dan_b

Hold my beer: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/engineering/2014/08/m...

It's a blue collar job in the UK, coupled with the out-dated concept that individual contributors cannot earn as much as managers.

More importantly, are they hiring?

May I suggest something more anonymous like a google spreadsheet? Or a HN poll?

Zurb Foundation.

Though it is, literally, a foundation to build your own look-and-feel on.

...and that is a dealbreaker.

I started off with an Access database. Then we split the JET DB backend out from the front end and put that on a shared drive. Then we replaced the backend with SQL Server (without changing the front end.) Then eventually it all got migrated to an ASP.Net backend + single page application. It's still running 8 years later. Access is an incredibly flexible tool.

Xamarin have some very smart people on the case.

You'd be surprised. There's a lot of shops out there who have never heard of CI/CD/Automated Tests/etc.

I was suprised to see how many Java applications run on Windows + MSSQL.

They're both created by the same author, Rob Conery. Frans has taken over maintenance of Massive 1.0.

Sometimes experienced devs come with bad habits.

I've seen people DJing at parties using two browser windows with Youtube.

The Windows network stack is built on BSD code.

ServiceStack is just plain awesome when it comes to developing web services, though it's gone commercial for v4 onward. Nancy is another popular alternative - it's basically Sinatra for .Net. Every time I go back to WCF I want to stab myself in the face.

Come say hello, we'll be the only guys in the room in suits.

Yes, I'm in. We'll be the only .Net shop in the room as usual.

You really should, I've got one at my office and one at home.

No love for IE at all by the looks of things.

Really nice smooth animation.

It would be nice if the alerts appeared in the centre of the screen though... I find that jerking my eyes up to the top of the screen and then back down to what I was looking at quite intrusive.

The problem is, I believe, TFL won't open up their API without charging for it.

I'm sure Apple think they've got a patent on it already so why not use it?

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/RAIDing_Disks.aspx

It's a good thing they got rid of that chap's arm, or they would have got a cease and desist from HostelWorld.com

http://blog.keepmebooked.com/2011/09/what-happened-to-our-ma...

I wrote to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority regarding misuse of the word "unlimited" as relating to broadband and mobile internet.

Their response was that "as most people wont hit the limits, they can call it unlimited".

What happened to the B&N vs MS patent suit?

Very cool - got an SMTP error when I tried to sign up though. :(

I fixed this a while back: var clientManager = new PooledRedisClientManager("passwordblahblahblah@barracuda.redistogo.com:9287");

I believe Joel said that software licenses were a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

This is great news. Finally a UK-based payments solution. The difficulty/cost of getting a Merchant Account and taking payments is what has put me off beginning any of my weekend projects in earnest. Wishing you the best of luck with this.