Archives
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Worst and Best Technologies, 2003-2004
Worst Technology of 2003 - Paperless Voting
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SQLite
SQLite is an embeddable SQL database engine which can perform upto two times faster than PostgreSQL and MySQL for many common operations. With a small memory footprint and support for databases upto 2 terabyte, its an ideal option for embedded and small to medium-scale deployments. And SQLite works like a charm with the .NET Framework. Following are some of the options available to interact with the SQLite server from your .NET code:
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Google Book Search (Beta)
Amazon.com's feature for searching within books, introduced in October, now has competition. Google, the leading search engine, is testing a similar, unnamed service, introduced about two weeks ago with no publicity. When used with regular Google searches, the feature returns links to passages within books. It can also be used separately. For example, to see references within books to quilts, a visitor would type quilts site:print.google.com
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Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET
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DotNetSIG December Session (21st Dec)
The Delhi .NET Developers Group presents interactive sessions on Assemblies and .NET Remoting, on 21st December 2003.
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XP SP2, and Smallest Executables
Microsoft tech writers explain in this downloadable document (539 kb) some of the biggest changes on tap Windows XP Service Pack 2 — the first beta of which is due for unveiling any day now. [via Neowin]
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Mono Live!
mo8il seems to be one of the first real & live ASP.NET application powered by Mono. [Via Miguel]
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MSDN December Sessions in India
MSDN Sessions on ASP.NET: Best Practices and Techniques for Building Secure ASP.NET Applications are scheduled from 9th to 18th December 2003 in 6 Indian cities. More details ...
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Mystic Microsoft
Spiritual Transformation in the Halls of High Technology - Kraig Brockschmidt, former employee of Microsoft wrote this draft copy for his (new) book. Not sure if its been published yet or not but its very interesting. Its not about MS's products or about arguments over Linux/OpenSource etc. Its about the spiritual transformation which the author went through during his 8 years of work at MS. [via Ramesh]
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ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow and VS.NET Automation Samples
Maybe I've mentioned this one before but its worth it! The creators of ASP.NET are coming to a city near you. This is your chance to receive FREE, in-depth training on Microsoft's web development platform. So do go catch the ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow. Sadly I'm 7469 miles away :(
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C# Class Generator and World's Largest Databases
C# Class Generator - is a pretty simple web-based utility which automagically generates a complete C# class (and the Data Access Tier methods) from specified field inputs.
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Craftsmanship
Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship where he rightly points-out -- “Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it's design.”