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Tuesday, August 06, 2002
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The Richness of the Web. I read a lot of .NET mailing lists, and it seems like a very predominant theme these days is people asking how to make their browser app richer, and act less like a browser app. To these people I want to say:
Learn Windows Forms. Go read things like Chris Sells' description of zero-install deployment of Windows Forms apps over the web. You'll probably be a lot happier when you stop treating the browser like an application development platform. Let's stop deluding ourselves: the web browser is a shitty tool for application development. It's a huge time-sucking pain in the ass that is being bent to do things it was never intended to do. Use the right tools!
[The .NET Guy]
Can everyone please re-read the above two more times very slowly?! This message has got to get out there more.
The company I work for is just about committed to dropping our thick-client solution in favor of our thin-client. Now I'm busy writing a response to that decision -- it's part whitepaper, part rant, part clarification. I need to get it done and send it out. I really don't agree with the decision -- especially with what's now available with Windows Forms and .NET.
9:57:30 PM 
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Controlling IIS6 with managed code. For the last couple of days, I’ve been working with the System.Management classes. After a couple of false steps, I was able to create a web service interface to a management task on IIS 6, and it wasn’t nearly as hard as it first appeared. [k10n]
9:52:41 PM
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I've always been into cars, and since I could drive, I always wanted to know what it felt like to drive at the limit of a car's capabilities (I was, ahem, familiar with both sides of that limit, but not the limit itself!). With that in mind, I finally (2 years ago) talked a friend into going with me to Bob Bondurant's racing school, where we learned about high-performance driving and road racing techniques. After that I was hooked...on my instructor's recommendation, I called the LaRue's (of LaRue Motorsports) and rented a race car for a day, just to see if I liked it. Two days later I entered my first SCCA race in the rented car; after that weekend I bought a car, and have been racing ever since.
[Greg Reinacker's Weblog]
My brother-in-law recently went to Skip Barber's and had a blast. Sound like you've got an expensive hobby there! I thought computers and gadgets were expensive enough! :)
9:48:56 PM
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