Isle of Man hopes that the new system will enable it to manage its financial and business processes and will cover over 350 in-house users. The government expects the replacement system will provide a... better total cost of ownership and should last at least five year
Posts made by blowdart
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Isle of Man switches to Microsoft
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RE: Trouble Finding a Date
@memorex said:
This is valid if the DB has the time that's critical to the rest of the system, and since you normally do things like insert a record using getDate(), then all those dates, etc, have the DB's time.
Except of course you'd let the database insert it.
However my last system did get the date from the database, because it's important that the client is roughly the same (validation and imports)
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RE: Trouble Finding a Date
Actually I do a getDate on the SQL box at application start up right now, because it's time sensitive, and if the clock on the PC is out by a few minutes there will be rather large problems.
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RE: Where do you put your variables ?
Obviously, in this day and age of object orientation, you put everything inside a single singleton called GlobalVariables.
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RE: Thoughts on the New, New Format?
Certainly messed up in this thread. Mind you there are other, more pressing firefox problems anyway!
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RE: This sucks!
And you lost your Bridget Jones avatar.
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RE: <P>Been there done that ;)</P> <P>Worked quite well. Quite a nice rich UI with an embedded .Net ...
Bad UI choice isn't it?
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RE: Thoughts on the New, New Format?
Oh and that graphical ad does not play nice, it aligns to the right of the first post in a topic, and then causes a big big gap till you reach the second post. There's probably a <br break> between each post
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RE: Thoughts on the New, New Format?
Please, put a link to the forums on the front page.
And what happened to the code formatting button?
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RE: The New Forum Software is *HERE* !!!!!
In addition to troll post can we get a "basement dweller attempting to get into katja's panties" button as well?
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RE: What's so bad about Crystal Reports?
Having just spent two days trying to get Crystal Reports to work under NT4 (large bank, don't ask) and finding out random requirements not mentioned anywhere, including DLLs which I've had to hunt around ms.com for, and merge modules which I had to get from installshield.com I can safely say CRYSTAL REPORTS SUCKS DOG'S DONGS.
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RE: Comma Separated Parameter.
OK a few thoughts.
If the maximum number of parameters is 8 things then use 8 parameters, and allow nulls as default values for the ones that are not used.
Passing in and use a parameter in dynamic sql (for example a select where whatever in @parameterName) is very open to sql injection attacks.
If you must do it with a comma seperated list I'd write a user defined function to split the values into a temporary table, then use that to avoid any dynamic SQL, which is a bad bad thing.
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RE: C#
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
What's funny is that intelligentperson, austin, and user all come from 67.171.127.25. Our troll needs to go back to slashdot. IP banning isn't functioning in this beta, but I'll hard code this right in the HttpModule if needed ...
Oh now you have to leave the trolls, it was amusement for me on the day when a little junior muppet tried to take over a meeting and say that his database schema where the primary key holding a database together would change because the system that is feeding the database might change in 5 years.
[8o|]
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RE: C#
Oh for the love of god, this heap of poo board ate my reply.
Lets try again without quoting.
Anyway, it's a valid point now, a language is not special it's the
framework around it that does the hard work. The .net framework really
ought to be "apart" from the CLR, just look at the ISO/ECMA standards,
they're around the CLR and the C# language, the framework is a seperate
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RE: C#
@Alex Papadimoulis said:
austin wrote: Dose any one here use Microsoft's relatively new language C# and if so what are your thoughts? It's pretty hard to separate the language (C#) from the framework (.NET). Any way you go (C#/VB.NET/J#.NET), .NET has brought development of everything from simple RAD apps to enterprise to the next level. Java/J2EE laid some of the groundwork, but .NET really takes things a step further with both tools and the technology.
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RE: The "I hate SOAP" club.
Ok I have no idea what happened to my post font size. I'm going to blame the awful firefox support.
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RE: The "I hate SOAP" club.
"I shall continue to hate SOAP"
You're French, aren't you? [:D]
SOAP has its place, that place is not for passing data around internal
processes. There's some arguement for using it between seperate
tiers, depending on the type of transaction, the tier architecture and
the placement of the tiers. You wait till someone at your company gets
bitten by SOA. Or Indigo.
