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

DevConnections. [IUnknown.com: John Lam's Weblog on Software Development] 2:25:11 PM

Q317129 - PRB: The Common Language Runtime Does Not Support Type 'internal virtual' Methods "Status: This behavior is by design." Apparently not. Eric Gunnerson [DOTNET-CX]: In 1.1, we've changed the runtime behavior [...] and removed the warning. [Adrian Bateman (VisionTech)] 2:21:42 PM

I was wondering what happened to Chris (Kinsman) 10:33:59 AM

Eiffel for .NET: An Introduction 9:18:20 AM

When less is more. "My flight to Orlando, FL earlier this week took me through NYC and inspired an epiphany; this entry describes that epiphany.Over the past week or so, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about code generation. Michael Lenaghan, who has been one of my most important mentors since we met in 1995, recently got me thinking about code generation. Chris Sells, who actually created a code generation product, was unable to convince me of the importance of code generation. Why did one of my friends succeed where the other failed?".... Personally, I'm very excited about the prospects of using code generation in the software that I create. It is a new and extremely powerful tool in my toolbox. Hopefully this article will inspire you to think about adding code generation to your toolbox. But don't just believe me, read this article next. [IUnknown.com: John Lam's Weblog on Software Development] 8:31:15 AM

A Simple NUnit Set in Visual Studio.NET [StronglyTyped - Richard Caetano's weblog on software development] 8:28:54 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