December 2, 2004

Don't miss chat with C# IDE Team today

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December 1, 2004

MSN is about to strike back

They say Microsoft is about to unveil MSN Spaces blogging service, may be even this week: Microsoft's MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week, according to sources close to the company. MSN is expected to tout MSN Spaces as a direct ...

Hardware XSLT Acceleration

Wow, I've heard about some hardware XML routers, but today I saw an ad banner about hardware XSLT accelerator. Holy cow! Here is some marketing blah-bkah-blah: Standards based XSLT processing is computationally intensive - it overburdens the server infrastructure resulting in poor user experience, high server infrastructure costs and scalability ...

November 30, 2004

The Cafes

Elliotte Rusty Harold has started a new site called (not surprisingly) "The Cafes" - for articles "longer than a typical Cafe con Leche news item, but much shorter than a full book". Here is the RSS feed. Subscribed. ...

November 29, 2004

Why is XML case-sensitive?

Sriram Krishnan asks strange question: I see someone flaming someone else for not being XHTML compliant. Tim Bray - if you're reading this, I want to know something. Why is XML case-sensitive? No human-being ever thinks in case-sensitive terms. A is a. End of story. So now, I have a ...

Beta MSN search runs XHTML

Scoble says "MSN is XHTML". Well, not really msn.com, but MSN search (beta version) - beta.search.msn.com. Good news anyway. ...

November 28, 2004

Re-throwing exceptions - a subtle difference between Java and .NET you better be aware of

Here is what I learnt from Jackie Goldstein's talk on .NET Worst Practices at the .Net Deep Dive conference in Tel-Aviv last Thursday. There is a subtle, but hugely important difference between how .NET and Java re-throw a caught exception and I missed that somehow when been learning .NET. Not ...