RSS Sweep: Interesting Links, No Editorial

Here are links that I (Larry O'Brien) have been meaning to post (the "I"s and "me" in the following are the original authors):

http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=6c883fbb-16d3-467f-a028-110e9078132a 

If you follow the rumor mill, you may have heard of X# or "Xen", the crazy next-generation …

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Rise Of ServiceOrientation

Rise of Service-Orientation

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Service Oriented Language

I like Jeff's suggestions for a Service Oriented Lanugage  via [DevHawk]

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p dir="ltr"> My latest SD Times article  discusses the passing of Object-Orientation and the rise of Service-Orientation.

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Don't do this with SQL

Doug Seven has a list of 26 ideas that shouldn't be done with SQL. You can vote for the top 10. via [Christian Nagel's OneNotes]

Naturally, the comments section immediately debates whether stored procedures are inherently evil...

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C# Refactoring plug-in for VS.NET from JetBrains!

Reshaper, a C# refactoring plug-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003, is now available for early access. This is from JetBrains, nee IntelliJ, makers of the IDEA Java IDE.

http://www.jetbrains.net/resharper

User name: eapuser

Password: eapuser

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Happy 2nd Birthday, .NET!

Microsoft launched .NET two years ago last Friday. My short take: CLR and C# are unqualified successes; Managed C++ was a failure, but they'll turn that around with C++/CLI; and that the jury's still out on VB.NET. The most disappointing thing to me is the relative dearth of …

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K5 Thread Analyzes The Comments In The Leaked W2K Code It Does

K5 thread analyzes the comments in the leaked W2K code. It doesn't quote the code at all other than a general comment that the code is quite clean, with most functions fitting on a single screen.

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Paul Allens Company Vulcan Is Bank

Paul Allen's company Vulcan is bankrolling three competing teams that are attempting to create software that does well on the SATs. Early results show that it's possible to get the computer to deal with quantitative questions like "If you mix these two chemicals, what will the resultant pH be?" but …

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Outsourcing contracts are economically inefficient

An article in the February 2004 Communications of the ACM by Yossi Lichtenstein says, in the hedged terms of a small sample size and an academic paper: "current outsourcing practices [contracting, not technical] may fall short of the sophistication prescribed by theories." In other words, outsourcing is being seized on …

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Wacom released a new version of their driver

Recently Wacom released an updated version of their graphics driver for penabled Tablet PCs. This release apparently solves the problem of ink lines being jagged, which was caused by the previous version. via [Tabula PC]

Holy palsy, Batman! I thought my digitizer was going!

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