November 2007 Blog Posts
My blog was down for nearly 72 hours. No response from the support and they phone is "temporary out of service". The name of the company that still hosts my web site is ASPNIX. I suppose no more comments needed. I need to find a better hosting company soon enough. I will describe the whole issue later on.
LINQ as a concept is highly extensible and every now and then a new LINQ to WhatEverYouWant gets announced. Just a few examples to show how fast people are adopting this technology: LINQ to LLBLGEN, LINQ to NHibernate, LINQ to Filckr, LINQ to Amazon, etc. Within a few days I've come across 3 more projects:
SyncLinq - it returns collections that implement INotifyCollectionChanged which lets you track changes
PLinq - it lets you specify that a given LINQ statement should be executed concurrently and it's up to the runtime to decide...
Microsoft Research is surprising us nearly every month. Just to name a few of their great products: PhotoSynth and Microsoft Surface. But you know what every day I hit the #$%@ limitation on the length of the path. 260 characters and that's all I can get in the .NET framework. Guys, can we back up a bit and solve the basic problems? Resharper - click on the picture to see the details: MsBuild - click on the picture to see the details: Tags: .NET, Microsoft, WTF
After the Joel Spolsky presentation that launched IJTC there was a panel discussion which meant to explore all the future directions that Java as a platform might take. The participants were talking about the future in a kind of sad way and the discussion toured out to be mainly a never-ending stream of complaints. Basically people were concerned about:
Java 6 is not implemented on Leopard
mobile phone specs on the vendors web sites don't list Java as a feature, something like Java ready sticker
lack of...
Both of them took place on November 7th. The first one was in the morning and Joel Spolsky was presenting FogBugz. Explaining the product on feature by feature basis Joel managed to tell the audience a little bit about how he thinks the software development process should look like. And you know that people like him are right in 99% of cases and you can follow them blindly ;). FogBugz is a great piece of software that provides many desired by every software house functionalities like bug tracking, project tracking, Wiki, discussion groups, evidence-based scheduling and even a small help...