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It seems that a bunch of Microsoft’ies are missing the point. A while back I blogged how Microsoft is going to get out of the classic software business and move into the domains of X-Box, Windows Serv...
There is new project called Monolith. The idea behind Monolith is that you take an original copyrighted file, combine with gobbly-gook and the resulting file is not subject to copyright law.From the w...
Last week when I was at Software Development I attended the SOA Everywhere? BOF. It was an interesting discussion and I raised a question regarding mashup’s and the use of SOA. My question went as fol...
As president of the WI .NET Users Group, I’m really excited about our upcoming conference on April 22, 2006. Deeper in .NET 2006 will be at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee. We have five great speakers li...
Last week I was talking on stage at Software Development and illustrated the Cache Controller pattern. I opened a browser and ran the demo, except that the demo did not work. At that point I paniced a...
XML Prague 2006 session abstacts are now available online.
http://www.xmlprague.cz/sessions.html
In addition, we are happy to announce the inclusion of a BoF
session on DocBook for the following day...
I am happy to announce that the patterns for the book Ajax Patterns and Best Practices have a name, and it is Jaxson. Jaxson was proposed by Ron Szumski and a signed copy of my book is on the way. I k...
The purpose of Java. I continue to ponder it. I see whole enterprises converting everything they have to J2EE environments as fast as possible. I see libraries upon of code developed, IDE's created...
Robert and I had fun being interviewed by MiMi Yeh over at SearchOpenSource.com, where we answered questions pertinent some of the features that set PostgreSQL apart from other databases, and talk abo...
I have tried for the past few years to use Mono. And everytime Mono has a problem I have thought, “They will get it to work soon”. Well, now the straw has fallen that broke the camel’s back. This was ...
A few weeks ago, several coworkers and I went to the No Fluff Just Stuff Conference (overviews here, here, and here.) During the conference, I got to hear Dave Thomas speak about the Dreyfus Model for...
The next WI .NET Users Group meeting is on February 21st, and the presentation will be “An Introduction to F#” (register here). If you’re in the Milwaukee area and have any interest in math, finance...
In a recent post, I showed you how to create a basic Fitnesse ColumnFixture test using C#. However, ColumnFixtures are but one test table style available in Fitnesse. I was asked in the comments of my...
Too many late nights and early mornings make it hard to keep up. I hope to sleep the whole plane ride home. The last two days, we?ve abandoned the sessions. Some of them certainly provide value, and s...
Upcoming HMMFUG.org meeting….. PRESENTER: Roberto C. Frias TOPIC: Remoting - What is Remoting- What can be done with it- How does Remoting integrates with Flash- How does Remoting integrates with Flex...
Pro JSF and Ajax shows you how to leverage the full potential of JavaServer Faces (JSF) along with the integration of the now popular Ajax or Asynchronous Javascript And XML in building custom, rich I...
My work-issued laptop is a Dell Latitude D610 with a 2.1 GHz Pentium M processor, 2 GB RAM, and a 60 GB hard drive. It runs Windows XP Professional. It’s a nice machine. When I want to connect to a wi...
I work with PHP a lot in my current job. Sadly, I also work with Oracle. It’s not that Oracle isn’t a great database, it is, but the documentation and APIs available for Oracle are either hard to fi...
The HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) 2006 Conference kicked off in San Diego with a reception last night. I flew out from Jacksonville, FL, yesterday morning with my boss ...
An internal audit at the company where I work determined that we should strengthen our corporate password policy. Consequently, our head of data security drafted a new policy and began to solicit comm...
I will admit some of the .NET Generic code from my book (Foundation Object Oriented Patterns in .NET 2.0) is relatively complicated, but there is an error made by programmers that I find happens very ...
There is an excellent article on understanding memory usage on Linux systems here. This is a much misunderstand topic - especially in the area of shared libraries and memory use. This article clears...
Quick update here. This is Ed Nilges, author of Build Your Own .Net Language and Compiler. After a period of more or less intentional down time, I am teaching a range of subjects (computer science, ph...
Inkscape and the Open Clip Art Library saves a poor, over-worked sysadmin tasked with creating diagrams....
Finally updated my website to showcase the source code for my upcoming book “Ajax Patterns and Best Practices”. http://www.devspace.com:8080. Only the .NET server side is working. Why .NET and not Jav...
