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Tuesday, Oct 1, 2002, 8:23 PM in .NET
.NET Evangelist
Here. From Hussein: Microsoft's wireless desktop
Monday, Sep 30, 2002, 5:05 PM in .NET
Apache Support For ASP.NET Web Services
Here. "Apache, the world's most widely deployed Web server, now supports the Microsoft ASP.NET Web services development platform through the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server. This gives enterprise customers who wish to use ASP.NET the freedom to deploy Apache, thus enabling development and operations groups to independently utilize technologies that meet their needs. Covalent has written a white paper describing the technology in more detail." The Covalent guys have added ASP.NET support to the open source Apache using a lot of elbow grease to map between the differences between the two processing models and the ASP.NET hosting stuff, which Microsoft arguably implemented for just this purpose. If we could get ASP.NET as part of Rotor and Rotor on Linux, you could run ASP.NET-based web servers for free (except for the money you’d pay Covalent for their bits, of course, but since they hired me to help advise them on the implementation of those bits, that works for me : ).
Saturday, Sep 28, 2002, 8:13 PM
Tools for the Microsoft IT Consultant
Here. From Ramon: Hundreds of useful Microsoft resources, and technical documentation about, Great Plains, eEnterprise, Solomon, ASP resources,ASP links,ASP documents, ASPX, ASP.NET, VB, VB.NET, AD, Active Directory, etc...
Friday, Sep 27, 2002, 2:36 AM in .NET
Caught in .NET
Here. From Andrew Webb: "However, in the absence of some well-founded objections, the terrible murmur that I keep hearing, the one with apocalyptic consequences for the thinking programmers of the world, will come to be accepted as Gospel. You know, the one that says that, in .NET, Microsoft has made a pretty good implementation of a rather elegant design..."
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, 9:24 PM in .NET
.NET Rocks Interviews Juval Löwy
Here. .NET Rocks is a radio-style program that features interviews from various developer luminaries, e.g. Billy Hollis and Dan Appleman. This episode is an interview of Juval Löwy, who's way into .NET Enterprise Services, the .NET interop layer with COM+.
Monday, Sep 23, 2002, 11:08 PM
Developers Re-examine Rich-Client Apps
Here. From Michael Weinhardt: "Some corporate developers last week said they will consider switching from Web applications back to their old, familiar rich-client applications because of unpromoted features that they're just now discovering in Microsoft Corp.'s .Net framework." Carol Sliwa
Monday, Sep 23, 2002, 7:51 PM in .NET
$50 million from HP, Microsoft for .Net
Here. From Michael Weinhardt: "Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft plan to invest $50 million in a joint effort to sell corporate customers on the software giant's .Net Web services efforts."
Monday, Sep 23, 2002, 3:22 PM in .NET
Why .NET will conquer the world
Here. From Keith Wedinger: .NET clearly bears a strong resemblance to Java. It offers many of the same features, while adding interesting additions of its own (code metadata, versioned assemblies, etc). Microsoft, however, is better positioned to create a cross-market software unification framework than Sun Microsystems ever was (or is).
Sunday, Sep 22, 2002, 12:59 PM
IT Consultant
Here. From Ramon: Hundreds of useful Microsoft resources, and technical documentation about, Great Plains, eEnterprise, Solomon, ASP resources,ASP links,ASP documents, ASPX, ASP.NET, VB, VB.NET, AD, Active Directory, etc...
Friday, Sep 20, 2002, 12:08 PM in Tools
NUnit 2.0 RC3 available
Here. From Bernard Vander Beken: From the release notes of this unit testing framework: "This barring any unforeseen new critical bugs will be the last V2.0 release candidate. We will not be adding any additional features until V2.0 is released which we expect now to be sometime around 26 September, 2002."
Thursday, Sep 19, 2002, 8:18 PM in .NET
.NET Framework 1.1 Beta Available
"The beta of the .NET Framework version 1.1 SDK and Redistributable is now available, along with the add-on to build and run J# applications. We encourage you to download these and provide us with feedback. You may register for the beta program to access these downloads at http://www.betaplace.com. Use the following userID and password to gain access to the site: ID: SDKBETA Password: SIGNMEUP" [Brian Harry, DOTNET-CLR]
Thursday, Sep 19, 2002, 9:01 AM in .NET
.NET Framework 1.1 Beta Overview
Here. From Andrew Webb: Even if you don't want to download the beta, this article gives a nice overview of what to expect in the 1.1 version of .NET Framework. Note the 'Developer Tools Roadmap' link at top-right of the Beta Overview page. www.gotdotnet.com has an article about forwards and backwards compatibility between 1.0 and 1.1.
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002, 12:03 PM
Charles Simonyi Intentional Software Startup
Here. "Intentional Software Corporation (ISC) is a software engineering company dedicated to assisting software developers in capturing the tremendous latent value that is usually lost in the design and development process. Another name for this latent value is the intent behind the software, so we call this approach Intentional Software." I've been following Charles work for years, starting with Hungarian Notation (a really good idea at the time, believe me : ) and culminating in his more recent Intentional Programming efforts. I'm very interested in what kinds of tools he's going to be bringing to the world.
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2002, 10:29 PM
Project Mono Dumps GTK, QT, Cocoa Support
Here. From Jesse Ezell: Project Mono has decided that implementing WinForms natively on platforms is just too hard. They are instead going to implement a Win32 version and use WINE Lib for the linux / mac implementation. We'll see if they stay this way. IMO, if things don't change, WinForms on Project Mono has now become about as important as Microsoft 'Bob'. Who wants to run on top of the WINE code? It has problems running normal Win32 apps, let alone .NET apps.
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2002, 7:57 AM in .NET
Keep your Beans out of .Net
Here. From Keith Wedinger: What if your current application is currently a Java EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) implementation? Is it worth the cost and effort to migrate to Microsoft's new platform?