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July 31st, 2004 § No Comments Yet
Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold gives an insight into the development process of Windows Server 2003. Its an interesting article.
There are 5000 developers on the Windows team generating over 50 million lines of code for Windows Server 2003. It’s an enormous task, the biggest software engineering task ever attempted. There are no other software projects like this.
July 30th, 2004 § No Comments Yet
Skype 1.0 (the free internet telephony software for Windows & Linux from the founders of KaZaA) has been released! Its an awesome piece of software by all standards. I’ve been using Skype (pre-release beta) for a couple of months now and it just works! The voice quality (for PC to PC calls) is really good (except for some rare instances where the voice breaks, specially in bidirectional conversation, but that’s very rare). Version 1.0 also has in-built file sharing and the biggest feature of all – PC to Phone calls (not free but low cost). I see a lot of potential in Skype. It is currently offered in 15 languages and has already reached nearly 17 million downloads from more than 165 countries. As of February 2004, Skype was averaging approximately 15 new user registrations per minute. I’m sure that number is on a roll by now 
Skype is great role model for ideal software utilities. It solves a purpose (of free internet telephony), is simple to use (try it) and “does-what-it-says” quite efficiently. If you would like to know more about the technology behind Skype then you must read this cool article on decentralized/distributed P2P networks.
July 30th, 2004 § 1 Comment
UI Patterns and Techniques covers aspects such as navigation, content organization, forms management, showing complex data and more.
July 30th, 2004 § No Comments Yet
Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Seems like a nice way to exchange files, but I’m not quite sure what purpose does it solve over the conventional (and simpler) e-mail based file exchange which most people are already used to anyways. Got any ideas?
July 30th, 2004 § No Comments Yet
YukonXML.com is a new SQL Server 2005 Community Web site.
