Bird with 14-foot wingspan reported in Alaska Keep your kids indoors.

Highly recommended: Focus Night & Day Contact Lenses. I had pretty much given up on contact lenses as my eyes have become less tolerant over decades of staring at a computer monitor for mumble, mumble hours per day. After saving my pennies for Lasik, I decided the operation wasn't right for …

EJB Bashing. Listen to the EJB's go Pop. [James Duncan Davidson]

It's interesting to see the java bloggers are starting to agree that EJB isn't a good idea.

There was another interesting thread about this a week ago, which is well summarized in James Strachan's weblog.

[Andres Aguiar's Weblog]

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John Lam has written a cross-language "weaver" for adding aspects (as in aspect-oriented programming) into .NET languages. Aspects allow one to compose behavior based on the method signature of a target program. In that sense, they're similar to .NET's native attributes. The difference is that attribute behavior is restricted to …

Just met with Ed Kaim and Melissa Hovis of Microsoft and Waggener Edstrom to discuss the .NET Compact Framework. Without violating NDA, I can say that it is my opinion that post-desktop form factors such as phone-enabled handhelds (especially with GPS or E911 location info) and tablets represent a huge …

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FUD? Moi? Someone at Kuro5hin took exception to my post on checked versus unchecked exceptions

Wow. Clemens Vaster has made some great .NET Attribute classes freely available: seamless WS-Security, parameter validation of WebMethods, etc. Definitely worth checking out.

It appears that there is only one course on Software Engineering available from MIT's OpenCourseware experiment. That course, Laboratory in Software Engineering, looks pretty good as an undergraduate introduction to systems engineering; it uses Java as the implementation language. The materials, especially the lecture notes, are impressive.

C# standardization moves ahead. Microsoft and its allies make a quiet advance in pushing C#, a competitor to Java and a foundation for the company's next-generation Internet services. [CNET News.com]  Microsoft is moving towards ISO standardization of the C# language.