The Grave of a Programmer

Green Patio - A guide for the care of indoor plants & garden, and making terrace gardens.

2006-05-25T04:29:00.000-07:00

Green Patio - A guide for the care of indoor plants & garden, and making terrace gardens.

Rainbow Series Library

2006-05-02T00:43:00.000-07:00

An entry to this blog after a long time. But have found something worth blogging. Its difficult to explain what it is to, but if you know what it is, then just the title is enough to understand

Rainbow Series Library

nevelsteen.com = I/O Completion Port model for socket handling (Delphi) = - -

2006-03-24T08:44:00.000-08:00

nevelsteen.com = I/O Completion Port model for socket handling (Delphi) = - -: "ed to see if the data was available and attempted to write this to the PerHandleData specific buffer. When stress testing I noticed that the data was not always immediately available and that a race condition existed between the initial read and the read done by the first released worker thread. I even introduced critical sections to try and solve this race condition. This is the wrong approach. Critical sections can be avoided for the IssueRead if Completion Ports are programmed correctly. The Completion Port documentation states that a thread gets released when an I/O operation is complete. Therefore you can leave the data buffer as is until a worker thread is released, after which you can read the buffer without entering a race condition with the listener thread or other threads (provided you use one unique PerIoData structure per I/O operation).

The task of correctly ordering read and write posts can be entrusted to the Completion Port. A single and possibly totally thread can be released to handle each complete I/O operation.

Testing email publishing

2005-11-14T18:42:00.000-08:00

This is a test for email publishing.

Vipin Ravindran
Infrasoft Technologies Limited

About Data objects and connections

2005-11-14T04:17:00.000-08:00

Have been working all day on porting an OR mapping layer from the legacy ADO to ADO .NET. The data access layer is a generic one so my work is primarily on the System.Data.Common namespace and I hope all the guys writing database providers are playing by the rules.

Interesting Discoveries:

1. Connection.IsolationLevels not found.

2. Command.CreateParameter no longer accepts any arguments. So so properties on the IDBDataParameters need to be set explicitly

3. The Command.Prepared property has dissapeared and now Command.Prepare() is an explicit method invokation.

Reasonable improvements in standardizing data access. ITs about time we started thinking OO.

On a personal note: I never knew people were linking to my blog. i have been using my blog for over an year now only as an extension to my bookmarks. About time I start writing something.

This is a start :)

My new website

2005-11-12T07:30:00.000-08:00

Hooooray... I got a website. Took me a lot of time to track down the hosting provider, get the features right, get the portal right.. get the skin right... but its finally done. DotNetNuke is an amazing thing. My thans to the community and the module developers who helped a dud like me get such an awesome site design. All due credit coming up once I set the content straight. So bear with me guys.

Visit me at Evolve Intelligence

Blogthings - Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

2005-11-07T02:36:00.000-08:00

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

Sysinternals Freeware - Our Publications

2005-10-26T21:26:00.000-07:00

Sysinternals Freeware - Our Publications: "All Windows IT Pro Magazine articles over 4 issues old are on-line. Newer articles are available on-line to subscribers only (this is Windows IT Pro Magazine's policy, as they own the copyright on my columns)."

pinvoke.net: PostMessage (user32)

2005-10-20T06:48:00.000-07:00

pinvoke.net: PostMessage (user32): "[DllImport('user32.dll', SetLastError = true)]
static extern bool PostMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg, IntPtr wParam,
IntPtr lParam);"

rootkit.com

2005-10-13T23:28:00.000-07:00

rootkit.com: "Rootkits are powerful tools to compromise computer systems without detection. Learn why virus scanners and desktop firewalls are not enough. Learn how attackers can get in and stay in for years, without detection."

Object-oriented Metrics

2005-10-06T19:32:00.000-07:00

I often tried to analyze the complexity of my object oriented code, but somehow never really found the right way. Browsing around a bit, I found some papers like this but again... doesnt really address my concerns. Which are:

1. Universal communication of OO Metrics
2. Quality comparisons: provided 3 ways to do a thing, which one is better
3. Single run analysis: something like FPA; *not* having to make 7 different analysis to provide metrics.

Just thinking aloud; but is it possible to have an object oriented approach towards calculating metrics as well...

AtariArchives.org - archiving vintage computer books, information, and software

2005-09-27T18:59:00.000-07:00

AtariArchives.org - archiving vintage computer books, information, and software: "atariarchives.org makes books, information, and software for Atari and other classic computers available on the Web. Everything here is available with permission of the copyright holders."

Found this from Eric Gunnerson's blog. Interesting reading...

Design Resources

2005-09-19T22:44:00.000-07:00

Design Resources: "This page includes pointers to Web-based resources for design theory and related parts of discrete mathematics and statistics (coding theory, finite geometry, combinatorics, graph theory)."

IEEE 754

2005-09-19T22:13:00.000-07:00

Floating point numbers (Fortran's REAL*n, DOUBLE PRECISION, and COMPLEX*n, and C's float, double, and long double) are inexact representations of ideal real numbers. The operations performed on them are also necessarily inexact. What should you know when :
(a + b) + c != a + (b + c)">IEEE 754: "Floating point numbers (Fortran's REAL*n, DOUBLE PRECISION, and COMPLEX*n, and C's float, double, and long double) are inexact representations of ideal real numbers. The operations performed on them are also necessarily inexact. What should you know when :
(a + b) + c != a + (b + c)"

Multinational Corporations and Global Education

2005-09-18T22:50:00.000-07:00

The Multinational Control of Education and the Media Worldwide

Schools in America are more and more coming under the funding of multinational corporations. This is true not only of universities, where corporate Influence is long standing, but even the case with public schools. Children not only grow up but also receive their education under the gaze of corporate America. For example, companies like Coca Cola sponsor computers for public schools in exchange for advertising, coke machines in the halls and other favors. Young children come under the influence of corporate America when they start school, which is supposed to be free of commercial influences and propaganda. Naturally, this gets them into the commercial model of living before they are able to exercise any discrimination about it. It insures that they will be compliant consumers for the rest of their lives, programmed by corporate America to do its bidding and fit into its system.

Of course, universities have long been funded by big business, particularly by the weapons industry and the pharmaceutical drug companies, which are among the largest and most profitable businesses in the world. This is because universities require endowments and departments need outside funding which is not easily available elsewhere, particularly in the era of university downsizing in which public funding for schools is getting progressively reduced. Multinational corporations are increasingly setting the agenda for education in the West, which is losing any appearance of objectivity and increasingly promoting commercial interests and values.

