June 2004 - Posts

RE: Java-Com interoperability

Published Tue, Jun 22 2004 23:25 | girishb

gsusx@ Weblogs @ ASP.NET posted this link for a development tool by IBM for java-com interop . I dont know how many of the developers are looking for a JAVA-COM solution anymore. If its worth maintaining, people are putting Web service wrappers on it...

A thread between Don and CausticTech

Published Mon, Jun 21 2004 11:50 | girishb

It looks like Don Box and CausticTech a thread. It almost feels like the "Taligent" effect that Don has written in his blog ( The Taligent effect is what happens when a group of people put adherence to a software trend first and lose sight of the value...

GMail

Published Mon, Jun 21 2004 11:41 | girishb

I can see that we, as geeks, are always after the next shiny thing. The recent spam of GMail invites. First Tiernan started off by making people link to his blog site in this entry . THen, Andrew wanted one . Well, Frank Levigne gave him one. Well, Matthew...

New features from Google

Published Mon, Jun 21 2004 11:09 | girishb

According to http://express.xstreamsoft.com/redirector.aspx?id=0fdddd5a-a997-468e-bbfb-d8dc23265820&lo=rss , it seems that Google will be introducing "site-flavored" google search. Othe other one is to disallow personalized results from "site flavord...

Some terms explained by Peter

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 16:09 | girishb

I thought http://caustictech.typepad.com/caustictech/ was the only game in town explaining different things about the software industry. Here are some more. Software Engineers, A Lexicon: http://www.tgr.com/weblog/archives/000098.html Software engineering...

SOA center at MSDN

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 15:42 | girishb

MSDN now has a place for SOA . One place to find all those SOA related architectural stuff. Cool

Tools, power toys

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 15:03 | girishb

MSDN: 10 Tools you can use to make your development easier, faster and more fun! Power toys: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide/ There are some RSS feeds in that page for you to get notifications of new toys etc. Very cool.

Passwords and you

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 14:39 | girishb

One of the great security wonks, Keith Brown, has written a security brief for MSDN magazine for July. Its called "Mind those passwords" and its available at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/07/SecurityBriefs/default.aspx . And there is a...

RssBandit with WBEditor

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 11:20 | girishb

I finally broke down with SauceReader. It does have some neato features. But, its still in beta and things such as posting to .Text is a bit flaky. I will keep watching them but my main man will be Rssbandit with WBEditor . It does let me do things I...

SauceReader 1.5

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 10:17 | girishb

A well deserved upgrade to Sauce comes from Synop. http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader has a new beta out. It does seem to have gotten the memory hog problem under control. But, For some reason, My posts (.Text) seem to be failing. lets see if it...

VB.NET power pack

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 9:52 | girishb

Introducing the Visual Basic .NET Power Pack Get the Visual Basic Power Pack, a collection of custom controls that provides enhanced user interface elements to client based applications. Please do. These are very very cool. Of course, this means you will...

COM changes in SP2

Published Fri, Jun 18 2004 7:14 | girishb

Very interersting COM changes in XP SP2 are described by DBox in this blog: Securing COM for Windows XP Service Pack 2 . One very important thing to note is " If you have XPSP2 installed, you may note that by default, remote activation requests are rejected...

Joel's take on windows APIs

Published Wed, Jun 16 2004 13:28 | girishb

I found this How Microsoft Lost the API War Via Joel on Software one of the best commentaries of the state of mind of a *regular* developer. Of course, It does confuse me that while he likes ASP.NET, its not good enough for his company's ASP application...

RE: Internet Explorer in XP SP2 RC2

Published Wed, Jun 16 2004 10:16 | girishb

Summary of IE changes in XP SP2 RC2 are listed By Tony @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET .

RE: UML Symbols for Visio

Published Wed, Jun 16 2004 9:15 | girishb

UML Symbols for Microsoft Visio from the OMG Final Specification Via ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman's Weblog . Thanks Scott.

RE: EasyThread

Published Wed, Jun 16 2004 9:13 | girishb

Very cool pointer for EasyThread, a VS.NET addin . Found it @ Scott's blog who found it in a blog here .

RE: Development is fun once again

Published Wed, Jun 16 2004 9:08 | girishb

The blog here by Stephen stuck a chord. I had been feeling this way for a little while now. This is good. Probably, its no wonder the job market is picking up again. I guess Development being fun, Job market getting better and End of tech winter seems...

RE: World's first mobile phone virus found

Published Wed, Jun 16 2004 8:59 | girishb

World's first mobile phone virus found. Via Ravi @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET . This is funky.

RE: Design Pattern Code Library

Published Tue, Jun 15 2004 17:21 | girishb

Found this Data and Object Factory web site via Ohad @ Weblogs @ ASP.NET . Very nice.

RE: SunkCostDrivenArchitecture

Published Tue, Jun 15 2004 9:33 | girishb

Martin Fowler , in this paragraph, captures something that is prevalent in most companies. The worst part about the whole thing is that the decision makers rarely are the users of such an infrastructure system. I guess I can imagine stereotypes described...