Ever heard the term 'Alternative rock' ? It's a term for rock music which isn't mainstream. Or something. Anyway, read the wikipedia page for the fine print . I'm a metal fan (despite the pile of trance house music I've created in a dark past ) and once in a while I listen to alternative rock to ease...

Today I read an interesting post by Arne Vajhøj in the C# newsgroup. He brought up the point that in the Java research license, which was the license the Java sourcecode was released under before it was released under the GPL, a clause was added to prevent that the reader of the code was 'brandmarked...

Update: If you think I should be shouting 'awesome' and similar words like most of the .NET community members, please take a walk down the path of 'licenses', something you all should be familiar with in every cell in your body, but by the look of all the different posts about this source release I can...

Ok, this will be my last post on the soap of TD.NET and MS (has anyone already called Hollywood? ). In the community there's some controversy starting to pop up here and there and I just want to make clear what my position is and will be. This to avoid getting pulled into any camp in this soap. My sole...

I ran into a new low for Microsoft Connect product feedback. Check this item (you have to login with your MS Passport/Live ID. I don't know why). The title is "When will .NET 2.0 service pack 1 be out (IF ever) ?", I posted this on April 17th. The title explains it all. Today I got a reply (whoa, after...

Disclaimer: I'm offered a free license for NDepend 2.0 Ok, first sorry for the disclaimer, but I think it's best to have fully clarification and transparency towards my readers so they can determine by themselves if what they read is OK, and from now on I'll put such a disclaimer in a post if I feel...

First of all: Happy New Year! Sahil Malik tagged me so here are the 5 useless, braincell destroying trivia about me you probably didn't nor wanted to know! My first program was a solver for a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0 on an MSX in MSX basic . That's right, my first program was completely useless and written...

Get it while it's hot: VS.NET 2005 Team suite SP1 RTM download (via Dennis ) Update: Scott Guthrie writes that you should uninstall the Web Application Project add-in first if you have that one installed, as the SP1 installer chokes on that. At the moment, the SP1 installer is already busy for more than...

A couple of people ( Ayende Rahien , Jeremy Miller and David Hayden ) started to wonder why Open Source Software (OSS) isn't that big in Microsoft/.NET land, why the 'big' open source projects in Microsoft/.NET land aren't really big compared to commercial competitors or are dying away without large...

Read: http://www.drizzle.com/~lettvin/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html I'm simply speechless . Today I read Sam Gentile's remark that Vista itself is its own killer app. Reading the article linked above I can't believe Vista can even be considered a forward, as it's definitely a BIG step back for...