February 2003 - Posts

Model Concept Mapping Tool
28 February 03 08:42 AM | CSharpener | with no comments
I just discovered jKSImapper, a concept mapping tool by Dr. Roberto Flores-Mendez, Ph.D., who won 1st place in the Quest for Java '97 contest with it. I am very interested in concept mapping, otherwise known as "mind mapping," "clustering," "mind modeling," and the like. Mind mapping or concept mapping has been used very creatively in the WebBrain and Kartoo products. Dr. Flores kindly provides Java code and design articles that supply a nice foundation for potential work on a .NET mind mapping tool implementation. I am quite certain his work will save me a lot of time! Dr. Flores currently focuses his research on "the study and application of conversation policies for (purely communicational) software agents."
[Languages] Logo on .NET
25 February 03 09:52 AM | CSharpener | 2 comment(s)

Some may laugh at this but I'm looking forward to having an implementation of Logo for .NET. It looks like Rachel Hestilow, related to the Mono project, has MonoLogo at least partially working. MonoLogo is apparently available via CVS at Mono CVS as module "MonoLOGO"). MonoLogo is designed to be fairly compatible to Object Logo a commercial logo no longer supported by Digitool, Inc..

For a free implementation of the Logo programming language, check out StarLogo and NetLogo. Also, for an update on the status of Logo, in general, see the Logo Foundation's website.

Why drag Logo out of the lingual cellar again? There are some interesting advanced agent simulation applications, among other reasons. See Swarm, Ascape, and Repast. Apparently, MIT and others do not think the little turtle-speak language is dead quite yet.

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[Product] BlueDragon: CFML/.NET Integration
24 February 03 09:31 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

New Atlanta is offering integration between ColdFusion (CFML) and .NET with a new product, BlueDragon.

Check out XmlNodeWriter
21 February 03 01:39 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

See this post about XmlNodeWriter.

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The Road To Gold
20 February 03 12:04 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows has a great article series on the history of the NT Development process. Part One starts here: Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold Part One: The Early Years

[Tip] Debugging: Put a Watch on LastError
20 February 03 11:45 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

Interesting tip from the Sysinternals Newsletter, February 19, 2003. Quoted material:

*VISUAL STUDIO: PUT A WATCH ON LASTERROR If you develop applications that rely on the Win32 API then you've almost certainly have written code that executes a Win32 function, but for whatever reason doesn't report specific errors. If so, you'll find this tip useful. By adding the expression "@ERR,hr" to the watch window you'll see the numeric and textual representation of the value stored as the current thread's LastError variable, which is the value returned by the GetLastError() Win32 function.
Page template techniques with ASP.NET
19 February 03 10:08 AM | CSharpener | with no comments
Quoted material from [Sam Gentile's Blog]:

Page template techniques with ASP.NET:

[Adrian Bateman (VisionTech)]
[Tools] Essential tool: FxCop
19 February 03 10:01 AM | CSharpener | 2 comment(s)

Several .NETWeblogs Bloggers have pointed to FxCop lately, so I checked it out. This one gets the "AWESOME" and "MUST-HAVE" ratings! It is a code analysis tool that can help developers keep their code within the .NET Framework Design Guidelines.

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[Tools] A Collection of .NET Regular Expression Tools
19 February 03 09:06 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)
A nice Blog entry with some good references on regular expression tools for .NET appeared at [Scott Hanselman's Weblog]:

I'm starting to use .NET's RegEx class all over...in ways I never expected.  Here's the tools and sites I'm using lately:

And Library Resources:

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[Languages] Curl
18 February 03 12:17 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Some time back, I started to look at Curl but balked at the commercial pricing. Now, they apparently have a Free Application Deployment Program.

Non-Expiring versions of the Surge Runtime Environment and Surge Lab IDE are now available for public download . In addition, developers can also get a license key at no cost to deploy applications to the internet, as long as the applications may be fully utilized without requiring the user to enter any registration or billing information. Anybody may participate in this program and any application is eligible as long as the application is available to all users at no cost. Click here to request a license key.
Curl has a fairly nice pedigree:
Curl Corporation was founded in February, 1998. The company was established to extend and commercialize the results of a three-year, five million dollar US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded research project conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The founders of Curl Corporation were twelve members of the MIT community, with a technical team led by Stephen A. Ward, an internationally recognized computer scientist; the late Michael L. Dertouzos, Former Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; and Timothy Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web and Director of the W3C.
So, in summary, I downloaded the kit, requested a license key, and will probably experiment on some Open Source toy app. Just browsing around, it looks like Curl may have some interesting features worth learning from. YMMV!
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