SlavoF's WebLog

Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (822925) changes IE behaviour

Slavo Furman — Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:44:00 GMT

It seems that Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (822925), issued on August 20, 2003, changes IE behaviour as describe David Bures in his czech weblog (don't worry about language, David describe this problem also in English) - http://www.websky.cz/ShowEntry.aspx?day=20030821&time=113001.

Seems interesting, and I agree that this issue may cause some problems in already written (Intranet) apps that use frames.

ASPToday.com future

Slavo Furman — Thu, 29 May 2003 08:07:00 GMT

Alex Lowe asks: Do you miss ASPToday.com? on his weblog. If you really do, then it is possible that I have good news for you.

Just on yesterday's night I run into Simon Robinson article Wrox Has Been Sold. Simon Robinson is known WROX author (Pro ADSI Programming, Pro C#, Advanced .NET Programming). And among other things Simon says there that A!Press is working to restablish and indeed to improve the ASPToday.com website. He should know what he talking about, because one sentence later he claim that he is the person whom A! Press has taken on to edit and manage future ASPToday.com.

Well, that is rather a good news, at least for me. Good luck, Simon! Cross fingers.

btw, in mentioned article Simon also proviode list of the Wrox books purchased by Wiley, and says that it's probably safe to assume that any book not listed there has been purchased by A!Press.

What GoogleGuy said

Slavo Furman — Wed, 21 May 2003 04:15:00 GMT

If you looking for behind the scenes informations with regards to Google, then check this weblog. Interesting.

Design Patterns: Suggestions

Slavo Furman — Wed, 21 May 2003 03:57:00 GMT

I was walking through Barnes & Noble during lunch.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw "C# Design Patterns" I looked it up on Amazon and it got pretty horrible reviews. I am not really too concerned with a language specific book, but I am curious what others have read? Any suggestions for "must reads".
[Scott’s ASP.NET Weblog]

Well, just like Sam Gentile I do not like "C# Design Patterns" book.

Scott, if you looking for Design Pattern book, then definitely take a look on "Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design" by by Alan Shalloway, James R. Trott.

10 points from 10. Honestly, I was really impressed by the way that this book was written. It is really gift to take definitely not easy concepts and present them in really understandable way. This book really change my viewpoint with regards to Design Patterns, with regards to object-oriented design. What more can I say.

btw, a good review in also on http://www.aspmatrix.com/books/r4.aspx.

After the Revolutions, the Matrix goes Online

Slavo Furman — Tue, 20 May 2003 14:11:00 GMT

Don Box mentioned that he picked up Enter the Matrix game. I considering to do so, but rather PC version instead because I do not have XBox.

Enter the Matrix looks interesting, but even much, much more interesting sounds announcement from Warner Bros and Ubi Soft, that they will copublish The Matrix Online, the massively multiplayer online game which storyline (developed by Wachowski Brothers) picks up at the end of The Matrix Revolutions, the upcoming third movie in the series.

Matrix Online is now under heavy development for the PC (no other platform is planned for now) by Monolith Productions, an award-winning independent game developer, and EON Entertainment, the company owned by the Wachowski Brothers, creators of The Matrix trilogy.

"Our goal in collaborating with Ubi Soft is to create a multiplayer online game that reflects the trilogy's highly stylized storytelling and innovative action, taking fans beyond the boundaries of the movie screen and into a 'persistent world' where they can fully explore the vast realm of the Matrix.", said Joel Silver producer of the Matrix films in game official announcement.

Just imagine that you can log in into the Matrix...

SharpReader 0.9.0.3 is here

Slavo Furman — Tue, 20 May 2003 13:33:00 GMT

As Luke announced on his weblog post new build of SharpReader ( v.0.9.0.3, released on May 20th, 2003) is here.

Note also a new Sharpreader domain (http://www.sharpreader.net).

Nice work, Luke!

weblog restarting...

Slavo Furman — Tue, 20 May 2003 13:02:00 GMT

It was a while from my last posting. More than a two months. Time flies. There was sooo many things I have to sort out (surviving another organizational change in work, ...)

