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Judging from what I see on YouIdioTube nobody develops Android apps any more - they just throw bits together from Smack Overdose and concentrate on cramming as many paying adverts and chargeable DLC's as possible in there ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm noticing that many Android games are built on the same skeletons with slightly different rulesets and artwork.
Now, that is common in game developement but I never saw it as blatant and widespread as in Android games.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yes - first in Xamarin C# and then in Kotlin.
Although professionally more as a defect fixer than developer of new functionality.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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If by "develop" you mean "swear at", then yes.
So they're on a par with windows and linux apps, for me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not yet. No reason to, for now.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I developed Android apps between 2011 and 2012. I saw the abysmal security and rampant sharing of data, so I stopped developing apps and got rid of my phone.
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Last week I was asked to setup a WordPress website on one of our servers to allow a consultant to build a new website for us. After more than a few days of fighting with it, I've finally got it all working. (for now)
If anyone here ever has a need to do the same thing, I'd like to put this on record so the next poor sod doesn't suffer needlessly.
Whatever you do, don't use the Platform Installer in IIS to install WordPress. Besides certain prerequisite packages failing with signature issues, when it finally does install, every component is out of date. To boot, the MySQL instance can't be upgraded using the MySQL installer. 
One other thing...never try to test a new WordPress website using IE. I was remoted into the server, (server 2016) and since it only had IE, that's what I used. After receiving 500s for a couple of hours and tweaking dozens of settings to no avail, did I decide to try it in Chrome and finally received an informative message I could use...the php version was out of date!
I quit using MySQL and php several years ago but now it seems I'm back in the thick of it!  My only hope is that WordPress abstracts enough that I don't have to get my hands dirty with it.
I've been in charge of the websites for 20+ years but the time has come for a makeover...something more modern...bootstrap, huge graphics, lots of white space, endless scrolling, fancy transforms, fade-ins, ad nauseum.  It's actually a relief to be handing this responsibility off to a real web designer. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Is an Apache server in a linux VM a viable option? I never tried WordPress on IIS, wouldn't want to have to
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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phil.o wrote: Is an Apache server in a linux VM a viable option?
I suppose it would be...a VM in a VM...never tried it before. Even then, it'd have to listen on another port number which would be awkward.
Unless you meant another VM, in which case I'd rather spare the extra expense/hassle. If it was high traffic, I might agree, but it's not. Besides, I don't have time to learn 'nix. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: I don't have time to learn 'nix
It's not that hard, but you made your point, though.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Why not Apache under Windows? ApacheLounge (and others) have prebuilt binaries, quite up to date.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That's also a solution. I'm more familiar with apache on debian, though.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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So am I. But I did run Apache on Windows Home Server (2008?) before I switched to Ubuntu.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: "Web designer" is used here as an insult
Now you're just being redundant.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: an insult
Not in the least. I should probably clarify why I didn't use web developer...In the interview, I asked him (as a test) if WordPress used php. He was only 85% sure it was...doesn't get into the code much I guess. Using a fancy WYSIWYG editor/framework to arrange content doesn't make you a developer.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: One other thing...never try to test a new WordPress website using IE.
FTFY
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kmoorevs wrote: I've been in charge of the websites for 20+ years
But you don't know how to turn off friendly errors in IE....?
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: But you don't know how to turn off friendly errors in IE....?
I could have sworn I that option was off...or maybe I'm confused by 'friendly errors'. To me a friendly error is one that gives me a clue. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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After the latest Windows Updates (Your WIN 10 installation is about to expire - or some such nonsense)
my File Explorer now shows that I have a CD drive though I can't see it, touch it, taste it, or smell it.
The size of my machine is a awe inspiring 3"X3"X1.5" - where could this device be hidden?
Nope - still can't see it.
[But I did get a new icon for it  ]
But I never wave bye bye
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Are you talking about a virtual CD drive without any image mounted?
What is there in you local disk manager list?
How to Open Disk Management in Windows[^]
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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It shows as: CD Drive (D RTL_UL (smiley is an auto translate of colon close paren)
Files in that folder are:
autorun.inf
RTK_NIC_DRIVER_INSTALLER.sfx.exe
RtuLan.ico
Properties show it as:
Realtek USB CD-ROM Device
Used space: 892,928 bytes
CDFS Healthy(Primary Partition) 1MB 0MB free
I have no such thing. Duck Duck Go shows I am not the only one.
But I never wave bye bye
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This is MS way of paying all those people who passed on the 'Bill Gates will pay you to forward this e-mail to 10 people' spam thing from a few decades back.
You get a free virtual CD drive!
And you get a free virtual CD drive!
And you get a free virtual CD drive!
And you get a free virtual CD drive!
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If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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