August 2004 - Posts

Thank you, Brian

Published Tue, Aug 31 2004 11:08 | girishb

Brian Piesik gave me a gmail invite.

FireTweaker to tweak Firefox

Published Mon, Aug 30 2004 6:43 | girishb

FireTweaker Via Rolando

Longhorn updates

Published Mon, Aug 30 2004 0:21 | girishb

No WinFS in Longhorn. Links: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmazner/archive/2004/08/29/222488.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/jmazner/archive/2004/08/29/222493.aspx (via http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1505 ) WinFX (Avalon) available for...

"Relaxing approach to XSD" by Tim Ewald

Published Tue, Aug 24 2004 15:52 | girishb

I like Tim's writings. He writes like the way I remember his talks in Windev (long time ago though, ~2000). Here is a new article about how he approaches XSD development. Exquisite. Thank you, Tim. http://pluralsight.com/blogs/tewald/archive/2004/08/24...

WsContractFirst add-in

Published Mon, Aug 23 2004 22:44 | girishb

Ben Miller talked about Christian Weyer’s WsContractFirst Visual Studio Add-In here . Sweet, Now I can preach what I practice. :)

Indigo and DCOM

Published Thu, Aug 19 2004 22:35 | girishb

So, I watched Don Box's tour of Building 42 . It was definitely fun. Its nice to hear Scoble's questions which were a change from the usual know-it-all questions and Don was an perfect host as usual. (what do you expect from him anyway? :) ). But, there...

Console Blogger

Published Thu, Aug 19 2004 18:45 | girishb

So, I finally have a 0.1 version of a Console based blogger (right now, only through MetaweblogAPI, But, I have tried to make it a bit extensible). I figured this might be useful for blogging build results, or any such things where nmake can call it....

Search from IE address bar

Published Thu, Aug 19 2004 15:02 | girishb

Following registry entries (copy the registry stuff below to a .reg file and import it), will allow you to type something like "g Boston" in the address bar and have it search using google web. "gg Boston" will search Google groups. You might have already...

Interop Guide WS-BP 1.0 from MS

Published Wed, Aug 18 2004 1:08 | girishb

Note to self, study this : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnsvcinter/html/WSI-BP_MSDN_LandingPage.asp

Ever wondered what *.vshost.exe was for?

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 23:37 | girishb

Here is a link that Mike Sampson pointed out that explains it. Now I know.!

OneLiner 1.0

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 23:08 | girishb

Mark has released a interesting toy called OneLiner ( download here ). It seems to be for running many of the commands right from Run... dialog. Sounds interesting. More on it from the horse's mouth.

Two new toys

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 17:32 | girishb

Bought a sweet 7200 RPM SATA 80GB HD for my Dell. Install was a cinch. Impressed. Bought Logitech IO pen. Very cool. The really impressive part of this is a demo ware that comes with it called MyScript Notes by VisionObjects . It can recognize my handwriting...

EXSLT: library for XSLT and Xpath extensions

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 6:41 | girishb

EXSLT is a community initiative to provide extensions to XSLT, and currently it defines more than 70 extension functions and elements. EXSLT provides benefits to the average XML developer in two different ways—first of all, it provides an extremely...

Eric for C# fame, is moving on

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 6:27 | girishb

Eric is moving on to Movie maker team from C# team. I had enjoyed his blog and his book for a while. I guess everyone moves on. ( except me, I am #$@%$!@ hampster ).

Slashdot and reading :)

Published Tue, Aug 17 2004 6:07 | girishb

Harry Pierson's blog about Software factories and Slashdot : Reading Is Fundamental (To Forming An Educated Opinion)

Database Styles by Martin Fowler

Published Fri, Aug 13 2004 13:28 | girishb

DatabaseStyles is a bit of an old article by Martin Fowler on his bliki. He talks about integration database and application databases and how SOA is going to make an argument of application databases more than integration databases. Well, Go read it...

Web serviice interop

Published Fri, Aug 13 2004 12:57 | girishb

[ Note to self,Read this ] Simon Guest: " Top Ten Tips for Web Services Interoperability "

Am I nuts?

Published Mon, Aug 9 2004 18:24 | girishb

Am I nuts, if we want to build with SOAP and new fangled WS- stuff? Am I crazy to push for such standards compliance? I have started wondering since I read: Adam Bosworth's piece: http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000024.html Sean McGrath's piece:...

How to go nuts with Whidbey?

Published Mon, Aug 9 2004 18:10 | girishb

I would not know. But, ask Jason who is one of the famous ones out of DM. He know how to go totally nuts with iterators, and anonymous functions et al. As a matter of fact, he found a way a to come up with an acronym that sounds bad with totally innocuous...

Dictionary<> is very cool

Published Mon, Aug 9 2004 18:03 | girishb

Do you know that you can do Dictionary.TryGetValue()? How many times have you not written something like if (blah.ContainsKey(x)) { y = blah[x];..whatever } Now, you can do this with TryGetValue(). It combines both of these functionalities and responds...