Posts by Mike Askew

Capgemini

Cisco

Sadly they have invented VPN, so even if the offices are all magically shut due to something we can all still work :(

I work in a Tier 1 multi-national consultancy firm with multiple UK offices and full VPN connections available.

Regardless of the technology in place I still work 125 miles away from home at present commuting a total of 250 miles and week and staying in a hotel Mon-Thurs on full company expenses.

Admittedly it is part of the job and so is expected however projects value having all the team in one place for communication etc. From my point of view and workline I disagree and that travelling to our Aston office is far more productive than working from my local one as it allows me to be in face-to-face contact with everyone else on the project, BAs, Technical Architects etc etc. It also allows me to be around the sister projects on the account for cross-project relations around areas we share connections and bug fixes.

Just my two cents on travel as a 21 year old who has lived in a hotel weekdays for fast approaching two years now.

I can add my personal experiences here.

I did not go to University either after finishing Sixth Form.

I applied for a Higher Apprenticeship with Capgemini UK while in college along with the usual university applications. The HA programme does not require any prior knowledge of programming at all (however I also studied programming at sixth form) and offered a 10 week intensive course in the language they wished us to know (C# in my case) before dropping us straight into live projects with extensive support mechanisms in place.

I had an offer from my university of choice, Essex, to study computer science. I also however got the opportunity to work for Capgemini after being successful with my application to the programme and have been working for them for two years now. I will still be getting a degree through them over the five year programme at no expense to myself along with earning an alright salary (scaling up with progression through the company) and getting highly valuable industry experience in a Tier 1 consultancy firm.

Best move I have made in my life so far was declining university and doing what I do now, whereas people will be coming out of university with degrees approximately two years before myself I will have 3 years experience over them and nowadays companies look for that also with equal if not more value.

I can only speak from a UK point of view but I am certainly aware of a few companies …

Ok, something in Reddit Enhancement Suite 4.3.0.4 affects how the site renders :/

Just checked RES bug reporting, it's a known issue and will be fixed next release.

Just stuck FF in safe mode and it works fine, identifying which addon causes it now.

Yup any thread caused it to occur, the original post was fine, all replies to it were odd.

Cant tell, I'm on my other HDD with Chrome. Will let you know in morning when back in work :)

Fair enough :)

Was running Win64 and FF24, thread was this however it was occuring on every thread.

May have just been having a funny 5 mins who knows

Noticed the other week that once you cancel sponsorship (for whatever reason) that you lose all recognition of helping the site at all in terms of running costs.

Can we introduce a 'Past Sponsor' badge or something along those lines so that those who have given but currently can't for whatever reasoning is still acknowledged for what they have done in the past for Daniweb?

Just noticed the above occur when replying to a thread. The original post is behaving normally but then all comment replies in all threads are not correct. A refresh didn't clear the issue and Pritaeas didn't see the whitespace in IE or Opera on his machine.

The issue is that you are trying to set a byte[] to the value of the cell which is a string, this does not have a direct convert thus your cast does not work.

You will need to do a conversion first.

static byte[] GetBytes(string str)
{
    byte[] bytes = new byte[str.Length * sizeof(char)];
    System.Buffer.BlockCopy(str.ToCharArray(), 0, bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
    return bytes;
}

The above will do this for you, I have obtained it from a simple google. Here is the source post on SO, credit goes to them for it.

This is probably what you are after then :)

You could put her in a custom usergroup and disable the ability to edit system time, to resolve that issue.

Else she could easily use offline programs after hours by just shutting off the internet and stopping your programs ability to update its time

You could use this for the monitoring of an application rebooting after being shutdown to intercept and block it / trigger another close down.

The downside to the approach you are taking is that if your sister has any real knowledge she could just kill this program you write off through task manager (running applications or processes) and bypass it. Or make a second user account which it wouldn't be installed on by default.

Not entirely sure on the solution myself but a good place to start would be telling us what solutions you have already tried that performed badly :)

@Saqlainz, there is no right or wrong in programming, multiple techniques in the end lead to the same result.

Only better/worse practices and more/less efficient techniques.

Why resurrect a 5 month old thread that you could've replied to sooner if you wanted to?

Hmm from my opinion it could be changing attitude towards the site also.

I mean from my personal experience, if I have a technical issue at work and want a response ASAP I will go to SO. Primarily because although we have some solid knowledge amongst the main members there is a far larger flow of knowledge on SO it seems in terms of getting specific answers quicker. If I were to post to C# I generally know I would be waiting for the likes of Ketsuekiame etc to reply for a solution.

I haven't posted a query on here in C# for a while. I'm on here more for the discussion side of technical questions when I get them and/or answering others. The integrated chat will further support this side of the forums more/

Facebook however have custom libraries written internally/externally that make their implementation easier to follow (ie. here). How does Google's implementation differ?

Your issue lies in the <xsl:otherwise>.

You are selecting the current node Application/Comment with <xsl:apply-templates select="."/> and then applying templates against it, triggering an infinite loop as this simply calls the same template over and over, eventually running out of memory causing the stack overflow you are seeing.

