Re: AI

2024-02-24 Thread Michael Ridland via ozdotnet
If you’re a seasoned practitioner in the language it’s probably sitting around 1-2%, because it can help with some code conversions. Copilot code completions are amateur. For .net resharper/rider etc is actually a much better option than copilot, practical use of that is probably around 15% product

[JOB] Senior and Lead Developers

2022-06-01 Thread Michael Ridland
all aspects). We manage projects, customers and engagements well so you’ll have good projects and customers to work on. Please get in contact if you’re interested. Have a good day all. Thanks -- Michael Ridland co-CEO XAM Consulting xam-consulting.com

Re: Android internal testing

2021-10-12 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi Greg We use VS App Centre for internal testing - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/services/app-center/ Thanks On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 12:04 PM Greg Keogh wrote: > Hello again on a completely different matter ... for the first time in a > couple of years I've published an Android app for P

Re: [OT] 1970s computer articles

2020-08-09 Thread Michael Ridland
sic. > Carl Sagan on SETI. > Fractal music. > Gödel, Escher and Bach book announcement. > Imaginary numbers. > Rubik's cube. > Galois and the 5th degree equation. > > *Greg Keogh* > -- Michael Ridland co-CEO XAM Consulting xam-consulting.com

Re: [OT] Load testing web app

2019-08-21 Thread Michael Ridland
lly > > .net). Preferably something in the cloud but if I must I can get > > something installed on premises. Any recommendations? > > > > Cheers > > > -- [image: XAM-Consulting Pty Ltd] <http://www.xam-consulting.com/> [image: Twitter] <https://twitte

Re: Active Directory B2C

2016-10-10 Thread Michael Ridland
the app integration that you see in majority of apps that have social auth, generally that's a abysmal user experience. It's possible to have the Native app integration it just needs to be implemented using the Native SDK with your app and integrated with Azure. Thanks *Michael Ridland

Re: [OT] Looking for work

2016-06-06 Thread Michael Ridland
I've built many application with Angular so I know what it is. I was referring to the fact majority of development is done on existing system, people cannot rebuild large systems overnight?? *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specia

Re: [OT] Looking for work

2016-06-06 Thread Michael Ridland
I find it strange that there wouldn't be many jobs with MVC, there must be a large amount of codebases still using MVC? Thanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com On Tue

Re: Microsoft acquires Xamarin

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Ridland
than sensible to me to make it > available at a modest subscription cost – perhaps not with Community > Edition. > > > > Ian Thomas > > Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia > > > -- *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com

Re: [OT] New laptop

2015-11-16 Thread Michael Ridland
>>> >>>>> >>>>> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >>>>> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Thomas Koster >>>>> *Sent:* Friday, 28 August 2015 10:09 AM >>>>> *To:* ozDotNet >>>>> *Subject:* Re: [OT] New laptop >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 27 August 2015 at 19:28, wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What’s peoples views on Lenovo ATM given there have been a few PR >>>>> things happen in the last 12 months…? price v performance v reliability? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Are you talking about Superfish? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Consider how this could have happened and all the people who would >>>>> have had to sign off on this. I'll let people make up their own minds >>>>> about >>>>> the competence and trustworthiness of Lenovo... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Thomas Koster >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Meski >>>>> >>>>> http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, >>>>> you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> -- *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com

Re: [OT] Office 365

2015-11-01 Thread Michael Ridland
Wouldn't this all depend on your requirements? Thanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > Serious question – I

Re: IOS App

2015-10-29 Thread Michael Ridland
So FinishedLaunching shouldn't do any long running tasks, just setup the views and do the rest in background. Also need to test in release modes on devices. Thanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com

Re: IOS App

2015-10-29 Thread Michael Ridland
urity NSAllowsArbitraryLoads NSExceptionDomains Thanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Grant Molloy wrote: > Hi all, > > I'

Re: IOS App

2015-10-29 Thread Michael Ridland
sorry. NSAppTransportSecurity NSAllowsArbitraryLoads *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Michael Ridland wrote: > > Are you doi

