Re: Entity Framework - the lay of the land

2016-10-04 Thread Joseph Cooney
Preach on. On 16 Sep. 2016 10:50 am, "David Connors" wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 at 10:33 Greg Keogh wrote: > >> What do you suggest as an alternative? >>> >>> Writing stored procedures. >>> >> >> What about the classical problem of "impedance mismatch".

Re: Mobile passwords

2015-11-10 Thread Joseph Cooney
If On 11 Nov 2015 3:59 PM, "Mark Hurd" wrote: > > On 11 November 2015 at 16:05, mike smith wrote: > >> Device entry of passwords is a nightmare. If you multi-hit the virtual >> keyboard even slightly you get accented characters which of course do not >>

Re: Excel behaviour in an app

2015-10-26 Thread Joseph Cooney
Looks like it is on their roadmap for ios and android. http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-plans-to-bring-office-add-ins-to-android-sometime-later-this-year/ https://www.thurrott.com/office/3256/office-mobile-apps-to-gain-add-in-capabilities-in-2015 Judging by the examples they

Re: Excel behaviour in an app

2015-10-26 Thread Joseph Cooney
Would it be possible to use excel, and do whatever 'special' stuff as an add-in? Not sure if that is even a thing on office for android/ios. On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I'm wondering how people in here might tackle a technical problem > we're

Re: Excel behaviour in an app

2015-10-26 Thread Joseph Cooney
So, build the REST API, build an excel add-in, build a basic app. Anyone that complains that the basic app isn't excel-like-enough, tell them to just use excel. On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Joseph Cooney <joseph.coo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like it is on their roadma

Re: Ozdotnet Ignite drinks?

2015-10-22 Thread Joseph Cooney
Google IO is $900-ish, and sold via lottery. On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > Seems like the norm. > The Apple event WWDC costs 1599 USD and includes access to five days of > sessions, hands-on labs, and special events. I dare say most people

Re: Mobile device photos

2015-10-21 Thread Joseph Cooney
I was unfamiliar with the Mercury browser too. Not sure what tech it is based on, but by the Play store's metrics it has been downloaded between 500,000 and 1,000,000 times. This sounds like a lot, but then you look at the numbers and see that Firefox has been downloaded between 100,000,000 and

Re: Mobile device photos

2015-10-21 Thread Joseph Cooney
rst...@jobtalk.com.au> > wrote: > >> I think Mercury came with my phone. >> Will try installing Chrome >> >> >> >> >> -- >> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Beh

Re: REST testing

2015-09-13 Thread Joseph Cooney
Postman app is quite good. It is a chrome app Greg, I know how much you love chrome On Sep 13, 2015 4:48 PM, "Greg Keogh" wrote: > Folks, in recent months I've been doing lots of REST call testing. I use > the scratchpad of Fiddler to select and send some request lines,

Re: Cross-platform charting

2015-09-10 Thread Joseph Cooney
I've had good success in the past with flotr2 http://www.humblesoftware.com/flotr2/ On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Jorke Odolphi wrote: > Depends if they were sitting on chairs.. > > I’ve had great success with - http://d3js.org/ -it covers that platforms > i’ve needed to

Re: Debugging AngularJS

2015-08-09 Thread Joseph Cooney
Wait 'til Greg discovers Atom is built on Chromium. On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:10 PM, William Luu will@gmail.com wrote: The Atom TypeScript package is pretty good too - https://atom.io/packages/atom-typescript On 10 August 2015 at 14:48, Ben Laan benl...@gmail.com wrote: Everything

Re: SSL for ASP.NET MVC

2014-11-27 Thread Joseph Cooney
Rather than defer the change from HTTP to HTTPS to post development, what would the downside be to generating a self-signed certificate in IIS and using SSL from the get-go? Joseph On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Tom P tompbi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Glav and Michael. Lots of info here.

