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Automated Application Testing [Automated Application Testing]

Cybermagellan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:38:01 GMT

I've moved into a position where I've acquired a 12 yr old product to test, etc. We use an InstallShield installer.....

However, no one *SIGH* no one, ever thought of testing, framework, unit, or otherwise. Is there anyway that I can test the installers, I looked into Silk but it wasn't too specific as far as testing methods, abilities. Anyone have any experience with this?

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Automated Testing with PowerShell [Automated Testing with PowerShell]

Cybermagellan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:03:11 GMT

I looked up a website that talked about doing automated testing with Power Shell, while it works initially I'm doing this on a Inranet site and need to do some scaling test. When I try to load my test it works, but then says that there is a InvalidException when dealing with a null reference. On IE itself....

However when I move the URL to say Google or something it works perfectly....any ideas?

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Can/How would Microsoft like to help? (Employee Focused) [Can/How would Microsoft like to help? (Employee Focused)]

Cybermagellan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:50:53 GMT

I currently rebuild computers from peoples old thrown out/donated parts and I put them into my girlfriends elementary school for the students, at the beginning of the school year they (the district) told the teachers to ask parents for paper because they can't afford to purchase/issue it to the classrooms...

But this is a big task for an Elementary school with no budget...and just my volunteer work. So I'm looking for help.

The process entails me asking for parts/computers from places like Freecycle or Craigslist, going to get the equipment, building systems that work, and installing the software-delivering the systems. Sometimes it happens in a day, sometimes (depending on the system) it takes as long to get parts to get it in working condition.

I have Windows 2000 running on machines that barely can run 98.....

How would Microsoft like to donate some computers?

5, 10, 20, 100, 1000?

Any amount can/could help, doesn't have to be new or good looking, just something a kid can learn to type on, run Mavis Beacon, or learn how to use the Internet on....

Can a brother get some love?

Side note, hauling computers and monitors, etc back and forth and taking them apart in my living room is killing my back, so this is two birds with one stone principal here.

Please? For the kids?

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Ways Windows 7 destroys Ubuntu [Ways Windows 7 destroys Ubuntu]

Cybermagellan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:19:12 GMT

N/A

We're pretty happy with Windows 7, XP, and if you want to use Linux great....

Pick a distro....Great, we're glad you're happy.

Notice it's often the "least endowed" male amongst the group to talk the most trash to try to fit in with the rest of the group....I think Ubuntu has some * envy, or maybe all he has is a floppy drive instead of a hard disk....either way...why do we let him continue to be here?

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First day of CIS Courses [First day of CIS Courses]

Cybermagellan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:58:46 GMT

I'm working on finally getting that silly sheet of paper that says I can do all the things that I've been doing for the past 8 years....software dev. After talking to the chairman of the CIS department I decided to skip CIS 129 and 131 in favor of CIS 141: Introduction to VB .NET. It's not bad, but boring....

I'm trying to pay attention in hopes of learning some stuff I haven't caught before....seems alot of the course is "The way that I do it is..." maybe not the right way though.

Thoughts??

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Vacationing [Vacationing]

Cybermagellan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:35:04 GMT

So the girlfriend and I want to vacation in about a year, and we want to go somewhere green and overseas, her being of Mexican heritage doesn't qualify, so we want to see about my side of the family.....Ireland.

I know a few of the people here are from that side of the pond and just wondering, where can I vacation to that I don't get blown up, and preferably where it's not city, we can just take the kids out to the beach, enjoy no technology for a week or so and then join the real world...

Oh, and how to get there from Tucson, AZ would be great :P

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Copy files from PC to Xbox [Copy files from PC to Xbox]

Cybermagellan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:05:23 GMT

Is there a way to do this? Stuff that I've downloaded or pictures on my PC I want to get over to my hard drive I don't want to stream but instead copy over to the HDD, without per se doing an external DVD drive option....

Can't I mount and copy stuff over to the xbox hdd wirelessly?

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You're kidding right? [You're kidding right?]

Cybermagellan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:21:13 GMT

I'm trying to determine if this is real.

FTS:

"For those of you who are reading this and do not know what a Operating System is let me explain a Operating System is basically what turn a computer from a useless piece of metaland wires in to a usable workable system"

"don`t you hate looking around the internet to find software like on Windows and Mac OS X not on Hannah Montana Linux well you can do it like that if you wanted to but on Hannah Montana Linux you have a Package manager so you can type in what you want or just browse then just check mark and click apply now is`t that nice"

here are link to the Torrent files for Hannah Montana Linux 1 and 2

1 is out of date i do not recommend downloading it get edition 2"

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UX/UI Designer [UX/UI Designer]

Cybermagellan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:54:22 GMT

So I'm back to working on my website but I actually would like for someone who knows how to do UX/UI work to handle that part, any ideas? Anyone have an opinion on it?

