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…
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…
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)…
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.…
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.…
iText# (iTextSharp) [http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/] is a port of the iText open source java library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. iText# is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. It is implemented as an assembly. [via Jay R [http://weblogs.…
“Leaked” image of the VB.NET context menu or is it?!?! (via secretGeek [http://www16.brinkster.com/messydesk/db/refactvb.asp])…
Have you tried the beta release of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services [http://www.microsoft.com/sql/reporting/] yet? If so, please leave a comment on what you think of it. How does it compare to Crystal Reports 9 [http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/net/default.asp]? By the…