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My biggest concern isn't security - it's the government issuing a national security warrant on your data and you not knowing about it.
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and no one has yet mentioned the rules that where passed in congress in the US and what they allow the FBI to do?
hmmmm
Just have a little bit of a Google, oh and look up the entire story behind why many users didn't get their servers back in the kim.com raid.
It's rather interesting.
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Hehe. Totally agree. These people are someone you'll never meet IRL. Even if they are scrutinizing your life day by day.
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Here[^]
WTF?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Its a ghost town, maybe it has a bad rep 
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Never send grandpa to do a cat's job.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Yes he is! People don't realize how fast they are.
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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Just proves that the only thing you're guaranteed to get with age is wrinkles. Gaining wisdom takes effort, and this guy's not trying hard enough.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm not sure Roger. It seems like he's trying very hard to gain some wisdom, possibly too little, too late. I'm sure he was a little wiser after that attempt!
I can tell you one thing: I don't intend to try that hard, I'll take the wisdom about not playing with alligators second hand thank you!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Apparently Darwin had some days off.
cat fud heer
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And a f*ing lucky idiot too!
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I have 25+ years of development experience, the last 13 or so in .Net.
Now I want to venture into Android. I'd like to work in Visual Studio since it's what I know.
1. What tools do I need?
2. Entry level book recommendation.
Many Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Thank you.
You're referring to Android Studio, right?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I'm referring to everything Android.....that site will guide you in the basics to get going, regardless of which platform you are trying to develop from.
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Ok, thank you
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I strongly recommend Xamarin[^]. It's not free, but IMHO the benefits of being able to code in C# (and use VS if you can afford Xamarin Business Edition) are great. Xamarin Studio is a Visual Studio look-alike (but is not Visual Studio!) and may be sufficient for your needs. If so, you can buy the Indie ($300/yr) license and upgrade later, if necessary.
- Xamarin imposes no noticeable performance hit, and Xamarin Forms is a great abstraction over Android, iOS and WinPhone.
- Note that Xamarin is not a "once size fits all" solution. You need to know how Android and the Android APIs work (which is a good thing, since whatever works in Java will work exactly the same way in Xamarin). Xamarin provides C# bindings over Android (and iOS).
- Their new emulator (currently in Alpha) is miles ahead of anything else. If you don't want to use alpha technology, I recommend using the (free) Genymotion emu. The Google and Intel emus suck hugely.
Re: books, the O'Reilly pair (Learning Android and Programming Android) are what got me wildly excited about the OS. Petzold is working on a book for programming mobile apps using Xamarin. See this[^] link. IIRC, Xamarin has made a preview edition available for free.
Data point: another dev and I built a non-trivial iOS (he) and Android (me) client app for our company as a POC, using Xamarin. The app had a rich UI, worked identically on iOS and Android and easily communicated with an array of existing back-end services. We were able to get it done quickly (3-4 months) since we're originally C# devs. StackOverflow, CP and the Xamarin forums provided a wealth of info when we had questions. The POC was very well received and proved Xamarin was a viable technology for us if we want to quickly develop multi-platform mobile clients.
The only thing that's prevented me from going whole hog on Xamarin (for Android dev) is my lack of free time. Once I'm done upgrading a couple of my freeware C# apps (with a user base of 10K+), I intend to buy Xamarin for myself and will begin to develop mobile versions of these apps.
Edit
MS and Xamarin work very closely together. IMHO, it's just a matter of time before Xamarin's technology becomes part of Visual Studio.
Hope this helps.
/ravi
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Thank you
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Agree Xamarin is what you want if you want to stay Visual Studio like.
There is a free legal version of it. You can use it also for small business
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Unfortunately, the free Starter version has several limitations: no integration with VStudio, limited (although recently increased) app size, and no access to Xamarin Forms.
/ravi
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Thanks for this well-written overview, Ravi-ji !
If one wanted to use the "Indie" subscription, that's US $25 per month per platform.
So, licensing for the two available targets, Android, and iOS, would cost $50 per month.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Aloha, Bill-ji! Yes, I was referring to Android only.
/ravi
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