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Best way to find a "string" [Best way to find a "string"]

Cybermagellan — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:39:52 GMT

Continuing on with my app...

I'm loading the tweets I get into RichTextBox's (because it provides detectURL), and I'm looking at now trying to detect for replies (@'s)...I had thought about using a few different methods to find these and just asking for some opinions....

Regex? Trim? Split? (I know in PHP you could explode)....suggestions?

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Microsoft bets big: Windows 7 RC for a year [Microsoft bets big: Windows 7 RC for a year]

Cybermagellan — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:54:07 GMT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/01/windows7-rc-free

FTA:

Microsoft has announced that the Release Candidate version of Windows 7 will be available to the public as a free download on May 5. And since the RC version seems to be pretty much finished (I have not tried it), then it's essentially giving it away for more than a year: as mentioned earlier, it won't expire until 1 June next year.

Hmmm, learn from Vista they have (or so it seems)

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LinkLabel ContextMenu [LinkLabel ContextMenu]

Cybermagellan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:10:55 GMT

I'd like to use a ContextMenu with a LinkLabel...that's possible and all however...the rightclick event still triggers the click event...is there a way to disable the click event...or at least catch it before it dispatches the click event?

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FlowPanel update without Clear? [FlowPanel update without Clear?]

Cybermagellan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:40:03 GMT

I have a FlowPanel control that I'm taking my twitter friends feed and running it through and creating some objects....

I havea question which if just linked to documentation then I can figure out but can't really find on Google....

1. How do I update my FlowPanel (with Label and LinkLabel) without having to clear all the objects and readd the new ones? (if possible?)

Thanks...

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Tabs or Windows... [Tabs or Windows...]

Cybermagellan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:08:57 GMT

Yeah...this is about the application I'm writing...

I'm kinda taking the whole MDI/AOL approach with my app because in all honesty...I'm fed up with Tabs....for example...

Browser instance (IE/Firefox/Chrome/etc...) 1 tab, 2, tabs, 3 tabs, 4, tabs, 5 tabs, etc....along the way, tab #4's article wants to open in a new window...so now I have...

Browser (x5 Tabs) + Browser (1 Tab)

but I want to show the second browser article to my sister...so I have to keep that one OR reopen it in the first browser instance...after awhile this gets crazy and with Windows 7 flyouts *sigh* really?

So I'm going with MDI Windows... I'm sure there is 100 reasons not to...but *sigh* it kinda makes sense to do it...I think what happened though (and I hate to say this), AOL had a good idea and failed to keep with the times...(Web 2.0)..imagine if the old AOL software had "Web 2.0" abilities?

Anyone else get annoyed at the Browser + NewWindow(Tab)++ thing?

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Another "Oh hey I don't know a good google term for this" thread. [Another "Oh hey I don't know a good google term for this" thread.]

Cybermagellan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:38:13 GMT

I have some MDI Children that are created....one of them I'm putting some controls in, Namely a FlowLayoutPanel....inside of that I'm putting some labels....I know the MDIChilds name but I can't reference it for some reason...

I want to have a function that "refreshes" that area....(aka Clears the labels, gets the XML data and redraws them)....but I can't figure it out...the MDI Child is created at runtime sooooo....

I'm looking for a way in otherwords to do....

MDIChildFormName.Controls.Clear()

And Google isn't that helpful :-P

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Another "I don't know where at in Google search this is" thread... [Another "I don't know where at in Google search this is" thread...]

Cybermagellan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:28:40 GMT

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API Calls and XML Objects with C# [API Calls and XML Objects with C#]

Cybermagellan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:39:18 GMT

I'm using a library in my application (more of a wrapper) from Yedda to post to Twitter....but I want to get my friends timeline as well. The Yedda documentation is useless (doesn't exist) however im able to easily get back a XMLObject using their API...so it's something like....

Yedda.Twitter twitter= new Yedda.Twitter();
XmlDocument foo = twitter.GetFriendsTimelineAsXML(username,password);

but this is where I get stuck...I never had to read XML before (via code) and I'm looking at some examples that Yahoo! has for their C# implementation....but it talks about starting a new XmlDocument object then loading the XmlDocument object with xmlDoc.Load(foo);

However whenever I try to do this all I get is "teh suck"....anyone wanna help either with some documentation or an example?

