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Hi all,
I've just released the first version of my batch image processing application written in C#. It would be great if someone could give it a test for me. The website is here:
http://www.goldsphere.co.uk/ImageGenius/[^]
Any comments (good or bad) on the application or website would be great.
Thanks in advance
Andy
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Erm, i could use a beta tester or two if anyone wants to volunteer some time
for a biomedical type app
Bryce
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Here's my customary "plea for feedback" to check bttlxeForum is heading down the right track. for those that don't know, bttlxeForum is a free time project I've been working on for the past year now that takes Chris and Uwe's CodeProject forums and makes them into a fully featured standalone forum solution with all of the features you'd expect them to have.
Since the last time I asked for feedback there have been quite a few major changes to the software, more significantly: private messaging, user groups and group permissions, enhanced forum categories, real-time stats, and a handful of new forum view types (dynamic memory, threaded, threaded expanded and threaded dynamic).
Thanks to all of the CPians who have helped with ideas, suggestions and testing in the past and to the people[^] all around the globe who have been working with me for the past two months by testing every aspect of the forums to death and back. I'm not looking for more people to enter the beta test now, unless you want to, but I would appreciate it if you could spare a few minutes and head on over to the forums, give it a look over, and tell me[^] if you have any ideas or suggestions.
You can see the forums here: http://www.battleaxesoftware.com/forums/[^].
Note: The poll insertion wizard is currently proof-of-concept but everything else is functional.
Thanks. 
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I was just looking at your forums, and reading your site. The forums look really cool, great job! I thought I would notify you of a typo on the front page:
"Welcome to the new look Battleaxe Software web site Use the tabs at the top of the page to move between sections, and then use the tabs on the right of each page to view the specific content you are looking for."
The first sentence is missing the period. 
Chris Richardson
C/C++ Include Finder[^]
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Thanks for the heads up, but I'll be pulling the site in a few days anyway just as soon as I can finish the new one for bttlxeForum. The company itself is now non-trading, but I'll keep the domain on for e-mail and the forum software.
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
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Hello,
the development of my "ReSysInfo" System Information Viewer has finished. Now I need many many beta-testers.
Download the beta from:
http://home.tiscali.de/reichl/download/resysinfo_setup.exe[^]
Even if you don't find any bug, I would like to know on which system it has been tested (perhaps send me a compressed generated system report?)
Thank you all in advance!
-Dominik
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Running Windows XP pro - doesnt run, just crashes.
1001111111011101111100111100101011110011110100101110010011010010
Sonork | 100.21142 | TheEclypse
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i just install it and it crash, i have windows 2000, 196MB RAM.
"Now I guess I'll sit back and watch people misinterpret what I just said......"
Christian Graus At The Soapbox
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I installed it but it didn't run!
I have windows 2000 with 256 MB RAM.
A. Riazi
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The final version is out now.
Thanks to all who tested my app.
-Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do?? 
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no replies needed
Later,
JoeSox
Load my Sig here.....
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JoeSox wrote:
no replies needed
v2.0 test
Later,
JoeSox
Load my Sig here.....
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Hi!
I developing a small demo program - VB.Net, PocketPC2002 on iPAQ 3950.
I need a button control that can be set to graphic style - have an image as its background.
Since I am new in this field, any assistance will be much appriciated.
Thanks.
Amir Adar
Down to Earth Creativity
GUI-Design Ltd.
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Version 1.7 of HPS HwndSpy is now available for downloads and testing at
http://www.highplains.net/HwndSpy.htm[^]
HPS HwndSpy is a programming utility that allows developers to visually locate and inspect windows that are currently being displayed. When the cursor is moved over a window, HPS HwndSpy will display various attributes about the window, including its size, location, class, and style. This is very useful in analyzing windows in a deeply layered GUI application. HPS HwndSpy is an invaluable tool for developers doing maintenance on GUI applications, where they first need to understand the windows hierarchy and how the windows are structured.
HPS HwndSpy optionally displays a graphical tree view of all current
windows in the system. You can click on any of these window items to
visually locate a window and display its properties.
HPS HwndSpy works with both standalone and browser-based user interfaces. For browser windows that are displayed by Internet Explorer or Microsoft's web browser control, the text, url, and tags of the HTML elements will be displayed. This includes the text of INPUT fields such as passwords.
Key Features
- Window properties view - displays important properties of window
and browser UI elements, including size, location, class, decoded
styles, tags, and urls - Automatic updating - no need to drag/drop "finder tool", window
properties are updated automatically as mouse cursor is moved - Window tree view - optionally displays graphical tree view of all
current windows in system - Outlining - optionally outlines window whose properties are being displayed
- Find window - visually find any window from its handle
Please submit bug reports, comments, or suggestions to support@highplains.net.
