Dev Notes

Bye bye to .Text

sudhakar[mvp] — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:05:00 GMT

I am impressed with wordpress and moving there. I have also updated my Cool Clicks with a brand new decent template...

See you there :-), Bye Bye...

IBM Steps in to OS Java Project Harmony...

sudhakar[mvp] — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:53:00 GMT

Now its Java turn to be IBMed under Open Source umbrella.

Via News.com : IBM Steps in to Open Source Java Project. The scope of IBM is limited to "thoughts" on design initially, but likely will contribute to the "code" as well according to Rod Smith, VP, Advanced Technology at IBM.

Test post from wbloggar

sudhakar[mvp] — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:20:00 GMT

I have noticed that the sweetest blogging tool's home is back online after some time gap from the hacking disaster.. welcome back wbloggar :-)

Secunia Reports on IE and FireFox...

sudhakar[mvp] — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:10:00 GMT

I was just browsing through some security bulletins today and found some interesting facts from Secunia, a Security Advisory firm. According to secunia, the following are the security issue stacks for IE and FireFox..

The "Month by Month" graph below shows the number of issued Secunia advisories affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x on a month-by-month basis.

The "Month by Month" graph below shows the number of issued Secunia advisories affecting Mozilla Firefox 1.x on a month-by-month basis.

I think, very soon FireFox will become a FireFix Browser ;-)

'Monad' Scripting Shell Unlikely to Debut

sudhakar[mvp] — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 07:58:00 GMT

According to Microsoft Watch....

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1826007,00.asp

However Monad will be shipped along with E12 (Exchange 12) according to Microsoft Plans.

What is Fiddler?

sudhakar[mvp] — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:59:00 GMT

Found this cool tool from IE Team blog...

"Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem."

Good one to have for all web site performance tuning guys.

More here fiddlertool.com

and here Fiddler PowerToy

WS Test 1.1 Benchmark Results for.NET 2.0, .NET 1.1, Sun JWSDP 1.5 and IBM WebSphere 6.0

sudhakar[mvp] — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:13:00 GMT

Here it goes...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/java/compare/webserviceperf/default.aspx

Configurations Tested

The configurations tested include:

SUN JWSDP1.5/Sun HTTP Server 6.1
IBM WebSphere 6.0/IBM HTTP Server 6.0
.NET 1.1/IIS 6.0
.NET 2.0/IIS 6.0

ASP.NET and IIS Serve More Fortune 1000 Sites than Any Other Web Server Technologies...

sudhakar[mvp] — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:17:00 GMT

First Survey of U.S. Corporate Application Server and Scripting Deployments Reveals Microsoft® Ahead of Competing Web Platforms

The Top 1000 Application Servers Survey results from May 2005 Web requests to each 2005 Fortune 1000 company’s main Web site were:

Microsoft platforms (ASP.NET, ASP):                                                    43.6%
Java platforms (J2EE, JSP, WebLogic,WebSphere, Tomcat):                      12.2%
PHP:                                                                                               5.2%
ColdFusion:                                                                                      2.7%
Perl:                                                                                               2.3%
Python (Zope):                                                                                 0.1%

The Top 1000 Application Servers Survey results from May 2005 Web requests to each 2005 Fortune 1000 company’s main Web site were:

Microsoft IIS: 53.7%
Apache: 22.7%
Other Web servers: 12.8%
Netscape Enterprise: 10.8%

via port80software

Initializing Earth....Right in your hands :-)

sudhakar[mvp] — Mon, 23 May 2005 11:19:00 GMT

I can still remember the day I posted about NASA's worldwind application built totally on .NET 1.1 framework to show how powerfull .NET can be along with DirectX. Now we got cfWorldWind, to unleash the earth's every co-ordinate right from your pocket PC.

Check this out ....

http://www.brains-n-brawn.com/default.aspx?vDir=cfworldwind

Hmm..what happend to this blog?

sudhakar[mvp] — Mon, 23 May 2005 11:01:00 GMT

Nothing happend as of now...Not getting enough time :-(

I will be more active on my MSDN Blog in future...http://blogs.msdn.com/devnotes

Java Watch: What’s Not Coming in Mustang

sudhakar[mvp] — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:51:00 GMT

Read Allen Holub's review on JSR 270 on SD Times.

http://68.236.189.240/fullcolumn/column-20050415-02.html

Excerpt : "Rather than providing an integrated approach to the new release, Mustang is just a collection of 11 existing JSRs, each with its own expert group. These groups are essentially autonomous. The reality is that there’s no overall architecture, and more to the point, there’s no architect coordinating the Mustang work."

.NET leads in BI race with Java

sudhakar[mvp] — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:33:00 GMT

Check this to know, How .NET is pulling ahead of the Java-based J2EE in the "two-horse race" for leadership in integration development environments, according to a local survey of CIOs and IT managers.

Via Javablogs.net (Srinivas)

Happy Birthday Channel 9 :-)

sudhakar[mvp] — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:04:00 GMT

Channel 9 has completed it's first birthday. Thanks to channel 9 guys for entertaining the developer community in a great and innovative way.

They have uploaded 5 great videos for thier birthday ...worth of watching all of them..

Scott Guthrie - Demo of next version of ASP.NET (Happy Birthday Video #1)

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=54959

Rico Mariani - Making .NET Perform (Happy Birthday Video #2)

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=54964

Anders Hejlsberg - More C# Talk from C#'s Architect (Happy Birthday Video #3)

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=54970

Cleartype Team - Talking about new Fonts on Longhorn (Happy Birthday Video #4)

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=54974

Bill Hill - A Hike Around Microsoft's Forests (Happy Birthday Video #5)

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=54978

Forbes : "Linux? No Thanks"

sudhakar[mvp] — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:55:00 GMT

Welcome to the Real World of Open Source... :-)

Companies have figured out that although Linux was once touted as a "free" operating system, in fact distributors such as Red Hat and SuSE, a division of Novell, charge money for their products. Red Hat also charges hefty maintenance fees that have risen sharply over the years.

Read more : Linux ? No Thanks

Computerworld Development Survey gives nod to C#

sudhakar[mvp] — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:54:00 GMT

Top 5 programming languages reported in use by respondents

C#    72%

Java   66%

Visual Basic   62%

C++   54%

JavaScript/ECMAScript   50%