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By Mike Gunderloy
Friday, April 18, 2003Well, I got a couple of feeler letters out to publishers, so yesterday's mission was accomplished. Perhaps today I'll try to catch up on e-mail a bit. Such an exciting life, eh? OK, not at the moment, but maybe I can find something to generate a little interest Out There.
- According to The Register, Microsoft is claiming that the Visual FoxPro EULA prevents demonstrating VFP running on Linux. Even setting aside the conspiracy theories prevalent within the Fox community (who have been whining about being ignored ever since Microsoft bought the tool), this does seem like a mighty silly legal attitude for Microsoft to be taking. Hopefully it's just the result of someone talking without thinking.
- US News & World Report now has an XML feed (here's the Syndic8 preview). Headlines only, but still nice to see another major news source doing this. Added to my NewsGator subscriptions, right next to the BBC and AP. I wonder when CNN is going to get a clue?
- Microsoft OneNote Frequently Asked Questions (via Early & Adopter)
- VSEA Enterprise Templates Policy Editor - If you're using VS .NET Enterprise Architect, this lets you create policies that limit the components that your junior designers can use in projects, thus helping to enforce corporate standards.
- Interview with Miguel de Icaza - A great look at where the Mono project was as of the start of this month. There's a lot going on in Mono-land, including the ability to run ASP.NET applications. Apparently they've even demonstrated running the Eclipse IDE using the IKVM.NET Java virtual machine on the Mono runtime on Linux...makes my head hurt just to think about all the layers between clicking the mouse and something actually happening. They also run on the iPaq and on Mac OS X. Possibly "write once, run anywhere" for .NET is not so very far away.
- I actually bought one of the $200 Wal-Mart PCs. It works fine (not that the demands on it are very high at the moment: it's for our youngest child, just about 9 months old). If you've got a monitor, a decent mouse, and an OS license of your choice handy (it ships with LindowsOS) it's a cheap and easy way to get another box running. 1.1 GHz Duron, 128 MB RAM, 10 GB HD, CD-ROM, sound & speakers, network - but no floppy drive.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.