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  • P Pete OHanlon

    I have seen the light. I have been wrong, all this time. From now on, all the code I write is going to contain this enumeration:

    public enum LogicalStatus
    {
    True,
    False
    }

    Now, all my code will be beautiful. I am assured that I will be able to ascend to a higher level of consciousness now.

    *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

    "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

    CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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    Marc Clifton
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    Hey Pete, I was wanting to poke around CodeStash, but I'm getting: "Google Chrome could not connect to www.codestash.co.uk" Is the site still up? Marc

    Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
    How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
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    • M Marc Clifton

      Hey Pete, I was wanting to poke around CodeStash, but I'm getting: "Google Chrome could not connect to www.codestash.co.uk" Is the site still up? Marc

      Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
      How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
      My Blog
      Computational Types in C# and F#

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      Hi Marc, I've just had to ask the CodeProject team to restart the server as it's hosted on their servers. Regards Pete

      *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

      "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

      CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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      • P Pete OHanlon

        Hi Marc, I've just had to ask the CodeProject team to restart the server as it's hosted on their servers. Regards Pete

        *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

        "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

        CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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        Marc Clifton
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        Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

        I've just had to ask the CodeProject team to restart the server as it's hosted on their servers.

        Hmmm, it's still not responding. I guess the hamsters are on vacation. Marc

        Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
        How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
        My Blog
        Computational Types in C# and F#

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        • M Marc Clifton

          Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

          I've just had to ask the CodeProject team to restart the server as it's hosted on their servers.

          Hmmm, it's still not responding. I guess the hamsters are on vacation. Marc

          Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
          How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
          My Blog
          Computational Types in C# and F#

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          It's back Marc. Turns out that the server had been switched between Amazon instances and the DS settings hadn't been updated to point to the new instance. I'm putting monitoring in place to warn me if this happens again in the future.

          *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

          "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

          CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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          • P Pete OHanlon

            It's back Marc. Turns out that the server had been switched between Amazon instances and the DS settings hadn't been updated to point to the new instance. I'm putting monitoring in place to warn me if this happens again in the future.

            *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

            "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

            CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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            Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

            It's back Marc.

            Thanks! One of the reasons I wanted to poke around the site was because I have another hair-brained idea that applications should consist of small, either re-usable or custom code blocks that are wired together with a tool like Visio. Ultimately I envision something that is a mix between what that website, code bubbles, does, and something like lego-building blocks where you can visually wire up the data flow and events. The actual granularity would be completely flexible, and I imagine larger scale building blocks for handling things like ORM's, etc. I'm still looking for a decent visualization tool, similar to Visio. Sacha's rework of the WPF layout tool looks like a very good starting point. So I wanted to see what people had contributed for snippets to 1) see if you were already doing some of this with CodeStash and 2) to see what people were contributing. Argh. I need time!!! Marc

            Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
            How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
            My Blog
            Computational Types in C# and F#

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            • M Marc Clifton

              Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

              It's back Marc.

              Thanks! One of the reasons I wanted to poke around the site was because I have another hair-brained idea that applications should consist of small, either re-usable or custom code blocks that are wired together with a tool like Visio. Ultimately I envision something that is a mix between what that website, code bubbles, does, and something like lego-building blocks where you can visually wire up the data flow and events. The actual granularity would be completely flexible, and I imagine larger scale building blocks for handling things like ORM's, etc. I'm still looking for a decent visualization tool, similar to Visio. Sacha's rework of the WPF layout tool looks like a very good starting point. So I wanted to see what people had contributed for snippets to 1) see if you were already doing some of this with CodeStash and 2) to see what people were contributing. Argh. I need time!!! Marc

              Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
              How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
              My Blog
              Computational Types in C# and F#

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              If you need a hand, just let me know as this sounds fascinating. I'm currently planning quite a reimplementation of CodeStash based on feedback we've had, and the lessons we learnt building V1, so if there's anything that you need out of it, please let me know.

              *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

              "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

              CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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              • P Pete OHanlon

                If you need a hand, just let me know as this sounds fascinating. I'm currently planning quite a reimplementation of CodeStash based on feedback we've had, and the lessons we learnt building V1, so if there's anything that you need out of it, please let me know.

                *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                If you need a hand, just let me know as this sounds fascinating.

                I would really enjoy your participation! Can you send a private email so I can get your email address? What I'd like to do is storyboard a simple demonstration of the concept - I believe in writing the minimum amount of code necessary to get a conceptual prototype working! I'll send you the storyboard and I would like to discuss it with you. Marc

                Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
                How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
                My Blog
                Computational Types in C# and F#

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                • M Marc Clifton

                  Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                  If you need a hand, just let me know as this sounds fascinating.

                  I would really enjoy your participation! Can you send a private email so I can get your email address? What I'd like to do is storyboard a simple demonstration of the concept - I believe in writing the minimum amount of code necessary to get a conceptual prototype working! I'll send you the storyboard and I would like to discuss it with you. Marc

                  Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
                  How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
                  My Blog
                  Computational Types in C# and F#

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                  Hopefully my email got through.

                  *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                  "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                  CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                  • P Pete OHanlon

                    Hopefully my email got through.

                    *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                    "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                    CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                    Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                    Hopefully my email got through.

                    Yes it did! I've been running around town today, but I just started putting together the concept as, what else, a Power Point slide deck! Mwahahaha! I'll email it to you as soon as I get a rough draft done. :) Marc

                    Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
                    How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
                    My Blog
                    Computational Types in C# and F#

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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                      Hopefully my email got through.

                      Yes it did! I've been running around town today, but I just started putting together the concept as, what else, a Power Point slide deck! Mwahahaha! I'll email it to you as soon as I get a rough draft done. :) Marc

                      Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
                      How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
                      My Blog
                      Computational Types in C# and F#

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                      Excellent. I look forward to seeing it.

                      *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

                      "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                      CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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