Re: Mobile device photos

2015-10-21 Thread Michael Ridland
Just a quick question, can you get access to the image before you post it back or do you need to post it back first? THanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com On Thu, Oct 22

Will Code Xamarin for Food

2015-10-11 Thread Michael Ridland
a Xamarin App then we're available for work :). Well it'll be me and my team, which is 1 other Xamarin guru. My blog is www.michaelridland.com and you can contact me here <http://www.michaelridland.com/xamarin-developer-consultant-sydney-australia/> . Thanks *Michael Ridland | Te

Re: Xamarin feedback

2015-09-06 Thread Michael Ridland
You still have the windows project in the solution and when you want to test/develop on Windows you jump onto a Windows computer. If you want to have Windows project created on File->New you need to create the project on Windows. *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP*

Re: Xamarin feedback

2015-09-06 Thread Michael Ridland
vascript hacked together and put into a WebView. Thanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:48 PM, DotNet Dude wrote: > Sounds like native is the

Re: Xamarin licensing

2015-08-30 Thread Michael Ridland
ense. Thanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Is there anyone in here who is familiar with Xamarin licensing and

Re: Last words on AngularJS

2015-08-09 Thread Michael Ridland
27;m a ninja that can cut the flies precisely with my katana.* Oh, and if you like my writing, don't miss out on more of it - follow me on Quora and Twitter (http://twitter.com/mpjme) *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists ww

Re: Last words on AngularJS

2015-08-09 Thread Michael Ridland
min-improving-developer-productivity-by-deleting-28-000-lines-of-javascript> dumping rich clientside js and Basecamp never going that path. Thanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridla

Re: Visual Studio 2015

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

Re: Visual Studio 2015

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

Re: VS2015 RC and Xamarin

2015-05-27 Thread Michael Ridland
creek here. Can anyone confirm that Xamarin > based VS2015 RC projects actually work? There must be people out there > using VS to create Android and iOS apps, so how the hell are you doing it? > I'm curious because I'd like to get it working before the Hack day on > Saturd

Re: VS2015 and Xamarin

2015-05-26 Thread Michael Ridland
to download Xamarin as if it's not there. > > If things are this bad, then pehaps Xamarin is not supported on VS2015 RC. > Is that possible? Have I wasted 6 hours of installs?! > > *Greg K* > -- *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM

Re: Visual Studio 2015

2015-05-26 Thread Michael Ridland
before I found > time to try it. What's the deployment experience like? > > Most importantly ... how close can you get (or not get) to the native app > feel? > > *Greg K* > -- *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists www.xam-consulting.com Blog: www.michaelridland.com

Xamarin Hack Days

2015-05-20 Thread Michael Ridland
Hey All Just a reminder, we've got a few Xamarin hack days coming up. Melbourne 30 May Sydney 1st August Brisbane 19th September More info on the website <http://xamarinhackday.com/>. Thanks *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP* XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology

Re: SSL for ASP.NET MVC

2014-11-27 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi Tom It can be more complicated than that, take a look at this. http://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/04/23/stackoverflow-com-the-road-to-ssl/ On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Tom P wrote: > Hi Noonie > > That sounds good. So it can be turned on later on if necessary. > > Is it necessary for m

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-14 Thread Michael Ridland
Ha ha you could never use Apple as a reference for being friendly To devs, in the early days of iOS their platform was hardly documented and ide absolute junk, then you couldn't even talk in public forums about anything. Swift was many many years overdue. Apple don't give a $&#& about developers, p

Re: .NET Core is now open source

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Ridland
Well you can't sell software anymore only devices and services, why not open source and sell azure. It's a great and essential business move for MS. Definitely good news for any Microsoft developers, especially since over the last few years we've been getting 'beaten' by rails and other platforms

