July 31, 2003

Tempting things

I've got an invitation from Mono guys to consider contributing to Mono Managed XSLT Processor implemenation (now they have only a wrapper around libxslt engine). Well, we at Multiconn have designed and built one XSLT processor couple of years ago (it's quite specialized and highly (may be even too) optimized ...

July 30, 2003

Real Bloggers

By Carnage4Life: "...a response to Ted Neward's response to my comments on his article..." ...

Outlook and news://

Isn't it strange that Microsoft Outlook doesn't support reading newsgroups? Almost decided to move from Mozilla to Outlook 2003 today, but at the very last moment realized I have also to use Outlook Express for reading beloved newsgroups. That's really disappointing to use 2 apps instead of 1... so I'm ...

New horizons

VSIP is free now. Terrific news! ...

July 22, 2003

Log file in XML format?

One more logger with clunky text-based log file format and appropriate plumbing (object model, writer, parser and viewer) were written by me this week. Format was defined by customer and it was non disputable unfortunately. As for me it's just ugly. Why not use XML as log format?Pros: trivial writing/parsing ...

July 20, 2003

I'm in

A week with no internet connection at work - what could be more terrible? Finally it's over. ...