[OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Greg Keogh
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 right side (see below). What worries me is that I only have 23 cookies from trusted sites, so somehow

Re: Visual Studio 2015

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Price
Passed on our thoughts (via some quotes from this thread) to a Partner Manager at Xamarin. He replied with thanks and said he would forward to the team and let them know how we feel about it all. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: I'm kind of used to

Re: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Greg Keogh
OMG you use a web browser? Yeah, I know, it's so retro early 21st century. Which reminds me ... have you that really old Futurama episode where they wire their brains into the Internet, and they have to fight their way though a barrage of flying brightly coloured Ad banners? We're almost there!

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: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread David Connors
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: OMG you use a web browser? Do you prefer the untargetted TV ads you get during Doomsday Preppers? David.

Re: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
The solution is quite simple https://lwn.net/Articles/262570/ On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: 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

RE: [OT] More targeted advertising

2015-05-28 Thread Ken Schaefer
Well, you went to a Microsoft site to activate your subscription – so I’m guessing you have cookies from Microsoft’s ad network. Then, I guess any other site that’s using MSFT ad network behind the covers will be able to access that same data. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

Re: Visual Studio 2015

2015-05-28 Thread Greg Keogh
License is about to expire and its expensive as hell. More expensive than my Microsoft msdn subscription and look what that gives you. Ooh, do you mean the Xamarin licence? I just discovered that there is a 20% discount for MSDN subscribers, which brings the business price down to $800/year.

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 Greg Keogh
Folks, the Xamarin forum is quite helpful. I found that VS2015 RC can be coaxed into working with Xamarin by installing the following 300MB upgrade file: Xamarin.VisualStudio_3.11.524.msi My reading also confirmed that building for iOS is a complicated procedure, as described here

Re: Visual Studio 2015

2015-05-28 Thread Michael Ridland
I'm kind of used to high costs as a mobile tech consultant as all the tools are expensive, a new mac every few years, and a pc, Android/iOS testing devices, there's always something. *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists

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: Visual Studio 2015

2015-05-28 Thread Michael Ridland
They got alot of pressure about this already and introduced the indie pricing monthly subscription. Not sure they will change this anytime soon but I think the professional pricing tier sounds like a good idea. The team are very accommodating if you email them, I'm sure they will extend the