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Friday, April 19, 2002
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Five year old child obtains a patent for swinging a swing. - read more-
9:40:28 PM 
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My neighbor Craig is the editor of "European Car" magazine. He mentioned that VW would be interesting to watch. Guess he's right. And the sister company Audi has something new as well. A 400+ HP biturbo. A6 RS
9:21:55 PM
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Joel on .NET: ".... that 20 MB runtime is a real showstopper. Yes, this is an advantage to Delphi. I'm starting to suspect that Microsoft doesn't care -- they are perfectly happy to have a development environment that is excellent for internal/corporate applications, where they don't compete, but borderline useless for shipping, commercial, shrinkwrap, where they do compete..."
Today was the first day ever that I actually consciously and with full awarness refer to Joel on Software. While I think some of the material Joel puts out is being given a tad much weight by various folks, I can't help but acknowldege that he has a definite talent for countering a lot of hype with good common sense. That is really apprechiated.
8:39:24 PM
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Sjoerd : ".. I think it's like this: SOAP is about XML, and XML-RPC is about scripting. When I want to call a function on my PHP server with a Javascript client, I don't want to be bothered with XML...." - Call me crazy but I really like that explanation.
6:17:06 PM
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Software for the People: Integrate Flash with SOAP. (whew there are some die-hard flash guys out there! ....)
12:11:52 PM
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NT Services Toolkit: VB6 coders - before SOAP and web services, there was the Desaware NT Services Toolkit. (Product Review)
11:37:22 AM
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dotUnit: dotunit is a port of JUnit (www.junit.org) to the Microsoft .net platform. It provides a testing framework to support automated testing of applications, particularly to facilitate unit, function and regression testing.
10:43:39 AM
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NDoc: NDoc merges the assemblies and XML documentation files produced by csc.exe and creates a compiled HTML Help file enabling you to browse your own libraries just like the .NET Framework Class Library. The documentation generator uses XSLT to produce the HTML. Future versions will make it possible to customize the XSLT to produce documentation with any desired look and feel.
10:39:45 AM
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Annoying Worm Writer Wants Job. The Klez worm is back, proliferating madly. What's interesting about it is that it contains different messages within its code, including one begging for a job. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] (what a way to advertise your availability)
10:37:49 AM
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Living in the Corporate Zoo:
Professor Richard Scase at the University of Kent (Canterbury) has published a really interesting book, called "Living in the Corporate Zoo" , which shows that the US business model of quarterly reporting by de-centralized business units , which are responsible for their own budget and result management, is not necessarily a good thing. Many companies in Europe do not subscribe to this short term goal model, prefering instead to work on a much longer term basis of one or more years planning and reporting. As a matter of fact the US model led to all sorts of problems in Russia in the early 90's by concentrating a lot of un-monitored power at the coporate heaquarters. And even here in the US in 2001 the case of Enron is a good example of this issue. If you read Scase along with Robert Reich's "Future of Success" you may actually see that there is another way to work and there are real benefits to this alternative. I don't suppose it will catch on, as long as there is a tremendous sales machine at Wall Street that connects investment bankers, who need to move stocks, to investment analysts who have "quasi independent" evaluations of stocks , to the individual retiree who wants his stock portfolio to gain rapidly. Its all a catch 22 you see.
10:23:00 AM
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