"Be the first to try Visual Studio .NET 2003, which is currently in Final Beta and available for download from MSDN® Subscriber Downloads." "With integrated support for the .NET Compact Framework, Visual Studio .NET 2003 brings mobile and embedded devices such as the Pocket PC, as well as other devices powered by the Microsoft Windows CE .NET operating system, to .NET. Now, developers can use the same programming model, development tools, and skills to build applications that span from small devices to the largest data center." The final beta of Visual Studio .NET 2003, aka the Everett version of VS.NET, is available for download by MSDN subscribers. Wahoo!

"Longhorn is now considered a major Windows release by Microsoft, and early alpha builds are now testing at the company's Redmond campus. Last month, some of those builds leaked to the Internet, causing a stir in the Windows enthusiast community. I take a look at one of those builds here."

Stu Halloway, conference speaker, respected author of Component Development for the Java Platform as well as many 5-day short courses and CTO of DevelopMentor, pronounces his name like this (I found it hard to believe myself…)

"Chris Sells discusses permissions in .NET and how you can adapt the object model to protect smart clients while allowing well-known assemblies or sites to have additional permissions to provide users with additional services."

Actually, I think you probably should watch it. I find VBTV very amusing. : )

From Hun Boon Teo: "The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the Common Language Runtime (CLR) are bytecode-based abstract stack machines. Since modern implementations include highly optimizing just-in-time (JIT) compilers, these machines are excellent targets for runtime code generation: the generation of new program code just prior to its execution."

From Hun Boon Teo: Article by Dominik Gruntz from Journal of Object Technology (Nov-Dec 2002 Issue), this article shows some of the subtle difference between C# and Java.

From cn: The W3C's updated a whole bunch of specs lately: - XPointer: Proposed Recommendation - XForms: Candidate Recommendation - RDF Primer, Schema, Abstract Syntax, and more An XForms tech preview is available from Novell/SilverStream (of all places).