Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene #41
08 Nov
- Anyone seen page 18 of the SD Times from November 1, 2007?
- I made a small donation to the Wikipedia Foundation. Not much, but something. I use Wikipedia all the time, so I felt like I had to give back something. Worth considering.
- The good folks at TheUnknownOnes have made all their cool stuff open source. Definitely worth a look. I’m partial to their ResEd plugin.
- The guys at Gurock Software have pointed out an opportunity to help out some beginning Delphi developers. Please do.
- CodeGear continues to make money.
- Craig Stuntz has a good post on automated builds. Comments are worth reading, too.
- John Moshakis has a nice little Object Repository item for using WCF in Delphi.
HI Nick
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November 8th, 2007 at 5:45 pmI am still waiting for your asp.net demo 2.The first one was great.It would be great if you could demo a ECO asp.net application with Providers(since I know now that you have started playing around with ECO
Nick - any chance you can make your feed output the entire article? I use Google Reader to read your feed and I’m not inclined very often to click through to the actual blog site when only the first few lines of the feed are published.
November 9th, 2007 at 5:59 amBruce –
I have that item selected in my options. But I see that it isn’t working. Hmmm. I’ll check on that.
Nick
November 9th, 2007 at 9:41 amNick, I noticed when you guys overhauled your blogs that Alan’s does that too, but the combined feed is full text. I just switched to that feed instead.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:34 amAny chance we could get a descent quality electronic version of that ad from SD Times? BTW, everyone you can see it online: http://www.sdtimes.com/download/images/sdtimes185.pdf
November 9th, 2007 at 11:42 amWhat I find particularly interesting is the "Microsoft Lifts the Covers on .NET:
November 9th, 2007 at 4:30 pmVisual Studio 2008’s debugger will download .NET library source code" article. One of the big advantages of the VCL was that you could see how it worked and figure out problems in the core library. MS is getting closer to this based on that article, but you can’t fix it yourself yet. At least people will be able to find out what bugs are. I think this will improve the quality of .NET because people can send MS the bug and exactly what is causing it in the code rather than just having to describe the problem.