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Friday, Aug 9, 2002, 3:38 PM
DX9 promises movie-quality quality in real-time
Here. Check out the Animusic demo, which is a capture of a real-time animation demo using DirectX9 and an ATI Radeon 9700. Not only is it amazing graphics-wise, but's it's entertainment. If we can do this kind of thing in real-time, it won't take Pixar to do ToyStory, we can have it in our games or we can do it ourselves in our basements. This will do for animators what word processors did for authors and sequencers did for muscians.
Friday, Aug 9, 2002, 2:32 PM
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra: 1930-2002
Here. "Dijkstra is renowned for the insight that mathematical logic is and must be the basis for sensible computer program construction and for his contributions to mathematical methodology. He is responsible for the idea of building operating systems as explicitly synchronized sequential processes, for the formal development of computer programs, and for the intellectual foundations for the disciplined control of nondeterminacy. He is well known for his amazingly efficient shortest path algorithm and for having designed and coded the first Algol 60 compiler. He was famously the leader in the abolition of the GOTO statement from programming."
Friday, Aug 9, 2002, 4:08 AM
Microsoft at the San Francisco Moscone Center
Here. From Razvan Caciula: "We want to reach those who are likely to be operating in a mixed (Windows/Linux) environment"
Thursday, Aug 8, 2002, 10:20 PM
Programming tool makes bugs sing
Here. I always said it's better to make bugs loud than quiet, but I had no idea...
Thursday, Aug 8, 2002, 3:19 PM in .NET
.Net name ties Microsoft in knots
Here. "We still get people saying to us, 'What is .Net?'" Gates said at a conference held two weeks ago specifically to answer that question. "It's one of those great questions that people can say, 'Yes, it's come into focus at the infrastructure level,' but a little bit where we go beyond that has been unclear to people."
Thursday, Aug 8, 2002, 4:29 AM in .NET
Delphi for .NET compiler preview
Here. From jt: A first look at the Delphi for .NET compiler features and Delphi's new language syntax
Wednesday, Aug 7, 2002, 7:05 PM in .NET
.NET Framework Service Pack 2
Here. "This article provides information about the bugs that are fixed in Microsoft .NET Framework Service Pack 2 (SP2)."
Tuesday, Aug 6, 2002, 11:50 AM in Conference
Win a Free Pass to the Web Services DevCon
Here. Spend a Day With .NET coding something cool, send it to submission@sellsbrothers.com and the winner wins a free pass to the Web Services DevCon! Other prizes include a year subscription to MSDN Universal, a signed box copy of VS.NET and a half-day consulting. Follow the link for details.
Monday, Aug 5, 2002, 7:40 PM
Tim Ewald's Spoutlet
Here. My friend, the author of Transactional COM+ and the editor of the XML/Web Services section on MSDN online, has an RSS feed.
Monday, Aug 5, 2002, 3:04 PM in .NET
WinForms Over the Web
I did a talk at the local Portland Area .NET User's Group on zero-setup deployment of WinForms applications over the web, including versioning, caching, optimization, debugging and security. This talk is also an excerpt from DevelopMentor's Essential WinForms course, which I highly recommend (although I'm hardly unbiased : ).
Sunday, Aug 4, 2002, 4:26 PM in .NET
.NET Compact Framework Discussion List is Online
Here. From Jim Wilson: The .NET CF Resource site has been substantially updated and we now have the discussion group online. If you have a questions about the .NET Compact Framework, information that you would like to share or you just want to see what other people are doing with the .NET Compact Framework, this is the list for you.
Saturday, Aug 3, 2002, 3:12 PM
Industry Burn-Out
Here. I got to feeling melancholy today about the low moral in the industry. Pay no attention. : )
Saturday, Aug 3, 2002, 2:28 PM in .NET
Mike Lehman's BugTracker.net Released
Here. From Michael Lehman: "Mike Lehman's BugTracker.net" is an open-source Windows Forms, XML, ADO.net bug tracking application written in C#.
Saturday, Aug 3, 2002, 12:00 AM in The Spout
Industry Burn-Out
Do you feel it? I do and I know that a bunch of my friends do. The whole IT industry is in recovery from the crashing lows that can only happen after impossible highs. In recent conversations, I hear terms like "burned out," "bitter" and "jaded" coming up again and again in our conversations. Since I got into this industry just as it was idling before take off, I have no frame of reference, but I'm guessing that things will level off at a bit better cash flow than right now, but much better morale.
The question is, how long will it take for the energy and excitement to come back? I know that I'm still healing from a three-year stint on my last big project, and even though I have an itch to try something else, I fantasize about trying my hand at another industry. I always figured that the shake-out would make the bottom feeders leave for something else, but now that we seemed to have settled on good, although not great, salaries and benefits and shaky processes at best, how many of the top folks will just bail from something else? I haven't actually seen anyone I respect leave for greener pastures, so I've got my fingers crossed that things will turn around.
Thursday, Aug 1, 2002, 12:30 PM
Generating Code at Run Time With Reflection.Emit
Here. by Shawn Van Ness and Chris Sells "Java programmers have long enjoyed the benefits of reflection and full-fidelity type information, and .NET (finally) delivers that bit of nirvana to the Windows platform. But the classes in the Reflection.Emit namespace raise the bar even further, allowing us to generate new types and emit new code, dynamically."