Saturday, June 15, 2002

F#. "Combining the speed, safety and productivity of ML and Caml with the libraries, tools and cross-language working of .NET" Don used to say that F was invented for things that there was no F-ing way to do in other languages... [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 7:00:33 PM

Adding Ref-Counting to Rotor. "Microsoft has granted Sells Brothers, Inc. a research grant to add ref-counting to Rotor and to study the performance effects. There's been a lot of speculation about just how we're planning to add ref-counting to Rotor. Here are the highlights:" [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 7:00:01 PM

Microsoft Fortunes On the last day of my trip to Microsoft, we were served chinese food for lunch.  Of course, you can't have chinese food without fortune cookies.  My fortune struck me funny when I considered that it came out of a Microsoft event: "What is valuable is not new, but what is new is not valuable." ... [System.Error.Emit] 6:57:28 PM

Well, a big welcome to yet another .NET Developer, Brian Graf, who I found in my Referer logs, who was kind enough to link to a couple of my posts, and who was the first to alert me, that the famous Un-Blogger himself Chris Sells has set up an RCS feed for his un-blog at Windows Developer News!! Way Cool! 6:52:59 PM

Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog: "This article describes a design and implementation (C#) of the Remoting over Internet using the Web Service as a gateway into the Remoting infrastructure". I read everything about remoting that I can get my hands on, but I'm a tad confused by this article. Remoting already "works over the internet", so what is the author really demonstrating here? [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] Using a Web Service to connect to a remoting architecture. 2:29:55 PM

This article describes a design and implementation (C#) of the Remoting over Internet using the Web Service as a gateway into the Remoting infrastructure 8:34:59 AM

Smart Kid. Smart Kid Patrick on SQL Limitations. Patrick, you should feel honored. My four year old Jonathan climbed over the gate blocking access to my office, sat down on the computer and navigated to your blog. When I saw the computer not only was it on your site, but he had somehow hilighted the first sentence! [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] Sam, I owe Jonathan a cookie. And a copy of... The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling, 2nd Edition John Wiley & Sons, 2002 [Patrick Logan's Radio Weblog] Heh, he'll read that after he finishes CLR Internals-)) 7:55:40 AM

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