Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

News.com tells us about an open-source patch for a flaw in IE that was actually more damaging than the original flaw. Just a reminder that you should only install official Microsoft-built patches for Microsoft products. Personally, I would think that would be common sense, but I guess not.

This week's edition of the Only4Gurus newsletter came in this morning. I think it was like a month late or something, but then so was my latest product so I don't have much room to talk. Anyways, of note this time around was a reprint from MicroNews, MS' internal newsletter, on the different lingo uttered throughout the halls of One Microsoft Way.

Alright, this has to be BY FAR the craziest thing I've ever seen. You get on a boat in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and spend a week with the likes of Rob Howard and Brent Rector on a .NET cruise. Here's the thing I don't get though.... is the cruise ONLY for techies? Cause, I mean.... I've never been on a cruise before, but if I were to go on one, I would want there to be, oh, I don't know, WOMEN there.

For those of you that don't watch TV much.... holiday colors this year in the US consist of red, green, and orange.

Why, all of a sudden, is everyone and their mom building O/R mapping frameworks? Is that like some kind of “rite of passage” into the land of OOP? I would think that with so many options out there already, that people would find something else to innovate in...

Having completed CarbonCopy.NET this morning, I spent most of the afternoon and evening cleaning house on my webserver. Now that I have spent the day with my new hard-linked templating system, I'm much better off in many ways, but it is still lacking. I wish there was a way that I could hard-link a directory, to where new files that get added to the “virtual” folder subsequently appear in the folder's other locations as well. Right now, I have to re-run the utility if I add a new file.. Mind you, it's still a vast improvement from where I was at before, but it is still far cry from 100% ideal.

I would like to reiterate my previous request for all GDN bloggers to fix their blog settings to reflect their full name, with an “[MS]” at the end for good measure. I know you guys used handles before, and that's really cool, but the blogs are read by more than just internal MS employees, and we don't know who many of you are. I don't have a nifty look program on the corporate intranet that I can go to if I want to look someone up, like you guys do. While we'd really like to get to know you all, Microsoft makes us memorize enough acronyms without adding all you to the mix. It would also be nice to differentiate the ants from the beetles, as it were.

Sun today says that Microsoft is forcing customers to upgrade their software due to the removal of Java.