Eric finally hits the world of blogs via [Sam Gentile's Blog]

Eric Gunnerson is the most publicly vocal member of Microsoft's C# team and his blog is likely (I hope) to be a primary source for early word on Microsoft's take on C# directions, rumors, etc. If you're interested in …

http://www.twelve71.com/archives/000125.html A Web Server in PostScript !!!!!... [via]{.766544218-19062003} [TWELVE|71 : dull. dull. dull.]

[The mind boggles. The mind, em-boggled, tries to conceive of a way to top the stunt. Even a Web Server written in Visual Basic for Applications would not be as wonderfully …

A couple of years ago at OOPSLA I saw a wonderful panel format. On stage there was a table, short side facing the audience. People sitting on one side of the table had to support the motion, those on the other had to oppose it. At any time, anyone could …

Even though Radio Userland, my blogging software, has a built-in aggregator, I recently paid to register my copy of NewsGator. Even though NewsGator goes out of its way to make it easy to export subscriptions to be reintegrated with the Userland aggregator. My ear infection is too bothersome for me …

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[Jakob Nielsen's latest AlertBox makes a point about Web publishing that may not be obvious: your influence has very little to do with your ranking in the overall media universe, your influence is based on how coherent your readership is within the niche you target. Game Developer, a magazine I …

InfoWorld is reporting a second year of wages essentially flat, with "Developer"s making a median of \$84,146. Software Development reports a huge post-2000 slowdown, with current compensation of \$78,000 compared to 2000's \$95K. (SD's survey goes to a much larger sample size than InfoWorld's, but I'm not …

["]{.698445520-15062003}IDEs are very powerful but..... (From Rahul Chaudhary's Weblog) [" via ]{.698445520-15062003}[Artima Weblogs]

[One of the more controversial things in The Book Formerly Known As Thinking In C# is my "strong recommendation" not to use an IDE (specifically, Visual Studio) until at least one has reached the chapters on …

["]{.863094020-15062003}Dumbing down the language by not providing more powerfulexpressions is a way of promoting to a wider audience. However, is it the only way of[ ]{.863094020-15062003}supporting[ ]{.863094020-15062003}communites?["]{.863094020-15062003} (From Carlos Perez's Weblog) [via ]{.863094020-15062003}[Artima Weblogs]

[Carlos is talking about Java, and a comment by Gilad Bracha …

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