Archive for March, 2004
Tuesday, March 30th, 2004
DevX: C# without .NET?
Free Your C# Apps from .NET Platforms. Visual Mainwin offers unprecedented platform flexibility, allowing you to develop applications in C# and deploy and run them on J2EE. Learn how to take advantage of this freedom by building a C# Web service that you can run on platforms besides .NET and IIS. By lmoroney@philotic.com (Laurence [...]
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Friday, March 26th, 2004
some interesting real-world happenings via some interesting techblogs. Dave Kopper explains why ‘E-mail just can’t be trusted anymore at all, ‘ detailing an email spoofing problem similar to one that recently almost got my Redland Baptist Church website shut down. Audio Engineers, lend us your … I’m sorry,… [blogs4God - WWJB?]
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Thursday, March 25th, 2004
No kidding around
Interesting story via Glenn Slaven, on how genXers are destroying their futures/posterity. Somehow it makes me feel guilty for being a member of the DINKs (Dual Income No Kids) category (well, sort of–my wife is retired) with no likelihood of change.
Am I less of a citizen of God’s kingdom for not wanting kids? [...]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004
RSSify - an example of the cost of novelty "Web Services"
RSSify was pretty cool. It could turn a non-RSSing blog into RSS for consumption by aggregators. But here’s the catch–it caught on so much that it was hogging precious bandwidth (see below). Successful grass roots services (not necessarily limited to XML-RPC/SOAP) face the same problem–becoming the victim of their own success.
23-Mar-04 3:00:30 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in .NET, Web Services, E-Publishing Explosion, Personal Software Integration by jmiller
Friday, March 19th, 2004
Windows XP SP2 released
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is out and available for use.
…By the way, I notice there’s an RSS feed on [Microsoft's] security page. That’s a good one to subscribe to.
This link brought to you by [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
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Monday, March 15th, 2004
Back in the saddle
Blogging again. Why was I gone so long? What’s my excuse? Life happens. It’s a long sad story that will never reach my blog. It has made me really think hard about my reasons for doing things. Lots of things, not just blogging. So this is a courtesy [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
Time to get back up on that horse
Ahem (clearing my throat after my best John Wayne impression). Lot’s of stuff has happened since I blogged last, but little of it will appear on this weblog. I’m still straightening out my priorities right now, so I can’t promise the volume that I have had in the past. But at least [...]
