Channel 9 - Discussions by ewschone

Coffeehouse - ASP, PHP, MySQL

ewschone — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:53:25 GMT

W3bbo wrote:

ewschone wrote:
I would suggest to check out both, cant hurt to have a bit of knowledge of both platforms. And thats probably the best way to find out what you like best.

Agreed, however there's a danger in learning both at the same time if you're a beginner.

PHP and ASP.NET operate on totally different paradigms and modus operandia, yet they both look and feel the same in source view.

Yes I agree, it might be confusing to do both things at the same time. Probably better to stick to one platform at first. Then reset your brain and check out the other one .

Coffeehouse - US Dolar sinks, what do you think?

ewschone — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:47:41 GMT

I certainly dont mind the lower dollar as an EU citizen. Have been ordering a lot of books / cd's from amazon.com lately, even with the postage charges, it's still a lot cheaper than here in the EU.

Coffeehouse - How long will Windows last?

ewschone — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:41:26 GMT

We might all be using Google Desktop OS within a few years .

Coffeehouse - ASP, PHP, MySQL

ewschone — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:34:15 GMT

the-laughing-man wrote:

Any reason I should move towards ASP or PHP?

You can pretty much forget about asp, unless you'd like to maintain some old legacy website in the future . I really like php, php5 has some nice OO features, yet you can also just hack away old style if you want to do something quick and dirty.

On the other hand there is asp.net, might be a bit tougher to learn. Asp.net has a lot of nice stuff to download. Free development tools, sql server express and a bunch of tutorial videos, if you go this route you'll also learn a bit of vb.net / c# and that cant be a bad thing.

I would suggest to check out both, cant hurt to have a bit of knowledge of both platforms. And thats probably the best way to find out what you like best.

Coffeehouse - ASP, PHP, MySQL

ewschone — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:33:21 GMT

There are a truckload of php / mysql tutorials on the web. Just do some searching and I am sure you'll find some that fit your level of knowledge at the moment.

As far as testing things out before you upload things to your site, you can run a webserver and php / mysql locally on your own pc and see if things work the way you want before uploading. Only thing you probably need to change after uploading is the connect string to the mysql database. Thats why those are usually kept in a seperate config file.

Hope this helps .

Coffeehouse - Flex is Open source

ewschone — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:43:37 GMT

Am I the only one not familiar with Flex ? Much ado about nothing I'd say :O.

Coffeehouse - Zune in europe?

ewschone — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:43:05 GMT

Chadk wrote:

blowdart wrote:

BlackTiger wrote:

There are no single reason to buy Zune if you have iPod.

yea but he doesn't *have* an iPod. Your arguement makes little sense. (And then there's the mess that's iTunes and it's forcing of QuickTime onto systems)

I do actually have an ipod. I have the old shuffle.
But you know what? ITunes is the worst software i used. It didnt work on my old x64 computer. Doesnt work on this x64 computer.
So it kinda rendered my ipod useless.
And it forces me, like you point out, to install quicktime, which is *LAME*

Zune got nice design.
Cool features
Size that fits me.
Well worked hardware.

You can also look into Creative Zen. I got a Zen V and it works very nice. Only drawback so far is that it doesnt remember where you stopped listening to a podcast . So no bookmarks, but the fast forward works very well . Also as a replacement for iTunes, you can use mediamonkey, apparently it now also syncs with iPods, though I havent tried it yet.

Coffeehouse - Bush says he uses “the Google.”

ewschone — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:50:32 GMT

eagle wrote:

So how did we go from the Google to Al Gore...LOL

Well he did invent the Internets, so we wouldnt have The Google without Al !

Tech Off - XHTML Compliant Alternative to <div align="center">

ewschone — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:35:22 GMT

Usually I put this in the style sheet

.centered
{
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
}

and then use

around the stuff that needs to be centered .

Coffeehouse - Where do you live?

ewschone — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:34:47 GMT

In a suburb of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands .

Coffeehouse - WoW: Trying to download the demo version

ewschone — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:02:06 GMT

Rossj wrote:

I wonder if WoW has the equivalent of the Civ 4 Addicts Assoc?

Trailer wrote:
"I'd play for 2 ... 3 ... days straight, wouldn't eat, wouldn't get up for the bathroom."

"You'd go three days without going to the toilet?"

"I said I didn't get up"

Hehe, that's very funny, havent played it in quite a while, civ4 is a lot of fun !

About Wow: had a lot of fun the 1st few months it was released, met some fun people I was questing with almost every night, but once you hit 60, it's a whole different game, and just about the only thing to do, is doing instances ad nauseum (and have ppl yell at you when you're joking around and / or make mistakes).

Going from 60 -> 70 in the new expansion might be fun, I noticed theyre releasing a Collector's edition again, it'll tough not to order it [6].

Coffeehouse - The Coffeehouse

ewschone — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:49:47 GMT

Welcome . One word of warning, this board is kinda addictive, for whatever reason (cant quite put my finger on it).

Coffeehouse - The power of Windows Live Writer

ewschone — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:03:23 GMT

For those who use blogger beta, there is a new update that makes Live Writer work well with that blogging service as well .

Coffeehouse - RSS Aggregator Recommendation

ewschone — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:49:37 GMT

AdamKinney wrote:

FeedDemon is my new favorite.

Regarding C# and RSS, you could also code against the existing Windows RSS Platform.

Yes that was nice to see it in action at this episode of DnrTv.

