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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.