Is InfoPath the New Excel? I ask in my latest SD Times column.

I installed the Whidbey preview on a VPC virtual machine at the weekend, hoping to check out the new features, but they don't seem to be implemented in this build. via [Cook Computing]

~~Can anyone confirm if the C++/CLI extensions are in the PDC bits? My initial attempts to …

Sure, Gates announced the next version of Windows XP Tablet "by the middle of" 2004, but in the near future, Waggener Edstrom's Tina Warner tells me that the Tablet PC 1.7 SDK will ship with the PDC post-show attendee kits "so timing may be another few weeks." I can't …

GPS-based Anti-Terrorist "Stop Speeding Trucks" Tech Under Attack

Perhaps I haven't had enough coffee this morning because it seems obvious that one should be able to construct a pithy logical statement that encapsulates the notion that it can't be a good idea to mandate a remotely-controlled software-based solution that provides …

Chris Woofruff wonders if Python's built-in facility for dictionaries / associative arrays satisfies Ted Neward's desire for relational language extensions. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think so. To me, Ted's post jumped off the idea of relational operators creating new types (although Ted didn't explicitly discuss it): 

relvar[person …

Ted Neward wants relational language extensions:

Basically, I want the object-relational impedance mismatch to go away, just like everybody else does. But instead of continuing to try to force objects on top of the relational model, how about we give up going in that direction, and instead try lacing relational …

Okay, I admit it. I had hoped for at least one in the "comments" for "sementic web".

Finally went through all the free magazines from PDC. I have to say that I was most impressed by the content of .NET Developer's Journal. (I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say it was better than MSDN Magazine, but that's a known quantity).

Adapt to offshoring or die says Amit Maheshwari on C|Net, "The survivors will be those who embrace offshore operations as yet another opportunity to expand their professional skill set and position themselves as offshore management leaders...."

"Expand your professional skill set" is a polite way to say "abandon your …

Peter Coffee sees a move towards standards compliance from Microsoft at PDC via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

In the tiny little world of software development tech journalism, it looks like Microsoft is getting passing grades on the standards issue. Jon Udell's debate with Dare has calmed down (although note that since …