Re: [OT] Removing private details on Internet

2012-04-23 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Depends on the site and where it is located I would think. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Bec Carter wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a body I could contact to get some > private details removed from the web? I stumbled across my name, > address and phone number on a site but received no

Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

2012-05-08 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
It looks much better IMO, although I am not sure about the SHOUTING in the menu http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/08/visual-studio-11-user-interface-updates-coming-in-rc.aspx Good thing is RC hopefully means final is no more than a couple of months away. On Wed, May 9, 2012 a

Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

2012-05-08 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I don't believe the newer RC is available yet. Probably in the next week. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:33 PM, mike smith wrote: > What's a link for downloading? Or do I have to find the person around > here that has msdn login details to do it? > > MikeS > > >

Re: [OT] Windows 7 license keys

2012-05-27 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Looks dodgy to me. Can you see any contact details that lead to a real address or phone number? On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Grant Molloy wrote: > Hi all. > Has anyone bought Win 7 license keys from online stores like this? > http://www.windows7keycode.org/windows-7-key-c-1.html > > Win 7 Ul

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> > Agreed. If Win8 can handle being 4th to market in a fairly mature > marketplace. > You think tablets are mature market? I would think this market is still in nappies. It is still anyone's game.

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> > > > > > You think tablets are mature market? I would think this market is still > in > > nappies. It is still anyone's game. > > In tech, being 2 years late to market is an eternity. > > I don't really agree. Windows was late to market and became leader. Excel and Word were late and became lead

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA) < andrew.coa...@microsoft.com> wrote: > I’m not sure I get the yearning for a start menu. Maybe I use it > differently from others, but the metro screen lays out my commonly used > apps nicely, and anything else I need I can find just

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Only if you navigate by mouse. Type, don't click. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Bill McCarthy < bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > I fear the new start screen will get just as messy as the old start menu > did. In fact, the lack of folders or popups from the start menu will mean a > lot

Re: [OT] It's not Friday, but I've had a tough last 3 weeks ...

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> > > > I usually just tell them to "hang on a minute" and don't go back to > the phone for about 10 mins by which time they've hung up > > My wife usually says hang on, then hands the phone to my 3 year old for a chat.

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Exactly. It hasn't fixed the problem of manual navigation, just changed it. But in the process made it more tablet/phone friendly. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Bill McCarthy < bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > And that as said previously is the same in windows 7. So the notion that >

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Popup's on a phone or tablet? On my Windows Phone I have never seem a popup dialog. And on my iPad popup alerts are pretty simple to click. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Bill McCarthy < bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > Well worse. Popups area lot more keyboard/mouse friendly than havi

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> > > >> > >> Only if you navigate by mouse. Type, don't click. > > And if it's a tablet? > > Swipe and touch. I have a three year old that mastered it a day. My one year old is already getting the hang of it. It is sooo easy. This whole discussion reminds me of when Office 2007 came out and every

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Bill McCarthy < bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > You totally missed the point that on the desktop you will have to > horizontally scroll. > > You don't have to horizontally scroll, just type what you want.

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-07 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I said wp7 would fail in the first three years of its birth. I said > Silverlight was ear marked for depreciation along side WPF and now I say > Win8 will fail in consumer uptake. > > WP7 has been cancelled?

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Bill McCarthy < bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au> wrote: > To change tack a little, what in your opinion would be the top issues that > have led to the relatively poor uptake of Windows Phone over the last three > years ? > > > I think lack of availability is a big

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> > > > One thing I noticed was the Telstra shops had little knowledge or in-store > advertising of WP. > > > I know the Telstra shop at Watergardens in Melbourne had a fair bit of in store advertising in the last few months, just not many phones.

Re: Windows Phone 8 announced

2012-06-27 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> > > > Hmmm, Microsoft, can you say "bridesmaid" ? :) > > > But it has to run Android :-P

Re: Questions about iPad and iPhone

2012-07-09 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> ** ** > > The second question is a doozy and out of my areas of experience. Can > someone confirm that .NET and the runtime is not available for iPad or > iPhone? What kits and languages do you use to write iPad and iPhone apps? > Is Object C still for that sort of thing? Or Java? Or HTML5? If an

Re: ASP.NET modal dialog effect

2012-07-23 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
The Microsoft Ajax toolkit is webforms only and being depreciated in favour of jQuery. Rather than compete with open source MS have started to support it. On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Stuart Kinnear wrote: > I note that Microsoft have quite an extensive AJAX toolkit. > > Is there any compell

Re: Is this thing on?

