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John Udell Wants To Hear From You
“In the spirit of Michael's plea, I'm working on an upcoming article in which I'll compare what was promised for the .NET platform (er, framework), two and three years ago, with the current reality as it exists today...Over the next week or so, I'd like to have conversations with people on all sides of these (and perhaps other, related) issues. I'll be speaking with various folks privately, but here's a comment link (rss) for those who want to register opinions and/or provide feedback.“ [1]
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Free Version of ColdFusion Available
Simon McLean pointed out in a comment that there is now a free version of ColdFusion being developed by New Atlanta. The project sounds pretty cool:
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Add XSLT Intellisense to VS.NET
These guys have a schema you can use to add XSLT intellisense to your copy of VS.NET:
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Java Language Converter 3.0 Does EJB
TheServerSide.NET reports:
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Back from ATL
I'm back from Atlanta. Spent a few days there with Wiretree and one of their clients going over like 600 pages of specs for an app we will be joining forces to create. This will my second major colab with their guys. They are definately a top notch design studio if you need ever need some classy design work.
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Novell's Alternative to System.DirectoryServices
Novel has released a .NET based library for LDAP operations [1]. Unlike Microsoft's implementation, this is pure managed code, so you won't have to deal with those amazingly informative “Error 0x85000000“ errors that Microsoft's Win32 API wrappers in the System.DirectoryServices namespace love to give you. Some cool features in there too, like async support. And I must also mention, that you can also download the complete C# source. [2]
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Shadowfax Alpha Code Drop
“We are currently looking for reviewers to provide feedback on the latest drop of code. If you are interested in participating in an alpha review (prior to the code becoming more widely available on the workspace) please contact Pete Coupland (see admins) along with the name of the organization you work for - and a couple of sentences about projects that you are working on that might have a need for Shadowfax.” [1]
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Your Dream .NET CMS
So, over the past 2-3 years we have been slowly putting together our kick ass .NET based web content mangement system. It is designed not only to sit there and manage web pages like most content management systems, but also to be easily extended for other content based applications (like blogging or knowledge bases for instance). Looks like we will be going into public beta some time soon, but we still have a little time left for your input before then (and, of course, we will have plenty of time for input during the beta as well). What features does your dream CMS have? Do you currently use content management? Did you build, buy, or extend? Is anyone actually using MS CMS? What price range are you considering or would you consider for your next CMS purchase?
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Mono 1.0 Quickly Approaching
“We keep focused on our Mono 1.0 release, so those of us working on this release get to enjoy fixing bugs, while the others developers get bored to death implementing new code and boring new features.
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Sam on .NET Rocks
Sam's interview is up on .NET Rocks. Looks like we are getting more frequent updates over there now. Very nice to see (plus, lots of quality guys being interviewed).
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What One Guy Can Do With The Right Tools
Scobel finally gives me some info worth linking:
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SOA is Just Inteface Based Programming?
Steve Eichert suggests that SOA is just hyped up interface based programming:
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Web Services: What is the Industry Smoking?
“was just idly thinking today about Web Services. You know, the big hype item that some folks hoped would break through the IT economic doldrums after dotbomb and 9/11. There were articles, magazines, conferences, and the normal hoopla, all boiling around this old concept wrapped in new clothes.
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Open Source Steals More Jobs Than Offshoring
“ I wonder if more commercial programming jobs have been lost to the open source community giving away intellectual property than to cheap programming shops in India. Admittedly, I can't back that up with numbers, but I suspect it is true. Certainly, IBM has been able to lay off thousands of technical professionals since it embraced open source.“ [1]