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Use Sql Server as Your Indexing Engine
I didn't realize this until today, but not only does SQL provide the great full text search capabilities everyone knows and loves, it can also index binary content (.doc, .xls), etc. without much extra work on your part.
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Whidbey Design Flaws (Part 2)
Rob Howard writes responses to my criticism of the web Security namespace, noting that they had much of this discussion internally before deciding on the final outcome.
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Whidbey Goes To Far?
Why is it that Microsoft can't seem to call users “users” and groups “groups?” Role based security is great and all, but how many people outside of the framework team actually call groups “roles?” I guess User wasn't short enough either, because someone thought it had to be called a “MembershipUser” instead.
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ProGamers
Korea is an interesting place... especially if you play StarCraft. It is unreal. These guys have like $60,000 a year (USD) salaries in Korea to play StarCraft on TV. It is like football out there (there are 50x as many StarCraft players in Korea as in the rest of the world combined).
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Joel on Fonts
Joel points out ProFont. Very cool if you want to get a bit more code per line.
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Ellison on MS
“...I totally agree with Steve, Microsoft's software is rarely first rate. They never, ever innovate, but —they're pretty good copiers...So what's Microsoft's single greatest innovation? Take your time. —It's a trick question. There aren't any. All that money Microsoft spends on research; what have they got to show for it? Nothing!” [1]
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NLP in WinFX (NIXing the NIXes)
This is very, very cool:
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GotDotNet Blogs Added to .NET Weblogs Archive
The .NET Weblogs Archive now consumes each of the GotDotNet Blogs, bringing the total number of consumed feeds to over 160. Of course, some of these (like the dot net weblogs feed and the dot net junkies feed contain quite a few bloggers themselves). So, head on over and find out why Ingo likes it so much.
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DotNetRocks Is UP!
If you haven't heard, the Scoble interview is finally up on MSDN.
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Mono to Implement Avalon/Indigo?
The roadmap for mono dev seems to imply that they are going to try to implement Avalon (XAML and everything) and Indigo. Sounds to me like pretty risky business, as these components are seem to be more OS features, which just happen to be written on top of .NET, than actual .NET Framework features. If they do get Avalon up and running with Indigo on top of Linux, I would imagine that MS might not continue to be so friendly to them...