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Joseph Cooney
I have 2x das keyboards which also have mechanical switches. After using for a long time anything else seems terrible by comparison. Joseph On Oct 24, 2014 12:35 PM, osjasonrobe...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone used/using one of these (or similar keyboard)? http://codekeyboards.com/ Jason

Re: [OT] Quiet

2014-09-18 Thread Joseph Cooney
Looking at data like http://langpop.corger.nl it seems like c# is alive and well. Java, PHP and JS are really the only languages of similar popularity. I imagine JS will probably pull ahead as more stuff goes to node, or server-side presentation logic moves to the client. Joseph On Sep 19, 2014

Re: [OT] Surface

2014-09-17 Thread Joseph Cooney
Another possibility is that people are using other channels to have their questions answered. I've heard of this site called stack overflow... Joseph On Sep 18, 2014 10:41 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Awfully

Re: [OT] Browser use

2014-05-21 Thread Joseph Cooney
Aside from all the good qualities of Chrome as a 'normal' browser user, I'm so habituated on the Chrome dev tools that I couldn't change even if I wanted to. Joseph On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:32 PM, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.comwrote: I never thought I’d change my default browser but I

Re: Favicons

2014-02-27 Thread Joseph Cooney
Iconfx or icofx (can't quite recall the name) was open source until recently and there are free versions still around. I think the gimp can make windows icons too. Joseph On Feb 27, 2014 4:55 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Ok thanks. New can of worms. ;) It seems to be

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

2014-02-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
Xaml from the early days of WPF is circa 2002 or earlier. I think the GU was still hacking out ASP.NET on planes as a PM at that time. On Feb 13, 2014 2:43 PM, ILT (O) il.tho...@outlook.com wrote: I wasn't aware that Scott Guthrie had responsibility for Silverlight and XAML initially.

Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1

2014-01-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
Plex has a great ecosystem for mobile devices too. Joseph On Jan 29, 2014 4:10 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Checking out Plex server, it looks great. Oh and as an added bonus i just discovered my NAS has a Plex installer. Synology rocks. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:30

RE: DLNA access from Windows 8.1

2014-01-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
app is free or paid? -- From: Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com Sent: 29/01/2014 2:26 PM To: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1 Plex has a great ecosystem for mobile devices too. Joseph On Jan 29, 2014 4:10 PM, Stephen

Re: [OT] Facebook advertising

2013-12-01 Thread Joseph Cooney
Has anyone read 'the circle' yet by David Eggers...seems relevant. Amazon suggested it to me ;-) On Dec 2, 2013 3:32 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I'm glad the subject of 1984 finally came up in the context of advertising. When I read Orwell's book in early high school it had a deep and

Re: SCreen Recorder

2013-11-27 Thread Joseph Cooney
It is possible to do mp4 screen recording using sharpdx and their media foundation wrappers (or write your own media foundation wrappers if you like). I had some code once that did it, but not anymore. It was pretty fiddly. Joseph On Nov 28, 2013 9:09 AM, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote:

Re: dotnetobfuscator

2013-11-26 Thread Joseph Cooney
All managed code obfuscation can be broken, usually fairly easily. Mixed mode C++ /CLI for your IP sensitive code is one option, but to a determined reverse engineer even un-managed code is no big deal. The cost of protection should be in line with the value of the IP you're trying to protect.

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
I'm still confused - based on what we know now of the published nbn pricing, once all the sweetheart deals and honeymoon periods are over, what will a dedicated GB connection to my house cost under the nbn? What will an 'allocated' or whatever you want to call it 1gb connection cost? On Nov 13,

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-11 Thread Joseph Cooney
I'm confused. What WOULD a dedicated gigabit connection cost under the NBN? On Nov 12, 2013 5:10 PM, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote: It was deceptive rubbish. He implied that it would cost $20,000 for every household. It’s a blatant lie. *From:*

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-11 Thread Joseph Cooney
people to open their wallets. *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Cooney *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 November 2013 6:14 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* RE: NBN Petition I'm confused. What WOULD a dedicated gigabit connection cost under

