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Well I am retired now and looking for something to stimulate the old intellect before it gets all rusted. So next year I will get proficient in coding WPF MVVM, which I never quite mastered. I may never actually need it, but it will sure improve my grasp of subjects like data binding. Of course, numerous articles on CP will help me along! 
In the mean time, tomorrow at the Christmas dinner, we will have two guests that are well into computer technology. So we will be sure to raise a glass of kindness in honor of 10 million other Code Project subscribers, to wish all good health and prosperity in the new year. This goes double for the kind authors of the articles that I found so useful over time.
Allow me to close with an Irish toast:
May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back;
the sunshine warm upon your face;
the rain fall softly on your fields.
Fair winds and following seas.
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Long way before me to get retired... (27 years), but Christmas dinner starts for next 2 hours.
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas
It's good to stay active and set goals for yourself. Been retired for several years now and love that I can do and learn things at my own pace.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Merry Christmas! And may the eggnog be forever spiked!
Jeremy Falcon
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Cornelius Henning wrote: May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back;
the sunshine warm upon your face;
the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Well I am retired now and looking for something to stimulate the old intellect before it gets all rusted. So next year I will get proficient in coding WPF MVVM
Just curious why MVVM and not MVC for which Visual Studio has sample applications to get you started.
I don't know the relative advantages and disadvantages of either choice except for the MVC project type in VS making MVC easy to get started with.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I suppose I thought that MVVM is the later programming methodology of the two, and so has to be "better". I realize it will be slower to learn, but as I said I am retired and so speed is not that important to me. There are plenty of good MVVM examples on the web, so the absence of good guidance is not a concern. Hopefully I made the right choice! 
You just cannot fix stupid.
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Here in the USA he would have been granted amnesty! 
You just cannot fix stupid!
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Went down to the playground with the kids to let them play off some energy, just to find it thoroughly covered in broken glass. Extra effort made underneath the slides and swings.
Kids forgot it after two minutes, as a discovery walk was just as much fun.
All I can say is, have a Very Merry Christmas! Or celebration of your own choice.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
(√-sh*t) 2
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: have a Very Merry Christmas!
Same to you and your family.
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Too bad about the playground, it's disappointing to see what crap people can think of to do to other people. Glad your day was not spoiled.
And you have a Merry Christmas as well, hope you and your family get everything you want
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Funny, but I would expect to read something like that in the news here in the US, not in Europe.
Marc
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Hooligans of "night-before" revelry breaking bottles in the playground are the windless-alley-trees of living between life's skyscrapers. They should be topped, or better yet, dragged as stumps from the inter-building space by a long chain from a backhoe in the street to be left on the sidewalk for free pickup by city refuse managment to be recycled down at the landfill.
But this is Christmas, a high holiday, and where would making talk of such a grim nature be appropriate?
Merry Christmas to all and may all your alley-trees reach such heights that they keep from cracking in the trunk from ever increasing narrow-limbed-mass-arabesque-addition, to overtop the tallest buldings and spread like fat vines from building to building, sprinting now in the bright light under the feet of the chimney sweeps, roof to roof, a-going, practicing their dusty black craft.
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Hi All,
Just how many sarnies can you eat in 48 hours, just got back from a super market (despite all my protests!) and I am still amazed by the fact a large number of people are stocking for the siege of Stalingrad, Zombie Apocalypse & Invasion from Mars. How bread and milk can you use? 
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Probably not all the celebrates will able to climb out of home until the end of the year passes...So it more 10 day preparation...
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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I never heard the term "sarnies" before and it apparently refers to sandwiches[^]. Why would you stock up on those though? I could understand if people would buy just more of the normal stuff to cook things but sandwiches? I mean you could then just as well call the delivery guys instead 
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My point exactly! sorry Sarnies is a bit of English's short cut. It was just the quantity of bread that amazed me!
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Ah, I see
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I don't shop on Christmas Eve - I've seen it far too many times before.
And here Tesco is shut for 48 hours, but Asda is open Boxing day, for 6 hours.
But...I've seen what you mean.
People with two trolleys: one containing a turkey the size of the ISS (guaranteed not to defrost in time or fit in the oven), Potatoes by the megagram, enough sprouts to sink a battleship - and a second trolley just for bread. Why? I assume there is a traditional sexual practice involving bread and part-cooked fowl of which I am (thankfully) unaware...
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I try not to, had to pick up Turkey. Got Turkey early last year smelt funny Xmas morning so got chucked.  Got fresh one and card from Tesco (?), the trolley for bread ? why??
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There are only the two of us, so I do a turkey breast rather than a whole bird - and it goes in the sous vide so I vacuum pack it and freeze it at the beginning of November. I'll take it (and the rest of the Christmas frozen food bag) out of the freezer in a couple of hours to defrost in the Cat Proof Defrost Cage - or "the microwave" as some call it.
http://blog.sousvidesupreme.com/2013/11/sous-vide-turkey-breast-with-cranberry-shallot-sauce/[^] - ignore the sauce, it's gawd-awful. The bird itself though is moist, tasty and worth while (unlike pretty much every other turkey I've forced down at Christmas! )
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Might have to look at Sous Vide seem interesting...
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It's quite expensive to get into - I think I spent around £300 or so on the oven (Sous Vide Supreme Demi) and vacuum packing kit (Food Saver V2860), plus I spend about £30 per year on vacuum sealing rolls.
But...it cooks cheap Beef joints beautifully! Chuck it (still frozen) in the oven when you go to bed on Saturday, turn it on and set it for 54.5C and forget it until 18:00 Sunday. Soft, tender, juicy.
Steaks are wonderful.
Burgers! Yes!
Chicken for chinese? Oh yes!
Leg of lamb? Blurghhhh....slimy, and like eating baby food. Very, very nasty. May experiment with lamb steaks but not with a whole / half leg again.
And having the vacuum sealer is excellent: because it excludes the air, the food lasts longer in the freezer (they say up to two years, rather than two months) and takes up less space. And you can use it to reseal packs - good for crisps, nuts, pasta and other dried foods.
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