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I think this is the appropriate forum. But that's just me.
Of course, the benefit of Q/A is that someone months from now may have the same question.
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honey the codewitch wrote: They told me I should have put it in the lounge.
You could have phrased it perhaps a bit more specifically. But to me it looks like a valid question rather than a rant (as suggested.)
Other than that, I thought you liked to code to the metal. So why not just create your own.
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I actually don't like reinventing the wheel.
I do enjoy building everything up from scratch when there's nothing already there, or when the things that are there simply aren't up to what I need them to do, but I doubt that's the case here.
What's more likely, is I am getting old, and stuck in my ways, and I got into a WinForms rut as the world moved on. It moved on without me and now I need to catch up.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: the world moved on. It moved on without me and
I'm OK with that.
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Largely I am too. But another part of me sees that as the sloth of aging.
I get comfortable, I get complacent. If that happens too often, I stop learning, and then you may as well start kicking dirt over me.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Don't be afraid - as long as you ask yourself THIS Question you can't go wrong ...
By the way - I also prefer Forms and I have also no real connection to this "new World" ... (sorry for that)
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called retirement
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I probably won't ever fully retire. I'll be like Gene Winfield, loving what i do so much I'll be doing it until I'm 90 (if I'm lucky)
It's just who I am.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: I probably won't ever fully retire
One needs to find something that they will like to do 40, 60 or even more hours in a week.
And it cannot be something that they are already doing, because of course then there are even more hours to fill up.
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truth. Had a long conversation with my "boss" of 30 years. It's one thing to get to "I want to retire" - whatever that means, and entirely another to have something to do when you get there. I'm in the analysis part right now deciding what I want to do. Something different or a little less of what I do now? I love engineering and writing software, but I'm getting less tolerant of the pricks 20 years my junior.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: getting less tolerant of the pricks 20 years my junior.
lol
I won't advise you but myself I do realize there are only two possibilities going forward. Either I die before my friends or they die before me.
For the first that could mean quite a few years with no friends.
Work (those juniors you mention) provides a pool of youngsters that allow me to go for the first option.
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Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: It's one thing to get to "I want to retire" - whatever that means, and entirely another to have something to do when you get there
I'm not particularly worried about that.
I love to code, but I've burnt overdoing it (evenings, weekends), so nowadays I hardly ever work on pet projects during my free time. But, for decades now, I've been telling myself when I do retire, I'll probably be working on code I've been meaning to write for a very, very long time, but isn't code I can write in my line of work, or get paid for - programs that I'd like to work on, but won't pay the bills.
That's what I see myself doing in retirement.
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Okay - I have a funny for you . I'll get to your comment at the bottom.
My dad was an EE. Hard core. And as he got older, his buddies at IBM got into side businesses. At the time I did not know this - I was a young teen blundering his way through school, etc. But he bought a little sailboat. And I learned to sail it and race it in regattas. Hold that thought...
15+ years later I was in the middle of nurturing a GIANT family. Ask me offline if you want the details but 5 sons, 6 daughters, 3 combat veterans with a lot of combat tours (they got dirty) - lots of lost sleep. The boys went to war and the daughters are rougher than they are. I need a coat of arms that says "Piss and Vinegar".
So here I am at the "end" - and I thought it would be very attractive to go fishing and be left alone. I hate fishing. As for the sailboat - I live close to a large lake. I could grow old and die happy ....
"I'll probably be working on code I've been meaning to write for a very, very long time"
And you say that. I have a customer who really needs there manufacturing system re-written. It's on my list.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: It's on my list.
I had to laugh out loud.
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instead they will spend millions on some other solution .... I'm working it.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I like the "newness" of UWP. And any pain along the way; because when it does what it hinted at, it was worth it.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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pinvoke.net[^] is down now for several days, at least?
This is quite a loss to the development community.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I know I've been there before.
Used that website back when I was still doing WinForms.
Can't really remember what for though...
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I used it back when I was still learning P/Invoke ins and outs.
Was useful at the time, but I stopped using it when I had enough of a handle on it that was faster to just translate directly from the C signature myself. Even then I still used it occasionally for copying large structs and stuff, just to save time.
I know it's not quite the same thing, but I am a walking pinvoke.net so if you post a question in Q&A, tag me in on it, and I'll translate the C to C# for you.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Thanks for the offer. I foresee that I'll take you up on it!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I know it's not quite the same thing, but I am a walking pinvoke.net
Why am I not surprised by this?
I've had some decent results using ChatGPT for some coding questions - usually looking for how to get some obscure/poorly documented API going. It's not always 100% right, but often gets me on the right track. Come to think of it, I still hadn't had a need to ask it for any P/Invoke type of question...
[Edit]
Sorry for reviving week-old threads...I'm...let's call it, "catching up with a small backlog"...
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Wow, that project looks incredible. Thanks for the link!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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