RE: NBN Petition

2013-11-04 Thread Joseph Cooney
I would have thought if it was worth it to you to have that fast internet then you'd pay for it, and if it wasn't worth it then you wouldn't. That's how markets usually work. On 5 Nov 2013 14:01, Tony Wright tonyw...@gmail.com wrote: To keep it simple, I can look at a single function and see

Re: [OT] FTP client problems

2013-10-16 Thread Joseph Cooney
Re: prescription - it isn't polite to make fun of people with mental illnesses. http://www.riagenic.com/archives/934 Joseph On 17 Oct 2013 13:47, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Chaps, FileZilla or Wireshark! The former I haven't used and I won't learn anything if works or nor, unless it has

Re: Virtual visual studio development machine – looking for some setup advice

2013-10-02 Thread Joseph Cooney
This is pretty much how I work (local VMs, one per client/project, or remote VM supplied by the client that I rdp into). Code is checked in frequently and VMs are backed up to external drives so in the event of hardware failure I can be back up and running quickly. On 3 Oct 2013 10:43, Greg Harris

Re: [OT]Virtual File

2013-09-22 Thread Joseph Cooney
What soap stack does iPhone have that understands JavaScript redirects? On 23 Sep 2013 13:31, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: alternative 1: Change the response for the http://www.hello.com/webservice.asmx to be a javascript redirect to the other location On 23 September

Re: Expression Web

2013-09-15 Thread Joseph Cooney
Interesting point of history - expression web used to be called..drum roll Microsoft FrontPage. On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: FYI: The Product Manager (just one) for Expression Web (Ed - previously Adobe Dreamweaver) was one of the smarterst

Re: Code commenting

2013-09-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
TFS annotate? On 13 Sep 2013 14:47, anthonyatsmall...@mail.com wrote: Anyone suggest a method to autmaticlly comment code when lines have changed? Would be great to be able to see who changed what when viewing the code. ** ** At the moment,, we write comments like //xxMOD 12AUG13

Re: Code commenting

2013-09-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
Annotate is the 'glass is half full' name for blame in TFS. On 13 Sep 2013 14:50, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [OT] NBN revisited

2013-09-04 Thread Joseph Cooney
Re: taking Murdoch to court...never quarrel with a man who buys ink by the barrel. On 5 Sep 2013 10:07, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: He won't get the numbers and this morning I was in a cafe eating breakfast and saw him on Sunrise talking about how he's going to take Murdoch to

RE: Silverlight on Windows 8

2013-08-27 Thread Joseph Cooney
Yep. Supports flash but not Silverlight. On 28 Aug 2013 11:40, Bill McCarthy bill.mccarthy.li...@live.com.au wrote: I thought it does support flash |-Original Message- |From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet- |boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price |Sent:

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Joseph Cooney
The mono project and xamarin seem to be doing great things with and for .net. Apart from some bright spots, devdiv have jumped the shark. On 22 Aug 2013 15:16, Greg Harris harris.gre...@gmail.com wrote: I was told at Uni (1980) that COBOL was going to die real soon... Since then COBOL paid off

RE: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Joseph Cooney
...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Cooney *Sent:* Wednesday, August 21, 2013 10:22 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: Future of .NET ** ** The mono project and xamarin seem to be doing great things with and for .net. Apart from some bright spots

Re: [OT] Developer keyboard

2013-08-14 Thread Joseph Cooney
I am a big fan of the das keyboard mechanical keyboards. I have 2, one for home, one for work. Slight preference for the older II series. On 15 Aug 2013 13:59, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: You really ought to try a mechanical keyboard. They are more expensive but they are solid, well

Re: jQuery debugging

2013-07-08 Thread Joseph Cooney
My brother works on the chrome team. Are you saying there is something improper about the work he is doing? On 9 Jul 2013 13:38, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Thank chaps, I'll have to look into Chrome, although I've never previously allowed it only my work machines because it's like a virus,

Re: Message Queing

2013-06-20 Thread Joseph Cooney
I've had good experiences with zeromq, in a fairly limited context. On 21 Jun 2013 11:48, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi, Anyone can recommend a good message queuing system that works well with .Net? I'm only aware of ActiveMQ and MSMQ. I know ActiveMQ is Java based and

