Jesse Ezell Blog

Mono 1.0 Is Finally Here

New site too:

http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html

Gentlemen, Start Your XQueries

Lots of people are talking about these express products, but what I haven't seen mentioned yet is that there are express versions of just about everything, including J#, Visual Basic, and SQL Server. That's right, you can get a full blown copy of the kick ass MSDE replacement here:

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/default.aspx

If you wanted a look at Yukon, aka SQL Server 2005, now is your chance.

More On Ventuz

Someone posted this in my comments:

“Just a little update on the Ventuz software. It has not been sold to Microsoft. Version One of the software was for internal use/productions only. The second generation of Ventuz will be entering the official beta stage in August/September. The german company Stereolize also added a new trailer on their ftp site with their work at the CeBit 2004.“

http://www.stereolize.com/Clients/Ventuz/Movies/

How Not To Advertise Your Crappy Product

Facing pressure from various competitors Quarbon has decided to get into the PowerPoint to Flash conversion market. Fortunately for their competitors, their product sucks. Apparently, they licensed their technology from a company called “Netron“ who doesn't seem to know much of anything about PowerPoint or Flash. Their status page clearly shows that all but one of the “very high“ priority items haven't even been started, but viewing one of Quarbon's sample presentations also quickly reveals that the few things they do support don't even work (and this is in their official product demos... audio doesn't play until you come back to the slide and placement is wrong the first time you view a lot of slides as well). What is even more hillarious is that if you view the product demo they have on their site, created with their viewlet builder, they have one of their main competitor's (Articulate's) product installed on the box. How can you tell this? Well, the “Articulate“ menu option is in plain view inside PowerPoint for the duration of their demo.

Resharper Official Release Date

June 20th is the target date for the official release for JetBrain's slick VS 2003 refactoring add-in.

http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/Home

Articulate Job

Here is the official job post I gave you the heads up on a week or two ago:

“Tired of feeling like you don't have an impact in your job? Want to join an exciting team in a growing company? If you're reading this blog, you're probably already a fan of Articulate, or at least know what we're all about.

Articulate has an immediate, full-time opening for a bright, motivated ASP.NET / C# Senior Developer. Ideal candidate has experience in all of the following areas (experience in at least one area is required):

• Content Management Systems
  
• Web portals
  
• e-commerce systems

Your work will have a direct impact on the rapid growth of an exciting company, and the right person will have the chance to make a big difference. This will be a challenging position.

And, oh yeah, not only will you work with fun people and on exciting projects, you'll work from home (or other exotic locations of your choosing) 99% of the time, with an occasional trip to New York.

Interested? Please send your resume to jobs@articulateglobal.com.“ [1]

[1] http://blog.articulateglobal.com/2004/06/09/wanted_sr_developer/index.php