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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: We get to convert our large and lumbering Windows-based graphics / communications app to a Pocket PC app. I wonder if the company will spring the bucks to get all the developers their own IPaq... That's why some (almost all) application ported for Windows CE sucks! Companies are often so stupid: they don't buy developers an IPaq, only because it is a fun (and, somehow expensive) toy. And, for some other stupid reason, they believe that a programmer is supposed to build a good and consistent interface for an environment he almost never uses! I see dumb people
Well, the boss has already told the powers that be that it's got to be a complete re-write, and that we're going to lose a certain (significant) amount of functionality along with it. I just hope they don't do sometimg stupid like try to shoehorn in a shared codebases between the desktop version and the Pocket PC version. I personally think the Pocket PC is too damn small (a 3-inch screeen) to be useful, but maybe I just don't get it (I've had trouble "getting it" before on other projects, so this is an entirely feasible explanation). I don't know anything about them, but I'm thinking maybe table PC's would be a better target due to the increased display real estate. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: We get to convert our large and lumbering Windows-based graphics / communications app to a Pocket PC app. Hmm, seems like "large" and "Pocket PC" shouldn't really go together...? :-D Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day Only if it has two hands ;)
Mike Player wrote: Even a broken clock is right twice a day Off topic, but it's wierd that I heard that very same saying in a rap song just a few seconds after reading your post :) You're ill yo! :laugh: ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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Navin wrote: seems like "large" and "Pocket PC" shouldn't really go together...? Unless it's a texan's pocket ;P
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Well, the boss has already told the powers that be that it's got to be a complete re-write, and that we're going to lose a certain (significant) amount of functionality along with it. I just hope they don't do sometimg stupid like try to shoehorn in a shared codebases between the desktop version and the Pocket PC version. I personally think the Pocket PC is too damn small (a 3-inch screeen) to be useful, but maybe I just don't get it (I've had trouble "getting it" before on other projects, so this is an entirely feasible explanation). I don't know anything about them, but I'm thinking maybe table PC's would be a better target due to the increased display real estate. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: but I'm thinking maybe table PC's would be a better target due to the increased display real estate Well that depends. If it's a coffee table, you might seat about 2 comfortably. But a dinner table...now you're talking real estate ;) Oh well I couldn't resist :cool: ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: We get to convert our large and lumbering Windows-based graphics / communications app to a Pocket PC app. Hmm, seems like "large" and "Pocket PC" shouldn't really go together...? :-D Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Navin wrote: Even a broken clock is right twice a day. not my daughters clock after she pulled it off the wall and dropped it - the little hand points directly at the 8 and the big hand is directly at the 6 - it is a broken clock and it will never ever be on time - one of this weekends fixit jobs
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: but I'm thinking maybe table PC's would be a better target due to the increased display real estate Well that depends. If it's a coffee table, you might seat about 2 comfortably. But a dinner table...now you're talking real estate ;) Oh well I couldn't resist :cool: ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
glad it was you and not me :) - I nearly commented on the typo but I was too scared
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
- just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02 -
glad it was you and not me :) - I nearly commented on the typo but I was too scared
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
- just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02Shaun Wilde wrote: I nearly commented on the typo but I was too scared Well I'm nearly jobless now, so I figure, what else do I have to lose? ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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Well, the boss has already told the powers that be that it's got to be a complete re-write, and that we're going to lose a certain (significant) amount of functionality along with it. I just hope they don't do sometimg stupid like try to shoehorn in a shared codebases between the desktop version and the Pocket PC version. I personally think the Pocket PC is too damn small (a 3-inch screeen) to be useful, but maybe I just don't get it (I've had trouble "getting it" before on other projects, so this is an entirely feasible explanation). I don't know anything about them, but I'm thinking maybe table PC's would be a better target due to the increased display real estate. ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
thats what I was thinking - what sort of design/graphics work are you going to do on a PocketPC? If you have ever used one - the damn pen needs resetting/aligning every few days and the screens sensitivity starts to go after a year - especially after the frustrated user starts bashing it with the stylus when the thing decides to become unresponsive and then runs all clicks and presses for the past 30secs in 1ms and prompty deletes the excel spreadsheet you have been working on - arrgghhhhh !!!!!!
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
- just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02 -
thats what I was thinking - what sort of design/graphics work are you going to do on a PocketPC? If you have ever used one - the damn pen needs resetting/aligning every few days and the screens sensitivity starts to go after a year - especially after the frustrated user starts bashing it with the stylus when the thing decides to become unresponsive and then runs all clicks and presses for the past 30secs in 1ms and prompty deletes the excel spreadsheet you have been working on - arrgghhhhh !!!!!!
Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers.
But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong
- just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02I can hardly wait - this product is gonna be given to people who are none-too-gentle with their equipment... ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
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Navin wrote: Everything's bigger in Texas. That's actually not true. All of the women I've known from Texas were quite clear on that point. "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)