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Just tested this on SGSII and can confirm the same.

I'm on 3 w/Samsung Galaxy SII & Cyanogenmod and it's not sending any phone-specific headers.

Yes, MVC3 the way forward. I've spent the last year pulling together my minimum viable product with MVC and choosing ASP MVC 3 has to be the best decision I've made.

My only negative comment about ASP MVC is that WebForms requires very little code to create a sexy interactive expanding/collapsing databound table whereas you seem to have to write a lot of code to do the equivalent in ASP MVC (v3 at least...) There are however some great libraries out there like jQuery MVC Grid (http://jqmvcgrid.codeplex.com/) which fill in these gaps. With the current speed of development, it is surely only a matter of time before WebForms becomes obsolete.

I'm a big fan of electronic music and used to DJ, so all kinds of electronica, dubstep, garage/2-step, a bit of house/electro/tech house, drum & bass, and recently a lot of techno. Pretty much anything fast with a steady beat.

I find techno to be good music for coding to because it is very subtle and has long build ups whilst maintaining a decent pace. I'm still new to techno but I'd recommend both the CLR.net and Drumcode.se podcasts, but get yourself a decent pair of headphones :)

Dubstep can be fantastic for coding but I prefer the darker more underground tunes as opposed to Skrillex and the poppy sound which gets played a lot recently. Keep an eye out for tunes by Mala, Kode9, SP:MC, Distance, Lynx, Skream, Loefah. I listen to Youngsta's shows on Rinse.FM which you can download from their site on Tuesday mornings GMT.

Also some downtempo/chilled stuff is good for more relaxed coding. I've enjoyed Emancipator's albums over the last couple of months and would recommend them to pretty much anyone.

Nice to see a bit of sense in an otherwise polarised argument!

It would be interesting to hear about what kind of APIs they are planning, à la Slicehost.

I'm constantly telling off my friend (an established programmer, just not with C#) for using Resharper with VS2010. He responds with "But it helps! It's easier to use!", then asks me "What's the difference between a reference and a 'using' statement?".

I sure hope someone got fired for that one snicker

zing!

I don't have all that much money to play with at this point, so really I'm looking for something cheap

Interestingly, I write software for Sage Line 50 as part of my day job, and can get bleeding edge developer editions, unlimited license keys etc. It is a bit overboard for what I want to do though - and FreeAgentCentral suggested above seems to do all of the accounting stuff, plus some smart project/time management features which IMO make it worth £15/month - although in the fullness of time this will no doubt be the more expensive option.

Great suggestion though, I hadn't actually thought of that! (Couldn't see the wood for the trees I suppose :)

Wow, that looks pretty slick, and the pricing seems reasonable too. How long have you used it for? Ever had any big problems with it?

So... You made a post about Apple?

Hehe, HN n00b here too - I started coming here when Reddit was clogged with derp derp Apple derp Narwahls, although I still monitor both fairly closely during the course of the day.

What amazes me more is that the tool they are using isn't all that anonymous - the article references a paper describing this (here: http://www.simpleweb.org/reports/loic-report.pdf).

Surely any 'hacker' worth their salt wouldn't use their home PC for this kind of rubbish.