| 1. |  | Foundations: Multi-User Windows  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
Read the title to this article and think to yourself what you expect it to be about. I believe most people will have a definite idea, and while most of them are correct they are incomplete. Such is the nature of this problem, many applications deal with one aspect of the problem well while ignoring the others.
Full article ==> Foundations: Multi-User Windows
From: myShoggoth |
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| 2. | | Why Choose Microsoft for your Portal? - Captured: 14-1-2005 10:51:00
Whether you're a business or technical decision maker, it's important to think about what's important to your organization when making a software decision. For most companies, software is an enabler of business. That is to say, your company is probably not in the business of making/developing software, but rather using software to run your business. Since I'm most familiar with the Portal space, my remarks are specific to Portal software. Nevertheless, many of the same suggestions and concepts a...
From: Arpan Shah's Blog |
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| 3. | | The Pitfalls of Cool - Captured: 23-1-2005 13:10:28
Verbal and written communication often differs a lot. Sometimes, though, spoken language
gets written down, much to the readers horror. I can no longer read marketing communication
which advertises "cool" products or "cool" services from a "cool" company.
It's fair to talk about coolness, but it feels offensive to read about coolness. I,
in the possession of all my senses, am capable to decide if something indeed is cool.
For the less language proficient r...
From: Benjamin J. J. Voigt :: Creativity is Inspired by Activity |
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| 4. | | Download The New Whidbey CTP - Captured: 19-10-2004 18:30:00
I just received mail that we have released the October Community Tech Preview of Visual Studio 2005. This consists of all of the variations of our Express Editions. You may want to start with the Read Me. Then, you can dive right into the apps!
From: aaron's weblog |
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| 5. | | Gotdotnet: a suspicion that weve created a life form - Captured: 28-1-2005 13:02:00
So I don't normally inflict more than one blog post on you guys per week, but I feel I owe it to the greater Gotdotnet community to talk more about the site's ups and downs this week.
I joke around with people with dark humor - especially the old Gotdotnet team who know the site well - about how sneaky the site is. If there's a server or application problem, it usually shows up ....
1) On a weekend when there's a skeleton Microsoft.com ops crew that doesn't know G...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 6. | | Marketing Eye for the Dev Guy - Captured: 25-1-2005 18:13:00
Ok, I'm taking a break from blogging about Gotdotnet today to talk about the idea for a new cable show that sprang upon me like a panther on a protein jag. It was inspired by Microsoft.com's very own snazzy lead product manager, Dave Morehouse (Microsoft.com communities team). I have to tell you that Dave is a man of substance, suave haircuts, and snazzy shirts, but it's his documentation that always makes me feel unkempt and well, like my specs just don't wash behind their ears. Every time I g...
From: Betsy Aoki's WebLog |
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| 7. | | ASP.NET 2.0 product design changes between Beta 1 and Beta 2 - Captured: 15-11-2004 19:07:00
Today the Web Platform and Tools Team is proud to announce two product design changes made directly in response and in conjunction with community feedback. The changes, detailed below are focused around two key areas. First, in September, we announced changes to the special private ASP.NET 2.0 directory naming. Based on feedback, we are revising these names. Second, we are making changes to the compilation model in order to enable ASP.NET 1.x like behavior where the .asp...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 8. | | The idiosyncrasies of America - Captured: 29-10-2004 16:36:00
Sometimes living in the States can blind you, even for the well traveled. You forget the luxuries and accommodations that this country provides and you don’t even realize the unique idiosyncrasies of the country. Tim Sneath, who recently relocated to Redmond, provides some insightful and entertaining commentary about life in the States http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2004/10/09/240208.aspx (part 1) http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2004/10/29/249392.aspx (part 2) ...
From: Brian Goldfarb's Blog |
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| 9. | | Remoting vs Web Services vs ES/COM+/DCOM - Captured: 4-2-2005 5:11:20
I’ve hashed and rehashed this topic
numerous times. In particular, read this and this.
But the debate rages on, paralyzing otherwise perfectly normal development teams in
a frenzy of analysis paralysis over something that is basically not all that critical
in a good architecture.
