"... pregnant with thought ..."

Rory [http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/1303.aspx] on PDC 2003 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/]: “Up until a couple days ago, I was a Large-Conference-Virgin. I have since been robbed of my innocence, and am now pregnant with thought …” Got me thinking, maybe this ?should have said “I…

AssemblyDiff Tool

John Lam (iunknown) [http://www.iunknown.com/] has developed a small utility that will diff two different sets of assemblies and calculate the diff between .NET v1.1 and v1.2 of the Frameworks. Check it out here [http://www.iunknown.com/000364.html] ……

Articles at MSDNAA

The following two articles at MSDNAA [http://msdnaa.net/] are?pretty interesting: Use Design Patterns to Simplify the Relationship Between Menus and Form Elements in .NET [http://msdnaa.net/Resources/display.aspx?ResID=2337] – In Windows Forms applications, similar commands, such as those in a menu and their counterparts on…

Longhorn and Whidbey Preview for MSDN Subscribers

MSDN Operating Systems, Professional, Enterprise, and Universal subscribers can request [http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/productinfo/] a set of the software that will be distributed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 (PDC), including the preview versions of Longhorn, the Longhorn SDK, and Microsoft Visual Studio code-named “Whidbey.”…

High-end Backend

Werner Vogels [http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/] has gathered some interesting notes [http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/archives/000280.html] on the backend architecture of some largely complex and distributed database-driven systems like those at eBay, Merrill Lynch, Swab, NASDAQ etc.…

Interviews from PDC

Radio Interviews with .NET techies from PDC [http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/radio2003/interviews.cfm] via SYS-CON [http://www.sys-con.com/] Radio.…

Avalon Screen Saver Contest and Longhorn Installation Tips

XAML [http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/?//longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/core/overviews/about%20xaml.aspx] != [http://wesnerm.blogs.com/net_undocumented/2003/10/markupbased_ui.html] XUL [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/]??!?! [http://longhornblogs.com/rdawson/posts/496.aspx] Avalon Screen Saver Contest Info [http://longhornblogs.com/avalonscreensavercontest/…

The Best New Technologies of 2003

Business 2.0 (November 2003 Issue [http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/current/0,1639,,00.html]) features a nice article on The Best New Technologies of 2003 [http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,52968,00.html]. “Social Network Applications” is rated as the The Technology of the…