FlexWiki, a Wiki project by Microsoft Program Manager David Ornstein, has moved from GotDotNet to Sourceforge and changed to a Common Public License. This is the third project after WiX and WTL that MS has placed on SourceForge. Clearly, Microsoft lawyers have worked their way through the CPL and found …
more ...Peter Coffee, eWeek's astute analyst, says that Web Services should have a standard for crash analysis. The two biggest benefits to programmer productivity in the past decade are managed memory and exceptions that generate stack traces. I'm coming up to speed on a customer's system for which I have a …
more ...There's a Big Honkin' Mushroom in Oregon that covers 2,200 acres and is claimed to be the “largest living organism.” My question is whether a mushroom is a single organism or if it's communal and therefore in the same class as the Great Barrier Reef (which extends for more …
more ...I've been doing way too much flying lately.
Have you ever noticed that the pre-flight safety briefing starts with instructions on “how to buckle a seat belt” and moves without pause through “activating your on-board oxygen mask” to “transforming safety slides into liferafts in the case of a water landing …
more ...Oh yeah, I think I'll continue developing this...
more ..."Our scheduling and predictability on this project has been better than it was on OS 360." -- Bill Gates, August 27, 2004
more ...Just got off the phone with John Montgomery and Bill Schultz of Microsoft regarding today's announcements re. Longhorn. The official word is that they're announcing 3 things:
This is now running dasblog.
more ...Did you miss me?
You didn't even notice I was gone, did you?
*sniff*
Well, I now live in Hawaii, and you don't, so there!
But it's kind of lonely...
... Hey, next time you come to the Big Island, let's have lunch!
more ...This is a funny flash movie they played at JavaOne explaining the Sun-Microsoft relationship.
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