Either way,.Net is still a very exciting ecosystem to be involved with, there's some mind blowing stuff going in and around it, and it is still an extremely viable development platform for a, quite frankly, huge percentage of the worlds top companies & financial institutions. Articles and questions like this always amaze me with their naivety of what is happening in the business world.
We're talking to a bunch of geeks here - lets get straight to the point
linq, for one, is going to rock. So will WPF & WCF. Not purely Vista, I know - but it's all coming together nicely in one 2007 (into 2008 for.Net 3.5) rollout
Don't underestimate the power of the dark side. This is an incredible release, it is not just a new operating system. The WPF, WCF and WinFX will change face of windows development, and indefinitely influence almost every other development platform. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/eval uate/overvw.mspx
Agreed. Where's the Web 2.0? BBC is redesigning with it right now, why not slashdot? Besides, this is an open source site, why not the style of the site, and some ajax modules?
honest question: I'd be interested to know - how much innovation is there within Microsoft's server-side stuff (I admit there's precedents for most, but what's new). In no particular order here's some off the top of my head.
Systems Management Server, BizTalk, Microsoft Operations Manager, SQL Server/Reporting Services/Analysis Server, the CLR, SQLCLR, Server System, Exchange, WinFs, ObjectSpaces, LINQ, Enterprise Library,.Net Remoting, MTS, Exchange/ISA, Active Directory, Vista, Commerce, Sharepoint, Clustering, Terminal Services, etc etc.
How about the MSDN itself, microsoft.com, technet, ms support & the ms newsgroups.
I for one reckon VS.Net 2005 Team System & SQL 2005 are gonna kick some serious butt. (Ajax support and ongoing ORM systems are gonna be the icing on the cake.)
I know a lot of this stuff has precedents or simply integrates other technology, but you gotta admit - with their workforce, the unique situations in development they must come across, and the amount of time, support & experience they have in the lab - a lot of the stuff in this software has gotta be their own ideas/solutions.
does anyone have a list of all the sustainable-environment inventions that have not made it to market? It would be great to see the internet promote knowledge of them to a point where governments must help them get made and enforce their use.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I first heard about IPv6 about 6 years ago - is this pretty much vapourware, along with water powered cars, 3D bio memory, electronic paper, etc. When is this stuff ever going to make it to the end user. Is there a list of all of this stuff somewhere, and where its at in making it to the realn world??
Good point - but as you said, you do still have that swiss army knife. This is for all those occasions (like camping is for a swiss army knife) where all you want to carry is your phone (like going out) but it'd be cool to have some tunes on the way there and take a couple of shots of the party.
I'll grab one, in a year or 2 when they get a little cheaper & throw it all into a pda phone (checking ebay while you're out would be good too.)
Fair point - excel is good for prototyping, or running once-off spredsheets. I'm coming from the POV where my company's accountants & marketing people are running off entire applications built in pasword-protected excel that could, and should have been adapted to proper applications years ago...
Lemme get this straight - excel is a spreadsheet application. It's for accountants and other number crunchers who dont know how to develop.
Anyone with an ounce of nouce who can develop an application geared towards shredsheet-based reporting will drop the sucker straight into a database and do some real crunching on the fucker. Full stop.
Once your done, output it back to excel, for sure. The power of excel is being able to look at, filter, sort and graph data outputted by systems - without any programming skills.
Spam lists are so massive they cost a lot to actually send. Any reductions in wasted sends can save in cost. Therefore spammers generally remove hard-bounced emails from their lists.
There is a piece of software called mailwasher which does this with a bit of stuffing around. I'd love to see an open source project which combines this with thunderbird spam filtering (ie. bounce anything on the 'delete' list, filter into folder the rest of the suspects for you to pick & bounce at will).
Wikipedia has 202, IANA has 247
Guess we could do a diff on the official 193 coutries and investigate why they're claiming to be countries. My guess is there's 10 - 50 major scammers out there who've registered countries just to claim benefits from the UN;)
I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who has responded to this post. Not to mention the question in the first place. Mod this one up, appretiation for the players in this game is the reason a lot of us are here.
some would say it's easier and faster to use the gui to create those big, once-off queries and then clean up the code
having said that, why not beat M$ and copy the gui with a decent code generator behind it...
seriously, try it in access if you dont have sql/ent manager. You can easily create complex joins, group by's and agregations in a few seconds which would take you a lot longer to write (and it aint hard to stick a couple of extra new lines and bulk indents in after the fact!)
All I can say is: check out mailwasher: check out your mail while it's still on the server and choose which to bounce.
ie. get on the spammer's bounce lists, and watch your spam count go down way faster than spamcop or any other alternative!
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft *is* apparently building .Net closer in to the OS with Windows 8 - this was the vision for Longhorn (out of it we got much of what makes .Net 3+ awesome today) - but with Jupiter, this is apparently becoming a reality. - the announcement will be at http://buildwindows.com/
more info: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/windows-8-for-software-developers-the-longhorn-dream-reborn.ars/2
Either way, .Net is still a very exciting ecosystem to be involved with, there's some mind blowing stuff going in and around it, and it is still an extremely viable development platform for a, quite frankly, huge percentage of the worlds top companies & financial institutions. Articles and questions like this always amaze me with their naivety of what is happening in the business world.
