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Haha, thanks Peter! 
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My real issue with WPF is the [my perceived] lack of good documentation.
There is the MSDN, but for WPF and .NET it is not useful, there are technical information but not design ones: what am I supposed to do with THAT and how can I make it interact with THAT OTHER? Secrests of Fatima.
The books I found are all fancy, like "rotate and put bitmaps in you buttons as a brush". Nice, but I definetely need something less fancy and more functional, like Blitting a 8-bit bitmap in a container with defined transformation matrices: another Secret of Fatima (unless low-level programming the DirectX, well thanks but in this case I'll stick with WinForms).
Also, though it passed some time since I worked with WPF so I don't remember clearly, there were some useful controls missing (the slider for one, if i remember well) that needed manual construction or less-than-optimal COM integration.
I guess I'll wait for WPF to be mature enough before switching from WinForms 
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WPF control library ain't that bad!
And for everything else there is mastercard!
No, wait, it's free!
http://wpf.codeplex.com/[^]
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if you want to do real drawing (rotates a few images, merge them, add some line, blabla)
there are some ways (DrawingContext being one) but it quickly feel rather contrived... (and under satisfying for, say, a painting program.
It's where an easier DirectX integration would a boon!
Meanwhile you can always use WritableBitmap and this utility library
http://writeablebitmapex.codeplex.com/[^]
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Veteran developer Tony Patton lists five reasons why he believes JavaScript is the first language a person should learn if they want a job in web development. From the "Gosh, really?" file
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Well, as I want to learn neither of them, I guess I'm safe.
P.S. Here's the sum total of all my JavaScript development (more than ten years ago):
<html>
<head>
<title>Redirecting...</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function redir ()
{
var targ = "http://members.aol.com" ;
targ += location.pathname.substring ( 0 , location.pathname.indexOf ( "/" , 1 ) ) ;
targ += "/main.html" ;
top.location.href = targ ;
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="redir()">
</body>
</html>
It does (did) a redirect from AOL HomeTown to the Members area (pre-HomeTown websites) -- to avoid the filth that HomeTown added atop my websites.
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Yup. That way leads to madness.
TTFN - Kent
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Lang Ext, an open-source library for C# written by London-based Paul Louth, provides a set of helper functions and types that aim to "bring some of the functional world into C#" while trying to look like extensions to the language itself. Have your cake, and lambdas too
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The EU doesn't actually have the power to break up the company, but it does send a message to Google that the EU is unhappy with its business practices. "Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills."
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Microsoft is planning to detail the consumer features of Windows 10 at an event in January. Oh, I sure hope it's Themes. Everyone loves those.
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This was the subject of the latest Insider email, but to what was it referring? I couldn't find an article that seemed related to the subject, but maybe I've not had enough coffee this morning... ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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NormDroid wrote: Ever heard of a search engine?
Yes... I got no results from the search box in the CP forums, having figured it would appear there since it was the subject of the CP email.
Didn't figure it would be the verbatim title of an article on another website. Thanks for the link.
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That's a fairly arcane way to pass on information... "if you wish to know, run this phrase thru a search engine; but I won't tell you explicitly".
That's even more Asberger's than I am.
Thanks, and have a great day!
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Well, MS is not gonna lure business developers into making apps with a 30% pay check cut, as you can write business software that's profitable without taking any pay check cut. So maybe some consumer app developers will go for it, but why would you develop for such a tiny eco system?
Wout
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Sorry about that - that was actually a news item in the Mobile newsletter (and the headline for that newsletter). How did it become the headline for the Daily? I'm not sure (other than I forgot to manually mark something to be the headline for that one). However, we have top men working on a solution.
Top.
Men.
TTFN - Kent
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The keyboard is still the predominant way we interact with a computer. This makes it all the more surprising to observe how many programmers use just two fingers when confronted by a keyboard and use the time honoured "hunt and peck" technique. It isn't stylish and it isn't efficien Fingers on home row
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Using both hands is inefficient. Do more with less.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Using both hands is inefficient. Do more with less.
Dare I ask what the other hand should be (simultaneously) used for? 
The article did resonate with me tho -- I'm always amazed at a colleague of mine who, despite being an excellent programmer with many years of experience, still looks down at the keyboard and mostly uses two fingers to type. But then, I suppose writing programs at 100 wpm is a bad idea... especially if you're using a language like J, K or... APL 
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Typing is the only useful skill I got out of high school.
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Typing gets exponentially more difficult to get really skilled at it the longer you wait.
60% of all people who learn to type will peak at 40-50wpm because they aren't physically capable to type faster. People who started tying in their teens don't have that limitation and they can get to 100wpm and beyong with practice.
It's similar to martial arts. Kids who start young have their limbs and joints grow a certain way and as adult they'll always be able to kick higher and faster than someone who started practicing in his 30's.
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I find it really dependant on my mental status and inspiration.
I always thought I am a bad typer, usually 3-4 fingers at most and slightly slower and more error prone than most. Then I discovered that in my "bright moments" I can type like the Devil, entire blocks of code without even a typo or the usage of autocompletion (usually slower than me in that cases). It's strange!
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0bx wrote: It's similar to martial arts. Kids who start young have their limbs and joints grow a certain way and as adult they'll always be able to kick higher and faster than someone who started practicing in his 30's.
I'm curious if you have any scientific reference that proves your statement? Because, from my understanding, kicking higher and faster depends more on muscle mass, strength, and stretching abilities than on limbs and joints grown in a specific way.
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No, but if I remember correctly I read about a certain Doctor Lloyd who was the main authority on typing research in the 70's.
Based on some experiment he concluded that at least half of the populous didn't even have the dexterity to physically wiggle their fingers fast enough to exceed 50wpm; let alone that they could learn to actually type that fast. This illustrated the ludicrous hiring requirements of companies back then and how much typing speed was overvalued at that time.
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Members of the European Parliament, along with civil society groups, have urged European member states to stick with strict net neutrality rules. Because the one thing the EU is good at, is neutrality
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