March 2005 - Posts

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MS Petshop 3.x, your thedailywtf.com material times 1000 by FransBouma

For the soon to be released major update for LLBLGen Pro , v1.0.2004.2, I'm porting the Microsoft Petshop project v3.x to show some of the new code implemented in the upgrade. Now, I've seen a lot of crap code in my life but what Microsoft dares to offer...
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CodeZone? Another marketing driven community doomed to fail. by FransBouma

Various people seem to have discovered ' Codezone '. The name rang a bell, the color scheme did too. Then I remembered: I saw it first in the summer of 2004, at TechEd 2004 Europe. It was then introduced as the new developer community. It doesn't surprise...
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Why Microsoft makes a mistake with the MSDN subscription changes. by FransBouma

Eric Sink blogs his thoughts into the world about Team System, the pricing, MSDN and the recent uproar about all of this. I agree with him about the positioning of Team System, the pricing related to that positioning, the MSDN licensing as it is now and...
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Anonymous Cowards are sometimes too funny :) by FransBouma

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=142719&cid=11958953
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Billy 'Wicked' Wilson dies, age 33. by FransBouma

The founder of VoodooExtreme, one of the first gaming sites, Billy 'Wicked' Wilson, died at age 33 yesterday . As a long time fan of VoodooExtreme and later on Gaming Groove, it was always a big pleasure reading his writings. A true icon.
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VB6, R.I.P. by FransBouma

Over a 100 MVP's have signed an online petition to make Microsoft migrate the behemoth Visual Basic 6 (VB6) to VS.NET and let it live on as an unmanaged language. More information can be found here: http://rblevin.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-mvps-revolt...
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Google is going to build a Hailstorm++ ? by FransBouma

Mark Lucovsky left Microsoft today . Now, Mark is a legend, so I don't think he needs further introduction. What interested me was that he left to work for Google. Looking back at what Mark has done, you'll see things like 'Designing NT kernel', 'Designing...
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