Re: Microsoft Reference Source

2014-05-08 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
Don't look at this unless you never want to do open source contributions to Mono. Looking/studying MSREF still excludes you from being a able to contribute - indefinitely. Regards, Geoff On 9 May 2014 09:09, "Greg Keogh" wrote: > I just stumbled across this: http://referencesource.microsoft.com/

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
@rid00z is right on the money. Xamarin makes perfect sense in the enterprise market and allows the existing base of .NET developers to become mobile developers as long as they are not completely clueless (ie: SOLID fundamentals/DI/IoC/Interfaces) Business sense due to code sharing and being abl

RE: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
So at the beginning of the year you said you were going to address the MS-R poison pill: https://www.dropbox.com/s/370kxuxd9b6yjjm/microsoft%20and%20mono.png?dl=0 Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that this would be the outcome; as a hard-core deep Unix geek who just happened to

Re: Silverlight to tablets

2014-11-16 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
Reuse your existing c# code with xamarin + switch out your commercial graph/data grid component? Upload your assemblies to here http://scan.xamarin.com/ to gauge how much code can be brought across/reused. Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Nov 2014, at 11:05 am, Greg Keogh wrote: > > Folks, we hav

Re: Silverlight to tablets

2014-11-16 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
The usual .NET suspects have Xamarin components - ie http://www.telerik.com/xamarin-ui If something doesn't exist or suit your needs in native C# then you can use any exiting Coca or Java component and bind using http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topics/binding_objective-c/objective

.NET/CLR on FreeBSD status update.

2015-04-27 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
By now you have probably saw the news that the CLR is building successfully on FreeBSD. Well last night the port team progressed another milestone namely - IL code ran successfully in the CLR on FreeBSD. $ ./corerun HelloWorld.exe 04/27/2015 17:50:28 $ ./corerun HelloWorld.exe 04/27/2015 17:51:43

Re: .NET/CLR on FreeBSD status update.

2015-04-27 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
t; > Thank you. This looks interesting. > > > > regards, > > Preet, in Auckland NZ > > > > On 28 April 2015 at 09:10, Geoffrey Huntley > wrote: > >> > >> By now you have probably saw the news that the CLR is building > successfully on FreeBSD.

Re: Anyone using REST based SMS services for Australia that they can recomened

2015-12-03 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
http://www.whispir.com/ Example implementation @ https://github.com/ghuntley/send-sms-via-whispir On 3 December 2015 at 17:46, Arjang Assadi wrote: > Hello > > Anyone using REST based SMS services for Australia that they can recommend? > > Azure based would be even better! > > Regards > > Arja

Re: Code snippets

2016-01-18 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
Always be creating NuGet packages (and open sourcing), no matter how small the code snippet is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Do one thing, do it well. Some of the best libraries in npmjs are less than 50 lines long. On 19 January 2016 at 07:41, Nic Roche wrote: > Hi, > > You

Re: Code snippets

2016-01-18 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
> But I would finish up with dozens of them, each contain maybe only 10 lines of code. I don't see a anything wrong with that, we were discussing this exact thing this morning in the ReactiveUI slack room. The ReactiveExtensions NuGet package is considered 'bloated' and absolutely *hate* how man

Re: Code snippets

2016-01-18 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
You could make a http://sidewaffle.com/ plugin for your snippets but that won't help you with the versioning across projects issue once they are in your code-base. On 19 January 2016 at 10:54, Greg Keogh wrote: > example. It will check out whole files. As whole files, your snippets >> will need

Re: [OT] Philips (Benq) 4K monitor

2016-02-14 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
If you still need convincing - http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2015/Nov/23/Going-Big-40-Glorious-inches-of-4k-with-the-Philips-BDM4065UC On 15 February 2016 at 15:47, Stephen Price wrote: > Just buy it. > > > > This is mine. > > Being able to use 4k at 100% scaling has to be experienced to com

Re: Headphones Review [OT]

2016-07-21 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
At your desk EITHER sennheiser 558 or sennheiser 598 THEN purchase this https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-E10K-Headphone-Amplifier-Black/dp/B00LP3AMC2 (seriously) For travel Import these from Korea - ~50 to 150 - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sony-Headphones-MDR-ZX750BN-Genuine-/282106883170 On 22 July

Re: Xamarin update warning

2016-09-19 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
Agreed. This wasn't the highest quality release, lots of regressions on basic functionality [1]. Disappointing. [1] https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44402 On 19 September 2016 at 12:58, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, on Friday Xamarin Studio told there were updates available, this > ha

Re: Friday Rant (today!)

2017-01-22 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
FYI if you don't know about it: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows is a thing, that sucks less that most options and is a pit of happiness. On 23 January 2017 at 13:43, Nick Randolph wrote: > And don’t forget that once you’re done building your MSI, you should then > run it through the

Re: Rx library

2020-05-18 Thread Geoffrey Huntley
Still alive. Still maintained (hi \(°o°)/ ) On Tue, 19 May 2020, 10:26 am Greg Keogh, wrote: > Folks, I have to listen for unpredictable bursts of events, and when they > cease for a certain interval I send out a single event. I guess this is one > of the things that Rx was invented for, but I'v