Xamarin Hack Day Sydney 6/12/14

2014-10-30 Thread Michael Ridland
So it's happening again the Xamarin hack day in Sydney 6/12/14. Sign up on the website http://xamarinhackday.com/sydney/. I'm wondering anyone is keen to do a presentation on the hack day? This time I'm having two tracks a 'beginner' or 'advanced' and I need presenters for both. Here some detail

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Ridland
27/announcing-bike-now-on-android-for-seattles>, it's in production https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/BikeNow. On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > > Man that Droid emulator sucks, try Geny motion it's a better emulator. > > Yes you pay for Xama

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Ridland
ebook-creating-mobile-apps-with-xamarin-forms-preview-edition.aspx >> >> >> — >> Sent from Mailbox <https://www.dropbox.com/mailbox> >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Michael Ridland > > wrote: >> >>> >>> Nice bl

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
Sorry to spam, I get excited and passionate sometimes! :) On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > > Nice blog post... but if they had just used Xamarin their job would have > been alot easier. > > They wouldn't of had to write their own persistance layer

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
i, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:29 PM, William Luu wrote: > On a related note, Dropbox used C++ for their Android/iOS apps - > http://oleb.net/blog/2014/05/how-dropbox-uses-cplusplus-cross-platform-development/ > > > On 24 October 2014 15:22, Michael Ridland wrote: > >> >> http:

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
... but that said, Xamarin is pretty heavy weight, it's s big learning curve.. if you want something lightweight and 'pretty' good you should try out Ionic... On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > > Go Xamarin it's the best! (Opinion may be b

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
http://ionicframework.com/ On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > > ... but that said, Xamarin is pretty heavy weight, it's s big learning > curve.. if you want something lightweight and 'pretty' good you should try > out Ionic... > > >

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
Go Xamarin it's the best! (Opinion may be bias www.michaelridland.com) Traditional Xamarin (Native API) as the platform is awesome and solid and fast, the IDE and some of the tools around it can be a bit buggy. Xamarin.Forms is pretty early, and can be frustrating but I have build some XPlat app p

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
I kind of don't understand what they do, their just a robust keyboard? You still have to press as hard? I've been loving apple keyboards as it's soft and easy to press, is it like this or going in the opposite direction? Thanks On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > Th

Raygun for Internal Systems

2014-10-22 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi All I love Raygun but at my current engagement I can't use it due to information leak/IP politics. We have all the data in SQL Server so I'm wondering if there's a client UI like raygun that can be used on a custom data store? Thanks

Re: Bare bones web app

2014-09-26 Thread Michael Ridland
Node? On Saturday, September 27, 2014, Greg Keogh wrote: > > Folks, as an experiment I want to write a completely stripped bare web > application that manually reads the raw request text and sends back the > response text. > > Aha! I think I found it, sort of. I remembered a few years ago I had

Re: DDD Melbourne Ticket

2014-07-15 Thread Michael Ridland
Andrew can't buy the tickets anymore so the Tickets are still available! On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Andrew Tobin wrote: > Hey Michael, I'd be happy to take those off your hands - contact me off > list? > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Michael Ridland wr

DDD Melbourne Ticket

2014-07-15 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi All My friend has decided to have his 30th birthday on the day of DDD. So I have two tickets for DDD if anyone wants them maybe 2 for $40? Thanks

Re: Xamarin Hack Day

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Ridland
19 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • >> http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat >> >> *Sent from the **new Office* <http://office.com/preview> >> >> >> >> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotn

Xamarin Hack Day

2014-06-12 Thread Michael Ridland
In case you missed it there's a Xamarin Hack day happening next Saturday. All are welcome. http://xamarinhackday.com/

Sydney Xamarin Hack Day

2014-05-05 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi All I'm trying to put together a community driven Xamarin hack day. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/sydney-xamarin-hacker-days-tickets-11534378637 I've met a few people that have been using Xamarin heavily and I wanted to get experienced (and beginner) Xamarin developers together to share stories,

