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by nigelsampson 15y ago
From what I've read about the way Metro style apps can implement contracts it wouldn't be hard to build an S3 app that let you load and save files from any application to your Amazon storage.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Mango added the ability to query contact and calendar data without the chooser UI. However it does require a declared capability in the app manifest.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
I'm also surprised Microsoft hasn't taken advantage of this in marketing Windows Phone since it has a capabilities model similar to Android.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Agreed, that's the first question as soon as I saw the concept.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
I've found a lot of companies don't like giving feedback of negative outcomes for fear of opening themselves up to some sort of liability around discrimination. Realistically it shouldn't be a problem if they handled the interview correctly
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Would love to see RavenDB http://ravendb.net/ supported in the same way as MongoDB.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Based off my wife's experiences here in New Zealand while planning the wedding this practise is very common in the wedding dress industry.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Agreed, constructor injection is pretty much the only type of "dependency injection" that makes sense to me. The less magic the better.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
I enjoyed Load and Reload, gave up after buying St Anger. Favourite album is S&M.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
In New Zealand I do remember a instance where a politician voted against what they personally believe in due to what their electorate wanted. Sadly the details escape me at the moment.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
It's interesting how it talks about how employees aren't loyal to companies, I think a lot of this is because most companies don't show much loyalty to their employees. Although it seems more likely in start ups. When companies show loyalty
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Agreed, I've owned my first smartphone (an HTC Trophy) for about a year now, the last six months having the data connection on (using prepaid data). It certainly makes the phone a whole different experience.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
I think this is a problem that surrounds us in tech, that we approach everything with the notion of "for x to win, y must lose".
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
I suspect the overall decrease is because the growth of Windows Phone isn't as strong as the decline of Windows Mobile. Overall I think it would have been a good idea if Microsoft had done better in separating the brands. Right now its to c
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
This also doesn't take into account the impact that being stricter on cheating had on the non-cheating members of the class.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Most of the your examples look like they're caused by the base class library not keeping up with language advancements. Which I agree can be a real issue.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
I wonder if this was in reaction to the same pricing change from MS Azure http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/06/22/anno...
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
This seems the most likely option in my opinion. A lot of panic and scaremongering based off a few snippets. I imagine we'll see other ways to build into the tablet UI apart from html5/js.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Series was one thing I added to my blog as a way to group posts into a ordered series and so to let people see related content. I think its become very useful.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Exactly OAuth works well on the web when the requesting application doesn't have control of the browser. In any situation where the requesting application controls the browser you may as well just hand it your password.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
This approach which is very common completely breaks the security OAuth was designed for. If my app hosts the browser control, then there's nothing stopping me injecting custom javascript into the page to listen for input events. Not to men
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
You can do it on the WP7 marketplace using the clumsy messaging built into Zune. Not ideal at all. Only thing I can suggest is making your contact information highly visible in the app (just above the "review app" button) helps solicit feed
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
Let's hope this doesn't affect the direction of the .net platform. There's been a lot of great change lately with more open source work, smaller and more frequent revisions in platforms such as MVC. I'd hate to see it fall to the wayside.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
We used to give it to candidates who showed up overly early to interviews. Something reasonably simple they could do waiting in reception while we got people together for the actual interview. I think the success rate was around 50% with th
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
They have done this with Facebook, after setting up your People hub becomes a merged list of both your contacts and facebook friends. Status updates from both etc. I believe similar Twitter integration is in the works.
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by nigelsampson 15y ago
In New Zealand, Fatso competes with physical rental. http://www.fatso.co.nz
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by nigelsampson 16y ago
It's nice to see more comments around that there will never be a one solution to fit all the problems (as much as geeks seem to want to find one) especially from Microsoft.
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by nigelsampson 16y ago
Agreed, the lack of enum support drives me nuts. Hell I wrote an ORM in the .Net 1.1 days that had it. Still I'm glad they've released this, more "out of band" releases from Microsoft are a good thing. When frameworks and features aren't ti
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by nigelsampson 16y ago
With toxins this deadly you're safe until you're dead. Unless you're lucky like the guy in the story and inhale the toxin.
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by nigelsampson 16y ago
I learnt C programming Quake 2 modifications, picked up C++ at university and haven't used it since.

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