2012-08-16 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I didn't get it. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Les Hughes wrote: > Test Response Response > > -- > Les Hughes > l...@datarev.com.au > > Michael Minutillo wrote: > >> Test Response >> >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:45 PM, David Burela > david.bur...@gmail.com**>> wrote: >> >> Test post

Re: [OT] Help finding good SEO company in Australia

2012-10-03 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Personally, I wouldn't bother. Most are charlatans. There are no magic tricks that and SEO company will give you and it comes down to some basic things. 1) Make sure your web site is crawler friendly. 2) Make sure you have lots of good content and are continually updating and adding to it 3) Promo

Re: [OT] Help finding good SEO company in Australia

2012-10-03 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
r relevant terms that will bring traffic and business to you. That can take a long time when starting from scratch. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > Personally, I wouldn't bother. Most are charlatans. There are no magic > tricks that and SEO company will

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 us

Re: Report Builder in VS2012

2012-10-12 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I haven't used Telerik Reporting but have used DevExpress XtraReports which is very similar. So I second the idea of a third party non-Crystal report writer that has better VS integration. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Grant Molloy wrote: > Have used Telerik Reporting to good effect about 1

Re: Azure Websites WebAPI Authentication

2012-10-15 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I think it depends on your requirement. What I am going to do is use Basic Authentication combined with Https. Something like http://remy.supertext.ch/2012/04/basic-http-authorization-for-web-api-in-mvc-4-beta/ Craig On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) wrote: > Hi Folks,**

Re: Azure Websites WebAPI Authentication

2012-10-15 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> Windows Azure Websites support SSL yet. > > ** ** > > Regards, > > ** ** > > Greg > > ** ** > > Dr Greg Low > > ** ** > > 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913fax > > > SQL Down Unde

Re: Just seen the prices of Window 8 RT Surface devices....

2012-10-17 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I travel on the train every day. At least 50% of people are staring into a phone on the way to work (me included, WP7). This is at least 10x more than the number who have an iPad on the train. From this I can only conclude that when people are on the road and want mobility they use their phone, not

Re: Windows 8 Tablet, Can I run the application I develop for myself without needing to go through the App Store?

2012-10-30 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Depends on if you are targeting Windows RT or Windows !RT. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Arjang Assadi wrote: > To use use windows 8 Tablet, can one develop and use applications without > having to go through the App Store? > > Thanks for links/ideas > > Regards > > Arjang >

Re: What is the most cost effective way of getting VS 2012 Pro + MS Office for development ?

2012-12-14 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Subscript to BizSpark, it will get you licenses for nothing. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Arjang Assadi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > What is the most cost effective way of getting VS 2012 Pro + MS Office for > development ? > > Anyone knows a VS 2012 pro allows for 2 non-concurrent use? ( one

Re: More on cross-platform development

2013-01-03 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I would love if MS bought Xamarin and created a first class .NET tool for developing Mobile and cross platform apps. The only problem I can see is that Apple and Google would try and block it. Imagine where .NET would be today if MS had executed on cross platform the > way Xamarin do. > >

Re: More on cross-platform development

2013-01-03 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I don't think you should try and port complex business applications to a phone, but specific features suit a phone. For example I sell a Beauty Salon specific Point of Sale SAAS package. Will I could never imagine anyone trying to run their whole business from it, my users are crying out for a mobi

Re: Debugging Azure

2013-01-14 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I am hosting my SAAS app www.youreontime.com on Azure for the last couple of years, so someone is using it! I agree deployment is slow, it takes be 45-60 minutes to deploy. With the database error have you tried connecting directly to the SqlAzure database from your local machine to run the tests

Re: vs 2010 and 2012

2013-01-14 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Yes. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:28 PM, wrote: > Can you install vs 2012 in parallel with vs 2010? > > ** ** > > ** ** >

Re: vs 2010 and 2012

2013-01-15 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I think the problem is they were not working for too many people so vbproj was killed. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Wallace Turner wrote: > We've got our installers as vdproj. Is there a fancy converter ? :) > > Interestingly no one has been that interested in the installers and if its > the

