2004

Explore posts from 2004 below.

Intrusive Software

I hate software that's intrusive or attempts to make decisions for me or "guide" me to a decision favouring the software vendor.

August 23, 2004
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Longhorn Transparency

The great benefit of Microsoft's new development direction transparency is that it reduces the probability of real lemons (i.e. products that no one wants) since there is very early feedback.

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August 18, 2004
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Anders and AOP

There's a whiteboard session with Anders Hejlsberg on the MSDN site entitled "Whiteboard with Anders Hejlsberg". The very first question that Anders addresses relates to AOP and his reaction was...

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August 4, 2004
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Java Annotations

Check out the new functionality in the Java "Tiger" release. Looks like the major .NET languages and Java language oriented functionality are going to be walking lockstep for the forseeable future.

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July 30, 2004
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Overly Pedantic

Today my brain had a situation where it looped continuously making a decision whether to email a customer on their wording in an email.

July 20, 2004
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Debugger.IsAttached

The System.Diagnostics.Debugger class provides a handy means of interacting with an attached debugger and to determine whether a debugger is present.

July 18, 2004
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