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Thursday, May 8, 2003, 4:37 PM
Microsoft-specific Google
Here. I'm constantly amazed at how few people know about the Microsoft-specific Google site. The results almost always link back to somewhere on microsoft.com but the results seem to be somewhat more [cough] comprehensive than [sneeze] [rub eyes] MS's own search engine. [nudge] [nudge] Enjoy.
Thursday, May 8, 2003, 4:26 PM
Easy Event Notification Using Multiple Inheritance
Here. I had occasion to re-read my very first article today. I couldn't help myself, so I dropped in some annotations based on my experience since I wrote it. Bottom line: the ideas are still solid, but the writing needs work... While I thought that this 6/95 article was lost in the mists of time, Betsy Hardinger, the copy editor on the WinForms book, faxed me a paper copy (she's been around a while, obviously : ). When the fax came in, I thought I'd have to transcribe the piece (I only type ~65wpm). Luckily, Office 11 comes with MS Office Document Imaging, which has built-in OCR. After processing the document, I was able to select columns of text and past them into Word. I had to do considerable clean-up, but it was about 10x faster than typing it all by hand. I do so love MS software.
Thursday, May 8, 2003, 6:37 AM
WinHEC Athens PC Demo
Here. I want one. [activewin.com]
Thursday, May 8, 2003, 6:25 AM
MS Discusses Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
Here. "Security and privacy are two of the most important -- and difficult -- issues facing the computer industry. Improving the ability of software and hardware to protect the integrity of digital information and the privacy of computer users has become a critical focus for both software developers and hardware manufacturers. Last June, Microsoft introduced a new security technology, code-named "Palladium" at the time, that is designed to provide the foundation for a new approach to security and privacy in Windows. Now known as the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) for Windows, this technology utilizes an innovative hardware and software design to protect against malicious software in order to enhance privacy, security, and system integrity and help insure that software acts in a way that customers can rely on."
Thursday, May 8, 2003, 6:21 AM
Longhorn to arrive in 2005
Here. "The weight of the company is behind Longhorn," Poole said. "This is a huge bet for the company. It will really change the landscape of what people see."
Thursday, May 8, 2003, 6:18 AM
Microsoft Details Longhorn Roadmap
Here. "During his keynote address on day two of the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft Senior Vice President of the Windows Client Division, detailed his company's roadmap for delivering Longhorn, the next major Windows version."
Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 9:30 PM in Tools
Genghis v0.4
Sorry for the long wait. There's been two whole books written between the last release of Genghis and this one. Here's the list of new features:
- Everything works under .NET 1.0 and 1.1 (except HandleCollector)
- MSN Messanger-style popup window
- UI Type Editor for use with ImageList index selection
- AppBar implementation
- Text file search
- Themed controls
- Single instance application support, including passing command line args from other instances
- Multiple top-level window support
- Many enhancements and fixes to the command line parser
- Splash screen class
- Improved WebCommandLineHelper class which now works with .NET 1.0 and 1.1, includes URL decoding and requires no additional permissions (although it does require a server-side HTTP handler, included as the ConfigFileHandler class that maps requests for foo.exe?bar=quux.config to the foo.exe.config file)
- WizardSheet updates
- Status Bar Extender for mapping status messages to Windows Forms controls
Thanks to my new build master, Mike Marshal, who got all of this together. He's the greatest!
Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 11:17 AM
Wiley Acquires Wrox
Here. 'nuf said.
Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 10:50 AM
Win Server 2003 vs. Linux File Server Benchmarks
Here. The one where Windows Server 2003 kicks Linux's butt on serving files.
Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 10:18 AM in .NET
.Net develops advantages over Java
Here. From Keith Wedinger: Java development has a number of advantages over traditional environments which output machine language. .Net has the advantage of hindsight, however, and has improved on Java in a number of areas.
Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 2:22 PM in Conference
Non-Windows Applied XML DevCon Talks Needed
Here. I've been buried in Applied XML DevCon talk proposals, but I'd really love it if some more non-Windows talks would make it my way. Tomorrow's the deadline. Tell your friends!
Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 2:01 PM
Bill Gates WinHEC 2003 Keynote
Here. "With the next round of Windows, which we call Longhorn, this idea of the completely new presentation system and the standard user interface guideline requiring that rich graphics capability will take a leap forward and fully exploit the extra graphics capabilities. In fact, the way the experience will work is that people with even today's hardware will want to move up to the advanced graphics capabilities."
Monday, May 5, 2003, 5:23 PM
Dr. GUI Has a Blog
Here. You know that blogs are main stream when Dr. GUI's got one. Welcome!
Monday, May 5, 2003, 3:01 PM
MSN Launches World's First ‘Internet Loo’
Here. *Somebody* has too much time on their hands...
Monday, May 5, 2003, 1:33 PM
Saying Goodbye on 5/3/2046
Here. Statistically, I'll be dead just before my 78th birthday, which means that my oldest son's birthday (two days after I die) is not going to be a happy one (unless I've turned even more evil than I already am : ). Sorry, John...