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I'm looking for people to hammer on this on a bit:
http://awasu.net/beta7[^]
This is the first release candidate of Awasu, an RSS reader. If you don't know what RSS is, it's an XML protocol that Awasu uses to monitor news sites and blogs for you, letting you know when new stuff appears.
There are a lot of readers out there but this one has a bit extra in that it has a lot of support for scripting. So you can write a script (in any language) and feed the results back into Awasu, thus letting you monitor anything at all e.g. databases, web sites, a running application even.
Feedback wrt to the plugins would be much appreciated. Also any details of OS's that you are running on would be great - I've only been able to test on XP Pro and 2K Pro.
The address above contains a bunch of screenshots and more info on it all.
he he he. I like it in the kitchen! - Marc Clifton (on taking the heat when being flamed)
Awasu v0.7[^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
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I am trying to develop a complex series of controls under .Net that will create a Visual Studio/Access style application for xml and other datasources.
I'm looking for someone with experience of subclassing and owner-drawn controls to assist me either in developing them or just as a knowledgable buddy to help me out.
I'm stuck with the project at the minute due to bugs I cannot solve on my own (all relating to subclassing). I have done a lot of work and would hate to have to shelve the project due to my lack of understanding.
If you wan't to know what sort of problems i'm facing have a look through the c# forums for my posts.
Hope someone can help me 
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In order to write tests you need to access the classes you want to test. Of course. So, if you have a VS.NET solution that contains (a) the project you are developing and (b) the testing classes as a class library the latter has to reference the former. But how? VS insists that everything I reference must be a .dll but at the same time my assembly must be a .exe for it to be executable.
I know that I could move most of the code from the executable into a .dll and just keep a stub in the .exe but this means that I would have to keep the dll around as well when I want to run my app.
Can anybody think of a better solution?
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Hi Erik,
If you are using NUnit 2.0, you can create a project in your solution that creates a DLL to contain your unit tests. This will be separate from your main EXE module. Then, you can use either the console or GUI runner that NUnit provides to see the results of your unit tests. Hope this helps!
Kevin
"Semicolons in a programming language are like mother's milk."
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Hi,
I prepared an article about Agile Programming and Refactoring for CP, it still needs some scrubbing (and proof-reading), but I figure it would be nice if someone else already has a look at it, and give some comments.
it's here: clickety[^]
I'm not very happy yet, I feel it's a bit too long, and not "focused" enough (I feel I'm trying to cover to much). I'm especially unsure if tje "real life example" makes any sense at all...
Thanks in advance
Peter
As James Bond in "die another day", Pierce Brosnan features traits handy in the dawning millenium. He fights without hesitation in a bewildering environment, trusts his high-tech-gadgets, and rather falls for beauty than pondering the political absurdities around him. [sighist]
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[edit]Oops, sorry about that, I just read your bio
Hi! [/edit],
Barring minor spelling and grammatical errors, I thought your article was excellent. I was really sucked in by your introduction, and found it quite interesting that [edit]both a designed [edit]and a non-designed effort end up in the same place. Your content is quite good and you get your ideas across well and in a manner that I found entertaining. I don't think it's too long, and I thought it was sufficiently focused.
I've had a lot of experiences that fit exactly into what you described, and I've had a lot of successes where the processes that I've followed turned out to be exactly those described in Agile Programming. In fact, I'm even a member of the Agile Alliance!
The thing is, I haven't found anything in Agile Programming that tells you HOW to design better software, from a software design perspective. It says lots of wonderful things about the development process, but not the actual architectural design of the software. Instead, it seems that AP tries to fit in with existing design practices.
This is just plain wrong, in my opinion. While each design practice has some merits, they all have major flaws that are propagated by frameworks like MFC and .NET and the architectures that Microsoft tries to force upon people.
This is why I'm writing a series of articles on this: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/AAL-1.asp[^]
As far as I'm concerned, the only way the principles of AP can succeed is if we change how software is architected. And as far as refactoring goes, it's an excellent technique, but the real effort should be put into preventing code from being written that ultimately needs refactoring. OK, every piece of code could stand for some refactoring--I just think this approach ends up being used for major surgery where prevention would have been better to begin with.
At the conclusion of your article, you state The best selling point is success.. I have "sold" (not in the monetary sense, but in the adoption sense) to management my AAL concept to several different companies and to my team members, because it does work. In other words, I've combined using the right software architecting techniques AND Agile Programming techniques for success. They are both required.
If that gives you any food for thought, let me know!
