I like Jeff's suggestions for a Service Oriented Lanugage  via [DevHawk]

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p dir="ltr"> My latest SD Times article  discusses the passing of Object-Orientation and the rise of Service-Orientation.

Doug Seven has a list of 26 ideas that shouldn't be done with SQL. You can vote for the top 10. via [Christian Nagel's OneNotes]

Naturally, the comments section immediately debates whether stored procedures are inherently evil...

Reshaper, a C# refactoring plug-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003, is now available for early access. This is from JetBrains, nee IntelliJ, makers of the IDEA Java IDE.

http://www.jetbrains.net/resharper

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Microsoft launched .NET two years ago last Friday. My short take: CLR and C# are unqualified successes; Managed C++ was a failure, but they'll turn that around with C++/CLI; and that the jury's still out on VB.NET. The most disappointing thing to me is the relative dearth of …

K5 thread analyzes the comments in the leaked W2K code. It doesn't quote the code at all other than a general comment that the code is quite clean, with most functions fitting on a single screen.

Paul Allen's company Vulcan is bankrolling three competing teams that are attempting to create software that does well on the SATs. Early results show that it's possible to get the computer to deal with quantitative questions like "If you mix these two chemicals, what will the resultant pH be?" but …

An article in the February 2004 Communications of the ACM by Yossi Lichtenstein says, in the hedged terms of a small sample size and an academic paper: "current outsourcing practices [contracting, not technical] may fall short of the sophistication prescribed by theories." In other words, outsourcing is being seized on …

Recently Wacom released an updated version of their graphics driver for penabled Tablet PCs. This release apparently solves the problem of ink lines being jagged, which was caused by the previous version. via [Tabula PC]

Holy palsy, Batman! I thought my digitizer was going!

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Well, that's what the Cross site now says anyway. via [Tabula PC]

The greatest saga in the history of the Tablet PC has been the wait for a well-designed digitizing pen. Why Cross has had such a hard time (more than a year delay) wrapping a decent barrel around the …

Function points are a programming-language-independent way of describing the size of a piece of software. However, a given programming language has a typical amount of lines-of-code per function point, allowing a rough estimate of function points from LOC and vice versa. Even more importantly, a programmer or team tends to …