Another meating at the awfus, eh?

I think everyone is ignoring the preface of the question. I've never in my life heard the two combined into one sentence. Always seperate. So using the two together to me would would be equivalent to making fun of someone for thinking he is suave or debonair. :doh:

Very true. It can easily become dad's project if you aren't careful. My son helped me build the robot but it became my task to update the firmware on it before we could deploy code to it. Looking back, I should have had him more involved with the firmware update too.

Brent

Interesting. My son and I are working on a similar project. We are building a robot with a camera that can be controlled from the Internet. So, we can drive around and look inside our home while we aren't there. We started with this: http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/140[^] Have a look at that or consider .NET Gadgeteer which is brand new on the scene! http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/category/265/[^] http://netmf.com/gadgeteer/[^] My son (12 years old) is so excited about the project that he's been writing c# code on paper at school to program the robot and then when he gets home he cracks open the laptop, codes it with VS2010 and deploys it to the robot. Pretty cool.

Brent

Come back to MySpace so I can Twitter all over your Facebook. (a t-shirt I saw somewhere on the intarwebnets)

Brent

What is all this talk about a deleted post?

Brent

He's an outlaw, what'd you expect?

Brent

Exactly. I thought the whole thread would disappear.

Brent

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html[^]

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TRS-80 From Radio Shack, complete with cassette drive + 2 joysticks and 16k of memory. Got it when I was like 8 yrs old. Wrote my first code on it (BASIC). Still got it in my closet. Anyone want to buy it? :cool:

Brent

What better place for a narc nap than in a meating? (ya thats how I spell it)

Brent

I have a free Azure Beta account, but haven't been able to use it since I run XP at work and home. Ya gotta have Vista - which I don't what to use.

Brent

That's what I thought when I first read about it too, then I figured MS saw it as a way to spread Silverlight, until I saw it was Flash.

Brent

Microsoft just launched a celeb site featuring horizontal scrolling: http://www.wonderwall.com/[^] Why Flash and not Silverlight? :sigh:

Brent

Don't forget this scenario:

try
{
// some code
// some more code
// even more code
}
catch (Exception e)
{
try
{
// still, more code
}
catch (Exception e)
{
//um, another try...catch?
}
}

Brent

Hate it. I like Adobe's Flex platform much more. Databinding is much more intuitive, controls can be styled with regular CSS and I feel it provides more seperation between layers. Flex feels like a presentation layer. To me WPF feels like a mix between presentation and biz logic. Animations render far more smoothly in Flex as well. WPF doesn't do what you expect it to do sometimes given the XAML I'm staring at - therefore I've renamed it WTF. The Expressions stuff is odd - difficult to figure out.

Brent

No kiddin. What a massive waste of resources those commercials are huh!?

Brent

Stellar. Found my new sig.

Brent "Write me the greatest code in the world, or I'll eat your soul."

Obviously.

Brent

:laugh: the part that gets me is "to simplify it" . I'd hate to have to try and make sense of the complicated version.

Brent