Archive for June, 2005
Getting a window office at Microsoft
Mikhail Arkhipov explains how to get a window office at Microsoft. Interesting – most organizations wouldn't have the guts to value years of service over organizational position.
Actually, valuing and rewarding people by years spent on the job has more sense to it than it sounds at first. But perhaps only if the organization gets quickly [...]
June 30, 2005
Posted in: General 
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Bound to release or just vanish?
Black hole projects versus teams with proper discipline – which one does your organization belong to?
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June 29, 2005
Posted in: Misc. programming Comments Closed
Longhorn embraces (and destroys?) RSS
IE team recently announced Longhorn's deep support for RSS. Although RSS is already getting rather common – and will be even more so by the time Longhorn hits the markets – Microsoft's move will energize the technology further. I think most of us ("us" meaning the loosely defined group of advanced Internet technology evangelists) agree [...]
June 25, 2005
Posted in: Web 2 Comments
PureComponents sends me spam?
I get lots of spam all the time. Most of it tries to sell me medication for issues I don't have. But today, I got a message I didn't even realize to be spam at first. It looked just like another product announcement – .NET components this time – coming from PureComponents. However, the alarming [...]
June 18, 2005
Posted in: .NET 2 Comments
At the loss of words
I usually don't bother posting links to The Daily WTF, no matter how ridiculous some of the postings are. But this time, I have to. The posting describes an application that passes SQL strings from one ASP page to another – using a cookie. Even by the normal WTF standards, this is… ugly.
Without starting on [...]
June 17, 2005
Posted in: Web Comments Closed
XML sitemaps – so what?
Google has announced Google sitemaps, a service that allows webmasters to craft XML sitemaps to notify Google about their site structure. Another interesting move from Google. Life certainly isn't getting boring.
Why is this better than crawling? Well first, it allows the webmasters to suggest indexing intervals and notify Google about new content. That by itself [...]
June 5, 2005
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Why OO patterns are not for the weak
The standard mantra for many programming evangelists is "use design patterns, they combine the wisdom of years for you to use" (in case you don't know what patterns are, read the Wikipedia article). Some of my recent adventures into the patterns world have convinced me that while patterns do contain much wisdom, they are not [...]
June 3, 2005
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