The collected works of Adrenaline - Page 2

What's not to love about Lost In Space

Hamei, a good example of DC Metro area developers from yesterday, the following code gets hit when a change to a Help Ticket occurs and emails the associated people. Pretty cut and dry, and should scale from 1 user to 20, 30, 40 etc.



The vendor spent days trying to figure out why this was slow as more users got attached to tickets. A simple glance to even a non-programmer would question, why would you open and close the Smtp Server connection for every single email? On top of the fact, the function was not set to be asynchronous, so the post back waited for every single email to be sent.

I asked my boss exactly what he intended, and he had actually asked for 1 email to go out not x number of emails, where x is the number of users attached to the ticket.

< 5 minutes later, removed the foreach loop and replaced the msg.To line:

For me, the lack of DataSets and non-existence of TPL in the WinRT Framework turned me off from doing development for it. I brought this up to the Program Manager of .NET and apparently they are working on it, so who knows.

The one good thing about Windows 8, more specifically WinRT is that there are no more interop calls when referencing say a C# WinRT in an unmanaged C++ Application. It's all handled cleanly. I've gone down this route to make my calls to WCF Services painless in my Win32 C++ apps (ie created the WCF proxy in the WinRT Library and then referenced the WCF calls in my C++ code).

Other than those points I don't have a real desire to make a Windows 8 native app in my free time, Windows Phone 8 however I am very interested in. We finally get multi-core hardware to play with.

I too have had a Zune for several years now and love it, have you actually used a Windows Phone extensively? It's been a breath of fresh air since I switched from an iPhone back in November 2010.

Having developed at least 2 native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 each, I can safely say in my opinion, Microsoft definitely has the best tools and if you already do C# (especially if you had done Silverlight and/or WPF previously) you can get yourself up and running in a day. I haven't seen the WP8 SDK, but I can imagine with VS2012 support it will get even better.

I will be the first to admit, the first year (November 2010->November 2011) was tough if you loved apps that you had on your iPhone. It really wasn't until about a year ago that Windows Phone finally got a lot of the banking and other useful apps with 100% of the same functionality with that of the iPhone version. The good thing, as with many things, the wait was well worth it. The apps on the Windows Phone I find much more attractive and aren't just carbon copies of the iPhone version.

It's definitely not perfect for everyone (as no phone is), but definitely check out the new Verizon Windows Phone 8 devices, I believe they have an exclusive Samsung ATIV Odyssey coming their way to replace the Windows Phone 7 2010 model that's been on Verizon's lineup since launch.

Doing my dream job! I envy you.

I'm doing everything under the sun with C# from ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF, WP7, MonoTouch, MonoDroid, MVC and recently Windows Workflow Foundation. While not doing anything groundbreaking at a global level like I dream of doing one day, I am glad to say, the applications I have written in the US Healthcare Accreditation industry blow away the government equivalents. It's been fun showing my applications to them over the years

When I do get time to jump back into indie film making I wanted to use them for 1080p processing from my Canon XL-H1 & Nikon D7000, but in the mean time I've been writing small C++ apps to test scalability of my algorithms, since I don't get much time to test my code on my employer's 24 core Opteron HP G7s.

I really hated it too and had only 3 weeks to develop a full content management system app that tied into a web service, so I ended up using MonoTouch with the free MonoDialog library. Later on when I did Android and Windows Phone 7 ports, it was really neat to be able to keep all but my UI Layer in one C# Library. I think my iPhone/iPad source was only about 1400 lines and most of that was simply TableDelegates and iOS specific UI code.

From the first time I saw an Octane, must have been 1999? I knew I had to get to one. It took 6 years, but I did finally get an R10k 225mhz in decent shape from Reputable Systems back in 2005.

I did love the fact I would buy a 2 CPU Module, upgradable graphics (I remember upgrading from the SSI to a V6, what a night and day difference), but lack of an internal CD/DVD rom drive and the PCI Cardcage being expensive back then kind of discouraged me from pursing it.

Now I've got a Fuel, O350, tons of O300s. While yes, the Octane still sits proudly in my collection, from a practical standpoint, using my O300s or Fuel over SSH/VNC is much more practical now with readily available LSI SATA Controllers and SSDs. But then again it really depends on what you're doing with your Octane, especially if you've got a Dual 600mhz/V12 Octane.

Kind of the feel the same, while yes I wish I had a maxed out Onyx 4 enclosure, definitely wouldn't some of the "nice to have" machines, keeping the wife happy with a 38U IBM Rack in our living room is hard enough as it is.

It depends on what you would need it for, don't expect it to perform like a modern era x86/x64 Intel or AMD machine in every task. Web browsing on all but the higher end machines is painful, but C/C++ programming, practice with UNIX and something new to learn are all very viable on an O2. I had a R5k 300mhz a few months back, it worked great as a frontend for my Origin 300s and since got a Fuel to do that job.

Definitely make sure you've got a decent U160/U320 drive like a Maxtor Atlas II 15k or Seagate 15k.3, that made a huge boost in my O2's loading times of IRIX.

Having and using a SGI machine today is unique to the individual, I won't speak for everyone on here, but I get a huge sense of enjoyment out of working on them in tandem with my current generation AMD hardware.

