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I saw this over on Zeldman's site awhile back, but just now got around to writing about it. One of the crazes among some webloggers is to obtain an ISSN number (or International Standard Serial Number) for their web presence. An ISSN is a numeric ID that is used to...
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Not Goodbye: See You Soon! I'd like to thank to all who visited this space, who read what I had to say, and who threw their own ideas into the ring. Many of you have made it clear that this effort has been useful to you, and it certainly was for me. A word on URLs and permalinks: I'm committed to leaving this site up and properly hosted in the hope that it may continue to be useful to someone out there, and of course to avoid breaking all those inbound links people have been generous enough to create. For those of you who are email subscribers to Skipping Dot Net site updates, there won't be many more, and the one feature that TypePad doesn't seem to offer is email subscription. I have the technology to do handle a mailing list myself manually, but it'd be a little work and I certainly don't want to spam anyone. I'm looking at options through TypePad, and depending on circumstances I may send one more email to SDN site members asking if you want to sign up for email updates from ...
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A 'Next Big Thing' Of My Own -- Only Mine Won't Cost You Anything With .NET a thing of the past, it's time for me to move on, weblog-wise. I want to cover some of the same topic areas, but in a new home, where I'm not tilting at the old dead windmill of .NET. Earlier this month, I broke the seal on a fresh can of TypePad -- another hosted weblog service, based on Movable Type rather than this site's Manila foundation. It's a nice bonus that my new weblog is based on open source technologies like Linux, Apache, and Perl, but I chose TypePad as my new home for another reason: their service is at least two years newer, fresher, cleaner, and more user-friendly than the one I'm using now, and it's a joy to work with. At $14.95 monthly, I'd recommend the premium Pro plan to anyone interested in writing on the web. This is my second-last post here on Skipping Dot Net. The final post will be a comprehensive SDN Article Index, to be put up soon. Please come check out the new weblog, already ...
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Over the years, Mr. Gates referred to .Net repeatedly as a "bet-the-company thing", sounding a bit like a compulsive gambler. You may have noticed lately that he's using the same phrase to describe the <a href="http://inukshuk.typepad.com/software/2003/09/longhorn_shmong.html">repeatedly delayed Longhorn release of Windows</a>, which is, of course, their current Next Big Thing.
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Particularly funny in that article are the sidebars, Read What We Thought .Net Was Before Its Launch, followed by And Then What We Thought After the Rollout. Noting We Weren't the Only Ones Confused, the story also links to a story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in July of 2002, Gates Admits .Net Missteps. See also Microsoft Continues '.Net' Naming Purge - But Quietly.
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Later, in April, Mary Jo Foley reported in her Microsoft Watch column on The Disappear.Net Campaign:
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.NET Is History - I'm Not Making This Up This is actually old news: in January of this year, Peter Galli reported in Windows Server Gets a New Name in eWeek:
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Previous Three Posts (or see Top 50) Wash Your Hands Often And Stay Healthy2003/05/31A jumble on SARS, mentorship, and the value of separating your DNS servers from your hosting arrangement. Book Review: Extreme Programming In Practice2003/04/30An eye-opening case study of a team's first XP project, and a very quick read. Book Review: Planning Extreme Programming (XP)2003/04/19Part of a series of XP books, this is a great intro to simpler and more valuable software development planning. Like what you see here? Please visit my new and improved weblog, Open For Business, at http://inukshuk.typepad.com.
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(<img src="http://downloads.redjupiter.com/users/images/sdn/permalink.gif" height="14" width="54" border="0" alt="Permalink: A permanent link to this page.">)
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A droplet which runs a shell script on each file, in this case bzip2. It spawns a new backgrounded thread for each file, and provides no feedback! Can be easily modified to use gzip or any other command line utlity on a file.
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I know a bunch of you enjoyed participating in or looking at the results of the "26 Things" photo project. The next one is due to start in November! Here are my entries from last time......
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| 21:59:30 September 28, 2003, Sunday (PDT) |
Source: metrocake |
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Karaoke Blogging [Popdex - the website popularity index]
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Convea Ltd, a central London-based supplier of enterprise business solutions, has answered the call of the open source community and launched an open challenge to SCO WebFace, making available Convea's revolutionary Web-based business application platform for free.
