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Dvorak on People Networking stuff
Normally, I don't think much of what John Dvorak writes. He often dunks Microsoft with anecdotes and rants - seeing that he has made most of his career pushing Microsoft products till FLOSS came along which he favors very zealously.
These two amusing postings by him captures his sentiments about People Networking stuff (suprisingly it has nothing to do with Microsoft) -
The New Networking Crock
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Download chapter from Effective C# - Distinguish between Value Types and Reference Types
Chapter 6 of Effective C# - Distinguish between Value Types and Reference Types is here [PDF format]. Better still - get the book: Effective C#. -
30m SharePoint Portal Server licenses out there!
I got this via Patrick Tissegham who got it via Joris - SharePoint Portal Server is MSFT's fastest growing product with 30m licenses!
That's Portal server (not WSS) licenses and you can imagine the number of clients associated with it. That truly is remarkable!
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Private Syndication RSS - More than it meets the eye: Get ready to pay for content
Private Syndication (be it via RSS or other formats) is back as a discussion topic - Dare Obasanjo mentions it as a RSS Bandit feature accomodation, Tim Bray lays out some commercial value-added from EBay or your bank and Dwight Shih's 'Say No To Private Syndication'. The latter views it more as an issue of risk in privacy and trust. I view it as a "new News market" evolution - quite soon, you will pay for content from the RSS Pundits (via PayPal integrated into their weblog site of course). Feeding you expert opinions, advice and rubric that you can't get anywhere else fast.
Why so? Private syndication RSS feeds would enjoy more First Amendment freedoms like the HBO TV channel and soon, Howard Stern on Sirius satellite radio and you may get away with similar law-suits currently faced by ThinkSecret.
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Yet Another Calling Card (literally - with Skype)
Stuart Henshall describes a calling card that one can use with Skype. It gives a literal meaning to 'calling cards'.
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Dare Obasanjo's XML Metacrap - a small note
Dare Obasanjo's recent piece on Folksonomies, Taxonomies and Metacrap (shouldn't that be Volksonomies?) would provoke cognitive psychologists and computer scientists alike. Machine representation of semantics is preceded by knowledge representation (e.g., semantic networks) first and it defines the vocabulary also. This task has been ongoing from both sides of the fence - cognition and AI. Language semantics is an extremely difficult entity to emulate - ambiguity abounds (see Wittgenstein's language thinking concepts). Machinists have had limited success in a very limited capacity - Terry Winograd's SHRDLU in the "small blocks world" is a good example. I recall working on SHRDLU (in LISP) in a grad course in the mid-80s - it was quite amazing to see the machine respond to your queries (with meaning et al).
Current effort using XML tags are also represented in Topic Maps which shows tremendous potential but that too is restricted to the "small world knowledge domain". A fine example of domain expertise in HealthCare is SNOMED which makes healthcare knowledge and terminologies more palatable to the machines. Marry SNOMED with TopicMaps and you have some promise. But this marriage should be presided and blessed by the domain experts first rather than XML-Tag-happy constructs.
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Shafer doesn't get it (redux)
Alex Barnett points to a thought-provoking piece by Jack Shafer.
There is no 'hype' here - any new idea has an incubatory period which brings in excitement (commonly misinterpreted as 'hype'). Blogging has rattled the Big Media companies and macho journalists alike. They keep forgetting that the First Amendment protects Big Media companies, macho journalists and puny webloggers equally. The main difference this time is that the puny webloggers have a direct access to a media channel - the Internet. This may change if Big Media companies lobby the legislators to tilt the new media channel to their favor.
The future does look exciting.
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US Navy chooses Groove over eRoom and Lotus Domino
To manage critical information in humanitarian relief effort - the US Navy chose Groove over eRoom and Lotus Domino. [ComputerWorld 01.24.05].
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C++ in a .NET world
Richard Grimes has a new book out - Programming with Managed Extensions for MS Visual C++.NET (vers 2003).
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Mark Miller's presentation at the Connecticut .NET Developer Group (Tues Jan 25th)
Mark Miller (Chief Architect at Developer Express) spoke last night at the Connecticut .NET Developer Group meeting. Details here..
Also see Aaron Junod's blog posting.. Highly recommend you try out Developer Express' DxCore (free download)
Picture above (right to left) - Arthur Dzhelali, Carl Franklin, Mark Miller & self.
