I just came across an advertisement for Diskeeper 8. I bought this \$45 utility about a month ago and recommend it: it noticeably improved the performance of my laptop.

Stan Lippman...is now blogging!....His first blog, The Revised C++ Language Design Supporting .NET -- Part 1 is a must read.  via [Sam Gentile's Blog]

If you're a C++ programmer, you know who Stan Lippman is.

I just saw this article on The Server Side, talking about rules assessment from within Message-Driven Beans and so on....The problem here is that the solution simply won't scale...This is why God invented rules engines like ILog, JESS and drools. via [The Mountain of Worthless Information]

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The December Software Development is themed "Offshore Uproar" and has a lot of food for thought. There're some telling survey results (SD has gotten very sophisticated in terms of surveys -- I think they're pretty clearly the best in the software development trade press), including this tidbit:

"How would you rate …

During a chat with John Montgomery yesterday, he tangentially revealed a stunning number: according to Microsoft, there are more than 7 million "hobbyist programmers" in the US alone. Not professionals, not students, not "macro kings and queens," not sysadmins with a knowledge of Perl, but flat-out hobbyists.

I still don't …

Jan Gray wrote an excellent essay ... My favorite quote from this piece is "This scenario is so bad and so common that the microprocessor vendors use 80% of their transistor budgets for on-chip caches -- Intel as glorified [SRAM]{.caps} vendor.". via [iunknown.com]

This echos a favorite theme of mine …

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA/commentview.aspx/ddedfad0-c94f-4873-9c8c-4005cd8faaa5 Should the BCL contain both generics-based collection classes (List\<T> ) AND object-containing classes? (my initial gut is that generics-only is the way to go. Better to accept some pain now than 5 years from now. )

Blogged on a Tablet PC

If you use NewsGator,  and Outlook 2K3, a "search folder" set to all the folders is much faster than News Gator's top-level page.

Blogged on a Tablet PC

Quite a few of the presentations from this year's [PDC]{.caps} are now available in Microsoft Producer format. The nice thing is that you get videos from the demos integrated into the presentation as well. Very nice.

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J2EE 1.4 is now official, Sun announced this week.
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