Re: GUIDs

2014-05-02 Thread Michael Ridland
Guids are also great for offline distributed clients. AutoInc numbers will be a thing of the past. On Friday, May 2, 2014, Jano Petras wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > Guids are easiest way forward - due to their uniqueness and native support > by the DB engine. > > The only time I would consider using

Re: [OT] Thurday afternoon rant

2014-04-29 Thread Michael Ridland
There's also the xsd and XML serialisation so you can deal with clr objects entities. But just use json On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Greg Keogh wrote: > That piece of code looks so freaking ugly Greg. new XElement("dasdass",new >> XElement( ... )) .. w t f >> > > Hi CIT,

Re: [OT] Thurday afternoon rant

2014-04-09 Thread Michael Ridland
Hey Preet I hate the xml api in .net. I started using json.net to parse xml into a dynamic object. dynamic purchaseOrder = JObject.Parse(JsonConvert.SerializeXmlNode(xDoc.DocumentElement)); dynamic delAddress = purchaseOrder.ShipTo.Detail.DeliveryAddress; var meh = purchaseOrder.BuyerOrderNo; O

Re: Web API weird problems

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Ridland
The first thing I did was remove the XML serializer. The json took over as default and then I changed the json formatter(I think it's called) to the camel case formatter. Works nicely. On Friday, January 17, 2014, David Burstin wrote: > I tried the first of these but it didn't work for me. YMM

Re: [OT] 43°C here

2014-01-16 Thread Michael Ridland
Yeh until I leave work I'm not aware of the day outside. On Friday, January 17, 2014, Corneliu I. Tusnea wrote: > 22°C in my office :) > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Stephen Price > 'step...@perthprojects.com');> > > wrote: > >> It's showing 26° for my suburb. :) >> >> >> >> >> On Fr

Re: ASMX vs SVC basicHtpBinding

2013-12-17 Thread Michael Ridland
Legacy Support? On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Katherine Moss wrote: > Then where do ASMX and SVC services fit in these days? > > > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Michael Ridland > *Sent:* Tuesday, D

Re: ASMX vs SVC basicHtpBinding

2013-12-17 Thread Michael Ridland
WebAPI with JSON? http://www.asp.net/web-api Or if you want to have some fun you could use Node.js? Or there's NancyFX? On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I recently had a write a few web services and I had the choice of > using SVC with basicHttpBinding or the tra

[OT] Facebook advertising

2013-11-30 Thread Michael Ridland
Http://www.adroll.com/retargeting On Sunday, December 1, 2013, Grant Molloy wrote: > They pay money for reported bugs dont they?? > On Dec 1, 2013 10:25 AM, "David Connors" wrote: > >> Facebooks advertising seems mostly to work via the referrer from the site >> you came in from or the like/fb c

Re: NBN Petition

2013-11-06 Thread Michael Ridland
Where did u get FTTH? On Wednesday, November 6, 2013, Scott Barnes wrote: > Blah blah blah Govt suck.. Insert arm-chair economists / political science > rants..Jaded little mitch aren't I ;) > > But why not take the petition concept a different direction. How can > Google apply these strategies

Re: [OT] Online task management tool

2013-11-05 Thread Michael Ridland
We use and love Asana, it's simple and works well. better than trello I find. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Jorke Odolphi wrote: > If your repo is on git – github is great, has issues that can be tagged > to milestones and labelled etc. I have a 5 person team on this, after > moving from jir

Re: [OT] Your "hero" - Steve Jobs or Dennis Ritchie?

