I like it, I and I is great for a cryptic clue!

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Yes I thought that myself!

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Hi all, For me this is reproducible - when I try to edit the article: Learn JavaScript Part 1 - Create a Starfield[^] I get the 'aw snap' Chrome error. This is on a Macbook Air i7 x64, Chrome version 30.0.1599.101. This also intermittently happens with another article I'm editing....

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Yeah, it's got a bit of a learning curve, but when you're used to it it's great :)

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It's Chrome actually - I don't know if it's related, but since the last time I used the editor also if I paste some text from a pre section into a new paragraph, all of the text except the last line is copied properly - the last line gets formatted as paragraph text but with span styling to make it monospaced fonts. Trying to think of anything else that might help... I've got no funny extensions on Chrome, was using the editor in the WSIWYG mode. Typically I create a code block via the menu, then right click and use 'paste as plain text'. In the past this has never caused problems, but it's actually been about 2 months since I've written an article. It was changing cursor pos about on average once or twice per code block I was working on. Has anyone else had any similar issues? I can try and come up with a more detailed repro if that helps.

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I'm writing an article and in the 'pre' blocks the cursor seems to arbitrarily jump to different parts of the pre block, sometimes the end, sometimes the beginning. This is making edits hard!

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OK so I'm not missing anything then! Alright, client side it is (for now) but like you mentioned, that's going to not cut it when I move onto the Nodejs articles!

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Howdy all, I'm about to start a series on Javascript development, for the life of me I cannot work out what the category is for it - under web development section there's HTML/css, but no JS - there's no JS on languages and I want to get my articles in the right place.... any ideas?

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Good question. I've been using Sublime for text editing, but have actually found that Visual Studio with the latest re-sharper is very good for JS - asides from the fact you cant have a 'plain' web project - it's always going to try and compile a bunch of files. Just as a suggestion, I think a lot of people would be interested in this - why not put up an article of what you've tried so far, pros and cons and then let others add to it? Then we might get a bit of a community round-up of the best IDEs?

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If you're in a rural area, honestly you might find it difficult. To get any kind of freelance work that'll make even a living wage is really hard, because the market is flooded (take a look at the quotes people give for bespoke development etc on sites like people per hour and you'll see what I mean). If you want to be able to work from home, you'll need to have made enough contacts in the industry to get the kind of independent work that can support you, so asides from that I think that I would recommend the following. 1. Work out where you can handle living - does it have to be within X hours of home? If so, what does that open up. 2. Really think about point 1 - if you've had a rough time and needed the peace and support of the home environment, make sure that when you move away you're still not too far if you need that support (and hey, if you're working, maybe you can think about airports and so on that are easier to get to, when you're getting a wage plane tickets might not seem as extortionate!) 3. Keep working in your free time - work on projects on your site, find other projects you're interested in and get on GitHub - fork, contribute and blog as much as you can, share opinions and learn from others. When it comes to applying for jobs, interviewers will almost certainly look you up on the internet. 4. Get on LinkedIn and find recruitment agencies. Tell them what you're looking for and where you want to be - get them involved. They'll make a commission on your role, but it will be the company not you that pays it. They're financially motivated to get you a job and they've got the contacts, so get them on the case. Point 4 is probably the most useful in terms of practicalities, point 1 in terms of health and stability. Search for any freelance work you can do at the same time, but make getting that first job a priority, and use recruiters. Don't use freelance work as a way to get money - you'll end up disappointed, use it as a chance to build a portfolio of things you've done, look for short, sweet, simple projects, explain that you're young and will essentially do them for cost just for the experience. Avoid anything where people can make demands of you that last more than a couple of weeks, you won't get paid enough for the hassle. Once you've got the interviews, you'll be OK. I've been running interviews at the company I work for for a while, and generally we're looking for experienced guys to hit the ground running with complex projects, but also junior people with a hard-working enthu

No probs - have fun!

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I'd definitely recommend something like 'Effective C++' http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Specific-Improve-Programs-Designs/dp/0321334876[^] It'll give you lots to look at, it has a focus on the C++ specific type things that may be unfamiliar from a C# background (like const functions and iterators and so on). What's nice about the book is that it's in bite-sized chunks, so you can really dip in and out in any order you like. With the getters and setters, you typically do the following btw: 1. All off the declarations of the functions go in the header (the declaration just specifies the signature). 2. All of the definitions of the functions (i.e. their actual content) goes in the cpp file. However, you can actually put the definition in the h file as well, what happens here is that generally the compiler will treat them as inline, so it will actually write the content of the function when they're called - not write a method call. class Summat { private: int m_nNumber; public: int GetNumber() const { return m_nNumber; } void SetNumber(int nNumber) { m_nNumber = nNumber; } } Good luck!

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WinForms has its place, but I find generally now-adays that I use it less and less even for utility apps, I've just got faster at knocking out WPF. In terms of desktop development, learning WPF is going to be pretty useful - it's widely used and performs well, it simplifies a lot of typical tasks. But it's interesting to take a look at what big fat apps are built in: Visual Studio: C++ (Win32 SDK), COM, WPF Microsoft Office: No idea. Guessing lots of C++/Win32 SDK and some WPF? Anyone else have any ideas? Photoshop: Guessing C++/Win32 Come to think of it, what are most large-scale desktop apps written in? My assumption is C++ but this may be totally wrong...

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Percy: I'd like to see the Spaniard who could get past me! Blackadder: Well go to Spain, there are hundreds of them.

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Lack of support for C++ style 'const' (but this is a .NET limitation) and the inability to create generics for maths, i.e. class Matrix { } you can't make a matrix template for ints/floats/complex numbers because you cannot say in a template definition something like: class Matrix where T : *,+,-,/ So mathematical templates are darn near impossible to make. But other than that C# is pretty darn good. also 'dynamic' types are a nice time saver syntactically, but not very sensible in a static language.

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At our company, come 5pm on a Friday a crate of frosty beers is opened up in the main room, does anyone else have this? Definitely the most popular part of the week... We used to go for beers together sometime in my old place, but having them in the office seems a bit unusual ...

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Not so much coding, but some tools that I'd consider essentially for emergency debugging would be: 1. WinDbg 2. ProcMon 3. Depends (dependency viewer) 4. DebugDiag 5. ILSpy 6. Process Explorer 7. Window Hack From memory, all of these are free and can be run without installation, for me they sit in a dropbox folder for quick access :)

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I'd be concerned that they're not advanced enough to respect the three laws.

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I'd not seen that before, it looks very nice actually, I think I might give it a bash :)

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