Coffeehouse - RSS Aggregator Recommendation

ewschone — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:59:15 GMT

Tried quite a few on Windows, and feeddemon won . On my Mac I use NetNewsWire, it's nice to keep Demon and Wire synchonized through Newsgator, but I hardly ever use the webinterface to read rss feeds, cant quite put my finger on it, but it's just not as easy on the eye.

The new google reader is pretty good, have been using it for a few days and it seems to do the job as well.

Coffeehouse - How Long Have You Been in Tech?

ewschone — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:15:17 GMT

littleguru wrote:

Guys! The user who created this thread, did not troll at all. Please, please don't start it before it has been started! Calm down and answer to the question, if you have an answer or just let it drop.

Ok i'll bite . I started out on a ZX81 when i was around 12. Now you do the math .

Coffeehouse - Linux Features I Drool Over

ewschone — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:22:30 GMT

W3bbo wrote:

ewschone wrote: Not really a feature, but an application: Squid. Very nice and fast proxy server and with squid Guard you can easily control who can do what, where and when .

Windows has ISA, but with a hefty price tag.

ewschone wrote: Recently set up a proxy server in the office where I work, and used a very minimal installation of ubuntu server with Squid on an old P3 system with 128Mb and it runs great.

Okay, that's another of ISA's failings, steeper requirements, but I'm pretty sure it'll run on a P3/128 with about 100 users fine.

TBH i never checked out ISA server, probably because of the pricetag . There is another thing I like about linux, is that it's very nice to just edit a few text files to edit a configuration and restart the app and you're done. No need to get familiar with a GUI, wade through a dozen tabs with all sorts of checkboxes etc.. And if you want to have a GUI there is usually one available (for example webmin does a nice job) for most major server apps.

Coffeehouse - Linux Features I Drool Over

ewschone — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:02:59 GMT

Not really a feature, but an application: Squid. Very nice and fast proxy server and with squid Guard you can easily control who can do what, where and when .

Recently set up a proxy server in the office where I work, and used a very minimal installation of ubuntu server with Squid on an old P3 system with 128Mb and it runs great.

Coffeehouse - The power of Windows Live Writer

ewschone — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:54:46 GMT

Yes I agree, it's a very nice tool. Only drawback is that the Blogger Beta support doesnt work at the moment, at least not for a lot of people, seeing the comments on the live writer site. Since the Blogger edit window leaves a lot to be desired, live writer is an excellent tool for Blogger .

I am also using it for a wordpress blog, and it works wonderful. It even uploads the pictures through ftp, adds thumbnails etc. .

Coffeehouse - Vista and Longhorn Server Features for Developers

ewschone — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:25:52 GMT

That's exactly how I feel. I think Vista is a _huge_ improvement over Windows XP and people just don't see how much stuff is in it. They simply see the new UI and think that's all.

Thats always a problem when you change/rewrite/redesign things under the hood. The general public (or sales / marketing department) only sees what's on the outside, so if you say, I have rewritten the code behind this program, it's now much easier to manage, faster etc etc, they just look at you as if they see water burn.

Coffeehouse - I'm putting together a developer machine.

ewschone — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:05:05 GMT

Chadk wrote:

Serious. Have a look at how much power usage there is on the x2 cpu, and how expensive it is, against Intel cpu's.

Have a look here:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=433&model2=469&chart=174
Pay a bit more, and get a E6400. I have an E6700, and it ROCKS. Im glad i didnt buy a x2.

There are 65w models now of some AMD X2 cpus.
http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/details.aspx?opn=ADO4200IAA5CU

The dual core and X2 cpu's are about the same price (here in Holland at least), but the (good) Dual Core boards are a bit pricey. Shame DDR2 ram prices have skyrocketed lately !

Coffeehouse - Rory's Ranting

ewschone — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:12:49 GMT

thumbtacks wrote:

...well, and a typical Knoopix distro does come overloaded with software it seems...and why some of it is on the menu, I really don't know. It is overkill in some cases and there is a point of "offering way too many choices". But any Windows menu can turn into that given enough time.

Isnt that true for a lot of distro if you select Install everything ? It used to be a trend to stick as much software in a distro and you ended up with 5 email programs, 3 browsers and 6 different panels where you can set your sound volume .

Thats why I like ubuntu's approach, you get the basics and can easily add what you want to run on your machine .

Coffeehouse - RC1

ewschone — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:00:05 GMT

Even if you dont have a 'modern' graphics card (assuming something like a Nvidia 6200 is modern) it still runs smoothly and looks pretty. You dont get all the bells and whistle, like the glass effect, but I installed on a decent PC (AMD64 3000+, 1Gb RAM) with a geforce 4 64Mb graphics card and it was a nice experience.

Coffeehouse - RC1

ewschone — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:28:08 GMT

There is a nice review now on DrDobb's Portal. For those who havent seen it yet .

The Bottom Line
RC1 is solid, fast, and much improved over Beta 2. It's still too early to tell whether Microsoft will meet its goal of a January 30, 2007, consumer launch of Vista. But for those, including myself, who were skeptical that Redmond would meet that date, this new release may put those fears to rest

Coffeehouse - Charles: Another Forum?

ewschone — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:14:48 GMT

LaBomba wrote:

I was hoping actually...
for a Forum specifically for Windows Vista.

Rather than relevant posts about Vista bumped down, you could go to that forum board and talk Vista.

These relevant threads wouldn't be lost amongst the troll threads and other general coffeehouse randomness.

This is an excellent idea, the posts here on Vista are really interesting, but you have to wade through all the over stuff to find them .

About the job board, wouldnt that get messy when it's not divided into regions ? I assume there are ppl from all over the world visiting C9.