Thanks. I stand corrected. I don't think that fact is widely known in New Zealand where I think the organize is considered much the same as color or center.
This does explain something I saw on a recent trip to Canada. British spelling everywhere but I was surprised to see the emergency turnaround points on highways were for "Authorized vehicles Only".
We have standard plates and conservation plates otherwise known as moose plates because they have a picture of a moose. Some of the cost of them goes towards conservation programs.
I've learnt that you can have exactly the number on a standard and a moose plate, different cars, different owners. Is that normal in other states? I always thought that the state and number was enough for uniqueness. Obviously not in NH.
Someone told me this long ago... I don't know if its true but...
Someone in the Pacific during WWII made a lot of money by having a snake in a big glass bowl or something. He would get someone to hold their hand on the outside of the glass and then make a bet with them that they couldn't kept their hand there while the snake attacked them (safely) from the inside of the glass. I guess the rules were that they had to keep their eyes open and looking at the snake. He very seldom, if ever, lost the bet. Everyone, no matter how big and tough or unafraid of snakes they were, would involuntarily pull their hand away suggesting some sort of inbuilt fear of snakes.
Re:probably on Microsoft's list of next important
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Windows/IIS will never compete in the $20/month free PHP package market, so it's not really worth bothering about.
That might have been true a few years ago but not now. Have a look at the Windows (and Linux) offerings, including SQL Server, at JodoHost. I'm not connected with them other than as a happy customer. There are plenty of bad Windows hosting companies out there but there are also good ones with prices pretty much the same as LAMP.
I've done a few spare time projects for non-profits. Previously my only realistic choice for these was PHP / MySQL mostly because of hosting and tool costs but my latest project uses.NET / C# / SQL Server. With low cost IIS hosting, versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server that are either free or low cost, the features of ASP.NET 2 and DotNetNuke, I probably won't be returning to LAMP any time soon.
If you're using VB.NET then I highly recommend Rocky Lhotka's Expert VB 2005 Business Objects and the CSLA framework that the book describes. It has plenty of useful information even if you don't use the framework. There is an equivalent C# book.
IMHO, the new.NET 2 and Visual Studio 2005 stuff is pretty cool. Databinding was a bit of a joke in previous versions that no "real programmer" would use but now it really works and can save you a lot of time. Separate your UI and business layers properly and you'll be able to use the same business code from both Windows and ASP.NET if it ever needs to be web enabled.
Your question is a bit meaningless without saying if its VB6 or VB.NET. Although I've written lots of VB6 stuff in the past, I'd be reluctant to start something new with it. I jumped from VB6 to C# just because I knew C from long ago and prefer the { } syntax but, as others have said, the difference between VB.NET and C# is pretty much just syntax.
I moved from VB6 to C# but I learnt from a book by Larry O'Brien. I think it was called "Thinking in C#". Unfortunately, it was never released (dispute with the publisher I think). I had a prerelease PDF version.
Anyway... an important point was that it taught the basics of C# without Visual Studio and initially without Windows Forms. All you need is a text editor and the command line compiler. If you're disciplined about it then I guess you can use VS just as a nice text editor.
I'm not sure if there are any other books teaching the same way but I recommend it as a good way to get started. By all means use all the bells and whistles of VS later after you understand the basics.
Ben Forte of ColdFusion fame has quite a good reply to the cookie news items.
I wonder if the government anti-cookie rule / recommendation / whatever it is exactly, has caused some developers to avoid even session cookies by using URL strings instead. These are less secure than cookies because they end up in web logs, get bookmarked, emailed etc. Despite what another post said, I don't think cookie values generally end up in logs.
I admit to using session strings myself because a few years ago lots of people were scared into turning cookies off in their browser. That doesn't seem to be much of a problem these days. I hope this misguided publicity is not going to trigger a return of those days. Likewise for Javascript.
Re:Let the web language wars begin!!!
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.Net is fast and easy, but you're stuck with Microsoft and it can be very browser specfic.
That last bit maybe true in ASP.NET 1.1 but Microsoft have made a big, and I think quite successful, effort to make ASP.NET 2 standards compliant.
The replacement for MSDE, SQL Express does not have a governor. Its limited to a single CPU, 1GB RAM, 4GB maximum db size so, as others have said, the free Oracle product looks to be an answer to this.