Re: 2 problems

2013-05-27 Thread Joseph Cooney
Some people have a problem and think I know, I'll use floating point numbers, now they have 1.7 problems. On 28 May 2013 11:32, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: - Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, I know, I'll use regular expressions. Now they have

RE: 2 problems

2013-05-27 Thread Joseph Cooney
419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Cooney *Sent:* Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:38 AM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: 2 problems

RE: Super Sync Sports

2013-02-27 Thread Joseph Cooney
Why do you say that? On 28 Feb 2013 16:02, Katherine Moss katherine.m...@gordon.edu wrote: By the way, where does ASP.net come into that? Writing a site in all HTML with no .net code is ... primitive. ** ** *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:

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 Joseph Cooney
You can side-load metro apps you develop yourself on Win8 enterprise, or pro if you go through a special activation process, or if you get a developer key. Sent from my phone On 31/10/2012, at 3:18 PM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.com wrote: To use use windows 8 Tablet, can one develop

Re: Greetings

2012-10-10 Thread Joseph Cooney
Agree. For example, what UI framework are you using? Winforms? WPF? Silverlight? More details, please. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.comwrote: It might help. if you post some snippets of your code. we can talk about something specific. sorry couldn't.

Re: [OT] Anti-Football League Greg Keogh

2012-09-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
I think hatters make hats... Sent from my iPhone On 29/09/2012, at 2:23 PM, Jimmy P m...@thejimmyp.com wrote: Hatters gonna hat On Saturday, September 29, 2012, Nick Hodge wrote: Sportsball is the opium of the working class From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com

Re: Server Monitoring

2012-08-25 Thread Joseph Cooney
I thought 'splunk' was the 'money is no object' option? Sent from my iPhone On 25/08/2012, at 7:19 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: If money is no object, SolarWinds If you want something vaguely approximate that is cheaper: WhatsUpGold. On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:07 PM,

Re: [OT] Anyone using Kinect?

2012-07-03 Thread Joseph Cooney
The XBox one works fine with the SDK, however the XBox kinect doesn't have 'near mode' if you're particularly interested in that http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kinectforwindows/archive/2012/01/20/near-mode-what-it-is-and-isn-t.aspx More info is in the FAQ

Re: .NET hosting + Sql server

2012-06-19 Thread Joseph Cooney
Azure or EC2? Sent from my iPhone On 19/06/2012, at 9:18 PM, Tom Gao t...@tomgao.com wrote: Hi Guys, Looking for a cheap .net host with sql server. Just wondering who everyone is using. Thanks, Tom

Re: Win8 Release Preview

2012-06-06 Thread Joseph Cooney
I just started thinking of that metro screen as a full-screen start menu and my yearning for one went away. Joseph On 07/06/2012, 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

Re: Colour Returns to Visual Studio 11 User Interface

2012-05-09 Thread Joseph Cooney
I like the look of the RC. Will be interested in using it a bit. On 09/05/2012, at 11:07 AM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: Thoughts? From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:59 PM To:

Re: Dump EntityFramework for LLBLGen

2012-04-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
My experiences with entity framework have been far from universally positive. Code first I find slightly discomforting from the get-go because of the plethora of attributes that end up on your model (especially when used in conjunction with ASP.NET MVC... ) everything from the UI to persistence

Re: Distributed Logging Experiences

2012-04-06 Thread Joseph Cooney
I've seen people use msmq to write a log entry locally and have it read from the local machine into a centralized location, but that was on a system with only about 20 web nodes. I've also seen ppl write to the windows event log, and use monitoring tools like SCOM to aggregate (also on about 20

Re: New look of Visual Studio, what are your thoughts?