The same patronage has always extended to the global media, which is commercially sponsored by multinational corporations and naturally upholds their interests. Even public television programs in America like the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour rely on funding by multinational corporations like Exxon Oil who air short mini -commercials before the programs begin. One wonders how objective and unbiased the reporting in such programs can be.

This corporate influence on education is not limited to the Western world. The Western model of education has been adopted throughout the world, including most of Asia, Africa and South America. Educational institutions worldwide generally follow the Western model and often uncritically fall into a multinational agenda, following programs, ideas and teachers who are proponents of the multinational consumerist approach. Not surprisingly, local, traditional and native cultures throughout the world are being eliminated in favor of the global consumer culture Of the West which, not surprisingly, is deemed progressive in the schools.

Just as colonial interests suppressed traditional and native systems of education during the colonial era, Western influenced academia and its multinational support groups continue to do so today. Traditional cultures are viewed as politically incorrect, economically backward, and having an inaccurate sense of their own history. The multinationals are simply the old colonial interests in a new form, reducing culture to a consumerist model that can be easily manipulated at a global level and which destroys or subordinates any local culture.

During their colonial rule the British banned Ayurveda in India, closed down Sanskrit schools and denigrated the Hindu religion and Indian culture in the programs that they set up in the country. Independent India continued uncritically the British model of education and has made few changes in the textbooks since the end of colonial rule. The result is that Westernized schools and teachers in India today continue to attack their own cultural traditions just as the British did, quoting Western educational authorities, which they see as universal, rational, scientific or objective, calling their own culture, which they seldom bother to study, communal, irrational or superstitious. This Westernized education in India has been against the traditional educational models of the country and does not want such subjects as Ayurveda, Astrology, Yoga or Vedanta taught in the schools. Any effort to reintroduce such local cultural traditions is deemed regressive, biased and dangerous.

Indology and Multinationallism

Indological studies is another field of Western academia continuing the old colonial model under the guise of globalism or science. It also has changed little since the end of the colonial era, still promoting the Aryan Invasion Theory and the idea that Indian civilization is mainly a borrowing from the West. Western Indologists follow a Western cultural agenda and interpret India and its history according to the values of Western civilization, global capitalism or, alternatively, global socialism. Like many Western scholars, they focus on Western ideals of free trade, democracy and religious conversion as the solution to India's problems. They denigrate Eastern traditions as inhumane, ignoring the ethical and dharmic foundation of these cultures that is much more spiritual than what the West is promoting instead.

Western Indologists control the discourse on the Vedas, writing the textbooks and pronouncing certain speculations as facts, though they may consist of no hard data at all, but only fictions agreeable to the Western mind. They reject any traditional scholarship as fantasy, error or fraud. They would interpret the history of India as if no traditional Indian ever knew anything about it, and as if Indians before the European era had no real knowledge of their own culture or its origins.

Any practicing Hindu or anyone honoring Hindu spiritual teachings is almost automatically disbarred from Indology in the West and academic institutions based upon the Western model. That is why one finds so few Indians in these fields, unless they are Leftists who have proved their worth to Western academia by fervently denouncing their own culture. Western Indology is often borderline racist, taking in only Uncle Toms who kow-tow to its models of thought. Even in Hindu religious studies in the West few if any of the texts used will be written by practicing Hindus or reflecting the views of any contemporary Hindu teachers. The textbooks and translations on Hinduism will come from Marxists, Christians or anyone who is not a Hindu.

Not surprisingly, in Western Indology, the Vedas, which are essentially spiritual documents, are not looked upon in any spiritual light but dissected according to outer views only. indologists think that that materialistic-intellectual-politicaI angle of Western ideas can unravel the secrets of the ancient mantras that traditionally required initiation and asceticism in order to penetrate. Such an Indology is generally anti-India and cannot be looked at as representing Indic civilization or any Indic school of thought. Such scholars are not working to understand Hinduism in a sympathetic way in the modern world; they are working to suppress it.

Today in India, like in many countries in the world, there is the arising of a post-independence nationalism. In some countries, this occurred shortly after independence. In India it was delayed by fifty years, largely because the country was ruled by an intellectual elite educated in England whose cultural sympathies resided overseas. This is also resulting in more independent thinkers arising, who are questioning, though belatedly, the Western model. The result is the revival of a Vedic and Hindu school of thought. One can see this in the many new books on ancient India, generally by non-academics, which have been recently printed and are widely read in India today. A new focus on the secrets of the ancient world is becoming popular in India as it remains in the West (witness the many television and movie programs on such topics both documentary and fictional).

Naturally, Western academia, its colonial legacy and its new corporate sponsorship will try to resist the Hindu movement, not necessarily out of any spite but simply to preserve their position of power. Western Indologists will want to keep the arguments within the Western school of thought because they control the rules of the game. They will see their control of Indology not as a colonial legacy but as a means of protecting the field of study from what they call Hindu distortions. Not surprisingly, we already find Western Indology and its Indian proponents condemning the new Indic scholarship on principle and having courses on it as a form of communalism or religious fundamentalism. What they are really afraid of is that Indians will reclaim Indology and then reclaim their own culture. This will cause them to lose control over the institutions and the debate about India, losing their niche in the academic world.

A New Hindu Vaishya Dharma

Hindus should be aware of the multinational influence on education, and not be naive about Western corporate, political and religious agendas. Anyone who controls the financial purse strings of education will naturally want education to represent views that they follow or at least respect. It is only to be expected. Those who control the money in education unfortunately usually control what is being taught, whether directly or indirectly.

Wealthy Hindus should seek to fund proper education, not only in scientific fields but also about India and its civilization. This requires not merely funding Indological departments in the West-where their money has little accountability-but also their own institutions outside of Western culture. They must take financial responsibility for their own tradition if they expect it to endure and not expect Western institutions to create a view of India, particularly of ancient India and its spiritual traditions, that will be favorable and will sustain it in the modern world.

Wealthy Hindus or those in the corporate world should also seek to bring a greater dharmic perspective into business activities. They should promote a new globally sensitive and ecologically aware Vaishya Dharma, following Vedic and yogic values of unity, interdependence and a recognition of the sacred nature of all life. India's own Vaishya Dharma or dharmic values for business include respect for nature, human diversity and cultural and religious pluralism that the West is also looking

towards for the future. Certainly, a new spi ritually aware business class and global business consciousness is required to get us out of the current crisis and to build an educational system that goes beyond corporate greed or the seeking of cultural hegemony. For t h is, such a resurgent Vaishya Dharma is the key.

