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If it's was that bad I would have moved years ago. Not a winter fan. Only 14c today brrrrrr
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If it's any consolation, it's the longest day today, but grey, overcast and about the same temperature!
I just stuck my temperature gun out the kitchen window and it says it's 11.9C out there... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Still morning for you now. So I should imagine you'll get above 14.
I the ideal world I'd like to spend summer here( 25 to 30) and six months in somewhere like Noosa Heads in Aussie for winter...
Just got to figure out how to achieve it...
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It will be approx. 82F (27.7778 Celcius for you nut jobs in Europe  ) today in Albany, NY
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OriginalGriff wrote: just stuck my temperature gun out the kitchen window
[snigger]
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Go north far enough and only 9 minutes of daytime is a real possibility.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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...or far enough south.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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... or if fast enough, go East.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Go far enough and you get 6 month days, and 6 month nights. I just didn't believe anyone wants to live there! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As it seems just now, my day will be extremely long comparing to yours...24:00 
I definitely would like a 9:34 day...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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9 hrs 34 of daylight. Changed it to make it clearer. I won't go into the length of a work day, because we don't work to a strict clock so varies.
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RossMW wrote: I won't go into the length of a work day
...because it unrelated to daylight...
I understood, that you talking about daylight, that's why the joke icon next to 24:00...
As today we have 14:23 of daylight from sunrise to sunset (which means a bit more even)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Hmmmm similar latitudes. We're one of the few place on the planet that has land on the direct opposite side of the planet. South of Spain somewhere..
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Hmmm similar latitudes. We're one of the few places on the planet that has land directly opposite us on the other side of the planet. South of Spain somewhere...
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I'm having six hours and four minutes of night at the moment, and I'd like to keep it that way.
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It's been a loooong days night and I've been working like a dog...
Ok, that day wasn't actually long, it was hard.
But somehow that song popped up in my head immediately.
The second was Nights in White Satin...
Not bad for random popping songs!
It's also my longest day of the year by the way.
Or it's officially the 24th, something like that.
It's all just pretty darn long and I wish they were just a few hours shorter...
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I could stand them being a little shorter still, as today marks the beginning of the warm season. It was only 118°F yesterday...
Will Rogers never met me.
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It has been 104+ for the month of May in India! 
I think places in the Northen plains of India and the southern plateau got up to 118 degrees F.
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I don't know, maybe it's because I'm just used to it, but somehow this projection of the globe doesn't look right, doesn't feel right.
Anyways, longest day (yesterday) at my location: 16h 10m (shortest day: 8h 15m).
Not soo much, if I remember the time I stayed in Reykjavík a few years ago, I got up to 21h daytime in summer and almost none in winter.
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Quote: Hello... I'm a winform developer with 3 yers of experience. Now very confused with my carrier. Some of my friends told, there is no future for a winform developer. So what can l do for a good carrier. Now I'm working in a small company. Recently we are changed our development into wpf. But its very poor when comparing with scope of wpf. Anyway now I'm waiting for good advice. One more thing is that, I have to make a friend circle with some of self updating developers. What can I do. please me me...
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Just learned to use a spell checker? So now you need to learn not to trust what it suggests...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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(NOTE: I was a pre-.NET VC++ and then a WinForms C# guy after that, up until I "retired".)
Other than just having a completely new API with slightly different names & signatures for functions - and perhaps some better software capability (i.e., that seems to be something that could have been incorporated into WinForms) - the only thing I can come up with it is that it is designed to work with XAML files & has a new way of doing data binding. I guess XAML was a big step and required a completely new API.
modified 24-Jun-15 14:07pm.
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WPF is an old technology now; it's not normal to have WPF vs. Winforms conversations anymore.
With that being said, when WPF was being developed, a number of factions were pressuring Microsoft to make significant changes to Windows client development, forcing them to come out with WPF (officially released in 2008).
1. Test-driven development became a major industry trend after Kent Beck published the first TDD book in 2002. To facilitate test-driven code, people wanted more separation of the UI logic and business logic, resulting in both XAML (making some of the UI code declarative rather than imperative) and patterns such as MVVM (which avoids many problems that make event-driven UI code difficult to unit test).
2. Using graphics hardware effectively was important to some people, and Winforms used old software rendering for graphics. WPF does hardware rendering.
3. Some people wanted better control over avoiding the problems associated with large numbers of developers maintaining one application. Microsoft came out with the Prism library with WPF to appease that crowd.
With that all being said, after creating WPF, Microsoft did a poor job of improving it and fixing its issues. Winforms had to compete with Java Swing, Borland products, and other competitors, while WPF didn't have any serious competition, so Microsoft refused to allocate many resources towards improving it.
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I think it's important to point out that while WPF might be considered "old technology", many aspects of it are more alive than ever in form of Windows apps. In fact, the whole Windows Runtime UI stack is just a reimplementation of the same core WPF/Silverlight concepts in native code (the property system, the data binding, templating etc.) You just have to take a glance at the similarities of the Windows.UI.Xaml and System.Windows namespaces to get the idea. You could brand that as based on WPF-technology, and it probably wouldn't exist without WPF in the first place.
But it's true that WPF was kind of left in the cold after it's release, and since the improvements that were made for .NET 4.0 (those were necessary because they rebuilt the Visual Studio UI on WPF during this period of time and found out how much performance and text rendering sucked in the real world on a large scale application), the platform was obviously considered mature and put into maintainance mode and the focus went to the Windows Runtime. Even though they try to revive it a bit recently, I think there's no doubt it's already on the way to be phased out over time in favor of Windows apps.
I'm not a fan of the new Windows app model and a little disappointed about the fate of WPF. After all, it's really nice to work with and from an API perspective one of the better frameworks Microsoft ever built. It's a little harder to learn than Windows Forms, but once you understood and got used to its concepts, you really see how powerful it is.
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