Links and Discussion related (indirectly) to ISAPI Rewrite

I just found a blog post by Shirley E. Kaiser at her blog entitled Brainstorms & Raves containing an awesome collection of links and related discussion about Apache’s .htaccess. While admittedly I write mostly for an audience of developers that use Microsoft-technologies, many of the items discussed apply to Microsoft’s IIS if you use a 3rd party …

Servers for End Users

I just read an editorial that peaked my interest because the concept has been in back of my mind for a while. The editorial was entitled "Microsoft Should Make Servers Compelling" and is rare for a Dave Coursey editorial in that it was not just a soap-box rant.  David basically stated that Microsoft’s cash cow Office …

BaseCamp Project Management: Blinded by Ideology

Some people just don’t get it.  They are so caught up in their own blind ideology they won’t consider alternative views. I’ve been looking for a reasonably-priced web-based project management system for quite some time, and yesterday I thought I found it: BaseCamp from 37Signals.  Problem is, after an email exchange with the founder Jason Fried, …

Assertions in VB.NET?

Blake Watson talks about RemObject’s Chrome, a Pascal that’s not Delphi, on DevSource. There he talks about “class contracts“, a concept I’ve liked since I first read Bertrand Meyer‘s Object-Oriented Software Contruction, 1st edition back in the late 80’s back, and a feature I’d love to see in VB.NET. Whaddayasay Mr. Vick?