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Wednesday, April 17, 2002
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Dan mentioned that I've got another feather in my cap. If this keeps up I might actually become some competition for Dave as WQI - "Widely Quoted Individual" ...... You know thats one interesting thing about a blog, it is so much more dynamic and current than a static web site like the one I have for my company, it's just no comparison whatsoever.
6:29:36 PM 
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Its a slow day with VS.NET :  Under the heading of funcky restaurants nearby, here is a shot of OKI DOG. It's primary claim to fame is selling the world's greasiest french fries. They are awful.
It also played a part in the Wesley Snipes / Woody Harrelson movie "White Men Can't Jump". It was the "open air" office where Wesley would offer his trade as a roofing contractor.
There are two or three Oki Dogs in LA. The name, I believe, stands for "Okinawa Dog". All of them are equally bad.
Another eatery that has an outlet down the street from my residence is "Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles". Yes you've read correctly, chicken and waffles. It's soul food. And if you are a foreigner like myself it might help to look up the term. Of course one could debate the definition of Chicken & Waffles as soul food, but I suppose I have a little bit of leeway. Personally I like soul food (most of it anyway). Here is some background on Roscoes.
6:11:51 PM
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Graham posted my eval of Glue on his company site. I'm flattered. And yes it bears mentioning again that GLUE is a cool product.
5:01:02 PM
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Hey this keeps getting better. Here is NUnit! I really must check sourceforge more often.
4:56:55 PM
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Is Nant old news by now? I just came across it and thought how nifty - Ant for NET.
1:18:30 PM
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Sam Follow-up:
Dan's earlier concern was (and I'm repeating pretty much verbatim here) that the switch structure as part of a typical core language is designed to evaluate a single value, whereas a string is an array of values. If switch is coded at its core to handle string values, then that would mean that a basic string type would have to exist. If that's the case, then a simple string type would also require a great deal of predefined functionality for handling strings as an array of characters, (i.e. concatenation, case conversion, etc.) If this stuff is built into the core of C#, then it shows that MS chose to make something simpler at the expense of the more appropriate way to handle arrays of values, which would be at the class level. Not that this is bad for getting something up and running more quickly, but it is typical of how MS approaches software design, which is why Windows is a hodgepodge of dead technologies mixed with current technologies exposed at the API level rather than a true core operating system with interchangeable layers of technology.
In contrast, the Java switch command does not support string comparisons. It can't, because strings are implemented at the class level and not in core Java where switch lives. It can be argued that strings, which are actually arrays of char values, should be handled at the class level; otherwise, you are internalizing an implementation using traditional string-handling concepts which can't be relied on to be constant. A good example is the programmer who has tried to work with Unicode strings in VB and found this folly first-hand.
1:02:00 PM
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CSharpLint: Anybody for a spell-checker that verifies your comments?
11:54:25 AM
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Southern Storm Software Ltd: (Open Source .NET) With all my notes about Mono, I've overlooked another open source project that has tackled .NET. I wish him the best of luck. Competition is a good thing!
11:52:23 AM
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Hunter Stone: I wonder when and if these guys will release a final version of their visual config file editor for NET
11:44:40 AM
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Shawn Wildermuth: The ADO Guy has an experimental(?) System.Data.XmlClient Managed Provider . He says "...This is my first attempt at writing a Managed Provider. The idea behind it was to allow users of the Managed Provider to be able to fill DataSets from XML in a homogenious way. This way you could mix XML and database data together without having to know exactly which is from which..."
11:40:38 AM
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Sam Ruby: "..I wonder if Dan has ever heard about JavaScript." Hmm - Javascript as in NET needing to be compatible with several languages for all that fancy multi-language programming that we'll soon be doing? I'm slow today so I'm not catching on. But in any case I'm happy that Sam Ruby stopped by my blog. Nice to see ya!
11:27:14 AM
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The Espionage Story: Chapter 4 of my East-German espionage account has been updated. I even remembered a joke that I told some Communist Party officials as a kid. And its pretty funny......
9:23:24 AM
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Scott Granneman: He has so many cool items, mostly related to OPML and outliners, I simply set up a general link. There is an entire page of interesting stuff.
6:42:53 AM
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A couple of new .NET samples/widgets popped up recently:
- Jason Diamond posted a tool called Xml2CodeDom which turns an XML representation of a program into an in-memory CodeDOM that can be serialized as any language with an ICodeGenerator (out of the box, the .NET Framework includes generators for C#, JScript.NET and VB.NET).
- Craig Andera posted a tool called PopRouter for building POP3 message handlers, similar in spirit to the way the ASP.NET infrastructure lets one build HTTP request handlers. The usage model is dead simple: install the server, tell it what POP3 mailbox to monitor, and provide a class implementing a single, simple interface (IPopRouterHandler). When a message comes in, you get a crack at it. Nice.
[Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] (Peter, as usual, has some nice stuff to read)
6:32:58 AM
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Chip Chief Backs MS v. States. The head of Advanced Micro Devices says the computer industry -- and consumers -- would suffer greatly if sanctions sought by nine states were approved. Robert Zarate reports from Washington. [Wired News] (now here is someone who appearantly forgot to take his medication....)
6:31:04 AM
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