upthedale
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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Not sure why this has been posted. It looks to be an old list - far from 'ultimate' for 2014.
The .Net FOSS community has been gaining momentum in the past few years, with most new developments having moved to GitHub, which is where I would generally recommend people start looking for new libraries. Of course there are exceptions, but it is a good starting point.
Alternatively, NuGet seems to have become ubiquitous in the past few years too, so that's the other route for finding new libraries. (Incidentally NuGet seems to be having an outage today, but that is a rare occurence).
A list like this might have value for some people, but only with better curation to reflect what is still active today.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks for the super quick reply! I'm glad to hear I'm not completely crazy with this idea. Multiple 20GB images make my diddy little SSD cry, so this feature would be fantastic.
Comment · 12 years ago
One problem with using Windows guests on Vagrant is how big they are. You can be looking at 20GB for a stripped down disk with just the OS. This can easily become prohibitive if you want to use more than a few VMs in Vagrant (not to mention the time copying all this redundant data).
Having read about differencing disks, they seem like the perfect solution to this problem, by allowing VMs to share the same parent disk, without needing to copy it (as each VM only needs to keep track of differences to the base disk). From what I've read of differencing disks, this seems like a no-brainer for Vagrant (but unfortunately my experience extends no further than what I've read).
Is there a reason Vagrant doesn't use this approach? Any plans to put this on the roadmap? It seems like this feature is supported by both VirtualBox and Hyper-v.
(This page describes differencing disks, and the first diagram under "Using multiple differencing disks with one parent disk" accurately depicts the sort of thing I have in mind here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720381(v=WS.10)... )
Comment · 13 years ago
Try Linqpad for a scratchpad too. Don't let the linq name fool you - its great for general purpose fiddling about. It has been truly indispensable when developing on .Net.
Comment · 13 years ago
Great! I was going to say F# should be supported, but then I remembered there's this:
http://www.tryfsharp.org/Create
Still, I can definitely see myself using this to share little pieces of code where currently I write it up in linqpad and email to colleagues.
Any chance you could add an extension method like linqpad's Dump() to pretty print objects?
Comment · 13 years ago
Came to say the same thing. Bring back mouse chording damnit! (Not to mention all of the little things that made Opera, Opera).
Comment · 13 years ago
Emphasis on was. Now tab management and the side panel are non-existent.
Comment · 13 years ago
Check out the MSR project Pex (for .Net, not PHP however)
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/
It is designed to generate input for your code (the public surface by default) to determine whether it runs correctly. It can use code contract features in .Net to help inform whether your code is correct. It is great for finding those 'weird cases', and where you find a particularly interesting case, it is easy to add it as a test in your suite.
You can see it used (and play around yourself) through the browser here: http://www.pexforfun.com
Comment · 13 years ago
See my other reply for the perils of an express mode, which the lifts in my building do have (of a sort), and everyone knows about.
Comment · 13 years ago
We have our lift buttons on the outside. You choose your floor, and are directed to one of the 6 lifts available. This seems to confuse every visitor to the building, who will walk into the first open lift (that will have opened for someone else). They spend 5 seconds looking for the buttons, the door closes, and they're stuck going to a floor they never wanted.
However, as the buttons are on the outside, the designers clearly thought they would aid things where a large group all want to go to the same floor. Press the special people button, enter how many of you there are, and the lift system will optimise to ensure it doesn't needlessly stop at interim floors if you have filled that lift to capacity, or send you a lift already filled that wouldn't fit your group in.
So the trick is to say, even if you are a single rider (lifter?), that you are a party of 14, guaranteeing your lift won't stop at any other floor on the way to yours. An 'express mode', if you will.
Problem is, everyone working in the building seems to know this trick, and it does not scale. Whilst it might make the time in the lift shorter, I notice that the wait time for a lift appears longer (from observing those going to my floor who have done the trick before I then select the same floor normally). The real trick then is to use the lifts as they were intended. The irony is that all these 'super busy' types who are slowing everyone up are simply slowing themselves up too.
Then again, who was expecting a building full of lawyers and traders to behave like good citizens?
Comment · 13 years ago
Yep, I've been advocating running a headless nix VM on Windows for a while now, where you can easily 'shoosh' in (as Hanselman likes to call it - never heard this before myself).
The problem comes when you want the *nix tooling to interact with the Windows environment. Personally I like the clear separation between the host and guest environments, but YMMV. At the very least you can mount some share the Windows host provides inside the guest OS.
Comment · 13 years ago
I recently returned back to the UK from a 2 week long US road trip, covering 2000 miles. We downloaded the Nokia Drive data for the states we were visiting in advance onto my girlfriend's cheap Lumia 710, as we wouldn't have any data connection (not wanting to incur roaming charges). We were utterly dependent on the Nokia Drive app, and it performed exceptionally. Definitely recommended in place of a dedicated satnav.
Comment · 13 years ago
This has so many missing features that I would expect from an Opera browser. Lots of seemingly little things that add up (where's the mouse chording!)
Where is this bleeding edge Opera Developer version that they mention in the post available for download, so I can at least see if the little things that have kept me on Opera for 9 years are in the pipeline?
Comment · 13 years ago
Given the way the City works, do you really want us to not include bonus?
Funny thing is, when recommending it to a friend, they mistakenly assumed from the title that it was a book of underhand tactics, which couldn't really be further from the truth. There's a lot to be said for being genuinely nice to others.