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Thursday, December 9, 2004 3:49 AM
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I am interested in what developers are using .NET for. That is C#, MC++, J# and yes, even VB.NET. Really the requirement is the use of the .NET Framework (any version) and that the use is public. Internal projects are great but they are hard to use for advocating the spread of .NET as details are scarce and people invariably cannot use the app.
An app is any publicly available system that uses the .NET Framework in some major capacity. This covers WinForms, WebForms, WebServices and WindowsServices. And if you are using Mono then bring it on.
I am not sure if libraries of code compiled to DLL format is worth listing here. I'd also like to keep the list free of Hello World class apps. We need apps with real meat behind them. The more users the better too. And unless a BETA is really quite advanced and in widespread use it is probably best to wait until v1.0 before listing it.
The more info on the use of .NET in the app the better.
1. WinForm apps
2. WebForm apps (aspx)
3. WebService apps (asmx)
4. WindowsService apps
Please post what I have missed.
regards,
Paul Watson
South Africa
The Code Project
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| What blogs do I read?
Saturday, May 8, 2004 10:19 AM
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Michael Dunn posted the blogs he reads and I thought it would be handy to follow suite.
I think the "blog" definition as people perceive it is a bit tight for this, so I am extending it to the RSS feeds I have in my RSS reader (FeedDemon if you want to know of a great reader). These range from blogs of friends to high profile news sites and technology feeds.
- BookSlut: Great for keeping up on the world of books
- Wanderlustress: A former high-flying banker now a Peace Corp member in Uzbekistan
- PhotographyBlog: Keeping up with the digital photographic world
- BlogDex: Keep track of the top memes each day
- CSS Vault: Amazing new standards-based web-sites
- Gizmodo: Keep up with new gadgets
- Joel on Software: Keep up on Joel's latest
- Scobleizer: Microsoft guy, interesting posts
- Slashdot: The easy way to keep up with /. and avoid the inane discussions
- Wired News: Still writes great tech articles
That was just a sampling of the feeds I monitor, here are OPML files (FD imports OPML very easily, most readers do) from the four main categories I have in my reader:
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Christopher Duncan quoted:
"...that would require my explaining Einstein's Fear of Relatives"
Crikey! ain't life grand?
XmlTransformer, my latest CP article.
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Argh, the agony. I'm sorry. 
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Unser Tanz ist so wild! Ein neuer böser Tanz.
Alle gegen Alle!
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| Media: Photos: Travel: Greece 2003
Saturday, August 30, 2003 3:29 PM
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Greece!!
I want to visit that again after about 7 years now.
Rickard Andersson
Here is my card, contact me later!
UIN: 50302279
Sonork: 37318
Interests: C++, ADO, SQL, Winsock, 0s and 1s
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| Photography: Madness Part Due!
Sunday, March 2, 2003 7:50 AM
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It is mid-summer yet I am sitting here freezing cold. Why you ask? Because I took a tumble into the Atlantic ocean (the cold one) while trying to get some wave photos as the sun set. My shorts are soaked, my t-shirt see-thru and my shoes and socks waterlogged.
Ahhh, I love photography.
There was this handy rock jutting out in line with another rock that had waves breaking over it. My rock seemed safe, I watched it for awhile and notice the waves avoided it most of the time. So it made a good hide from the sun (so I would not get sun-flare on the lens) and a good solid object to rest on to keep the camera steady. I scrambled down and began lining up shot after shot as the sun bathed the rock and spray in amazing colours. Suddenly I am pitching backwards, water all around and my only thought is "f***, camera! Hold it up! Hold it up!" Landing arse first in a rock pool is no fun when your hands are occupied with saving your camera.
Then I realised I had lost my lens cap... shite! 10 minutes later, as a nearby fisherman watches on in great glee, I find the damned thing wedged between some rocks.
Now the sun is touching the horizon, the waves are getting bigger, the wind and cold water is making me shiver and... you guessed it... I go back to the rock and carry on taking photos.
This time I kept a firm stance and every time the waves came, now strangley not avoiding my rock, I would wait for them to hit the other rock, shoot and then as fast as I could pull the camera back and behind me so the spray would not cover it.
