Re: Multi-indexed in-memory collection

database in there, you have to get the data in and out of the database, that can be very time consuming depending on what you are doing. It sounds like you are going to need an dictionary of lists, to solve the duplicate non-unique key problem. All the best Greg H Greg Harris Sydney Australia

Re: CPU profiling an MS unit test

rpret the results with an understanding of what might be profiling artifacts versus genuine performance issues in your code. Greg Harris On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 2:10 PM Greg Keogh via ozdotnet < ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> wrote: > It's not Friday, but I can't find any way of r

DataDude.com.au domain name available

Some years ago, I purchased the domain name DataDude.com.au I was thinking that I would pivot to being more of a data dude I am never going to use it, I am open to suggestions. Greg Harris Harris Consulting Group Pty Ltd g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com www.HarrisConsultingGroup.com <h

Online source code management tools - GIT / Visual Studio / Bit Bucket / Other ???

Hello Again Community, I am disappointed with my https://MyAccountName.visualstudio.com/_git/MySolutionName repository on VisualStudio.com. It is feeling clunky and just not working for me from within Visual Studio. What tools are peop

Re: Problem with VisualStudio.com repository from VS

Hi Greg, I feel that Microsoft had such a good solution with Silverlight and we are just starting to get back to where we were 14 years ago now. My typical solution these days is to offer a mass market solution as a simple ASP.net web app, but that is just simple tables CRUD stuff. Anything where

Problem with VisualStudio.com repository from VS

Community) so that may have some limitations. I tried using GitHub Desktop, but that looks like it will only work with GitHub??? Is my mistake using VisualStudio.com? Would I be better off with another repository? Thanks Greg Harris

Re: SMS messages looking for a good gateway

Click Send just worked - Happy - Thanks for your help on this :-) private String SendSmsMessage_ClickSend( String aTargetPhoneNumber, String aMsg ) { String lBaseUrl = "https://api-mapper.clicksend.com/http/v2";; String lApiKey = ""; String lUsername

Re: SMS messages looking for a good gateway

99% domestic Oz origin and destination, but 1% will need to go international On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 11:58 PM Craig vN wrote: > Australia only or International? > > On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 11:36 PM Greg Harris > wrote: > >> Hi Community, >> >> I need to send

SMS messages looking for a good gateway

been a simple REST service that you just use??? Thanks in advance Greg Harris

Re: [OT] Employer wants photo of passport

Some years ago, the HR dept wanted a new hire to provide his passport to prove he had the right visa to work here. He was OK as a contractor, but when we offered him a perm role, they wanted more. That was easy, he just brought in the passport and went up to see them. I would scan the passport titl

Re: [OT] C++ directions

If I was going to use C++ I would not! I would use C# and use C for the small parts that had to be fast. I have not touched C for 25 years, not going to change :-) Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com phone: 0407 942 982 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 10:20 AM Grant Maw

Re: High-performance string reading and parsing

very fast to join the resulting lists into one big one. Warning multi process work can be *very hard* to debug :-). Greg Harris Harris Consulting Group Pty Ltd g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com www.HarrisConsultingGroup.com <http://harrisconsultinggroup.com/home.htm> Sydney Australia On Thu,

[Off Topic] Drop Box alternatives with a large number of files (about 0.5M+ files).

to upgrade this machine. I am thinking that may be wrong, do I just need a new machine??? Thanks for your help on this :-) Greg Harris Harris Consulting Group Pty Ltd g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com www.HarrisConsultingGroup.com <http://harrisconsultinggroup.com/home.htm> phone: (interna

Re: Blazor comments

Blazor is now in official preview https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/blazor-now-in-official-preview/ Greg Harris Harris Consulting Group Pty Ltd g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com www.HarrisConsultingGroup.com <http://harrisconsultinggroup.com/home.htm> phone: (international) +61 407 9

Re: Blazor?

ticles/1254712/Music-Notation-in-Blazor-Part-2 https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1251603/ASP-NET-Core-Blazor-Master-Detail-CRUD-with-Filter Updated Greg Harris’ current personal opinion: · If Microsoft does this right (not willing to comment on that) · If it remains open

[Off Topic] Generic system vulnerabilities testing tool – Open ports etc

of tools out there. This is an area I where I have little experience, so if anybody has experience and can provide some advice I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance Greg H Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com phone: 0407 942 982 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153

Re: Thoughts on Web Assembly and Blazer

stuff on https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/ for 25 days... Regards Greg H Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com phone: 0407 942 982 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 10:44 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > To get complete control of the UI. >> You need to know where every p

Re: Thoughts on Web Assembly and Blazer

with HTML / CSS, I give a some control. (and it becomes a whole lot harder) Most apps do not need complete control of the UI. To get complete control of the UI. You need to know where every pixel goes. Windows forms is the best tool for the job. An old trusted simple technology. Greg (H) Greg

Re: Anyone out there?