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Ridland
Purely speculatively... Richie was probably... - a happier person - had a better family life - didn't live in a dumpster - he lived 14 years longer. - didn't care for glory, and just had fun inventing things Not a bad life for him I'd guess. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Scott Barnes

Re: Has anyone used Sencha

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Ridland
I prefer twitter bootstrap over both of them because it's clean simple and open. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Nathan Chere wrote: > Keeping in mind I haven’t used Sencha for anything commercial beyond a > feasibility spike, it seemed completely outclassed by Kendo (hence going > with that

Re: Silverlight on Windows 8

2013-08-27 Thread Michael Ridland
I've been doing alot of work with Xamarin and MvvmCross, in a multi platform world this is one of the best solutions right now. Javascript is not ready yet but it's moving fast. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Scott Barnes wrote: > I'm wondering should developer relations sour further wha

Re: JS to WinService

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi Niaz Maybe your leader and yourself are thinking of the same thing, as maybe he/she is referring to a ajax request as client side? Because when you don't use ajax you're doing full page request which 'could' be thought of as a server request while ajax as a client request? On Tue, Aug

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Michael Ridland
ng language. >>>> >>>> Certainly I like the direction Microsoft is going by cherry picking the >>>> best out of other technologies (e.g. lamda expressions, dynamic language >>>> run-time, and MVC). Compiler as a Service also seems to have interesting

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Michael Ridland
Does this eventually filter into enterprise and if so what does that mean for .NET? On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Michael Ridland wrote: > > Python / Django / Rails. > > I think you would be hard press for find a .NET job on AngelList. Well > actually I can see 53 compan

Re: Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Michael Ridland
, Rob Andrew wrote: > Michael, > > What is the development platform of choice for the cool kids you are > seeing? > > Just wondering. > > Rob > > > > *- Original Message -* > *From:* Michael Ridland [mailto:rid...@gmail.com] > *To:* ozdotnet@ozdotne

Future of .NET

2013-08-21 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi It's clear that in the Start-up and Web communities the choice for development platforms is not .NET. Does this mean eventually this will filter up? I'm wondering what this means for the future of .NET? I once had a developer say .NET is the new COBOL.

Re: Server-side data to JavaScript

2013-07-10 Thread Michael Ridland
If the data doesn't change then js on the page is a better option because you don't have to make another call with latency. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:34 AM, David Smith wrote: > jQuery, WebAPI and KnockoutJS > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:

Re: jQuery debugging

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Ridland
Things don't work as I expect. Works fine for me :) I don't want to write it myself. There are lots of bugs. How is there bugs? You can't just learn something from a book. Kinda of a crappy way to learn anyway, slow and dated, learn from github that's better. People are inventing stuff too fast

Re: jQuery debugging

2013-07-08 Thread Michael Ridland
Learn to love the web and javascript as there's a hidden beauty once you've mastered it. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > My brother also works at Google. Are you saying he is a virus writer? > > One could argue the same about Microsoft. And Yahoo. And Facebook. And > . Pe

Re: HTML5 capabilities

2013-06-30 Thread Michael Ridland
The problem with this is that it uses (http://fb.html5isready.com/) Safari a not UIWebView like phonegap+others. Javascript performance on UIWebView is much slower. Our app is 'businessy' and truthfully it did work ok as html5 but there's definitely a speed difference. We wanted to give our users

Re: HTML5 capabilities

2013-06-30 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi Greg We've spent the last 18 months building a mobile version of our ERP software @ www.happen.biz. About 9 months of that was using html5 which we pushed to it's limits but in the end it just wasn't 'good' enough, by good enough I mean primarily fast enough. We tried out Xamarin and never look

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Ridland
I wouldn't be happy with that either, actually I even prefer to avoid vm's if possible can't have stuff slowing me down.. and I wont work without SSD these's days either. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > I have heard of it but never had to. I think it would driv

Re: Super Sync Sports

2013-02-28 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi Paul I think you'll find the majority of developers hand code html via a texteditor. Since VS's primary function is a text editor it's been able to do html5 before html5 existed. Many companies try to create WYSIWYG editors but they never work well enough so they die. The best tool to help yo

Re: [OT] Android - Windows communications

2012-11-19 Thread Michael Ridland
Sounds like a good case for a cloud services, what about windows mobile services? Then it would 'just work' for the user. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Ian Thomas wrote: > Katherine – not an option, since the UPDRS testing system has been written > already with the Android SDK (java). The

