~~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]

C# and Java: The Smart Distinctions. Article by Dominik Gruntz from Journal of Object Technology (Nov-Dec 2002 Issue), this article shows some of the subtle difference between C# and Java. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] via [Sam Gentile's Weblog]

This is a good article. I think Thinking in C# explicitly …

An important affirmation of the core strengths of C++: "Games are going to be written mostly in C++ for the next umpteen-thousand years. Even if MS comes through with their promise to make managed DirectX run at 98% performance, you won't be seeing C# games on the shelves. You're probably …

I'm a judge for the .NET vs. J2EE Smackdown Next Week

I've been asked to be one of the judges for next Monday's .NET vs. J2EE "Smackdown" event in Redwood Shores, which will have reps from Microsoft and Sun slinging code on stage. It ought to be a blast and …

The latest Joel on Software "The Law of Leaky Abstractions" is, as always, well worth reading.

Anders' presentation from OOPSLA contains some code samples of features that will be coming in the next major version of C# (note that these features are not in the Everett Visual Studio release which is due shortly; these features will probably be hitting the streets around a year from now …

New C# Language Features (someday).

::: {style="COLOR: #565656"} Chris Sells: "On November 7th, at the OOPSLA Conference in Seattle, WA, C# creator Anders Hejlsberg unveiled several potential language features for the next major release of Visual C# .NET. The four primary features Anders spoke about were:

-Generics, a form of …

During the Tablet PC launch keynote, Gates talked about "immersive reading" and ... a usable experience for interacting with published media on a computing device.  ....  I think it will be a lonnnng time before people are comfortable reading War and Peace or Wired on a computer screen.  I like the physical …