code-frog wrote:
If someone seriously ranked Vista number one then I'm not even going to read the rest of it. It's a total smear and the entire purpose of the review was to put Vista as number one and that's the only reason.
I don't think there's conspiracy against Vista - it's just unfortunately not as good as we were expecting. I think even the hard-to-the-core-hardcore MS fans on CP can see that Vista is at least somewhat a dissapointment? Am I on my own on this one?
Wasn't Vista (or Longhorn) due in 2002? I'm sticking with XP for a while yet.... if Visual Studio ran on Wine I'd be typing this in Ubuntu. You have to take your hat off to Microsoft's approach of "look after developers first" that seemed to be adopted before the launch of VS6. I'm only using Windows because the developer tools are so good - I've moved from building native windows apps to websites so I'm pretty platform agnostic these days.... it's my fear of losing awesome tools and having to learn lots of new technology that is keeping me with MS, not the quality of the operating system! :)
Opera Mobile is awesome - it is fully standards compliant and passes the ACID2 test, even IE7 on a desktop still can't get to grips with it. Speaking of mobile development, has anyone else looked at Android, the new developer-friendly mobile OS from Google? http://code.google.com/android/[^] It uses the Java language without using the JVM, quite a cunning ploy to get Sun out of the loop I thought...
Rob Caldecott wrote:
Mike Dimmick wrote: I live in Reading Greetings from sunny Thatcham.
And greetings from Caversham! Although I'm at work in Henley :)
Apologies if this is a repost. The .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released! You can download the .NET Framework 3.0 components here: Clickety Click![^] Cheers, Paul
Joe Woodbury wrote:
An "IT Professional" maintains the end user experience. The "Software Developer" creates it.
Couldn't agree more, gets my five! PB
RoswellNX wrote:
repost i believe
I hope this one isn't a pearoast too - in response VM Ware has made their Server app free too! http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ [^]
:laugh::laugh:
Ahh yes I see what you meant now! Cheers, PB
Brian Delahunty wrote:
Visual Studio does not run on OSX. Simple.
True, unless you run VS inside a virtual machine running Windows. I use Parallels on my Intel Mac and it runs VS at near-native speed, thanks to the virtualisation capability of the new Intel dual core processors. I also have Boot Camp so I can boot Windows stand-alone for more intensive tasks (playing games, making music etc). If it had 2 mouse buttons, my MacBook Pro would be the best piece of kit I've ever owned. I'm a Windows boy working in a design agency with 50-odd Mac users - it's great running OSX and Windows side-by-side so I have best of both. I never thought I'd say it, but I love my Mac! Not as much as I love .NET 2 though..... PB
I've got a shiny MacBook Pro 15" 2 GHz from my work running Windows XP using Boot Camp - it runs Counter-Strike:Source quicker than my 3.2 ghz Dell desktop! I love this bit of kit - it's the best laptop I've ever used - I'm a windows boy working with 50 mac users, so having the option to boot into OSX is awesome. P
Filezilla server?
That's a coincidence - the company I work for (www.avvio.co.uk) created the stand and much of the collateral for BEA! I'm not going though, but quite a few from the production team are setting off tomorrow. I worked on the cd-rom for a company called Anite, if you want to check out my .net / flash skills whilst you're there ;) I hope you enjoy it - you might even win an iPod nano from the BEA stand... Paul
viaduct wrote:
What about Green Wing? Spaced? Black Books? Coupling? Cold Feet?
I couldn't agree more (apart from Coupling - it was almost as bad as friends). Green Wing is the funniest show from any country for years and years in my opinion (new series starts on C4 soon!). Also, don't forget Spoons, Monkey Dust and Man Stroke Woman! P
It was, purely because you mentioned Firefox and crashing in the same sentence - that SessionSaver plugin has saved me a load of grief in the past from FF crashes, so I thought I'd mention it. Cheers, Paul
Firefox does crash occasionally - I recommend session saver 0.2[^]. When you reload FF, everything is back exactly where you left it! Clever stuff..... -- modified at 9:08 Monday 14th November, 2005
I liked the 6 and 7 answer - it is indeed the answer to everything.... Paul
This reminds me of when I was driving along the Oxfordshire country lanes in England on my way home from work a couple of years ago. It was a dark and rainy October evening and I was doing about 80mph when a deer lept across the road in front of me. Due to the conditions, I braked as much as I could but held the steering wheel straight to avoid sliding in the wet. The bumper of my old Ford Escort clipped the hind legs of the deer. I just kept driving and when I got home checked the damage - barely a scratch. I had as good as forgotten about it by the next day, assuming the deer had got off ok. However.... My boss Emma came in the next day with a terrible story. She had been driving down that same road about five minutes after me, and saw a deer by the side of the road. She pulled over, saw it was in pain and called the RSPCA (an animal welfare charity). She waited in the pouring rain for 30 minutes for the vet to arrive, and then the vet said there was nothing he could do, and gave the poor deer a lethal injection right in front of animal-loving Emma. It broke her heart, she was upset just telling the story to us the following morning. I felt it wasn't the right time to break the news to her that it was me that hit the deer, and a few months later we both left the company. I still speak to Emma, and I keep meaning to tell her - I know I should.... but it never seems like the right time. Glad I got it off my chest now though - next step is surely to tell her! cheers pdaddy
Marc Clifton wrote:
Here's[^] a perfect example.
I'm trying to look at that example, but I keep getting error 500 :doh:
