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Florian Rappl wrote: I am also not sure if this statistic (income / app) will continue to be true
with the declining market share of BB
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<Sarcasm Mode>
You are asking for truth in advertising. 
</Sarcasm Mode>
Depending upon what "facts" you choose to include in your study, will have an impact on what your conclusions will be. From your perspective you may want to evaluate all your costs, but from the advertiser perspective that is not necessary. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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I see your point.
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I wasn't around for the holidays to wish everyone a great and wonderful celebration, so, I hope everyone survived without my best wishes. At any rate, I have returned from traveling in Bolivia, so now I have nothing better to do than post here (until my next trip, next week back to Suriname).
I'm sure it was a good thing that my step son didn't invite CG, because all of my flights (IAH, MCO, PTY, VVI, CBB, VVI, PTY, MCO, MPH, IAH) went smoothly with no delays, lost luggage, etc. In fact the travel part of the trip was too boring to talk about. Which is how I prefer it.
So, I hope you all have had a good year so far and that it only gets better.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Welcome back Walt and glad to hear you survived the holidays.
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Couldn't figure out your itinerary from the sequence of airport codes.
MPH in the Philippines from MCO (Orlando, FL)?
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Sorry about that. It should have been MEM = Memphis, TN.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Anyone having difficulty logging into battle.net ?
I've been trying to log in battle.net to play either diablo 3 or starcraft, but I cannot log in.
I'm using the battle.net authentificator.
Just hope I was not hacked.
Nihil obstat
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Oddly enough, I just got off D3 about 20 minutes ago. No problems.
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oddly enough I haven't logged in Diablo 3 for over 1 month now!
Started home programming instead! it is fun too!! 
Might try Elder Scroll Online though... when it comes...
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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No problems.
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I noticed some glitches in-game. Drones moving erratically, units attacking not all in the same time, even freezes. That was 12 hours ago.
Nuclear launch detected
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Hi all,
does anyone know if the CP is recalculating points? I just lost 96 point and there is nothing on the reputation event list.
Cheers
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
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Tnx
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”
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It's the beginning of another development year, and one of my resolutions is to become more organized. I've tried an assortment of approaches, but I never quite seem to be able to arrive at an approach that:
- is lightweight. I have people drop into my cube all of the time with "a list".
- is searchable.
- can be organized by topic/task and date;
I've tried using ToDo List, text files, email, one note and they all seem to muddle things. What do you use to keep track of tasks?
Charlie Gilley
You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I have played with this[^] before, and it is rather easy to use. Haven't used it in a while, though.
There is a portable (e.g. on a usb drive) version here[^].
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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I use that now. I was thinking a little more about what it is that frustrates me. This is probably not unique to me. I have a mix of new development, maintenance items, bug reports, and general technical discussions that occur.
Rather than switching between applications that do one thing better than the other, I end up logging it all in a text file. Think of yellow stickie notes on steroids.
I have a daily diary for running with the day to day stuff, but it's next to impossible to keep that content in sync with tasks...
CORRECTION - on my old laptop I have version 6.3.4 and I just upgraded to the tip that has - a calendar in it. Hmmm. Have to play with this a bit.
Charlie Gilley
You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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PNotes[^]?
I use it as well.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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charlieg wrote: is lightweight.
Yellow stickers and a notebook, over the years I've found that it works surprisingly well ...
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Yellow sticky notes work good. With tape added so they don't fall off the monitor.
Steve Wellens
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I have a Word document that I use to keep track of long-term tasks. It's a bulleted list, with indents for sub-tasks. I've keep a printed copy on my desk, and cross items off it as they're completed. I had a run of several months, year before last, where the Word document was a single page. It's now two pages, and has been as long as five. I keep active e-mail items in the top level of my in box, and only move them to a folder when they're completed, or I've added them to the Word document. Walk-in requests and things that "HAVE TO BE DONE TODAY OR WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIEEEEE!" or are otherwise on fire are handwritten on 5"x8" pieces of recycled card stock we use for printing samples (we make ink jet printers).
This scheme works for me. The cards let me record things simply and immediately, without distracting me from what I'm working on currently. Little stuff gets done and crossed-off the cards quickly, since I prefer getting this sort of thing out of the way as soon as possible. If an item sticks on a card or in my e-mail in box for more than a day or so, it gets migrated to the Word document. It serves to keep my priorities in order, and to help me plan what I'm working on. It helps also when my bosses (yes, plural) shuffle my list of "#1" priorities  . I review/edit/print the Word document about once a week.