If you look at https://www.mail-archive.com/ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com/ you can see a dump of activity... Yes we do seem to have less activity these days. Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com phone: 0407 942 982 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 6:37 AM, kirsten greed wrote: > He

Re: Thoughts on Web Assembly and Blazer

new technology. My gut tells me that I should make the jump to Blazor. But my head is still say wait and see... All the best Just another Greg in the room :-) Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com phone: 0407 942 982 Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 8:57 AM, kirsten greed wrote: >

Re: Trusted cloud based source control system where the code is Australian domicile? [Slightly off topic]

Thank you David times 2, that will save me quite a bit of pain :-) Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com phone: 0407 942 982 45/1 Russell St Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:12 AM, David Connors wrote: > Failing that, standing up a Git repo on an IaaS VM in one of

Trusted cloud based source control system where the code is Australian domicile? [Slightly off topic]

based storage??? But I think that all of their storage is Amazon S3 (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/)? And I could see no documentation that says Aust based storage. We could self host, but that is just more work I don't want to do... Many Thanks Greg Harris Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com

Log filter / display dashboard - Looking for recommendation [Slightly off topic]

Regards Greg Harris Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com

Re: Creating a browser-based product

Blazor sounds like a good starting point, but it is not yet ready to do real world work. I must admit, I had not looked at Blazor until now because I had been told "it is just a toy, an experiment". After looking at it, I feel that it has the potential to be the basis of something transformationa

Re: Creating a browser-based product

! All the best Greg Harris On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Tony Wright wrote: > Well in the javascript world we don't have dll hell so much anymore, we > have package hell. > > On 22 Nov 2017 2:43 PM, "Ken Schaefer" wrote: > >> Inline >> >

Re: Creating a browser-based product

se) Now I like Mike's idea Pascal for the web?! The great (bad) thing about Javascript is it will not go away any time soon! (SAD FACE) All the best Greg #2 Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com phone: 0407 942 982 45/1 Russell St Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Gr

Re: Web debugging problem solved

in the dropdown next to the "play" >>> button where you choose IIS Express or whatever else. >> >> >> Real programmers don't use toolbars! (but you're right, it's in the >> "Standard" bar, which I've hid

Re: [OT] New surface laptop

*Strong recommendation not a DELL!* DELL took my working machine, broke it in a service call and would not take responsibility for the breakage! They knew it was not worth my time to take it any further! Now I will never buy a DELL again! On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Tom Rutter wrote: > Anyon

Re: [OT] New PC no video

Hi Greg, Warning tangent alert... Back in the day (early 80's) one of my mates to test the boot process of a new machine, would set his transistor radio going next to the machine. It would be totally off station so as just to hear static. Then as the machine boots, you listen to the RF interferen

Re: Escrow : anyone been involved in the process?

Hi Preet, Escrow is normal business practice and it says they are taking the relationship seriously. Yes, get a good legal adviser to give you good advice! Many years ago, I paid many thousands of dollars to get the following agreement written up (which was very poor advice). As I paid fu

Re: Odd text encoding

Oh Yeah! Friday rant to follow... >From my experience there usually is no good reason for this sort of thing. I've seen people attempt to store phone numbers as a number and surely most here have seen similar things. >Yea the phone number thing *facepalm* >ask them how they gonna store 000 as num

Re: Last words on AngularJS

I just have to say it To avoid all of this JS pain, we should all be using Silverlight! Regards Greg Harris On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Paul, most of what you said actually supports my anguish over the > "lottery" of kits, tools, packages and "

Re: Visual Studio C/C++ projects

Some (many) years ago I was talking to this guy who was proudly telling me he had upgraded his Pascal program to use the OO features of Delphi. Great, tell me what features you are using I ask (expecting classes and inheritance at least) Answer: Oh the Delphi style // comments - Yeah - I had to bit

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

because they know everything about you but their computer system are so @#$%^&* that they can not help any of their staff to do their job! (does this feel like Friday?) On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > So how come when I ring up the ATO they don't know who I am? ;) > > On

Re: Duplicate matching

which is following… Regards Greg Harris [TestMethod] public void Test_10_Compare3_ForGregKeogh() { // 123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-12456 string lTestLine1 = "Lovelock - Trumpet Concerto (SSO Concert).mp3"; string

Re: [OT] Turning off outgoing mail possible?