In my mind it became a battle between me wanting to take photos of the rock, and the ocean trying to stop me. I should know who won next week... 
So yeah, I am a nut.
For those who know the area it was on Noordhoek beach (Long beach to foreigners) on the Chapmans peak side. It was actually quite cool. I clambered up from the beach right up the cliff side to the actual Chapmans peak road. It was way beyond the cut-off point and the road is absolutely trashed. Big boulder sized holes in it and half the barricade walls are shot through. It was really quite nice strolling along Chapmans peak road, closed off for so long, all alone and the ocean far below.
Of course as any hiker will tell you getting up is easy, getting down with a camera, tripod and bag is not.
What a wonderful part of the world to live in though. 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
DavidW wrote:
You are totally mad. Nice.
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Nishant S wrote:
You just joined CG and me in the list of people who have no life.
So basically what you are saying is there are different levels on having no life? 
-Nick Parker
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| Photography: A Polariser and the Madness of King Paul
Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:23 PM
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Ok so photography is a sickness. Worse than drugs and the love of small hedgehogs*.
Yesterday I went out and bought a piece of round glass that fits on the end of my lens and makes the sky bluer. They call it a polariser. Thing is that piece of round glass cost R345! I can get almost two tanks of petrol with that much money. It is three times more than my weekly grocery bill. Just for a piece of frikin glass.
But oh, oh how sweet it is. Yes, it rocks. Polarisers rock. Spent two hours on my back staring at the sky twirling the polariser around and around, watching the pale blue sky turn to a deep blue. Basically it polarises the incoming light. The effect is to cut out haze, saturate colours and provide more contrast in the sky. My Golden Lion photo is pretty cool IMO, but the sky is totally burnt out and has no colour, detracting from the photo as a whole. However with a polariser I can get in the golden colours of the landscape AND saturate the sky rendering a nice deep blue. Can't wait for the results.
The cool thing about a polariser also is that you can see the change right through your lens. The strongest effect of the polariser comes when it is 90degrees to the sun. As you turn the circular glass you can actually see the sky going from pale blue to deep blue and then back again. Kiff!
Oh and the other madness was buying four rolls of film (Fuji Sensia 100 and 200) and the total coming to R295. Holy crap.
* Are hedgehogs ever not small? I mean, is there a Giant Lesser Spotted Hedgehog of New Thumberland or something?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Want a job?
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Want more pics... want more pics.. want more pics...
Regards,
Brian Dela 
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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Brian Delahunty wrote:
Want more pics... want more pics.. want more pics...
Awwwww, my one and only fan. Thanks Brian
Getting them developed today, should be ready this friday or so.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Want a job?
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Paul Watson wrote:
Getting them developed today, should be ready this friday or so.
Cool. Let me know when you get them online
Regards,
Brian Dela
Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright
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Paul Watson wrote:
my one and only fan.
Not at all!
I can't wait to get a polarizer for my Nikon - I had one years ago for my film cameras and the effects are magnificent. Around here I think a UV filter is probably a must, but I believe I can stack it with a polarizing filter without losing too much sensitivity.
BTW - What did you think of the latest tune download?
"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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Roger Wright wrote:
BTW - What did you think of the latest tune download?
Going to download it this evening, it is a bit big for me to hog our pipe with during the day
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Shog9:
Paul "The human happy pill" Watson
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Paul Watson wrote:
Yesterday I went out and bought a piece of round glass that fits on the end of my lens and makes the sky bluer.
Congrats! A fantastic piece of kit. But Paul, please, shop on EBay (mine was £11,50). That way you will be able to buy 3 (yes, they sell brand new there) for the price of one (makes more sense if you consider my UV filter - 0 Haze cost me only £6,95)
Nice caterpillar shot BTW.
But I am fantastic in bed! And there are gorgeous women in all the houses I pass. And it would be wrong to leave them unsatisfied! So spam is the only way... - Paul Watson
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Megan Forbes wrote:
Nice caterpillar shot BTW.
