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IT Conversations brings us an interesting audio interview with Tim O'Reilly (with a perhaps overly-fawning interviewer). O'Reilly offers some details about the history of O'Reilly & Associates. More importantly, he discusses the software paradigm shift:
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| 10:55:23 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: CapeBlog |
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WebServices - New TWiki Soap Client Plugin, Links, resources, and notes on all aspects of web services. Web Services TOC Core Specifications http//www.w3.org/TR/wsdl Web Services ...
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Heard some rumours today that SharePoint is out!!! Don't know if it is only WSS, or SPS as well. Seems to be available on download site for the big companies that have a corprate license with M$. Not on MSDN yet, will be there soon. I heard of a release date of oktober 1, 2003.<img src ="http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/aggbug/28950.aspx" width = "1" height = "1" />
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Ever imported a web part into WSS/SPS, added it to a web part page and regretted it because it messed up your web part page? I did! Today a collegue told me the trick (thanks Dirk!): Enter the following URL in your browser: http://servername/_layouts/1033/spcontnt.aspx?PageView=Shared&url=urlofpage You now get an overview of all web parts on the page and can perform administrative tasks on them. I also messed up my portal homepage, but couldn't get it working here! Any ideas?
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How could Skype transform your industry? Your favorite tools? What would a Skype-enabled newsreader look like? Does WiFi + Skype = POTS? What social network analysis would you like to pull from the Skype network? How much money can we make in Skype ring-tones? What commands could we stick at the end of "call://userid/"? Now add beer. Wednesday, 24 September 20036pm Pacific Coast Brewing Co. 906 Washington St. (in Old Oakland, a block from 9th and Broadway)Oakland, California 94607Yahoo! mapNew! Guest caller: The Skype team all the way from Denmark (2-3 in the morning Copenhagen time). Call me at 510-444-8234 or Skype me.
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Let us consider together, for no other justifiable reason than that I saw them within two days of each other, the aforementioned Underworld and Keith Hennesy's Circo Zero. In both cases you've got good costumes, attractive performers, plenty of room for shadow, &c. But you could've guessed all that. What struck me, because, either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm getting soft, was the politics. Yes, Underworld has politics, and if you give even the slightest provisional rat's ass about the plot, such as it is, then stop reading right this minute or you'll be annoyed with me 'cause I'll just have rendered the narrative even more dreary and inevitable than it would have otherwise unaided been. As should be obvious from the trailer, but not the poster, you've got your basic centuries-long inter-species blood feud between the cool-and-refined, brooding, self-satisfied vampires and the somewhat more rough-and-edgy, down-and-out-at-the-talons werewolves (except that the term "werewolves" ...
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| 10:30:18 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Bluvox |
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On a chain of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following people are stranded: Two Italian men and one Italian woman Two French men and one French woman Two German men and one German woman Two Greek...
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| 10:28:43 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: jenEbean |
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More Compact Framework Thoughts Wow! Two posts in one day. Considering the dearth of posts from this blog lately that is pretty amazing. After my earlier rant I remember something I brought up with the CF team at Microsoft. When I have heard the limitations of CF described in the past by MS folks it has been in the context of, "We are running on smaller, memory constrained devices so we built a smaller version of the framework that fits in just 2 MB." That is all well and good but I am starting to do work for Windows CE based devices with 128MB and 256MB and I really want the full power of the framework. While it is impressive that they were able to compress the amount of goodness that they did into 2 MB but what about developers for which there is abundant memory available? Why didn't the team take more of a factored approach such that if I was willing to give them another 2MB I could get remoting or <insert your favorite dropped feature here>? This really brings to life the ...
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Blair's dodgy dossier
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| 10:21:42 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: iMakeContent |
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Well, it's been a while, but here we go...this weekend's MLS results: New England 0 - 0 Colorado Rapids -...
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| 10:11:07 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Karl |
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L - MachL 3.8 (via Chris Sell's)...
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The weekend after we tracked down our network problem to a bad router and replaced it, i had a hard...
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The NIST Mass Spectrometry of Synthetic-Polymer Mixtures Workshop will be held in Gaithersburg, MD, November 13-14, 2003.
