http://annil12.blogsome.com Software development and any other tech stuff Wed, 28 May 2008 07:16:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SD West is next week and SourceGear has a hale bunch of stuff haping: Fortress 1.1 and Vault 4.1 We care to employ trade presents as a public debut of newfangled products.  Last week we transported “dot one” releases of Vault and Fortress.  SD West will be our first opportunity ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/05/28/sourcegear-at-sd-west-next-week-3/ Also see: Important changes to the BASE element for IE 7 Also see: Blogging and Newspapers, a Lesson in How Not to Brand and Market Also see: Chris Sells An unmanaged dll can be wrapped in a managed assembly by adding it as a file of a multi-module assembly. Then, it can be ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/26/versioningdeploying-unmanaged-files-2/ Also see: Why Yahoo should say Yes to MicroSoft Also see: Help John Baez and Mike Stay! Got asked about a roman numeral parser during an interview. I have to say that I don’t mind when the process of obtaining employment plays into my strengths. The process was quite similar to a ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/26/quick-attempt-at-a-validating-roman-numeral-parser-lots-of-gotchas-2/ Also see: Access to old blogs I try to follow a coding standard for organizing my using statements. System.* goes at the top and then other namespaces grouped together like this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Web; using System.Web.Script.Services; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; using Microsoft; using ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/vsnet-macro-to-group-and-sort-your-using-statements-2/ Also see: When Will Foreign Ownership of US Sports Teams Start ? Also see: Sometimes, it’s the small things.. Also see: Microformats are like RFID tags for the Web Sliced bananas on opaque data (The expression lemma). Ralf Lämmel and Ondrej Rypacek. Algebraic data types and catamorphisms (folds) play a central role in functional ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/sliced-bananas-on-opaque-data-2/ Also see: YouTube Tries to Get Legal Also see: DevWeek 2008 Cross Platform Silverlight Demos I haven’t done the research to find out when the last time 7 games separated one conference’s top 10 teams, all with a winning record and playing good basketball this late in the season. It hasn’t happened ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/is-this-the-best-nba-season-ever-2/ Superpackages are slated to be a big part of Java 7. Learn what they are and how they will influence the packaging model which has been used in Java since its inception. Also see: IDE Day in Genoa, Italy http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techtarget/tsscom/blogs/~3/256890355/thread.tss http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/jsr-294-superpackages/ At Mix08 , several people asked me about the possibility of creating a single source base for both WPF and Silverlight.  The scenario folks had in mind was to provide a reach solution with Silverlight that hits *ALL* possible users while also offering a really rich solutions for some users ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/single-source-code-base-for-silverlight-and-wpf-solutions-2/ Also see: Silverlight 2 DataGrid walk-through posted Ok, so I was pissed to see Coach Sampson bought out. I completely understand that the rules are the rules and he violated them. I can’t even argue that the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. Coach Sampson appears to be a repeat offender. What ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/25/the-ncaa-and-the-hoosiers-2/ Also see: Yes, it does mean everything Also see: Silverlight 2 DataGrid walk-through posted Also see: TransparentProxy I just  ran into Ted Glaza from Ajax Control toolkit and Silverlight Controls fame and he is getting some of the control developers together (3rd parties, Microsoft as well as in house) to talk about building ... http://annil12.blogsome.com/2008/03/24/silverlight-and-wpf-control-developer-huddle-at-mix08-2/