Re: WCF service best practises

2013-01-31 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
ASP.NET WebAPI seems to be the new hotness. I don't have much experience with WCF, but everyone I talk to says it is too heavy and complicated. WebAPI tries to simplify things. On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > What about the death of WCF as everything else in the modern >>

Re: New Web API project

2013-01-31 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I am not sure why the default project comes with so much junk, but it looks fairly easy to create a minimal project. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12412163/minimum-files-needed-to-deploy-webapi-server-side On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > I thought I'd generate a fresh

Re: New Web API project

2013-01-31 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I think YAF is essentially a hobby for the guys who are developing it, so the chances of them changing to different (cooler) technology is much higher than products that have commercial realities to deal with. Buyer beware I guess. On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Katherine Moss wrote: > Yes, We

Re: Web api

2013-02-01 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
WebAPI are just normal urls like web pages. You can call using HttpClient http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.http.httpclient.aspx On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > Really? the only way to call Rest API's is with a third party add on? > > I was kind of lookin

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

2013-02-13 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Sounds like you have too much nesting. If you have more than a couple of levels maybe try separating it out into new methods. Hard to tell without seeing the code. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Katherine Moss wrote: > Hello all, > Does anyone know any methods I could use when practicing progr

Re: Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt points to a 32-bit path when on a 64-bit OS?

2013-03-04 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
AFAIK, Visual Studio is still a 32bit application, so possibly related. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Katherine Moss wrote: > I was wondering if this is the case with anyone else using the 64 bit > version of Windows 8, it's the case for me, and I think that if the OS is > 64 bit, then shouldn'

Re: Does anybody know why the visual studio 2012 developer command prompt points to a 32-bit path when on a 64-bit OS?

2013-03-04 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
M, Katherine Moss > wrote: > >> Dang, it shouldn’t be. What was Microsoft on when they made that >> decision? LOL. >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Craig van Nieuwkerk &g

Re: ASP.NET app for different devices

2013-03-15 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I would second Twitter Bootstrap. Allows you to get going with a responsive interface that looks good on desktop, tablet or mobile. On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > I would start with twitter bootstrap. It is trivial to build a responsive > interface and styling past tue defa

Re: nTier ASP.NET MVC Application Architecture

2013-03-20 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I agree. I see WCF middle tier is used so often for no good reason. I would just create an MVC Web API controllers for the mobile app (and future other clients) and have logical tiers, not physical, for business logic. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:27 PM, wrote: > My 2 Cents... > > This seems over-e

Re: nTier ASP.NET MVC Application Architecture

2013-03-20 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
IMO, the key to scaling out always starts with making your app stateless. Don't use Session. Then you can essentially just keep adding as many load balanced web servers as you need. But unless you have mega traffic, a couple of servers will handle a lot. Scaling out databases is a whole different

Re: nTier ASP.NET MVC Application Architecture

2013-03-20 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Getting things to look good on all browsers takes a bit of experience. I think the keys are - Don't support old browsers (IE6) unless you really have to - Remember that it doesn't have to look exactly the same on every browser. If IE8 doesn't support gradients for example, they don't get them. - U

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I have heard of it but never had to. I think it would drive me crazy if I was unable to personalise my environment. Craig On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Richard Moore wrote: > Hi all > > ** ** > > Is it common practice to have developers RDP into a central server for the > purposes of doi

Re: occasionally connected application design problem

2013-03-27 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
That's basically what the SQL Server Replication does, so why not use that. I have used replication over a dial up connection in the olden days, so it is possible with ordinary connections. Craig On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > Greg, > > I'm sure the SQL guys will te

Re: SQL Azure insert speed

2013-04-14 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Another thing to remember is that SQL Azure replicates your data to three databases on different servers. This has to happen before a commit can be successful and so can effect performance. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I'm using EF4 to insert 3900 rows in to a tab

Re: SQL Azure insert speed

2013-04-17 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Cerebrata is now owned by Red Gate. On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Hi Ian, I found this: > > http://www.cerebrata.com/labs/azure-explorer > > But I can't find a Red Gate Azure Explorer, unless this is the same thing. > I have been playing with Azure Storage Explorer versi

