Performance Comparison of Java/.NET

Performance Comparison of Java/.NET Runtimes [http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/] – Technical Consultant Kazuyuki Shudo has published a set of benchmarks [http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/] comparing various Java Virtual Machine and .NET runtimes. Slashdot also has an on-going discussion of the results [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.…

Some free .NET controls

Some really cool and free .NET user controls [http://www.ms-inc.net/Default.aspx?Page=Products&ProductID=Dropdown] (including an Authorize.Net [http://www.authorize.net/] Payment Gateway integration component in C#) from Morrison Schwartz.…

MonoDevelop

MonoDevelop [http://www.monodevelop.com/about.aspx] is a project to port SharpDevelop [http://www.sharpdevelop.com/] to Gtk#. It is a C# and Mono [http://www.go-mono.com] development environment (IDE) for Unix systems.…

XML Pipelining

Sean McGrath [http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/] has uploaded the slides from his XML pipelining presentation [http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com/pipelines.ppt] (700k Powerpoint) at XML Open 2004 [http://www.xmlopen.org/]. XML Pipelining is an architectural framework for developing robust, scaleable, manageable XML processing systems. It is based on proven…

Gmail and DomainKeys

Google has begun signing outgoing e-mail from Gmail with Yahoo’s DomainKeys [http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys] signatures. DomainKeys is a technology for verifying both the domain of each e-mail sender and the integrity of the messages sent … much like the Microsoft Caller ID [http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-atkinson-callerid-00.…

Google Desktop Search

Google Desktop Search [http://desktop.google.com/] helps find files and e-mail on a local computer. Another feather in the cap .. eh!…