Developing World-Ready Applications [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpcondesigningglobalapplications.asp] . > When developing world-ready applications, you must focus attention on a variety of issues throughout the application design and development process. The three key issues are globalization, localizability, and localization.…
How Many Words-Per-Minute Do You Read [http://mindbluff.com/askread2.htm]? I’m an above average reader, thank you 🙂…
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.…
The Top 100 This-and-Thats of the 20th Century [http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/top100s.htm]…
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=…
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 (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:…
100 Top Global Brands – Most Successful Companies [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-22-2004/0002216542&EDATE=] (scroll down on the linked page for the complete list).…