Picky picky picky! :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Baahaaa! :laugh:
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
I got an email from a recruiter that said I was a perfect fit for, and I kid you not, a Dentist Receptionist. Even with random word matches on my CV I still can't figure out how I got on the distribution list! :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Yes indeed - at least 2 years - that I knew (just couldn't be bothered to write it all down!) There is a lot of work to be done in the meantime. Maybe Europe will start to listen a bit more, maybe they'll begin appeasing other countries to halt the break up of the EU?
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Ohh the BBC - that hasn't been neutral for as long as I can remember! I've even gone so far as to stop watching BBC News or using the BBC Website as it's becoming so partisan on subjects it's quite embarrassing! :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
:laugh:
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
:) Yes, I think even Boris and Nigel are surprised! I don't know what your thoughts are, but I thought it was a bloody terrible campaign from both sides. Far too much bad blood, mud slinging, arguing and fear tactics. Can't we have a sensible discussion? If I went around talking to people in the office like that I would be sacked!!
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
So we are out - which is something I wasn't expecting (nor voted for). I don't know what it's like where you are, but in the office here, there's mainly shock and disbelief. However, and this is why I love being British, there's also a good deal of banter with all of our 'European' friends here in the office (which there are quite a number). Suggestions have already been made to place any non-Brits on one side of the office only accessible by passport control - good ol' British sense of humour making the most out of a bad situation! :sigh:
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
:-D OK - for the future this sounds like a plan!
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Wow, haven’t been here in a long while - thought I’d stick my head in the door and see what’s what, and also share a story of me being an idiot. I started getting into WPF/MVVM quite a while back now, then work got in the way and I dropped it like a hot potatoe. Then work got very quiet and I ended up losing my job (but luckily found another almost instantly) before I left I copied off***** the WPF/MVVM stuff I’d been playing with so as to pick it up again later. Now is the time to pick it up again as it looks like I’ll, once again, be unemployed – but that’s another story. So, I get out the USB Drive with the Projects I had, try and open the files and – #Best Family Fortunes Noise - UHH-UUHHHHH# - Access Denied! I completely forgot that there had been an update to encrypt all local files on the laptop just before I left, and I hadn’t copied off the encryption key! Stupid boy. So now all the stuff I had learnt and struggled with and neatly sorted out and made sense of, is useless – completely unreadable. :doh: At least I still have all the bookmarks of the best articles I used the first time around. So, here we go again... :^) * = BTW the stuff I copied off was completely 100% NOT company confidential information, I was using the work laptop at home in my own time to learn something new. Heck, I doubt they even have a clue what WPF is!
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Yeap, I do the same :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Yeah - I'm going to have to start keeping a snippet collection or something similar - I've already come across things that I probably wouldn't have been able to figure out if it wasn't for Google. :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Indeed, and I'm still on the curve - right near the bottom I think; still a lot more understanding to do :) I do love learning new things though :D
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Hmmm - haven't heard of Caliburn Micro before, I'll look it up. And the Modern UI/modern WPF CHarts I'll look at also. As for Entity Framework - I'd not used it before so thought I would give it a crack - relatively painless in fact. Also, the app I'm writing is only for my personal use so it seemed to make sense :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
I ventured on my long and perilous journey into learning WPF a few months ago now, after reading various articles, skimming a book and creating simple example applications AKA 'knobbing about' I started converting a little Access DB I wrote to track my trips to the Gym. Anyway, progress so far: I've created an SQL Server backend, then used Entity Framework as my Data Access Layer utilising LINQ. I've coded up all the Models and Data Access logic, written Unit Tests and tested the same. Now I've started the WPF side of things, I've got a Fluent Ribbon on my main window which opens up tabs (currently blank) for the main content via Commands etc, and I've implemented a little a settings window which implements IDataErrorInfo/Commands/Data Binding etc, it's nice to see a small example working in full. This is all using (or trying at best to use) MVVM (not Cinch/Prism or one of the many other flavours - I'll save those for after I've finished this app as I’ll have some experience under my belt to better understand their inner workings). So, now I've started WPF - wow, I'm staggered by just how huge this framework is - it's unbelievable – I mean, I knew it was big before I started, but it’s bigger than anything I could have imagined; and dare I say it, a little unintuitive at times? :~ All I can say is thank god for Google!! It’s good to see that all the problems I’ve had so far have already been encountered by others at some point, or some kind fellow has put the time and effort into writing an article about how a particular feature works. Overall though, its good fun! :D
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
I was on a lads holiday when I was younger and we ran out of loo roll, too hung over to get our ass's down the shops to buy some more we used old copies of The Sun. Worked very well. :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Thanks ! Yeah I'm doing my best to get to grips with xaml as much as possible as it appears to be such a massive part of wpf, and as for blend, yeah, that'll be on my list as well!! :-)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
:) Haha, yeah - I can image in 38 years you've seen quite a few new technologies come in and go out! Winforms is brilliant, I've got VS 2008 which is excellent, and I'm using VS 2013 Express for this WPF learning. The Winforms designer is superb - really feels like a polished bit of kit. I'm just starting with WPF, and the designer already doesn't feel as polished, but, I'm still learning, so I'll get better (with any luck!) Anyway, thanks for you input - I always like hearing opinions of more experienced people; always something to learn :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Yeah - it does appear to be fairly large in scope! But, I can nob about with Winforms and I just thought that I should really start getting to grips with it - just for the fun of it. Winforms won;t be going away any time soon, but (at the moment at least) WPf is the future :~
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair
Yes, thanks, I'm aware of that - its just an idea at the moment; a goal to focus on. :)
"Benjamin is nobody's friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he'd be pralines and dick." ~ Garth Algar "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." ~ Paul Neal "Red" Adair