May 2004 - Posts

.Math out there!

Published Thu, May 27 2004 8:49 | girishb

Steve has launched the .Math project, Find more about this here: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/sdhebert/archive/2004/05/26/14613.aspx . You can try it out at http://www.hebertsoft.com/dotMath/sample . Very impressive. Congratulations Steve

RE: Regarding SauceReader

Published Tue, May 25 2004 20:28 | girishb

I complained in this note about SauceReader. Those guys at Synop are pretty very good at supporting and providing workarounds. I got the response from them within ~6 hours. If they keep up with this, I can imagine the product to be really good. Oh, the...

Resizing windows controls

Published Tue, May 25 2004 14:57 | girishb

According to the post here: RadioButton doesn't resize when you increase the Font size , Sara is suggesting that you should make your application consistent with itself. I agree. BTW: The suggestions from Saurabh about this reminded me of the olden days...

Regarding SauceReader

Published Tue, May 25 2004 14:40 | girishb

Well, I guess SauceReader is not there yet.! I tried to add the "Source" to the Grid with the list of blog entries. That just crashed it . Now I can't start it. :) I have posted this to their public support forum.. I guess, for now, I am back with my...

RPC/Document in SOAP

Published Tue, May 25 2004 6:27 | girishb

Note to self Read this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/understanding/webservicebasics/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/rpc_literal.asp . This is an oldy but a goody. I need to pass this to my peers to show the differences betweeen...

Visual Studio Team System announced at Tech ed.

Published Tue, May 25 2004 6:10 | girishb

According to this post by Michael Platt: Team System (Burton) , It looks like there will be many things to look forward to in this release. Its got everything. (Kitchen sink will be delivered on order). Thank you Michael.

New stuff in longhorn and whidbey [From Wes's blog]

Published Tue, May 25 2004 5:53 | girishb

From Wes at http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/ , I found the following cool nuggets. 1. Nullable types in C# 2.0l: http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2004/05/nullable_types.html . This can mean that serialization of value types to XML and...

XP SP2 Changes

Published Mon, May 24 2004 15:02 | girishb

Note to self: Read http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/Mar/21/xp_service_pack_2_review.html [XP SP2 changes reviewed, Bit old but good]. Thanks, Niel.

Updated C# 2.0 Specs

Published Mon, May 24 2004 14:43 | girishb

Eric posted that the Updated C# V2.0 Specifications now available . The specs are available here: C# 2.0 Language Specification. Thank you Eric.

Infopath Web Viewer control

Published Mon, May 24 2004 12:57 | girishb

Brendan Tomkins has written a A Simple InfoPath Web Viewer Control . Very cool Brendan. It might be useful for wrapping some of the data-entry type web services.. Cool stuff. Control can be downloaded here: http://www.intrinsigo.com/bsblog/InfoPathControl...

SauceReader vs. RssBandit [Initial impressions]

Published Mon, May 24 2004 11:58 | girishb

RssBandit ( http://www.rssbandit.org ) SauceReader ( http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader/ ) Free Free (for personal use) XP visual styles aware XP Visual styles aware and tries really hard to look like one of the Microsoft Office Products. J Web...

How to build a great presentation

Published Fri, May 21 2004 6:23 | girishb

Copied verbatim from the blog: Tell the audience what you plan to tell them Keep the audience awake while you pack their brain full of the material you promised - laughter helps keep people engaged At the end, summarize what you have learned Take a step...

RE: dotMath Expression Compiler project opening on SourceForge

Published Fri, May 21 2004 6:15 | girishb

Steve has setup the dotMath project at SourceForge here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dotmath/ . Very neat. Just waiting for the code to appear. :) Will be fun to play with this. Found out from here: Steve @ WebLogs @ DotNetJunkies.com

Keith Brown's Security Book on the web.

Published Fri, May 21 2004 4:20 | girishb

Don Box's Spoutlet showed a pointer to Keith Brown's New book at PluralSight . Keith , I think, is probably the best security person to write about this. Thank you, Don for the pointer and Thank you Keith for the book.

Daemon-Tools

Published Thu, May 20 2004 12:51 | girishb

Grant @ WebLogs @ DotNetJunkies.com pointed to this Daemon-Tools site. Its a virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator. So you can download the iso images and mount them as if they are CDs. No need to burn the CD/DVDs. Useful when you have tons of stuff downloaded...

RE: 20 May 2004: More patents.

Published Thu, May 20 2004 10:25 | girishb

Miguel de Icaza responds to Red Hat's Seth's problems or concerns about Mono . The answers sound reasonable. His point of view is, well, if s**t happens, we will solve it at that point. That is the perfect attitude for someone living on the frontiers...

Etiquette regarding posted blogs

Published Wed, May 19 2004 21:13 | girishb

After reading this post by Kirk , I wonder if there is any way to avoid people from doing what they do. People are usually and basically good. Of course, once you post something in a blog, it usually is fair game. But, The hope is that someone would acknowledge...

RE: WSA: Excellent timeline of all the WS-* standards. Share with your friends!

Published Wed, May 19 2004 20:59 | girishb

I found a nice timeline that shows the evolution of the WSA specs from Ken Brubaker @ WebLogs @ DotNetJunkies.com . Thank you, Ken for posting it. It does make it easier to explain the different roots.

RE: The SOA tenets == PEACE

Published Wed, May 19 2004 6:40 | girishb

In this blog, Clemens wants us to remember that SOA tenets are PEACE. Hope this catches on, It will definitly make it easy to remember likce ACID. Oh, Policy based behavior neg, Explicit boundaries, Autonomous, Contract Exchange. Umm, I hope he clears...

Validation frameworks

Published Wed, May 19 2004 6:22 | girishb

Note to Self: Need to study the following: Validator information: http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=Validators Validation Framework: http://www.cybral.com/solutions/tools.htm I came across them in this Mathew Nolton blog .