I stumbled upon this via a colleague of mine who was answering a different question on our internal newsgroups at work. Paul Wilson shows how you can have multiple forms in ASP.NET
Sep 29 2005
Multiple Forms to ASP.NET
Sep 27 2005
Sharepoint v3 Features
Check out the new features which are part of the next Sharepoint release.
Sep 25 2005
Screen shots of Yahoo Mail (Beta)
Zilla Smash has some excellent hi-res screen shots of the new Beta Yahoo Mail and as someone else said, boy does gmail look clunky in comparison!
Sep 25 2005
How Microsoft changed the way it builds software with Vista
WSJ has a very interesting story on how Microsoft had to restart a lot of Vista features from a clean code base and throw away a lot of work done on existing windows code base over the years; and from my point of view, the fact that it took this long is surprising, but as they say better late than never.
Sep 24 2005
Want an iPod Nano, then read this first?
Seems like there have been many cases where the iPod Nano gets scratched very easily, making it useless for viewing pictures and song names, etc that is playing. The Register has an article covering it including and the thread on apple’s newsgroup is already up to 240 posts on the issue.
Sep 22 2005
Mono running on Nokia 770
Hats off to the mono guys who got this running on Nokia 770 (their new internet appliance running Linux); screen shot here.
Sep 22 2005
Office 12 XML Schemas
Now that the PDC is done, I can get to talk a little more about Office 12, I have been playing with it for a few weeks and has some very interesting things, but more on that later this week. But, now you can get the proposed schema for Office 12 applications. This of course is draft and is a preview, so I won’t start writing anything against this other than your own learning purposes.
Also incase you have not been following the PDC, Office 12 is not just a release of the new office programs (word, excel, power point, etc), but also incorporates the new versions of Sharepoint (WSS) and Content Management Server (CMS), which makes it huge. One of the pilliars of this is Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), which I will be posting on also soon.
Sep 21 2005
Getting old versions of Java JDK
Meenakshi wanted an old version of a JDK, and it was quite interesting to try and find an old version at Sun’s site, they don’t plainly display a link – one would suspect that it should be somewhere on the download page itself, but if only things were made using common sense. E.g. Meenakshi wanted to get J2SE 1.4.2_05 (not very old from the current shipping which is 1.4.2_09), try googling it and you will see what I mean. Of course, if Sun had gotten it right in the first place, where every minor upgrade does not break everything in the older versions (even point upgrades for the most part), this would not be an issue to begin with. Like I said, if only common sense was so common.
Anyways, in case you do want to get any older versions I did find a link for downloading old versions from Sun – its at http://java.sun.com/products/archive/
Sep 18 2005
Troubling Exists at Microsoft
Business Week has a interesting cover story about the issues at MS internally and how the employees feel the company is doing. It makes one think of the troubling signs ahead.
Sep 18 2005
MS cuts Yukon Feature to meet ship-date
WinITPro is reporting that SQL Server 2005 will ship without data mirroring as they won’t be able to meet the ship date in November this year. This will be a big blow as I know some people already incorporating that in their design of some solutions. What is interesting is why did it take MS so late to realise they won’t be able to make the feature for RTM?
Sep 16 2005
Want a kick-ass laptop – with 6.8ghz CPU and 1 Terabyte ram?
Thanks to Elia for pointing this out. If you are in the market for a new laptop but can wait, then this kick-ass machine can be out soon. Atom Chip corporation is getting ready for the CES 2006 show which is going to be held in January 2006 in Vegas. The computer should demonstrate how Quantum and Quantum-optical devices could operate in consumer electronics. Without proper benchmarking, it is hard to tell if the “AtomChip” 6.8Ghz CPU is faster than current high-end competitors are, but the solid-state drive (in place of the traditional hard disk) should be much much faster.
Here are some shots of the machine running Windows XP with 2 TB of space and 1 TB of memory – drool!
Laptop
6.8 Ghz and 1 Terabyte of RAM
2 Terabyte of Disk Space
2 Terabytes of Non-Volatile Ram
6.8 Ghz Quantum II Processor with 256 MB of on-board memory
Update: There have been a couple of discussions on this with many people saying this is a hoax, as Windows XP does not support more than 16 GB of memory (I think its less than that, but not gone looking myself). In any case, come January, we would know in CES one way or the other.
Sep 16 2005
MCE Update coming out soon
According to Neowin,
- 2x HD Tuner supported
- No CableCARD
- No QAM
- DVD Changer
- Xbox 360 Extender support
- Sonic DVD Burning fixes
- Slight improvements in Media Library performance
The update will be free and available via Windows Update.
MS also released some information at the PDC about Diamond (Windows Vista MCE) and Neowin has some screen shots on their site and some more pictures here.
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