What is with Microsoft and their naming? Now, WinFX, the not-poorly-named managed framework, has been rebranded the .NET Framework 3.0. Which is kind of strange, considering that Visual Studio and Visual Basic dropped the .NET brand and, if I'm not mistaken, WinFX is going to ship on top of …
more ...The latest beta of the Ruby in Steel IDE has added debugging support. Nice.
Oh, \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/ct.ashx?id=9c88dc07-b246-4a68-871a-e950800d3420&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.caliban.org%2fruby%2fruby-amazon.shtml"" target=_blank rel="noopener noreferrer">Ruby/Amazon is a cool library to access Amazon Web …
more ...Killer post by Chris Pratley on setting up OneNote 12 so that it stays synchronized across multiple machines. I love OneNote and this makes me love it a little more.
Oh, and something else I just discovered that makes me love it a little more: they've added "section groups" so …
more ...John Montgomery's revelation that the most commonly used languages of non-professional programmers are HTML, JavaScript, and C++ is worth reflecting on.
First, let's just state the obvious: HTML without JavaScript isn't a programming language, and few people are using Rhino or what-have-you to explore JavaScript as a standalone language, so …
more ...Eric Gunnerson, discussing "Why so many languages?" makes the key point that "Compactness and simplicity have big benefits as well in programming languages."
Once upon a time, I made a good living teaching Java. Sometimes I taught it to C and C++ developers, sometimes I taught it to COBOL developers …
more ...This post is written using the "Elicit" blogging client. I somehow stumbled across it this morning and it does the one thing I've been missing in a dedicated blogging client: it allows posts to be scheduled. So I can write this at noon, set its post time for 6PM this …
more ...Powertoys manufactures a hand gyroscope for battling RSI. I was considering buying one until I read this this disturbing claim: "Explosive, dynamic, exciting Powerball! Powerball is a dynamic and completely revolutionary new gyroscope that literally explodes with mind numbing torque and inertia once you activate its internal rotor."
Dang. Guess …
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more ...Wednesday, June 07, 2006
10:06 AM
Turns out that, contrary to what I'd feared, the Tablet Input Panel for the Tablet PC [does]{style="font-weight:bold"} recognizes SWT components as text labels, and you [can ]{style="font-weight:bold"}use the TIP to add recognized handwriting …
more ...I bought two Zalman "Ultra Quiet CPU Coolers" for my new dual-processor system (which I'm building because, in a classic example of bad timing, my old motherboard blew right at the beginning of this extremely deadline-driven month). They don't work (at least two won't) with an MSI ATX motherboard. Not …
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