We're talking to a bunch of geeks here - lets get straight to the point
.Net 3.5) rollout
linq, for one, is going to rock. So will WPF & WCF. Not purely Vista, I know - but it's all coming together nicely in one 2007 (into 2008 for
Don't underestimate the power of the dark side. This is an incredible release, it is not just a new operating system. The WPF, WCF and WinFX will change face of windows development, and indefinitely influence almost every other development platform.l uate/overvw.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/eva
Agreed. Where's the Web 2.0? BBC is redesigning with it right now, why not slashdot? Besides, this is an open source site, why not the style of the site, and some ajax modules?
Are we starting to see the 'birds eye view' of a new virtual earth/matrix/metaverse/second life?
More to the point will windows, linux & vmware run on Max hardware? then you could potentially run all 3 OS's on the same box ...
honest question: I'd be interested to know - how much innovation is there within Microsoft's server-side stuff (I admit there's precedents for most, but what's new). In no particular order here's some off the top of my head.
.Net Remoting, MTS, Exchange/ISA, Active Directory, Vista, Commerce, Sharepoint, Clustering, Terminal Services, etc etc.
Systems Management Server, BizTalk, Microsoft Operations Manager, SQL Server/Reporting Services/Analysis Server, the CLR, SQLCLR, Server System, Exchange, WinFs, ObjectSpaces, LINQ, Enterprise Library,
How about the MSDN itself, microsoft.com, technet, ms support & the ms newsgroups.
I for one reckon VS.Net 2005 Team System & SQL 2005 are gonna kick some serious butt. (Ajax support and ongoing ORM systems are gonna be the icing on the cake.)
I know a lot of this stuff has precedents or simply integrates other technology, but you gotta admit - with their workforce, the unique situations in development they must come across, and the amount of time, support & experience they have in the lab - a lot of the stuff in this software has gotta be their own ideas/solutions.
Check this one out.
i el5/18/22693/01055638.pdf
New directions in cryptography.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/
Is there a list round of the famous pieces yet?
how do we get these things to market faster? water powered cars have been around for like 15 years or something!
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http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/watercar/h20c
does anyone have a list of all the sustainable-environment inventions that have not made it to market? It would be great to see the internet promote knowledge of them to a point where governments must help them get made and enforce their use.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I first heard about IPv6 about 6 years ago - is this pretty much vapourware, along with water powered cars, 3D bio memory, electronic paper, etc. When is this stuff ever going to make it to the end user. Is there a list of all of this stuff somewhere, and where its at in making it to the realn world??
btw, windows has a 3rd party implementation of Exposé: http://www.entbloess.com/
Good point - but as you said, you do still have that swiss army knife. This is for all those occasions (like camping is for a swiss army knife) where all you want to carry is your phone (like going out) but it'd be cool to have some tunes on the way there and take a couple of shots of the party.
I'll grab one, in a year or 2 when they get a little cheaper & throw it all into a pda phone (checking ebay while you're out would be good too.)
Fair point - excel is good for prototyping, or running once-off spredsheets. I'm coming from the POV where my company's accountants & marketing people are running off entire applications built in pasword-protected excel that could, and should have been adapted to proper applications years ago ...
Lemme get this straight - excel is a spreadsheet application. It's for accountants and other number crunchers who dont know how to develop.
Anyone with an ounce of nouce who can develop an application geared towards shredsheet-based reporting will drop the sucker straight into a database and do some real crunching on the fucker. Full stop.
Once your done, output it back to excel, for sure. The power of excel is being able to look at, filter, sort and graph data outputted by systems - without any programming skills.
Everyone seen sphereXP and entbloess?
s phere/
http://www.entbloess.com/
http://www.hamar.sk/
Spam lists are so massive they cost a lot to actually send. Any reductions in wasted sends can save in cost. Therefore spammers generally remove hard-bounced emails from their lists.
There is a piece of software called mailwasher which does this with a bit of stuffing around. I'd love to see an open source project which combines this with thunderbird spam filtering (ie. bounce anything on the 'delete' list, filter into folder the rest of the suspects for you to pick & bounce at will).
Is there anything like this out there?
check out payfinder (free reg) - neat tool for users in the UK to check out average pay in job/sector/region & company
Wikipedia has 202, IANA has 247 ;)
Guess we could do a diff on the official 193 coutries and investigate why they're claiming to be countries. My guess is there's 10 - 50 major scammers out there who've registered countries just to claim benefits from the UN
Keep wary about these things - they'll all employ nanotechnology to broadcast your image & location to big brother ;)
So in a years time I could choose between a half-new-price pc and a $100-less mac which run at the same speed? Hmm, wonder what I'd choose ...
I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who has responded to this post. Not to mention the question in the first place. Mod this one up, appretiation for the players in this game is the reason a lot of us are here.
some would say it's easier and faster to use the gui to create those big, once-off queries and then clean up the code
...
having said that, why not beat M$ and copy the gui with a decent code generator behind it
seriously, try it in access if you dont have sql/ent manager. You can easily create complex joins, group by's and agregations in a few seconds which would take you a lot longer to write (and it aint hard to stick a couple of extra new lines and bulk indents in after the fact!)
All I can say is: check out mailwasher : check out your mail while it's still on the server and choose which to bounce. ie. get on the spammer's bounce lists, and watch your spam count go down way faster than spamcop or any other alternative!
This is what the googlebar is for
I can't imagine life without it, and if it wasn't ported to Mozilla/Phoenix, I wouldn't have switched from IE
Cheers mate, you can drop round mine for a barbie and some VB's anytime ya like ;)