Channel 9 - Discussions by balupton http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Discussions by balupton http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/balupton/Discussions Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/balupton/Discussions en Tue, 21 May 2013 22:03:10 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 22:03:10 GMT Rev9 0 0 0 Tech Off - What notation do you guys use for control naming? TheGroupOfTheControl_TheNameOfTheControl

So

About - tab page / group
About_Authors - just something in the group
About_Translators - just something in the group

I don't put the type of variable inside my names because I do most of my work in C# .NET 2005, and it tells you the type of the control during the intellisense.

And if i'm not using C# then i'm using PHP 4, and there variable types don't matter, i can easily make a int be a string or whatever.

In PHP most of my stuff is inside classes, and there is no point going

class About {
$About_Authors;
$About_Translators;
}

You just do

class About {
$Authors;
$Translators;
}

Yer I'm really against the hungarian notation, sure it would be good back 15 years ago, where memory was such a problem and you had to make sure that you don't run out of memory when assigning to your variables.

Yer...

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You have no idea how much pain webdevelopers go through to get advanced pages to work in IE.

IE should be illegal.

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http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/
I think they do this somewhere...

Well i would like to drag a windows title bar to the side of my desktop and say if i leave it there for 2seconds it docks, and i can drag it away again.

I have no idea how to help you, but if you do it, it would be great.

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Although a notepad+ or something seperate/aswell would be cool, tabs and colors for coding, like the linux text editors.

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BruceMorgan wrote:
balupton wrote: No offense taken, i originally read it on bink.nu that linked back to;
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Computing/Platforms?Article=/Computing/Platforms/R7G5G6U4

Which actually included an email;
From: Kevin Johnson
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:01 AM
To: Platforms & Services Division
Cc: Executive Staff
Subject: Aligning PSD for Growth and Agility

Yer so it seemed rather reliable to me...

But bink.nu just said the story is now reported false and linked to here;
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/where-the-heck-is-scoble/

Which sounds like scoble is out head hunting

Are you serious?  Did you read that?  That email is the internal mail announcing the re-org of the Platform & Services Division. 

Find me where Kevin says we're going to rewrite 60% of Vista, or 60% of the MCE code, or 60% of fill-in-the-blank?

Find me a name or anything close to back up to the 60% figure.


Did i say i ever believed that the recode was true?
Find me where i said that.

I said i highly doubted it was true because there is no way 60% of vista is media center stuff.

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BruceMorgan wrote:
And which source was that?  Read the whole thread.  Read the links.  These people aren't journalists.  It's not a "news site".  They don't need a source to say "source".  They just make stuff up to generate traffic so people can click on their ads and they generate revenue.  End of story. 

They're not developers, either.  They don't know DLL from component from line of code from their <insert offensive body part here>.

No offense intended, but if if you're one of the people who thinks there is any credibility in the article, then IMHO you really need to examine your critical thinking process.


No offense taken, i originally read it on bink.nu that linked back to;
http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Computing/Platforms?Article=/Computing/Platforms/R7G5G6U4

Which actually included an email;
From: Kevin Johnson
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:01 AM
To: Platforms & Services Division
Cc: Executive Staff
Subject: Aligning PSD for Growth and Agility

Yer so it seemed rather reliable to me...

But bink.nu just said the story is now reported false and linked to here;
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/where-the-heck-is-scoble/

Which sounds like scoble is out head hunting Wink

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Theres been a restructure of the managers, or whatever it is called.
And the 60% of recode is to do with the media center functionality, they are even getting coders from the xbox team to help out....

I am suprised that 60% of the code is media center functionality....

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If they know how to re-install windows, don't bother.

Like manip said, they are 15, what sites shouldnt they be seeing... They've most probably done way 'worse' than what they could be seeing on the 'bad' sites anyway.

Anyway if the kids know whats good and bad (been taught their moralls) you don't have anything to worry about.

And everything else that manip said.

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Anyway for any idea concerning copy protection it is all useless unless it is improvement of the current way they are doing it, otherwise it is just a new way or alternative way.

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Windows Build 5308 Main (Windows Vista - Longhorn Server) 64 bit Checked Version DVD

Instead of the one you are downloading now? Seeing it was posted more recently.....

And what does the Checked mean anyway...


Oh and don't mock T1, it's the fastest... well the standard fastest speed we have in Perth Sad and at $80 a month....

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Oh well i can live another week with 64k Big Smile

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http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=174523#174523

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littleguru wrote:
Follow the HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS standards and you will be fine. A few months ago I created a quite large web site - that was on IE6. Now I have migrated to IE7 and everything works fine and looks as in IE6. No problems at all. I did not need to touch one line of code.
Neither IE6 or IE7 follow standards, if your a web designer you should know this...IE7 is an improvement, but still a pain in the (I need to watch my language) as developers now need to cater for IE7 as well as IE6 and the rest.

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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/mar06/03-21WindowsVistaDeliveryPR.mspx

“Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both,” said Jim Allchin, co-president for the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft. “But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we’ve decided to separate business and consumer availability.”

“Because of the way businesses test and deploy software, it makes sense for Microsoft volume licensing customers to receive windows Windows Vista starting in November of this year. Availability for consumers and on new PCs will follow in January.”

It will still be out in november, just not for the average joe.

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But I need to stress its not a Hacked Xbox360, its a Hacked Xbox360 DVD Drive Firmware.

And about the copy;
A original game dvd has lots of wierd shiz that normal dvd burners cannot simulate.
The hack bypasses/removes the check of this wierd shiz so 1:1 backups will work.

Go here and follow the links;
http://www.xbox-scene.com/index.php?newsview=1#newsitemEEukZpklFAhkcWwSgZ

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But for that to happen somone on the server side needs to be dodgy, or some elite dudes are at it.

But the chance of this happening is not worth worrying about.

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But sure this is a good step, 1/3 major browsers performing the switch.
But i still doubt that IE will become Acid 2 compliant, hell it doesnt even follow standards properly, and until IE makes the switch no one will be caring about Acid 2.

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W3bbo wrote:
balupton wrote:Heres my baby



Nice shell, what's it called?


Stardock's Object Dock, with custom icons, vista background, and desktop icons disabled.

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The most common problem is tissues, i get hayfever like crazy, and then because i leave the tissues out i get even more hayfever...

The other problem is bowls, right now 3 bowls and 3 spoons from icecream and milo cereal Wink - Oh a box of shapes Big Smile

Yer sorta like my desktop, i clean it up by making a new folder and dumping everything in there, and a week later its full of crap again Sad

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But another person stated;
'This CTP will be consumer based.'

Does this mean it will be like Vista Home, or similiar and not actually the Ultimate Edition.....

But by publicly avaiable does that mean;
non-beta testers can get a copy,
or just a larger amount of beta testers can get it (eg. like WLM8).

Thanks

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And isn't the next release the BETA 2, or RC0, or something like that, I also heard some people saying that it will be publicly avaliable...

Thanks

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