From Carlos H. Perez: The SharpLibrary is a comprehensive Graphical User Interface library written for the .NET Framework. It has as its main goal to alleviate a lot of the limitations of the standard controls in the WindowsForms namespace. As such, it enhances many of the default controls with needed features that developers often find themselves wishing the out of the box controls had. It also has its fare share of controls totally written from scratch when the standard controls were too limited to obtain a feature or there was simply not equivalent available. The result was controls that look good, are flexible, powerful and which also are free from the limitation, compatibility issues and just simply age that the native controls inherently have and thus are better suited for further enhancements that can accommodate the most demanding requirement of applications being written in the 21st century.
Is your boss with holding VS.NET? Are you forced to program in the old world of unmanaged code? Not even allowed to install VS.NET onto your machine to play with it? If so, check out the MSDN Hands-On Labs where you'll have remote access to Microsoft's own machines to build project types of your choice to take .NET and VS.NET around the block.
Apparently, 0.03% of the web is made up of blogs, but that's still enough to change Google’s basic assumptions:
"They presumed that technicians at USC would link to the best papers from MIT, to the best local sites from a land trust or a river study - rather than a clique, a small group of people writing about each other constantly. They obviously bump the rankings system in a way for which it wasn't prepared."
Because of this, Google is likely to set up a "Blog" tab and take blog results out of the main searches. I'm on the fence as to whether the latter is a good thing, but it's nice to know that something grassroots like blogs can still change the world.
[radio.weblogs.com/0001011]
From Ramon: Microsoft commissioned VeriTest, a division of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., to conduct a series of tests comparing the File serving performance of the following server operating system configurations running on a variety of server hardware and processor configurations:
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Release Candidate 2
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1
Red Hat Linux 8.0 Professional
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The last time I saw a movie, it occurred to me that as much as I love them, I hate theaters. They overcharge for the tickets and then require your first born child for popcorn and sodas. Movie theaters make airports seem like dollar stores.
Anyway, I've got a great setup at home, complete with big screen TV, 5.1 digital surround sound and a PC already connected to the whole mess. I'm a big NetFlix.com fan, but they and sites like CinemaNow.com only show stuff that's available for rental. I want first run movies!
Shouldn't a platform with such a strong media and digital rights management story allow me to watch first run movies at my house? And wouldn't that be a killer app for a new OS from that company?
DISCLAIMER: I'm not pre-announcing anything. I don't know of any plans along these lines; I just think it'd be cool.
I'm constantly amazed at how few people know about the Microsoft-specific Google site. The results almost always link back to somewhere on microsoft.com but the results seem to be somewhat more [cough] comprehensive than [sneeze] [rub eyes] MS's own search engine. [nudge] [nudge] Enjoy.