Yoga, Ayurveda and Hindu principles of management can help transform the current destructive multinational scene into something more enlightened, showing how sp iritual principles can make for a better management of our human and natural resources, putting material development in the context of the evolution of consciousness. We must move from multinational capitalism to a global culture of Dharma, not only in spirituality but also in the economic sphere, which is where our cultural spirituality is really put into practice or simply remains a mere slogan.

The Indian or Bharatiya Ideal of Education

To people all over the world India reflects an image of yoga , spirituality and mysticism as the main characteristics of its culture. Strangely, these are precisely the aspects of Indian culture that are not adequately taught in public education in India because of the Western model of education that the country follows. For this reason Indians educated in India, especially at Western oriented institutions, are becoming ignorant of their own historical culture and its great spiritual wisdom. There is sometimes more of this taught in American universities than in universities in India.

Modern Education

Modern educational systems derive from Western culture and reflect the dichotomy between science and religion that has arisen historically within it. Science is viewed as a secular pursuit that should be part of education for everyone. Religion is looked upon as a special belief or dogma that is a private or personal matter, outside the scope of secular education.

While science is regarded as a way of knowledge, religion is regarded as a way of faith, including faith in things that are unscientific or irrational like the Virgin birth of Jesus Christ. While efforts to reconcile science and religion have been attempted, most scientists tend to agnosticism or atheism, or to forms of mysticism that are unorthodox. Fundamentalist religious groups, on the other hand, commonly oppose science or would at least like to see it restricted.

Even in America today, thought to be a progressive country, fundamentalist Christians continue to protest against teaching the theory of evolution in the schools because it is not in harmony with the Bible and its six thousand-year scheme of creation. While we may laugh at such groups as a minority or an anachronism, they are large in numbers in many places and hold considerable financial resources. They are also spearheading powerful missionary movements throughout the world, including into India.

For science to emerge in the West it had to endure for centuries the wrath of the Church and the Inquisition. Many scientists were suppressed, tortured or even killed before science could free itself from the rule of religious dogma. This conflict left its mark on the Western psyche. Meanwhile Western religion has viewed science and secular education as promoting an anti-religious, if not immoral way of life. Many Western religious groups blame secular education for all the social problems in the West from crime and abortion to drugs and homosexuality. Many fundamentalists put their own children in special religious schools to avoid exposure to these secular dangers. This often leads to confusion and personality problems when these children grow up and are faced with the real world.

Therefore, Western education places a distinction if not conflict between science and religion. If it teaches about religion it is mainly relative to its political, cultural or historical implications. The dichotomy of liberal science versus dogmatic religion, or between moral religion and immoral or unspiritual science has yet to be resolved in the Western mind.

Religion and Science in Classical India

Classical India never had this dichotomy between science and religion. First of all it looked upon religion mainly as a way of knowledge, a vidya or veda, a way of seeing, a philosophy or darshana. Educated people in the Indic tradition look at religion as a pursuit of Self-knowledge and Self-realization as in the philosophies of Yoga, Vedanta and Buddhism. They classified knowledge into para and apara-inner and outer. They saw no conflict between the two, only their scope was different.

Many Western thinkers have debated whether Indic religions are really religions at all for this very reason. The answer is both yes and no. They are religions in that they teach us about the immortal and eternal aspect of reality. They are not religions in the sense that they are not based upon dogma, faith or the need to convert. The Western mind conditioned either to science as not spiritual, or religion as dogmatic has been unable to understand the Indian mind, which sees the highest science and the highest spirituality as the same. This approach, which shows its how to bring science and spirituality together, is perhaps the greatest gift that the Indian mind can offer to the West.

Indic religion has always been pluralistic. It recognizes that many paths must exist relative to the different levels and temperaments of individuals. It never had the idea of only one true faith for all, but rather as many paths as there are individuals. An allknowing or all-powerful Church and its infallible pronouncements never dominated it. Its religions never had a political machinery that enforced their beliefs through intimidation and torture. It never had a pope, a caliph, an inquisition or holy wars, though certainly episodes of intolerance did exist in the country.

The Indic mind, going back to the Upanishads of the preBuddhist era, recognizes two types of knowledge. The first or lower knowledge is that which deals with the outer world of name, form, and causation and is necessary for our practical functioning in life. The second or higher knowledge is that dealing with consciousness, the nameless, formless and transcendent, which reveals our ultimate or eternal reality. The Indic mind regarded the second or higher knowledge as more important, but it didn't regard the first or outer knowledge as wrong, to be suppressed, or incapable of harmonization with the higher knowledge. In fact, the great rishis saw even the lower knowledge as sacred and as following similar laws and principles as the higher knowledge. For this reason a text like the Vedas could be used as the basis for medicine or astronomy as well as for yoga and meditation. Art was also regarded as sacred, including in its portrayal of the human body and the world of nature.

However, the Indic mind did not regard these different darshanas, religions or ways of knowledge as necessarily the same or without contradiction. They were viewed like different scientific theories that could be proved or disproved or, like the difference between Newtonian and Quantum physics, which might be true on one level but not on another. They were not looked upon as religious dogmas that were beyond question. The d I ifferent systems could be debated rationally or explored through meditation. They did not require wars or conversion efforts to resolve their differences, nor a doctrine of faith to circumvent any need for proof. And their texts could be revised in the light of new knowledge

The coexistence of several different systems was considered helpful, a richness of various points of view that elevated the culture and stimulated the intelligence of individuals. After all, life itself is filled with diversity, if not contradiction. There is no only one food for everyone, no only one tree that can provide wood, no only one mountain to climb, and even the ocean though one has innumerable waves and diverse coastlines.

Western Education in India

Western education was introduced into India through foreign rulers. Islamic education emphasizing the Koran brought in the idea of only one scripture and of a last prophet who possessed the final word of God. European missionaries brought in the idea of Christ and the Bible as supreme. The British brought in modern Western education, with its science versus religion dichotomy that became dominant after Darwin in the nineteenth century. After independence public schools in India continued the modern Western model, while Islamic institutions (madrasahs) were allowed to keep teaching the way they had been doing, sometimes going back to the seventeenth century.

Followers of Western religions in India obviously cannot easily reconcile themselves to the Indic view of religions as different ways of knowledge as part of a pluralistic approach to reality. This goes against the currents of exclusivism and supremacy in their faiths.

Those who follow a modern scientific approach also have problems with the Indic view of spiritual sciences like astrology because these are not easily verifiable like the physical sciences.

