Saturday, March 30, 2002

Snorkeling on Maui. For all you honeymooners and prospective Maui vacationers. 7:21:34 PM     The Register: MS .NET promo reveals personal information of users. 6:32:37 PM     CNET : Hasso Plattner of SAP Software said "This industry will not survive in the next 20 years with applications built by a few big companies," Plattner said in his keynote speech at the JavaOne conference. "This industry will only survive if there is a community of developers building applications that can work together across many systems." 6:29:00 PM     Windows on a database - sliced and diced by BeOS vets. An Easter treat from Dominic and Benoit [The Register] [Pythoz.com (weblog.jorgen.larsen.name)] 6:20:10 PM     Sam notes: COM Interop is not nearly as smooth and easy as advertised (ask me if I'm surprised) 6:02:51 PM     Newsgroups are an interesting animal: For those of you old enough to remember the techncial forum's on Compuserver, you'll probably agree that newsgroups frequently are a poor substitute for feedback from a tight community (like CS used to be). My friend Dan has posted an interesting issue and out of an entire week's worth of replies he received only one that wasn't defensive and lopsided. Even I have posted a question on a MS newsgroup regarding some strange behavior by VS and received a reply, from an MVP no less, that contained the dummest sort of platitude you've ever seen. In answer to my question why the VS IDE places code into the ComponentInitialize( ) method of an aspx.cs file that causes certain events to execute twice he basically said "oh don't trust the IDE" - which is quite a bit of baloney. Makes you wonder if those MVP's get ranked by how many posts they reply to as opposed to the quality of the reply. "Nicholas Paldino [.NET MVP]" <casperOne@caspershouse.com> wrote in message news:uumSFU$1BHA.2716@tkmsftngp04... Generally speaking, I would double-check the code that the IDE placed in my classes (for forms, web pages, anything) before releasing it.  It becomes so easy to just not think about the code (a good and a bad thing) when the section that is constantly modified by the editor is compressed. 11:36:30 AM     MS wants to take over Internet OK its a little sensationalistic but I had to get your attention didn't I? Dan has been running into an issue in the manner in which IE 6.0  resolves non-English domain names. It doesn't! Instead it hijacks you and takes you to msdn. Here is a description in Dan's words: If you type the following URL verbatim into the address bar... www.Özgür.com ....one of two things will happen depending on your IE6 configuration, (this particular behavior applies to Win2K): 1. IE6 will attempt to resolve the name using a Microsoft resource, or 2. A "Cannot find server or DNS Error" page will be immediately displayed without any attempt to first perform a DNS query. If you type a fully qualified URL... http://www.Özgür.com ....a DNS Error page appears immediately without any attempt to first perform a DNS query. In all of these cases, IE6 withholds the non-English domain name from being resolved by a real DNS server, allowing only for a resolution on Microsoft's terms rather than generating a DNS query as a browser is supposed to do. This is not how it worked in previous versions, nor is it how it works on all Windows platforms, nor is it the way it is supposed to work based on IE6 documentation, (or my interpretation of it anyway). 11:24:31 AM

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