Mitsubishi blues?

Kansas City Star | 11/29/2004 | MIDDAY BUSINESS REPORT: Fed looking for signs: "Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc.
Mitsubishi Motors has been plagued by a series of defect-coverup scandals in Japan that have badly tarnished its image and sent sales plunging here.
But its sales and profits have also suffered in the United States, partly because it had sold too many cars to people with bad credit.
Mitsubishi Motors has previously said it would scrap the risky financing deals, cut jobs, trim production and reduce sales to rental and other fleets to make its U.S. business profitable."

Safari 1.2 now supports XMLHttpRequest!

Foisted by MS in IE 5, a variant picked up by Mozilla 1.0, and now finanlly I find its supported Safari 1.2!
Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object

I notice that Google is also using it in their auto-complete/Google Request beta.

We'll make some good use of this, knowing it's supported widely now.

"the 'how-the-hell-do-I-roll-back-the-changes-i've-made-to-the-db' problem" vs. mock objects.

I changed my mind - Mock objects are wrong for database unit testing

Heh...we went lazy too and ended up putting together a nice ADO transaction layer around our DAO...turns out to be also useful in the large.

Terrorism & Security: why do they hate us?

"They hate our policies, not our freedom"

Pentagon report contains major criticisms of administration. Actually not quite the Pentagon's opinion, just an independant Defense Science Board. Pentagon must have been obligated to publish it...slipped it out quietly Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

I do wish we were hearing more clearly though the western media what the victory criteria were for the insurgents/terrorists. I'm too cynical to believe it's simple bloodlust. Did we ever wonder what the Black Panthers wanted, or the Palestinians, or the IRA?

Crap...I gues it doesnt matter anymore...it's their Red Dawn...Wolverines!

Yahoo! News - Families endure private war

Yahoo! News - Families endure private war

Really provking piece on the perspectives of our returning soldiers & the contrasts of war.

SketchUp 3D - Training - Video Tutorials

Really great example of using CBT and a smart marketing tool to show off features of what seems to be an amazingly powerful and yet simple new class of 3D drawing tools.

SketchUp 3D - Training - Video Tutorials

Smells like a really small shop...which is something I miss about the intimacy and clean slates of early dot com projects.

Ofoto Browse Photos

Sam & Jen's Ofoto Photos

eMachineShop - Online Machine Shop - with FREE CAD Software

Stumbled across this today. I remember seeing something like this back in the bitnet days at KU.
eMachineShop Downlod their CAD software, design your part, get quote, submit, ship. Coolness.

HP iPAQ h4355 Pocket PC,

HP iPAQ h4355 Pocket PC Cheap!

XPWeb | Introduction

A co-worker turned me on to XPWeb, an XP project management tool. Have to check it out soon.

Bulk Residue & Vesicles from Space, Press Release (1/30/01 PNAS)

"These droplets (~10 �m across) show structures reminiscent of cells (although they are not alive). They are from a chemically separated fraction of the bulk residue."

MeadCo's ScriptX

MeadCo's ScriptX may be a simple solution to the "why do I have to click "print" twice in a browser app?" befuddlement many users complain about.

Gwynne Dyer: Take Bin Laden's video message with a huge grain of salt

Gwynne Dyer: Take Bin Laden's video message with a huge grain of salt: "If the United States had not invaded Iraq last year (which Bin Laden could not have foreseen), 9/11 would have been a complete failure. Even with the horrifying images that Iraq generates and the fury and hatred that they engender among Muslims elsewhere, there has still not been a single revolution anywhere in the Arab world: The Islamists still cannot get the masses out in the streets to overthrow Arab regimes"

Error Logging Modules & Handlers (ELMAH): Workspace Home

Error Logging Modules & Handlers (ELMAH): Workspace Home May want to consider this for our portal apps.

CodeNotes� - Article Display

Decent article on XSLT -> comma delimited output.

Outputting Code

Outputting Code - friendly article Exploring Details of XSLT Code Generation.

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design Ahhh! Someday.

887459 - Programmatically check for canonicalization issues with ASP.NET

887459 - Programmatically check for canonicalization issues with ASP.NET as a defense to the incident announcement at MS http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/aspnet.mspx

DubyaSpeak.com : Dubya on...

