Here. According to the AW web site, Essential .NET, by Don Box, with Chris Sells, is in stock and ships within 24 hours, and Amazon seems to agree. Enjoy!
Here. "The 1.0 release builds and runs on Windows XP, the FreeBSD operating system, and Mac OS X 10.2. In addition, the release contains many bug fixes, more documentation, new samples and additional test suites."
For low-level .NET weenies (like me : ), this is the stuff, baby!
Here. From Jesse Ezell: Project Mono can now execute SQL statements on MS SQL Server through TDS and has a bit of Windows.Forms code running on both Linux and Windows as well as a good deal of ASP.NET support. Looks like things are coming along at a decent rate.
Here. The Middleware Company ran a comparison between the Pet Shop v2.0 application for both Java and .NET, both with the same features and both with the same aim at building something to use as a "best practice" sample while still being as responsive and scalable as possible. Pet Shop v2.0 was both company's attempt at winning the comparision run by the Middleware Company.
My reading of this report is that .NET kicked Java's hinder in every single measure, from through-put and responsiveness to lines of code and lines of configuration required to build and run the app.
Here. "X-Code .NET is a successor to the popular "X-Code" codegen language, which was included as part of the excellent-but-now-defunct product from DevelopMentor known as Gen. X-Code .NET is like classic X-Code, except that it’s based on JScript .NET instead of classic JScript.”
I’m very happy to see Shawn, a valued member of the DevelopMentor Software team that built Gen in the first place, take up this project. You go, Shawn!
Here. If you've got a VS.NET question, I'm now the official SearchVB site's VS.NET "expert", which seems strange on a site with "VB" in the title, but .NET is about language-neutrality, after all. : )