The key is to find a scheme that works for you. Try different things. If your organization improves, keep it. If it doesn't, change it. Programmers like applications to do everything, so it's easy get too wrapped up in the application and lose sight of the goal. My scheme works for me precisely because it's low tech, and doesn't distract me from the high tech I'm focused on.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I put more effort into evading my tasks than into keeping track of what I have to evade next.
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charlieg wrote: It's the beginning of another development year, and one of my resolutions is to become more organized
As a thought you might want to spend time on considering whether this is worth the time.
How much time do you spend tracking this stuff versus doing it?
If your primary focus is supposed to be project creation (architecture/design/code) versus project management should you be doing stuff that isn't related to that? Maybe you are doing stuff that you just shouldn't be doing (it isn't worth the time you spend on it)?
If in fact a primary part of your job is tracking these sorts of things then the first step is not looking for a tool but rather define what the tool should do. Your list is rather short. For example some possible requirements of a tool.
1. Deferring tasks to the next release
2. Tasks that need more research
3. Assigning tasks to others (while still tracking)
4. Tasks that need input from others
5. Notes from meetings
6. Defining stages of a task.
7. etc.
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Oh, right, time to ask an admin for a new pad of sticky notes, thanks.
I'll get right on that tomorrow.
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I have decided to retire my two Rich Text Editor projects, and create a new project that combines them, and adds support for running on XP and Vista as well. The advanced features, like task dialogs, will only be enabled if the OS supports them.
The new name of the project is NetPad, and I do have the repo created, but I currently have is set as a private repo, and will make it public when I am ready to release the program.
This will actually be an almost complete rewrite, as a few things (mostly utility classes) will stay the same.
I will post again when I get the code and/or binaries online.
And I also learned Mercurial has an 'Archive' command, which will zip up the code at the specified revision to the specified file.
Reading the documentation helps, doesn't it? 
And yes, I will have end-user and API documentation for the project, unlike most other projects I have seen. And I will try to make the documentation easy to understand for the noobs among us.
We should be nice to noobs, as all of us were in their position at one time or another.
(I kinda went all over the place, didn't I?)
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Zac Greve wrote: all of us were in their position at one time or another
I was never a noob; the term didn't exist back then nor did the Intertubes.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I was never a noob;
As its a simple text-speak derivative of the term newbie, which apparently has online use dating back to 1981 on Usenet, I find it hard to believe it never applied to you, unless you're older than I imagined.
Ditto the Intertubes, I suspect you mean the Web.
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I sent my first email (although it wasn't called that at the time) about 1970.
Having said that, I've been a n00b at quite a few things.
--
Harvey
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The more I use HG, the more I like it! ^^
Mm... except that AnkhSVN doesn't have an equivalent for VisualStudio2012.. Do you know of any good plugin for Visual Studio supporting HG?
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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VisualHG[^], I use.
Like it, I do.
Works well, it does.
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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OK.
Mm.. doesn't work with VS2012... :'(
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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I have it on VS2012. Try running "devenv /setup" from an administrator command line. That should give the system the zap it needs to function. (I had to do that as VS doesn't like refreshing things)
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Awesome, I just needed to seledt the source control system in the options and then.. it worked!! ^^
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Where you do you keep your repos? If you need somewhere, I would recommend BitBucket[^].
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Zac Greve wrote: and adds support for running on XP and Vista as well
Will you just let them die!
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OK, then.
(Launches high velocity warhead at Vista and XP, and heads to the bunker... "30 SECONDS TO IMPACT"....).
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Zac Greve wrote: The new name of the project is NetPad
That might not be the best choice of name, particularly if you expect potential users to Google for it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... between the quick answers and the discussions?
(here, on CP!)
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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I may be wrong (I usually am), But I think it's the same just organized differently.
Frazzle the name say's it all
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
John F. Woods
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The clue is in the name: you had to wait more than ten minutes for an answer, here.
More seriously: did you read the FAQ[^]?
Veni, vidi, vici.
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CPallini wrote: More seriously: did you read the FAQ[^]?
Who do you think I am? Of course not!
Well, I just did now.. I see.. thanks!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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Not much. Q&A was created to reduce the number of the lazy-ass "send codez" idjits in the proper fora.
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They just moved locations
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The audience? I don't bother with Q&A, spend most my time here in the discussions.
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Well said!
A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station....
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My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.
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For a quick answer, you just say the first thing that comes into your head.
That makes it more closely related to the lounge, and might be why so many answers somehow involve porn.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My little girl is now 13. A few more years and both of the little bastards can faarrrkkkk off.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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