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By Mike Gunderloy
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
I've actually spent quite a bit of time recently writing code (instead of just writing about code), and once again I'm realizing how fun it is to write code. Ultimately, that feeling might just be what distinguishes software developers from everyone else.
- SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Redistributable Files - Nice to see Microsoft putting out an MSI merge module for something. Now, guys, how about merge modules for the other dozens of MS components that we're all still hacking together setups for?
- Statement From Microsoft in Reponse to the Supreme Court's Ruling In the University of Michigan Affirmative Action Case - And the reason I want to have a statement on this from a software company would be what, precisely? I do wish they'd leave this sort of thing (and other liberal hobbyhorses like gun control) out of my software.
- Safari 1.0 release - I've got mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, it's very nice to see a new, spiffy, standards-compliant browser out there. On the other, I do enough Web development that I'd like to be able to test in Safari, which would require buying a Mac.
- ODP.NET How-To Documents - Advice on using Oracle's ADO.NET data provider. (via Sam Gentile)
- Paul Wilson demonstrates the use of a Windows Forms UserControl in an ASP.NET page. Interesting, but I'm not sure how practical this will be in real life; certainly it's an intranet-only solution.
- Reliability - Another amazing .NET architectural essay from Chris Brumme.
- Hypothesis: The amount of effort a new blogger puts into updating their blog after their first two entries is inversely proportional to the number of "wow, look who's blogging now!" posts that their original appearance triggers.
- Claim that Apple cheated on the G5 benchmarks. Of course, if you spend any time looking into benchmarks, you realize that everybody cheats. Pet Shop performance, anyone?
- Nterprise Linux Services - Novell starts seriously migrating core services to Linux. Could be an interesting move for both Novell and Linux.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.