Spiritual sciences can be verified, but require a different angle of approach in which consciousness comes into the picture, just as modern physics now requires it of physical laws. As science begins to look for consciousness as the ultimate ground of the universe, it is moving toward a greater spiritual science with an affinity to the Indic view of science. Modern science is also creating two levels of knowledge, mundane (in which the ordinary laws of physics work) and transcendent (in which these laws no longer apply).

Those who value the classical Indian model of education, which includes spiritual knowledge like Yoga and Vedanta, feel that the Western educational model destroys much of what is truly significant in their traditions. The Western educational model is not appropriate for India and cannot serve the spiritual and cultural heritage that is India's real gift to the world. India does not need to follow the Western educational model any more than it should follow Western models of economics or dress. In fact as long as it does the country is likely to drift in uncertainty, like a person who has forgotten who he really is.

Even the West is moving away from institutional models of education towards a more intimate instruction that resembles the gurukula system. Real education depends upon personal instruction, not state run schools that mass-produce students like industrial products with nationally uniform curriculums and government dispensed funding. Private and New Age schools in the West look for a reintegration of consciousness and spirituality into education, as was the basis of the old Indic system.

The Challenge for the Future

The challenge for the coming century-for India to revive itself as a nation and a culture-is to recreate the Indic model of education in which the dichotomy between science and religion is resolved. The West must also do this or be condemned to a dichotomy of an immoral science versus irrational religion that will keep its culture imbalanced. We must move beyond not only dogmatic and exclusive religions on one hand, but also materialistic science on the other. Belief in materialism is also a form of dogma. We must recreate religion as a form of science and science as a form of spirituality.

The key to this is to place both I science and rellgl on as part of a pursuit of consciousness, not the imposition of external ideas, attitudes or beliefs. It is to promote a new critical thinking and creative intelligence that is not bound to religious revelation, on One hand, or to a naive belief in physical reality, on the other. On a practical level this means that the spiritual heritage of India-the Vedas, Upanishads, Yoga and Vedanta, and Buddhism-must be taught in the schools as an integral part not only of Indian culture but of the global heritage of spiritual sciences. Sanskrit, the language that is the vehicle for most of these great teachings, must also be given emphasis.

Just as Europe honors its scientists, intellectuals and artists, so India must honor its great thinkers in the spiritual realm. The insights of Indian sages from Vedic rishis to modern sages like Sri Aurobindo and Ramana Maharshi are among the greatest achievements of humanity that the Western world, with its more outward based mentality, has yet to reach.

But it is not enough to impose an Indic form of education from above, by government decree. The intelligentsia a of the country must see the need and rally behind it. This requires a new intelligentsia in India that goes back to Indic models and ceases to imitate Western models of thinking. It also requires that the religious institutions, temples and ashrams offer classes on Vedic science, Hindu culture and their modern adaptation. Even overseas Hindus are quick to build temples but slow to start schools, though their main complaint is that their children are losing their culture! They should not forget the educational heritage that is more important to the vitality of the Indic tradition than any God or guru.

By
David Frawley

The J2EE(TM) 1.4 Tutorial

2005-09-18T20:23:00.000-07:00

JavaServer Faces technology is a server-side user interface component framework for Java technology-based web applications.

The main components of JavaServer Faces technology are as follows:

* An API for representing UI components and managing their state; handling events, server-side validation, and data conversion; defining page navigation; supporting internationalization and accessibility; and providing extensibility for all these features
* Two JavaServer Pages (JSP) custom tag libraries for expressing UI components within a JSP page and for wiring components to server-side objects

Stroustrup: Publications

2005-09-13T19:20:00.000-07:00

Stroustrup: Publications: "Publications by Bjarne Stroustrup"

PO - Windows programming

2005-09-01T22:30:00.000-07:00

PLenty of windows programming resources

Cool Client Stuff : How does the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio load a Form?

2005-08-26T13:07:00.000-07:00

Cool Client Stuff : How does the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio load a Form?: "How does the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio load a Form?
Here are a couple of questions we often get from developers who are new to Windows Forms:
1) The designer allows me to open an abstract Form, but not a Form that inherits from an abstract Form. Why is that?
2) I got a load error when I tried to open my Form in the VS designer. So I attached a debugger to VisualStudio (devenv.exe), set a breakpoint in my Form's InitializeComponent to step through it to see what the problem is. However, the breakpoint is not getting hit.
The answer to these questions lies in understanding how the designer actually loads a form at 'design-time'. When you open a new Windows Application project in VS, you see an empty form called Form1 in design view. Now, you haven't built the project yet, so how is the designer able to create an instance of Form1 and show it? Well, the designer is not really instantiating Form1 at all. It is creating an instance of the base class of Form1, i.e., System.Windows.Forms.Form. With a basic knowledge of object oriented programming, you will find that this intuitively makes sense. When you are designing Form1, you start with the base class, Form, and customize it. This is exactly what the designer helps you to do."

Summary of XMPP

2005-08-26T08:39:00.000-07:00

Summary of XMPP: "he Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is the IETF's formalization of the base XML streaming protocols for instant messaging and presence developed within the Jabber community starting in 1999.

As specified in RFC 3920, the core 'transport' layer for XMPP is an XML streaming protocol that makes it possible to exchange fragments of XML between any two network endpoints. Authentication and channel encryption happen at the XML streaming layer using the IETF-standard protocols for Simple Authentication and Security Layer (RFC 2222) and Transport Layer Security (RFC 2246). The normal architecture of XMPP is a pure client-server model, wherein clients connect to servers and (optionally) servers connect to each other for interdomain communications. XMPP addresses are fully internationalized, and are of the form for clients (similar to email)."

99 Bottles of Beer

2005-08-25T03:50:00.000-07:00

99 Bottles of Beer | Start: "Welcome to 99 Bottles of Beer

This Website holds a collection of the Song 99 Bottles of Beer programmed in different programming languages. Actually the song is represented in 781 different programming languages and variations. For more detailed information refer to historic information.

All these little programs generate the lyrics to the song 99 Bottles of Beer as an output. In case you do not know the song, you will find the lyrics to the song here."

People really find interesting ways to kill time...

The Artima Developer Community

2005-08-24T11:20:00.000-07:00

The Artima Developer Community

A long awaited update. But a really cool site. Some of the big names in programming frequent here.

Jonel Rienton's Blog: Solaris 10 x86 and Mono

2005-08-11T03:08:00.000-07:00

Jonel Rienton's Blog: Solaris 10 x86 and Mono: "Solaris 10 x86 and Mono

Here's a few pointers on how I build Mono on my Solaris x86 box:"

Essential .NET Volume 1

2005-07-19T09:35:00.000-07:00

Essential .NET Volume 1

Download Windows Symbol Packages

2005-07-04T04:45:00.000-07:00

Download Windows Symbol Packages: "If you want the entire set of symbols for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000, then you can download a symbol package and install it on your computer.
The symbol download packages are listed by processor type (x86, Itanium, and x64) and build type (retail and checked). Almost all customers require the symbols for the retail version. If you are debugging a special version of Windows with extra debugging information, then you should download the symbols for the checked version."

