I’m not sure what happened, but Michael only just entered the Borland-buildings when he blogged his revolutionairy ideas about new Delphi2005 SKU’s. The discussion (in the comments) soon was removed, and all that was left was a “thanks, it was a contributing discussion”. I’m not sure contributing to what, since his blog is empty now….
I sure hope he’s not fired or something?!
Update (11-05-2005): it’s almost 2 weeks later, and no sign of Michael yet. No blogentry, no nothing.
Say what? Yes, tax on MP3 players, based on their storage capacity. The more capacity, the more tax you will pay. WTF?!?! Like we don’t pay enough tax already. Read the article on The Register.
Quote from Slashdot: “And they call file sharers thieves?”
It’s sick to see what spammers do to get attention, or to trick search-engines. My wiki (nothing special) is here, but lately it seems to be under attack. First it had an extra page with a lot (couple of hundred) pharmaceutical/poker/enlargement-sites on it, today I found the mainpage replaced with a page with a lot of links. Furtunately, a restore of a previous version is a wiki-builtin feature, but I think I will switch to another wiki (password protected) or switch FlexWiki off completely.
If you’ve installed the VS.NET 2005 beta 2, and you are going to use it for Visual Basic programming, you might like the fact that DevExpress has created a free refactoring plugin. You can read more about it here, download it here. This add-in is a very important one, after the announcement that VB.NET2005 will not include refactoring (at least not the full monty).
In the EMEA region the Visual Studio .NET 2005 beta experience has started: you can now order beta 2 of the upcoming IDE.
One of the findings in this post is “Micro ISVs are not on the cutting edge of technologies”. Didn’t these people hear ALL Micro ISV’s cry when the new pricing of VS.NET 2005 (especially Team Studio) became public? How can a Micro ISV support cutting edge technology, if buying into it means such a big risk? How can we test solutions for IIS 6 if we have to buy a new OS first? Why does Office change with EVERY version? Perhaps you (John) should not be asking “where are the Micro ISV’s”, but instead you should count the increase in development in the oh-so dangerous Open Source scene. Look at the number of one-man-bands that provide paid support for some kind of Open Source CMS. It pays good money, you don’t have to write or maintain the software yourself, and webapplications, hey, that’s the new hype so lot’s of companies are willing to hire you. John? You there?
Microsoft release both the redistributable and the SDK of beta 2 of the .NET Framework 2.0. And making things utterly complete, you can choose between 32 and 64-bit (IA64 and x64) editions. Click on the title to go to the downloadpage.
Most people would want the 32bit versions. The SDK is about 317MByte, the redist is about 23MByte, and as before, you need the redist before you can use the SDK.
I stopped using .Text as my blogging engine a long time ago. Here’s a screenshot why. In case you didn’t know: Scott is the CREATOR of .Text.
When you need to create some temporary files, you can create them in %TEMP%. If you don’t delete them yourself, some other program or the user will, since the directory defined in %TEMP% is meant to store TEMPORARY files.
Now read this post about the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server beta 2 setup. Tell me they are not seriously blaming the anti-virus software for deleting files from %TEMP%? Guys, this is Microsoft not knowing where %TEMP% is for. How f*cked up is that? Any decent installation program that needs a reboot creates a folder somewhere on C:, and deletes this folder after the reboot is done and the installation has completed. Not Microsoft: please disable your Antivirus software if you’re going to install TFS. This is seriously wrong. I sure hope they will have their act together before the “release”.
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