Bass said:

TommyCarlier said:

*snip*

I'm sure a lot of people find some TPL really difficult to grasp, but then again I've personally found that some people have difficulty grasping what the "if" statement does in C. I personally have difficulty understanding the advanced concepts of Topology, while there others who take to it like a fish in the water. Simple is subjective.

The updated CLR book should be pretty awesome the first one is well worth a read.

Exoteric -would recommend the LINQ in action book (havent read the apress one)

Jon Skeet is probably nearly done with his next edition of C# in depth which I am looking forward to.

Should probably pimp my own book as well (Introducing .net 4 with VS2010 by Apress (http://www.apress.com/book/view/143022455x an overview of all the changes)

The TPL & threading api changes includes a fair bit more than that but I think its fair to say the TPL is pretty intuitive to use.

There are obviously changes in all areas but the biggest changes are the TPL, DLR and Workflow.

The free training kit for VS2010 and white papers are pretty good.

Just a quick post to let any Melbourne readers know of a new .net user group starting in Melbourne called DevEvening. We are a free to attend group with presentations given by a mix of members and better known speakers on any topic they wish to talk about (related to dev) followed by a pint & tasty meal. 

This concept is based on a similar I ran in the UK (devevening.co.uk) for about 2 years before emigrating to oz and I guess is across between a geek dinner and more traditional user group. We found this model made for a more interactive and social experience.

Our first evening will contain presentations on parallelization in .net 4/VS2010 and T4 templates.

For more information please refer to:

http://www.deveve.net/

Hope to see you there,

Alex

Sven Groot said:

jamie said:

*snip*

They're inverted exclamation points, I think.

Does your government claim for houses for ducks through?

Link: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Duck_house_MP_Viggers_humiliated&in_article_id=670361&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=

AndyC said:

blowdart said:

*snip*

Well if you either get head or tail, it's usually considered a pretty successful date overall.

I cant make head or tail of it.. (sorry)

Thanks for the replies guys. I agree the head/tail terms can be a bit confusing. The solution I implemented was as RoyalSchrubber suggests to just walk till you hit (n-4)th element. I have sent an email querying this as dont want them failing anyone else on this who bothers to read the question properly.

joechung said:

Maybe the point of the question was to get you to question their correction.  Sometimes people are too easy to submit to authority.

It was a test that was emailed in and they then said I was unsuccessful in application. I then queried as to why this was and received this answer this morning.

Sadly even through looks as if I answered this question was correct I got another wrong. To have answered the other correctly I would have needed a knowledge of geometry which for a general programming job is a strange ask?

Dont get me wrong I agree with the principal of technical tests to weed applicants out but suggest they should not depend on other knowledge to answer correctly and should be focussed on programming skills.

Sven Groot said:

alexmac said:

*snip*

For C# freely read "pointer to the tail" as "reference to the tail", it makes no difference.

The exact question said given a singular linked list which implies its already set up find the nth item from the tail which surely the only way to find would be to iterate through from the head?

Ah well never mind dont think I would have got much further in their process given that was the first stage!

Sven Groot said:

That sounds right to me.

Of course, knowing in advance that you'll be retrieving items from the tail, you can keep a pointer to the tail instead of the head and have all your links in reverse. Maybe that's what they wanted?

Maybe but the exact feedback I got was "was approached  from the head instead of the tail" which doesnt imply they were looking for a pointer. It was also written in C# which okay has pointers but I think I have had a reason only once to use them.

Am happy to be wrong on this but wanted to check.

Thanks,

Alex

ZippyV said:

TommyCarlier said:

*snip*

Yeah, that's pretty lame.

It looks really interesting stuff. However do you really want to trust that wolfram has worked out your query correctly for some historical data search?

Dr Herbie said:

Actually, that's a good point : I don't know of ANY businesses running Vista and the company I work for has no plans to upgrade from XP anytime soon (we run what our customers run, hell we're still on SQLServer2000).

Herbie

EDIT: to clarify when I say 'I don't know any businesses running Vista', I should have put 'I don't have any customers running Vista, or have any friends working at companies running Vista'

Charles said:

What an awesome thread. Thank you!
C

foreachdev said:

dbaechte said:

*snip*

ewstepp wrote  Nov 6 2008 at 11:39 AM 

Linverno & nahid, Quadrant is not part of the Oslo SDK October CTP download. It is currently only available to those who attended the PDC in Los Angeles. I believe that Microsoft plans to make it available, but there were issues that prevented them from making it available in this download.

Quoted from:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/oslo

Due to the age of the comment and nobody 'correcting' him the probability this observation is still valid is high.

I think foreachdev is right. Hopefully they wil release it soon as after taking a look at the SDK last night it looks very interesting.

DarrenP said:

PerfectPhase said:

*snip*

I'm just curious to get some reviews of their service really, I'll go download the SDK but have you been impressed so far?

jh71283 said:

Maddus Mattus said:

*snip*

Congratulations!

You are now the holder of my 'Crappest thread alleging a conspiracy' award!

*Previously held by Dovella for Hey ! Chrome copy Windows flag

erm at pretty much every Microsoft related event I have attended there has been speakers from a wide selection of nationalities and both genders.

You can acuse Microsoft of many things but not this.

The tech industry as a whole has more men then women. Why there is less women at higher levels of management is a more complex issue.

Not to mention is it that surprising that:
Microsoft was created in North America
North America has a predominatly white population (okay its Wikipedia but you can find the origianl census data if you look around http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census)

stevo_ said:

sushovande said:

*snip*

It will do, this is mega early, they'll certainly aim to keep the designer area as rapid and useful as it was before, but their additional goal is to make it richer for extensions to interact with.

Harlequin said:

Harlequin said:

*snip*

http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrayson/

One of the guys on the project has tons of demos and source code for the stuff. Including the nice panels that drag and drop and shuffle around!

Sweet stuff I must say.

Stuff is also on Codeplex.

section31 said:

Yes please!!! Bugfixes  and a ComboBox please!

I was at Remix conference today which had Scott Gu presenting. Scott didnt commit to a release date sfor Silverlight so I dont think 3 days is likely

Still you should get a chance to test your pirate theory! (apparently its talk like a pirate day tomorrow http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html so good time to start)