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Re: Power BI Report Server January 2025 Feature Summary

andrewtobin — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:16:22 -0000

Can we use Composite PowerBI models yet?

Re: Nanoleaf will finally let users mix and match shapes to create unique wall-mounted LED tapestries

andrewtobin — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 01:19:40 -0000

I really like that their panels allow multiple sections, colours, flows, etc. I just hate that you can only have 5 of them to a point, and they're just as buggy with connections, and the connectors are terrible.

Re: Top 5 Deprecated Features in Reporting Services 2016

andrewtobin — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:14:48 -0000

The one thing that is trapping us is the lack of path in the List view - we have multiple copies of our reports depending on if they're in development, staging or release. It's an irritation when looking for the right report.

Re: Filter and LookUp functions in PowerApps

andrewtobin — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 07:26:13 -0000

I'm attempting to make the search work with my SQL Server, and the Search is definitely case-sensitive. I can't Upper() the column I'm searching to make it behave case insensitive either.

Re: Our deal with the devil

andrewtobin — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 07:34:32 -0000

If Github starts, then I remove my code from Github and put it somewhere else like Bitbucket.
Git is not Github. Git is a DVCS, the D stands for Distributed.
Not all code is on Github, or belongs on Github, and Github is not the all of code.
The people on Github would probably be the first to revolt, if the people I've met from Github are any example.

But at the end of the day, they're a hosting platform for a source control system, there are many out there and you can always take your code off - in fact, mostly you do take your code off and keep local "clones". It's not some "walled garden". Becoming a walled garden is antithetical to what the idea of distributed source, and open source is.

Not to say that being all of code wouldn't be great for Github's "business model" :)

Re: Why GitHub’s pricing model stinks (for us)

andrewtobin — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:30:22 -0000

https://bitbucket.org/tobin...

Re: Node.js, Require and Exports

andrewtobin — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:43:21 -0000

Brilliant, I was looking for how to chain my separate values/classes out of the shared js/node environment and there it is. Thanks for writing this up!

Re: Internationalization Packages for MVC4 - code52

andrewtobin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:58:17 -0000

Hey Zam,

When you make a library like this you need to ask certain questions like whether you want to re-invent wheels or use what's out there, and if you use what is out there then there are usually different options. If the guys who helped make this re-wrote their own anti-xss library then people would ask why they didn't use something established and trusted. If they used a different anti-xss library then they'd be asked why didn't they didn't use "y anti-xss library" instead of "x anti-xss library".

The other option is to do things like wrappers around and choices. Unfortunately, when it comes down to it, it's not economical use of your time when trying to write a general usage library to try and solve everyone's problems directly. Especially in this case it was about providing a base that others could extend from.

The simplest answer I can give you is if you have something else then when you add our libraries maybe you'll need to depend on both, or maybe you'll want to customise what the guys have done to use your choice.

Catering for everyone's personal choice is something that not a lot of smaller projects have the resources to do, and I understand where you're coming from because it annoys me when a project makes a dependency choice for you when you'd make a different one - but it was that or provide incomplete features.

I hope you can understand and appreciate that - and I am sure if you wanted to extend or provide a wrapper around a few anti-xss libraries and choices then the guys would really appreciate a contribution to the project.

All the best, and if we can help please feel free to let us know!

Re: LETTER: Neither free nor equal in Albury

andrewtobin — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:49:51 -0000

I honestly wonder why this is even still an issue - my god, does it really take this long to just accept that people are gay and that they should be treated as people?

I know people that make arguments like "once gays have marriage then what's to stop people marrying animals?" - I mean, seriously, if straight marriages don't lead to that then why on earth would gay marriages? The arguments I hear against it are the worst amounts of stupid nonsense I've ever heard and I worry that people can be so stupid to actually make or repeat them.

How many years more is it going to take for us to get past something that shouldn't even be an issue to begin with?

