Borland Was Showing Delphi For NET At The PDC BorCon Is Next Week You Migh

Borland was showing Delphi for .NET at the PDC. BorCon is next week: you might want to bring your credit card.

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The First Modeling Tool From Microsofts New A Hrefhttpmsdnmicrosoftcomvstudioproductinfoenterprisedefaultaspxpul

The first modeling tool from Microsoft's new "Whitehorse" initiative expresses deployment topologies and the constraints that work upon them (e.g., by dropping a "Hardened IIS" component in your DMZ and a "Web Services" component in your middle-tier and connecting them, you are expressing a whole slew of constraints about …

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At One Of The CLR Evolution Talks I Disagreed With The Prevailing Notion That Serving The Needs Of The Current Lang

At one of the CLR evolution talks, I disagreed with the prevailing notion that serving the needs of the current language community should be of paramount concern. To me, interop trumps language fidelity. It is only via interop that minority programming languages can enter the corporate market. Crown-jewel software is …

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MS Languages Diverge in Whidbey

For the past two years, convergence has been the theme in Microsoft languages. Visual Basic .NET was a significant break from VB6 and is a very similar experience to programming in C#; Managed C++ gained the use of visual forms design; everything worked inside Visual Studio .NET. The theme of …

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Peter Draytons Back

Peter Drayton's back!

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Micropayments, writing, and independent software crafting...

...as the drunks say, you can't fall off the floor. Anyone offering content free gains an advantage that can't be beaten, only matched, because the competitive answer to free -- "I'll pay you to read my weblog!" -- is unsupportable over the long haul....In a world of free content, even the …

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I just visited Text America's PDC Photoblog and saw Don Box's face smiling out...

I just visited Text America's PDC Photoblog and saw Don Box's face smiling out at me. I wonder how to make photo blogs more useful. Thanks to those of you who posted photos. via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

This is why I ended up generating FOAF from Outlook the other day …

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Lonestar, the number 1.7, and an SDK - what they are (not)

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[The 1.7 refers to a new version of the Tablet PC SDK]{style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"}. ... [Lonestar]{style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"} is the codename for a Tablet PC project that should be released in the first half of 2004....and Lonestar is not supposed to be "version 2.0" anyway …

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Its In The Nature Of BoFs Birds Of A Feather Sessions To Be Frustrating No Sooner Does The Ice Break Than The Proctor Com

It's in the nature of BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) to be frustrating. No sooner does the ice break than the proctor comes in and announces that the last bus to the hotels leaves in 10 minutes. Oh well...

The "Alternate Programming Languages" BoF gathered a great group, but …

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Tablet OS Denied

strenuous "We have not -announced any time for new Tablet PC O's: Havens gone to the Allchin tape to confirm or deny.

Blogged on a Tablet PC

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