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RE: Languages/Applications/Platforms that should go away
@Katja said:
Besides, .NET still doesn't make up for what it promised. It's supposed to be a platform-independant system but the only full support for .NET is still on Windows only. Sure, there's Mono and some other implementation but I wonder if they will ever become popular.
You're confusing the .net platform, with the CLR. The CLR is cross platform, via Rotor, Mono, the Compact Framework on Windows Mobile devices, the SPOT CLR on watches and now there's even a CLR on a chip.
- The Java Virtual Machine is an object-oriented execution environment for any language so long as it’s Java
- The .NET Platform is an object-oriented execution environment for any language so long as it isn’t Java
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RE: Languages/Applications/Platforms that should go away
@Katja said:
Another question is of course, what's the use of a Java-like language that won't compile to it's intended platform: the Java Virtual Machine? All that J# really is, is just another crappy language to lure people to the horrible .NET platform. And if you think your Java code will be 100% compatible with J# then forget it... That will not happen.
Did anyone actually ever claim that J# would ever be 100% compatible? it was never even marketed as that; it was marketed as easing the migration from java to the CLE
@Katja said:
The whole .NET think is a big soap-bubble that is about to explode. Probably when version 2.0 comes out, with all it's new compatibility issues. Like those issues between 1.0 and 1.1, which caused a lot of unexpected fun for some people...
Fun? You mean those little deprecated warnings. Why they were fun. There was no hassle in recompiling 1.0 under 1.1 [8-)]
@Katja said:
You start your project in a compiler for 1.0 and once it's finished, you upgrade to 1.1 and guess what? Your code might not compile because some classes have had their functionality changed and parameters have been altered... Now, 1.1 is on the market for a while now but soon 2.0 will be marketted. And you can expect that you'll have to update your code again just to get it compiled to the 2.0 platform... At least Java seems to keep existing objects unmodified forever...
Objects were moved between namespaces (movement from Microsoft.Data.ODBC to System.Data for example) and some undefined behaviour was locked down, but there was nothing major at all. Private delegate behaviour was stopped, because that should never have been possible in the first place, and pretty much the rest of the breaking changes were bug fixes which changed behaviour. I guess Microsoft should just have left the bugs in?
The 1.1 to 2.0 breaking changes are pretty much in the same ilk.
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RE: Languages/Applications/Platforms that should go away
Pascal/Fortran/Cobol/Delphi/VB/VB.NET/C/C++/Java
A language snob? Come on, there are reasons for every language, there's room for them all. (As an aside all of those on your list, aside from Java are available in a CLR version - so mix and match and stop with the language penis waving)
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RE: Is it wrong? (music question)
My wife chooses wine by the label, if it has a cute animal on it 95% of the time she'll buy it :D
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RE: Virtual Case File Cancelled.
You can't call them "The big O", a big "o" is enjoyable :D
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RE: Idea for new section
@CPound said:
Katja wrote: Did I mention your favorite non-metric system here, or do you prefer another one? <IMG alt= src="/emoticons/emotion-15.gif"> I don't like the European metric system. It's complicated. What is a kilometer anyways? (rhetorical question)
I wonder why Europe never converted to the American system.
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RE: Moved: Offtopic Discussion w/Katja
@CPound said:
F8less wrote: Don't think so. But maybe Dutch programmers just have more time to hang around on forums than programmers from other countries that are actually working. Ouch. That sounded like a shot Katja.
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Virtual Case File Cancelled.
So if you've been reading the press you'll see the FBI's virtual case file system has been canned.
Oracle 9i
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RE: America vs Europe
US meals a feast? No, US meals are an obscene waste of food.
And no, we don't do refills you greedy git.
[pi]
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RE: The amazing reappearing feeds
(oh and the forum rendering in Firefox is a little off, half the time
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RE: The amazing reappearing feeds
It's really only annoying when I use newsgator's web version, in outlook I just mark them as read.
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The amazing reappearing feeds
Alex,
What the hell is going on with the RSS feed? Every day about 20 old articles reappear, probably because someone though it was a great idea to change the dc:date every time a new comment is added. The content of the post never changes, it's just the slash:comments element gets incremented.
Is there an oracle backend on this? [6]