2012-02-23 Thread Joseph Cooney
I'm disappointed that MS went after this instead of making an editor that can open a moderately large text file without halting for a few minutes. Joseph On 24/02/2012, at 3:15 PM, David Kean david.k...@microsoft.com wrote: We showed off the new look today:

Re: US Hosted VPS

2012-02-16 Thread Joseph Cooney
Yes re: permanent ip. +1 for ec2 recommendation. Sent from my iPhone On 17/02/2012, at 1:26 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: Quick question, do I get my own perm IP Address with EC2? On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: Amazon EC2

Re: Logging to database without installation

2012-02-15 Thread Joseph Cooney
Any reason not to use log4net, which has a built-in SQLite writer (as well as many others?) Sent from my iPhone On 16/02/2012, at 10:39 AM, ifum...@gmail.com wrote: I trying to develop a simple logging assembly that doesn’t rely on any installation. Should i use sqllite or sql server

Re: Hosted Source Control/Issue Tracking recommendations

2011-10-17 Thread Joseph Cooney
Other than github and bitbucket? On 17/10/2011, at 1:09 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I've been asked to evaluate cloud hosted source control and issue tracking and was wondering if you guys have any recommendations. We're currently looking at: Hosted TFS

Re: Hosted Source Control/Issue Tracking recommendations

2011-10-17 Thread Joseph Cooney
is not being considered as mercurial has better windows support. But thank you for the suggestions. On 17 October 2011 22:38, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote: Other than github and bitbucket? On 17/10/2011, at 1:09 PM, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I've been

Re: Opening .MSI databases

2011-10-14 Thread Joseph Cooney
There is super-orca http://www.pantaray.com/msi_super_orca.html Not sure how it compares to les msi erables. AllI know is it is more super than the regular orca. Joseph On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Yes, I should have mentioned that I have used

Re: WinRT vs World+Dog

2011-09-27 Thread Joseph Cooney
Wpf was unable to ditch the ui thread and message pump stuff because it caused problems with the clip board (and possibly other things). Probably the same thing with WinRT. On 28/09/2011, at 11:24 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM, David Kean

Re: Website request slow performance / timeouts

2011-06-09 Thread Joseph Cooney
Related fun: black hole routers http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314825 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Peter Maddin petermad...@iinet.net.auwrote: For what’s is worth I had a similar problem with sending data via FTP using a FTP control. The firewall would drop packets if it did not like the

Re: SQLite bulk insert performance

2011-05-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
I wouldn't bother e-mailing the SQLite folks. This is by design, and is a well known behaviour with SQLite. From memory if you don't explicitly have a transaction then one gets created for each operation, which slows things down. Joseph On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net

Re: SQLite bulk insert performance

2011-05-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
file open. Joseph On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Hurd markeh...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't that exactly the same as the default mode for SQL Server? On 29 May 2011 12:52, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't bother e-mailing the SQLite folks. This is by design

Re: Smart sheet - how do they do it?

2011-05-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
Gtk or gwt? On 12/05/2011, at 4:39 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: I saw the demo running and I was also amazed by the smooth and rich experience and wondered how it was done. Viewing the page source only showed some frames with no clue about what was in them. Right-clicking produced

Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp

2011-03-30 Thread Joseph Cooney
Why would you get paid extra to work at home? On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, djones...@gmail.com wrote: It's also justification to make people work at home for no extra money. .02c Davy When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I feel much the same way about xml

Re: Propagate Database changes to application

2011-03-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
What type of client is it? Do you control the means by which data is written to the table? Are clients deployed to the internet or intranet? What kind of database are we talking about here (I assume you mean SQL Server, since you mention SqlDependency) but which version? Joseph On Mon, Mar 28,

Re: Propagate Database changes to application

2011-03-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
can decide what to do about it. Kind of like a publisher / subscriber model implementation. I'm not 100% sure I'm going about it the right way or have the events in the right place (ie in the DAL).. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote: What type

Re: Databases for Local apps

2011-03-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
My vote would be for sqlite. Iirr it supports EF, is quite fast and rock solid. On 27/03/2011, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Price step...@littlevoices.com wrote: Hey all, Was thinking about a small app and it's not big enough to need an SQL database. I want it to be a single user deal and i'm

Re: [OT] Anti-Virus replacement for AVG

2011-03-20 Thread Joseph Cooney
Microsoft Security Essentials has an option to control how much CPU it uses during a scan - 50% is the default IIRR. I've used security essentials on several machines for the last 2 years and have never seen this problem. It could be some interaction between Thunderbird and Security Essentials.

