This is quite true, Silverlight as a technology is no longer being developed, however Microsoft will support it for many more years. However, the bigger issue is that Chrome will likely start to block Silverlight (and other plug-ins) in the near future: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html[^] The FireFox browser is also following suite (although I can't find a reference to that right now). RIP Silverlight!
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'1 votes' without commentI have noticed this article has been top of the 'latest best picks' on the front page for a while: Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT)[^] Looking at the voting stats it has had a considerable number of '1' votes, but there are no comments. I thought all votes of 3 or less required a comment (which is a great idea IMO). Also, should an article with a rating of 3.35/5.0 really be top of the list? Colin E.
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Dave - The Gauntlet Has Been Laid Before YouThat's nothing compared to the Excel version of PacMan that was doing the round a few years ago: http://www.geocities.jp/nchikada/pac/[^] Words cannot describe just how awesome that is!
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Well, I did it.Well done! 3:25 is a great first time. I ran my second Marathon last year in a time of 3:55 - it was Kielder Marathon in the North of England. A beautiful run around the perimeter of a lake - that just happens to be the right size for a 26 mile run. A bit hilly, but the views were stunning. You should give it a go!
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Compare and contrast: Cross platform mobile frameworksFollowing on from the previous post about JavaScript MV* ... if you want to compare cross-platform mobile frameworks, try PropertyCross: http://propertycross.com/[^]
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Holy CRAP -- worst co-worker ever...SledgeHammer01 wrote:
I've always been the type of guy that doesn't care what my co-workers / team mates are doing because it doesn't affect me one bit. If the project fails because of them,
Have you ever thought that perhaps it is you that is the problem? With an attitude like that, I expect you bring out the worst in people. This is why you find yourself surrounded by Bobs! I would recommend two things: Firstly, you either start to become a better team-player, or become an independent developer. Stay at home, work from your garage, choose solitude! Secondly, if you do encounter an under-performer at work, don't ignore it, don't bitch about it on forums. Do something about it! If, after you have tried to help, they just can't cut it, politely inform your manager. They might have personal issues that you are unaware of, or, they might not like their job, or ... all sorts of things might be affecting their performance. Who knows, one day you might be the 'Bob'. Regards, Colin E.
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We need a Windows Phone 8 section!I have just published a Windows Phone 8 article: A Windows Phone 8 Run Tracking App in 100 Lines of Code[^] But noticed that there doesn't seem to be a suitable category for this, so have included it under "Windows Phone 7". Colin E.
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Is Windows 8 too radical for you?message bus? no - I had a completely different approach in mind. I'd really like to have app session state that is cloud-based and accessible from any device. That way you can move from one device to the next, from desktop, to metro, to phone. Just wondering what you mean by message bus? I have seen a few WCF-based solutions. Is there something more standard?
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Is Windows 8 too radical for you?Chris Maunder wrote:
The split of the UI, however, is so clumsily done that the fall is the worse for it being on something that should be so much better.
I agree that it is quite clumsy, and the context switching is a jarring experience, but from a UX perspective it gets even worse. One of my first experiences when I installed Win8 on my laptop last week was installing Chrome then logging in to Twitter. After a bit of dev work I alt+tabbed back to Chrome, navigated to Twitter then discovered that it had forgotten my credentials. After much head-scratching I realised that I had logged in and stored my auth details on the 'Metro' Chrome, but the second time had navigated to a desktop Chrome Window. Your "average joe" user is never going to work that one out! As an app developer I really want to communicate between these two divides in the OS. For example, if I developed a desktop / metro twitter app I would like to share state so that an end user could use the Twitter client in desktop mode at their desk, then pull their fancy tablet from the dock to go for a walk, open up the Metro Twitter client and find their feed is at exactly the same scroll position. I'm tempted to write a simple concept app to show how I think this sort of thing should be done! Colin E.
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Where is 'Latest Top Articles'?I can't quite recall what the section was called, but the front page used to have, at the bottom, a section with top rated / voted articles from the past few weeks. This was the 'view' that I used most often to find quality articles. Is it located somewhere else now? (I think the new design is slowly growing on me!)
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Comments on specific article revisions = wrong!Thanks Chris - that's an improvement. We'll see whether that fixes it. I have another article I am about to write up, so I'll so if this problem crops up again. Nice work :-) Would be good if you could move those comments, but only if it is not too much hassle, I am sure you have a lot of other things to do. And like Pete says - get some sleep!
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Comments on specific article revisions = wrong!Colin Eberhardt wrote:
It's worse than that! Messages on future revisions (i.e. new revisions awaiting moderation) do not appear either. I do wonder what will happen when the pending future revision is accepted. Where will those comments go?!!
I think I just found out, it looks like the comments do not make it into the published version when the new revision is approved. However, you can see them if you access the article by version number - even though this version is the current: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?aid=342715&av=506455#_comments[^] Anywho - enough said. I'll leave this to the CodeProject peeps.
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Comments on specific article revisions = wrong!Thanks Pete, I am glad you concur.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
While it may be useful to indicate that a message applied to an earlier revision of the article, it should not disappear.
It's worse than that! Messages on future revisions (i.e. new revisions awaiting moderation) do not appear either. I do wonder what will happen when the pending future revision is accepted. Where will those comments go?!! Anyhow, at least it is not just me being over-eager to get a high comment count on my article for the sake of inflating my ego. of course not. I'm very modest I am.
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History of MVVMAye, old ground indeed. But we can re-tread that ground with fond memories. Must be my round? :java: (where's the beer icon?) While you're here, what do you think of this: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4185399/Comments-on-specific-article-revisions-equals-wron.aspx[^] Has anyone else complained about this yet?
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History of MVVMIndeed. What Pete said! It's all MV-Poo However, I do get very annoyed when people take the conceptually simple and elegant MVVM pattern and extend it into something that is much harder to comprehend. Does anyone really need the Model-View-Presenter-ViewModel (MVPVM) pattern? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh580734.aspx[^] Admittedly, I haven;t read the article - so maybe I am a bit hasty in judging. However, what I really like about MVVM is that I can explain it to any competent developer within about 5 mins and know that they will follow it correctly. The same cannot be said for 'classic' MVC pattern.