Free Webinar on Service-Oriented Architectures, Wednesday, July 16, 11 AM PDT (2 PM EDT)
"Topic: "Building a Service-Oriented Architecture"
Speaker: Daryl Plummer, Gartner Group Vice President
Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific, 1 hr. in length
Registration: http://www.m7.com/gartnerseminar …
"Where's the outrage?" - Bob Dole, 1996.
more ...I have about 500 albums, which is small for a music fan. With WM9's 2:1-3:1 lossless compression, call it 120GB (500 albums * .6 uncompressed GB / album * 1 compresssed GB / 2.5 uncompressed GB). The Nomad Zen, which I think is today's most capacious player, has 60GB of storage …
more ...Microsoft Reader Free eBooks: This week's freebies are I Am Madame X by Gioia Diliberto, Open Innovation by Henry Chesbrough, and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
more ...RCA DCM215 Cable Modem reset technique: if you lose your cable connectivity, try resetting your power by physically removing the plug at the power supply (not just at the back of the modem). Apparently, this is a known issue with (at least) this particular modem.
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more ...I love Mono, I'm very fond of Linux, and if you give me a Mac, I promise I'll give it a fair chance!
Josh criticizes my "disregard for non-Windows platforms as a whole" in this comment. I guess that's pretty fair, at least lately, as I've been living in an …
more ...No penalty for programming J#.
Contrary to rumors that I've heard, I can find no runtime penalty for code written in J# as opposed to other .NET languages and specifically C#. The one significant difference I've seen in IL generated by the vjc (J#) and csc (C#) command-line compilers is …
more ...["]{.963004418-09072003}dW: What do you think about software quality?
Beck: I wish developers would consider the enormous consequences of their actions. When I got my driver's license at 16, I was both elated and terrified; I had newfound freedom and responsibilities to go with it. Now, compare that feeling to …
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