Kazi

There is a candle light at the other end of the long dark tunnel:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-needs-to-tell-windows-8-developers-now-about-jupiter-and-silverlight/9608

@Kasimier: My first name is "Kázmér" which is the hungarian derivation of the polish name Casimir: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir. And in hungarian, Kázmér's nick name is Kazi.That explains the name only, not avatar similarities .

Hey, Kazi! Thanks for your words. I understand as a developer I have to learn new things always and I love to learn new technologies. I started my career with GWBasic on C64 in the 80's and went through lot of technologies (Pascal, Turbo Pascal for Windows, Clipper, Delphi, FoxBase, C++, C#, etc etc can't count everything). Html5/JS would be a huge step back compared to C# family technologies. Yes, I can write Html5/JS code, and I do it a lot, beacuse I have to develop web sites. This is all about costs. Costs can come from different sources: deployment, user experience and developer story. Nowadays web sites have the best deployment stories, and if it is the most important aspect, no question, you have to build a web site, despite it has the worst developer story. Building fat windows client applications is far the best developer stories and far the best UX. True, you can build very bad client applications, but you can build far more better applications compared to Html/JS web sites. In a managed enterprise environment, no question, WPF/Silverlight is the way to go, nowadays. Imo, Win8 could solve the deployment story of the fat client applications /Store/ and I can't see the reason to be cross platform as Win8 applications targets Windows. No quesion, i could develop all the applications demoed in the above preview video with the SDK. What's in there: a simple twitter client app, a weather app, rss reader, photo browsing etc. All these are very simple things, but if I would like implement something serious, please don't force me to suck with Javascript.

edit: typo

Html5/JS as a development tool for new generation Win8 applications is the worst news in my career, despite backward compatibility. The message sounds like my .net knowledge will be obsolete in near future. If I have to invest a lot more in Htm5/JS, why should I choose Windows?

Trying to watch the HQ MP4 video on WP7, but getting "Playback error"

Let me mention Charles Simonyi's father here /also named Charles Simonyi i.e. Karoly Simonyi in hungarian/ he was a prominent scientist and excellent teacher, and he wrote one of my favorite book: "A cultural history of Physics".

 

Available in english, german and in hungarian

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Karoly%20Simonyi

Happy Birthday Channel 9

Kazi

If you are interedted in Haskell (or anybody), the first step is to read:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/YAHT

warning: reading YAHT can cause catharsis, haha

I think, the answer is how do they implement the IEnumerable<T> interface. It's possible to open the SQL query within the GetEnumerator() implementation, then it can build the correct and exact sql query which returns the requested result only from the server. So, if you don't enumerate on a LINQ construct whatever is that, you don't contact with the sql server. A rude sample:

class SampleClass : IEnumerable<string>

{

  IEnumerator<string> IEnumerable<string>.GetEnumerator()

  {

    using(SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(ActiveScribaDatabase.ConnectionString))

    {

      using(SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("select CustomerName from Customers where zip=345", connection))

      {

        connection.Open();

        using(SqlDataReader datareader = command.ExecuteReader())

        {

          while(datareader.Read())

          {

            yield return datareader.GetString(0);

          }

        }

      }

    }

  }

}

 

 

The ancient pronunciation is: Delphoi

Delphi (Delfee) is new greek.


btw, it's a beautiful place:

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21110a/e211ja01.html


I was there in 1998.

Kazi