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
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Thanks for your feedback (double so since it's encouraging )
I got to read you AAL article later - I'm a bit unfocused right now. But you're right: that's one thing that was bugging me: Which designs are good for AP (I just wrote that "many will fit the same result" to cover this shortcoming of my article...)
I don't think we should avoid writing code that needs to be refactored - we should just pick designs that avoid large-scale refactorings. IMO, Refactoring is once a tool to "design on your way" (I think this part you can't avoid), and second a tool to avoid complete rewrites of large portions (this we should avoid).
On the design principles: Together with the Agile techniques, at least new design techniques have gotten more attention (User Stories, Patterns, etc.) And although I feel I could "sell" them, it feels incomplete for me. It's just other techniques pointing out possibilities - but IMO requires experience to pickj the right ones nonetheless. Wel, I'll read your article first
As James Bond in "die another day", Pierce Brosnan features traits handy in the dawning millenium. He fights without hesitation in a bewildering environment, trusts his high-tech-gadgets, and rather falls for beauty than pondering the political absurdities around him. [sighist]
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I read your article and I think it is written well. I would suggest that you include an overview where you list your 5 points (the ones in blue) by themselves before the main body of the article. I don't think it is too long.
One thing that I would suggest covering is how to plan for refactoring. What I mean is to tell how to develop code that is intended to be refactored. Sometimes it is necessary to "find" a solution before you can code it properly. Unfortunantely, many times this "experimental" code becomes part of production systems. Planning for refactoring at this level is important because it recognizes the reality of the likelihood of the code finding its way into production systems and it makes the refactoring more productive. If you plan for refactoring you will not leave off application-critical steps (like validating inputs, checking errors, catching exceptions, etc), instead you will keep your design simple but your code well written.
One questionable aspect of AP techniques is that it focuses too heavily on ultra small time-frames and tends to make a developer rely on the compiler too heavily. I find that being able to focus on a code related problem as a whole problem, not just as a component of the problem is often more effecient and ultimately more productive than time-slicing the problem into smaller compoenents. This does not necessarily go against AP, but on the surface seems to.
Also, one of the strengths most developers have is the ability to keep lots of "state" info in their heads at a time as long as it is focused. AP often tends to limit the amount of focus a developer uses by time-slicing everything and I believe reduces the total amount of "state" a developer can handle because while I can remeber 7 related things at a time, I can only remember 4 unrelated things at a time.
All-in-all, a good article.
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Thanks for your feedback!
I share some of your doubts about AP - I see it as just one tool, that has some simple, "feeling natural" techniques to keep complexitiy managable; AP alone is for sure not sufficient!
I updated the sketch with an "Limits of AP" section, including these doubts. (I want to prof-read tomorrow, than upload it here).
State: IMO keeping lots of state information is prerequisite for a good programmer, and Agile techniques can greatly reduce the amount of state information that's necessary to keep in mind at one time. I don't quite understand what you mean with AP forcing you to remember unrelated things - can you elaborate this?
As James Bond in "die another day", Pierce Brosnan features traits handy in the dawning millenium. He fights without hesitation in a bewildering environment, trusts his high-tech-gadgets, and rather falls for beauty than pondering the political absurdities around him. [sighist]
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peterchen wrote:
I don't quite understand what you mean with AP forcing you to remember unrelated things - can you elaborate this?
AP does not force you to remember unrelated things, but it limits the amount of "state" you need to remember for a given task. This is OK for some sitations (and on the surface sounds like a good thing) and can make quick-and-dirty maintenance and refactoring work quicker. However, the results are more limited than what can be accomplished when the ultimate intent is to refator a whole problem instead of a tiny part of it.
When a programmer gets in the -zone-, solving a larger problem is often more effecient than solving just a tiny part of it. Failing to leverage the -zone- and failing to allow a programmer to use his ability to maintain "state" limits the possibilities and productivity of that programmer.
Also, (back to the original question), because a programmers skill of "state" recall is not used for the task at hand it tends to mean that the programmer will need to shift from one task to another relatively quickly. Shifting tasks is often the most ineffecient task for programmers which is where my remark came from.
Just my 2 cents.
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I don't believe you should plan for refactoring. Any code can at some time become obsolete, be it after 2 days or 2 years. That's when you refactor it, even if it's in production. I love the notion of "good enough" to decide for or against refactoring some code.
For the state problem, I often make the "mistake" to think too much in high-level states, eating up my human RAM. Ultra small time-frames let me write down some states for later retrieval and free the memory I need for a better focus on the problem at hand (and a better schedule).
As AP is very much human-centered, it's not a solution but rather a "programming philosophy" that can work or not the same depending on you.
Eric
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