Hi Bec, Email uses a store and forward approach, the computer wanting to send the email stores the email until it can see another computer that it forwards it to that is closer to the recipient, when it will forward the email to the next computer, which will start the process over again. This is

Re: Duplicate matching

both strings - 100 times the number of times the same three letters appears in both strings Once you get your results, sort them, the most similar strings will have higher results. I used this many years ago and not used it since. There may be (far) better ways to do this. Regards Greg

Re: [OT] Quiet

another 5 years life. Anyone trying to look forward more than 5 years in this industry is being optimistic at best! So I would say that C#/.Net has a good prognosis for the foreseeable future, but keep an eye out for the unexpected, which could be positive or negative. Regards Greg Harris On

Re: azure in Australia

The rumour mill has been saying about 2-3 months away for the last 12 months, I would like to see a firm announcement from MS on this! Some of my clients point blank refuse to host off shore. But I do not know if it will make much difference after: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-ordered-to-hand-ove

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

PRP) which gives me another two external HD monitors which is starting to get up towards a reasonable amount of screen space. Regards Greg Harris On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > How do people find the font sizes for programming/web surfing with such a >> high-res

Re: [OT] Samsung U28D590D 4K Monitor

DSE has them in stock for $699 ( http://www.dicksmith.com.au/computer-monitors/samsung-28-uhd590-monitor-dsau-xc9312 ) Just got one off JW.com.au ( http://www.jw.com.au/samsung-u28d590ds-28-ultrahd-1ms-4k-monitor-p-54326) who did a price match My laptop will not drive the full resolution, but it is

Re: [OT] MSDN subscription

+1 on BizSpark Great program, see http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BizSpark On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:47 PM, David Burstin wrote: > MSDN for the mere mortal doesn't include Office anymore. MAPS does. > > I get mine from MicroWay. They used to be cheapest, haven't

Re: [OT] Earthquake?

Sorry to hear that you have concentrated bugs Sent from Greg's electronic thing Greg Keogh wrote: No one here felt anything - East Hawthorn. Yeah, no search results yet for a tremor here, so it must have been a mighty wind gust that I can't remember or didn't notice due to my concentrated b

Data validation on a business object done by a rules engine - looking for a SIMPLE rules engine

ing a quick recompile? Many Thanks Greg Harris

Re: [OT] Noise cancelling earphones for a quiet programmingenvironment?

Sorry I do not think I am going to be a lot of help here... Recommendation: The best thing to do is to get out of the open office environment, I find that I am greatly affected by background distractions. I have had five fold productivity increases when working from home or in some other comforta

Re: Migrating TFS

+1 for I'd like to see those graphs also if you are happy to group it .. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Paul Evrat wrote: > > I'd like to see those graphs also if you are happy to group it .. > > > > > Original message > From: Greg Keogh > Date: > To: ozDotNet > Subject:

Re: Migrating TFS

t for 20 years into the future. End rant Regards Greg Harris On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Greg? Where are you? >> This is your cue. >> > > Ah! What! I'm awake ... I saw Silverlight mentioned as dead and > abandoned. Guess what I'

Re: Today was very quiet on ozdotnet ...

Well the Nasdaq was down 0.5%, MS down 1.5%... It could have been a lot worse! [image: Inline image 2] [image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 3] On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > Regardless of its technical merits, it's destroyed a metric bucketload > of shareholder

Re: [OT] Taking iiNet to TIO

y entire bill was credited I think around >> 40% for the date the first fault was lodged (which was nearly a year @ >> $150.00 - 40%) >> >> You're supposed to give them ample opportunity to resolve your fault and >> you inform them "i'm now going to TIO&q

Re: [OT] Taking iiNet to TIO

I am pleased to hear that the TIO has some teeth now. In the mid 1990's I worked for one of the many telco resellers (long since merged into a bigger telco reseller several times). They had a way of dealing with notices from the Ombudsman, they were stacked in the corner of an office. When the sta

Virtual visual studio development machine – looking for some setup advice

something else? Thanks in advance for your help :-). Regards Greg Harris

Re: Mocking up a designer surface

Hi Greg, Basic HTML will be simple CRUD table maintenance and reports. Rich interaction, not in the initial plan. Winforms - Yes at this stage that is what I am thinking, the app needs to do some extensive custom graphics which at this stage I intend to build up with GDI+ as it is what I have use

Re: Mocking up a designer surface

Hi Greg, At this point I am working on a new app, it will have an HTML web site for basic stuff and a downloadable win forms app for the intensive stuff, I would much rather do it with SL but MS has so upset the SL story that it is just not going to happen! Regards Greg H On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 a

