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Published on 15 Jul 2006 from
Never seen this one before ...
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Published on 15 Jul 2006 from
A couple of things I heard recently got me thinking about the question of the life span of a programming language.
I think it was Andrew Watson, at his recent talk on Modelling for Maintainaibility, who mentioned that programming languages become obsolete about every 15 years or so. The second comment was in a Software Engineering Radio [...]
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Published on 15 Jul 2006 from
The backslash-as-directory-separator symbolizes what is wrong with Windows. It's an unnecessary deviation from a standard (forward slash) which causes real hassle and inconvenience, for example, see Julia Lerman's post on the subject. Now Charles Petzold and Larry Osterman have explained the reason for this - allegedly it's all because IBM didn't want to change the DOS 1.x switch character, used when adding arguments to a command-line instruction.
In a way, the story does symbolize what is wrong, or right, with Windows. Windows has remarkably good backwards compatibility, but at a heavy cost in terms of anomalies and security issues.
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Published on 15 Jul 2006 from
If you have tried to contact me then chances are it never got through, the contact me setting was enabled in CS but it had no email address (which strikes me as weird code logic), it's all setup now.
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Published on 15 Jul 2006 from
In Tuesday’s webcast on Custom Cultures I was asked a very interesting questions about creating a Hindi Calendar for use with a custom culture. My answer was a bit misleading because I was focussing on the problem of how to create a calendar which h...
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Published on 15 Jul 2006 from
URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2006/07/14/665637.aspx
This is succinct and prescriptive guidance from Arpan -- all of which I agree with, and it's not because he's my manager :-) -- on the top 10 technical training resources that you can leverage now to get ready for the upcoming launch (in Q4CY2006) of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services V3.
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Published on 15 Jul 2006 from
...if you are a Microsoft employee that is...
MGX is Microsoft's global sales conference and TechReady is the internal technical conference (think TechEd for MSFT personnel only).
I am thrilled to be attending TechReady3 in Seattle and also looking forward to catching up with people in Redmond that I know from my MVP days and others that I have only met virtually since joining here.
I cannot put my hand on heart and say that I am "super-excited" to be going to MGX (and probably won't ever go again) but everybody has to do it once… apparently. Having said that, MGX is in Orlando and I haven't been there before so that's cool. If I am lucky I will do some SCUBA diving and maybe go say hello to mickey mouse (no I am not talking about any current or ex-colleagues :-p).
Not sure if I'll blog or check email that often from the States so wish me a nice holiday business trip.
Flying out in a few hours and will be back in August :-)
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Published on 15 Jul 2006 from
Deirdre Molloy of NMK has noticed something...and I like it...
She's got the details, so I won't repeat here...
...but if you know the UK online scene at all, the names Bowbrick (my blogdaddy) and Pope (recently in Seattle) should be familiar to you. And if they aren't today, they will be...So will Sniperoo (blog here).
Look out San Fran. Here comes the widgetsphere.