I could have sworn Octane's graphics was on it's own XIO 1.6gb/sec channel.

Congrats! When you get it connected, post your hinv in the hinv section .

I'd watch out for that Vertex 2 or any SF based SSD. Had several SF-XXXX series SSDs die on me (Agility 2s/3s, Vertex 1s/2s/3s, Corsair Force 3s, SanDisk Ultra Extreme) over the years. The only drives that hadn't failed were my Samsung 830s and my new 840 Pros. I should note I do still have 1 30gb Vertex Plus as a caching drive in a ZFS Pool that's been running for 2 years now without errors. So your mileage may vary.

If you can, make it up north to the Aomori Prefecture. It's got beautiful country side and tons of hiking trails. Loved going there once a month as a kid, definitely need to go back at some point.

I'd love to see Göbekli Tepe, the Carnac stones, Derinkuyu and Easter Island in person at some point.

Exactly! And that speed is in the eye of the beholder. On a very responsive application (i.e using asynchronous non-UI thread blocking coding) you can turn many devices with much less MHz/ghz, slower IO into a great platform. It's that most software these days is written with the mindset of "I've got tons of processing power, SSDs, gigabit Ethernet etc, why should I care about performance?" I see it all the time in my part of the country. Typically the answer from them is, buy better hardware not look at the code and make it better. Often times it's them simply not using the right approach for the problem, taking the shortcut.

Went through some very underperforming C#/SQL yesterday, the original coder on top of calling a pretty complex SQL twice (once in the code behind to a variable he wasn't doing anything with and the other in the page itself), he was doing a SELECT * on the query when he only needed 2 columns out of 20.

What's funny (and sad) is that those same folks, don't code with more than 1 CPU in mind. As we know on here, most of the time, the more cores, the lower clock rate, so in a single threaded application you might actually get worse performance than that of a less core/higher clock server/client.

Some keyboard shortcuts that will make your Windows 8 experience on a Desktop or Laptop much better:

Windows Key + X - Brings up a nice shortcut for Control Panel, Command Prompt etc
Windows Key + C - Brings up the slide out as if you were to move your mouse to the top right of your screen and then down
Windows Key + I - Brings up your settings options including the Power Button to Shutdown or Restart (although a Windows Key + D and then Alt + F4 will bring up the "standard" shutdown box)
Windows Key - Will bring you back to your "Windows 7" view.

On the "Tile" aka Metro View, you can just start typing the name of the app, like notepad for instance and hit enter before the search result even appears if you know it is the only app

Definitely group your apps on the main view, by clicking the "minus" icon in the bottom right, right clicking on a "column" of tiles and then clicking on the "Name Group".

For me I never really used the Start Menu since XP, I always just pinned my apps to the Taskbar or left a shortcut on my desktop. So now instead of leaving the less used apps on my desktop I have them pinned to the "Metro View" instead, leaving my desktop free and clear.

Yeah I'm a big fan of the Maxtor Atlas II 15k series, just make sure you get the Atlas II series, much quieter and a little bit faster. I've picked up 73gb drives for $20-$25 off eBay, the 146gb drives are the harder to find for that price point.

I had written one up back in 2005-2006, but I had since lost it. I could do another write up using the latest versions coupled with phpMyAdmin and some of the other tools you would most likely use in conjunction with PHP, Apache and MySQL.

That's one of the best posts I've ever seen on a message board, thank you!

I will check to make sure it's still 100% before I go any further, it's been probably 6-7 months since I last turned it on, luckily I have second nearly complete V6 Octane sans a working power supply so I could pull parts if need be. I imagine it'd be ~$60-$70 from Maryland to you, Octane's aren't lightweight in the least unfortunately.

That last part is the one that gets me. For the last couple weeks I've been publishing a new app to the Windows Phone store (all free without ads) each week just to get comfortable with the different API calls (Lock Screen, Live Tile, OAuth, Push Notifications, offline storage etc). It will get to the point where I'll be comfortable with every component, the problem will be coming up with the next big thing or even a big thing.

Sad I was in a different age bracket when I joined back in 2005

Yeah I was 19 when I joined, shortly after getting my first Octane off of Reputable Systems.

There was some R&D to recoup, but you have to wonder how much it was marked up back then especially when you could assume most of that generation of hardware's R&D went to the Origin 3x0.

Anyone else interested in getting Rabbitmq ported?

http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html

I spent a little time this morning working on getting erlang compiled (which it needs) - I will hopefully get that component compiled and into a tardist this weekend at the very least.

I'm not a fan that it utilizes Erlang over C/C++, but any time I can make use of my Origins/Tezro in conjunction with my C# I try to. If I ever win the lottery I'm investing in a kickstarter to get Mono ported to MIPS/IRIX.

It's definitely not a solution for everything, but if you've worked with other messaging systems that are platform independent I'd love to hear about it. The next big project that will take to July 1st next year is ramping up and I could use some alternatives.

That was one of the issues I was running into on Sunday - I'm hoping to work through those on Monday though. I'll keep this thread updated with my progress.

Backed and spread the word on Twitter - I hope it takes off. It's a really neat idea.