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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it possible to have a future without a .NET-style takeover?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 06, 2011, 10:32 AM »

And bear in mind that C# is the flagship .NET language, built from scratch to leverage the Framework while incorporating the best features of C++ and Java.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it possible to have a future without a .NET-style takeover?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 06, 2011, 06:06 AM »

Pick any other .NET language, but please not VB.Net smiley

LOL.  Personally, I much prefer C#, and would endorse it over VB.NET.  It's syntax is much cleaner.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it possible to have a future without a .NET-style takeover?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 05, 2011, 07:19 PM »

CodeTRUCKER, one of the concerns you've mentioned is cross-platform portability.  Well, .NET continues to be ported via the Mono project, which is quite advanced.  Though not perfect (neither is .NET Framework itself), it's quite impressive.  We're talking the ability to leverage massive amounts of pre-written, well-tested namespaces, and produce modern apps for either Windows or *nix.  CLI really is the wave of the future.  Now, there's no way to guard against future paradigm shifts, which will inevitably come around when their time has come.  The important thing to realize is that the CLI is a very modern, forward-thinking paradigm that can be built upon for many years yet to come.  And let me emphasize the relative ease of programming in a .NET language.  They truly are Rapid Application Development languages.

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Living Room / Re: My Challenge to you in the New Year (2011) - Donate to a content creator

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 05, 2011, 06:51 AM »

I plan to be intentional about this, this year.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 04, 2011, 05:24 PM »

I surmise that the developer of Jotti will recognize the increased usefulness his program can provide in conjunction with JottiQ, and will likely be willing to work something out with you that will throttle the load.  It just may take time.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NetLaunch

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 04, 2011, 05:11 PM »

Nice job, kunkel!! 

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Living Room / Re: Need recommendation for wireless adapter

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 04, 2011, 04:44 PM »

I figure most anything I buy of www.tigerdirect.com ought to work, but just in case anyone has any experience with HP desktops, I thought I'd ask.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 04, 2011, 12:53 PM »

No hopes of great wealth, here. Just want the experience, sense of accomplishment, and any accolades that may accrue.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to program for all 3 platforms at once

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 07:52 PM »

And... there is plenty of helpful material out there for learning, both in books and in free online material.

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Living Room / Need recommendation for wireless adapter

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 07:50 PM »

I need a recommendation for a wireless adapter USB dongle for an HP Pavilion Slimline computer running Win7 Home Premium.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to program for all 3 platforms at once

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 06:11 PM »

CodeTRUCKER, I'm interested in your experience.  Please report after you've fooled with it awhile  Also, I still think with your background in BASIC, the ideal next language for you would be Visual Basic .NET (freely available here).  You can do 99.9% of anything you can envision, programming-task-wise, perhaps with the exception of very intensive graphics programming (although .NET languages are supporting OpenGL and DirectX) and writing very low-level routines.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Please explain FTP file permissions

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 06:06 PM »

Thanks 4wd.

It appears that, in most cases, it will show 4096, as most servers you'd be FTPing to would be running a Unix shell, right?

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 06:01 PM »

Just downloaded "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" to my Kindle!  OooOooOoohh, excited.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Partial Download

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 11:29 AM »

Congrats on the gHack recognition, Anand!

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 11:08 AM »

Hey, in that case, I'm in.  You guys just let me know what you need.  Would this be a freely available eBook, or something that would be sold?  Donationware?  What format(s) would it be offered in?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Please explain FTP file permissions

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 07:57 AM »

Interesting.  Thanks!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: "VeggieSquares" - Children's Game

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 07:43 AM »

CodeTrucker, if you have a background in this variant of BASIC, probably the easiest language upgrade (in terms of learning/re-learning) would be Visual Basic for .NET.

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Developer's Corner / Please explain FTP file permissions

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 07:38 AM »

I'm working on a class I've named clsFTPclient.cs.  One of the methods returns detailed directory information.  Below is some sample output that I get when I use the method to return details about the root directory of a website I manage for our church.

I'm getting these details using...

request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails;

in conjunction with...

FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

Now, I understand that the date portion of each line tells the last modified/accessed date/time for a given subdirectory.  And I know that the last portion of each line indicates the name of the subdirectory.  I also know that the initial letter "d" indicates it's a directory, not a file.  I think the rwxr stuff has to do with reading/writing permissions.  What about the hyphens?  What does "psaserv" indicate?  And what is the significance of "4096"?

