Total Commander 7 Beta 1 released - at last!

I've been waiting for this release for ages, literally. Nowadays software vendors prepare a new version of their software every 6 months unless they develop really complex beasts like Vista, Visual Studio etc. Therefore I’m really surprised/disappointed that we had to wait so long. I hope this will change in the near future. Anyway, give it a try .

Nhibernate 1.2 Beta 2 released !

Sergey and others have done brilliant job. Give it a try because it's worth that.

Remeber there is always one more thread out there :)

Over to Ayendewho explains that GC can cause some problems when an application puts pressure on it.

MonoDevelop 0.12 has been released

The latest version of MonoDevelop looks really good. I haven't looked at it for a few months and the guys have made enormous progress. Take a look if you need a decent C# IDE on the Linux platform that supports design mode for both ASP.NET and Win Forms applications.

Hungry for SOA in Dublin?

If so then register for Christian Weyer's talk. Trust me it's worth spending two hours on the talk.

How to manage your IT people

Joel has written about of how to manage people. Two of them( The Command and Control Management Method, The Econ 101 Management Method) fail in terms of IT people but there is at least one(The Identity Management Method) that seems to be promising. I've experienced these two wrong approaches and I completely agree that they don't work. I've experienced the good one as well but only partially. My direct boss tried to apply the Identity method but his boss decided to go for the Econ 101 method. That was a strange kind of mix which was really confusing. I hope I will experience in the future more of the Identity method in its neat and proper form :)

Extensible compiler framework from Microsoft

I've heard a few times about Phoenix project and I decided to check it out just to see how it works. And it looks promising because it's arichtecture is extensible. It seems that if you have the grammar of a language in a notation that yacc and lex accept then you don't have to write any single line of code in order to get fully blown compiler because the output of yacc&lex is a valid input data for Phoenix that offers optimization and native code generation modules out of the box. What is more we can plug in every step of the compilation process to do some specific processing. I wish I could use it in my professional life.