Re: HTML5 capabilities

2013-06-30 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Have you considered Xamarin? Native applications written in C# www.xamarin.com On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, a few times over the last year I've raised the topic of writing > browser based applications that can reach the most mobile devices with the > least coding

Re: HTML5 capabilities (correction)

2013-06-30 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Regarding FireMonkey a couple of things to be aware of. It does not support Android, although it is slated to in the future at some time. Secondly, FireMonkey has a reputation of being very buggy in the past although I believe the latest version is better. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Greg Keo

Re: HTML5 capabilities

2013-06-30 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
es, drag-and-drop, animated charts - well this > doesn't work on mobile devices anyway, you actually need to rethink a users > interaction with your software, and rethink, and rethink. You need to also > spend alot of time using other high quality mobile apps to see different > ways

Re: HTML5 capabilities

2013-06-30 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I tend to agree. $3700 is a lot if you just want to play at home, but for a real business it might be equivalent to 2 weeks pay for a developer. The time saved would pay for itself in months. See what Michael says above about spending 9 months trying to get a HTML5 version working before going with

Re: Scaling HTML

2013-07-11 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
What does auto-scale it mean? Does it have fixed widths coded into the html that you wish to change somehow based on page size? On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:02 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom wrote: > If I have a server that sends me a bunch of HTML (ie a web page) and I > want to insert it within my MVC4

Re: [OT] Azure VM provisioning timed out

2013-07-18 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Although I can't help you with your problems, I had no problem spinning up a VM and am using it now. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Has anyone here successfully created a working manageable Azure VM? I > tried last night using all the default values via my web Portal. The

Re: [OT] Azure VM provisioning timed out

2013-07-18 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I used the Quick Create method, I did it about 2 months ago. Mine is an extra small instance running Windows Server 2008 R2. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Do you guys remember if you went through the web port and made your VMs > using the "Quick create" or the "From the g

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
On a similar note, does anyone know where you can still get "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> wro

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I don't think this will necessarily filter into the enterprise in a big. .NET and Java are both really strong in enterprise, as are Oracle and SQL Server but not that strong in startups. Enterprise and startups have different requirements. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Michael Ridland wrote:

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
rris wrote: > >> Microsoft are trying to fix the startup thing with Biz Spark ( >> http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/) >> But when they make super stuff ups like the non support of Silverlight >> you do have ask what the @#$%^&* they are doing ! >> >> >&

Re: Code commenting

2013-09-12 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
A lot of source control systems give you that out of the box. I know Git and SVN both do with the BLAME command. I wouldn't want the comments scattered throughout the code. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, wrote: > Anyone suggest a method to autmaticlly comment code when lines have > changed?

Re: [OT] Xbox one update and IINET

2013-11-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
There was a big DNS outage today for a number of Microsoft websites. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM, wrote: > Hi, if anyone just got their xbox one and is with IINET and can’t > perform the update, changing DNS to 8.8.8.8 (google) seems to fix it and > lets you download the update… > > Jason

Re: [OT] Email forwarding

2013-11-28 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I am using Amazon Route 53 for DNS. I don't use anything else Amazon but find the DNS only costs a couple of dollars a month for about 10 domains. It seems pretty reliable, never had any downtime since I changed over from ZoneEdit which was having outages. Craig On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:22 AM,

Re: [OT] We need a senior developer ASAP!

2013-12-02 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I tend to agree. If you have a number in mind just tell them what it is. If you try and bargain you down just say no thanks and walk. On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Wallace Turner wrote: > (sry to the original poster whos thread is now hijacked) > > > >and the first person to pick a number los

Point of sale hardware for testing

2014-01-08 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
This is a bit off topic but I need to test some receipt printers for my app, specifically Epson TM-T88 series. Rather than buy one (they are around $500) does anyone know somewhere that sells second hand POS hardware. On eBay they seem to come with a lot of missing power supplies and I have to wai

Re: Point of sale hardware for testing

2014-01-08 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
rest of the dominoes > will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" > -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama > > > On 9 January 2014 09:00, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > >> This is a bit off topic but I need to test some receipt printers for my >> app, specifically Epson TM

Re: Recruiter advice for Job Seeker.