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I spent a whole lot of time today in trying to contact Dell support to help me fix a bug in my PC. I had to hold on for over 40 minutes before a customer service person actually took my call - and then another 10 minutes or so before i was re-directed to the right person for help. Made me think of business opportunities around Skype - how easy it would be if they had a 'skype me' support line - i could just buzz them with a skype me request to call - and they could get back to me when i'm online. So neat if vendors of software and support centers could build this into their systems. This sounds like fun - Stuart and Phil are organizing dinner tonight (breakfast hour here) to brainstorm and discuss opportunities around Skype.
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Wonderful technology huh? I don't have administrator privs on that box though, so I am probably screwed.
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I'm not dead and haven't lost the tablet. I've been swamped with work and considering some big changes. There have been some very interesting developments I'm in a fortunate spot considering the climate out there, we'll see how things turn out this week.
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Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking as they wonder around my university campus. Im all for individualism but some people take it to the extreme. In the past weeks I have seen some horrible fashion. Tilley in not some fashion guru, or even do I care about fashion, but I know the crushed velvet pants should never be worn. EVER! Also I saw a girl in 80s style leg warmers! I thought I had been implanted in flash dance. Then there was this other young lady with fluorescent yellow shoes. This caught my attention from over 100 yards away. It was like her feet were glowing with radiation it was so bright. But maybe all these things are what the cool kids are doing. Oh and there should be some kind of washroom graffiti code. When in the can you want amusing statements written about. Things like for a good time contact danger. Not a huge ad done in white out for Ultima Online. I kid you not. Some one took the time and tagged UO and its symbol on the back of the stall door. This ...
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Although the graphics weren’t completely finished and they only saw the pre-alpha version of Slitherine's newest game SpartanGamers Europe previewers liked what they saw. "There is a good Civ-like strategy element, and the battles play smoothly, no matter how many units are involved. I watched a battle between the Persians and the Athenians. It started out with several large blocks of red and blue on a minimap and the main viewing area was devoted to the battle itself. As the Persian cavalry advanced, the Athenian phalanx lay in wait. At the very last moment, 100 spears, each 30’ long came up out of the grass to meet the charging cavalry. “Can you say kebab?” I asked. Indeed they could. The rest of the Persian army saw this and thought “oh dear”. After a while the battle began to go in favour of the Athenians. Morale plays a big part in this game. If you start losing a little, you’ll soon start losing a lot. If your poor infantry are charged from the flanks or the rear, don’t be ...
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| 09:27:36 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Ancient Games |
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I want a Pumpkin Subway, NYC September 2003 Lomo, LCA It is my most favoritest-time of the year. From September 1st until January 1st is my favorite time of year. I love the weather, the holidays, and the move...
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| 09:26:49 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Mudpiemarie |
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I am really tired of writing the following code every time I use the SqlXml managed provider: try { XmlReader reader = command.ExecuteXmlReader(); } catch (SqlXmlException exception) { exception.ErrorStream.Position = 0; throw new ApplicationException(new StreamReader(exception.ErrorStream).ReadToEnd(), exception); } The problem is that all the interesting information for a SqlXml error is contained in the ErrorStream and not in the exception description. This and a few other reasons have finally driven me to write my own SqlXml managed provider. It will probably be more like an adapter (in the Gang of Four sense) which aggregates the existing provider because I’m going to tweak the interface quite a bit to my own taste. But hopefully it will enable me to reuse the 100 lines of code or so that I have to include every time I use the SqlXml managed provider. I will post the new provider when I finish developing it. Ironically it probably suggests that we should ship a new version of ...
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Yesterday, and today various Dutch newspapers reported that Minardis number One driver Jos Verstappen will probably move to Jaguar for the 2004 Grand Prix season. Nicolas Kiesa broke the news on Danish TV some days ago, when asked what his chances were to continue his drive for Minardi in 2004.
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| 09:15:33 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Magic Minardi |
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Despite favorable reviews by GameZone, Game Chronicles, and Ace Games, Computer Gaming World gave Chariots of War only a "fair" review in its latest issue. "Surprisingly, there's no battlefield commanding once combat begins. You're forced to watch your army carry out overly simplified movements until the battle is over. Victory is based soley on your predeployment choices, rather than your leadership during the fray...These chariots are doomed to run in endless frustrating circles."
