From Steven Livingstone: Playing around with some .Net so I figured this app would be useful to some of you folk who write HUGE url's in emails (yeah, like me). There's also some online encryption and digital signing at http://sightkeys.com/encrypt and http://sightkeys.com/encrypt/sign.aspx Gimme a shout if you like or dislike or have anything to say. Cheers, Steven http://deltabis.com

From David: A new microsoft sample that demonstrates the following: Application offline and online model Application update model via HTTP (no-touch deployment) Authorization to control user access to application features Data collision handling Printing and Print Preview Windows XP Themes Dynamic properties Localization support Accessibility support (limited) Forms authentication using a database for user names/passwords Asynchronous XML Web service class ADO.NET data access using SQL stored procedures Graphics development using GDI+ Integration between .NET Framework-based code and COM applications (COM interop)

My Googlism don't cut me no slack... Come on, I just finished the book! I'm allowed to be a little burned out. : )

From Zahid Iqbal: TierDeveloper is an object to relational mapping and code generation tool that lets you map middle-tier objects to your database tables, embed powerful SQL in them, and generate fully-working .NET (C# and VB.NET), Java and EJB components. It also generates a fully-functional ASP.NET and JSP application to let you test generated components, and design documents in HTML to cut down your learning curve.

From Chad Brockman: All I can say is 'wow' http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1321 http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/09/1347215&mode=nested&tid=108

From jt: Development environment from Borland for building applications on the .NET Framework.

A nice summary of what's going on when you attempt to run two versions of .NET side-by-side.

Friday, Feb 7, 2003

In response to Never Send An Email In Anger, Lars Bergstrom recommended that I set up a rule that defers sending an email for 1 minute. I set it for 2 minutes under Outlook XP like so:

• Tools->Rules Wizard
• New
• Start From A Blank Rule
• Check messages after sending
• Which condition(s) do you want to check? -> None
• This rule will be applied to every message you send. Is this correct? -> Yes
• What do you want to do with this message? -> defer delivery by a number of minutes
• a number of minutes -> 2
• Finish

And it works like a charm. It’s always w/in the first second that I wish I could recall a message, so two minutes should be more than enough. Wahoo!