barrydahlberg

As said above, 1080 is the best choice we have but we should (and do) keep looking for better alternatives. It would be nice if we didn't have to greet visitors to our national parks with this all the time:

http://www.tongarirorivermotel.co.nz/wp-content/gallery/misc...

Comment · 11 years ago

I live in New Zealand and spend some time in our back country deer stalking, trout fishing and exploring.

NZ uses about 80% of the worlds supply of 1080 poison[1] and our next trip is into one of the areas where it is dropped every few years. 1080 is a horrible thing and I hate what we do with it. It kills animals it wasn't meant for, it makes game unsafe to eat and it's not a pleasant way to go. However I love NZ because of what nature has given us here, and unfortunately the poison is currently the best tool we have to protect the birds that we have left. Trapping and hunting are useful tools but we have so much remote, inaccessible wilderness that it is not feasible on its own.

I would love to see more innovation in tools to control the rats, the possums, the stoats and other small mammals that NZ grew up without and doesn't know how to handle. I'm hoping that new technology coming from start ups like we have here will bring new ideas and techniques. A major challenge will be taking those ideas and adapting them to work reliably in remote and harsh conditions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080_usage_in_New_Zealand

Comment · 12 years ago

SPOILER: You need a way to defeat the regex (see other comments here). Then think about what the "foo" actually does (and read the error console).

Comment · 13 years ago

That's not cool. The last thing we need is more things for people to use as reasons for not using HTTPS at all.

Comment · 13 years ago

Can you please clarify exactly what you mean by compression? Is this referring to typical gzip compression in HTTP results or something else?

Comment · 13 years ago

async doesn't really give you anything new you couldn't do before, just nicer syntax for composing it all. As you say you've already found other ways to compose your asynchronous flows for you.

Comment · 13 years ago

"WCF, AppFabric and ASP.Net" happen to give you an awful lot of that sort of infrastructure for free, I rarely directly use anything async in my web apps either. I do wonder how you're managing responsiveness in the forms apps though?

Where the async syntax really shines is dealing with external services. If you're calling a lot of database, web services, sockets etc it can make your life easier.

Comment · 13 years ago

.NETs Entity Framework lets you do this using the fantastic LINQ syntax. Commonly you will say which objects to select, then give a projection into a new anonymous type with only the columns you want.

Comment · 13 years ago

I wonder what the chances of them getting this to us in NZ are...

Comment · 13 years ago

This looks great and is close to something I've specifically looked for in the past. My only suggestion would be that the pricing is going to be awkward for my use case.

Typically we work with many small clients and one of our issues is managing access to admin sites etc for these clients across our team. We have relatively few 'users', perhaps 5 - 10, but a large amount of shared apps. I currently have around 100 sets of login details on file in 1Password.