SharpReader 0.9.4.0

Best new feature:

Stagger downloads by adding or subtracting up to 2% from the refresh rate of a feed. This will ensure you won't have all your feeds refreshing at the same time, resulting in too many popups and too high a load on your system.

Most attempts to teach Japanese to foreigners start off with long lists of words to learn and endless drills practicing how to say things like "Suzuki-san, konnichi-wa." But with an appropriately nerdular mind, none of this is necessary. The nerd can simply study the formal Backus-Naur definition of the language, and then treat all the individual words to be learned the same way he would learn a long list of manifest constants #define'd in some C library. This article is a pioneering attempt to provide that Backus-Naur definition.

Japanese for nerds 

[via: Enjoy every sandwich]

Omri has bet the color of his hair on shipping WSE 2.0, my vote in on orange.

Alex Lowe believes applications are not scalable because of two reasons:

1) Keep all “developers“ out of the database. Let someone who knows how to design a database do most of the design work. Developers, you folks should be providing input in the process and pointing out things that don't mesh with how you think things will work but you should NOT be designing the database.

2) Get developers to read code complete.

And I agree, you don't let a brain surgeon do heart surgery, do you?

There's been a lot of talking about a Sun report claiming the xml performance in Java is better, compared to the performance in .Net. While the performance of the xml implementation could be better in some instances, serialization for example and xslt, in most cases caching can reduce a lot of the issues.

Mark Fussel has some other interesting points on ease of development with the .net classes and the performance of the v2 (Whidbey) implementation.

They only arrived in their new houses in the past weekend and allready one was butchered for it's precious intestines.

A lot of interesting updates, especially the improved Talet PC support.

• More control choices, including Master/Detail, File Attachment, Recursive Section, and Choice, as well as custom-authored controls..
• Better schema support, including built-in support for schema changes.
• Printing improvements, including page breaks, margins and print settings.
• Improved e-mail deployment of sandboxed solutions and auto-updating of trusted solutions.
• Better management and categorization of solutions.
• Tablet PC support improvements.
• Increased support for rules and roles for declarative business logic.
• Enhanced XPath expression support, including calculations without writing script.
• Additional data adaptors for email and SharePoint Products and Technologies lists.
• Better support for custom migration plug-ins.
• Enhanced Object Model (OM), including OnSave event, offline state, submit, and digital signatures.
• Improved support for secondary data sources.
• Additional support for business logic written in managed code (requires a separate download).
• Enhanced OM for external automation and windowless mode for application-level calls.
• Better support for ADO datasets and diffgrams to round-trip data changes.
• Additional support for complex scripts, such as right-to-left and South Asian languages.
• Enhanced support for digital signatures, including partial signatures, non-repudiation, co-signing, and counter-signing.
• Improved stability and performance, including auto-save and data recovery.

[download infopath sp1]

Update:

The toolkit to develop form templates in InfoPath 2003 using Visual Studio .Net 2003 is updated aswell.

[download toolkit]

but considering todays news, I feel this point should be made clear to anybody considering to support Ralph Nader's campaign.

[Ralph don't run]

Why bother with a best practice if a simple copy-paste is much faster. Migrating SQL server 2000 to a new machine.

"It's so sexy I want to take it to dinner"

iPod mini video review