Oh, man! I just discovered that one of my most-used public addresses (from email.com) somehow “forgot” that it's supposed to be forwarding my mail to a real account. And, of course, since it's a public address, my Inbox quickly overflowed with offers of Rolexes and ph\@rm4sootikals. So, if …
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more ...Julia really likes Loren's animated demo of his Circuit App…Very few actually venture into the complex yet so exciting world of custom recognizers that work on shapes. That's why Loren's and xThink's applications look so darn impressive - they are the cream of the crop, the ultimate and …
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more ...Andy "ZMan" Dunn who has created a website, The Z Buffer, that's completely dedicated to Managed DirectX goodness. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [InkBlog: The Random Musings of David Weller] :::
more ...Iggy says: I wonder if anybody really cares about text entry speeds in a time when cheap scanners and great OCR technologies are widely available. I doubt there is any relationship between text entry speeds and good writing or good coding which are text intensive activities…Most good writing or …
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more ...Scott Hanselman has a great entry on unit testing ASP.NET code by using Cassini [via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Commonality] :::
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more ...Joe Gregorio has a really nice column up on XML.COM: How to create a REST Protocol. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [BitWorking] :::
We're not supposed to publish benchmark numbers on beta code, so I'll just urge you to try this one on your own. A colleague of mine, a noted Java author, recently disparaged .NET's generics, saying they were “based on” work done in Java and that Java 1.5's generics and …
more ...Argh! One of the drives on my main dev machine just sh*t the brick. Just as I was pondering buying one of those “one-button push” backup systems. Ironically, the drive that died had the /Program Files/ where my backup software lived. So now I'm staring at the machine, trying …
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