Windows Server 2003 As An Application Server

Windows Server 2003 as an Application Server

more ...

Oh Yeah Another Thing I Bought And Love Is MusicMatch Radio It Does A Great Job Of Cr

Oh yeah, another thing I bought and love is MusicMatch Radio. It does a great job of creating a streaming radio station that matches my taste. I can't figure out how to exclude a specific artist (I can understand why it thinks I'd like Sonic Youth, but I just don't …

more ...

I Just Came Across An Advertisement For Diskeeper 8 I Bought This 45 Util

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.

more ...

New and Notable 25

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.

more ...

Use a rule engine for rules-based processing

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]

~~As far …

more ...

The December Software Development Is Themed Offshore Uproar And H

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 …

more ...

nbspDuring A Chat With John Montgomery Yesterday He Tangentially Reveal

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 …

more ...

Algorithm complexity and modern CPU's

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 …

more ...

Most important question of the week

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

more ...

News Gator & Outlook 2003

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

more ...