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• .Net says - multiple languages supported. VS.Net says - don't try it.

  It's beta 2 of the new visual studio, soon to be VS.Net 2002. It's awesome, and I'm blown away. In all ways, I love .net development, and Visual Studio gets better and better. However, one bug will plague me through my career. ... Warning -- it's extremely... Posted Feb 17 2004, 08:53 PM by philipr with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, rant

• Labelling people "advanced" is done by beginners.

  If you ask a user if they're advanced, the answer they give will have nothing to do with the settings you're trying to determine... Posted Dec 10 2003, 08:21 AM by philipr with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: development, rant

• Perhaps a social statement

  I know I feel like this scene from Vancouver is accurate some days. (from ThisIsBroken.com)... Posted Dec 01 2003, 12:02 PM by philipr with | with no comments Filed under: rant

• To beta or not to beta-- The previewer's dilemma

  I went to the PDC. I got the bits. I played with Whidbey and ASP.NET 2.0. I fell in love. Back in the real world of work, I'm about to start a 4-6 month project. During this project we'll have to: Use (or write our own) a page templating solution that... Posted Nov 20 2003, 08:28 AM by philipr with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, rant

• Soap with attatchments change in WSE 2!

  Rebecca Dias let us know of a change to WSE2 based on PDC feedback: We have already taken one action in WSE v2.0 as a result of the feedback from the PDC. Attachments will be abstracted away so that migration to MTOM will be more seemless. This makes... Posted Nov 12 2003, 10:20 PM by philipr with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, rant

• For most developers, it's not about tweaking performance

  Due to quick feedback (out of band) about size and relevence to .net, I have moved my response to this post from Critical Section to a “story“. You can find it here . Sorry to those that saw this in the aggregators. Posted Nov 04 2003, 11:01 AM by philipr with | with no comments Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• Are consistent user interfaces a thing of the past?

  Many people have seen the new Avalon UI paradigm, and the ease with which one can "skin" an Avalon app. Many of those people are concerned (rightly, I think) that this means that every app out there will depart completely from UI standards that we all... Posted Nov 03 2003, 08:44 AM by philipr with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• gSOAP 2.3.8, and you do care.

  From Dave Bettin - gSOAP 2.3.8 : We are pleased to announce the gSOAP 2.3.8 stable release for C and C++ Web services: ** Support for ANSI C and C++, including STL and templates ** Full support for SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 ** Full support for WSDL 1.1 (WSDL document... Posted Oct 31 2003, 05:00 PM by philipr with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, development, rant

• Lorem Ipsum backfires in ironic manner.. film at 11

  Don Box is pointed to the Lorem Ipsum page by Nikhil ... Hoax or not, many people use Lorem Ipsum text to keep people from being distracted by real text. It's supposed to stop things like these in a graphic layout design session: A business stakeholder... Posted Oct 25 2003, 12:45 AM by philipr with | with no comments Filed under: development, rant

• Considering Exceptions Harmful Considered Harmful

  Joel Spolsky is a man whom I have come to respect because of his writing. I still do, and it will take more than one posting by him that I disagree with to change that. But boy, do I disagree with his disagreement with exceptions. So do others (like Jesse... Posted Oct 14 2003, 08:39 PM by philipr with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .net development, rant