LOL thanks but one of my worst shots. I was just seeing what photoSIGers would think. They did not like it hehe. If it is not a sunset, a nude women or an art shot then it is never well recieved.
Went into the lab today to pick what slides I want saved to CD from my latest batch. Some awesome shots! Can't wait to get them up. In and around Hout bay. Slide film rocks, it is such a nice feeling to be leaning over the white-screen with a loupe peering into these amazingly luminescent photographs. Though I think some of the other customers in the lab thought I was a bit nuts
Megan Forbes wrote:
But Paul, please, shop on EBay (mine was £11,50). That way you will be able to buy 3 (yes, they sell brand new there) for the price of one (makes more sense if you consider my UV filter - 0 Haze cost me only £6,95)
Ouch. Just saw a Hoya 58mm polariser for $48. Only a R100 more than what I bought and of a lot better quality.
Thanks and I promise, I will give eBay a bash next time. I just really am a bit weary of being burnt on eBay.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
DavidW wrote:
You are totally mad. Nice.
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Paul Watson wrote:
If it is not a sunset, a nude women or an art shot then it is never well recieved.
Tell me about it. Wildlife shots should be on a site of their own. An American actually suggested I should have taken a couple of steps to the left on my leopard shot - to do that would have meant getting out of the car under the tree he was in (and turning myself into something on the menu). I think they believe all SA's live in a permanent zoo or something!  Speaking of new sites, my SQL tables are currently under design for my "easy photo site" (ok, I need a name!) ASP.Net web application. Wish me luck - starting from the Admin angle to make sure all the functions I want will integrate nicely.
Paul Watson wrote:
Some awesome shots! Can't wait to get them up.
I'll check out PhotoSig tonight (off into London to look for subjects now - damn, hope it doesn't rain!). BTW - could you please put a link here to your portfolio? Searching for your name each time to get to you is something I feel lazier about each time 
Paul Watson wrote:
58mm
Didn't know you also had 58mm thread. Man, I love filters
Paul Watson wrote:
I just really am a bit weary of being burnt on eBay
That sucks. Fortunately it's hasn't happened to me yet. I think their rating system is invaluable. If someone ever screws me around I will definitly flood them with negative feedback!
But I am fantastic in bed! And there are gorgeous women in all the houses I pass. And it would be wrong to leave them unsatisfied! So spam is the only way... - Paul Watson
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Megan Forbes wrote:
"easy photo site" (ok, I need a name!)
PhotoFast... oh wait, that's a name of a company already. Hmmm...
Photo Gallery Producer... oh wait that becomes PGP, doh...
If I think of anything I will tell you. Don't use photoProject though, that is my name for a website I am putting together Original huh? Can't hide my developer roots.
If you want any help on the app then just ask.
Megan Forbes wrote:
I'll check out PhotoSig tonight (off into London to look for subjects now - damn, hope it doesn't rain!). BTW - could you please put a link here to your portfolio?
Sometimes rain can be a good thing, but only if it clears up before sunset. Normally then you can get some dramatic cloud shots and also look out for good puddles with good light on them. Can get some nice reflection shots. Picadilly Circus lights seen through a puddle reflection would be pretty cool IMO. Though the cops might just lock you up in the loony bin if they see this young lady taking photographs of puddles... hehe
My portfolio on photoSIG I will put it in my bio here too, thanks for the idea.
Megan Forbes wrote:
An American actually suggested I should have taken a couple of steps to the left on my leopard shot - to do that would have meant getting out of the car under the tree he was in (and turning myself into something on the menu). I think they believe all SA's live in a permanent zoo or something!
LOL! Typical. One shot I took I was also advised to take it more to the right. Thing was I was already hanging onto a rock on Chapmans peak when I took it. Anymore to the right and I would be one with the rocks, 100 feet below! hehe.
But any advise is good IMO. I have also said to some photos on photoSIG to move to a different angle. If it is a wild animal shot or somewhere dangerous then I do acknowledge that it might have been impossible though.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
DavidW wrote:
You are totally mad. Nice.
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You've lost it dude. ![Rose | [Rose]](/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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