Adding a zip filter to Web Services

Adding a zip filter to web services [http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WebServiceZipFilter.asp] (C# WebServices) – Passing large amount of data through web services can become a hugh bottle-neck in WAN application architecture … , this is one solution for downsizing the network costs. [via Scott Galloway [http://www.mostlylucid.co.uk/…

Sun's Looking Glass

Project Looking Glass [http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/index.html] by Sun is the new 3D user interface engine (screenshots [http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details.html]) for Java applications. Are we catching up to Avalon [http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/?//longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/…

TeraGrid vs Distributed Computing

“After three years of development and nearly a hundred million dollars the TeraGrid [http://www.teragrid.org/] has been running at or above most peoples expectations for such a daunting project. On January 23, 2004 the system came online and provided 4.5 teraflops of computing power to scientists across…

VS 2005 Overview

Visual Studio 2005 Product Line Overview [http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/productinfo/productline/default.aspx]; highlighting the differences between the Express, Professional and Team System products.…

Open Source .NET

Miguel de Icaza, the founder of the Mono [http://www.mono-project.com] project talks [http://news.com.com/More+than+an+open-source+curiosity/2008-7344_3-5271084.html?tag=nefd.lede] about the path to porting the .NET framework (and its internal mechanics) to Unix. Miguel goes on to say “Today what’…

Wolfenstein 5K

Wolfenstein 5K [http://www.wolf5k.com/#] – A fun first-person 3D shooting game in 5k of JavaScript. Now *this* is small code!…

List of eBook sites

A huge list of eBook sites [http://www.edaboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=55808], on almost everything from .NET to Corba to SQL to Stephen Hawkings Universe.…

Usablity Breadcrumb

Ask any web developer and they know how scary HTML (the language webpages are written in) can be, both to code and to maintain. Infinite table tags, unclosed tags and what not. Mix it with a server-side script (like ASP or PHP) and you have a perfect example of “spaghetti-style”…