November 10, 2006

W3C Mobile Web Practices went Proposed Recommendation

W3C announced the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 as Proposed Recommendation: Written for designers of Web sites and content management systems, these guidelines describe how to author Web content that works well on mobile devices. Thirty organizations participating in the Mobile Web Initiative achieved consensus and encourage adoption and implementation ...

January 10, 2006

15 years old C# MVP

This guy Matt Cassell is 15 years old and now he's got C# MVP award. Boy, I feel like a dinosaur now... ...

October 19, 2005

Ward Cunningham leaves Microsoft for The Eclipse Foundation

Ward Cunningham leaves Microsoft to work for The Eclipse Foundation. Wow. ...

June 30, 2005

Daily joke

This is from a very well known software company's site: This site provides you with unique Technical Resources and Relationship Services available to XXXX! Check this page weekly for updates on a wide variety of XXXX-related issues! Check a page weekly? I found myself treating it as a bad joke ...

April 11, 2005

Useless RSS feeds

I was writing very enthusiastically about upcoming MSDN webcasts RSS feed. It's really nice to see more and more orange XML icons on Microsoft sites. But what about quality? I was trying to make use of the the webcasts RSS feed and found it merely useless. What information would you ...

March 12, 2005

VB6 is dead? Amen

http://classicvb.org/petition: 1378 developers, including 203 MVPs signed petition to bring VB6 to Visual Studio .NET. Sounds crazy, huh? While I understand the pain of backwards compatibility issues, I'd rather sign a petition against it. ...

January 24, 2005

Creepy one

I just noted a weird thing in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml newsgroup. Somebody who identifies himself as Paja, posts the same question (verbatim!) to the newsgroup once in a month or so. He's got answers, but never replies, but keeps posting it again. Take a look here - Oct 17 2004, Nov 7 ...

September 26, 2004

MSDN2

Tim Ewald shares some info on the MSDN2. Now that's soooo coooool! I think that's the best thing could happen with MSDN. And now I just don't believe they let Tim to leave MSFT! ...

July 20, 2004

Oracle patented CMS, what is next?

USPTO did it again. Fun is going on. Now Oracle has been granted a patent on CMS. Patent 6,745,238 says: The web site system permits a site administrator to construct the overall structure, design and style of the web site. This allows for a comprehensive design as well as a ...

January 25, 2004

Reading Feb 2004 MSDN Mag

Well, it's Sunday. Calm and peace around newsgroups, forums and blogs. But in Israel it's workday, really. And I like it btw. RSS waves brought me today really enjoyable reading - MSDN Mag February 2004 issue. Nice. Here are couple of cynical comments though: "Console Appplications in .NET" by Michael ...

December 29, 2003

Listening to blah-blah

I've been attending Microsoft conference on Biztalk 2004 in Tel-Aviv today. Well, probably the only worth doing outcome is a mug with Biztalk logo. Beside that only one presentation by Cobby Cohen was at least substantially interesting to some degree, all other talks were pure blah-blah-copy-n-paste-from-biztalk-overview. By the way we've ...

December 18, 2003

Quote of the Day

The length of a spec is directly proportional to the size of the committee that produced it, multiplied by the number of years spent on the effort (which also increases with the size of the committee). Michael Kay ...

November 24, 2003

Bookworm's joy

By the way, Fawcette XML and Web Services Magazine has piblished a free book chapter of the "A First Look at ADO.NET and System.Xml v. 2.0" book by Alex Homer, Dave Sussman, and Mark Fussell. I've devoured the chapter last night and now I think I'm going to buy the ...

November 13, 2003

Quote of the Day

From saxon-love-in-department:>> >> How did Michael do it . >> The biggest factors are a total absence of project managers, marketeers, junior programmers, and paying customers who think they know best. Michael Kay ...

October 28, 2003

Revolutions everywhere

I've been some time offline travelling around Israel with my wife, Mom and mother-in-law. Now, coming back to my mail and RSS Bandito I feel like I missed a revolution in the industry. The crowd is talking about declarative programming on Windows, Elliotte Rusty Harold likes Microsoft XAML design, hmmmmmmmm ...

October 22, 2003

GotDotNet Workspaces get mature

To my delight, GotDotNet Workspaces have been upgraded to v1.1. Newly added features now make the environment really competing with SourceForge.net et al. Finally! Workspace aliases. Now I can use human readable alias URL http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/xinclude instead of machine-readable long id-based URL for XInclude.NET project! Wooohoo! (Cough, cough, actually it doesn't ...

October 2, 2003

MVP Awards

New MVP Awards List for 2003-2004 has been published. My sincere congrats to Christoph and Kirk! I've been told I was nominated too, but seems like I'm not lucky enough. May be what I'm doing is not enough or I'm doing something wrong, who knows. Well, may be next time ...

August 26, 2003

Are you romantic?

From Mono CVS Commit Rules: Also, remember to pat yourself on the back after the commit, smile and think we're a step closer to a better free software world. ...

July 30, 2003

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! ...

June 29, 2003

Preorder Now! Essential .Whatever, Volume 4 by Don Box

Don Box: I started a new book today Here's the first sentence: Software lives at the boundary between objective and subjective reality. More to follow. Enough said. ...

May 28, 2003

aloihin Backhuhn ambulant chopin

Tim Bray on well-crafted spam: ongoing aloihin Backhuhn ambulant chopin. That's funny. You know, spam became a part of our life. But being behind mozilla's junk mail filtering I'd agree - we are winning. ...

.Net Developer Journal May Issue in PDF

May Issue of .Net Developer Journal is available for free in PDF format. Good for those not subscribed like me. [Via Roy Osherove]. ...

April 27, 2003

Ubiquitous Web Services

Web Services rock! As I found out BizTalk Server is actually dead and is going to be transformed to Jupiter suite this year. Not surprisingly, Jupiter is Web Services-based product. It will use Business Process Execution Language for Web Services and integrated with Office and Visual Studio.NET. Chances are ...

April 7, 2003

Funny Piece of Spam

What a mail I got today from Taiwan, really nice one: "Mozilla thinks this message is junk mail". Well, probably ;) ...

March 25, 2003

Snowing and hailing time

They say it's snowing in Jerusalem again (at the end of March!) and as I can see outside it's hailing, thundering and heavily raining here near of Tel-Aviv. I know, winter rains are a blessing for Israel, Kineret goes up 10cm everyday and this is daily-good-news here. Still almost two ...

March 20, 2003

Is blogging infectious?

Well, blogging is really infectious disease and finally I got the infection. I have installed Movabletype engine on my site quite easily (c'mon, it's cgi based) and here is my first record. Lets see how it works. Administering is not bad and default template looks really nice, but I'm sure ...