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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Wordle 558 4/6*
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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The moment was caught in the middle of a jiffy. (10)
The moment = time
was caught in the = insertion indicator
middle = cen ter [EN]
middle = cen tre [UK]
of a jiffy = definition
Jiffy
International CCC - 12/29/2022
Puzzles are eligible to be posted at 00:00 GMT
Clue remains available for 24 hours.
Winners may become Setters if they choose.
modified 29-Dec-22 19:55pm.
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NANOSECOND?
Informally, that's a "jiffy", but the formal definition is 3E-24 seconds - the time it takes for light to travel one fermi.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Sorry for the late reply, you were really close. I have never heard of that definition of a Jiffy, where did you get it from?
I was aiming for Centimeter
Edit:
Last two days I've been really busy with some things. This was a CCC 'reject' I wrote ages ago and never posted. The one I am posting today is a reject too. I'll spend some time tonight writing some new puzzles.
modified 29-Dec-22 20:11pm.
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Not sure what the original source was (it's been decades since I looked it up), but "jiffy" is used as a time period over here - Wiki lists the Fermi definition: Jiffy (time) - Wikipedia[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Still reading this fantastic book, which continues to be fantastic: Modern Software Engineering[^].
There is so much great content in this book, but this from Chapter 3 really strikes a chord (as someone who evaluated the use of Entity Framework numerous times over 15 years but could never feel comfortable with it).
It's why many of us eschew, "Just use the latest library. It solves all your problems."
Quote: We talk a lot about change in our industry. We get excited about new technologies and new products, but do these changes really βmove the dialβ on software development? Many of the changes that exercise us donβt seem to make as much difference as we sometimes seem to think that they will.
My favorite example of this was demonstrated in a lovely conference presentation by βChristin Gorman.β1 In it, Christin demonstrates that when using the then popular open source object relational mapping library Hibernate, it was actually more code to write than the equivalent behavior written in SQL, subjectively at least; the SQL was also easier to understand. Christin goes on to amusingly contrast software development with making cakes. Do you make your cake with a cake mix or choose fresh ingredients and make it from scratch?
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Correct.
I don't use those tools. And I hand-craft all of my SQL.
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Same here...
I have kept very much abreast of all the latest software developments but ave found none to be of much benefit.
Most seem to just add a lot of complexity while not really providing any real advantage.
Probably the best advancement has been the List(T) implementation. Internally it adds efficiency and provides basically the same capabilities as an ArrayList.
However, out of habit, I still use ArrayLists since what I use them for is small sets of data where the internal efficiencies make very little difference.
All in all, I still use the basic language constructs of C# and VB.NET as I have always used them, and my code works just fine.
Never understood all the superfluous language additions over the years. They seem to don nothing but make the languages harder to understand...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Most libraries are rubbish.
Some are a gems.
Seldomly, you will find a diamond[^].
In 2014, we moved our 50 man-year legacy VB6 desktop app to a low code framework, in about 2 man-year.
Our new app looks modern, up-to-date, has a wide range of new features, is multiplatform (Web, Mobile and Desktop), extremely configurable, even at runtime, looks uniform, has less bugs, displays dashboards with graphics, extendable and designable reports, even at runtime, for every view, etc., etc., etc., you name it, there it is.
The app maps around 600 DB tables, some with hundreds of millions of records.
All the SQL commands are built dynamically, via an ORM (XPO).
Since then, I have written SQLs marginally only, basically to adjust a few old database design to todays paradigms.
The new app is faster than its equivalent written in the previous good old hand written SQLs technology in VB6.
Todays' source code is entirely C#.
I have never been more happy to go to work since.
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Interesting...
I see that there is a $2,199 cost associated.
Is this a development framework? Meaning...Can I generate 100s of apps for the one-time cost and those apps run standalone (can be deployed "normally") for many years without paying more?
Or is this some kind of runtime I have to pay for to run each individual app?
Thanks
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Just a potential warning...
The comment to which you are responding to is based on a legacy system with a large persisted data set already in place which was hand-crafted over time using SQL. So either someone(s) either knew how to handle that data from the beginning or they learned over time.
Then they took a tool and used it to implement the same thing.
Without a background both in databases and in sizing a market attempting to use a tool to replace that knowledge might not end up well.
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With a one-time subscription[^], a dev can generate as many apps and those apps run standalone.
A support center[^] with answers to your most questions.
Free support forever, with a working solution to your specific question in usually less than one day.
There are updates around every month, with new features for free during 12 months.
Forever free updates on the versions I own, with bug corrections and security updates.
Yearly renewal at 990 $
There are multi-user discounts.
Source code.
DevExpress XAF YouTube tutorials[^]
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This feels like a nice kit that a person could pay for then use to run a consulting business on.
Seems like (if the customer had their data) you could build quick prototypes / running solutions to get them a fast CRUD UI. Interesting.
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This artificial promoting of ET is beyond annoying. If someone refuses to grasp modern SQL/DB concepts and take advantage of them, it's okay, let him craft his entities. But what really grinds my gears is the Microsoft keep pushing on developers this rotten carcass of dead-born "technology".
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
Advertise here β minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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I agree. There are some things I would actually use Entity Framework for -- especially related to quick prototyping & testing some ideas. As a matter of fact, I wish I was better at using it for that.
But after that I would in most cases build a kind of Repository pattern for my entities and write the SQL myself.
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What's worse is the Microsoft Entity Framework uses SQL calls that cannot be optimized by the query optimizer.
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