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My Aggregator Is Cooler Than Yours
Ok... only one dev day in during the trip back from the ISV tour, but lots of cool stuff coming down the pipes...
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ISV Tour
Down in Austin at Microsoft's ISV Tour event. Pretty cool deal, I'm suprised that there aren't more people down here. Mike Amundsen is down here with a few other trainers and we are having a blast. Lots of great info on the Windows Server 2003, security, and ADAM today. Tomorrow, I think we should be going over Windows Sharepoint Services (which is actually included with 2003, and doesn't rely on Sharepoint) and the EIF (which is probably the most poorly documented piece of the framework). If you can spare a few days, you should definately catch this tour when it comes to your area... Well worth the price.
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I am not giving away free shirts!
This is one of the strangest things. A while back, Sam mentioned he wished MS gave out free shirts still. I responded that they still do (to which he responded, "those aren't the kind of shirts I mean). Anyway, that post has about 22 referal links from various google searches that have been run for "Free Shirts". Maybe this is because google ranks the post 11th on the list for "Free Shirts," which itself is strange enough. But, what is even stranger is that people keep emailing me and asking me to send them these free shirts and posting comments like this:
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while(Coder.LOC < LOC.Max)
"The idea is that it’s not so much a good idea to measure how many lines of code a developer is producing (e.g. 7 per day), but rather how many lines of code they are responsible for. And that there’s an absolute maximum. In other words, once I’ve got 50KLOC, I’m done – all my time is going to be spent in maintenance.
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OpenSource vs. Microsoft: The Marathon Begins
Yet another group warns people to hold off on open source software purchases (or should I say downloads?). There seems to be a trend developing where companies are warning people to abstain from Linux while saying it is OK to embrace Microsoft. Quite the opposite of a year and a half ago. I have to hand it to MS, they are really turning things around.
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PHP BB
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This is not a Newsgroup
Please! There are so many community resources for getting help with your .NET technical problems. If you don't want to use the Microsoft Newsgroups, then go to CodeWise community and that will lead you to many communites that have forums and newsgroups. www.gotdotnet.com/codewise
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Microsoft to Crush Macromedia?
"It will be interesting to see what happens with Macromedia whose announced there intention to expand Flash into a full platform for rich client software development. (more details) Don't be mistaken this is a frontal attack and Microsoft has already registered the potential threat to their platform. If Macromedia gains any traction watch for the sleeping giant to wake and start f*cking thing up.
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Will MS Leave C# Behind?
Keith thinks VB developers are making a mistake if they switch to C#:
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.NET Show
You can find out all about the Architecture Summit on MSDN's latest .NET Show:
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Patterns Nonsense
So, I'm looking through the patterns stuff on Microsoft's site and I come across the MVC stuff. Man, they do some rediculously lame things when implementing these patterns. The patterns themselves are ok, it is their implementation that is just horrendous. For example:
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Worthless Information
Ted agrees that Craig Andera is off his rocker, when he suggests that code gen is better than AOP. He promises more discussion to come...
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SCO CEO Speaks Out
"The point about open source that I believe is really cool is this notion that you have thousands of eyes around the world looking at a similar problem, and obviously when you have more people focused on something, you can solve things better."
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Advice for Small Software Companies
"Both of these come from markpasc.org -- Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals by Steve Pavlina -- a nice dissertation on the right and wrong ways to figure out what product to build; and Eric Sink's article on product positioning -- the fundamental point being that marketing begins well before you develop your product, not afterwards; and that you better be able to simply articulate what your product is for."
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IE 6
"Microsoft said Friday that it is halting development of future Macintosh versions of its Internet Explorer browser, citing competition from Apple's Safari browser."
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Code Gen vs. AOP
Craig Andera seems to think that AOP is doomed as a programming model and Code Gen is the future. His basic argument is this:
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BitTorrent
While downloading the Halo gameplace demo, I came across BitTorrent. Talk about a cool P2P program! I think MSDN really needs to do something like this with their download manager.
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Halo 2
Bungie has posted the Halo 2 gameplay video from E3. Its hot.
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VSM
Supposedly, VSM linked to Chad and I in their latest issue. I have yet to recieve my copy, but I thought I would mention that the you can get a subscription to it's partner (.NET Magazine) free of charge if you fill out this form. VSM used to have a similar offer, not sure where it went though...
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MSDN Search
"We've spent the last few months working hard with the Microsoft.com Search team to improve the experience of searching on MSDN. Our goal is to make it easier and faster for you to find what you need, so you can get back to writing great code"
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MS CRM vs BCM
"So, I'm installing the Beta that came with my MSDN subscription and hoping that it is pretty stable. If not, I'll blame Brian since he told me to use it. It has a cool business contact manager thing that he says is nice, and with the amount of emails I deal with on a daily basis (and the number that have been slipping through the cracks lately), I'm hoping that helps."
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UML 2.0
"Last week the OMG adopted the superstructure document for UML 2. In practice this means that UML 2 is agreed on. There are numerous changes to the UML in UML 2 - it represents the biggest overhaul to the UML since the UML was originally agreed on. For general users the most obvious changes are probably:
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Oracle Bids for PeopleSoft
"There was no shortage of disgust from the PeopleSoft camp after Oracle made a less than exhilarating bid for the company last week.
PeopleSoft executives digested Oracle's offer for a couple of hours before issuing a curt press release. The statement made clear that the CEO's office objects to the deal and put earlier rhetoric from Oracle into question.
PeopleSoft CEO and President Craig Conway described Oracle's $5.1 billion bid as "atrociously bad behavior from a company with a history of atrociously bad behavior." -
COM+ 1.5
"Learn why COM+ 1.5 takes Microsoft's enterprise component architecture to the next level."
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We All Knew This Would Happen
"America Online has lost more than 1 million dial-up customers since the dramatic decline in its subscriber base began late last year, sources familiar with the figures said yesterday."
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Joel on VC
Joel's latest article is great (as if it would be anything else...). The ArsDigita write-up he links to is even better.
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X#?
I am so jealous right now...
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IE 7.0
Joel thinks BW II might be coming...
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Project Mono 1.0
"Mono 1.0 will not emulate all the functions currently in the .Net Framework, such as Windows Forms or enterprise services such as message and transaction queueing, de Icaza said. It's not clear yet whether it will feature support for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), for letting applications running on different platforms to communicate, a key ingredient for Web services applications."
[InfoWorld]