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Thursday, April 18, 2002
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Sam Ruby and I are corresponding via blog. Its fun. Sam says: "..Try clicking on this link. My point was that the browser of your choice likely has supported switch statements on strings for quite some time..." Yep I understand that Sam. My buddy Dan was concerned about something different than browsers. More of a question of core languages (Java / C#) .I probably didn't do a good job of blogging it. Here is another go at the switch statement concern. My buddy, and many other folks who have gone into the trenches of WinAPI code, have had so much muck to work through when sometimes trying to do just very simple programming tasks, that the overture of things having changed at MS almost evoke an instant Pavlovian response of caution. Some of the antiquities that were part and parcel of programming in Windows would in Dan's words require a person " to travel to Japan in order to get next door ". Another apt comparison of the WinAPI is to the Chicago sewer system. Chicago's sewers literally are very old and patched up all over the place. I'm curious myself about something a bit different. Isn't anyone concerned that all the great NET stuff rides on top of the crappy Win API? I'm worried that we all fall in love NET only to find out that we still have to wait for MS to fix their stuff, just as we always had to.
1:07:12 PM 
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Ed Dumbill at O'Reilly wasn't impressed with some of the Google API stuff. How many people do you suppose would know the little trick he explained? I'm guessing way more developers could write a soap method in their tool of choice. Still its fun to read his stuff.
10:37:41 AM
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Microsoft: NET for PDA Beta is starting
6:39:51 AM
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The SQL Server Notification Services beta is taking applicants. Notification Services is described as "A platform for developing and deploying highly scalable rich push applications" - basically it's a sophisticated publish/subscribe system that can deliver alerts via SMTP email, HTTP Posts, files in drop directories, and (more interestingly) MSN IM .NET Alerts. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]
6:37:19 AM
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Wired: A vulnerability found in IE's Back button. Microsoft's stance, as recounted here, is very interesting. I wonder if they feel the same way since BillG's security memo. Sort of reminds me of the Keystone Cops sometimes. A drawback of big companies I suppose.
6:34:34 AM
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Kazaa Lite: No Spyware Aftertaste. Kazaa, the most recent darling of the file-trading world, angered its users with spyware. Not for long though. A new application gets around that program, which ironically enough, has Kazaa crying foul. By Pete Rojas. [Wired News]
6:24:58 AM
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Carnivore's New Leash on Life?. The FBI's embattled surveillance system, attacked for reaching too far into private lives, might be constrained by a grad student's invention. Declan McCullagh reports from San Francisco. [Wired News]
6:24:13 AM
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