I mean really. If you do a decent
job of architecting, it really doesn’t matter a whole hell of a lot which RPC protocol
you use, because you can alwa...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 10. | | Web services, DataSets and now...Business Objects - Captured: 24-1-2005 17:10:21
Sahil has some interesting
thoughts on the web service/DataSet question as well.
He spends some time discussing whether
“business objects” should be sent via a web service. His definition of
“business object” doesn’t match mine, and is closer to Fowler’s
data transfer object (DTO) I think.
It is important to remember that
web services only move boring data. No
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From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 11. | | Will Longhorn mean success for mono on Windows? - Captured: 13-1-2005 19:59:26
A while ago TheServerSide.net published an
article with Jeff Richter’s
thoughts on the future of .NET assembly versioning.
If you read the article you’ll
find that the Longhorn OS will seriously change the way that .NET itself is versioned.
In fact, it turns out that to a serious degree the whole idea of installing “side-by-side”
versions of .NET itself will go away when Longhorn shows up.
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From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 12. | | C# event issue resolved - Captured: 7-1-2005 3:58:17
OK, I figured it out (I think)
[NonSerialized]
EventHandler
_nonSerializableHandlers;
EventHandler
_serializableHandlers;
/// <summary>
/// Declares
a serialization-safe IsDirtyChanged event.
/// </summary>
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From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 13. | | Attack of the Giant rAnts II: The Revenge of the Drama Queens - Captured: 7-2-2005 7:26:18
OK
everyone, it’s rant time again. This
one goes out to all the drama queens out there…OK wait, that’s not right. You
Drama Queens don’t know who you are, because you have your head so completely
wrapped up in your “me-verse” that you have no clue that what I’m
talking about applies to you. Never Mind…go
about your business.
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From: Anomalous Data |
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| 14. | | Now everybody do the propaganda! - Captured: 4-2-2005 14:49:31
The
February issue of The Reader’s Digest has an article entitled “
America
’s Worst Judges”.
It
begins, as many regressivist commentaries on a variety of subjects do, by asking you
to imagine that you’re the victim of a crime. Because
we all know how much that sort of imagery contributes to rational thought.
Then
it goes for the ...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 15. | | Not for the fainthearted or symbol-minded - Captured: 2-2-2005 20:10:22
I
never really got into the whole conspiracy theory thing. For
instance, I’ve never seen even a single full episode of The X-Files. For
one thing, I already had enough T.V. to watch, for another, David Duchovney (or however
you spell it) always seemed like kind of a dick. And
I found it annoying how every other woman on the planet seemed to think he was hot,
when I looked and looked, and just saw a scrawny, too-full-of...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 16. | | George Soros...leftist billionaire commie hater whos destroying America...one 527 at a time. - Captured: 1-2-2005 6:50:21
George Soros is a Billionaire investment
capitalist who came to the attention of millions of Americans for the first time with
his 527 organization MoveOn.Org. From
where I’m sitting, George seems like kind of a nut-job and an egomaniac…but
then anyone who comes up with his own civil philosophy, and then spends billions of
dollars promoting it around the world would have to be…wouldn’t he? And
frankly, he’s the egomaniacal nu...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 18. | | A is for Academic Excellence - Captured: 30-1-2005 22:17:22
Like many compellingly outrageous
topics on education I’ve had brought to my attention, this one was found at Ernie’s
3-D Pancakes.
Here is an article
on the subject…and another.
The thrust of the story is, this
17-year-old kid wanted to get into an honors math course at his high school, and as
a condition of admission into this class he has to complete three very difficult calculus
problems over th...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 19. | | Drill Sergeant Voice - Captured: 28-1-2005 20:15:11
Oh Lordy!
I had to use my drill sergeant voice today.
Now, normally, I am into the whole pro-active discipline thing. My kids are
very sensitive and spirited, so I try to minimize disruption, stick to a
schedule, keep things predictable and consistent...use reminders and
re-direction...etc.
&nb
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 20. | | Blog and Search Marketing - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:07:24
A few tidbits regarding the trend of blog, RSS and search marketing:
News that Ask buys Bloglines. This news has gained quite a bit of coverage in the blogosphere, but very little in traditional news (yet). Formal announcement is to occur today or Tuesday.
I first read about Bloglines being purchased by Ask Jeeves on John Battelle's Searchblog over the w/e but did not have time to post. One
From: Online Marketing Blog |
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