Friday, April 12, 2002

Mike Woodrings Sample .NET pages. This might be of interest to hard core Java coders, because it goes beyond the typical "data reader, asp.net grid, sql client " topics that you would see in my notes. 9:04:21 PM     Developmentor is one smart company. They even give their staff web space to play with :-) Aaron Skonnard is one of the top XML guys at Devlopmentor. 8:56:31 PM     Tal G. In Jerusalem: .....After a Persian site linked to mine I started to receive several emails from Muslims around the world...... I heard that another guy from my office was called up a while back - he's apparently in a special forces unit. I never would have guessed as he is so mild mannered and skinny.... (if nothing else the blogs like Radio and Blogger have established a sense of imminent vicinity with people like Tal. This is so different from what you see on TV.) 8:44:11 PM     Der Schockenwellenreiter: See here is a prime example of the German habit of connecting words to come up with a specific term. Schockenwellenreiter is made up of 3 constituent words - shock, wave and rider. But thats not what I wanted to point out with this link. Heard of Python - the language? Have you heard it runs on Mac's? - Well check out this store in Berlin. OK its been a long day...... 8:19:54 PM     Richard Caetano started a project with a 3 year ETA. The punchline was pretty funny (to me anyways) 5:39:30 PM     I'm impressed! Peter read my blog and deemed it interesting. Thank you kindly. And I will go right down to Barnes and Noble and get my obligatory copy of "C# in a Nutshell". Well you know, one good turn deserves another....... 5:32:27 PM     John Sands describes a testing project that he has been working on. It sounds really cool. I would love to get my hands on stuff like that because one aspect of development thats a bit of a drag is testing. (Which is why I suppose I never went into QA.....) 5:17:58 PM     On the theory that friends of your friends might be people you would enjoy to hang out with, I went and looked over that list that Peter had posted, which included my name. Sure enough I found that Joe Gregorio writes about topics that are right up my alley. 5:00:05 PM     How to Clean Anything: "compiled by industry professionals... quality information on household cleaning methods. Data arranged by house exterior, interior, pets, auto, recreation, and stains. Also included is a glossary of cleaning terms and articles about topics submitted by readers." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 12:32:30 PM     As seen on Dave's site. The famous BSOD. (very funny) 12:29:07 PM     Wired: Just another Taliban on th IRC 12:26:49 PM     Fuel for the fire. Zapthink.com - Sun left at the altar of Web Services? 12:24:20 PM     The COM+ Myth  (Bottomline ASP/VBScript faster than ASP/VB & COM+) Only two years ago I completely fell for the party-line being disseminated by Microsoft and its press related marketing arms (VB Programmers Journal et al) - and decided the only way to build a well structured web application was to have multiple tiers with components hosted in COM+. Was I ever suprised when I read some of the tests that people conducted in subsequent years. To give some credit, the first test of this kind actually originated with MS, and can still be seen on MSDN. Its called Nile.com To make a long story short, ASP with in-line SQL (ADO), outperformed the component based aproach. Ain't that a wiener! (See picture above) It makes some sense whenyou consider that ALL VB/COM+ ends up being apartment threaded while straight ASP/VBScript can actually run free-threaded (suprise suprise surprise). That fact that ASP/VBScript is faster, in and of itself,  is no reason to continue the practice of spagetti code under .NET.  Aux contraire, we should strife to build systems that are every bit as well architected as possible and we should continue to take the party-line from Redmond with a grain of salt. (Whats a party-line? Check definition no 2 right here) OK - as a German expatriate I am very proud of my command of the English language. But the word strife as opposed to strive really got me today. (See NET comments above). I suppose at least its not like German where we simply combine several words to come up with the singular one we needed to describe a situation.... anybody for some "NETprogrammierenMitdemKopfInDerHand" Don't try to translate. Its just nonesense. 8:03:36 AM

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