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by gouranga 14y ago
It's still that easy with .Net and Visual Studio :) XAML or WinForms still rock.
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by gouranga 14y ago
We're still running vb6 code inside COM on win2k3. It's ugly but it works (just about)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Do what you love doesn't pay the bills. If I did what I loved, I'd be in the garden or knee deep in solder. I do what I have to do, so I'm chained in front of Visual Studio.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Windows 8 fixes that.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Yes. It is standard on windows to use connection strings. Also it stops then node.js driver being coupled to particular SQL client versions. It does look rather gnarly but if you work with it for a bit, you will find that connection strings
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by gouranga 14y ago
You don't have to use it if you don't want to.
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by gouranga 14y ago
it does make sense. The connection string is passed to the underlying SQL client as is. That means that you don't have to update the node driver code as well as SQL client if they change the connection string capabilities or SQL client vers
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by gouranga 14y ago
What about debugging and fix time and regression rate? Those are the things that concern me.
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by gouranga 14y ago
And all I've had to buy is Angry Birds, which is a tribute to how good the apps that come with the device are (Nokia Lumia 710 anyway). Super-happy with my Windows Phone!
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by gouranga 14y ago
Correct. They are dropping the Windows bit. Details here: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-renames-azure-services
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by gouranga 14y ago
I posted this article on HN. There is an underlying tone in the community but some of us make a living thanks to Microsoft. I am impressed that they have done this, which is why I posted it.
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Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure(windowsazure.com)
173 points by gouranga 14y ago|113 comments
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by gouranga 14y ago
select2-2.0.zip contains a file select2.min.js which is 7KiB gzipped (it's 22KiB uncompressed). I should have stated that was the compressed size.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Thanks! This is considerably smaller than I expected it to be as well (7KiB minified) which is an acceptable size to chuck into our site.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I had one years ago that came from an IT auction for the princely sum of £40. That included basically everything but the PC including the big nest thing you had to stand in. I set it up to work with AlphaWorld on a windows 95 machine. It re
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by gouranga 14y ago
Can you just buy from another European country and import? German customs are pretty rubbish at catching such things from my understanding. AFAIK you only get screwed on retail purchases.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Thank you - much easier :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
TBH my general health has improved after I stopped giving a crap about rules and regulations and just eat when I need to not when I want to. Determining between want and need is the hard bit.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I didn't find that, with the PC version. It decided to reorganise everything automatically after an iTunes update. I couldn't trust it again after that.
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by gouranga 14y ago
If you don't like the homepage/new tab thing (I don't), as there appears to be no options pane thing to disable it, do this: 1. visit about:config 2. Search for browser.newtabpage.enabled 3. Set to false
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by gouranga 14y ago
Similar. I keep my music in the filesystem in one directory and Zune just abstracts it behind a series of views (very differently to how iTunes does it). You get the best of both worlds then.
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by gouranga 14y ago
This sounds like an admission that the web isn't up to all tasks...
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by gouranga 14y ago
Just a FYI, I've been to Auschwitz personally, had two relatives starve to death there as children (much worse than getting gassed if you ask me) under Soviet control in Jan '45 and three survive. TBH the two who are still alive laugh about
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by gouranga 14y ago
Enterprise java these days is like Germany after the wall came down I.e. A much better place. agile is still Auschwitz.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'd hire you in a flash. You were hit with the clue stick at birth!
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by gouranga 14y ago
The normals should be talking to you rather than sending you crap. Its your opportunity to make sure their brains have been translated properly.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I sort of agree. I recommend the following: Use a kanban chart (don't be tempted to do it in JIRA or some other atrocity), fire all the meddling project trolls, fire any crap developers, fire your outsourcing company, get a DVCS in, drown y
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by gouranga 14y ago
An agile project manager is the stupidest concept ever. A lean process requires no ceremonial positions, bean counters or project trolls. If you have an agile project manager, welcome to extreme waterfall programming. Note: this is from exp
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by gouranga 14y ago
No. I worked on unrelated things that blow up and kill people (no more!). Lots of black holes with big obvious scary pieces missing. Drawing assumptions doesn't violate clearance. Speculation is allowed. Some things don't fit into normal te
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's what you now know about. They are probably quite primitive devices if they let you find out about them. From real experience, the commercial and public space programmes are positively infantile compared to the black project space pro

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