April 2003 - Posts
Your even behind in your blog reading.
I'm dealing with some crazniess at work that has me completely distracted. I opened up #Reader for the first time today in days and had 233 unread posts! Uggghhh... I only subscribe to blogs I consider important reads so I hate to miss one post. Jeez. Well if I figure out my problems with casting objects from manually loaded assemblies (don't ask) today, I'll try to get some time with #Reader and the blog.
[Currently Playing: Ministry - The Dark Side of the Spoon]
Wow! I guess they are just catching up with me... I've been doing this manually for months...;)
[Currently Playing: Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Sprial]
Picking VB.NET over C# is a little like picking which Playboy bunny will join you in the hot tub—you can’t go wrong either way.
[Greg Robinson's blog]
Well, I disagree with the language part but I love the analogy =)
[Currently Playing: Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty]
I've updated my list of current reading... You can find the full list here, but the new stuff is posted below, these are both excellent books!
C O D E by Charles Petzold - Fantastic book! This is a must read for anyone who didn't take the traditional computer science route through college (I've got a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning [don't ask, its a story for another time]). C O D E does a great job explaining how a computer works by taking baby steps. The book evolves from basic codes (moorse, braile) to basic electrical engineering (boolean algebra, switches, gates, flip-flops). Once the foudation is poured, he gets into the computer, discussing the cpu, memory and basic OS operations. I'm learning more and more each day. I can't put this thing down!
Shared Source CLI Essentials by Stutz, Neward, and Shilling - Some people like abstraction. They like not having to deal with how things work. I think thats great... but it's not me! If you ever wanted to know how the .NET framework works, check out this book (and the Rotor codebase). I started splinking with Rotor after the first beta drop a year ago, but I've never had the time to really dig in. I mean, there's more than 1,000,000 lines of source in there; you really need a road map, and thats what this book is. I just started with it last nite, but I can tell already that it's gonna rock. Well done!
[Currently Playing: OgHr: Welt]
Am I the only one who is drooling over the next PDC. I can't wait until October!!!
[Currently Playing: The Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation]
Ok, so I'm on the SharpReader bandwagon also. In a little less than 48 hours, Luke's rockin RSS aggregatoris conquering the .NET blog-space; and rightfully so. I've been using Synderella for a while now, but I've got to admit, since downloading SharpReader I havn't turned back. Way to go!!!!
BTW, I like the name Luke uses for his blog: public virtual MemoryStream. The fact that its virtural leads me to believe he's open to new interpretations of ideas. Unfortunatly, I've run into entirely too many people whose MemoryStream is sealed!
[Currently Playing: Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (live)]
Now that should get some people going... =)
Actually, I believe that, at least in its current incarnation. I'm sorry but I agree completly with Clemens, RPC is last year; enough already!!! Connecting two machines together directly (via HTTP, TCP, UDP, whatever) is brittle , and its time we changed our thinking.
I'm currently working in this space and I've been spending quite a bit of time attempting to decouple machine-2-machine communication via a MOM, dynamic discovery and selection, message filters; all that good stuff. The WSE stuff that NewIntelligence is doing is cool, but so is the WSIF project hosted by the Apache group (the inspiration for much of my current work).
[Currently Playing: Ministry - The Dark Side of the Spoon]
Sorry for my absence of late... I've been swamped at work and the blog is the first thing that gets cut when I run out of bandwidth. I only had 4 posts in March, now thats just *poor*!
[Currently Playing: Ministry - Filth Pig]
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