Re: [OT] Nokia sells smartphone business to Microsoft

Nokia also makes a lot of the network cell sites and (telephone) exchange stuff On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:06 AM, David Kean wrote: > > don't twit me about phones vs smartphones, noone buys dumbphones > anymore. > > ** ** > > Smart phones only overtook dumb phones for the first time this yea

Re: Future of .NET

has used ASP.NET MVC on a >> project, and said it stacks up okay against Rails. But he hated Entity >> Framework (he said he wasted days trying to get it working properly). He's >> since moved on to using Google's Go progamming language. >> >> Certainly

Re: Future of .NET

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 ! On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > I don't t

Re: decimal.ToString() (JSON Serialization)

ar sb = new StringBuilder(256); > var sw = new StringWriter(sb, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); > using (var jsonWriter = new JsonTextWriterOptimized(sw)) > { > jsonWriter.Formatting = Formatting.None; > jsonSerializer.Serialize(jsonWriter, instance); > } > > >

Re: decimal.ToString() (JSON Serialization)

I would have thought that ? ((decimal)123.45).ToString("0.") "123.4500" would be cheaper faster more understandable? On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > Yes, that's my issue. It seems that if you somehow tell is there are > multiple zeros is keeps than and displays th

Re: Lots of data over a service

lverlight canvas. With the sheer volume of data and updates needed, this was a bit of a trial and error process to find processes that worked effectively at an acceptable performance. Regards Greg Harris On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Paul Evrat wrote: > Greg, > > ** ** > &

Re: Lots of data over a service

lot of white space in that that would have compressed down to almost nothing. Regards Greg Harris On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Howdy Greg #2 (or 3?) > > Haven't seen you since the Silverlight weekend in Docklands a few years > ago. > > Ver

Re: Lots of data over a service

Hi Greg, What I did with my Motion Chart software ( http://www.eshiftlog.com/Silverlight/MotionGraphTestPage.html) to get better download performance was: • Move away from small WCF data transfers to transferring a single large encoded compressed text file • Only transfer raw data (no JSON/XML str

Re: Estimate Time and Cost before signing a contract

.”. Good luck Regards Greg Harris On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Richard Jones wrote: > I have been asked by a potential client to work out time and cost estimate > before I have signed a contract to perform the work. They indicated they > didn't want a recruitment company. > &

A simple tick the boxes data entry system

know of any good .NET libraries that could help me? Many thanks Greg Harris

Re: occasionally connected application design problem

nut. Have people used it, did they like it? I need to do a bit more reading on it. Thanks Greg Harris Based on your feedback, I have completed a design for a “roll my own” synchronisation job, this is what I have come up with: 1. Every database table has the additional columns: a

occasionally connected application design problem

design decision again today. Many thanks Greg Harris

Re: Silverlight vs XBAP

Hi Greg, >From memory XBAP needs to run on a windows box with recent IE and full dot net framework running on it. Silverlight can run on any box with any browser and the Silverlight plug in installed. So Silverlight will (should) give you a far greater reach. We just need to know what Micro

Re: Simple or hard solution

We are using NCalc I dont know much details on it http://ncalc.codeplex.com/ On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Anthony Mayan wrote: > thanks noonie > > > interesting..such a simple request..appears like a lot work for a > solution..but i must persevere! > > On 9/29/11, noonie wrote: > > Greeting

Re: [OT] Looking for a Permanent Talented .Net Developer (VB.Net or C#)

fit within the team and pay what we need to get the talent (within reason). All the best Greg On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Greg Harris wrote: > Hi All, > > We are Looking for a Permanent Talented .Net Developer (VB.Net or C#) > About us: > > · Sydney based inte

[OT] Looking for a Permanent Talented .Net Developer (VB.Net or C#)

office. This is a great opportunity to work with the best in the industry, to take this to the next level, please send me a copy of your CV for our consideration. No agencies please. All the best Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com

Re: KPI's for software developers

This is going to cause a few mad Friday tangents…. If you have ever worked on a sales performance recognition system that allows for any flexibility beyond the total of who sold how much in dollar terms when, you will have seen that there quickly starts to be manipulation of the input data to af

Re: How To do something every so often

Hi Everyone, I think that this shows that we all have too much time on our hands! Our modern machines are so fast that this is an irrelevant question for all but the most compute intensive applications. The standard well known design pattern is to use the modulus (%) function. if ( (i % lTestPo

Re: Managing application and database version dependencies

It is also worthwhile to check the environment at the same time, I have a flag for development test and production, you do not want to run tests against your production database! On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM, David Richards wrote: > I have a "Version" table that has a single column, single row

Re: Designer crash cause found

it. If you can’t, you need to refactor your code for clarity. All the best Greg Harris