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In the United States of America, where I herald from; they are often called hobby shops...seriously. 
No offence taken. 
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Thanks.
Have been to the US quite a few times; perhaps my eyes/mind did not catch them. 
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Slacker007 wrote: Edit: minus the ridiculously expensive part.
Try HobbyKing(.com), great stuff - amazing prices.
Here's a random example: AUD $108.79 (gasoline powered) pulse-jet - just like the ones used on the V1 bomb in WW2.
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__34247__Hobbyking_Pulse_Jet_Gasoline_Engine_34_Red_Head_34_with_Ignition_System.html[^]
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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very cool. thanks for the link.
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You're welcome, have fun.
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“There are pretty immense torsional forces being put on the frame when the band is fully wound, which turned our starch car into a ticking bomb,” says Greenberg. “Any small cracks in the body would culminate in a huge explosion as the frame tore itself apart, often mid-way down the track.”
So you use two rubber bands.
Some people are just so dumb.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Before I retired I wrote several applications in C# Forms and some in WPF, but I never had any need to learn MVVM. So to keep busy in retirement, I delved into MVVM late in December last year. At first I started using Galasoft's MvvmLight, but when I started to grasp what the MVVM pattern was all about, I decided to start over, coding my own messenger class. With the help of Jon Skeet's book, some articles here on CP, some by Bugnion and some answers on Stackoverflow, I really got stuck into topics like custom events and other delegates.
Well, I had a few misfires, reloads and restarts, but my first project is now complete. I just wonder what I should do next? Should I learn what Prism is all about? Any ideas?
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Should I learn what Prism is all about?
Yes.
I developed with/around Prism for a couple of years. Very interesting stuff; I liked it.
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How about writing an article about your journey to enlightenment?
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Please never pose that question to Nagy Vilmos
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Personally if it is for hobby purposes, I would
a) write an article here about what you have done
b) expand on what you have, produce a sample MVVM application and see what problems you encounter - and write an article about that.
personally I don't like Prism much, or any framework really. I prefer to 'roll my own' and treat it as a pattern rather than a framework.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Quote: personally I don't like Prism much, or any framework really
I agree with you. It was a lot more fun doing everything from scratch instead of taking the easy route and using MvvmLight for example. I found nothing wrong with MvvmLight - it is a good approach if you are limited on development time - which does not apply to me.
However, I did learn a great deal that could be of value to beginners with MVVM. Maybe I should create a demo project for an article here on CP. I do feel a bit guilty for taking so much from others like CP and Stackoverflow, and not really giving anything in return! 
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Maybe I should create a demo project for an article here on CP.
That's what I did with my MVVM articles[^];  (shameless plug)I looked briefly at all the frameworks and decided they were too much trouble - the length of time required to learn them well probably exceeded the time it would take to develop what I required myself!
That's my beef with frameworks in general! They tend to try to provide way more functionality than I want, require a learning curve which makes them useful only if working on many new projects, and I spend more time working around their constraints than I save in using them in the first place.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I got a lot out of the articles on CP when I was learning (I use MVVM Light, sort of), not just one but chewing through a number of them gives you a bit of perspective on the potentials and sparks my own thinking. So yes another article on your journey will be appreciated.
As to feeling guilty, forget it, if authors did not want the warm fuzzy feeling of having an article downloaded then they would not publish on an open site.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That is freakin cool! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Will they change the name from Pro to Free? I wonder.
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As of 2015 we are all professionals according to Google, only needed qualification is you know how to Google. 
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For anyone remotely admiring Jon Skeet, here's an interview with him[^], published yesterday.
I particularly like this one: "Micro-optimization is a lot of fun, even if it’s not always a good idea."
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Is he some legend I have never heard of ?
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He wrote "C# in Depth" - one of the best books available on C#. He's very active at the other place, their equivalent of OG I suppose.
I've actually met him when he came to the North to give lecture, seems a decent egg.
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Which is funny because he is a Java programmer by trade, not a C# programmer. I have to check if he has any Java books out there.
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