Phones white papers with specs for developers - Sony Ericsson

2005-07-02T11:29:00.000-07:00

Phones white papers with specs for developers - Sony Ericsson

DesignTime

2005-06-03T10:43:00.000-07:00

DesignTime

God sent for design time problems... saved me a night out at the office.

CodeDOM Delphi

2005-05-30T00:52:00.000-07:00

CodeDOM Delphi: "The Code Document Object Model (CodeDOM) allows .NET developers to generate and compile source code at run time in a variety of languages. The CodeDOM is a collection of classes used to represent source code. Once source code is represented in a CodeDOM, it can then be printed, compiled to an assembly, or compiled to memory and executed. An application can also use the CodeDOM as an abstract layer for reading source code without having intrinsic knowledge of the underlying language. "

S C R I B B L E R

2005-05-26T04:32:00.000-07:00

S C R I B B L E R

Delphi for .NET at BorCon 2003

2005-05-17T07:42:00.000-07:00

Delphi for .NET at BorCon 2003: "On Sunday morning Ray Konopka presented Creating Custom Components for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Ray started his class by saying, 'It's 1995 all over again.' We have a new framework to learn and extend with features that are wowing folks using Microsoft development tools, and it looks a whole lot like Delphi."

Thinking Machine 4: Play the Game

2005-05-11T07:04:00.000-07:00

Thinking Machine 4: Play the Game

INFO: Code Sample That Demonstrates How to Create a Custom Form Designer by Using Visual C# .NET

2005-05-05T09:45:00.000-07:00

INFO: Code Sample That Demonstrates How to Create a Custom Form Designer by Using Visual C# .NET: "This article contains a code sample that demonstrates how to create a custom form designer by using Microsoft Visual C# .NET. Microsoft does not provide Microsoft Product Support Services or support hotfixes for this code sample."

Tailor Your Application by Building a Custom Forms Designer with .NET

2005-05-05T05:14:00.000-07:00

Smart Client Developer Center: .NET Internals: Tailor Your Application by Building a Custom Forms Designer with .NETCreating the IDE... good stuff

.NET Shape Library: A Sample Designer

2005-05-05T03:59:00.000-07:00

.NET Shape Library: A Sample Designer A good demo of use of designer classes

The Invention of C++ interview with Bjarne Stroustrup 1998

2005-04-29T06:21:00.000-07:00

The Invention of C++ interview with Bjarne Stroustrup 1998: "'Hoax interview between Stroustrup and IEEE Computer has been making the rounds in cyberspace. While we regret the incident, it offers us a welcome opportunity to have the father of C++ share his insights on Standard C++ and software development in general. We can also attest to his continued sense of proportion and humor-he suggests that the fictitious interview would have been a much funnier parody had he written it himself.' "

International Features in Microsoft SQL Server 2000

2005-04-28T09:24:00.000-07:00

International Features in Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Gimpel Software Bug of the Month

2005-04-28T06:26:00.000-07:00

Gimpel Software Bug of the Month lots of C/C++ bugs

PowerJoe's homepage

2005-04-27T01:24:00.000-07:00

PowerJoe's homepage: "PowerJoe's Homepage" Cool site... some undocumented cool stuff to be found.

JIT and Run: Drill Into .NET Framework Internals to See How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects -- MSDN Magazine, May 2005

2005-04-25T07:49:00.000-07:00

JIT and Run: Drill Into .NET Framework Internals to See How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects -- MSDN Magazine, May 2005

Amazing insight into internals of .NET

The Programmer's File Format Collection

2005-04-25T06:04:00.000-07:00

A very interesting site... sometimes junk does matter...

The Programmer's File Format Collection: "Welcome to Wotsit's Format, the complete programmer's resource on the net. This site contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc. "

JIT and Run: Drill Into .NET Framework Internals to See How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects -- MSDN Magazine, May 2005

2005-04-19T04:20:00.000-07:00

JIT and Run: Drill Into .NET Framework Internals to See How the CLR Creates Runtime Objects -- MSDN Magazine, May 2005: "ince the common language runtime (CLR) will be the premiere infrastructure for building applications in Windows� for some time to come, gaining a deep understanding of it will help you build efficient, industrial-strength applications. In this article, we'll explore CLR internals, including object instance layout, method table layout, method dispatching, interface-based dispatching, and various data structures."

The Code Project - Introduction to IL Assembly Language - .NET

2005-04-15T02:14:00.000-07:00

The Code Project - Introduction to IL Assembly Language - .NET: "This article teaches the basics of IL Assembly language which can be used to debug your .NET code (written in any .NET high level language) at low level. From low level, I meant the point where the compiler of your high level language has finished his work. Also, using these basics, you can plan to write your own compiler for a new .NET language. "

Netdisaster.com

2005-04-15T01:54:00.000-07:00

Netdisaster.com

MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center: Building Component Libraries: Make Your Components Really RAD with Visual Studio .NET Property Browser

2005-04-14T01:22:00.000-07:00

MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center: Building Component Libraries: Make Your Components Really RAD with Visual Studio .NET Property Browser: "Since the introduction of Microsoft� Visual Basic� in the early days of Windows�, the property browser has been a pivotal element in allowing truly Rapid Application Development (often referred to as RAD). In Microsoft Visual Studio� .NET, this tradition continues with the added benefit of many property browser features not previously available. If you are writing components or other objects that participate in the Visual Studio .NET environment, you will surely want to take advantage of many of those new features to really make your components great for your users."

Hosting Windows Forms Designers

2005-04-11T06:38:00.000-07:00

Hosting Windows Forms Designers: "Why would you want to host the Windows Forms Designers? Well, there could be lots of reasons. When I was faced with the problem it was because I was writing an IDE for .NET languages and I wanted a visual interface to configure GUIs, just like VS.NET has. When you consider the flexibility of the designer architecture, you realise you have a framework for designing any 2-dimensional hierarchical system. All the code for moving, resizing, creating, deleting and configuring items is already there."

