Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Mugshots. Nice to see some faces behind the names i've been meeting online these last 10 days in the Groove Experiments space. Kinda reminded me of the Mugshot discussion on the Grooveforums some time ago. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] This is the group of people I spent most of the two days with. It seemed like we had known each other forever. We also went out to dinner on the last night along with Steve Loughran who is one funny Brit-). His talk was even better than last years (and funnier) and it would do developers good to remember we have to deploy these bloody things. 4:27:11 PM

Too Many Web Services. Here's the "Top 10 Reasons You Know Youve Been Hacking Too Many Web Services..." that Tim and I presented at the Web Services DevCon (which was very fun, btw). [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]  Ah, Geek humor-) 4:12:00 PM

$50 million from HP, Microsoft for .Net. "Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft plan to invest $50 million in a joint effort to sell corporate customers on the software giant's .Net Web services efforts." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 11:21:22 AM

Free, Non-Commercial Edition of Eiffel for .NET. "Eiffel ENViSioN!TM is a plug-in for Visual Studio .NET - its icon appears in the same place the other languages do, but that's where the similarity ends. Eiffel ENViSioN! enables you to use the powerful features of the Eiffel language, including Design by ContractTM (a means for making super-robust software, native only to Eiffel), multiple inheritance, generics, and many others. You can use it to be more productive than you ever dreamed. (Eiffel users report that they can produce 3-10x as much high-quality software as they can using any other language and/or tools.)" Eiffel has two features that I wish C# had: design by contract and generics. While the free edition is limited when compared to the non-free edition, it won't expire. If you'd like to see how Bertrand Meyer thinks you ought to program w/o leaving the comfort of .NET, check it out. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] 11:21:03 AM