Archives
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Groove Developer Survey
All right folks! I am putting together a Groove Developer Survey. It'll be for Groove Developers only, i.e., developers of Groove tools & services using .NET (C#/VB.NET, etc), C++, Delphi, JScript (aka JavaScript), etc. and also including the Groove FORMS tool. The FORMS tool certainly counts here as it's used quite profusely and has tremendous potential for growth & for improvements also :)
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If Monty Python had blogged the PDC...
If Monty Python had blogged the PDC... this guy is a riot!
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New CLR Profiler (v2.0) is out...
The new CLR Profiler (v2.0) is out... It gives insights into the GC, call graphs, heap state and also logs the entire profile process. You can profile apps, services and ASP.NET pages with it.
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Open So(u)r(c)e - a dirty little secret?
Jon Udell [InfoWorld 10.24.03] has an eye-opening piece regarding Open Source's dirty little secret. It reminds me of Economics Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman's famous statement - 'There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch'.
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ISO image to CD-drive converter utility - where is it please?
I think I saw a posting here recently that converts a ISO image into a 'drive'. It was a reference to a utility that's available somewhere....Anyone know where it came from? Thanks.
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MS Office 2003 Product Launch & Groove's integration to it
This week was eventful - Microsoft launched the much-awaited Office 2003. I attended the launch event at the Hartford Civic Center and saw presentations (Developer track) on how to develop and integrate applications with the new beast. Also in the same arena are the new features in Groove that dovetails with the new MS Office 2003, SharePoint and InfoPath - read a small tech note about it in Maestro Hugh's blog posting.
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Making Microsoft Office 2003 mobile with Groove
From a Groove press release - "The integration between Groove and the Microsoft Office System allows individuals to collaborate naturally, even when working across time, company or geographic boundaries. It also further demonstrates Microsoft's commitment to empowering information workers with great software." Kurt DelBene, vice president of Authoring and Collaboration Services at Microsoft Corp. Anytime, Anyplace Information Gathering!
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Network Programming for the MS .NET Framework
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Web Services Security & Monitoring presentation (Service Integrity)
Last night, at the Conn .NET Developer Group meeting, Service Integrity made a presentation regarding Web Services Security (using SSL) and also demonstrated SIFT which is a Web Services Monitoring and Analysis tool. This tool, based on the .NET platform, can extract (programmatically) content from the web services transactions in real-time!
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Submerging technologies
What's sinking and what's swimming? According to ComputerWorld [10.20.03] - Windows 9x and Visual Basic are going out amongst others. "VB 6 is the dinosaur of old. There's tons of legacy code out there, but no self-respecting developer wants to go there anymore".
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Professional .NET Network Programming
I finally received my Professional .NET Network Programming. This book is particularly an interesting one, being part of the WROXified book series done by a gang of authors (7 in this case). It is in a technical category where there aren't many on the subject (.NET Network programming). I must admit, this is one of WROX's better ones and is now out of print (a WROX mishap). You can pick one up for about $12 via Amazon (while they last). Highly recommended - ch. 9 on EMail protocols is quite incisive.
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Sample chapters from Karl Wiegers' book Software Requirements.
Sample chapters from Karl Wiegers' book Software Requirements (2nd ed). Good stuff.
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Removing FLASH pop-up ads
FLASH pop-up ads are getting annoying - they appear to be more prevalent than spam! Tim Bailen's note shows how to get rid of FLASH from IE.
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New in FrontPage 2003
The new FrontPage 2003 has considerable new features including enhancements for SharePoint services and ASP.NET. Stuff like Web Parts, XSLT tools and Dynamic Web Site templates amongst others.
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Collaboration in software development
Last night I attended a presentation by Drew Showers (Borland) - the subject of was 'collaboration in software development'. He spent a good deal of time reviewing RUP, UML and the software development process and less time on his company's product CaliberRM. That's good! Drew has a rich software development experience in (Lockheed-Martin, IBM etc) and his emphasis on requirements management & iterative development hit the right note. The CaliberRM (Requirements Management)demonstration was very interesting - found out that it as an API that can be made to integrate it with Visual SourceSafe!
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No Reservations About .NET
Larry O'Brien, one of the high priests of software development has an excellent article stating why he has 'No Reservations About .NET'. “What I found was that, like the apocryphal frog that sat without complaining in the pan of water slowly heated to boiling, I had been scalded by J2EE.” A must-read!
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Which OS are you?
I took the OS Personality test - I can't say I agree with it. They don't even have the Windows 98 Second Edition version... :-)
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Custom XML Schema Generator & Validator
Dan Wahlin as a great little tool that generates schemas from XML documents using DataSet schema. To complement it, there is a Schema Validator also.
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Free book chapters on SharePoint 2003 development
The supplemental chapters (Appx E, F & G) of Tom Rizzo's book, Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange 2003 (3rd ed) are about SharePoint 2003 development.
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'Feedable' Gear
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Three-day week-end (Columbus Day)
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Comparison of SQL Server 2000 with MySQL v4.1
Fairly comprehensive comparison of SQL Server 2000 with MySQL v4.1. I do a lot of work in *Data Warehousing (Biz Intelligence) and I see no provisions for *DW & Analysis Services, etc in MySQL...
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Microsoft's Project Green - this is BIG
A posting from my blog at Userland:
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The Flowchart Lie (a comment on Ingo Rammer's technote)
Ingo Rammer's current newsletter has an excellent technote on 'The Flowchart Lie'. The subject is about transactional business processes and how they are deployed. Ingo emphasizes the need for messaging systems to communicate between web services. (I call it 'musical conducting' :-) I am grappling with a similar issue while building collaboration systems (e.g., Groove & SharePoint). Collaboration processes are non-linear in nature and its context must be maintained in its entirety - call it 'gestalt' and slicing it as series of 'transactions' does not work.
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'Longhorn Fever'
Yes, there is a 'Longhorn Fever' - stuff that's not just good but great! This appears to be a quantum leap in Microsoft computing. There have been notable efforts to provide information regarding Longhorn (e.g., the exceptional effort by Robert McLaws) and the forthcoming PDC will be awashed in it. Lucky attendees! Question: What is (or will be) the state of 'unmanaged code (& COM)' under Longhorn? To those of us in the 'Orinoco flow' (developing .NET & COM) this is very much an issue. I guess I'll know more on Oct 31st.
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What's New in C# 2?
Just finished reading the article 'What's New in C# 2?' in the C# Pro magazine. Good article describing generics, iterators, anonymous methods and partial classes. The contrast between C# Generics and C++ templates was especially illuminating.