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Thursday, Jul 11, 2002, 7:53 AM in Fun
The Last Advertising Frontier
My friend and fellow DevelopMentor instructor, Craig Andera, is not only enormously dedicated, but is very interested in pushing the envelope on post-dot-bomb advertising space. When he heard that he could make money on each "hit," Craig started spending a lot of time in bars and other seedy areas around town.
Craig Andera [candera@ALUM.MIT.EDU]
Thu 7/11/2002 7:53 AM
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Wednesday, Jul 10, 2002, 4:26 PM
Don Box's RSS Feed
Here. 'nuf said
Tuesday, Jul 9, 2002, 5:55 PM
Content Management Server and Microsoft
Here. From Razvan Caciula: "Microsoft announces the release of the Content Management Server 2002 beta, a faster, easier, and more cost effective way to create, deploy, and maintain mission critical, content rich Web sites."
Tuesday, Jul 9, 2002, 12:27 PM in .NET
Dynamic Forms for .NET
Here. "This is a process that creates forms dynamically. The form description is held in an XML file, you pass the name of the file as a parameter to the process."
Monday, Jul 8, 2002, 2:32 PM
After Java#, Linux :)
Here. From Razvan Caciula: "Microsoft appears to be changing its tactics in its ongoing spat with the Linux and open-source world by taking a booth at this August's LinuxWorld Expo for the first time."
Monday, Jul 8, 2002, 2:01 PM
Microsoft target, Java
Here. From Razvan Caciula: Another "hash" tool... I think the Java Language Conversion Assistant is a better tool. Don't u? :)
Monday, Jul 8, 2002, 1:49 PM
WS-Security & TIP transaction source code to be re
Here. "We have decided to release the source code for our WS-Security (Kerberos, Username) and our TIP transaction implementations under a BSD-style license before the end of this week. As far as we know, our security package has the first public WS-Security implementation with Kerberos support..."
Thursday, Jul 4, 2002, 6:01 PM in .NET
URL Rewriting with ASP.NET
Here. "As more and more websites are being rewritten with ASP.NET, the old sites which had been indexed by google and linked from other sites are lost, inevitably culminating in the dreaded 404 error. I will show how legacy ASP sites can be upgraded to ASP.NET, while maintaining links from search engines."
Wednesday, Jul 3, 2002, 3:17 PM
Object-Oriented Development in a Relational World
Here. Chris Tavares and I apply DeKlarit (from www.deklarit.com), a tool integrated into VS.NET for defining data structures for use from object-oriented .NET code and from relational SQL, to a real web site. Bottom line: thumbs up. For more, read on!
Wednesday, Jul 3, 2002, 1:34 PM in .NET
Library for reading CLI files
Here. "This library has been implemented to provide access to the raw format of CLI files. The library is still under development, so you can find some problem in its use. The library has been developed using CLI standard documentation. Because fast access to files is a goal I use memory mapping in order to have fast access to the file."
Wednesday, Jul 3, 2002, 12:58 AM in Conference
Final Web Services DevCon East Speakers
Here. The final line-up of Web Services DevCon East speakers for October 10-11 in Bedford, Mass has been posted. The quality of the talks was so high that we had to forgo one of Don's proposals to get in all the good stuff. If you can only go to one web services conference this year, this is the one that'll pack it in nice and tight!
Tuesday, Jul 2, 2002, 11:38 AM
Free Trial Version of Syncfusion's Essential Suite
Here. "Essential Suite consists of: "* Essential Tools - features the latest Windows user interface such as Visual Studio.NET style Docking, Tabbed MDI, Swing like layout management, Office XP like customizable toolbars and menus, numerous controls such as MaskEditBox and others. "* Essential Grid - is a cell-oriented full-featured native .NET grid. Its cell style architecture gives you complete control at all levels of formatting: table, row, column, cell and basestyles. It supports virtual databinding as well as ADO.NET binding. "* Essential Edit - a syntax highlighting Edit control that is designed to be extensible and easy to use. Features include Undo / Redo, easy configuration and more."
Monday, Jul 1, 2002, 11:40 PM
IBM rolls out first Internet-based utility service
Here. "IBM on Monday rolled out an Internet-based service that allows Linux users to access the amount of processing power and other technical resources they need on a utility basis. The new on-demand service, called Linux Virtual Services, directly connects users' Linux-based server applications with IBM's hosting centers, which can supply them with managed server processing, storage, and networked capacity on an on-demand basis." [http://www.infoworld.com] This is how things *should* be.
Monday, Jul 1, 2002, 6:43 PM
GACUtil Add-In
Here. From Harry Pierson: I needed a simple way to invoke GACUtil as a custom build step. Utility makefiles were clunky, NAnt was too extensive (but cool) and the BuildRules sample wasn't quite extensive enough. So I built my own.
Monday, Jul 1, 2002, 3:49 PM in .NET
Updated .NET CollectionGen
Here. "CollectionGen is a Custom Tool Add-In to VS.NET to generate type-safe collections. The updates are as follows: "-Finally someone has figured out the XSLT garbage bug! Thanks, Matthias Hess! "-Removed the need for a .reg file, so now registration is just 'regasm /codebase collectionGen.dll'. "Also, Jon Flanders put together a collection gen project item wizard that adds a new XML file with the Custom Tool property pre-set. I'm having a little trouble packaging it for distribution, but if anyone wants to hack on it, send me an email."