Worst and Best Technologies, 2003-2004

Worst Technology of 2003 [http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,558787,00.html] – Paperless Voting Best Technology of 2003 [http://www.fortune.com/fortune/peterlewis/0,15704,558783,00.html] – The Camera Phone 10 Technologies to watch in 2004 [http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/…

SQLite

SQLite [http://www.sqlite.org/] is an embeddable SQL database engine which can perform upto two times faster [http://www.sqlite.org/speed.html] than PostgreSQL and MySQL for many common operations. With a small memory footprint and?support for databases upto 2 terabyte, its an ideal option for embedded…

Google Book Search (Beta)

Amazon.com’s feature for searching within books, introduced in October, now has competition. Google, the leading search engine, is testing a similar, unnamed service, introduced about two weeks ago with no publicity. When used with regular Google searches, the feature returns links to passages within books. It can also…

Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET

I came across dotnetcoders.com [http://www.dotnetcoders.com/] while searching for a UI component on Google. The site hasn’t been updated in months but I did find some nice articles on their site: * Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET [http://www.dotnetcoders.com/web/Articles/ShowArticle.aspx?article=…

DotNetSIG December Session (21st Dec)

The Delhi .NET?Developers Group [http://groups.msn.com/dotnetsig] presents interactive sessions on Assemblies and .NET Remoting, on 21st December 2003. Assemblies : Inside preview of a .NET Assembly — We will be discussing the purpose of an assembly as well as related concepts such as metadata, modules, and the broad…

XP SP2, and Smallest Executables

Microsoft tech writers explain in this downloadable document [http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/9/879a7b46-5ddb-4a82-b64d-64e791b3c9ae/WinXPSP2_Documentation.doc] (539 kb) some of the biggest changes on tap Windows XP Service Pack 2 — the first beta of which is due for unveiling any day now. [via Neowin [http://www.…

Mono Live!

mo8il [http://www.mo8il.com/]?seems to be one of the first real & live?ASP.NET application powered by Mono [http://www.go-mono.com/]. [Via Miguel [http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2003/Dec-09.html]]…

MSDN December Sessions in India

MSDN Sessions on ASP.NET: Best Practices and Techniques for Building Secure ASP.NET Applications?are scheduled from 9th?to 18th December 2003 in 6 Indian cities. More details … [http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/events/]…