SQL Express is pretty good for many small websites, especially for DotNetNuke sites or other ASP.NET stuff.
Am I understanding this?
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When they say it works with 'portable digital players', the device doesn't have to be an audio player at all. What it really needs is a standard USB memory device which most players just happen to also be. Right?
GMail started allowing that a few weeks ago. AFAIK, its the only free email service that gives you that ability. For me, its a very significant feature. It suddenly allows me to use GMail as a general purpose email client.
It hasn't happened yet, but there remains a real possibility that Hurricane Katrina will swamp the Bush administration and leave it wrecked beyond repair.
On the face of it, the inquiries, which will start this week on Capitol Hill, would appear to be a big threat to the president. But, it may well be that other targets loom larger once the searching questions begin - targets which will include America's entire system of government, which has proved itself to be incapable of coping with a big disaster on its doorstep.
The nation is proud of its local democracy and local power, but a bewildering array of competing fiefdoms hampered the management of this crisis and may well need to be swept away - a change requiring a fundamental cultural shift in how the United States is governed.
This is where most of these type of things fall short for me since I like to listen to the BBC and others who only do Real.
Reciva who were featured on/. some time ago, look promising but its not clear if their product is really available. They seem to be supplying OEM's but I'm not sure who.
I'm a sole inhouse developer in a company with about 100 employees. I build specialized desktop and web tools for sales and logistics and stuff for presenting info to customers etc. Nothing I do is really rocket science but off the shelf tools just don't do what we want so its worth keeping me around. We're a typical company in many ways. MS Office on every desktop.
I've done some private / volunteer projects using LAMP, I've fiddled with Java, I maintain a Linux web host for a non-profit. I consider myself a reasonably competent programmer despite having written many thousands of lines of VB6.
For someone in my position, right now, Visual Studio, the.NET framework, either VB.NET or C# (I use C#) and SQL Server make a superb environment to work in for building either WinForms or ASP.NET.
ASP.NET is finally moving web development out of the stone age with real debugging and abstraction from the tedium of html. According to MS, the new version will be all W3C compliant and yes they do test with FireFox. I'm coming to the concluson that nothing really comes close to ASP.NET for ease of development for web projects.
I've used several PHP frameworks. Prado is very cool and I was planning on using it for another volunteer project for a non-profit I'm involved with but good ASP.NET web hosts are appearing, complete with SQL Server that don't cost a lot more per month than LAMP so... its hard to justify messing with PHP and not much more than a text editor for tools.
Reading/. sometimes makes me wonder if I'm backing the wrong horse here. Am I blinded by the hype, stupid, gullible, naive or doing the right thing here? So far my choice of platform is getting pretty good results.
I have nothing particularly against Dotster but last time I looked, Dotster and MyDomain.com looked suspiciously like the same system behind the scenes except that all the extras that Dotster charge for are free at MyDomain.
I don't use them these days but MyDomain.com generously do a pretty good free DNS and email forwarding service for any domain. It doesn't even need to be registered with them.
By incredible coincidence: Dotster and MyDomain have the same phone and fax numbers and adjacent PO Boxes.
Too bad it can't use that WiFi to play shoutcast streams.
Yes, very true. That was my only real disappointment about it. Hopefully a later model or a firmware upgrade will get to that. I think it has all the hardware needed to play live streams.
Something that's not clear from the web site is whether or not it will be able to record from the FM radio. I hope so although its not a show stopper if it doesn't.
And.... another wish list item for me would be for it to have an audio line in socket for recording and encoding.
Slashdot Mirror
True.
You can do very cool Ajax stuff in ASP.NET relatively easily with 3rd party controls from companies such as:
http://www.telerik.com/
http://www.componentart.com/
and others.
Thanks. I stand corrected. I don't think that fact is widely known in New Zealand where I think the organize is considered much the same as color or center.
This does explain something I saw on a recent trip to Canada. British spelling everywhere but I was surprised to see the emergency turnaround points on highways were for "Authorized vehicles Only".
Call me picky and I'm sure it doesn't mean anything legally but it would be a little more convincing if www.spamhaus.org didn't use american spelling.
http://www.spamhaus.org/legal/answer.lasso?ref=3
organisation isn't spelt with a zed.