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| 09:12:43 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Ancient Games |
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A new Raggle Windows installer is available here (signature). Please note that this is still an alpha release; it does have a number of outstanding quirks. That said, we'd appreciate your feedback.
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| 09:06:14 September 24, 2003, Wednesday (PDT) |
Source: Raggle News |
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Here are some recent articles about CodeSmith: Interview with me on the Code Generation Network Article on Tech Head Brothers about CodeSmith (In French) Article on Developer.com referring to CodeSmith Article on TechRepublic referring to CodeSmith
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(Picking out the gems. Adding Waypath Referencing to My Weblog. Summary: A chance to scan weblogs that also deal with the same topic? Useful, helpful, even to the writer who in some real sense ...)
Picking out the gems. Adding Waypath Referencing to My Weblog. Summary: A chance to scan weblogs that also deal with the same topic? Useful, helpful, even to the writer who in some real sense discovers the subject after having completed the effort. But useful, certainly, to the reader who found the blog entry through, say, Google, and then has some Waypath located blogs to follow. Lilia got Waypath to work for her. Waypath plug-in installed. I wrote earlier about Waypath Radio plug-in, but didn't have time to install it. I did it today - check my homepage to see how it works (I'd like to play a bit more with styling, but this is for another time). Let's see if it survives in my templates :) [Mathemagenic] If you see some links below... then it will have worked for me too. ;o]} [Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog] Waypath looks interesting. They claim to have over 8 million posts in their database which is a lot. It'll be interesting to see how this develops and how often they ...
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(Picking out the gems. Adding Waypath Referencing to My Weblog. Summary: A chance to scan weblogs that also deal with the same topic? Useful, helpful, even to the writer who in some real sense ...)
Picking out the gems. Adding Waypath Referencing to My Weblog. Summary: A chance to scan weblogs that also deal with the same topic? Useful, helpful, even to the writer who in some real sense discovers the subject after having completed the effort. But useful, certainly, to the reader who found the blog entry through, say, Google, and then has some Waypath located blogs to follow. Lilia got Waypath to work for her. Waypath plug-in installed. I wrote earlier about Waypath Radio plug-in, but didn't have time to install it. I did it today - check my homepage to see how it works (I'd like to play a bit more with styling, but this is for another time). Let's see if it survives in my templates :) [Mathemagenic] If you see some links below... then it will have worked for me too. ;o]} [Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog] Waypath looks interesting. They claim to have over 8 million posts in their database which is a lot. It'll be interesting to see how this develops and how often they ...
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So, I'm in a new apartment. A one bedroom, all by myself for the first time and it's marvellous. The location is good, the landlord is great, and all my stuff fits in it! But there's just one thing: The garbage truck.The garbage truck comes promptly at 6:00AM every Tuesday morning.The garbage truck backs into the parking lot, right by my bedroom window.The garbage truck has an unnaturally loud backing up indicator beep.So there I am, happily dreaming and coming to the end of my restful sleep and suddenty everthing that was once shining and cheerful is oozing black tar. The sky goes black. The air rings with a blood curtling screech. It's disrupting to my sleep, and I wake up horrified, my heart pounding in my chest. I open my eyes. The morning sunshine is just creeping through the blinds. But the beeping! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!I can't escape it.It's everywhere.And then the realization comes: it's Tuesday.The trashman screams out a shockingly blissful "Good Morning!" to my ...
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Compact Framework Rant I admit it. I have been doing a considerable amount of Compact Framework programming over the last couple of months. First off let me say I think Compact Framework hold great potential. That being said I think it has a long way to go. I recently build two applications using the compact framework. One was a kiosk style application that had to communicate with other controller programs running on the kiosk. This communication ended up happening using windows messages. Luckily the MessageWindow class provides a way to receive messages however it is the only hWnd exposed so the applications I was communicating with had to do a FindWindow() on my forms to find their hWnds. Ridiculous considering the hWnd is exposed off each windows form in the desktop framework. Next problem we hit was that come to find out Windows CE has a 32MB process size limit! Of course we were precaching a number of graphics, etc and even attempting to play video which meant that we hit this ...
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Am I the last truly 'straight' woman online?...
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