Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Fun time at Win-Dev. [IUnknown.com: John Lam's Weblog on Software Development]       John tells the story about our late night session, the "coming out" party for CLAW and makes all his slides available. A big thanks to John for the opportunity, the fun, and an intense AOP learning experience. 4:28:28 PM

A brief article was just added to the .NET center of The O'Reilly Network which covers the basics of the System.Net.Sockets namespace. Defines what a socket is, explains the basics of DNS and finally touches on how data is sent and received. Not a bad article if you're new to socket programming or just new to .NET and want to get familiar with its implementation.[Drew's Blog] 1:15:46 PM

Jason Bock on an all too familiar ASP.NET story "So I'm learning a lot about ASP.NET these days. Unfortunately, there's also been some personal gnashing of teeth. When someone tells you that your new project is the ASP.NET project that an intern converted over from ASP but didn't finish and didn't come back to the company, that sends up a lot of warning signs in my mind. You cannot imaging how bad this was butchered. The intern basically took all of the .asp files and stuck an "x" at the end, moving the VBScript code into script blocks and didn't put Option Strict On. So I have late-binding everywhere, which sucks - that was one of biggest beefs I had with ASP! Of course, CDONTS-type mail and old-fashioned ADO was all over the place as well. I spent the last two days frantically re-organizing the site so at least it had type-checking, all code-behinds, ADO.NET-only, and menial exception handling (among other things). " 12:20:38 PM

Extreme XML on MSDN has an article on Reverse Linking. 12:11:11 PM

Here is an article (first of a series) that provides an Introduction to IL. Drew points out Actually though, parts one and two are available. 12:06:55 PM