Contents tagged with Business and Tech
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TechEd India
I've just received an e-mail from the Microsoft .NET Delhi User Group regarding the Tech Ed India 2004 registration offer. The registration fees is Rs. 6000 (=USD 130) per person, but as a special offer you only need to pay Rs. 4000 (=USD 85) if you participate in a group of 6 or more. You will also receive MS Press Books worth Rs. 1000 if you register on or before August 7th, 2004. TechEd India will be held in 4 Indian cities, and its scheduled in New Delhi for August 25th-27th 2004.
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J2EE vs .NET Web Services
The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET - A comparison of building XML-based web services is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.
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MSN Newsbot
Is the MSN Newsbot a Google News ripoff or an “innovative” competitor? I still like the simplicity and effectiveness of Google News. It does what it says - dynamically serve up-to-date news. Probably the only thing missing with Google News is a RSS/Atom feed.
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More Acquisitions
Google acquires Picasa (a digital imaging solutions) and Microsoft acquires Lookout (a e-mail search solution).
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BPO Buzz
Where in India are most BPO companies situated? Take the BPO Quiz and find out the facts.
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Signal-to-Noise #9
- dotText pre-0.96 - Two new features (among others), Search and ScheduledEvents, in dotText (pre-0.96) that I'll be going through for sure to learn more on the implementation and design. From Scott's blog: “ScheduledEvents is a simple API for scheduling a recurring event (or once a day event). Examples would be clearing the stats queue or rebuilding the search index.” I hope it to be a cleaner and more appropriate solution to Scheduled Execution in ASP.NET.
- XPath in .NET - “Don't perform XPath queries against an XMLDocument or an XMLDataDocument. Use an XPathDocument instead.”, XPath Performance in .NET by Jerry Dixon.
- VS IDE - Tim Dawson shows in this article how you can use in your Windows application the same designer than VS use. Good overview of the designer architecture, if you are interested in building an IDE. [via Paschal L]
- Mono 0.30 has been released, with 30-40% faster compilation speeds (the compiler compiles itself in 2.3 secs on a 1.6ghz machine), a FileSystemWatcher, Cryptography fixes, WS bug fixes and more. [via Oddur Magnusson]
- The Northwind Example to DataTable Relational Operators in C#.
- Linux on Windows - coLinux (Cooperative Linux) is the first working, free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. [via Stefano Demiliani]
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Signal-to-Noise #6
- Sample chapters (Part 1 and Part 2) from O'Reilly's ADO.NET Cookbook
- Ted Neward shares his thoughts on the talk Joel Spolsky gave on "Designing Applications With The User in Mind" at UCDavis
- Microsoft Interview Questions by Chris Sells. [via Jason Salas]
- New article at TSS: Managing .NET Development with NAnt
- Windows Future Storage services (aka WinFS, as part of Longhorn): Microsoft's Data Management Vision
- Eric Sink writes on Getting Started with Your Own Software Company
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Signal-to-Noise #5
- The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog
- Now we know a little more about “Microsoft Venus” (i.e. ASP.NET 2.0).
- Matisse 6: The Ultimate .NET Database (PDF). There's even a new .Text DbProvider available for Matisse database. I wonder if any web hosts support Matisse as yet or is it only good for self-run self-managed servers for now.
- Longhorn Developer FAQ
- WilsonORMapper, an Object-Relational Mapper for .NET, by Paul Wilson.
- “For some reason, Microsoft's brilliant and cutting-edge .NET development environment left out one crucial tool...” says Joel Spolsky. For now, maybe the Salamander .NET Linker and Mini-Deployment Tool can heal some pain or we wait for Longhorn to arrive which should have the .NET framework pre-installed.
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Worm ALERT: W32.Novarg
The W32.Novarg worm (aka MyDoom) is creating havoc, breaking records for new infections. Update your anti-virus definitions. The Worm has spread to 1 in 12 e-mail messages.
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Signal-to-Noise #4
- Open Source Testing is a compendium of 138 open source testing tools, including unit testing, feature testing, performance testing, bug tracking, the whole gamut. If you're considering building some testing infrastructure, you should spend some time looking around here first. [via Ned Batchelder]
- NPerf - Performance Benchmark Framework for .NET.
- Data Access and Storage Developer Center, the home for developer information on Microsoft data technologies, was recently launched at MSDN. Keep up the good work Christa!
- I was doing some reading on the MetaWeblog API and came across this interesting article on What's Wrong with the MetaWeblog API?
- Joel Spolsky writes about how to get your resume read.
- Brian Noyes is on .NET Rocks! this week with Carl Franklin talking about AutoDeployment issues and how Microsoft is addressing them with ClickOnce, a new deployment and Windows application updater technology that will ship with the .NET Framework 2.0.
- .NET Bugs Registry - A registry of known .NET bugs.
- dotNETTools.org features a number of .NET resources and useful sites.
- Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map.