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It seems that Mono is more and more view as a serious platform.
http://www.mo8il.com/  is a site running on Mono.

I am waiting for an Apple G5 top notch this week, so I will probably try some Mono and Rotor soon.

From Douwe Osinga, cool app (Douwe has some talent to play with maps and graphics ;-):

A new project. Google News Map projects the headlines of Google News on a map, so you see where news is happening.

Everything you want to know about connection strings (OLE DB, Providers, ODBC, etc...)

I realised I forgot the front end control tool for dScribe yesterday in the different files required.

Done now and you can download it here.
The main change is on the selection from the database of the records matching a specific project and the current server.
I do so using Principal to retrieve the domain name from the current context:

My rant of the day ;-)

Can we expect from .Net 2.0 (I hope it could be fix before !) a better management of the temporary files in .Net.

I have to deal a lot of times in my development process with the so infamous General Network Error.
And for my knowledge, it's sounds more like .Net says to me 'I don't know what to do, help, help ! No help so I just press the panic button !'.
The cause of this error seems to be difficult to identify.
I know about the Index Server problem, where you have to be careful to not indexing the .Net temporary files, but it seems that's not only the problem.

Top ten world databases. Make mine feel very small, something like 200Gb ;-)

Finally, better late than never, I have now completed (partially) the final steps for dScribe, the Content Management Project.

So now the application is available as Beta 1.01. What can I say about the numerous changes from the alpha version?
Well, everything is almost new, so difficult to find a starting point.

I was asked by ny company to make dScribe multi-projects, thing done now, and believe me not so easy to achieve.
I also now have the full CMS life cycle from the content to the full deployment.

I included also a multitude of new tables, like the Servers to store the details on the different machines a web administrator can manage, basically at least 2 machines, test and production, but of course dScribe let you adding more servers if you want.

Of course, I still have a huge amount of work to do, like to finish a setup page, or some admin tasks.

I will also shortly publish a new article about Editing the Sections, follow by another one on the Deployment, follow by the Multiproject version.

I have also to update some of the articles published to reflect the new features of this version.

Well for MSDN subscribers impatient to have their hands on the next library, it's now on MSDN subscribers download.