June 2004 - Posts

AOP

Published 30 June 4 11:31 PM | girishb

I read some take on AOP by William here and I read some more at Ericgu's blog . Since then, I have been thinking about what AOP actually buys to a programmer. The biggest advantage of AOP has been modification of behavior without affecting the actual...

Mono 1.0

Published 30 June 4 3:35 PM | girishb

Get it now: http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html Via Weblogs @ ASP.NET

Ambient Orb and code builds

Published 29 June 4 10:55 PM | girishb

This article about Orb showing the overall health of the build by Michael Swanson is one very cool article. But,.. Doesn't this lead to some sort of micro management? Having a build kick in every 15 mins. Around here, that orb will turn to an inferno...

New XP Theme...

Published 29 June 4 6:36 PM | girishb

Stephono found this Windows XP MCE (Media Centre Edition) 2005 new Royale theme (really cool) and it's now available to install on XP and Windows 2003 machines. Y ou can download it from here . Recommended to try... I think you'll like it!

Windows Registry Tweaks

Published 29 June 4 1:24 PM | girishb

Scott has assembled some power user tricks and put them in his blog here . Useful, thank you.

Get (free) XSLT intellisense in VS.NET

Published 29 June 4 1:20 PM | girishb

Intellisense on XSLT documents: Copy thisXSLT schema file into the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003\Common7\Packages\schemas\xml . Restart the IDE and you're done. Enjoy! Via Daniel@ Weblogs @ ASP.NET . Thank you, Daniel for posting...

VS.NET 2005 Beta 1

Published 29 June 4 1:18 PM | girishb

VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 is out. It will be available for download soon. Here is the readme .

Clippy is back

Published 29 June 4 1:17 PM | girishb

Excellent find by Mitch Denny that Clippy, the painful jumpy clip from Office 2000, is baaack in VS.NET 2005.

About Architects

Published 28 June 4 10:37 AM | girishb

We have been reading too much of stuff that beats up "Architect" the title holder. Does this mean that there are no architects who are worth being role models? Who do you think is a good architect? How do you find a good architect? Some nice discussion...

RE: Apple eye of the Tiger

Published 28 June 4 7:25 AM | girishb

Hilarious claims from Apple in its WWDC are here . Who said dollar isn't what it used to be. $150M seems go a long way.. Doesn't it?

RE: Internet Explorer and "trust prompts" in Windows XPSP2

Published 27 June 4 10:37 PM | girishb

Michael explains that users are clueless. :) Net net: We've found that constantly asking users to make trust decisions is generally not a good thing. Invariably, people will see the dialog, and to them it'll read, “Do you want to get your job done”...

RE: Using Emacs or Brief Emulations in Whidbey

Published 27 June 4 10:31 PM | girishb

In response to the large number of requests, the Editor team added Emacs and Brief emulations in Visual Studio 2005. These features are available in the Beta 1 but it is not obvious how to turn them on in the Beta. We are working on fixing this for Beta...

Fabriq 1.0.4173.4

Published 27 June 4 10:22 PM | girishb

Note to self: read more about Fabriq . More info also available @ Clemens' blog . Seems extremely cool.

Last few days..

Published 27 June 4 10:15 PM | girishb

I went to this place up in NH called Glenn where they have this Disneyesque " Story land ". Really very nice place. They have these perfect rides for 3-12 year olds (my kid, Ashvin, is 3 years old). If you have kids of that age range, and you live in...

RE: random thoughts on wikis replacing newsgroups

Published 23 June 4 4:37 PM | girishb

In this article , Stephen is making an argument that wikis are a replacement for newsgroups. I started off arguing against it but he is actually covering the NNTP angle as well. Well, it definitely is interesting. Considering MSDN now is trying out annotations...

RE: No Language Lower than C++

Published 23 June 4 4:16 PM | girishb

.NET Undocumented said that C++/CLI has the ability to, for example, override a virtual method using another method of a different name according to what he found in this code project article . Well, Thats very cool. but, VB.NET already has that ability...

SauceReader 1.5.1 upgrade

Published 23 June 4 1:17 PM | girishb

Well, will this work correctly without barfing on my post to .Text site? I wonder. Update: It failed with a weird error. But, published it nevertheless. So, Now I am editing an existing page. Lets see if this works

Google blog about palindromes

Published 23 June 4 8:59 AM | girishb

A very interesting and funny Google Blog by Peter Norvig today. Love it.. BTW: He is, it seems, the creator of the longest palindrome .

Visual Studio .NET 2005, Keyboard shortcuts, contd.

Published 22 June 4 11:40 PM | girishb

IanG, In this blog, Visual Studio .NET Key Bindings, Chords, and Consistency responds with what he wants from keyboards. Of course, he claims that "current set of bindings is the amount of arbitrary stuff you have to remember.[and] that is one of the...

XP SP2 changes

Published 22 June 4 11:28 PM | girishb

XP Sp2 changes are documented thoroughly at Microsoft site in a technet article: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2chngs.mspx . Thanks to Dave for posting this link at: http://weblogs.asp.net/DMassy/archive/2004/06/22/163079...