Finally went through all the free magazines from PDC. I have to say that I was most impressed by the content of .NET Developer's Journal. (I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say it was better than MSDN Magazine, but that's a known quantity).

Adapt to offshoring or die says Amit Maheshwari on C|Net, "The survivors will be those who embrace offshore operations as yet another opportunity to expand their professional skill set and position themselves as offshore management leaders...."

"Expand your professional skill set" is a polite way to say "abandon your …

Peter Coffee sees a move towards standards compliance from Microsoft at PDC via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

In the tiny little world of software development tech journalism, it looks like Microsoft is getting passing grades on the standards issue. Jon Udell's debate with Dare has calmed down (although note that since …

I've given up the MC++/C++ bandwagon completly and can only support it's use when there are no other choices via [Sam Gentile's Blog]

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p dir="ltr"> Along with Marc Canter's praise of Longhorn, I take this as the final proof that there were "additives" in those free Cokes at …

Usability issues in the design of novice programming systems

"I'm gonna convert my porn collection to WinFS." via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Hmmm... check the Visio WinFS schema diagram... Nope... The Ontology of Porn: Is a Top-Down Approach Best?

Longhorn enters the witching season: "Microsoft products never run as quickly, are more robust, or stay more secure than during this magical period. Every promised feature is present and works perfectly." via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

That quote is supposed to be sarcastic, but it seriously damages the credibility of the …

While debating whether to take a 3-month Java programming contract (short of Microsoft suddenly deciding they need a Bay Area-based mobilized computing evangelist, it looks like I'll be spending the winter in Denver), I wrote a quick little application that creates Outlook 2003 tasks and notes from ink. Try it …

...a new feature in next release of .NET -- "Friend Assemblies", that does precisely what you're suggesting. It will use an assembly-level custom attribute called "InternalsVisibleTo", that grants access to a named "friend" assembly (Omer.B in this example) -- for all "internal" types...John Lam describes how friend assemblies will be …

4. Ink comments in source code. Doesn't it make sense for ink comments to be embeddable in source code? 5. New programming models. Over the years people have tried various visual programming methodologies, but nothing sticks. Programming may just be a hard problem in general to solve... via [Incremental Blogger …