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).

From Andrew Webb: The whitepaper (a Word file) is now available. And the Demo Files link, previously dead, now works.

Sam Gentile's got the scoop on the Everett release updates to VC++, which he lists as: -98% ANSI/ISO Compliance -Forms Designer for Managed C++ -Security Features -Optimizer Improvements particuarly in floating point He's got the details. Check it out.