Great info. It'll make a great article. :thumbsup:

Totally agree about the kids not understanding things once they don't work. Code-kiddy: "Hey this doesn't work." Code-pro: "Why not?" Code-kiddy: "it not work. I don't know. It just doesn't work That's it." :confused:

Sideload. It's very cool. I'm loading another app that I couldn't get in the Amazon store, right now. safari To Go Tech Books (o'reilly et al). sideload very cool.

Oh, wow. That is very open of Apple. Didn't think they did that kind of thing on their proprietary system. Very interesting and nice.

I always negotiate a completion bonus for completing early. It's always more money for less time. :laugh:

I started out C/C++ also. Recently I got a RPi and was writing programs for it. Little command line C programs. So simple. I was reading the old K&R and looking at those programs in there. I was thinking, "wow, it's so amazing that people wrote these little utilities and could just focus on building these little apps that ran on *nix machines and didn't worry about it running on 4 different OSes and 5 different browsers." There was good and bad to all that. Just thought it was interesting. So much was so difficult and you couldn't find out stuff by googling. You had to find a book and many of the books didn't even exist and you were left to reading some terrible technical manual. Interesting how things change.

C# really does seem to create a nice balance of power and ease.:thumbsup: There is so much that is wrapped up nicely, however, if you find you need to do something more close to the metal you can do pinvokes and call directly to Win API methods. All that, and the build system is nicely wrapped up for you so you can get some stuff done.:cool: I started out as a C/C++ dev and I remember all those interesting little tidbits of including libraries and making sure it all linked properly. ugh. It was all interesting and esoteric and...a huge waste of time, actually. X| Edit But, it did keep the kids out of the cookie jar. "No code for you!! You don't even know how to compile this stuff." :laugh:

My favorite Scrum book, which I honestly read twice which is written by one of the creators of Agile Scrum is: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice The Work In Half The Time[^] It tells the story of Scrum and will convince you and help you convince others that scrum is a great idea if you follow the heart of the scrum story. There are details about how to run scrum too. It's a really readable book. Check it out.

I got a new Kindle Fire 7 for $34.99 on black friday and it just arrived monday. (Quad core 1.3Ghz, dual cameras, 8GB expandable w/ SD --- so much goodness) -- and it performs very well. See all the great features at amazon : Amazon Kindle Fire 7[^] I knew it used the Amazon store (no google play) so I knew I may be limited. However, then I learned that I couldn't get Google Docs. AGHGGH!!!. I often take my pad to the cafe and sit and write on Google Docs so when I get home my doc is on my laptop ready to go. It's quite fantastic. Anyways, today I successfully sideloaded all the APKs for Google docs onto my Kindle Fire and it works perfectly. No need to root the device. I still have my factory warranty in place, but I can also install apps I like. :cool: SideLoading? It's as simple as either : 1. starting up an emulator and grabbing the APKs you need for google services, google login and google docs or 2. if you have a phone with those items, you can hook it up to your computer via USB, grab the APKs off using ADB (android debug bridge) and then install them on the Kindle Fire. It's quite cool and you get the best of both worlds -- amazon coolness and other apps too.:thumbsup::thumbsup:

He probably has an iphone though. I have a droid phone and like Google docs, google chrome etc. for that reason. Once you use Google docs / drive which is very seamless to every device I use (work desktop, home laptop, phone, (new) kindle fire (sideloaded), old nexus 7 pad) then you are pwned by Google. But it is soooooo easy. :laugh: Yes, I am pwned.

Oh, they "predicted" something that happened 100,000 light years ago. Are they doing astronomy or astrology? :laugh:

This has been the most-hyped codebase upgrade of all time. Hopefully, right after they release version 2 they will come out and say...

"Errr..uuh...wait one moment. Version 3 is coming and it is a complete and total rewrite of everything in version 2!"

I think he meant... This _is_ the _year_ of the Linux Desktop!!!

BillWoodruff wrote:

I was

So I _am_ on double-secret probation. I knew it! :cool:

Your reply was too harsh and I couldn't even read it. What did it say? ;P

Marc Clifton wrote:

The hamster dedicated to serving you is on vacation

That's a total rip-off! :laugh:

Give us the poetry! Let it fly free, great Vogons! :laugh:

Am I on double-secret probation? I notice that my posts never make it to the main page any more. Do I offend? Is there something I've done to deserve this kind of treatment? :sigh: I don't really care, but I am interested in how CP works since I'm a card-carrying member and all. :laugh:

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson When your facts change but you won't change your mind, you're foolishly consistent.

Wait...Yahoo! ? Let me think...? That's that company that did the same stuff that altavista.com did, right? Right? Wait, you're ignoring me, aren't you? :laugh: