VSIP (extensions to Visual Studio .NET) gains managed extensions. You can now write VS add-ins in .NET code. That's very nice. Refactoring tools, anyone? via Sam (who, incidentally, says Matrix Revolutions rocks)

Benjamin Mitchell says that Chris Sells and I have missed the point when we fret. Benjamin says: "The mistake being made here is to think that the value of authors is based around conveying factual knowledge." I can't speak for Chris, but I don't think I'm making that mistake. I …

I installed my Longhorn on VMWare with a 4GB partition (thinking in terms of "Hey, it's one DVD for backup"). That's too small for Longhorn and a reasonable install of VS.NET Whidbey (If you install nothing but the minimal C# support, you end up with 3.93GB consumed!).

Great White Shark kills diver: No news. Diver kills Great White Shark: news.

Politically correct disclaimer: Sharks are magnificent, beautiful creatures and I treasure opportunities to dive with them. I bow to no one in my appreciation of the squalus. A live shark is better than a dead shark. But …

Dare Obasanjo and Jon Udell are fencing. Combat was joined with Jon's coinage of the phrase "replace-and-defend" to criticize the seemingly disruptive technologies being used in Longhorn, such as the use of a new schema language (rather than W3C XML Schema) to describe the metadata that is the source of …

Randy Holloway talks about Microsoft blogs and improved direct access changing the communication chain via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

With the whole gamut of Internet-based communication (Websites, newsgroups and mailing lists, Google, email, and blogs), the typical path between technical question and answer has become much more direct. Was a time …

Software Development's Annual Salary Survey is out: San Francisco Bay Area programmers report the highest averages @ \$100K for staff, and \$119K for management, Twin Cities come it at the low end for metro areas with \$83K staff and \$92K management. National mean is \$77K staff and \$96K management (implying a …

Many people have asked us for a single-user SourceGear Vault license at a very-low-cost....The Single User Edition of Vault is now available at a cost of \$49....Why would anyone want to use source control on a team of one?....It's an undo mechanism....It's a historical archive....It's …

As Borland Software Corp. celebrates its 20th year this week at its BorCon conference, developers and managers around the industry are recalling the company's legacy and impact on the software business. via [eWEEK Technology News]

I installed the PDC Longhorn again today into VMWare. Much better experience: used "XP Pro" as the OS for VMWare. I could install VMTools directly (all drivers gave a "Haven't passed certification" warnings, which I ignored). Gave the VM 512MB RAM and 4GB drive; performance seems pretty darn okay on …