May 2004 - Posts

VIM 6.3 beta is out

Published Tue, May 18 2004 14:02 | girishb

Check out VIM for the beta for 6.3. The stuff they are working on are pretty cool stuff. I particularly am interested in the "Opening VIM in MDI of another application" part. I need to see what that means. I wonder when It will be out.

First Basic Security Profile Draft for WS-I

Published Tue, May 18 2004 11:13 | girishb

WS-I Basic security profile working group draft . Thank you, Christian

RE: GotDotNet Samples - To Open Source or not?

Published Tue, May 18 2004 6:26 | girishb

Memi is asking in his blog @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET To Open Source or not? I think its a call that should be made by the author and no one else (except if using any libraries which are GPLed, I think). I believe opening the sources is a choice that is very...

RE: ADO.NET Provider for NNTP

Published Tue, May 18 2004 6:19 | girishb

Dirk has opened a gotdotnet workspace for ADO.NET NNTP Provider which allows you to do SELECT-statement against a newsserver http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=49e40d01-3713-4b53-881d-266f5c5613a5 [Via Weblogs @ ASP.NET ]...

RE: Where extensible formatting breaks down

Published Mon, May 17 2004 19:24 | girishb

Cyrus brings up formatting in his blog here and asks, basically, for thoughts about how to store the formatting data. After reading the blog, I could not make up my mind, if I really want my editor to be that smart. I mean, I understand the appeal of...

dotMath , hmm..

Published Mon, May 17 2004 19:06 | girishb

I read at Steve Hebert @ WebLogs @ DotNetJunkies.com that he has created a .Math to allow fast evaluation. And it will be released under GPL. Very neat. I will be tuned in, Steve. :)

XP SP2 has "Services without Components"

Published Mon, May 17 2004 13:31 | girishb

Clemens Vasters points out in this blog that in XP SP2 will have "Services without Components". Very cool.Go read the article.

Cool New NNTP web clients by Google and MS

Published Mon, May 17 2004 11:10 | girishb

Cool new beta services for NNTP clients both by Google and MS . Via Michal @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET

Science fairs and terrorists

Published Mon, May 17 2004 8:44 | girishb

When I read this article in NY Times , I was not sure how to feel. My kid is growing up in a totally different world than the one I grew up in. I came from India to US in 1996. He was born here in US. So, he will need to cope with the differences between...

YIKES: Cisco OS code stolen

Published Mon, May 17 2004 7:35 | girishb

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1593870,00.asp Yikes. [Via Stefan @ WebLogs @ DotNetJunkies.com ]

Eric reads Java books..

Published Mon, May 17 2004 5:58 | girishb

I see in this Ericgu's blog that he reads Hardcore Java . Well, I am impressed. Its very cool to see that MS does not live in a cocoon. I wonder how many blogs for Java out there actually pay attention to any of the .NET books. (instead of just ranting...

RE: Deconstructing ASMX

Published Mon, May 17 2004 5:54 | girishb

After reading Deconstructing ASMX by Don Box , It somehow makes me feel good that things will be fixed in Whidbey (particularly the contract-first design) but.. Right now, Should I be worried? I mean, Is using HttpContext.Current a bad thing in Web service...

RE: Who'll be where for whom?

Published Fri, May 14 2004 7:10 | girishb

Mike Pesca undertakes a textual analysis of the Friends theme song . Hilarious!!!

RE: Hottest ASP.NET 2.0 Features

Published Fri, May 14 2004 5:50 | girishb

Dino has listed some of the coolest (or hottest) features from ASP.NET 2.0 which make it worthwhile to upgrade. Check it out at Dino @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET

RE: Endangered Middle-Tier, Revisited

Published Thu, May 13 2004 20:55 | girishb

DevHawk @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET makes an argument that the presense of CLR in Yukon might mean that the middle tier becomes extinct. Well, It will seem like the great Client-server application might be back. No, I really dont like it. I am currently working...

RE: SQL and DSN Interoperability

Published Thu, May 13 2004 19:52 | girishb

Willem has put some work together collecting information to get SQL and ODBC stuff (with DSN) to work correctly and documented at WebLogs @ DotNetJunkies.com . Useful stuff particularly when I need to support something similar. Aargh. Thank you, Will...

RE: Thinking through a feature

Published Thu, May 13 2004 19:28 | girishb

Raymond takes on "Thinking through a feature" in this blog he has put out. From a taskbar grouping, he does pull a thread that connects requirements gathering, feature development and different stakeholders. I like the way he makes it seem so obvious...

RE: Are We Hackers?

Published Thu, May 13 2004 7:29 | girishb

Interesting question was raised in this blog by Sebastian @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET . Are we hackers as in get something together to work as soon as we can? probably. Are we more likely to get things done faster than anyone else.. probably. Do you think all...

Math and MS and Eric Lippert

Published Wed, May 12 2004 21:21 | girishb

Seems Eric went really nuts with math this time in this article here Weblogs @ ASP.NET . I love it though. It had been a while since i actually thought about O(n), O(n log n) etc except to remember that sorts, best case, are the n log n variety , my 3...

RE: .NET beats J2EE for development work in 2004

Published Wed, May 12 2004 20:14 | girishb

Forrester Research recently published a survey of 878 North American technology decision makers asking what their primary development environment for 2004 will be: .NET or J2EE. The answer: Overall, the majority of respondents, 56%, say .NET is their...