Andres Aguiar's Weblog

Some bloggers have COM nostalgia.

A let's write C# in Java one: Extending the JavaTM Programming Language with Enumerations, Autoboxing, Enhanced for loops and Static Import

P# is a Prolog implementation for .NET. It translates Prolog code to C#. DeKlarit inference engine is built in Prolog, so I spend a few hours each day doing Prolog programming. I'll give this one a try...

Why you want to use Enterprise Services for your .NET application

I really enjoy reading the ThinkGeek's Despair posters from time to time.

Hierarchy Doesn't Scale My thoughts on the short-comings of the use of hierarchy to organize data and a plea for something better.

SOAPScope Ships "Mindreef SOAPscope Personal is an easy-to-use, toolkit independent diagnostic aid for developers, testers and application support technicians who must isolate Web Services problems. Our primary design goal with SOAPscope Personal was to create the best logger/viewer for Web Services - one that is SOAP, WSDL and XML aware. Most Web Services developers and testers use some type of tracing tool to troubleshoot problems, but the available tools lack the features needed to make troubleshooting efficient. By combining a scaleable logging environment with many innovative features, Mindreef SOAPscope Personal easily meets our original goal."

MindReef showed the beta version at the Web Services DevCon to critical acclaim. It sure looks good.

Developing and Maintaining Production Systems Very good information on developing and running production systems. Its too bad that a.) I didn't have this when I did my first production system b.) it is still too difficult to do a lot of this without a significant budget and c.) there are always more things to do than time to do them.