Performance Comparison of Java/.NET

Performance Comparison of Java/.NET Runtimes – Technical Consultant Kazuyuki Shudo has published a set of benchmarks comparing various Java Virtual Machine and .NET runtimes. Slashdot also has an on-going discussion of the results.…

Lucene is now SearchBlackBox

I was looking at Lucene .NET for a full-text search engine implementation?but I was surprised to find out that the Lucene.NET application library is not open source anymore. It has been relaunched as a commercial product called SearchBlackBox. Lucene .NET is the core search technology behind the popular…

MyXaml

Just came across this nice open source tool called MyXaml (dev blog), which?offers declarative markup (XUL-like)?capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles on XAML.…

J2EE vs .NET Web Services

The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET – A comparison of building XML-based web services is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.…

Signal-to-Noise #9

dotText pre-0.96 – Two new features (among others), Search and ScheduledEvents,?in dotText (pre-0.96) that I’ll be?going through?for sure to learn more on the implementation and design. From Scott’s blog: “ScheduledEvents is a?simple API for scheduling a recurring event (or…

Signal-to-Noise #8

Code Reviews – Sample chapters [#2 and #6] from Karl Weigers’ book on Code Reviews. [via Joseph Cooney] Web Services vs. Remoting, by Chris Taylor SQL Server Yukon – Articles, Code, and other Resources for Yukon Developers at CLRSQL.com. [via Randy Holloway] WinFS -?architecture diagram (below)…

Signal-to-Noise #7

A new version (4.1.3) of Inno Setup (an application installer & setup creation tool that I use quite frequently) has been released with an all-new Explorer-like folder browser. With Visual Studio Whidbey, Microsoft will deliver a set of tools (code-named “Whitehorse”) that enable architects and developers…

Signal-to-Noise #6

Sample chapters (Part 1 and Part 2) from O’Reilly’s ADO.NET Cookbook Ted Neward shares his thoughts on the talk Joel Spolsky gave on “Designing Applications With The User in Mind” at UCDavis Microsoft Interview Questions by Chris Sells. [via Jason Salas] New article…