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8 minutes ago, evildictait​or wrote

If we decide whether someone goes to jail by presenting the jury with evidence and them deciding if a law was broken, why can't we do the same with CFOs and blatantly tax-evading tax returns?

There's a difference between evading (breaking the tax laws) and avoiding (taking advantage of loopholes). Avoidance is legal and does not need a jury. That's for the tax office to decide, according to their own rules.

1 day ago, Dirtbagg wrote

So you are saying I need to try to setup DRM on his content?

I have not approached the owner of the content yet, till I know I can protect his content.

It sounds that way, but I don't know enough about your requirements. It depends how much effort he wants to put into stopping things being copied, and how you stream or download them. Frankly everything is breakable.

14 hours ago, Bas wrote

I like the new ASP.NET Web API stuff, but it only spits out REST so the time I gain with it, I immediately lose again building stuff that consumes it.

It clicks eventually. WSDL hid too much, and made people think in terms of remote objects, which it never was - it was just message passing. JSON is portable everywhere.

But it's not like WCF is going away, it's still there.

3 hours ago, figuerres wrote

some guy made a .Net wrapper with all the stuff but it looks like he had to spend a lot of time doing something one off that if they had a WSDL file most of the code could be generated like we do with ASMX or WCF services.

I have only had to deal with a couple of cases but to me it seems like REST / json is a step backwards to the dark ages ....

JSDL? I suggest that when I want to see people explode. One of the points of json / rest is they're not strongly type, so there's no need for a proxy. You have to remember it came out of javascript where there is no real typing. It's not so bad though, you should be marshalling it into your own domain objects after validation, and Newtonsoft's json.net

4 hours ago, MasterPie wrote

@blowdart: Do you ever get to review Ion's code? I'm sure you'd give him a pass, right?

Not unless he's committing into asp.net, or the azure sdks

29 minutes ago, kettch wrote

@blowdart: Charles probably has access to the source repository. Aren't you the guy who shows up and asks "Would you like security with that". Maybe it's time for a security audit?

The c9 guys don't fall under my beady eye

11 minutes ago, DeathBy​VisualStudio wrote

*snip*

I wasn't fretting; I was actually trying to compliment you. Sorry if that came off as sarcasm.

Ah it didn't. I was being self deprecating because I was embarrassed!

3 minutes ago, DeathBy​VisualStudio wrote

@blowdart: That's understandable. How about the MSDN site in general? If I were a noob and didn't know where to begin for web development I don't think the "Development & Platform Tools" categories they have presented would suggest "pick me".

It's good to know that guys like you are working on ASP.NET.

I'll point that out to the MSDN folks - it's an understandable reaction.

And don't fret, it's only a couple of weird edge case auth providers, generally I'm still doing threat models and code reviews for the asp.net platform and tools bits.

9 minutes ago, DeathBy​VisualStudio wrote

Looking at the MSDN site and the revised Dev Center it seems to leave out ASP.NET. Why not a "Web Developer" category?

Because that Dev Center is for writing apps for Windows. Not apps for the web.

Heck I've just finished some code you'll see in asp.net v.next, so no, it's not dead. At least not to me.

37 minutes ago, Dr Herbie wrote

@blowdart: Have you tried just deleting every post Charles makes?

Herbie

Oh the ban button is there for you ....