2014-01-19 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Good advice. A lot of medium to large companies will often advertise on their own websites as well. So if you know someone that uses .NET have a look at their website. On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Dave Walker wrote: > Why not try figure out who you want to work for and apply direct? Alot o

Re: [OT] Favourite Coding Album

2014-02-12 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
If only the chicks were really for free! On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:12 PM, mike smith wrote: > Worked for me > > (now listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0&feature=kp > ) > > Damn, I love that guitar! > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:00 PM, wrote: > >> Hi all, thought it wo

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 wrote: > 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

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 wrote: > Greg. > > All machine languages are just wrappers for microcode [?] > > Preet > > > On 14 February 2014 14:00, GregAtGregLowDotCom wrote: > >> Isn’t it all just perspective ? >> >> >> >> All other languages are

Re: Favicons

2014-02-26 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Do you have this in your routes? routes.IgnoreRoute("{*favicon}", new { favicon = @"(.*/)?favicon.ico(/.*)?" }); I do and the favicon appears to work. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > Hey all, > > Just wondering if anyone has actually figured out MVC web apps

Re: payment gateways

2014-04-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I use FastSpring and they work very well, although somewhat expensive. They also allow the buyer the option to pay with PayPal or CC. Personally if a company only gave the option of PayPal I would lose a lot of confidence, they have shocking service and systems. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:56 PM,

Re: What's a million lines of code worth?

2014-04-22 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Considering that there are a number of systems it doesn't seem that many. Do they include the unit tests? There are unit tests aren't there in the missile launch systems! On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Paul Evrat wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Collins Class Submarine – 6 million lines of code. > >

Re: [OT] Browser use

2014-05-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I am pretty much with you. I find IE works better with VS so use it for most development unless I need to do a lot of client side debugging in which case I use Chrome. I then use Chrome for everyday use. I only use Firefox for cross browser testing. Craig On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Stephe

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

2014-05-29 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Do you do any work on the side? If so look to BizSpark. On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Bec Carter wrote: > Hi > I haven't needed one before (work always gave me one) but where should I > look to get an msdn subscription from? Cheapest obviously. Only need > windows, full office and visual stu

Re: [OT] Windows phone recommendation

2014-07-03 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
If you can wait for the Nokia 930 it is meant to be really really good. On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Tom Rutter wrote: > Anyone here have a Windows phone they're happy with and can recommend? > Had an iPhone so far but am handing it down to my nephew and might try > something else. Don't wan

Re: azure in Australia

2014-08-10 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Coming soon, but details are sketchy. Best estimates are there will be a data center in both Melbourne and Sydney and hopefully available by the end of the year. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:27 PM, wrote: > Anyone know if azure hosting have a presence in Australia? > > > > I am new to Azure, if

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
This is a good question as I am in the process of looking for a mechanical keyboard. The Code keyboards seem pretty expensive by the time they get to Aus so I was thinking one of these http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=113_1276&products_id=2 On Fri, Oct 24, 2014

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
emails. Learn more at http://vsre.info/ > =========== > > *From:* Craig van Nieuwkerk > *Sent:* ‎Friday‎, ‎24‎ ‎October‎ ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎49‎ ‎AM > *To:* ozDotNet > > This is a good question as I am in the process of looking for a mechanical > keyboard. The Cod

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
herry" switches should be fairly similar as the switches are made by the same company, although I am no expert. Just need to make sure you get the right colour. On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > I am pretty sure you can remove the hand rest part at the front. >

Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?

2014-11-19 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time so I was immediately aware and could communicate to users. Not exactly sure what happened but I think it was related to Cloud Storage being down. Many of the services rely on Cloud Storage so when it is dead almost everything

Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?

2014-11-19 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Also, the failover he describes in the article is no good in yesterdays problem. I had that failover configured but it is no good if every data center goes down! On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our

Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?

