Palm OS 6 to be based on BeOS and .NET compatible? It's from The Register, so take it with a grain of salt.

The consistently excellent Dino Exposito has a nice introduction to .NET Remoting. Unfortunately its in VB.NET but he's a great writer and teacher and it looks good. [Sam Gentile's Weblog]

Not only can you download Ecco, you can download Agenda! Agenda was one of the best DOS programs ever. Like Ecco, it was a Personal Information Manager. If you ask "Like Outlook?" the answer is "No! Nothing like Outlook!" As far as I know, Outlook does nothing to relate items …

O'Reilly has announced OnDotNet. At first glance it apeared to be a renaming of the .NET Dev Center until I found Scott's editorial: "The goal of ONDotnet.com is to create a destination for the .NET community by ensuring content that is immediately applicable to working and weekend-warrior developers, while …

Unit tests. There's nothing like doing drastic refactoring to the implementation of a class when you trust the unit tests to be solid. It's so much easier. [Jon Shute's Weblog]  Yes!! That's the key. [Sam Gentile's Weblog] The thing is, "unit testing" is almost a misnomer for what's going on …

IBM CEO stakes \$10 billion on 'on-demand' future. Palmisano says next wave of connected computing worth betting on [InfoWorld: Top News] I can't find the whitepaper referenced in the article, but I think that what they're talking about is what elsewhere on the site they call "autonomic computing" along with …

Little kittycats wearing viking outfits sing Zeppelin. Not that I'm avoiding work today or anything.

A cool utility in TweakUI for XP allows you to add "search prefixes" to Internet Explorer. For instance, if you add http://www.google.com/search?q=%s you can say "google foo" or if you add http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=%s you can say "define cow".

Borland gets TogetherSoft for \$185 million. The software maker says acquiring TogetherSoft will help Borland bolster its programming tools lineup. [CNET News.com]

Well, this is interesting. TogetherSoft has never been the best CASE tool, while JBuilder has traditionally been the best Java-based IDE. Will TogetherSoft bring down the quality …

Smart guy joins Microsoft, film at 11.

Peter Drayton, who's written some of the better stuff about REST and SOAP has taken a job at Microsoft as a Program Manager in the Common Language Runtime group. Reading the job description, which Peter called his "dream job" in a blog entry …