Binary Serialization with the Microsoft .NET framework and Delphi for .NET

2005-04-05T08:05:00.000-07:00

Binary Serialization with the Microsoft .NET framework and Delphi for .NET: "Binary Serialization
Serialization is the process of transforming object state into a form that can readily be transported or persisted. Object state herein refers to the fields, or member variables, of an object that define the object's state. These fields can be of any type, ranging from simple types such as integers, to complex types such as objects. Because contained objects partially define the state of the object, serialization might mean transforming a whole chain of objects, referred to as an object graph. "

BDNradio: .NET data remoting in Delphi 2005 with Ramesh Theivendran

2005-04-05T08:01:00.000-07:00

BDNradio: .NET data remoting in Delphi 2005 with Ramesh Theivendran: "Ramesh Theivendran on .NET Data remoting in Delphi 2005 "

cbrumme's WebLog : Finalization

2005-04-05T03:31:00.000-07:00

cbrumme's WebLog : Finalization An interesting article regarding evils of finalization in .NET

Fast Track - A Guide for Getting Started and Applying the Guidance

2005-04-02T08:30:00.000-08:00

Fast Track - A Guide for Getting Started and Applying the Guidance

Welcome to the MSDN Library

2005-04-02T08:16:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the MSDN Library

Scalability refers to the ability of an application to continue to meet its performance objectives with increased load. Typical performance objectives include application response time and throughput. When measuring performance, it is important to consider the cost at which performance objectives are achieved. For example, achieving a sub - second response time objective with prolonged 100% CPU utilization would generally not be an acceptable solution.

Intel Hardware Design Home Page

2005-03-23T00:19:00.000-08:00

Intel Hardware Design Home Page: "Hardware Design "

Stroustrup: C++ Style and Technique FAQ

2005-02-25T13:23:00.000-08:00

Stroustrup: C++ Style and Technique FAQ: "Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ"

LOGAN's Mystery Of Time And Space Adventure (c) 2001-2004 Jan Albartus (LOGAN)

2005-02-18T05:06:00.000-08:00

LOGAN's Mystery Of Time And Space Adventure (c) 2001-2004 Jan Albartus (LOGAN)

A long time later.. but this game deserves a spot on the blog

Managing sessions with Delphi 6 Web services (updated)

2005-01-31T22:48:00.000-08:00

Managing sessions with Delphi 6 Web services (updated): "Hello folks! We are about to dive into one of the hottest topics of our times: Web services!
But wait -- aren't there already a lot of articles about Web services and SOAP? Probably... but this one is different. We will be talking about a specific programming technique that is very important if you seek to write stateful Web Services.
Why stateful? Isn't a Web service an object that is instantiated on the Internet with its methods called from all over the globe?
Well, yes, almost. The problem is that a Web service, since it uses HTTP as its transport protocol, is stateless. So it's up to us developers to write some kind of state-maintenance mechanism.
In this article we will be doing just that."

Programming Texts/Tutorials

2005-01-14T01:43:00.000-08:00

Programming Texts/Tutorials: "A list of freely available documents (i.e. tutorials, books, guides, reference manuals, etc.) for learning how to program in various languages as well as about various Linux and UNIX related topics."

cool list.... kudos dude... i hope the links work

Hari Babu Kolluri Links

2005-01-14T01:21:00.000-08:00

Hari Babu Kolluri Links: "Here are some good links "

yet another site full of links

Tim's Consulting Page

2005-01-14T01:18:00.000-08:00

Tim's Consulting Page: "This page contains links of the technical nature. "

My blog entry for today... some silly set of articles... could be useful.. who knows

Oracle CEO speech to Yale undergrads

2005-01-12T04:52:00.000-08:00

Something good that came to me in a mail.... not true of course... as u would see on the link mentioned above. but a good speech altogether....

Oracle CEO speech to Yale undergrads

REUTERS: New Haven, CT What follows is a transcript of the speech delivered by Ellison, CEO and founder of Oracle, at the Yale University graduation ceremony last month:

"Graduates of Yale University, I apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but I want you to do something for me. Please, take a good look around you. Look at the classmate on your left. Look at

the classmate on your right. Now, consider this: five years from now, 10 years from now, even 30 thirty years from now, odds are the person on

your left is going to be a loser. The person on your right, meanwhile, will also be a loser. And you, in the middle? What can you expect? Loser. Loserhood. Loser Cum Laude. In fact, as I look out before me today, I don't see a thousand hopes for a bright tomorrow. I don't see a thousand future leaders in a thousand industries. I see a thousand losers.

"You're upset. That's understandable. After all, how can I, Lawrence "Larry" Ellison, college dropout, have the audacity to spout such heresy

to the graduating class of one of the nation's most prestigious institutions? I'll tell you why. Because I, Lawrence "Larry" Ellison, second richest man on the planet, am a college dropout, and you are not.

"Because Bill Gates, richest man on the planet -- for now, anyway -- is a college dropout, and you are not.

"Because Paul Allen, the third richest man on the planet, dropped out of college, and you did not.

"And for good measure, because Michael Dell, No. 9 on the list and moving up fast, is a college dropout, and you, yet again, are not.

"Hmm... you're very upset. That's understandable. So let me stroke your egos for a moment by pointing out, quite sincerely, that your diplomas were not attained in vain. Most of you, I imagine, have spent four to five years here, and in many ways what you've learned and endured will serve you well in the years ahead. You've established good work habits. You've established a network of people that will help you down the road. And you've established what will be lifelong relationships with the word "therapy." All that of is good. For in truth, you will need that network.

"You will need those strong work habits. You will need that therapy. You will need them because you didn't drop out, and so you will never be

among the richest people in the world. Oh sure, you may, perhaps, work your way up to #10 or # 11, like Steve Ballmer. But then, I don't have to tell you who he really works for, do I? And for the record, he dropped out of grad school. Bit of a late bloomer.

"Finally, I realize that many of you, and hopefully by now most of you, are wondering, "Is there anything I can do? Is there any hope for me at all ? Actually, no. It's too late. You've absorbed too much, think you know too much. You're not 19 anymore. You have a built-in cap, and I'm not referring to the mortar boards on your heads. "Hmm... you're really very upset. That's understandable. So perhaps this would be a good time to bring up the silver lining. Not for you, Class of '00. You are a write-off, so I'll let you slink off to your pathetic $200,000 a year jobs, where your checks will be signed by former classmates who dropped out two years ago.

"Instead, I want to give hope to any underclassmen here today. I say to you, and I can't stress this enough: leave. Pack your things and your

ideas and don't come back. Drop out. Start up. For I can tell you that a cap and gown will keep you down just as surely as these security guards dragging me off this stage are keeping me dow...

The Oracle CEO was ushered off stage.

