Cedric Beust's blog entry from the J2EE / .NET Smackdown event. Since he was in the audience, he was actually able to see the slides! He's got some good quotes.

Matt Gripes wrote: What about platform independence? I thought one of the paramount reasons to write applications in Java was "write once, run anywhere". I like that my java apps work on any platform that has a JVM. When did that become unimportant or unnecessary?

I'm glad Ximian wrote a …

Everett (Visual Studio .NET 2003) is now in final beta and available for download to MSDN subscribers.

Big news for me is that all the code for Thinking in C# (did you know that you can download the digital version?) has been checked and that VSN2K3 (oh yeah, that's attractive …

J2EE vs. .NET "Smackdown"

I was a "referee" last night at the J2EE vs. Microsoft "Smackdown" event created by SD Forum and held in Redwood Shores. There were about 300 people in the room and afterwards I talked with both teams and both felt that it was a good event …

Byte going pay-per-view in bid to stay afloat. Byte was the magazine for the personal computer enthusiast "in the day." Personally, I think that a cycle has come full around and there's probably demand for a print Byte-like magazine again but in the words of Austin Powers: "Alas, that …

Baby.msi Installation complete, reboot?

I'm proud to announce that at 1:07am this morning Christina and my first major release went gold. Claire Elizabeth Whittington was born at 8 pounds even.  Mom and baby are both doing fine and are asleep.  Dad is sooo sleepy.  Guess I've got plenty …

Blogging with ink from a Tablet PC

If you have IE, check it out. Unfortunately, Netscape can't render it. This is what it says:

Blogging from Tablet

Well, it's easy enough to write a client app that uses the Blogger API to add ink-based notes to your blog, but the …

~~Anyone know how to hook into an IRDA connection?~~ ~~Interesting. An Irda connection is just a specialized kind of socket; .NET provides good low-level access to sockes, so it should be possible to write a managed app that hooks into Irda connections.~~ Apparently, there is a nice high-level interface called …

Dan Bricklin's first impressions of the Tablet PC. [Scripting News]

Having used an Acer TravelMate for about 3 weeks, I think Dan is spot-on with most of his comments, especially about the primacy of reading, instant-on, etc. to the tablet experience. However, I seem to have had the best luck …

*Borland Investigating Mono for Kylix. "Borland is investigating use of Ximian Inc's Project Mono in Kylix, as a possible means for Windows developers to move .NET applications to Linux." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]. * via [Managed Space]