Re: OT: External Security testing of websites

2011-03-14 Thread Joseph Cooney
Putting a big 'fuck you guys' message on 4chan is a great way to have your site pen-tested. Otherwise it's pay out 15-20k for some grad from [expensive-consulting-company-with-agressive-legal-dept] to run some scripts and copy-and-paste the output from the script window into a word document.

Re: Get version of native Windows 32 executable

2011-02-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
Qt looks pretty nice. It's a shame it's future is now under a cloud re: Nokia. Joseph On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:31 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 1 March 2011 14:18, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: David #2 Yes, I did that after seeing the response from my test code.

Re: Which IoC container should I use?

2011-02-20 Thread Joseph Cooney
I 3 Autofac. On 21/02/2011, at 10:23 AM, Bec Carter bec.usern...@gmail.com wrote: G'Day, What IoC containers do you all recommend? There are so many around! Cheers, Bec

Re: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

2011-02-03 Thread Joseph Cooney
Like many things in software development (and life) I think it's all about managing expectations. By choosing the word they did in their initial announcement red-gate set the expectation that there would continue to be a free version of reflector in perpetuity, so some people (I think

Re: Fwd: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

2011-02-02 Thread Joseph Cooney
I'm going back to anakrino. Who's with me? On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: On 3 February 2011 10:48, Glen Harvy g...@aquarius.com.au wrote: What's .Net Reflector? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300497.aspx -- w:

Re: Fwd: Red Gate will be charging $35 for .NET Reflector

2011-02-02 Thread Joseph Cooney
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:20 AM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 3 February 2011 10:19, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going back to anakrino. Who's with me? 35 smakers too rich for your blood joco? -- *David Connors* | da...@codify.com | www.codify.com Software

Re: EF4 custom views

2011-01-31 Thread Joseph Cooney
That was my experience with EF also. First thing I tried (a few years back now) was to get 'plug-able databases' working. I.e. Target sqlite or SQL server based on configuration change. The consensus on forums was to create two parallel sets of EF classes and wrap them both in a custom

Re: [OT] Selling 30 monitor, good place to advert, apart from usual places

2011-01-18 Thread Joseph Cooney
How much do you want for it? Joseph On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm trying to sell my 30 Dell monitor, have advertised on gumree, ebay, some usual forums, still no interested buyers. Anyone know of any other good places people

Re: FW: New Horizons Learning Centres Brisbane - Lending a Helping Hand

2011-01-17 Thread Joseph Cooney
Thomas helped out a few years back by providing a free venue for myself and a few other folks to do some free WPF community training. Donations for those attending the training (a few years back now) went to drought relief IIRR, so I'd say this is the real deal. Joseph On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at

Re: Spell check

2011-01-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
More context please. For visual studio (if so, which version)? For ASP.NET(and if so, which version)? For WinForms? For WPF? For Silverlight? For Windows Mobile? Compact Framework? Does it need to run on mono? Do you need to be able to customize the dictionary? What languages does it need to

Re: Code Obfuscation tool

2011-01-08 Thread Joseph Cooney
I don't mind eazfuscator, and SmartAssembly also seems good. Hanging out on the .net reverse engineering message boards for a while I came to the conclusion that all of these tools can be broken when enough effort is applied http://reteam.org/board/forumdisplay.php?f=28. I did a small write-up on

Re: gr1d.org - A persistent online multiplayer prorgamming game

2010-12-20 Thread Joseph Cooney
At least one of the developers is Australian too, so I think that means it's definitely 'on-topic' On 21/12/2010, at 12:21 PM, Michael Minutillo michael.minuti...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Last week I started playing a game called gr1d (at http://gr1d.org/ ). It's basically an MMO RPG

