According to this article http://zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39199269,00.htm

"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confessed the software giant's .NET strategy has come to a standstill, says he's accepted SQL Server's shortcomings, and vowed to keep fighting search giant Google"

Why exactly has the .Net strategy stalled  ? does this mean 2.0 will be delayed again ?

Given all the goodies that are supposed to come out later this year, and the amount of .Net code being used why has the .Net strategy stalled ?

Any comments ?

fine tune website performance, see what the browser is doing. Handcraft http requests etc..

this beats using ethereal to do the same..

http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwebgen/html/ie_introfiddler2.asp

Downlod from http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/

New version released. Many security fixes.. and comes close to passing the ACID 2 test http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html#top

 An interesting feature called Browser Javascript is  included http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/ . This fixes any Javascript problems a web site may have with Opera. The definitions are automatically updated. Complete changelong is here at http://www.opera.com/windows/changelogs/801/

 

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blmichaeljacksonjokes.htm

and on Iraq and WMDs

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bliraqwmdjokes.htm

I'm evaluating PHP versus .Net for an application I have to build. One factor that favours PHP is hosting costs. LAMP hosting is much cheaper than .Net hosting. PHP gives most of the functionality that .Net can give, more like classic ASP so the higher cost of .Net hosting cannot be justified. So I'm learning PHP and MySQL. I'm pretty good with Linux but never tried any development on it.. so here goes. I'm planning on using Apache mod_rewrite, there is an IIS equivalent but not so powerful as mod_rewrite. If I had done this in .Net, I'd have to write it as an http handler. I might do this later but its nice to have this as part of the web server. A few regular expressions is all it takes.

Two good articles on using the new features in ASP. Net 2.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/WickedCode/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/06/WickedCode/default.aspx

I like the script call back feature using XML-HTTP. This can replace a Java Applet I built sometime back.

Its good to see that some of the code I've written using the 1.1 runtime be part of the base class library. This would make development so much faster.

On the other hand are Java Applets still relevant ? The use of JavaScript and XML-HTTP is increasing. Combine that with the wonderful interfaces Flash can produce and you have the capability to deploy very light weight web based apps.

Found out today that IE has tabs, not directly but by using the latest version of the MSN toolbar. As an Opera user this is not so groundbreaking, but it is somewhat useful for those IE only sites. The whole screen flickers when switching tabs and it would be good if clicking on a link with the srcoll wheel opens the link in a new tab. I do like the Windows desktop search that comes with the whole package. I like the search while type feature, and it doesn't use a browser to show the results like Google Desktop search does. This is the app I like out of the whole package. It offered pdf searching before Google so I'm sticking with it.

http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=6091&display=photoshop#entries

Magic with Photoshop .. Starwars is the victim.

I can't figure out why many people hate JarJar Binks so much. I like the charachter, much funnier than C3PO.

http://www.divil.co.uk/net/controls/

This is one nice collection of controls. These are what MS didn't include in their control library and what other vendors charge a hell of a lot. I've used the toolbars and menus for some applications. The licensing is quite resonable. The free version can be used to try out the control. This should be in every Winforms developers toolbox.