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My Computer Lab (with new additions)
My Computer Lab - an update from June '03
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eBay charity auction for Tsunami Relief - bid on .NET expertise
This is a supreme example of how the .NET technical community is pooling in their talents for the Tsunami Relief effort - an eBay auction for .NET development expertise.
[via Julia's DataFarm Blog]
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Mark Miller to speak at the Connecticut .NET Developer Group (Tues Jan 25th)
Mark Miller (Chief Architect of Developer Express) is going to speak at the Connecticut .NET Developer Group (Tues Jan 25th 6PM). The topic is on Visual Studio .NET tools. It will be held at the Microsoft Farmington, CT office - details at the CTDOTNET website.
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IT Doesn't Matter And Now IT Doesn't Compute - Nicholas Carr's NYT Op-Ed
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My Nerd Score - it has to be wrong!
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DevSource - looks like a very commercial version of MSDN
I just saw this one - DevSource and it looks a very commercial version of MSDN.
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Gang of Four (GoF) - second edition?
DevX has an interview with John Vlissides (GoF) that's well worth reading (some interesting history of how 'patterns' and the GoF book evolved).
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An excellent Blogging Software comparision table (includes .Text)
An excellent Blogging Software comparision table (includes .Text). UPDATED Table: May '04.
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CSharpDevelop (a VS.NET2K3 alternative) works well with Groove Web Services (GWS) development
I have managed to get quite a few of my Groove development projects (using GWS) running under the new version of #develop. This is good news for those who want to develop Groove Web Services applications without the expense of VS.NET2K3.
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New version of CSharpDevelop v1.0.3.1768 is here.. get it if you can..
New version of CSharpDevelop v1.0.3.1768 is here.. get it if you can.. ***(there's a persistent download error at the server).
***[UPDATE]: The server is back online albeit a bit slow with heavy load presumably.
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Scoble and Joe Wilcox bash it out with betas
Scoble refers to the recent post by Joe Wilcox in which Mr. Wilcox finds the practice of frequent beta releases by Microsoft is quite detrimental -
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Second blog posting with SimpleBlogger
see prior posting.
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First blog posting using SimpleBlogger (via InfoPath)
This is using the SimpleBlogger from Guoqiang Wu. Still have to figure out some features of this one.
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Patterns & Practices' Enterprise Library to be out soon..
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GMAIL beta email accounts available
I have a few GMAIL (Google) beta email accounts available - drop me an email (via contact on the left). First come, first served.
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Adding to Joel Spolsky's College Advice
I like Joel Spolsky's postings as they are certainly thought provoking and at times quite argumentative - my recent posting generated a couple of thousand hits & still counting! His recent posting giving 'college advice' is most interesting and I hope it is followed (and adhered to) by the readers. I would like to add one fact that is grossly overlooked - in this IT profession, be prepared to go back to school to learn something new, perhaps often. That's the nature of this industry and profession - it's dynamic with everchanging technologies that demands that you keep up. Going back to school may mean technical certifications (eg., MCAD/MCSD/MCDBA) or more business-like (eg., PMP / MBA) - all depending upon your career track.
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SKYPE API v1.1 updates
Skype API v.1.1 docs has been updated. There is more information on the Skype Developer Program including certification. There is a very interesting development - Skype API COM Wrapper that should perk the interest in most of us.
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Webcast on Disaster Relief and Emergency Preparedness (Role of the Internet and New Media in Tsunami Relief Efforts)
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I got Scobleized and Scoble got Fortuneized
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64-bit Windows XP Tested And Reviewed
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InfoWorld Selects Groove Virtual Office As Team Collaboration ''Technology of the Year'' For Second Consecutive Year
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An exceptional blogsite describing the Medical Relief Efforts in Sri Lanka
This BLOG contains information relating to the work of the Batticaloa Disaster Health Response Team, a collaborative initiative set up to provide medical services in immediate aftermath of the tsunami of 26th December in the Batticaloa District of Eastern Sri Lanka.
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A report about relief in Sri Lanka (via Groove space 'Sri Lanka Tsunami Aid')
This is a report (an email) received and posted in a Groove space 'Sri Lanka Tsunami Aid'.
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Thoughts of technology in the wake of a tragedy
I have Sanjana's poignant essay here in this post - 'Thoughts of technology in the wake of a tragedy'. Sanjana Hattotuwa is a cofounder and strategic manager of InfoShare (based in Sri Lanka) and was the subject of my prior post on the Tsunami relief efforts currently underway in Sri Lanka.
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Virtual Volunteering in SE Asia Tsunami relief efforts with Groove - Microsoft technologies at its finest