Re: Border support for gay equality

andrewtobin — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:08:09 -0000

It frustrates me that the whole debate comes down to God and Christianity vs Gay Marriage, the "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" remarks that I hear on talkback radio - for starters, people have been pairing off well before Christian marriage ceremonies, I believe that Jesus parents were married and chances are they were married before Christianity was around - Muslims, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Athiests are all allowed to be married and they also did not get married in your church.

Criminals, rapists, murderers are probably allowed to get married and they broke more commandments and sinned more than you ever have, and if you ever coveted your neighbour, or committed Adultry then you've broken it too - but we allow people who have affairs outside marriage to remarry.

Marriage means more than the context of the Christian faith, and just because Gay people would be allowed to marry doesn't mean your church would be forced to marry them, or your minister - people still have rights to refuse that. It would just mean that they're allowed to marry, same as many other people who aren't Christian, same as Mary and Joseph were betrothed to be married before Jesus was born.

It's appalling that we can't get over this, and that it comes down to some people holding their religious beliefs over others - I'm pretty sure we would go to war if another group of religious people wanted to persecute and impose their religious beliefs on us.

Re: Why GitHub’s pricing model stinks (for us)

andrewtobin — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:58:30 -0000

Bb also has issues, pages, wiki and probably etc - it also can be a git repo on Bb (they support Git and Bb), but in the end Github is just a nicer experience.

Re: A $199 Surface? I Will Wear a Mullet

andrewtobin — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:55:20 -0000

I think the problem here is, Apple tell people the OS is free, it's the hardware that costs... and Microsoft not having been selling hardware, and Android giving it away free, makes it difficult to keep suggesting the price of the OS should be ~$100 when Apple are saying it's worth $0.

That said, Apple don't have to sell their OS to anyone else and they include the cost in the hardware - but I have heard it reported so often that Apple don't charge for their OS, so why would I pay for Microsoft's?

It's a difficult argument because no one wants to hear the reasoning, they just don't want to pay.

Same with Apple saying software should be $2, and so many web companies struggling over each other to give their products away free and recoup by being bought or through ads, and people have an entirely skewed view of what software costs.

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I should note I specifically mean iOS, I know they charge for their full operating system, but they release more often at a lower rate and people think they're still not being charged as much.

Re: Gutters - Issue #284 by Jeff Zornow

andrewtobin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:52:36 -0000

What are you trying to catch with your mouth?

*cough*bated breath*cough*

Re: Woolworths Meat Fail

andrewtobin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:17:10 -0000

For the record, Woolies doesn't usually do the labelling of product like that, its suppliers would - they may or may not have.

But yeah, stuff happens :)

Re: Week 3: Ideastrike - code52

andrewtobin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:06:35 -0000

Hey Marcin, if you want to do this weeks in something then feel free to try and get a group together to approach it - we have a group for the .NET ecosystem, but we don't have a group of Java guys lined up. However, if you just mean in general, then sure - but we'll need an idea of something you think appropriate (as the @Code52 account said) and some discussion and some other guys to sign up to do it.

At the moment there's been a lot of interest around the lack of anything .NET but not a lot of volunteers to do something other than .NET, but we're happy to support another group if they want to tackle something, for sure :)

Re: Code52 - I'm going to be busy this year - The League Of Paul

andrewtobin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:24:32 -0000

LOL, I can't believe you're doing that - sounds like an impractical use of your time and man you're going to get burned out... who on earth put you up to it? :P

Re: Buffy to Slay Vampires on Big Screen Again Sans Joss Whedon

andrewtobin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:17:53 -0000

Sorry Robert, I won't call you names - but this report is bashing and moronic at best.

I read the site daily, even though I find the level of reporting very mixed (show reviews that barely pay attention to what has happened on the show, and show no knowledge of the history of the show, have been things I've bitched about in the past).

For those that don't know, Joss wrote the first movie and the rights to it were bought, it was then re-written and not what he wanted from the story. He managed to get temporary rights to do the tv show, and produced what he wanted as Buffy - the rights then reverted back to the original holders for the movies, and they want to produce a movie on the cheap.

