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Matrix
Matrix Reloaded. Tonight. 10:00 PM CST. That's 8:00 for all you Redmondites. :-P
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Bug Tracking
"Jesse is working on a bug tracking system in 100% managed code. Scott has posted an awesome article on the Myth of .NET Purity. Given that I agree with Scott, you might think I'd disagree with Jesse avoiding other system on the basis that they "aren't .NET based". However, Jesse isn't just building a stand alone system - it's integrated with VS.NET. Also, the way you can build bug tracking directly into your production app is very cool. I wonder if Jesse is inspired at all by "Production Debugging for .NET Applications".
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VS.NET
Does you bug tracking system do this?
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MS ISV Tour
If you are work for an ISV, you may be interested in Microsoft's ISV tour. If you register before the 18th, you get in free.
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WS-Crapper
"ON MONDAY, three representatives for the software giant told news agencies, including The Associated Press, that an April 30 news release trumpeting the “iLoo” was a hoax and apologized for “any confusion or offense.” But on Tuesday, the company reversed itself, saying the iLoo was real but now has been killed.
“We jumped the gun basically yesterday in confirming that it was a hoax, and in fact it was not,” said Lisa Gurry, MSN group product manager. “Definitely, we’re going to be taking a good look at our communication processes internally.”
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Stack Traces
Just when you think you know all the cool stuff the framework does, something like System.Diagnostics.StackTrace pops up. Try this:
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Bug Tracking
I don't know of any really good bug tracking packages for .NET. There is FogBugz (which I would like to use), but it isn't .NET based, so it is out of the picture for our projects which are generally 100% managed code.
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No Wired Outhouses this year
"The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said on Monday that news that MSN UK was creating the iLoo, a portable lavatory that was supposedly going to be tested at music festivals in Great Britain this summer, was an elaborate ruse. "I can confirm it was an April Fools' joke," said Nouri Bernard Hasan, a Microsoft spokesman in the United States, told CNET News.com on Monday. "
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RIAs
Sean Corfield points out this interview with Sean Neville, a Macromedia Architect, about RIAs.
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Programers as Artists
"...If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies..."
[Paul Graham]