Working in a large UNIX shop is not without its difficulties. Often times the difficulties stem from process and not technology. For example, with more 500 servers, and 50 different environments, an...
I’ve never been great at making predictions. But I’ll try my hand at proffering a few technology trends and events we might see in the calendar year 2006: · Longhorn Server pushes to late 200...
One question I have seen a few times is how to modify the the number of days to retain data in the SystemCenterReporting database in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 This KB has a good guide http://s...
HoHum… Predictions… A dime a dozen 1) Microsoft will release Vista and it will be a so-so hit because Apple will steal the thunder.2) Apple’s Intel boxes will be the BIG hit of the year as we will s...
About an hour or so ago Microsoft released the patch for that nasty Windows Metafile vulnerability. I saw it in my Automatic Updates when I got home from work today; if you don’t use those, visit Win...
Note this was crossposted from (http://blog.richard-callaby.net) Recently I have had the pleasure of using the open source content management system called DotNetNuke. I basically use this as my prima...
Having taken sick over the holidays and lost my voice (no loss, some folks might concede), I decided I was hungry for pizza. So I went to one of the local chains and registered on their web site. Prob...
I did not know if I should write this post, but considering this blog entry I thought, yupe why not. I smiled when I read the blog because he is in the exact same position as I am: OSX on the desktop...
I use multiple computers on the desktop with multiple operating systems. The result is that my desk is cluttered with keyboards and mice. While surfing the OpenDarwin site I ran into this utility ca...
For this code, which was authored by me in full and is made available under general Open Source license, please see my alternative Blog at Developer Dot Star (click the code link). A passionate but dr...
At this site and in the book I promised free updates to people who sent me email requesting them. I’d like to thank the people who requested updates, and apologize. Immediately after uploading the fin...
Today, I attended an AMS-IX member meeting. The AMS-IX is the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. Internet exchanges are places where internet service providers, hosting companies and big content providers (...
I commonly rant about the settings in the most basic of files in my large-scale UNIX environment. The /etc/hosts file is probably my biggest issue. This simple file can cause so many headaches, and ...
Well I now will have two blogs going, and yes I promise to post more often. I am in Atlanta right now, continuing to work on my fun projects. Such as my book, magazine articles, and I feel an open s...
I just got back from speaking at the Spark Europe conference in Amsterdam to find an invitation to blog on the Apress blog. As an author on several books from friends of ED, I thought it might be cool...
Just a pointer to the Windows Live Beta today. They’ve been quietly building this up for a little while now, and have just released functionality to let you host your email accounts on Microsoft’s Liv...
It seems so simple. In order to communicate over the internet, you need an IP (Internet Protocol) address. Those are 32 bits long, so there are 4.3 billion of them, and 3.7 billion are usable. 2.2 bil...
Recently, a high-profile executive at SAP made some statements regarding open source that inflamed much of the development community. Shai Aggasi, former CEO of Top Tier (the company SAP purchased for...
Well, time to post a new blog. I think I’m going to just wax poetically about how I got into this whole mess. I started programming ages ago - back when VB was loved and hated with all of its memory i...
Let me say for those that do not know me, I use Open Source, promote Open Source, and like Open Source. However, I am not against closed source as I regularly will buy closed source software when app...
I’m learning C#. As someone who has been using VB since version 3.0 (around 1993) and vb.net since the first beta, I’ve been on the fringes of learning C# for a few years now. Oh sure, I could read i...
Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk, The following is a summary of your Amazon Mechanical Turk activity for theweek ending Nov 19, 2005. Weekly HIT Activity - Number of HITs accepted: 3 - Number of ...
The whole travel experience with a computer is getting better, but still requires way too much thought and energy. I have to bring:1) A laptop2) Laptop power supply3) ipod4) ipod power supply5) ...
While I have never met Mr. Sahil Malik in person, I know enough about him from editing the newly released Pro ADO.NET 2.0 to be able to confidently state that he is the new Mr. Data Access. Sahil too...
I believe the computing world changed forever when, on November 1, 2005, Microsoft announced it would set up a site called Office Live (http://www.microsoft.com/office/officelive/default.mspx). This i...
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