MyXaml

Just came across this nice open source tool called MyXaml [http://www.myxaml.com/] (dev blog [http://www.myxaml.com/marcclifton/]), which?offers declarative markup (XUL-like)?capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles on…

Redesigning Microsoft.com - with CSS, without tables

Redesigning Microsoft.com – with CSS, without tables [http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/throwing_tables/]. A 62% file size reduction anticipated! “If multiplied out by my measly 1 million page views estimate, that 25 KB savings comes to about 23.8 GB in bandwidth savings per day, or 8.5 terabytes…

SQL Jobs Auto-backup

A few days back, my friend Pankaj was enquiring about a particular case where he needed to automate the backup (in the form of SQL scripts) of all SQL Jobs (schedules) on a SQL Server (2000). DTS doesn’t support automatic scripting of SQL Jobs from what I could tell.…

J2EE vs .NET Web Services

The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET – A comparison of building XML-based web services [http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=J2EE-vs-DOTNET] is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.…

Internet Communications Engine (Ice)

The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) [http://www.zeroc.com] is an alternative to object oriented middleware such as CORBA or COM/DCOM/COM+. The latest release includes a new native implementation of Ice in C#, supported for both .NET and Mono (announcement [http://www.zeroc.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=…

Desi Ishpiderman

Ready for Desi Ishpiderman? Gotham Comics to release an Indian version of Spiderman [http://www.gothamcomics.com/spiderman_india/]. Somehow it doesn’t seem quite right to me, if you know what I mean 🙂…

SQL Server 2005 Beta

SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) Beta 2 is now available for MSDN subscribers [http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions] and SQL Server 2005 Express Beta 2 [http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/] have been released as well. Also a good read is the Comparison of MSDE with SQL Server Express [http:…