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

2012-10-16 Thread Michael Ridland
Yes, i was keen to buy one but price was an issue when it came to crunch. I bet many feel the same. On Wednesday, October 17, 2012, Preet Sangha wrote: > Looks like I wont' be splashing out for a while > > > http://surface.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/Content/pbpage.Surface?ESICaching=o

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

2012-10-05 Thread Michael Ridland
It's sad but true that many SEO's and Social Media Marketing companies are like that (not all, I'm sure there's some really good ones). The problem is that anyone can start one of these companies even if they have no clue, the other day an acquaintance told me he was going to start a social media m

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Ridland
cemaps) > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > >> >> Yeah I use SCSS would not do web without it(well now anyway) there's >> a plugin called web workbench that will auto convert to normal css on save. >> >> >> >>

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Ridland
n 5 October 2012 14:03, Scott Barnes wrote: > >> JavaScript is dead to me.. I bow before the typescript ecma 6 overlords >> .. Now to convert CSS to resource dictionaries and I may actually high five >> HTML again >> >> On 05/10/2012, at 9:24 AM, "Michael Ridland&

Re: Opinions of TypeScript?

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Ridland
Recently I spent 9 months full time doing Javascript building a large application, I was open minded and learnt to like it. But coming back to c# recently I realised just how many leagues better c# was than javascript(I don't dare say this at sydjs). Typescript bring some really nice things to jav

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

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi James I do alot of SEO/Digital Marketing consulting and unless you want to sell your soul what you're really looking for is an inbound marketing & lead nurturing strategy. I say this because, unless you're using black hat strategies ranking #1 is really hard and someone else that's using black

Re: What framework do you use?

2012-08-26 Thread Michael Ridland
For vanilla websites I use wordpress and love it. For web apps I use asp.net mvc and jquery For mobile apps I use backbone.js / jQM / phonegap For Windows apps I use nothing because windows apps suck and same with xaml On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Arjang Assadi wrote: > Hello everyone

MCSD Content

2012-07-29 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi I'm wondering where I can get access to the content required for these certifications? https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcsd-windows-metro-style-apps.aspx

Re: ASP.NET modal dialog effect

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Ridland
h Javascript and ASP.NET combined has been a > nightmare of quirks and failure trying to manage the lifetime and > interaction of the two. So I’m hoping there are some kits or tools to help > me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated so I can knock-up a demo asap. > > > ** ** &

Re: Questions about iPad and iPhone

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Ridland
? Or Java? Or HTML5? If anyone > knows anything technical about writing apps for Windows and Mac and the > issues involved I’d love to hear your comments. > > ** ** > > Cheers, > > Greg > -- *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Managing Director P. 040

Re: What's up with braces?

2012-06-28 Thread Michael Ridland
>book >> also authoritatively states that indented braces are now recommended. >> So am I caught on the losing side of a braces battle? >> >> ** ** >> >> It may seem trivial, but your eyes and brain get used to a certain >> appearance of code (like t

VentraIP servers are compromised

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi All This is a just a notice to anyone that's with VentraIP, their servers are compromised. It been multiple people I've spoken to with the issues. == I have an account with VentraIP for webhosting and have about 12 client sites there, nothing much just small business stuff with some Static HTM

Re: ASP.Net 1.0 in 3.5 container

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Ridland
t; fruitlessly scouring the web. It seems like the web has cleansed itself of >> most. Net 1.0 info!! >> >> Has anyone out there faced and defeated (or turned and run away screaming >> for their mummy) this type of beast? >> >> Can you use. Net 1.0 user cont

Re: [OT] Removing private details on Internet

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Ridland
t; contacted them. > > Cheers > Bec > -- *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Managing Director P. 0404 865 350 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au T. www.twitter.com/rid00z L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland <http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland>

Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Ridland
d get off :) > > Behind the scene we will send Leeds to him & vendor(Taxi company), and > then off course when he has done final booking confirmation email. > > So any idea for this scenario.? > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Michael Ridland wrote: > >> Muham

Re: About Validate Email

2012-04-11 Thread Michael Ridland
ient side :) >> > I have to validate the email i.e. weather is exists or Bounce back with >> some >> > error information. >> > Is there any standard way to validate email address and its source >> code.? >> > >> > >> > Thanks in advance.:

Re: US Hosted VPS

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Ridland
Quick question, do I get my own perm IP Address with EC2? On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk wrote: > Amazon EC2 works well, and can be easily scaled up or down to suit > requirements. > > Craig. > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Michael Ridland wro

US Hosted VPS

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi Can anyone recommend a good US based VPS company? Thanks, *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Managing Director P. 0404 865 350 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au T. www.twitter.com/rid00z L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland <http://au.linkedin.com

Re: Mapping .css and image files through asp.net even with Integrated Pipeline and asp.net MVC 3

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Ridland
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2541650/asp-net-mvc-not-using-controller-for-explicit-file-route-in-iis7 :( On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Michael Ridland wrote: > Mapping .css and image files through asp.net even with Integrated > Pipeline and asp.net MVC 3 > > I've got some complex rout

Mapping .css and image files through asp.net even with Integrated Pipeline and asp.net MVC 3

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Ridland
Mapping .css and image files through asp.net even with Integrated Pipeline and asp.net MVC 3 I've got some complex routes setup in my asp.net mvc 3 project, unit tested and working on development. For the most part they're working with IIS7 and Integrated Pipeline and having mapAllRequests=true.

Re: Ideas and IP

2011-12-22 Thread Michael Ridland
. >> >> In the end, we're looking for ways forward that benefit all parties, >> but are quite prepared to just walk away if such a solution cannot be >> achieved. >> >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I understand it's not >> legally bin

Other developers don't like dependency injection

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Ridland
So I've been working with this client for a few years now, all the other developers aren't alt.net type. They're older and just love their RAD, User Controls, coming from a dephi background. It took me a while but finally I got them doing unit testing, but still not as much as I would like. Today

Re: jQuery advanced intellisense

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Ridland
ces-the-javascript-experience/> > > (yes i know this isnt markup but i couldnt help myself) > > > On 21/10/2011 8:18 AM, Michael Ridland wrote: > > Hey All > > Do you find that developing rich javascript applications can be very time > consuming? I find myself switching

Re: [OT] Job linux developer (with dotnet skills)

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Ridland
e > some skills with dotnet. > > If interested send me an email...thanks > > Anthony > -- *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Managing Director P. 0404 865 350 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au T. www.twitter.com/rid00z L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland <http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland>

jQuery advanced intellisense

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Ridland
cript files -id checking in javascript files -syntax checking in javascript files Does this exist already? If not, someone needs to invent this as a VS pluggin. They would make some good coin, if they did it nice. *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Managing Director P. 0404 865 350 E.

Re: HttpContext/etc interfaces in webforms 4.0

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Ridland
u're looking for, depends a bit on why you want > them, but the following classes are in System.Web: > > ** ** > > HttpContextBase > > HttpRequestBase > > HttpResponseBase > > HttpSessionStateBase > > ** ** > > etc... > >

HttpContext/etc interfaces in webforms 4.0

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Ridland
Hi Silly question time. I do remember talk that post 3.5 many asp.net pipeline classes would be interfaced, eg Session, Request, Response. I'm having trouble finding details on the web and locating in the framework. Is this true or am I dreaming? Thanks *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Di

Re: New laptop

2011-10-09 Thread Michael Ridland
nitely worth it, seriously whats the price of a wall? *Michael Ridland | ThinkSmart Digital* Managing Director P. 0404 865 350 E. mich...@thinksmartdigital.com.au W. www.thinksmartdigital.com.au T. www.twitter.com/rid00z L. au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridland <http://au.linkedin.com/in/michaelridl

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