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Monday, May 10, 2004 #

Quite Possibly The Most Entertaining Spam I've Gotten Yet

What’s even more entertaining is that I got this at work addressed to a company-wide DL that includes several hundred people.  The screen capture, though, doesn’t do it justice as it’s littered with little Japanese anime characters in full animated-GIF glory.  Click on the thumbnail to see a 1024x768 version.  Don't worry, it's a screen capture (jpg) - not active HTML code.

 

posted @ 8:06 AM

WinSuperSite covers WinHec

I haven’t had a chance to comb through all of this, but it looks like interesting reading. 

Paul Thurrott has a great look at WinHec (the Windows Hardware Conference) and the news released there.

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[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

posted @ 5:02 AM

Created a .Text Skin logo for custom skins...

Attention .Text skinners… 

I have created a .Text Skin logo.  The idea is to place this logo at the bottom of my custom .Text skins.  This would allow users who see a .Text skin they like on another site to easily locate and download the .Text skin.  Here is the logo.  You can see the logo here as well as how it is implemented at the very bottom of this page.

I hope Scott Watermasysk and the .Text team do not feel as though I am taking unnecessary liberties with their logo.  It was my intent to keep the original .Text logo look and feel.  I would be more than happy to use any image that Scott and the .Text team suggest.  I just wanted to share my idea with the rest of the .Text community.

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[Mark Wagner's .NET C# Cogitation]

posted @ 4:54 AM

Mono Beta 1

From Greg Hughes’s weblog…

 

Mono is an open-source implementation of the .NET framework on Unix/Linux.  The hope is that by recreating the all of the components of the .NET framework and running it on Linux will allow companies to develop applications in .NET and then deploy those applications on Linux servers.  Surprised that I am pointing to this?  You shouldn’t be…I think this does more to validate .NET as an industry leading development platform than any Gartner study or Microsoft whitepaper and proof points. 

 

At the end of the day, Windows Server 2003 should be able to stand on its own against competing platforms.  If it can’t compete against Unix/Linux without being the ONLY platform on which customers can develop .NET-enabled applications (which I don’t think will happen, by the way), then the product group and development teams will be encouraged to close the gap.  Isn’t that supposed to be the consumer benefit to competition?  And to be realistic, this isn’t the complete framework just yet – it includes the CLI and classes for ASP.NET web services, ASP.NET web forms, Binary and SOAP remoting and ADO.NET.  That’s just the tip of the iceberg as far as the work that needs to be done to replicate the entire framework.

Mono Beta 1 has been released  - What the heck is it? No, you won't end up in bed for weeks wishing you could just die. Think of it this way: Write C# code and run it on Windows or Unix. This is big. It's a .NET framework for Unix, and when you think about it, the possibilities are - well - pretty interesting. Interoperability, here we come. It's worth noting that Microsoft released the whole .NET thing to the community to do this kind of thing. And for those who wonder why anyone should care, the abstraction layer of the .NET framework allows you to write and deploy much more secure (read: managed) code. That matters. That's probably not a great explanation, but someone else can chime in and comment if they want. :-)

greghughes.net weblog

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posted @ 4:48 AM