September 2004 - Posts

Some stuff to read

Published Thu, Sep 30 2004 9:33 | girishb

If you already read PluralSight blogs , you have already read all this. 1. Don Box is moving (his blogs) to Pluralsight. 2. Tim Ewald answers Loyal WS-Opposition by Tim Bray in this particularly good article . 3. FlexWiki is in Sourceforge . (old news...

Use Infopath to act as Babel Fish

Published Wed, Sep 29 2004 16:25 | girishb

Brian Goth blogs about a way to use An InfoPath Form to Translate Text. This is very cool. I still need a shift in thinking about having all these services out there just to be used in your applications. As a developer, you dont think of what is out there...

Dll redirection

Published Mon, Sep 27 2004 11:34 | girishb

I did not know about Dynamic Link Library redirection that has available from Win2k onwards. Its very cool. This basically allows you (the exe developer) to provide the dlls that your application will work with. Even if there are other versions available...

CodeNames of MS products listed

Published Fri, Sep 24 2004 17:27 | girishb

Ever wondered about the codenames for all those different Microsoft products.. Here is a link that lists all of them: http://bink.nu/Default.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=8 I dont know where I found it.

Frassle ( a new way of blogging)

Published Fri, Sep 24 2004 6:45 | girishb

Shimon , A collegue of mine has posted Frassle to Sourceforge . From the Summary: Frassle is an interpersonal content management and blog system. It is a complete solution for a self-organizing web community, with blog publishing, RSS aggregators, a search...

My distint personality: Discoverer

Published Thu, Sep 23 2004 23:58 | girishb

After I read this , I had to take the survey . According to it, I am a Discoverer. our distinct personality, The Discoverer , might be found in most of the thriving kingdoms of the time. Your overriding goal is to go where no one else has ever gone before...

CalliHelper (who?)

Published Thu, Sep 23 2004 22:11 | girishb

While looking around Whidbey documentation, I came across this really goofy looking name: CalliHelper . What in the world is CalliHelper class? I had no idea.[ Update: I am thinking Calli is actually calli IL code (call indirect?) ] The only thing it...

C# vs.VB (Gentlemen, take your seats)

Published Thu, Sep 23 2004 21:09 | girishb

Ken wrote this about C# in this post ,: " By the way, this, to me, is probably the most important reason to switch to C# from VB.NET, etc. C# is a future language with international standardization muscle; the others are just legacy language reruns. Don...

TinyCLR

Published Mon, Sep 20 2004 8:54 | girishb

According to http://wintellect.com/WEBLOGS/wintellect/archive/2004/09/18/464.aspx , Jeffrey Richter will be working with TinyCLR (the kind that will or already does provide the platform for MSN watches) to do some cool-ass stuff. Not much details, but...

Java APIs academic?

Published Sun, Sep 19 2004 23:40 | girishb

I am not saying this alone. http://www.linuxworld.com/story/44251.htm has an article by James turner which complains about the same. I particularly like this.. , I ran into the thing I hate most about Java developers. They (as a group) are in love with...

Measuring HttpResponse stream size

Published Sat, Sep 18 2004 7:02 | girishb

Here is a way to measure the HttpResponse.OutputStream size. Following is the sources for global.asax file. This is written over the course of half-hour so bear with me. I have marked the parts that are interesting in bold. If you are interested in applying...

Gtk# in windows

Published Thu, Sep 16 2004 22:50 | girishb

Paco's blog shows how to do GTK# development in windows .

WebBaseEvent and WebEventProviders

Published Wed, Sep 15 2004 23:57 | girishb

Web Events and Providers I attended Jeff Prosise's talk about ASP.NET 2.0 today at the Boston dot net group . That was totally awesome. What caught my attention was the whole <healthMonitoring> stuff that is out there with Whidbey. That thing is...

GC information found in newsgroup

Published Wed, Sep 15 2004 13:35 | girishb

Chris Lyon's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/clyon/ Few good GC Links: http://blogs.msdn.com/clyon/archive/2004/09/14/229477.aspx Others are pretty cool too.

Changes to Google local

Published Tue, Sep 14 2004 16:47 | girishb

Via: Google Local Upgrade Demo: cheap restaurants in palo alto . Sweet.

Interview with John Robbins

Published Tue, Sep 14 2004 16:39 | girishb

Here is an interview with (the great) John Robbins at Csharpcomputing.com

Sesame street threat level

Published Tue, Sep 14 2004 16:29 | girishb

Found this and had to try it for my site. Check it out by coming over to my site if you are reading through an aggregator.

I am finally happy

Published Fri, Sep 10 2004 23:22 | girishb

I dont know why, but I feel happy that I was not nominated for MVP for 2005. I have been feeling like that is something I can not claim to be. But, now that I dont have that, I feel like can go back to my old hideouts ( news://msnews.microsoft.com ) and...

Make XP look like Longhorn

Published Thu, Sep 9 2004 6:22 | girishb

TechConnect has written a " Longhorn transformation pack " which has a host of stuff. A cut and paste of features: Added Jade Toolbar Windows flag -Added Longhorn visual styles :Aero UI (Day) :Aero UI (Night) :Luna (Longhorn Revolutuion) :Royale Glass...

IT Job growth

Published Wed, Sep 8 2004 17:13 | girishb

ITAA sees limited IT job growth in '04 The number of U.S. IT jobs increased by just 2 percent between the first quarter of 2003 and the first quarter of 2004, and demand for IT workers is expected to slow during the rest of the year, according to a survey...