Contents tagged with Signal-to-Noise
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Yahoo acquires Oddpost
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Signal-to-Noise #9
- dotText pre-0.96 - Two new features (among others), Search and ScheduledEvents, in dotText (pre-0.96) that I'll be going through for sure to learn more on the implementation and design. From Scott's blog: “ScheduledEvents is a simple API for scheduling a recurring event (or once a day event). Examples would be clearing the stats queue or rebuilding the search index.” I hope it to be a cleaner and more appropriate solution to Scheduled Execution in ASP.NET.
- XPath in .NET - “Don't perform XPath queries against an XMLDocument or an XMLDataDocument. Use an XPathDocument instead.”, XPath Performance in .NET by Jerry Dixon.
- VS IDE - Tim Dawson shows in this article how you can use in your Windows application the same designer than VS use. Good overview of the designer architecture, if you are interested in building an IDE. [via Paschal L]
- Mono 0.30 has been released, with 30-40% faster compilation speeds (the compiler compiles itself in 2.3 secs on a 1.6ghz machine), a FileSystemWatcher, Cryptography fixes, WS bug fixes and more. [via Oddur Magnusson]
- The Northwind Example to DataTable Relational Operators in C#.
- Linux on Windows - coLinux (Cooperative Linux) is the first working, free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. [via Stefano Demiliani]
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Signal-to-Noise #8
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Signal-to-Noise #7
- A new version (4.1.3) of Inno Setup (an application installer & setup creation tool that I use quite frequently) has been released with an all-new Explorer-like folder browser.
- With Visual Studio Whidbey, Microsoft will deliver a set of tools (code-named "Whitehorse") that enable architects and developers to easily design service-oriented applications and operations infrastructure simultaneously. Whitehorse uses a drag-and-drop design surface to connect XML Web services, and then validates the resulting applications against the deployment environment. [via Dan Fernandez]
- Mapping Binary Data to a Structure - a summary of the primary ways of mapping binary data to a structure besides the standard approach using BinaryReader.
- Calculate the most effecient page size based on the catalog, in DB2, by Brett. Anyone know of a SQL Server variation to it?
- Axosoft, the creators of the team-based defect tracking and task management software - OnTime, announced that they will provide a free 3-user version of its OnTime Web or Windows edition product free to bloggers who agree to mention Axosoft in their blogs.
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Signal-to-Noise #6
- Sample chapters (Part 1 and Part 2) from O'Reilly's ADO.NET Cookbook
- Ted Neward shares his thoughts on the talk Joel Spolsky gave on "Designing Applications With The User in Mind" at UCDavis
- Microsoft Interview Questions by Chris Sells. [via Jason Salas]
- New article at TSS: Managing .NET Development with NAnt
- Windows Future Storage services (aka WinFS, as part of Longhorn): Microsoft's Data Management Vision
- Eric Sink writes on Getting Started with Your Own Software Company
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Signal-to-Noise #5
- The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog
- Now we know a little more about “Microsoft Venus” (i.e. ASP.NET 2.0).
- Matisse 6: The Ultimate .NET Database (PDF). There's even a new .Text DbProvider available for Matisse database. I wonder if any web hosts support Matisse as yet or is it only good for self-run self-managed servers for now.
- Longhorn Developer FAQ
- WilsonORMapper, an Object-Relational Mapper for .NET, by Paul Wilson.
- “For some reason, Microsoft's brilliant and cutting-edge .NET development environment left out one crucial tool...” says Joel Spolsky. For now, maybe the Salamander .NET Linker and Mini-Deployment Tool can heal some pain or we wait for Longhorn to arrive which should have the .NET framework pre-installed.
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Worm ALERT: W32.Novarg
The W32.Novarg worm (aka MyDoom) is creating havoc, breaking records for new infections. Update your anti-virus definitions. The Worm has spread to 1 in 12 e-mail messages.
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Signal-to-Noise #4
- Open Source Testing is a compendium of 138 open source testing tools, including unit testing, feature testing, performance testing, bug tracking, the whole gamut. If you're considering building some testing infrastructure, you should spend some time looking around here first. [via Ned Batchelder]
- NPerf - Performance Benchmark Framework for .NET.
- Data Access and Storage Developer Center, the home for developer information on Microsoft data technologies, was recently launched at MSDN. Keep up the good work Christa!
- I was doing some reading on the MetaWeblog API and came across this interesting article on What's Wrong with the MetaWeblog API?
- Joel Spolsky writes about how to get your resume read.
- Brian Noyes is on .NET Rocks! this week with Carl Franklin talking about AutoDeployment issues and how Microsoft is addressing them with ClickOnce, a new deployment and Windows application updater technology that will ship with the .NET Framework 2.0.
- .NET Bugs Registry - A registry of known .NET bugs.
- dotNETTools.org features a number of .NET resources and useful sites.
- Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map.
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Signal-to-Noise #3
- SQL Server Yukon seems to be the highlight in MSDN Mag (Feb 2004 issue) with articles on Yukon Basics, XML in Yukon, T-SQL in Yukon, Types (and Managed UDTs) in Yukon etc.
- Working with the System Registry using .NET
- Comparing the three Timer Classes (System.Windows.Forms.Timer, System.Timers.Timer, and System.Threading.Timer) in the .NET Framework Class Library. Complete article ...
- Java to .NET - This week Microsoft annnounced the beta availability of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA), a tool designed to ease migration of Java applications to the .NET environment. Notable in this release is the ability migrate J2EE 1.3-compliant applications, including JSP, JMS, JNDI and EJB.
- Craig Skibo writes about the 54 commandments of COM object model design.
- There is a Windows Installer for Mono 0.29 available now.
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Signal-to-Noise #2
The Republic Day (Mon, 26th Jan) is near while the odd rains in and around New Delhi will hopefully not confine people indoors during this long weekend. To me, the most amazing sight in the city this time of the year is the evening view of the Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidents House) which is all lit up and looks magnificent (see photo).