Lutz Roeder, the author of Reflector.NET, caves in and starts his blog. And what a way to start: he posts a decompiler plug-in for Reflection.NET. Welcome, Lutz.
I'm very much looking forward to either iTunes being available for Windows or someone else letting me purchase songs one at a time. In fact, as soon as that happens, my wife [ahem] owes the RIAA several hundred dollars in "back-fees" for "pre-downloaded" mp3s (she's always been very ahead of her time...)
Of course, David Chappel tends to appear at more MS-related events than not, so he's biased like the rest of the folks reading this post (well, maybe not as biased as some : ). However, he examines the 2001, 2002 and 2003 CERT Coordination Center’s security advisory data and finds that things are definitely moving in the right direction for Windows folk(although not as fast as we'd like, of course).
Wouldn't it be an interesting world if the three major data structure abstractions, i.e. relational data (tables), graphs (objects) and strict hierarchy (XML) were all first class citizens in the same language? I found this paper quite an mind-bender.
From Carlos Aquino: Things goes wrong all the time, but a good administrator is always alert. On this site they have some documentations about how to avoid (and how to recover from) a disaster on your systems.
Tim O'Reilly pulls out four trends worth watching: Amazon.com web services, ubiquitous 802.11, h/w hacking and online gaming. I'm not sure how far h/w hacking will get us, but the other three I see being big deals.
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