Archives
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VS NotLive
Miss the latest VS Live (NY)? Want to see the keynote and find out all about the cool stuff in the works? You can here.
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Central
“...Just remember that Macromedia scrapes ~20% off of the transaction. Although this may not apply to all transactions, and just the purchase of the application. There will be different licensing options that may cover this.“
[Mesh on MX] -
New Roadmap
Providing the thin-client counterpart to Windows client development is the Web application infrastructure ASP.NET, introduced as part of version 1.0 of the .NET Framework. In the Whidbey release, ASP.NET will feature a new set of controls that simplify Web-based data access and will include functionality that facilitates code reuse, visual consistency, and aesthetic appeal.
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Napster [OT]
From the looks of it, the new Napster is going to have a bad boy image. Very sneaky of them, but quite brilliant too. What they need to do when they launch is start an anti RIAA campaign. With a slogan like this, “Giving as little to the RIAA as possible.” Then, they have a cool anti RIAA feature built in where for every dollar you spend a penny is donated to an anti-RIAA lobbying group. I could definately sign up for that.
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Juval
Juval is on .net rocks again. Lots of cool stuff about Generics.
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$63 billion
So, according to the latest financials, MSFT has $63 billion in the bank and no plans of spending it any time soon... the lastest gossip and juice can be found over on www.wininsider.com
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Media Center PC
So, I'm reading this article on Wired about this Linux based TiVo meets MediaCenter PC thing, and I begin to wonder, why the hell is the Media Center PC so expensive? There really isn't anything the MediaCenter PC does that couldn't be accomplished by a $200 1 GHz machine with some special ports slapped on the back. For $200, I would get one of these snazzy Media Center PCs to hook up to the TV... for $2,000... yah right (it's not like I am going to do anything but play MP3s and DVDs with it).
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Marc on Laszlo
"I agree that Laszlo is too dam slow - right now. And they know that too. But they'll be over a year ahead of Macromedia - once Royale ships next year. And besides - Jeremy Allaire told me - that he sees Laszlo and Royale working together. Hmmm - I wonder where the overlap is.....
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Laszlo Presentation Server is Out
Laszlo's very cool RIA tool is out:
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Contribute 2.0
Macromedia is about to release version 2.0 of their CMS tool. Interestingly, it has a feature called "Flash Paper" that allows you to transform any document into a Flash document to embed in your web pages.... hmm... where have I seen this before.
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Xml Editor .NET 2.0 (or 1.5, or whatever...)
"There will be a .NET WinForm XML Editor control..."
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Why .NET WebServices are Better
Steve Maine's comments about the Java WebServices implementations are quite informative. Apparently, since Sun's spec is RPC, not doc/literal, doing any doc/literal webservice stuff locks you into an app server... guess its not too much different than doing anything else cool with Java... "Write once, run anywhere (as long as they have the same app server as you)".
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Rotten Coffee Beans
"There's the whole issue of requiring a Java app server. If this whole Java web services thing starts with code (which I like) and ends with something like Websphere (which I hate), then I would rather coat my eyeballs in honey and dip my face in a box full of hungry rats."
[Rory Blyth] -
WS-Incompatible
"Taking all that into account, I would like to restate my first quote "there is no point in making a Web Service unless you want interoperability" I would then like to add a new one "interoperability means making sure that even those languages and toolkits that you despise for ideological, technical or political reasons can still call your web service. " Welcome to the Realpolitik of Web Services. "
[Steve Loughran] -
More
"15:51 - Great question from the floor, discussing web services interoperability, specifically between .NET and J2EE: "Why is the development community always forced to choose between implementations done by evil people and implementations done by brain-damaged people?"
[Blogging from the XML-con] -
What We're Missing
08:55 - Chris Sells just presented the "Top 10 XML Specs rejected by the W3C". Highlights:
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Life without X-Box
This is what people do for fun in places where they don't have x-box.
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Preview 2
Been traveling all over the country the past couple weeks, but did get a little work done... here is another sneak peek at what is coming...