I saw realize elsewhere on the site.
We have standard plates and conservation plates otherwise known as moose plates because they have a picture of a moose. Some of the cost of them goes towards conservation programs.
I've learnt that you can have exactly the number on a standard and a moose plate, different cars, different owners. Is that normal in other states? I always thought that the state and number was enough for uniqueness. Obviously not in NH.
Someone told me this long ago ... I don't know if its true but ...
Someone in the Pacific during WWII made a lot of money by having a snake in a big glass bowl or something. He would get someone to hold their hand on the outside of the glass and then make a bet with them that they couldn't kept their hand there while the snake attacked them (safely) from the inside of the glass. I guess the rules were that they had to keep their eyes open and looking at the snake. He very seldom, if ever, lost the bet. Everyone, no matter how big and tough or unafraid of snakes they were, would involuntarily pull their hand away suggesting some sort of inbuilt fear of snakes.
Windows/IIS will never compete in the $20/month free PHP package market, so it's not really worth bothering about.
.NET / C# / SQL Server. With low cost IIS hosting, versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server that are either free or low cost, the features of ASP.NET 2 and DotNetNuke, I probably won't be returning to LAMP any time soon.
That might have been true a few years ago but not now. Have a look at the Windows (and Linux) offerings, including SQL Server, at JodoHost. I'm not connected with them other than as a happy customer. There are plenty of bad Windows hosting companies out there but there are also good ones with prices pretty much the same as LAMP.
I've done a few spare time projects for non-profits. Previously my only realistic choice for these was PHP / MySQL mostly because of hosting and tool costs but my latest project uses
If you're using VB.NET then I highly recommend Rocky Lhotka's Expert VB 2005 Business Objects and the CSLA framework that the book describes. It has plenty of useful information even if you don't use the framework. There is an equivalent C# book.
.NET 2 and Visual Studio 2005 stuff is pretty cool. Databinding was a bit of a joke in previous versions that no "real programmer" would use but now it really works and can save you a lot of time. Separate your UI and business layers properly and you'll be able to use the same business code from both Windows and ASP.NET if it ever needs to be web enabled.
IMHO, the new
Your question is a bit meaningless without saying if its VB6 or VB.NET. Although I've written lots of VB6 stuff in the past, I'd be reluctant to start something new with it. I jumped from VB6 to C# just because I knew C from long ago and prefer the { } syntax but, as others have said, the difference between VB.NET and C# is pretty much just syntax.
To balance things out, the private sector works far better if the goal is effiency to deliver products and services.
Is this why the US healthcare system is so efficient?
The US and UK are very different places.
:-)
Just look at one of today's headlines on CNN
As I write this, there is a video item on the front page titled:
"Electrified fanny packs shock unruly students"
I'd be surprised to see that on the BBC.
I moved from VB6 to C# but I learnt from a book by Larry O'Brien. I think it was called "Thinking in C#". Unfortunately, it was never released (dispute with the publisher I think). I had a prerelease PDF version.
... an important point was that it taught the basics of C# without Visual Studio and initially without Windows Forms. All you need is a text editor and the command line compiler. If you're disciplined about it then I guess you can use VS just as a nice text editor.
Anyway
I'm not sure if there are any other books teaching the same way but I recommend it as a good way to get started. By all means use all the bells and whistles of VS later after you understand the basics.
Cheers
Ross
DotNetNuke Growing very quickly, high quality, well managed and well documented.
DotNetNuke Growing very quickly, high quality, well managed and well documented.
Ben Forte of ColdFusion fame has quite a good reply to the cookie news items.
I wonder if the government anti-cookie rule / recommendation / whatever it is exactly, has caused some developers to avoid even session cookies by using URL strings instead. These are less secure than cookies because they end up in web logs, get bookmarked, emailed etc. Despite what another post said, I don't think cookie values generally end up in logs.
I admit to using session strings myself because a few years ago lots of people were scared into turning cookies off in their browser. That doesn't seem to be much of a problem these days. I hope this misguided publicity is not going to trigger a return of those days. Likewise for Javascript.
.Net is fast and easy, but you're stuck with Microsoft and it can be very browser specfic.
