Saturday, August 09, 2003

In Search of Stupidity After reading this foreword to Rick Chapman's new book, In Search of stupidity by Joel Spolsky. I just ordered the book. Well, today I received the book and hopefully I will be reading the book on my vacation.   One thing which attracts me was top ten companies like in 1984 and 2001 list. Though Microsoft tops stand , I would like to say it just clicked for Microsoft.  Some times you do stupid things it works and sometimes you do some brilliant things it just fails.   What I am trying to say here is it’s not that the list (-1984) did stupid things, every one took their own road, some of them fortunately end up in dead end, and some still struggling to find their way. Ultimately it so happen Microsoft gets the best road and keeps going.   So will it work for everyone, can everyone fellow the same road? May be it might end up in search of stupidity.   2:39:32 AM   comment_[] Format specifier and Format Designer! Format Specifiers Appendix from C# in a Nutshell. By request, O'Reilly and Assoc. has posted the Format Specifiers appendix from C# in a Nutshell by Drayton et al. It's a wonderful reference to the String.Format/ToString format specifiers that I'm constantly searching for on MSDN. Thanks, ORA! Posted by Chris Sells on Wed, August 6, 2003 @ 3:10PM [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet] This one is handy and I always carry the C# in Nutshell with me always (as Essential COM ;-) ) This one is too cool  FormatDesigner, thanks chris!     2:11:33 AM   comment_[] Mono Takes a Step Up. Mono Takes a Step Up. Novell's acquisition of Ximian, and re-iteration of their commitment to key Ximian technologies like Gnome and Mono, means that doing cross-platform .NET development just got legitimized and well funded. This can only be a good thing for .NET. Let's hope Microsoft sees it that way, too, and doesn't get sue-happy over non-ECMA technologies. [The .NET Guy] 2:03:12 AM   comment_[]

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