JonoW

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by JonoW 13y ago
As long as an ORM allows you to break out and right custom optimised SQL when needed, then I see no reason to write all your SQL by hand. ORMs are great for covering basic, repetitive queries, but there are times where it's not producing
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by JonoW 14y ago
The key difference is that there is no way for Microsoft to revoke an application from a users pc (pre app store I mean)
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by JonoW 14y ago
Windows Phone does this well with trial mode, you download the full app but it has a trial switch that the dev can choose to limit features. If you then buy it, the switch reverts, you don't need to download again. Works well for games espe
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by JonoW 14y ago
WPF, DirectX? No...
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by JonoW 14y ago
Regarding deployment/packaging, there is MsDeploy for that. You can deploy files, IIS settings, db scripts, registry settings from a sip package
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by JonoW 14y ago
To be fair, positions 1, 2 and 3 (JavaScript, SQL, jQuery) are "common" languages in that most web developers use/need them in addition to their core server language/framework (apart from node.js of course).
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by JonoW 14y ago
To what exactly? The problem is that video steaming services need to toe the line with the studios. They want DRM, so what other options are there to stream DRMed video in a browser? until studios give up on DRM, Flash and Silverlight will
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by JonoW 14y ago
XAML is very vector orientated, most apps will (should) not include pixel based art-work unless really necessary.
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HTML6 Should Have Composeable Elements(tech-journals.com)
4 points by JonoW 14y ago|3 comments
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by JonoW 14y ago
I think something like this in combination with Kinect/Leap would be an incredibly immersive experience.
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by JonoW 14y ago
One bit I think is poor design is that parseInt parses all characters until it finds a non numeric one. It can introduce some really subtle bugs.
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by JonoW 14y ago
The crazy part is that it's not a bug; it's behaving exactly as it's specified to.
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by JonoW 14y ago
Why not just pay 300 bucks for an actual games console? They seem infinitely more capable of handling media than this.
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by JonoW 14y ago
I'm really saddened by the cynical tone of the many critics of Oscar out there. People only seem to focus on the advantages his prosthetics, whilst ignoring what must be a multitude of disadvantages. He has less leg power to power out of th
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by JonoW 14y ago
What does that even mean?
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by JonoW 14y ago
I think the problem is that all the companies involved (Apple, Microsoft, Google etc) are American; if the products of one American company are banned somewhere, another American company will invariably benefit. I think if an American compa
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by JonoW 14y ago
Do you really think the Nokia board hired Elop without thinking about a partnership with MS?
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by JonoW 15y ago
Ah crazy, didn't know that was against the AdWords T&Cs...
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by JonoW 15y ago
Or just create set up some Google Ads to do the hard-work for you, for a couple bucks (or free if you can get some AdWord vouchers): http://lifehacker.com/5854955/how-to-max-out-your-dropbox-re... If I were DropBox, I wouldn't mind this o
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by JonoW 15y ago
Given that tHN is full of developers, I'm pretty disapointed that so many ppl are lumping all the IE's together as a single product. I totally see that IE6 & 7 are not worth the dev effort, IE8 is probably border-line, but IE9 is a good
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by JonoW 15y ago
Silverlight 5 and WebGL offer hardware accelerated 3D graphics. So if you're making a new 3D game from scratch, SL or WebGL could be worth looking into. If a company has no plans to use these premium features, then yes, I would imagine they
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by JonoW 15y ago
No options? Silverlight? WebGL? Sure they may not be perfect, but for 9% of revenue, companies will consider alternatives pretty quickly
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by JonoW 15y ago
Article is not clear whether Azure instances are down, or just the service management tools? But either way, ouch!
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by JonoW 15y ago
"Can't all modern Android tablets connect to all modern peripherals? The first one to ever exist (Xoom) can connect to a display, wireless keyboard, and can act as a USB host to connect to arbitrary USB devices. I imagine the most recent ta
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by JonoW 15y ago
How is that different from any other OSS project? If MS wants, they could look at a projects source code and decide that they've violated a patent and sue them. To my knowledge they're yet to do this.
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by JonoW 15y ago
Cheapest is actually $39.99. For some reason, that pricing calculator doesn't give the option for the extra small compute size, which is $30 a month. Check out this link which has more detail: https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/cal
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by JonoW 15y ago
I guess I was more meaning the artists (or even group of artists) hiring their own marketing people, i.e. not contracting out to an agency, but actually having their own staff, probably people that have worked at labels before. No idea if t
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by JonoW 15y ago
One thing I've never understood about the music industry regarding the marketing argument - why don't the really big, successful artists just pay for their own marketing? Hire a team to do it for them and skip out the labels entirely. They
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by JonoW 15y ago
Correction - you can use NuGet with VS Express. One thing to consider about costs; to use a $4 version of xcode you have to buy a Mac, so the price differential is probably not as much as you are making out. I use VS professional at work, V
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by JonoW 15y ago
Keep in mind that most of the MSDN has copy-pasteable links (at least last time I checked, i.e. this morning), e.g. the entire set of .NET BCL reference docs. But, they don't use a syntax highlighter on those, boo to them.

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