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So I bought an Android phone [So I bought an Android phone]

Cybermagellan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:31:15 GMT

I seen Svens thread about buying an iPhone...

Now normally I would be all...*yay* or something based on I like the iPhones interface....*but* I just recently upgraded to a T-Mobile G1....and I have to say I like it better than my iPod Touch (yes I know it's not a phone)....

The interface is more conductive to getting my application data faster...I can mount it as a storage device...AND....I can put any MicroSD card in it and get or save media...

Couple that with the simplicity of the UI and it's a dream to use....Oh and the barcode scanner is just awesome (and yes Sven it does the QCodes or whatever you use in Japan as well)....

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Best control for a purpose... [Best control for a purpose...]

Cybermagellan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:17:25 GMT

I'm writing YATW (Yet Another Twitter Client)....*sigh* I know, but it's kinda a foray back into .NET, etc....I want to have a "control", but one that will encapsulate other controls (A Picture box, a text button, two lables, etc) but in the toolbox I'm having a hard time figuring out the best tool for the job...anyone have any opinions?

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Proper Database Use in C# .NET [Proper Database Use in C# .NET]

Cybermagellan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:30:57 GMT

I'm writing an application in C# .NET and I want to put some things in a database...anyone have any good database information? I just want a local database, but I'm looking at youtube videos and I'm not too sure about proper implementation.

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A plea from me [A plea from me]

Cybermagellan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:10:04 GMT

If you're going to do instructional videos (especially with Visual Studio), don't use Camtasia's highlighting and typewriter sounds...*sigh* it's just way too distracting

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Kimne Beta Invite [Kimne Beta Invite]

Cybermagellan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:27:41 GMT

So I've been saying that I was gonna release my website or make it public...I want to get some feedback from here first so if you have the time...

http://www.kimne.com/index2.php

I'll take feedback here or through the contact address...it's only about a week or two self coding by myself...so be gentle.

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Domain name help [Domain name help]

Cybermagellan — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:48:25 GMT

Soon I'm going to be releasing a project that I've been personally working on (and personally wanted to for about two years), but the problem is...a name.

In short it's a combination of alot of web services that already exist, just brings them together and will add some other services pre-existing (Twitter, Skype, IM, etc)....So in summary let me explain.

Taking the UI Cues of eBay the simplicity of Craigslist, and the free concept of Freecycle I've made a site where people will be able to post items that they have for free or people can post items that they want for free. Communication in almost any medium across the site and offering an API to integrate with the site.

I want to focus on things UI wise (I have some done), with sky blue, grass green...items that convey ecological concepts such as the mantra "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"...

So I'm thinking about it too hard....and trusting in someone who might see a name from outside the code...if it's good enough and free to register I'll be picking something from here if anyone submits and doesn't have a problem with that.

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Complaints of Windows Features in the coming new years [Complaints of Windows Features in the coming new years]

Cybermagellan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:03:26 GMT

Windows Financial Assistant 2021 keeps telling me that it can't synch my watch to my car...

"Incompatible Bluetooth technologies, please upgrade to Windows FA 2018 or higher on your vehicles HUD"

*sigh* Except Toyota partnered with Apple this year and so my HUD only runs OS XX and even trying to Bootcamp it with Windows 20/20 doesn't work...A "clearer vision" my rear"...

/me wishes Ford was still around

//me wishes Bill Gates didn't buy out the Treasury Department

///me wishes Steve Jobs head wasn't in the glass jar on that robot in D.C. maybe then at least one antitrust law would pass

What's you're latest complaint in the past few years...(2015/2025)

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So I'm going to do it... [So I'm going to do it...]

Cybermagellan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:56:14 GMT

I'm going to go to college...albeit a Community College...but one none-the-less.

After I got my GED in 98 I joined the Army and played Soldier till 03...

Then from 03 to 08 I worked at AOL...

Then 08 to 09 IBM...

Going from Solider to Software Engineer in 5 years without a degree wasn't easy but doable...but I realized being at IBM when everyone on my team had at LEAST their masters wasn't any fun when everyone is talking over lunch "So did they make you guys do any ... at your school" and they get to me and I had to go "meh, no college here".

I also found it hard arguing with people over email over what they needed to get done when they had Ph D. in their email signature and I didn't, have, anything....

Though, kinda sad the college courses so far are designed around...

Programming in "C" - Learning to program in C and C++

Programming in Visual Basic - duh!

Programming in Web Languages - YAY! I get to learn what I've been doing for years....

Anyways...fun times now...

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