Beyond Logic

2005-01-11T03:16:00.000-08:00

Beyond Logic

brilliant site. Thanx for providing me all the information i have no need for and would never use in this lifetime !!!

OS Development

2005-01-11T02:26:00.000-08:00

OS Development: "This little page is the beginning of a collection of source code, information, and links related to general Operating Systems' Development on the Web."

Category Index of Interrupts

2005-01-11T02:24:00.000-08:00

Category Index

Here is a categorised list of interrupts... could be used somewhere....apparently we all depend on it

The Code Project - Inside the executable: an introduction to the Portable Executable format for VB programmers - Win32 / SDK

2005-01-06T02:01:00.000-08:00

The Code Project - Inside the executable: an introduction to the Portable Executable format for VB programmers - Win32 / SDK: "The Portable Executable Format is the data structure that describes how the various parts of a Win32 executable file are held together. It allows the operating system to load the executable and to locate the dynamically linked libraries required to run that executable and to navigate the code, data and resource sections compiled into that executable."

Compilers - Contents

2005-01-06T00:09:00.000-08:00

Compilers - Contents: "This is an on-line edition of this book, with Greek and mathematical characters rendered with a symbols font. Another on-line edition, using GIF images is available here. The original edition of this book, published originally by International Thomson, is now out of print. In preparing the on-line edition, the opportunity has been taken to correct the few typographical mistakes that crept into the first printing, and to create a few hyperlinks to where the source files can be found."

A new entry .... another good reading

C++: Under the Hood

2005-01-04T03:34:00.000-08:00

C++: Under the Hood: "C++: Under the Hood"

My blog entry for today. I have been looking up some information on pointers ( function pointers to be precise) which led me to this site. Apparently technologies are not as complex as we make them out to be. Most of the great ideas today are just hacks and compiler magic. "Simbly" put: There is no object orientation in the universe.

VBnet Visual Basic Developers Resource Centre

2005-01-02T23:48:00.000-08:00

VBnet� Visual Basic Developers Resource Centre Happy New Year. As the first act on this blog for the new year, here is a good collection on HOWTOs to achieve certain programming tasks in VB. pretty useful!

Microsoft Word MVP FAQ

2004-12-29T05:16:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Word MVP FAQ More information on macro programming. Essential as I observed... in quite a lot of projects

The Code Project - C# Compiler - C# Programming

2004-12-28T09:12:00.000-08:00

The Code Project - C# Compiler - C# Programming: "CSCompiler is a simple application for compiling single file C# source code. It was written in C#. Of course I didn't wrote a whole C# compiler. Instead I've used interfaces provided by the .NET platform. "

Does Java pass by reference or pass by value?

2004-12-27T04:27:00.000-08:00

Does Java pass by reference or pass by value?: "If Java uses the pass-by reference, why won't a swap function work? "

Matlus - The Delphi Apostle

2004-12-24T00:54:00.000-08:00

Matlus - The Delphi Apostle: "This site is all about new and emerging Technologies and how they relate to Delphi. My favorite technology is TCP/IP and related technologies. Funny how everything seems to revolve around TCP/IP. These technologies include:
ISAPI
HTTP
SOAP/XML/WebServices
N-tier Applications and Zero configuration thin Clients "

The Code Project - Free Source Code and Tutorials

2004-12-18T13:10:00.000-08:00

The Code Project - Free Source Code and Tutorials: "Program Design and Methodologies

Contents
� Application Design � Design Patterns
� General � Methodologies
� Purgatory � Unedited Reader Contributions
� Unit Testing � Usability"

The Code Project - Steganography IX - The Cross-Format Solution - C# Programming

2004-12-18T10:42:00.000-08:00

The Code Project - Steganography IX - The Cross-Format Solution - C# Programming: "If you have read the earlier articles of this series, you know how to hide binary data in five kinds of media. Why not hide a long message in multiple carriers: one image, two sounds, one .NET assembly, three MIDI sequences, and an AVI video? In this article, we are going to merge all the modules from this series into one big application, and add a few enhancements:
The user is able to specify the exact count of bits that shall be hidden in each carrier unit (pixel, wave sample, etc.).
The noise generator confuses pictures and wave sounds, so that the key cannot be reconstructed from the carrier file and the unused original file. "

crazy rabbit (c) Andrius Kirvela

2004-12-18T04:09:00.000-08:00

crazy rabbit (c) Andrius Kirvela one of the coolest animations ever

How I got XP and Linux working (dual boot) : LinuxQuestions.org time based Linux archive

2004-12-15T10:27:00.000-08:00

How I got XP and Linux working (dual boot) : LinuxQuestions.org time based Linux archive

GRUB Manual

2004-12-15T10:17:00.000-08:00

GRUB Manual: "GRUB cannot boot DOS or Windows directly, so you must chain-load them (see Chain-loading). However, their boot loaders have some critical deficiencies, so it may not work to just chain-load them. To overcome the problems, GRUB provides you with two helper functions"

Shakespeare on the Web: Web Services in Delphi

2004-12-08T06:15:00.000-08:00

Shakespeare on the WebThe code was not at the genius level, but it was pretty fun. Well, good old Will may have lived centuries ago, but his Insult generator lives in the twenty-first century, so it is time for it to become a Web Service. Lucky for me, Delphi 6 is here, and moving the generator to the world of Web Services couldn't be easier

Introduction to ASP.NET

2004-12-05T06:38:00.000-08:00

Introduction to ASP.NET: "ASP.NET is the new offering for web developers from Microsoft. It is not simply the next-generation of ASP; in fact, it is a completely re-engineered and enhanced technology that offers much, much more than traditional ASP and can increase productivity significantly.

Because it has evolved from ASP, ASP.NET looks very similar to its predecessor�but only at first sight. Some items look very familiar, and they remind us of ASP. But concepts like Web Forms, Web Services, or Server Controls gives ASP.NET the power to build real web applications."

Sify Broadband � Sify Broadband :: Customer Experiences

2004-12-02T23:42:00.000-08:00

Sify Broadband � Sify Broadband :: Customer Experiences: "Indian Broadband Forum
So, you dispise Sify Broadband as much as I do. And you have fun discussing Sify here... Then well, you can help the blog and the forum by linking to them from anywhere on your site or Blog! You can help by using code like this:
Sify Broadband
Sify Broadband
Sify Broadband
Of course, if anyone of you have something to contribute, send me a mail!"

