MSDN Subscriptions Overloaded By VS2005 Downloads?
Trying to download VS2005 or SQL Server, I get "Error Code = 11001" on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. That's "Host Not Found" in SQL Server, according to the search engines.
more ...Sutter's excellent PDC talk on concurrency online
::: {.Section1} [Herb Sutter has in the past year made a convincing case that "the free lunch is over" for performance and that languages cannot ignore concurrency and remain relevant. His PDC talk introduces his thoughts for "Concur:" a set of conforming extensions to C++ that provides high-level abstractions ("active" objects …
more ...Why aren't IDEs incredibly fun?
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[Ted Leung (]{style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"}[http://www.sauria.com/blog/2005/10/20\#1406]{style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none"}\< ?xml:namespace prefix = o /\>) wonders "?Where are the incredibly fun programming tools?.... Many \[IDEs\] take out some of the tedious tasks associated with programming, but none of them give me …
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Vista CTP 5231 Installed and Running
Ah hah! The latest Vista CTP installed very cleanly. The first thing I noticed was that it took me minutes and minutes to figure out how to add files to Windows Media Player.
As I post this, I am surprised to see that the HTML-editing \<textarea> is not the WYSIWYG-style …
more ...IronPython + WPF (Avalon)
Greg Kerr just posted a WPF app written in IronPython to the mailing list. Very, very cool.
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