DubyaSpeak.com That's Dubya as in George "W." A nasty collection of fumbles that boggle the mind.

After the debate tonight, commentators are indicating Bush seems to be a "down to earth" guy. Suggesting that people like him because he "sounds like them". Perfect!

Airaid

Airaid Intake for the recent fuel injection conversion on my '71 Blazer. Might fix the whistle I'm getting from the old Moroso intake I carried over from the Holley 750. Might also be a good starting point for a cowl induction / snorkle setup.

OnLoad versus Page_Load

OnLoad versus Page_Load

override protected OnLoad(System.EventArgs e)
{
base.OnLoad(e);
}

is faster than...

this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Page_Load);

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{}

Java for .NET

IKVM.NET: is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

No AWT, Swing or security yet, but looks very promising. You dont get to jun jars directly, you have to use a tool to boil them down to a .dll.

CNN.com - The music of war - Aug 17%2C 2004

I dont remember if I get VH1, but this would be worth checking out: CNN.com - The music of war - Aug 17%2C 2004

Yet another Gartner analyst says BOTH to java vs. .Net

.NET vs. Java: No Easy Answers: "Choose Both
Despite any attempts to select either platform as a 'strategic' de facto choice, virtually all large development organizations will ultimately have both....It's entirely unrealistic to assume a large national or multinational company will have all Java or all Microsoft technology. For that matter, legacy platforms such as Cobol will also remain entrenched for many years to come.
In these cases the 'us vs. them' battle must be tempered with a higher-level integration strategy. Although there are no easy answers to this problem, technology such as Web services standards are beginning to emerge and will allow better integration and interoperability between the platforms in the future"

Visual MainWin offers best of .Net, Java - Computerworld

While reading this on CW I had to scroll back to top to make sure it wasnt published on Apr. 1! Emits java bytecode from .Net source, including API/framework translations (e.g. ADO)

Visual MainWin offers best of .Net, Java - Computerworld: "The word seamless has become nearly meaningless, but Visual MainWin's integration into Visual Studio deserves the label. Visual MainWin attaches itself to the output of the compilation process and translates the intermediate language (IL) code coming out of Visual Studio into the equivalent Java bytecode"

Gartner suggests Heterogeneous dev platforms the norm

.Net vs. Java - Computerworld: "Corporations will find it tough to settle on a single development architecture such as .Net or Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), 'unless they are the size of a dentist's office,' says Yefim Natis, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. "

Rational's Mike Delvin confirms heterogeneous development platforms common

Article in eWeek, IBM's 'Rational' Move Paying Off: "Most companies are heterogeneous in that they develop software using a mix to platforms and technologies, including both .Net and J2EE [Java 2 Enterprise Edition]. IBM Rational will continue to provide development solutions that span our customers' platform and technology choices, and that really differentiates us from Microsoft. "

Mike Devlin is GM of IBM's Rational division...was CEO of the formerly independant Rational.

The ADO Guy

ADO.Net PowerToys might be worth a look. Provides typed DataSet generator. Also mentioned on weblogs.asp.net here

Welcome to Petetownshend.com

Pete Townsend has a blog...kinda. Really just some sporadic entries in a cold fusion diary app. Kinda interesting...is it just self promotion (nothing wrong with that) or it is to be taken as transparent?

[IIS] Reminder - July 9 is National Metabase Backup Day...

[IIS] Reminder - July 9 is National Metabase Backup Day...

Doh...there's still so many admin efficiencies we need to be reaching for.

evolutive Unit Test Framework for .Net

mbunit.tigris.org has a nitfy unit test console and test generator.

Need to check this out more.

is there an API/published format for the IE favs files?

The dude at The Furrygoat Experience has a CheckFav util which apparently checks for dead urls in IE favs files on disk. Need to find out what APIs he used to read favs files....I recall looking madly for these to make a private version of the old ClickMarks service.

I know...I know...there are other online bookmark managers...but I was on a quest to do it myself.

I'll have to hit this guy up once his CheckFav Wiki is running again.