Friday, November 01, 2002

Slashdot has links to the not-yet-released Microsoft decision. Here's the directory on the US Courts website.  [Scripting News] Yes! Sanity reigns in the world re the Microsoft decision. "In brief: Kollar-Kotelly accepts the settlement that the Federal Gov't and some states wanted, but she wants a minor change to it; and she has decided the case which was pursued by the other states as well, mostly ordering Microsoft to refrain from certain behaviors with regard to the user-visible desktop. Overall: a massive win for Microsoft, who can restrict the release of its APIs to major commercial companies only. " The official opinion is here 5:33:05 PM

Are there any Groove tools that would let me keep track of what I did hour by hour in a day? Example: for contracting 12:26:42 PM

Microsoft's Weblog Software. Magazine:Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It's browser-accessible from... [Hugh's ramblings] "Heh! (I'm not sure this isn't just a lucky coincidence - I'm working on the product and haven't had that discussion with other people here; it only very recently occurred to me how good a weblogging tool we're building)" Heh, that didn't escape all of us-) Also concides with our directions in Groove Experiments...There is a synergy there for sure. 10:46:01 AM

Life without Groove: I'm working on a big project.  Its very intense right now.  I'm back and forth from the office to my house, working constantly.  (Yeah, I know its unhealthy - but we have to ship!)  I've migrated my development environment to this laptop, but in so doing I had to temporarily disable my Groove account.  This turned out to be a bad idea.  I hadn't realized how much I depend on Groove now.  It has become fundemental in the way I get work done.  For example, I work closely with another engineer.  I'm constantly sending him messages and chatting.  Often we're in real-time and we'll have a chat window open and we're debugging stuff and dropping new binaries in the space.  We can do so much together so quickly that it becomes natural and the tool is suddenly transparent.  I think it got so transparent for me that I took it for granted. Last night I got a temporary account running and rejoined the space for my project again.  The cool thing is that its now GWS enabled so my next post to the space will have to come from a remote SOAP call!  The natural flow of communication came back, and all was right in my world. Groove takes some getting used to.  And it takes some effort.  Groove is not just technology, but its also centered around people.  It takes effort from both fronts.  Just because you have some collaboration software doesn't mean you suddenly know how to collaborate online.  It takes some practice.  But the payoff can be huge.  I can't imagine life without Groove...   [John Burkhardt] 8:25:23 AM

Strong Names Considered Dangerous. Keith Brown poses (yet another) interesting question on DOTNET-CLR this week: What do you guys plan to do if your private key is compromised? [John Bristowe's Radio Weblog] I have been too busy to follow all of the details of this as I saw it but this is a very interesting issue that I will track this weekend. 8:22:56 AM