"Sun Microsystems Inc. said Thursday it will join rivals Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. in developing a technical standard to make sure Web services transactions are secure."
As great as this announcement is, I have my doubts as to whether it will last. Sun and MS don't seem to like to play together.
"The suite is complete solution for toolbars and menus creation. Some features of the product:
-Menus and toolbars.
-Docking and floating.
-Run-time customization.
-Skins engine.
-SDI and MDI support."
I had lunch with a couple of colleagues on the lecture circuit today
and after they asked me what I was working on (Genghis, the
Web Services DevCon in October,
ref-counting for Rotor,
a few books,
some consulting, etc), they asked where I found the time.
Here’s how:
I work with a *ton* of very talented folks. The following are just
the ones I’m remembering off the top of my head that I’ve been working
with lately: Chris Tavares, Brad Wilson, Shawn Van Ness, Jon Flanders,
Don Box, Tim Ewald, all the Web Services DevCon speakers and staff,
all the Genghis contributors, Tim Tabor, Michael Weinhardt, Microsoft,
Dharma Shukla, Brian Harry, Chris Andersen, Mark Boulter, and, of course, all of my
former DevelopMentor
brethren.
But most importantly, I don’t attend meetings or request vacations
or approve vacations or attend meetings or receive reviews or give
reviews or attend meetings (did I
already say that?) or do any of the other things that employees have
to do. Skipping these activities easily doubles or triples my
productivity. Of course, I had to give up the steady paycheck to make
it happen and it’s not the life for everyone, but it works for me just
fine. : )
Real software engineering has so little to do with actual technology,
it’s kinda sad. I’m lucky. I only have to do the technology part. My
question is, how do people with full-time jobs find the time to learn
the technology?
"Techniques used to create a GDI+-based design surface for the user to create and position various graphic elements within a Windows Forms control in Microsoft .NET. Includes downloadable sample code."
"This beta refresh continues the Rotor team's commitment to our growing community and we are very excited to watch the community develop and the source base evolve in new directions. There have been more than 30,000 downloads of the Shared Source CLI to date. I encourage you to download the latest Shared Source CLI archive and explore the possibilities it presents. Follow the links from the download page to explore the growing community."
"We have decided that the best thing for our user base would be to open source Gen. Of course, open source means different things to different people, so now we are taking a pause to sort out both the open source terms and where the product will be hosted. Expect a more detailed announcement soon.”
[ed: Wahoo!]
"Forget the point-release tomfoolery: The next Windows version--
code-named Longhorn--is going to rattle some cages and change perceptions about Microsoft's role as industry innovator. Originally envisioned as a stepping stone to the Windows .NET world that Microsoft was promising with the more distant Blackcomb release, Longhorn suddenly took on a much grander role late last year."
