Byte going pay-per-view in bid to stay afloat. Byte was the magazine for the personal computer enthusiast "in the day." Personally, I think that a cycle has come full around and there's probably demand for a print Byte-like magazine again but in the words of Austin Powers: "Alas, that …
more ...Baby.msi Installation complete, reboot?
I'm proud to announce that at 1:07am this morning Christina and my first major release went gold. Claire Elizabeth Whittington was born at 8 pounds even. Mom and baby are both doing fine and are asleep. Dad is sooo sleepy. Guess I've got plenty …
more ...Blogging with ink from a Tablet PC
If you have IE, check it out. Unfortunately, Netscape can't render it. This is what it says:
Blogging from Tablet
Well, it's easy enough to write a client app that uses the Blogger API to add ink-based notes to your blog, but the …
more ...~~Anyone know how to hook into an IRDA connection?~~ ~~Interesting. An Irda connection is just a specialized kind of socket; .NET provides good low-level access to sockes, so it should be possible to write a managed app that hooks into Irda connections.~~ Apparently, there is a nice high-level interface called …
more ...Dan Bricklin's first impressions of the Tablet PC. [Scripting News]
Having used an Acer TravelMate for about 3 weeks, I think Dan is spot-on with most of his comments, especially about the primacy of reading, instant-on, etc. to the tablet experience. However, I seem to have had the best luck …
more ...*Borland Investigating Mono for Kylix. "Borland is investigating use of Ximian Inc's Project Mono in Kylix, as a possible means for Windows developers to move .NET applications to Linux." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]. * via [Managed Space]
more ...C# and Java: The Smart Distinctions. Article by Dominik Gruntz from Journal of Object Technology (Nov-Dec 2002 Issue), this article shows some of the subtle difference between C# and Java. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] via [Sam Gentile's Weblog]
This is a good article. I think Thinking in C# explicitly …
more ...An important affirmation of the core strengths of C++: "Games are going to be written mostly in C++ for the next umpteen-thousand years. Even if MS comes through with their promise to make managed DirectX run at 98% performance, you won't be seeing C# games on the shelves. You're probably …
more ...I'm a judge for the .NET vs. J2EE Smackdown Next Week
I've been asked to be one of the judges for next Monday's .NET vs. J2EE "Smackdown" event in Redwood Shores, which will have reps from Microsoft and Sun slinging code on stage. It ought to be a blast and …
more ...The latest Joel on Software "The Law of Leaky Abstractions" is, as always, well worth reading.
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