That last bit maybe true in ASP.NET 1.1 but Microsoft have made a big, and I think quite successful, effort to make ASP.NET 2 standards compliant.
The replacement for MSDE, SQL Express does not have a governor. Its limited to a single CPU, 1GB RAM, 4GB maximum db size so, as others have said, the free Oracle product looks to be an answer to this.
SQL Express is pretty good for many small websites, especially for DotNetNuke sites or other ASP.NET stuff.
When they say it works with 'portable digital players', the device doesn't have to be an audio player at all. What it really needs is a standard USB memory device which most players just happen to also be. Right?
According to that map, my country has disappeared off the face of the earth.
GMail started allowing that a few weeks ago. AFAIK, its the only free email service that gives you that ability. For me, its a very significant feature. It suddenly allows me to use GMail as a general purpose email client.
From the BBC Reporters log
Justin Webb, Washington DC, 1545GMT
It hasn't happened yet, but there remains a real possibility that Hurricane Katrina will swamp the Bush administration and leave it wrecked beyond repair.
On the face of it, the inquiries, which will start this week on Capitol Hill, would appear to be a big threat to the president. But, it may well be that other targets loom larger once the searching questions begin - targets which will include America's entire system of government, which has proved itself to be incapable of coping with a big disaster on its doorstep.
The nation is proud of its local democracy and local power, but a bewildering array of competing fiefdoms hampered the management of this crisis and may well need to be swept away - a change requiring a fundamental cultural shift in how the United States is governed.
This is where most of these type of things fall short for me since I like to listen to the BBC and others who only do Real.
/. some time ago, look promising but its not clear if their product is really available. They seem to be supplying OEM's but I'm not sure who.
Reciva who were featured on
I pose this as a serious question.
.NET framework, either VB.NET or C# (I use C#) and SQL Server make a superb environment to work in for building either WinForms or ASP.NET.
... its hard to justify messing with PHP and not much more than a text editor for tools.
/. sometimes makes me wonder if I'm backing the wrong horse here. Am I blinded by the hype, stupid, gullible, naive or doing the right thing here? So far my choice of platform is getting pretty good results.
I'm a sole inhouse developer in a company with about 100 employees. I build specialized desktop and web tools for sales and logistics and stuff for presenting info to customers etc. Nothing I do is really rocket science but off the shelf tools just don't do what we want so its worth keeping me around. We're a typical company in many ways. MS Office on every desktop.
I've done some private / volunteer projects using LAMP, I've fiddled with Java, I maintain a Linux web host for a non-profit. I consider myself a reasonably competent programmer despite having written many thousands of lines of VB6.
For someone in my position, right now, Visual Studio, the
MSDN is a great resource.
ASP.NET is finally moving web development out of the stone age with real debugging and abstraction from the tedium of html. According to MS, the new version will be all W3C compliant and yes they do test with FireFox. I'm coming to the concluson that nothing really comes close to ASP.NET for ease of development for web projects. I've used several PHP frameworks. Prado is very cool and I was planning on using it for another volunteer project for a non-profit I'm involved with but good ASP.NET web hosts are appearing, complete with SQL Server that don't cost a lot more per month than LAMP so
Reading
I have nothing particularly against Dotster but last time I looked, Dotster and MyDomain.com looked suspiciously like the same system behind the scenes except that all the extras that Dotster charge for are free at MyDomain.
I don't use them these days but MyDomain.com generously do a pretty good free DNS and email forwarding service for any domain. It doesn't even need to be registered with them.
By incredible coincidence: Dotster and MyDomain have the same phone and fax numbers and adjacent PO Boxes.
I'd love to blame Microsoft for their own operating system problems
Why?
My favourite open source CMS is DotNetNuke
Too bad it can't use that WiFi to play shoutcast streams.
.... another wish list item for me would be for it to have an audio line in socket for recording and encoding.
Yes, very true. That was my only real disappointment about it. Hopefully a later model or a firmware upgrade will get to that. I think it has all the hardware needed to play live streams.
Something that's not clear from the web site is whether or not it will be able to record from the FM radio. I hope so although its not a show stopper if it doesn't.
And
There are reviews of early releases on CNET etc.