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drwxr-x---   5 kyrathaba psaserv      4096 Mar 15  2009 anon_ftp
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     psaserv      4096 Mar 15  2009 bin
drwxr-x---   3 kyrathaba psaserv      4096 Mar 15  2009 cgi-bin
drwxr-x---   2 root     psaserv      4096 Nov  4 19:28 conf
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     psaserv      4096 Mar 15  2009 error_docs
drwxr-x---  13 kyrathaba psaserv      4096 Jan  1 22:39 httpdocs
drwxr-x---   7 kyrathaba psaserv      4096 Mar 15  2009 httpsdocs
drwxrwx---   2 apache   psacln       4096 Mar 15  2009 mivadata
drwxr-x---   2 root     psaserv      4096 Mar 15  2009 pd
drwx------   2 kyrathaba root         4096 Mar 15  2009 private
dr-xr-x---   7 root     psaserv      4096 Mar 15  2009 statistics
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     psaserv      4096 Mar 21  2009 subdomains
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     psacln       4096 Mar 16  2009 vault_scripts
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     psaserv      4096 Mar 15  2009 web_users

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 03, 2011, 07:24 AM »

You could write the book

Hehe.  In this particular case, I am quite certain that nudone, timns, and you Mouser (or surely at least two of the three) have coding experience/expertise surpassing my own.  Is the book going to cover C++ (in which I have zero background), or Java (in which I have even less), or C# (in which I have considerable background, but am not yet an expert)?

Or is it, rather, going to cover general programming principles, with examples from multiple languages?

I have, to be honest, been giving serious consideration to writing a mid-length book on programming, from scratch, a text-adventure game in C#.  Seems like books on programming games sell like hot-cakes.  However, I'm thinking about putting that off another year or two, until I get "C# 3.0 Design Patterns" and "C# Game Programming for Serious Game Creation" under my belt.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 02, 2011, 10:00 PM »

My four screencasts combined might take 10 minutes to view.  Do I have to rework them into one larger screencast, or can I let them stand, as-is?

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 02, 2011, 09:55 PM »

Nudone and i think also timns and I have very briefly discussed the fun idea of a book teaching programming with a cartoon Cody illustrating concepts

Awesome!  Lemme know if I can contribute in any way.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 02, 2011, 09:54 PM »

Points of interest extracted from the DTP Terms & Conditions page:

5.1.4 Digital Book Withdrawal. You may withdraw your Digital Books from further sale in the Program at any time on five business days advance notice by following the then current Program procedures for Digital Book withdrawal or un-publishing

you retain all ownership rights in and to the copyrights and all other rights and interest in and to your Digital Books.

The way I read it, and I'm no lawyer or expert, is that you can opt out from selling your book via Amazon, and within a set number of days, they have to pull your book from their digital shelves, so to speak.  You'd then be free to distribute your content through other channels.  Lemme know if I've got this wrong.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 02, 2011, 09:44 PM »

Amazon is not a bad company to deal with. But business is business - and Amazon is ALL business.

+1.

I've re-read the DTP site, and so far (haven't re-combed through it a third time, yet) I see no mention of a requirement to use CreateSpace -- no prohibition about using other sources to print hard copies.

What intrigues me about Amazon is how easy it appears to be to get an eBook into electronic print and on their website for sale.  Did you guys check out the YouTube video I linked to earlier?  Extremely simple.  Just upload your Word document and BOOM!  Also, I'm intrigued because Amazon sold over 7,000,000 Kindles just in the weeks leading up to Christmas.  There are LOTS of Kindles out there, and will be LOTS more in the very near future.  Although Amazon's in-print book sales continue to increase, those have been far outstripped by Kindle eBook sales.

As an added note, I've found nothing (again, so far) on the DTP site stating that the author is under any restrictions about making free copies available to friends/family -- although I probably haven't read the fine print carefully enough on that score.  I can't imagine them permitting that, since their goal is to make money on individuals' authorship efforts (but hey, that's no different than hardcopy print houses).

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 02, 2011, 09:38 PM »

I understand that eBooks are hugely popular these days, but if you self publish on DTP, are you tied to them?

My reason for asking, is that, if I was to publish on DTP, I would also want to self-publish a physical version of the book also (Always nice to have a copy of your own book, in hardback, on the bookshelf).

The DTP website's user-forum stated that any hard-copy printings must not cost less than the Kindle version.  I don't recall if they require you to use CreateSpace for hard copies, but I don't think they do.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« Last post by kyrathaba on January 02, 2011, 09:29 PM »

I've already done four screencasts of my primary entry, N.A.N.Y. Excuse Manager, and posted links to them in the OP of the relevant thread.  They're each fairly brief, so might be worth your time reviewing before you do you own.  Mine are produced using Wink, and have breakpoints where the viewer has to click a "continue"  button to proceed.  I'm sure you're screencast will be nicer, but thought my brief ones may give you idea-fodder, Mouser.