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Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
Use Visual Studio .NET Enterprise and Architect editions' Application Center Test (ACT) to simplify multiclient load testing of XML Web services and ASP.NET Web form by recording and replaying browser requests. ACT replaces Microsoft's earlier Web Application Stress Tool (WAS) with an easy-to-use IDE that offers automatic script generation and replay, plus custom graphing capabilities.
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This is a sample chapter from O'Reilly latest book "ASP.NET in a Nutshell" by Andrew Duthie and Rob McDonald. This chapter discusses employing ASP.NET user controls and custom server controls for reuse and employing custom server controls for extensibility.
9:49:01 AM
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Mitch Wagner responds to my earlier post on Palladium. He makes some interesting points. But, it still seems like most of the reporting is "We don't know what Microsoft is planning, and we don't know whether they can pull it off, and we don't know for sure if it is a conspiracy. But at least we know that it is called Palladium, and it is probably bad for the fish." But I think that some people, and especially the GPL politicians, cross the line into territory that is completely counterproductive. As an example, read the so-called "TCPA FAQ". It's a shameless piece of FUD by a self-proclaimed open-source economist. You can summarize the entire FAQ as "TCPA will eliminate privacy and freedom for everyone but the boogey man, and will destroy puppies and the GPL." It is a great read for a student of rhetoric, because it illustrates all sorts of specious reasoning constructs. It reminds me of a joke that some friends and I used to make about things like communism and grandiose distributed object frameworks (like Forte used to be). We would ask "how could a conceptual framework so riddled with flaws attract so many adherents?" Then we would shrug our shoulders and say "Who cares? It keeps them busy and out of my way."
But it's not exactly as easy as saying "Flypaper traps flies, and I don't have to eat it, so who cares what it tastes like to me?" The problem is that we have a lot of smart people wasting their entire lives worrying about what bad stuff might happen, rather than thinking about what good stuff is just waiting to be unleashed by human creativity. Like I said, that is fine for most journalists, but it is not a good strategy for computer people hoping to advance the industry. It would be easy to write all about why the so-called TCPA FAQ is a poorly-done propaganda piece. But I think it is more interesting to discuss the pitfalls faced by people who lack positive vision in this industry. That will be the topic of my next essay. [Better Living Through Software]
4:42:29 AM
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Chris posted the final lineup of sessions & speakers for the WebServices DevCon East (October 10-11 in Bedford, MA). This look like a rockin' conference for web service geeks - I'm doing 2 talks (Designing a RESTful SOAP API and SOAP over Alternate Protocols), but even if I wasn't speaking I'd be hocking the XBox to attend. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog]
4:12:21 AM
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Happy Birthday from Bill Gates
Ok, this time I've had it. I have been a Microsoft user and developer since Windows 2.0. I have always defended Microsoft. Since the coming of NT which I started with in 1993, I had stable OS for the most part and railed aggainst the hordes moaning constant reboots and blue screens. Stability was especially good in Win2K and then XP. Lately, however, something has been getting mucked up in XP at the driver level (which is the only level really Ring 0 that could) and I have been getting blue screens. Also Norton SystemWorks 2002 hosed my system! So I tried the "recovery" console. Yah right. Can only copy in the windows directory! Tried all sorts of stuff. End of story. Machine re-paved. I lost everything after every attempt to get my data off.
The thing is that I was need a new machine. This is only a 700Mhz and I do a lot of high-end .NET work and such. And it was going to be a laptop. I had every inclination to buy a Mac Titanium PowerBook. Then I relented to my business needs and advice. I would have Office but to my clients, I need to do a lot of VS.NET and VSIP stuff. I settled on a high-end WinBook. I am so pissed right now that I am almost certain I will cancel the order and buy the Mac. This is just stupid. I am so sick of having flakiness and instability. I want something that just works!!!!!
12:39:53 AM
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Yes, its true. Today I offically became an old fart. I turned 40. Ahh, that was yesterday (July 2nd). I just got my machine back up.
12:18:58 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Sam Gentile.
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