Funny:
A colleague of mine at SD Times tried to sign up for press credentials to Sun's SunNet conference and received the following error message:>
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more ...Micro-expressions -- facial expressions that last a fraction of a second -- give away exactly how you feel, no matter how hard you try to conceal it. A CD-ROM set teaches how to detect the emotions people try to hide. By Kim Zetter. via [Wired News]
Okay, the particular application is cool …
more ...We had a lot of fun at the Portland .NET Users group showing the information that's publicly available on Whidbey, Yukon, and Longhorn (with a little Indigo thrown in).
We've posted our slides. Feel free to check them out. via [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]
Good stuff …
more ...Don's take on the state of MS's developer relations (although, as he admits, he's no longer unbiased).
via [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]
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more ...more ...Martin Fowler argues that even if we abandon Lines-Of-Code, still we CannotMeasureProductivity: "...Even if we did find an accurate way for function points to determine functionality...if I spend a year delivering a 100FP system and Joe spends the same year delivering a 50FP system can we assume that I'm …
There are lots of lectures going on at Microsoft...many recorded talks online publicly at the Multi-University/Research Lectures project. via [Curiosity is bliss]
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more ...Ingo criticizes the use of airline reservation systems as an example in distributed concurrent systems: "The last time I checked, a ticket was no guarantee for a seat and the only real transactional guarantee for a seat is during check in. Reservation doesn't count too much here."
Since I've spent …
more ...Will you vote for my proposed BOF gathering at PDC? It's on page 4.
"C#'s super and VB.NET's invaluable, but it's been argued that the greatest benefit of .NET is the level field it provides for programming languages both familiar and exotic. This session will bring together language …
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