There's a debate raging about whether binary XML is a good idea (summary: binary XML would undoubtedly have performance benefits, but would it undermine crucial benefits of XML?). Ingo Rammer is the proponent of the idea and while I concede virtually every point he makes, on balance it seems to …

I took a shot at belly-gazing, po-mo grad students criticizing Todd Solondz before, but now they're after Tony Soprano! That's just disrespectful:

On male girth: ''Fatness is a signifier with many overlapping and even contradictory signifieds.'' On male behavior: ''Nearly all of Tony's 'business' relationships . . . are characterized by a phallocentric …

The latest PC Mag has an article on a virtual keyboard. Frankly, I'm dubious that you can pull this off with the processing power on current PDAs. I certainly hope I'm wrong; I'd love to touchtype on a PDA. I like this one even more, although I bet it takes …

Software archaeologists have unearthed the first smiley!

The Qt toolkit is really nice and there are now C# bindings for it.  If you're programming with Mono, I would highly recommend keeping up with this Qt# project.

I just found out that I can upload this Weblog directly to http://www.ThinkingIn.NET/ and everything (comments, etc.) works! Well, goody, now I can spend a day modifying my Radio UserLand template to match my homepage.

Finished a review of Kylix 3 today for SD Times. Short version: very nice tool for C++ development in Linux, particularly for enterprise apps with a need for highly replicable clients (e.g., POS, brilliant terminals, custom data-entry, etc.).

The reason that I had to write a PayPal backend is that the publication of Thinking in C# has been delayed until something very close to the end of the year. The reasons have nothing to do with the content of the book, which is very frustrating, but these things …

I just wrote a C#-backed ASP.NET PayPal backend. I'm not going to post it because it was so trivial that I just made it totally custom to my needs. Wow, C# rocks, ASP.NET rocks, and this is an indication of why Web Services rock (even though the …

I saw Todd Solondz' Storytelling the other night. No sir, I didn't like it. Solondz wrote one movie that I liked for its honesty (Welcome to the Dollhouse) and one that didn't make a lasting impression on me (Happiness), although I remember that it was really "edgy" in that Philip …