J2SE Documentation

2004-12-02T04:49:00.000-08:00

J2SE Documentation: "This page lists documentation for the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) and JDK. Documentation for other Java APIs and products can be found at J2EE, J2ME and other Java documentation. Our policy for redistributing documentation is at Documentation Redistribution Policy. "

.NET Architecture Center

2004-11-25T04:41:00.000-08:00

.NET Architecture Center System Architecture Information

A look at inner classes

2004-11-25T01:32:00.000-08:00

A look at inner classes: "Probably the most controversial change in JDK 1.1 was the introduction of inner classes. The controversy stems from the fact that most people consider inner classes to be a change to the Java language, and thus inappropriate to a 'minor' release. However, I'll show that while inner classes are, effectively, a change in the language, they are implemented so that the impact on existing Java virtual machines is nil. As you will see, they are also quite useful."

CodeGuru: Inter-Process Communication in .NET Using Named Pipes, Part 1

2004-11-24T09:38:00.000-08:00

CodeGuru: Inter-Process Communication in .NET Using Named Pipes, Part 1: "The first part of this article explores a way of implementing Named Pipes based IPC between .NET applications. In Part 2, we look at building a pipe server and a client communicating with it.
Remember that the situations where this solution would be most beneficial is when one application is exchanging frequent short text messages with another, located on the same machine or within the same LAN. For structured data exchange, those text messages can also be XML documents or serialized .NET objects. No security layer is implemented because Named Pipes are accessible within the LAN only and it is assumed that security will be handled by the existing infrastructure."

Joshua Marinacci's Blog: SwingHack: keyboard spinner

2004-11-24T09:15:00.000-08:00

Joshua Marinacci's Blog: SwingHack: keyboard spinner: "Toolkit.setLockingKeyState(int keyCode, boolean on)"

[Cocoon Devel] Re: Xerces 1.1.2 does not work

2004-11-23T00:07:00.000-08:00

[Cocoon Devel] Re: Xerces 1.1.2 does not work Something I struggled with for a while.. Hope this is useful for someone. Xerces does not wor the way it used to. So if u need fully qualified paths use Xerces 1.0.3

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring easter eggs - moviemistakes.com

2004-11-21T00:53:00.000-08:00

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring easter eggs - moviemistakes.com

Movie mistakes from lord of the rings... And a lot more mistakes... at this site

Movie Mistakes

The Code Project - Plugin Manager - C# Programming

2004-11-20T06:24:00.000-08:00

The Code Project - Plugin Manager - C# Programming

genetic-programming.org-Home-Page

2004-11-19T23:12:00.000-08:00

genetic-programming.org-Home-Page: "(a source of information about the field of genetic programming and the field of genetic and evolutionary computation)"

Web Forms Code Model

2004-11-15T10:15:00.000-08:00

Web Forms Code Model: "A Web Forms page consists of two parts: visual elements (HTML, server controls, and static text) and the page's programming logic. Visual Studio stores each of these components in a separate file. The visual elements are created in an .aspx, and the code is in a separate class file, called the code-behind class file (.aspx.vb or .aspx.cs).
It is also possible to create the visual elements and code in the same file, which is sometimes called a 'single-file' Web Forms page. This style of Web Forms page has limited support in Visual Studio. For details, see 'Single-File Web Forms Pages' below."

The Code Project - Applying Robustness Analysis on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture in ASP.NET Framework, using UML - ASP.NET

2004-11-15T09:43:00.000-08:00

The Code Project - Applying Robustness Analysis on the Model�View�Controller (MVC) Architecture in ASP.NET Framework, using UML - ASP.NET: "Applying Robustness Analysis on the Model�View�Controller (MVC) Architecture in ASP.NET Framework, using UML
By Shams Mukhtar

This article will enhance your vision on the usage of Robustness Analysis in conjunction with Model View Controller, using UML with application in ASP.NET. This article is a sequel to my articles on Architecture and Design with ASP.NET."

Where Windows NT 4.0 Stores Passwords

2004-11-15T04:41:00.000-08:00

Where Windows NT 4.0 Stores Passwords: "Article from Windows NT Magazine
You probably know that passwords are the keys to most doors on a network, but do you realize where Windows NT 4.0 stores passwords? You can find them in many interesting places, so you'd be wise to become aware of these areas and provide adequate protection against prying eyes.
NT uses the SAM to store and retrieve user credentials such as passwords. Because the SAM stores its information in the SAM database, you can assume that NT is only as secure as its SAM data. And getting a handle on SAM security isn't easy unless you know all the places you might find a SAM database. This article will help you secure specific areas of your NT systems and find additional areas that need further configuration to strengthen security."

Dot Net Mac

2004-11-15T00:10:00.000-08:00

Dot Net Mac: "Well, there's Mono. It looks good and I hope it succeeds. But imagine what Microsoft could do if it got behind cross-platform .Net. All that research into the CLR on Free BSD must be there for a reason (BSD is the basis for Mac OSX). With a bit of effort, we could have Windows Forms apps running on the three most significant desktops: Windows, Mac, Linux. The company may think that would undermine Windows. Or it may think that people are only interested in Web apps these days. Neither is true. Macromedia is garnering great interest in Flash as the premier cross-platform rich client. But would you rather program in ActionScript or C#? I know which I would choose, and it isn't ActionScript.
To date though, cross-platform .Net is only a dream. Oh well, there's always the likes of Wine and Virtual PC. Or is there? When I scoured the Web for news on this subject, I drew blank. The Wine folk don't seem to be interested in running .Net apps. And I couldn't find any reports of success with Virtual PC, to my mind the most advanced of the Mac PC emulators. So without much hope of success, I got hold of an iBook, stuffed it to the max 640MB RAM, installed Virtual PC for DOS, and experimented with various flavours of Windows. Windows XP on this setup runs, just about. But I couldn't get dotnetfx.exe (the .NET runtime) to install. It seemed to run OK, then bombed out. So I tried Windows 98. My first effort failed. However, with Virtual PC it's easy to start again. I tried a fresh install. It worked. On went IE 6.0, then MDAC 2.7, then the Framework, then the SP1 service pack. No errors. I tried one of my apps. Nothing seemed to be happening. I waited. Then ... it opened. Wow. Dot net runs on OSX, fantastic. Unfortunately, it's slow. Really slow. Sadly, my app isn't usable, not really. Maybe on a high-end G4, rather than my lowly G3 iBoo"

DotNetJunkies :: Opening Child Windows Using Server Side Controls

2004-11-14T23:06:00.000-08:00

DotNetJunkies :: Opening Child Windows Using Server Side Controls: "when a child form is closed, the parent needs to perform some server side processing to refresh the page, etc. Again, there are a couple "

Page Members

2004-11-14T23:04:00.000-08:00

Page Members

link to the Web.UI.Page members MSDN