They also get none of the rights for the characters then built from the tv show. Which over six seasons of having "The Scooby Gang" on tv, and building rich characters, even if you're rebooting, seems to be a sad case - it'd be like rebooting Scooby Doo and only having Scooby and redoing new characters for him to hang out with.

I agree with the reasons Joss isn't involved, and it certainly seems they're looking for something cheap and nasty with a name to draw people in.

Joss was incredibly self-deprecating in his comments, and sad, but then you would be if a story you're still telling in comic forms and other places is being restarted without your involvement.

"Whedon takes a few jabs at the idea of the remake, as he is apparently a very original screenwriter. He makes note that his Avengers idea is his own (ignoring the fact that it is a comic book adaptation and thus not all that original) and doesn’t mention that he also worked on the Captain America film, another adaptation, or a pretty poor sequel in the Alien franchise"

Whedon made that comment as a "hey, I'm redoing stories I loved from my childhood, who am I to judge if someone else wants to do the same?" - it was a line that was to show the absurdity of him complaining about someone else doing the same thing as what he is doing, and it shows little insight into someone who you are looking for reasons to attack from your comments.

And there is a huge difference between being brought on to develop further onto a franchise than to reboot it without the involvement, and without the blessing of the creator.

His joke about rebooting Batman is to indicate that he believes it is too soon to go rebooting such a new franchise - and it only pains the fans to do so cheaply and without wanting to do the best by the franchise.

"At least without Joss Whedon involved, it’s a pretty safe bet that no character will be randomly and unceremoniously killed off for no reason other than fuck you. Wash for life, yo."

Yes, because you'd hate a story to have lasting emotional value for you.

Wash's death was major for the fans, a shocking and sudden move that clearly affected everyone from then on in the story, and gave the movie much more meaning. I applaud the balls it takes for telling a story, and having consequences, rather than plodding along keeping everyone somewhat happy.

Like I said, I don't want to attack you, or call you names, I just find this shoddy, biased reporting - but it's your site and you aren't hiding your bias.

The fact you don't get the humor, can't tell when someone is exaggerating to show the absurdity of being upset at a situation, and then calling them out for bitching when asked about something they created and cared for, for decades of their lives... Well, yeah you're a bit of hack. There I called you a name. Happy?

Re: Hayden Panettiere Takes a Gritty Turn In Bret Easton Ellis-Scripted ‘Downers Grove’

andrewtobin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:22:02 -0000

The brother is addicted to female heroes? Weirdo.

Re: Who Needs OSS Anyway?

andrewtobin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:09:43 -0000

Lets face facts - there is a large portion of .NET developers that won't use anything without the MS stamp - should they never get a ORM, IOC, or something just because they/their work/legalities constrain them?

I think we need to be a bit more forgiving of MS needing to reinvent wheels, but you would hope that at some point something like the Codeplex Foundation/whatever it's called, stamp will mean the same thing... I'm sure MS themselves would love not having to spend those resources to compete all the time.

Re: Who Needs OSS Anyway?

andrewtobin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:03:19 -0000

On a more positive side, there's open source packages on NuPack that will get a lot more attention now as a side affect.

Maybe it's the step backwards from OSS, that MS had to take, in order to better promote OSS?

They took a project over, but how much more attention, once people accept NuPack as an official MS release, etc, will other packages in it get because they're on the list?

It'll be interesting to see what controls are in place to stop the list growing unmanagable and for us to have 30+ libraries to do the same basic thing.

Re: Google Chrome: Should You Convert?

andrewtobin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:35:29 -0000

Uh, you guys do know that the IE8 beta has individual processes for tabs, and all the other same goodness? There aint much in it that isn't in IE8 at all.

Re: Technorati Trackbacks and Graffiti CMS : Grr, Argh!

andrewtobin — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:04:07 -0000

Thanks a lot!

I've got a couple of small ideas but really, it's a bit difficult to come up with anything else I'd personally want to Graffiti.

Re: Integrating Disqus into Graffiti CMS : Grr, Argh!

andrewtobin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:32:38 -0000

Thanks Daniel, I'm hoping it will be a bit helpful to the guys! :)