Archives
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Blogger Interviews
Dave Winer has put together all of Chris Lydon's blogger interviews and made them available in a single downloadable zip. > 200 MB, but add that to the list of media to listen to for the next two weeks.
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Java = SUV Part Duex
"My friend Curtis, an old-time Silicon Valley monster C hacker, AIMed me to say that he'd seen the Slashdot article:
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Carl and Mark Get Wasted
For the most part, I really enjoy .NET Rocks. However, as Roy points out, the latest .NET Rocks, the one where Carl and Mark hang out at the bar, is a total bomb (just like the last time Carl and Mark babbled about themselves). I turned it off after I wasted 30 minutes or so of my life that I can never get back... (hell, it was so bad, that I'm not even going to put a link to them in this post).
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Joel on Offices
Looks like Joel finally moved in...
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Microsoft Dishes Out More Cash
“WASHINGTON -- The federal judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial ordered the software company Monday to pay Massachusetts $967,014.52 in attorney fees, less than half what the state had sought.”
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Xopus Released
Q42 has finally released the commercial version of their browser based XML editor xopus (no COM components, this thing is a pure DHTML based WYSIWYG XML editor). Xopus is pretty slick, although its architecture makes it difficult to integrate with .NET (not impossible though, I posted a bit of code a while back to do this with an older version)... unless of course you were creating a DHTML based SOA, in which case you would probably have much better luck... it is just those darn postbacks and server controls that don't fit their model.
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.NET Alerts
MessageCaster is offering a free three month trial of their .NET alerts service. Apparently they have two editions, one of which requires zero deployment. Interesting... maybe the setup fee with these guys is a bit more affordable than with MS?
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Free Stuff from MSDN
If you missed you chance the last time MS was giving out the application architecture books, here is another one (if you don't have VS.NET 2003 yet, you can also enter a drawing for a free copy).
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The Managed Code Is Faster
“For a long time, in Mono we used libxslt: we would dump all the data from an XmlDocument, or a XPathNavigator into a temporary file, and then use libxslt to do the heavy lifting.
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Lazslo and Longhorn?
“This is great news for Laszlo! Macromedia has acknowledged that Laszlo's approach to developing rich Internet applications (RIAs) is the way to go! You can't expect large, complex environments to be built with a timeline! That's not what we designed them for!
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Marc Canter on Flash 2004
Looks like Marc agrees with me on this one...
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ADO.NET 2.0
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MetaBuilders DialogWindow Control Set
This is the type of thing I like to see. Andy Smith has upgraded and extended my original dialog code and made it available with the rest of the metabuilders stuff (which, I might add is very cool... I use quite a few of his code blocks on a regular basis). You can read more about it in his blog post.
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Create a Web Site in IIS Using C#
Ever wondered how to interface with IIS using .NET? If all your apps/clients are running IIS 6.0, it is drop dead easy, just enable the XML metabase and parse it to your heart's content. However, if you need to support older clients, you will probably end up using DirectoryServices. However, since DirectoryServices is fairly generic, you might have difficulty figuring out what exactly you need to do. In case you get stuck, here is a little reference block of code that will create a new web site with the supplied name and root directory:
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Macromedia Flash 7.0: RAD or BAD?
After hearing a lot of noise from the Macromedia community about the latest release of Flash and reading a lot of the hype, I was actually pretty excited to see what it could do. Yes, my intuition told me, "Macromedia can't possibly have gotten it right this time." But, there were these thoughts creeping around in some dark corner of my mind that kept whispering, "Maybe they did..." So, after much deliberation, I downloaded the Macromedia Flash 7.0 (2004) Professional Edition trial, so that I could put the debate raging in my mind to rest.
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PDC DVD
A request to all you Microserfs out there. Get the PDC team to put together a PDC DVD like the TechEd DVD. I'm not sure if I am going to make it to PDC, but I would definately buy a copy of the DVD if I can't make it out this year.
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Production Web Services
Sam seems to think no one is actually using webservices... with as much travel as he is doing, I find it hard to believe that he came to this conclusion. Ever heard of SalesForce.com [1]? What about Amazon.com[2]? Hell, I am in Joplin, MO, which is hardly the technology center of the country and I regularly talk to customers who are making use of webservices in production and are very excited about how webservices can help them meet their business needs. Come to think of it, I've even built some webservices myself which are used in production every single day.
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Flash 7.0 Is Out
If you are looking at creating some .NET/Flash combo RIAs, the new versions of flash have officially been released. Head over to www.macromedia.com and get the latest player while you're at it.
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Holy Wars
Sean apparently doesn't like inheritance or getters / setters.
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Information Sharing
Jeremy wanted some feedback on his article on DevNet, so here I go...
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It Had To Happen Eventually...
It looks like your ordinary DVD player... but it is far from it: