That's cool URL. http://www.microsoft.com/opensource I mean. The announcement at port25 site goes like this: Today, Microsoft took another step in its relationship with the open source software community. We did this by bringing up a new web property that clearly outlines Microsoft’s position on OSS by providing specific information about Microsoft ...
Apparently SourceForge.net is planning to come up with a feature that would allow to buy or sell services or support for open source projects. Here is a mail I received: Dear SourceForge.net community member, As an active participant in the Open Source community, you may be excited to learn about ...
Just in case somebody needs is: Brainbench is giving away some certification tests for free. Including: .NET Framework Fundamentals ASP.NET C# Java 2 Fundamentals Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.4 Java 5 Math Fundamentals Visual Basic.NET Fundamentals ...
AppDev is giving away these Microsoft training CDs. Free shipping in the US, nominal shipping charge outside. Quite impressive list: Visual C# 2005: Developing Applications Visual Basic 2005: Developing Applications ASP.NET Using Visual C# 2005 ASP.NET Using Visual Basic 2005 Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Microsoft Office Exploring ASP.NET "Atlas ...
Ward Cunningham: "Wiki is the original Web 2.0 application." Read the Ward Cunningham talking on "Wikis, Patterns, Mashups and More". Interestng one. ...
Microsoft has launched CodePlex Beta - kinda revamped GotDotNet, based on Team Foundation Server: CodePlex is an online software development environment for open and shared source developers to create, host and manage projects throughout the project lifecycle. It has been written from the ground up in C# using .NET 2.0 ...
Another alternative to purchasing a hexadecimal calculator is to obtain a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program such as SideKick which contains a built-in calculator. However, unless you already have one of these programs, or you need some of the other features they offer, such programs are not a particularly ...
W3C warns that using CAPTCHA on the Web is actually bad idea as it poses problems for those who are blind, have low vision or have a learning disability such as dyslexia. That makes sense. 2005-11-23: The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to ...
Couple cool links from the Lambda the Ultimate: An archive of videotaped Don Knuth lectures from the Stanford Center for Professional Development "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" video lectures podcast ...
I can't refrain myself from linking to this wonderful "Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?" paper by Charles Petzold. Sorry. That's gonna be another good source of citations. ...
We've heard about XML penetration into C#, Java and SQL. Now it seems like 45-years old programming language, 75% of worlds's business apps is written in is ready to adopt XML. I'm talking about Cobol, yeah baby! In the "XML and the New COBOL" article at webservicessummit.com Barry Tauber explains ...
Great news for compiler geeks - new edition of the famous dragon book is to be published November 15. Updated and revised version, now it's called "21st Century Compilers". So far there were "old dragon book" (aka green dragon book, "Principles of Compiler Design", 1977) and "new dragon book" (red ...
Microsoft refreshes their professional certifications program: Changes are afoot in the Microsoft Certification Program that can be labeled as "evolutionary"; that is, changes to the certification process will be implemented over time, as newer technologies become generally available. According to Valvano, Microsoft will follow tradition, releasing exams for SQL Server ...
"Mathematical Notation: Past and Future" by Stephen Wolfram - amazingly interesting article. [Via Sean Gerety] ...
"An Introduction to "WinFS" OPath" article by Thomas Rizzo and Sean Grimaldi has been published at MSDN. Summary: WinFS introduces a query language that supports searching the information stored in WinFS called WinFS OPath. WinFS OPath combines the best of the SQL language with the best of XML style languages ...
Like most of us, Dijkstra always believed it a scientist's duty to maintain a lively correspondence with his scientific colleagues. To a greater extent than most of us, he put that conviction into practice. For over four decades, he mailed copies of his consecutively numbered technical notes, trip reports, insightful ...
There is a severe problem when using Mozilla Mail and News client (and derivatives such as Thunderbird Mail) - they don't support multiple accounts on the same NNTP server. You know what I mean, right? Yeah, that's about Microsoft private newsgroups. They are using the same news server - privatenews.microsoft.com ...
/. reminds it's 40-years anniversary of IBM mainframes tomorrow. Read "IBM's Mainframe Dinosaur Turns 40" thread. Mainframes still host 70% of the world's data and applications (well, IBM says that, granted) and they feel good in modern PC world. "PCs were supposed to kill off the mainframe" he-he-he. Not so ...
Good news for MSDN subscribers: be notified of new downloads available from MSDN Subscriber Downloads via this RSS feed. ...
Apparently it's possible to set a background image in VisualStudio.NET text editor via undocumented API. Interesting exercise. [Via Mike Gunderloy] ...
Looks like Google got new site skin. I like it. Lightweight and clean. ...
Hey, good news about GotDotNet Workspaces again! Changes on the releases section scheduled for tomorrow include: per-release download count (AT LAST!!!), no more zero-byte/corrupt downloads (I hope), no more Passport sign-in for downloads (great), off-site hosting of releases (cool). Really sweet. [Via Andy Oakley] ...
Watch out for some improvements in the Workspaces bug tracker next week (Tuesday 3/16/04). GotDotNet Workspaces are about to be updated. Improvements: better bug search, separating bugs by a custom field (such as build number), customization of bug display, ability to export bug lists to XML, file attachments. Not ...
Rick Schaut writes about stupidity of the XOR trick these days: So, not only is the XOR swap stupid because it's obscure, it's stupid because, with modern optimizing compilers, the eventual result often ends up being contrary to the intended result of using the coding trick in the first place ...
I'm sure many of you know this page, but for the rest - here is useful link to default Visual Studio .NET shortcut keys. I like this stuff. My favorite one is CTRL + TAB to navigate over opened files. [Via Jason Mauss] ...