03 June 2004

Dan Appleman pee'd in a sick bag? Dan Appleman pee'd in a sick bag? No, it's really not some sensationalist headline to increase my blog hits. Dan Appleman really did pee in a sick bag. I'm sitting here reading through reams of documents and books and hacking out some code to develop our internal development methodology, and over the tinny speakers of my monitor come the dulcet tones of Carl Franklin and .Net Rocks, his radio show hosted on MSDN. Well, it occurred to me that many of you have probably never listened to this. It's awesome. If it was being pitched at some Hollywood screenwriters competition you'd have some sweaty nervous guy in sweatpants stumbling that its "like, kinda Jack Black meets Bill Gates". It's hilarious. The latest webcast covers a bunch of stuff with a panel of speakers and authors debating everything from speaking and writing through whiskey and anything else that comes to mind. Among the revelations that popped up this week Dan Appleman admitted that on a long flight once, during takeoff (when the toilets were locked) he pee'd in a sick bag. Now THAT is cool technical radio journalism. .NET Rocks ROCKS! Check it out.   12:51:42 PM    comment [] Any Windows 3.11/VB3 guys out there? Any Windows 3.11/VB3 guys out there ? I was just browsing through the MSDN subscriber downloads list and stumbled across a bit of nostalgia. If you are an MSDN subscriber you can still download Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11 and Windows For Workgroups along with classic development tools like VB3. I'm tempted to get them and build a Virtual PC image just for nostalgia's sake. I suspect that on today's modern hardware even an virtual PC environment will fy compared to the hardware we had back in the day.   12:15:41 AM    comment [] Microsoft extend support for SOAP Toolkit Microsoft extend support for SOAP Toolkit. You may have hear rumours lately that Microsoft are to extend the cut off dates for standard and extended support for Visual Studio 6.0. This makes a lot of sense since no matter how much Microsoft may want us all to move to .NET, the hard nosed business reality of the world is that there are billions of dollars invested in VB and classic ASP solutions out there that are not likely to get migrated to .NET overnight. The same goes for SOAP. Rebecca Dias of Microsoft said in her blog that due to customer feedback the SOAP toolkit's support cut off dates are going to be extended to more closely align them with those of Visual Studio 6. She gives  a tiny glimpse into the history of the SOAP toolkit as well inferring that since the SOAP toolkit was never an "approved" way to develop Web Services or work with them, it was a bit of shock to look at the download logs for it over at MSDN and see that despite Microsoft's best efforts to kill it, it's still going strong. Well, there's a shot in the arm for the underdog. Maybe I should push Apress harder to get Beginning VB6 back into print ;) 12:11:00 AM    comment []

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