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…
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.…
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=…
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).…