Mystic Microsoft

Spiritual Transformation in the Halls of High Technology [http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/index.htm] – Kraig Brockschmidt [http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/AbouttheAuthor.htm], former employee of Microsoft wrote this draft copy for his (new) book. Not sure if its been published yet or not but its very interesting. Its…

ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow and VS.NET Automation Samples

Maybe I’ve mentioned this one before but its worth it!?The creators of ASP.NET are coming to a city near you. This is your chance to receive FREE, in-depth training on Microsoft’s web development platform.?So do go catch the ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow [http://www.asp.…

C# Class Generator and World's Largest Databases

C# Class Generator [http://www.csharpfriends.com/demos/csharp_class_generator.aspx] – is a pretty simple web-based utility which?automagically [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=automagically] generates a complete C# class (and the Data Access?Tier methods) from specified field inputs. Also: Survey…

Craftsmanship

Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Craftsmanship.html]?where he?rightly?points-out — “Writing code is not production, it’s not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it’s design.” Also, Amit Kalani has written some preparation books for the MCAD…

Web Server Usage Survey and Comparator

Port80 Surveys the Top 1000 Corporations’ Web Servers [http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000webservers/] versus Netcraft Web Server Survey [http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html]. So who’s winning? Vasanth Dharmaraj presents Comparator [http://www.vasanthdharmaraj.com/software/comparator/] – a slick tool (written in .NET, source code…

Longhorn Review @ CNET

John Morris from CNET recently reviewed Microsoft Windows Longhorn [http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-1-21008729.html?tag=cnetfd.glnav]. Its more of a non-developers point-of-view but a good read. John also mentions that the retail market cost of Longhorn will be the same as that of XP (according to Bill Gates)…

Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon

Rob Davis [http://www.softwaretestengineer.com/] has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing [http://www.robdavispe.com/free2/]. [via Siva Rama Krishna [http://geekswithblogs.net/srkprasad/]] Today, I also came across this control (for Avalon) called UltraGrid [http://www.infragistics.…

PDC Content and Multi-direction Treeview Control

FYI, the entire audio/visual content from PDC 2003 is available online [http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm] (via Microsoft). Also, Sean Gerety [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/metablog/posts/3841.aspx] has an interesting idea for a multi-direction treeview control (mockup below): [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/metablog/posts/3841.…