Whatever, hopefully I'm back in blogging and, although I do not think that someone missed my writings, it is rather good feeling to have some spare time again for taking a look on all these interesting weblog's postings and maybe write something interesting, too.

Well, I'm restarted already. Go to work.

FTP Upstreamer project

Slavo Furman — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:04:00 GMT

Mitch Rupp in his weblog post FTP Upstreamer project wrote:

I want to gauge interest in a new project. How many of you out there (and I know there are something like 7 of you :) would actually use a utility that did the following:

Had a list of local directories and FTP servers/paths
Monitored those dirs (timer or file change notifications) for changes.
Upstream new files (based on file times) to the FTP server. This wouldn't be a full sync but would rather be a copy. It would never delete anything from the server.
Has a tray icon to let you know what is going on.

BTW, this is a feature stolen almost verbatim from Radio. I think that it would be useful to break it out into its own utility.
The real reason I would want this is that frickin' VS.Net doesn't have a way to deply an ASP.Net application to an FTP server. You can copy it or use FP extentions, but you can't FTP that guy up there.
I would include source and an installer for this guy.
If you are interested, email me at eightypercent at bedafamily.com and I'll think about putting something together.[ Joe Beda's EightyPercent.Net ]

Count me in.. I have been wishing for a utility with this feature set for a couple of months...

Well, this will be definitely nice project to working on.

Maybe it is worth to note that Dejan Jelovic's have similar command line utility SiteUpload, which do similar thing - upload web sites via FTP.

Looking for best practices for producing daily builds, versioning, testing, ...? A good book may help.

Slavo Furman — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 03:09:00 GMT

It looks like that many peoples these days looks for their way through various SCM topics such as effectively use of source control systems (such as CVS, SourceSafe or Perforce), producing daily builds, continuous integration, versioning, unit testing, and ask about best practices with regards to these topics.

Certainly, it is not easy, while starting with this and dealing with million details, find right way out of all this.

"A good book may help" as one of my professors on college used to say. So, here they are.

Try look at:

Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration
by Stephen P. Berczuk, Brad Appleton

Brad Appleton also have a good wealth of SCM links on his web site. A look on his ACME (Assembling Configuration Management Environments) project may be in interest, too.

As for best practices for testing I found interesting this book:

Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing
by Elfriede Dustin

Good resources and excellent books.

UPDATE:

Both, above mentioned, books can be read on Safari.

Roogle. I think it is defnitely more than just a 10 hours of odd hacking

Slavo Furman — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:05:00 GMT

Just found Roogle (thanks Robert). Looks interesting.

Well, it not so hard to get idea of "RSS Google", and when we mix all day snowing, nasty Windows crash and little dose of frustration then man is capable of everything. But seriously, it's great and really promising work for now (now index more than 10000 RSS newsfeeds and growing), and I definitely will watch for future development of this. Just subscribed for The Roogle Blog. Just hope that Scott (Johnson) will add also RSS feeds from DotNetWeblogs.com weblogs. Hey Scott, if you read this, OPML is accessible from DotNetWeblogs.com main page.

Maybe sounds like overstate a little, but it looks like that something new is emerging. RSS newsfeeds are different from HTML-based web pages. News Aggregators are different apps comparing to web browser, with different possibilities and different patterns of use. Apparently (I saw this on myself, too) use of newsfeeds aggregator apps change (or at least start changing) way how we gathering content (not only news) from web.

Personally I think that RSS format isn't just for publising info about changes on some website (although for now I do not heard of web site that provide just RSS newsfeed without HTML-based equivalent for browsing via browser, but in future who know). As I wrote on last Friday in my weblog post Changes started or few thoughts on RSS emergence RSS, imho, contain much more potential. And while looking on projects like Organica or Roogle it seems that I am not only one who thinks so.

UPDATE:

It seems that DotNetWeblogs.com RSS newsfeeds are already indexed on Roogle.