Mr. Codd was one of the great ones. His ideas will continue to affect us for the as far into the future as I can imagine. Thank you, Mr. Codd.

Brad Abrams make Jeffrey Richter and me stand in front our of “software legend” stand-up cut outs yesterday so that he could take a picture. I’ve already gotten crap from my new team at MS for being one of these guys. I assume it’s the shock and awe… : )

Brad Abrams
Tue 4/22/2003 10:09 PM

The New York Village Voice mentions sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview. Whoa.

From jt: "Borland is pleased to offer a preview of its premier enterprise solution for C# development on the Microsoft .NET Framework...."

Because I don't believe humans can know how to write XSD files from scratch *and* remember where their car keys are, I've been dying for an XSD inference tool that can take a bunch of XML files and produce a starting point XSD. Towards that end, I fed the 200+ XML files for Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar (dqsd.net) into the MS XSD Inference tool. The result was good enough to work with xsd.exe to generate C# classes and to impress Glenn Carr (Dave's XML guy). Highly recommended.

The one where my Dad answers the Microsoft manhole interview question and we judge just how far from the tree this acorn has fallen.

I've had a bunch of requests for write access to the RegexD source. I provide read-only access to the RegexD source via a .zip file in the RegexD GotDotNet workspace. If you want write access, add your code to the snapshot of code in the workspace and send it to me for review. If it passes muster, I'll add you as a read/write member of the workspace. This helps me to ensure that only good code makes it into RegexD. Thanks!

Borland’s .NET development tools: yet another signal of the inevitability of .NET.