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The names and places change, but the story stays the same. FIDELITY ASSURANCE, FINANCE AND SECURITY.NIG. PLC PLOT 325, BILLINSWAY ROAD, OGBA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, OGBA- IKEJA,LAGOS. OUR REF: DIR. OF RESEARCH YOUR REF: . SIR, REQUEST FOR BUSINESS ASSISTANCE IT...
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And, we're back. I like it here. I think we'll stay....
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Uncrackable beams of light:MagiQ is in the final stages of testing a system for quantum cryptography, which it plans to release commercially within the next few months. Encryption engineers have long waxed lyrical about quantum cryptography, but this is among...
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Uncrackable beams of light:MagiQ is in the final stages of testing a system for quantum cryptography, which it plans to release commercially within the next few months. Encryption engineers have long waxed lyrical about quantum cryptography, but this is among...
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As of now, my record for NFL 2003 is a 7 cent profit. Woo hoo!...
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| 21:29:40 September 28, 2003, Sunday (PDT) |
Source: Gamblitorial |
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To delete or not to delete. That is the big question in our household. Our sassy little TiVo records numerous programs all week long, and as I watch them or decide they are unworthy of watching, I delete them...immediately. Unlike my husband who says we have 80 hours of recording time and there's no need to delete a half-hour program when TiVo has 73 hours of free space. The thing is, I like deleting shows when I'm finished with them. There's such a sense of power that goes along with that cute little remote and that TiVo screen with all it's blip-blop noises. Just because TiVO decided to tape 4 episodes of Golden Girls in one afternoon, why do I have stare at those titles every time I scroll through the list of shows? Delete them for christ sake.
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| 21:02:23 September 28, 2003, Sunday (PDT) |
Source: HopeLyn |
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I realize that most of you have already enjoyed many weeks of autumnal weather this year, but not us here in Tennessee. We are not so lucky as to have an actual change in the weather when the seasons change. That is, unless you count...
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I realize that most of you have already enjoyed many weeks of autumnal weather this year, but not us here in Tennessee. We are not so lucky as to have an actual change in the weather when the seasons change. That is, unless you count...
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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 02:10:11 -0600 From: KC Wizards Newsletter Subscription To: KC Wizards Newsletter Wizards Clinch Playoff Spot In 2-1 Win Over Galaxy Klein Gives KC Edge In LA With Two Goals Scoring Summary: LA- Alejandro Moreno-3 (Diego...
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| 20:11:20 September 28, 2003, Sunday (PDT) |
Source: Karl |
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I posted in the wrong section earlier. But I asked if anyone can tell me if Blitzkrieg is a good game. Please let me know.
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Can anyone tell me if the game Blitzkrieg is any good?
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With a Test series at home against hard-working New Zealand close at hand, the Indian fans, media and even the BCCI seems enamored of the 4-Test tour to Australia at the end of the year. Is there too much focus on that series, and should unrealistic expectations be scaled down?
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This post (and this weblog) has a new home. StAX is a new pull-oriented API for streaming XML that is part of the JCP as JSR-173, and XML.com has an introductory article from Elliotte Rusty Harold. A pull-oriented API allows an application to request events from the underlying parser, while a push-oriented API (e.g., SAX) feeds events to listeners or handlers. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. Push-oriented APIs typically require awkward and complex programming patterns to manage state, and pull-oriented APIs typically require big switch statements and if/else blocks. Comments on StAX The StAX specification was recently released for public review, and I had time to kill on a plane ride from the west coast — so I had a look. I'm generically in favor of having an XML pull-parsing API for Java (and XMLPull needed some work and broader support), but I also found a few items worth commenting on: One of the requirements is: R03: When parsing an XML document that uses ...
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I'm a sloppy guy. I've long since come to grips with this fact, but sometimes the side effect of my...
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Chris Lydon's Wes Clark press conference is an eye-opener. Time for some movement on RSS enclosures in NetNewsWire please.
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So I have been hearing from people more and more lately that they have NOT been getting my email and that just plain sucks. What really sucks is the fact I run an ISP and I can't get my own email working! Of course, I depend on email ...
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