespaces out and strip away the Windows 8 Start menu shit, you're back to Win7 and WPF crap

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Barnes
better, faster? O.o... did you just say JavaScript is better than WPF? . --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:02 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: *Stares at

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Does it even matter when for browser apps one of them is DOA? On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: better, faster? O.o... did you just say JavaScript is better than WPF? . --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Feb 14,

RE: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

2014-02-13 Thread Nathan Chere
Maybe use something like Grooveshark’s collaborative playlists so it’s not just for the Win8 crowd? http://help.grooveshark.com/customer/portal/articles/528163-collaborative-playlists From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of

RE: asp.net / database / coding issue.

2014-02-13 Thread Nathan Chere
Try changing your font from Comic Sans to something like Lucida Console or Courier New and run it again. Don't worry, I think this one has caught us all out at some point in our lives. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Glen Harvy Sent:

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Barnes
either all - does it matter either way? In closing - JavaScript is the digital age’s version of herpes, every time you think its gone a new outbreak occurs – DHTML, AJAX, “HTML5″ --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread David Connors
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: better, faster? O.o... did you just say JavaScript is better than WPF? . I said 'someone's 10kb of JS is better. JavaScript is just Internet assembly language. It's the frameworks that matter. I used to hate

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Greg Keogh
JavaScript is just Internet assembly language. It's the frameworks that matter. I used to hate JS with a passion, but the momentum around it is undeniable and the things people accomplish with frameworks on top of it are staggering. So it was you who poetically said last year JavaScript is

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Barnes
David: I think the words your seeking are JavaScript Stockholm Syndrome .. I object strongly to a language who's surrounded by frameworks that are hell bent on abstracting developers from the said language as much as possible because the said language is so far behind the evolution curve. Had JS

RE: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Williams, Thomas
Hey Scott - I have to admit I'm not particularly imaginative - if you were building the internet from scratch, what do you think would be better than JavaScript? Does this product exist? Thomas From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Scott

RE: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
Isn't it all just perspective ? All other languages are just wrappers around machine code anyway. :) Resistance is futile Any problem in computing can be solved by another layer of abstraction. And any performance problem in computing can be solved by removing one layer of

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Stephen Price
Great point Greg. There was a time where I didn't feel like a real programmer because I wasn't writing my code in C++ and then one day I realised that the C++ programmers were not real programmers because they were not writing their code in Assembly Language... and the Assembly Language

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread David Burstin
http://xkcd.com/378/ Sent from my flux capacitor. Please excuse brevity and any odd autocorrect errors. On 14/02/2014 12:28 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Great point Greg. There was a time where I didn't feel like a real programmer because I wasn't writing my code in C++

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Preet Sangha
Greg. All machine languages are just wrappers for microcode [?] Preet On 14 February 2014 14:00, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.com wrote: Isn’t it all just perspective ? All other languages are just wrappers around machine code anyway. J “Resistance is futile” “Any problem in

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Where's my soldering iron... On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: Greg. All machine languages are just wrappers for microcode [?] Preet On 14 February 2014 14:00, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.com wrote: Isn’t it all just perspective ? All

RE: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
Yeah, I was limiting it to the level of the microprocessor. No interest in actually building or coding inside there nowadays. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web:

Re: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

2014-02-13 Thread osjasonroberts
Thanks Nathan, will check it out. Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts From: Nathan Chere Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎14‎ ‎February‎ ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎48‎ ‎AM To: ozDotNet Maybe use

Re: Advice to Microsoft (not mine - the IT press and developer blogosphere)

2014-02-13 Thread David Connors
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: David: I think the words your seeking are JavaScript Stockholm Syndrome .. I object strongly to a language who's surrounded by frameworks that are hell bent on abstracting developers from the said language as much as

[OT] Internet Explorer caching

2014-02-13 Thread Greg Keogh
My colleague has terrible trouble with the cache in his Windows 7 IE11. Every time we change a XAP file or web site he seems to get stuck on the previous version and can't shake them out by the usual methods of deleting temp files. After a random number of days the new stuff suddenly appears.

Re: [OT] Internet Explorer caching

2014-02-13 Thread Stephen Price
You can trick the browser by appending a version to the download url (of the XAP). That way when you update the XAP the version number is different and the browser will cache the new version and not get stuck on the old one. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: My

Fwd: [OT] Internet Explorer caching

2014-02-13 Thread Greg Keogh
Forget my previous question. IE has a reset button right under your nose. I don't think I've ever used it or even noticed it before. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737 I'll get my colleague to try that. It makes you wonder why such a command might be necessary?! Greg

Re: [OT] Internet Explorer caching

2014-02-13 Thread Greg Keogh
You can trick the browser by appending a version to the download url (of the XAP). Indeed! Starting a few days ago I put the version number inside the full XAP file name to help avoid unwanted caching. We've been running experiments with 4 people and getting improved but still occasional

kooboo anyone?

2014-02-13 Thread anthonyatsmallbiz
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Re: [OT] Internet Explorer caching

2014-02-13 Thread mike smith
Ok, I know about F12 and its fantastic user-agent settings, but ... they don't persist. What I'd like is to affix a user agent setting for a given url or suburl. (this is to make a dreadful intraweb app that insists on IE8 or older UA setting - it works happily with 11, it just won't start if