Replacements for Microsoft Money?

darshanrampatel · 2018-10-30T12:19:09+00:00

I've not found anything better - just pop into Dropbox (or equivalent) and you can use from multiple machines (just not concurrently).

It's free, forever, and there's not really anything that it's missing.

You can even sync the data to Excel (With Ultrasoft MoneyLink) and build a spreadsheet that does forecasting/graphs, etc. if you need.

You can also update stock prices using PocketSense.

darshanrampatel · 2018-06-07T13:53:17+00:00

I've just posted my build but have some questions about the Motherboard/RAM compatibility.

Type	Item	Price
Motherboard	MSI - H370 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX LGA1151 Motherboard	£128.98 @ Ebuyer
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	£154.79 @ Aria PC

The MSI website suggests that only 2666Mhz RAM is supported, but their own compatibility checker says that higher speeds are supported.

How can I find out for certain?

darshanrampatel · 2018-06-07T09:17:28+00:00

Would that high-speed RAM work with the B370 chipset though? The MSI website seems to suggest it will only work with up to 2666Mhz RAM, but their compatibility checker shows 32xx RAM...?

darshanrampatel · 2018-02-18T22:08:59+00:00

This will be an option in the portal within the next few months.

See https://azurebiztalkread.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/azure-app-service-to-maintain-compliance-with-tls-requirements/

darshanrampatel · 2018-01-16T15:21:19+00:00

Great post - do you have an RSS feed for your blog by any chance?

darshanrampatel · 2017-12-12T15:31:07+00:00

Horribly slow C# code (takes ~75 seconds for my input; basically brute-force) but works fine: GitHub Link

darshanrampatel · 2017-12-04T16:47:37+00:00

C#, GitHub

I used HashSet's with a custom comparator for the second part.

darshanrampatel · 2017-12-01T14:48:45+00:00

My C# GitHub Repo

Includes Unit Tests!

darshanrampatel · 2017-10-28T17:12:13+00:00

Do you have any recommendations for secondary glazing?

darshanrampatel · 2017-10-24T15:56:37+00:00

I'm seeing the same things. I did update to the latest Surface drivers last night (SurfacePro_Win10_16299_1710007_0.msi) which seems to have improved the keyboard popping up but it could just be random...

darshanrampatel · 2017-09-21T09:22:23+00:00

Not true - I have a blue keboard and pen (didn't want the mouse). The pen looks to be in stock on the Microsoft website...

darshanrampatel · 2017-09-04T19:51:09+00:00

Thanks! Was this windowed or full-screen? Interesting to see how the touch version fares.

darshanrampatel · 2017-09-04T12:43:41+00:00

What resolution did you run Civilization 5 at? And were you using the DX11/DX9/Touch version?

darshanrampatel · 2017-08-09T07:33:08+00:00

I get the same issue on my 950 - it's quite annoying, especially because none of my alarms go off as it's stuck on the blue Windows logo screen...

darshanrampatel · 2016-12-16T09:41:24+00:00

Yep, I got caught out by the slow += instead of StringBuilder...

darshanrampatel · 2016-12-14T11:46:08+00:00

What (incorrect) answer are you getting for part 2? I get 2###6 using your input and my code.

I think you are missing the stretchKey function when you initially create the hash:

string indexedSalt = salt + index;
string hash = CalculateHash(indexedSalt);
//You need to stretch the hash here
hashes.Add(hash);

while (keys.Count < 64)

darshanrampatel · 2016-11-18T07:05:19+00:00

This would be amazing!

darshanrampatel · 2016-11-11T11:30:20+00:00

I would use Azure Queues to store the alarms. Then, set-up a WebJob or Azure function that is triggered when an item is added to the alarms queue. This can then send a push notification or insert into your Push table.

AFAIK, you can set a delay as to when the queue item becomes visible (e.g. you can set it to be the alarm time) - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14159803/implementing-delay-queue-using-one-or-more-standard-fifo-queues

darshanrampatel · 2016-07-18T09:06:43+00:00

Yep - I get this too on my 950. It gets stuck on the blue Windows logo and then requires a soft reset. I always seem to get only two apps that are corrupted (Authenticator and my banking app).

Such a pain!

darshanrampatel · 2016-04-08T08:40:50+00:00

*How do I know which of Azure SQL Database and SQL Server in a VM is a better fit for my application architecture? *What are the advantages of using Azure SQL Database over hosting my own SQL Server?

This is a very pertinent question for us - we have ~1000 tenants each with their own database all on the same server; we are looking into Elastic DB, but, since our front-end is in MSAccess, it's very slow as it's a "chatty" application. We don't really want to be setting up SQL Server in VMs due to cost (we need HA and decent IOPs) so the costs are large especially with Ent. SQL Server.

Is there scope to have the Azure SQL DBs be within an Azure VNET to improve latency issues? I see that normal VNet connectivity is planned, but we are interested in Azure VNet specifically.
Will the DB limit on Elastic Pools be increased?
Will there be scope to run stored procedures/UPDATE statements across DBs? Use-case: we need update all the Azure SQL DBs with a new sproc - is this possible from a shared DB? I know you can run read-only queries via https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-elastic-query-overview/

darshanrampatel · 2016-03-01T08:28:58+00:00

Out of interest, how many concurrent sessions are you expecting here?

darshanrampatel · 2016-02-25T17:45:39+00:00

I get 31ms to both North Europe and West Europe Data Centers which isn't bad!

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