2014-11-19 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
r.com/azurestatus > > It's still not updated .. even if it has heaps of other status updates ... > :( > > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk > wrote: > >> This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time >> so I wa

Re: [OT] Ultrabook for noob

2014-11-26 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
This is a good option, but a fairly low spec memory and HDD and then purchase upgrades aftermarket for half the price. On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Greg Low (低格雷格) wrote: > Yep, they didn’t seem to list the i7 E7440’s on the Oz site but the > sales guys have access to them. We paid under $

Programmatically call forward

2014-12-16 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I have a client who wants to be able to have a button in our app to turn on/off call forwarding on their phone system. Does Telstra (or Optus) have any API anyone knows about for things like this? Craig

Re: Programmatically call forward

2014-12-16 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Can I do this programatically though, from a .NET program? On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Mark Hurd wrote: > > On: *21# > Off: #21# > > -- > Regards, > Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) > > On 16 December 2014 at 18:58, Craig van Nieuwkerk > wrote: > > I have a

Re: Programmatically call forward

2014-12-16 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
> examples you can use to send the appropriate code to your modem/router and > it should also be possible to interface with the modem/router via the > network rather than the serial port. > > You may need an API to the router, not the telco service provider. > > > On 16/12/2014

Re: Programmatically call forward

2014-12-16 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
t. CodeProject had several >> examples you can use to send the appropriate code to your modem/router and >> it should also be possible to interface with the modem/router via the >> network rather than the serial port. >> >> You may need an API to the router, not th

Re: Azure and security trust

2015-02-24 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Did Snowden get his secrets off the cloud? What Snowden shows is that the biggest risk to your data and business is rouge employee's not where your data is stored. For every dollar a business loses due to cloud security issues I would wager they lose 100 due to internal pilfering. Craig On Wed, F

Re: Azure and security trust

2015-02-25 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Yes, it is like the easiest way to get someones password is to just ask them for it. Surprising how many people will give it to you once you have their trust. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Tom Rutter wrote: > +1 for Greg. > > This reminds me of a time we pranked the *head security guy* at a

Re: [OT] Data Retention Bill

2015-03-26 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
It's a great time to be a record or movie company lawyer. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > So the bill has passed, opposed by everyone but the two major parties. Oh > well, it's not all bad, as at least it was nice to see Libs and Labs > finally cooperate on something, anyth

Re: Push to web clients

2015-04-07 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
SignalR will still work without WebSockets, it will fall back to long polling I believe. Craig On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, our ASP.NET app can submit a job to the server for processing > which can take up to a minute or so. We've been looking at ways the client >

Re: Chrome deprecates NPAPI

2015-04-20 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Why not just manually code the HTML and Javascript? > > So what the hell is the future of web development?! Not more generated > html and JavaScript surely? How can anyone deliver a "rich" desktop-like > application reliably to web clients? > > *Greg K* >

Re: MSDN Subscription renewal

2015-04-20 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
The only thing I missed in Professional when moving from Ultimate is CodeLens, but that is now moving to Professional as well. Craig On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Stephen Price wrote: > Judging by those links and what I've read previously looks like the worst > place to be is Premium curren

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 wrote: > OMG you use a web browser? > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > >> Folks, here's a Friday curiosity and frightener for you ... A few days >> ago I renewed

Re: Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio

2015-07-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I believe Xamarin Starter edition (https://xamarin.com/starter) is bundled with Visual Studio 2015, but that edition not really feature rich enough for much more than simple demo apps. To build something really useful you will need to upgrade. Craig On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Greg Keogh wr

Re: PayPal Integration

2015-09-13 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I have integrated with Stripe as well and it is great. Very easy, everything PayPal should be but for some reason isn't. PayPal just needs to draw a line in the sand with their old API(s), deprecate them, and build something new and easy like Stripe. On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Stephen Pric

Re: vb.net

2015-10-12 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I tend to agree with you. If there are two languages (C# & VB.NET) that are 99% functionally equivalent but 90% of people use one (C#) then to me it is a no brainer to use C# are well. I can't really think of any reason why someone would choose VB.NET for a new project over C# where the benefits ou

Re: Cheapest MSDN renewals

2015-10-20 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
BizSpark is free. Craig On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:05 PM, David Connors wrote: > My MSDN is up for renewal again... how has obtained a good deal recently? > -- > David Connors > da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363 >

Re: Mobile device photos

2015-10-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I have done this before. This will basically work like a standard file upload input but will use the camera to select the file. Craig On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I've got an ASP.NET app specifically designed to look pleasant in > tablet sized device browsers.

Re: Mobile device photos

2015-10-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Yes, let me know if you want to log into our demo site to see it running. It is surprisingly pretty smooth. Craig On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:54 AM, DotNet Dude wrote: > Will this work on ios? > > > On Thursday, 22 October 2015, Craig van Nieuwkerk > wrote: > >>

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