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.