Tested this within Visual Studio debugging the XSL as best I could with the data provided and was able to recreate the issue.

As I understand it $current_url would be storing the redirect address back to the page the user was viewing before the call was made in this situation?

I could be completely wrong though. client_secret is seperate if I understand your meaning correctly

Yup!

Not issues as such, wrongly chosen word.

The use of OAuth on native applications and how it is not friendly for us. But I'm not trying to re-open that debate!

Not anymore, my idea swiftly went under with the aforementioned OAuth issues.

There isn't much worth developing that doesn't use OAuth features that I can think of at present :(

The facebook API has it's own SDK for C# so that handles its OAuth through their own custom classes, can't say exactly how they do it.

Good to hear you solved it, what was the solution?

Add a boolean that is set to true once the alarm is triggered, and adjust the alarm if-statements accordingly to only run when it is false?

Once the value falls back into the threshold it can be reset ready for the next time?

your post was not very necessary.

Oh.. and yours was?

I couldn't see how the api could give that info.

IIRC Dani answered this somewhere.

I think it was get members and sort by last active?

Fair response, Apple are the only ones with easy native integration from what I've been told.

Did try the embedded browser authentication myself but ran into difficulties on the second call, when using the browser to do it, to OAuth with the application code and stopped.

Also tried making a POST request for this stage using the RestSharp library for C#, however just got an internal server error (500) when I did so.

I am going to retire from creating my entry for this competition.

I feel the API was designed mainly with web developers in mind and there are arguments on the net regarding avoiding OAuth, for example, and it also is just nasty for native application development. Where people like Ketsuekiame have enough knowledge to get around its implications on native applications.

I also don't understand the exact use for the API with its web orientation considering we all browse the site using the web anyway so surely the main uses of the API would fall to native applications allowing the user site functionality from their desktop instead of a browser.

That's just my opinion on the current state of play, was looking forward to entering this competition.

Even with embedding a browser into the application I would still need a URL to register the application on, and redirect too, as the API checks the url registered against when an OAuth call is made according to the documentation?

As far as I can see, to develop applications using OAuth we need to own server space to host a site?

An application, when registered to DaniWeb, requires a URL to be provided. A desktop application obviously doesn't have one of these.

When sending OAuth requests we have to provide a redirect URL on the domain we registered the application too, therefore if we dont have the domain as its a desktop application, we cant OAuth, correct?

Only way round figured on the IRC was to own web space to allow a page on a webserver as intermediairy for the redirect to go to.

Is this the intended case?

What do you think this is? Ancient Rome?!

No, THIS... IS... SPARTA

Nope, still not understanding why my hello world isn't working... I think I'm unlearning.

What've you got so far? I'm sure the forum can help you out!

In the past year I have moved from a hello world application in c#, to confidently using if-else statements to write different outputs, still including hello world.

Maybe those drills are related to other emergencies, possibly earthquakes?

Quite possibly, I was refering explicitly to the cold war drills that <M/> said were still being practiced.

but I can't speak it and it's not an easy job for me to write in it.

You are doing a good enough job of conveying your points, I've seen alot worse attempts at the English language than yours :)

I recall when I was a young boy going through drills of getting under our desks at school. I recall wondering how that was going to help us when a rain of missiles were coming toward us. Lol..

We still have those drills for the elementary students.

<M/>, do you have proof of this. The internet I can see says otherwise, cold war drills were stopped in the 80s.

I do agree that it should be on all pages, for the same reason of I like to skip from threads to another forum and it makes that easier :)

Already implemented a float lock when viewing threads by the looks of it :)?

It degrades so that a tiny tiny part of the menu renders but effectively breaks all the drop-downs. Yeah I realise, I don't like having to use it myself but it happens to be on this laptop :(

Its alright if it is hard to disable, I will just put up with the rendering fails it causes as a result of me using IE8 :)

Firstly I would like to say this update is a visually pleasing one and much welcomed :)

However, would it be possible to provide an option in individual user's controls to disable such functionality? I have found two downsides to it on my current work machine which partially impact the sites useability.

Once again my IE8 install (Can't be changed as machine is set to a specific dev config) is letting me down on page rendering once the menu is floating resulting in the following:

Edit: The menu works fine as long as the page is scrolled to the top, but as soon as it becomes a floating menu the render breaks.

And secondly the same laptop also happens to run a lower resolution screen (1366x768), which is painful as it is, which therefore seems to make my favourite loitering page, live activity feed, seem quite cramped and takes a precision scroll to fit the whole feed on the page :)

I know minor issues and the fact im forced to use an old browser doesn't help but wondered if it would be possible to restrict the floating menu :)

On any of my other machines where I have normal browsers and 1920x1080 its a lovely update!

“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”

Richelle E. Goodrich

bomber was a Jewish Woman.

The bombs were pressure cookers left on site filled with nails. The FBI have no idea who is behind it.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22177669

Pretty sure I've read in the past ownership is taken to help fight against scraping sites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22160691

The count is at three, according to the second conference held regarding it.