Re: In praise of SQLite

2010-12-04 Thread Joseph Cooney
SQLite is the 900lb gorilla in the room of in-process databases. It is in every mozilla install, android device, iOS device. It's the default database for Adobe AIR apps. Skype. Symbian. McAffee. It is widely used by pretty much everyone except Microsoft. It's fast (in my tests it was about 2x

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-06 Thread Joseph Cooney
handle that, only with faster commits and history. However, if you want the integration – TFS is definitely the way to go (however, I am biased J). From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Cooney Sent: Friday, November 05

Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-03 Thread Joseph Cooney
I've used TFS on and off since about 2006 (mostly because I was working at MS, as they are fond of TFS), but haven't used TFS 2010. It's biggest strength IMO is integration - requirements, work items, bugs, builds, source code and project documentation all from within Visual Studio. It's biggest

Re: Why DVCS, was Re: TFS Feedaback? Anyone moved away from it?

2010-11-03 Thread Joseph Cooney
. network I/O and better merging capabilities. High-level summary (from my POV) - DVCS well in a super-set of configurations to old skool SVN/TFS/CVS Joseph On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:28 AM, silky michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com

Re: Chair Recommendations

2010-10-05 Thread Joseph Cooney
I've had an Aeron for about 8 yearsI love it. It is super comfortable to sit in, and shows virtually no wear. I've never been to a physio so I don't know what they say My 2c. Joseph On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:27 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: I asked my physio this once. He

Re: Chair Recommendations

2010-10-05 Thread Joseph Cooney
Yeah, I think that's about right. On 05/10/2010, at 6:51 PM, Winston Pang winstonp...@gmail.com wrote: Holy moly, how much did it set you back? Last time I saw it, it was at like 1300, discounted even... On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com wrote: I've had

Re: Org Charts in .NET/WPF?

2010-09-10 Thread Joseph Cooney
Try the 'tree' layout in graph# on graphsharp.codeplex.com Sent from my iPhone On 10/09/2010, at 4:10 PM, Dylan Tusler dylan.tus...@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au wrote: __ Has anyone done any dynamic Org Chart work in WPF or

Re: Extensible Storage Engine

2010-08-07 Thread Joseph Cooney
collections using ESE as the backing storage, which seems a bit pointless. Anyway, just a heads up -- Greg -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net

Re: [OT] 2560x1600 widescreen LCDs

2010-07-04 Thread Joseph Cooney
wife that a spa, turbo Porsche, private helipad and wine cellar would help my productivity, but she just said I’d have to work harder and send out more invoices. Greg -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net

Re: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

2010-07-01 Thread Joseph Cooney
with yet another awesome software ad. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/gruentransfer/stories/s2907954.htm It’s a real product … http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/ …and I’m a PC. Tiang -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net attachment: gruen_fail.jpg

Re: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

2010-07-01 Thread Joseph Cooney
One man's cheesy is another man's water-boarding - I like that So have you tried songsmith? I see it is included in the MSDN. I might download it tonight. Joseph On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:03 PM, David Connors da...@codify.com wrote: On 1 July 2010 20:34, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo

Re: Microsoft Songsmith - Is it friday yet?

2010-07-01 Thread Joseph Cooney
OK, relax everyone.there is a free trial...downloading now http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/download.html On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.comwrote: Aw shucksSongsmith shows up as an item in the 'designer' section

Re: .NET Obfuscator Software..free!

2010-06-03 Thread Joseph Cooney
only the views of the sender and not the views of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council. maile 3_1_0 -- Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge Blog: http://wolfbyte-net.blogspot.com -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net

Re: benefits of using vs 2010

2010-05-12 Thread Joseph Cooney
Mob: 0417066315 Messenger: eddie_deb...@hotmail.com Skype: eddiedebear -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net

Re: GUI Design and storyboarding

2010-03-30 Thread Joseph Cooney
anything else to suggest instead? --Geoff -- Geoff Appleby -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net

Re: WPF Book Recommendations?

2010-03-28 Thread Joseph Cooney
Unleashed and liked it. -- Joseph Cooney http://jcooney.net