Esther Schindler who is the editor of the email newsletter DevSource Update recently wrote about Visual C++ and Microsoft’s LINQ Project that adds the ability to use SQL code directly in VB and C# programs (emphasis mine): Ever since the PDC, developers and the press have been talking about the LINQ technology that Microsoft showed off. …
Windows Server Core! Finally: A stripped-down version of Windows that loses the GUI!
InformationWeek reports "Microsoft Tests Two Flavors Of Windows Server" Quoting from the article: Beta tests of the next version of Windows Server include a stripped-down version, called Windows Longhorn Server Core, that loses the Windows GUI and includes only the most common server functions. All I can say is "Finally!!!"
Just Say NO to Extending the “My” Classes in VB 2005, Redux
Last month I wrote a really long blog about the “My” Classes in VB 2005 with two hypothetical scenarios regarding the future of .NET and development because of the introduction of the “My” classes. I had a lot of fun writing it, but afterward realized it was far too long to get across my key …
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Extending the “My” Classes in VB 2005 … Just Say NO!
Readers of my prior posts about the "My" Classes planned for VB 2005 know that I am pretty enamored with them: here, here, and here. I think the "My" classes have the potential to become one of the most significant productivity features of VB 2005 and beyond, and could result in a huge reduction in …
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VARBusiness’ Love Letter to Microsoft’s .NET
As far as I’m concerned, .NET Rocks! (and I’m not talking about Carl Franklin’s radio show.) I’ve programmed on many different platforms and in many different languages and studied many more than that, and as far as I see .NET blows everything else out of the water. Though I’ve never actually used Java or J2EE, …
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Mort, the “Hobbyist”, and the “Occupational” Programmer get their due
Several months ago I blogged about the need for a much simpler way to get into .NET, and I named my proposed solution VBScript.NET (in hindsight the name was a poor choice because people assumed I was proposing porting VBScript to .NET instead of providing a simplified VB.NET, but highsight often is 20/20…) And I …
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My, My, My!
(I first wrote most of this about 3 weeks ago, but never got a chance to finish and post it. I’ll be posting something else about “My” is a few days, so I wanted to post this first.) When I first heard about “My” Classes (list of classes) planned for Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005, I thought …
Optimal Dressing, or A challenge to Eric Lippert
Ah the memories Eric Lippert’s blog post about partial order sorting was, as always, interesting and well written. However, this specific post brought back memories of a project I did for Gateway Foods of Lacrosse Wisconsin back in the early 90’s. (I googled them and they don’t appear to no longer exist.) Though my project …
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Woe be it for the Hobbyist Programmer
I just came across a blog entry that disturbed me entitled Should the hobbyist programmer matter to Microsoft? by Rory Blyth of Neopolean.com. It was not so much the blog entry by Rory that really disturbed me, but the tone of the comments he received (over 100 at the time.) As I started writing this …
More Support for the Scripter?
Now that I wrote my VBScript.NET post, I’m finding others have also been addressing the issue. Maybe one more voice helps? An open letter to Microsoft by Danny Boyd Why do hobbyists matter? by Paul Vick Save the Hobbyist Programmer by Kathleen Dollard Actually, I previously read Kathleen’s article and it influenced my essay but when …