Possible work around: Install PowerToys and use the Power Toys Run. You can choose to have it open the search on your primary monitor, the one with the active window or the one with your mouse. Couple of other really useful utilities in there too.

Looked promising, but it doesn't have any information about views.

This is nearly what I'm looking for. I'd like to be able to control the date range that gets reported (currently just shows last 30 days), and I'd like the out put either to be just the total or grid. It would be really nice to be able to put in a date range and get a total of how many views each article had over that range all on one page.

I've hunted around for this for a bit and can't find it. Not sure if it doesn't exist or I'm just not looking at the right spot. I'd like to periodically be able to get a report of how many views my articles get. I can see to total views since an article was written, but I can't see how to view how many views this year, or the last 90 days. If this doesn't already exist, could it?

You have almost nothing to gain by yanking the app without notice like that. Assuming you've had a good working relationship with this company for the last 2 years, there is a good chance that even if this project gets cut off you'll see more work from them in the future. If not, they might at least be willing to give a reference. How much would it cost you to leave the app up and running for a few months? Would the value of potential new work or a good reference be worth that? I would at least send an email stating your concern about the lack of contact and your plan to take the application down on a certain date (3/1?). If there is still no response I would recommend putting a splash screen on the application warning the users that the application will cease working on the date listed above. That gets their attention without causing them any real pain and/or panic. You don't want your first move to be the nuclear option.

I was reading the Apple Watch pun thread [^] And I noticed how well thought out the indents are as the thread goes on. It starts with a full indent, goes to a half, then a quarter, then an eighth etc etc.

I have a MacBook Pro from my job. My favorite thing about it is BootCamp. I used that to install Windows 8 and haven't purposefully booted into osX in months. My least favorite features are related to the keyboard. 1. The alt and the "windows" keys are swapped. 2. There is no Delete key. 3. They've put the power button where the delete key should be. I deal with these issues by almost always having a full size keyboard (and monitor) plugged in. When that isn't an option (coffee shop days etc) I use the following fixes. 1. I run an AutoHotKey script to switch the alt and windows keys into the right spots 2. Curse while moving my cursor to use the backspace key or in the case of email clicking the delete button 3. Curse angrily while waiting for it to turn back on

Current position is remote, so I'll just let your imaginations run for my work from home days. On office days (once every few months), jeans and a t-shirt are fine. My previous job didn't have an explicit dress code, but the implicit one was business casual with a casual Friday. I started expanding casual Friday until it covered the whole week. My summer project was going to be introducing shorts, but I left before I could add that to my resume. The job before that my wife described as barnyard casual. I don't wear ties for interviews anymore. If a company needs me to wear a tie, it's almost certainly not going to be the right fit for me.

I've seriously considered putting something like the resumes I have posted at job boards: "Please include the word "asparagus"* in the subject line to show that you've actually read my resume. If you do that, I guarantee a reply." Then if I get an unsolicited email about a job and it doesn't contain the word "asparagus" in the subject I know it's probably not worth reading.

Full disclosure, I've been using Windows Phone since v7 (it wasn't great) and I'm currently running the latest Dev Preview version of the OS so it's possible not all of the features I mention below will be immediately available. Also, I have a general dislike for Apple, though not as much as my growing hatred for Google. You're really choosing an ecosystem. As somebody pointed out, if you have a Mac and an iPad it's really a no-brainer to get an iPhone. If you're pretty well invested in the Mircrosoft ecosystem, then Windows Phone is the clear winner. If you are truly on the fence. The live tiles are great and if you get a Nokia the free Nokia apps are fantastic. I didn't think I'd really use Cortana that much, but I've found her very useful and she's really starting to grow on me. The downside is apps, there a few that I wish would port to Windows Phone, but no deal breakers for me. The best feature has to be the WordFlow keyboard. That thing is one step away from reading my mind. It's to the point where if it doesn't get the word I was swiping the first time I assume I've done something wrong.

If they aren't going be suffering, what's the point of a slow death.

It seems less like a learn to code game than a pattern recognition practice game. I develop in C# all day, so I expected to just breeze through (the beginner levels at least). The coding isn't the hard part, it's determining the relationship between the numbers. Once I know that, there's a small challenge to getting the skill rating to 3 bars, but that takes guessing and googling. There's no hints, no teaching.

I'm much more concerned about number of people who "died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets" I had no idea that was a real thing, but the rate has double in the last decade. They have it correlated with cheese consumption, but I think it probably has to do with the increasingly high threadcounts.

I think the key with control packages is that you need to accept some of their default behaviors as your standard. As someone stated earlier, most control packages work great as long as you stay in their sweet spot, once you leave the sweet spot it's hit or miss. That being said, we're using the free stuff (all javascript, not the server side controls that emit javascript) in our big MVC project and haven't run into any major problems. We've been able to easily wrap/extend a couple of controls to do some of the common stuff we were writing repeatedly. The free version is worth every penny.

We pay for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, so figure us for <$30 a month. We also bought a nice digital antena that sits in our attic and gets us the local broadcast channels which I only watch sports on. The only downside is you can't watch shows as they come out, so while the internet was going crazy talking about how awesome the end of Breaking Bad was I had to put my fingers in my ears and hum, then wait 6 months to see it. On the plus side I get to watch TV on my schedule and without commercials*. *Hulu has commercials and it pisses me off so much that I generally avoid watching anything on it unless my wife forces me. She doesn't seem to mind the commercials. I'd be happy to pay more for a no commercial package if they offered it.

Great point, they do deserve help as long as they are also putting in effort on their end. I think we all agree that the "codz pleez" crowd should be ignored at best. There is something else to consider as well. If we tell all of the students who come here and ask questions that we won't help them (often in less kind words), they will go somewhere else to get help. If they never come back, this community will eventually shrivel up and die. I'm here because I was able to get some questions answered early on, then I started reading the lounge, and I eventually started submitting a few articles. If I were rejected in those early questions I'd probably be contributing somewhere else entirely.

I hope you're taking the phone interview with #3 to explain to them that you aren't interested in the position, that you tried to explain that to the agent a half dozen times before he/she setup the interview, but it just didn't seem to be sinking in.

I was self employed for about 6 years. I usually took a few weeks a year of official "vacation". I would plan to do no work, but would still respond to some calls and emails sometimes for emergency fixes, sometimes to just say I was on vacation and I would get to it the following week. Most of my time off would come in the variety of a few days here a few days there kind of thing. That plus the ability to take a few hours off in the middle of the day to go for a hike or whatever kept me sane. It was only later that I realize what a horrible job I was doing at taking vacations. My first vacation after I started as a full time employee again was a real eye-opener. I literally didn't think about work in any serious way from when I left early on Friday until I was walking back in the building 10 days later. I felt so refreshed. It really made me value vacation time much more highly, and I'm much more willing to trade salary and other benefits to gain more vacation time. I highly recommend you do your absolute best to fully shut down work for a few extended stretches (1 week minimum) a year.

I assume this is similar to how they collect exception information in WP8 and W8 apps, and yes, I have found both to be very useful. I was able to diagnose and fix an unreported exception that was crashing my WP8 app about 1% of the time based solely on the information collected. I didn't get my first bug report from a user until the update was already in the store awaiting approval :) On the down side, I think this is also how they determine what features are actually used by the masses, and they use that information to justify changes to the UI.

Once you have an SSD you never want to work without one. I've had one, I don't at my current job, but wouldn't think of buying a laptop without one.

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