Tuesday, August 20, 2002

A strategic mistake? Opera casts off legacy code for speed. The Norwegian browser maker, on the verge of releasing a beta version of Opera 7, borrows a page from Netscape's history to rewrite its software from the ground up. [CNET News.com] Personally, I don't think following Netscape's footsteps is a good idea. And what will Joel have to say when he sees Opera making such a strategic mistake? :) 3:04:20 PM

Creating Visual Basic .NET Controls from Scratch New MSDN article: Creating Visual Basic .NET Controls from Scratch 12:27:06 PM

Data Access Design Patterns Justin Rudd and Richard Caetano are discussing data access design patterns. Neat stuff! 9:22:36 AM

Groove Networks Announces Add-In Toolkit For Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Sam Gentile: Groove Networks Announces Add-In Toolkit For Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 9:12:05 AM

Joel is impressed Joel on Software: "I also claimed that .NET was not revolutionary, but rather a new name for things that were under development anyway, although in retrospect I'm pretty impressed by just what a big step forward the languages and development tools took." 9:09:32 AM

Congratulations Sam! Belated congratulations to Sam Gentile on renewing his wedding vows. I meant to send this out this weekend, but got too busy (I don't think I even sat down in front of the computer on Sunday...). And then I just realized Radio defaults to deleting news that is more than 24 hours old. Lost a few things I meant to post by not acting on them quick enough... 9:06:20 AM

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