October 2004 - Posts

Lets party like its 1918
Published 27 October 4 11:52 PM | girishb
Red Sox have won the world series. Whaddayaknow!
A simple apply() implementation using generics
Published 19 October 4 5:4 AM | girishb
You know how you start off in one place thinking you will do something and end up doing something entirely different because you are flying coding.. Well, that is what happened to me here. I was thinking of trying to figure out a way to get a way of applying...
E&C for C#, a bad idea? [yeah, right!]
Published 18 October 4 11:19 AM | girishb
According to John Robbins , E&C introduces more bugs because people dont really think the problem through and end up making mistakes that are not obvious to you when you are doing the debugging. I accept that. It probably does introduce many issues when...
E&C for C# in next build release
Published 15 October 4 3:21 PM | girishb
Somasegar states that the new Community preview of VS 2005 will be released next week: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2004/10/15/242853.aspx . Oh, Edit and continue will be available for C# in 2005.
Bruce Schneier starts blogging
Published 15 October 4 12:53 PM | girishb
Bruce Schneier, a man who is the grand poobah of security, has started blogging. Very cool. Check it out here .
Google desktop search is available
Published 14 October 4 1:8 PM | girishb
According to Google weblog , we now have Google Desktop search . Beautiful, Wonder how it will fair against Lookout .
More cool stuff in Whidbey
Published 13 October 4 8:33 AM | girishb
I have not blogged for a little while. I have been thinking about these. 1. Managed Debugging Assistants . (I have not been able to find much about this But it would interesting to see what are these anyway) 2. DynamicMethod The coolest thing to happen...
Update on ASP.NET Vulnerability
Published 7 October 4 11:1 PM | girishb
You know the ASP.NET vulnerabilty According to Brian, There have been things moving towards a fix . There is a HTTP module that web site admins can apply to their sites. (very good idea considering we developers tend to be a bit optimistic .. (except...
Screen scraping with Whidbey
Published 7 October 4 4:20 PM | girishb
A Commandline OPML importer for Bloglines I wanted to play with HttpWebRequest and the like classes in Whidbey. So, I chose to write an application which allows me to load my OPML to Bloglines . Obviously, the easy answer would be to capture the stuff...
Google Print
Published 6 October 4 12:1 PM | girishb
A new service from Google, called Google Print is coming. This is to let book publishers make their books to be searchable through Google. Read the FAQ to learn more. This is similar to Amazon initiative. I don't know what happened to that.
Blogrolls from Bloglines in a .Text blog
Published 5 October 4 10:26 PM | girishb
http://msmvps.com does not seem to have a easy way of putting the blog rolls in the front page. But, the cool thing is that the the category names for different things (articles/links et al.) are written literally. So, its very easy to fake it to display...
Java 1.5 (no, 5.0) is here
Published 5 October 4 3:15 AM | girishb
Well, it has been here since 30th of September 2004 but I just came across it. Download link: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp Some highlights of J2SE 5.0: New language updates: Metadata, Generics, Enumerated types, Autoboxing of primitive...
Client Settings in Whidbey
Published 4 October 4 10:7 PM | girishb
So, I decided to experiment with SettingsProviders et al. in Whidbey to see what these things are for. Initially, I found a gem of a class called “ConfigHelper”. But, it turned out to be one of those classes that I cannot touch. It had some really neat...
Herb Sutter blogs!
Published 4 October 4 9:55 PM | girishb
Hold the press, Herb Sutter (of Exceptional C++, and Guru of the week fame), has finally succumbed to the blog fade and called Pluralsight blogs as his home . I used to read his gotw issues on C++ religiously when I used to code in C++. Hopefully, now...