2004

Explore posts from 2004 below.

The API War and Microsoft

Thought I may as well weigh in on Joel Spolsky's post on How Microsoft Lost the API War. It's a great read but I think that Joel is way off on his thoughts on .NET.

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June 20, 2004
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Carpal Tunnel

Though carpal tunnel syndrome isn't directly software development related, it's worth a mention in this blog as I'm sure many software developers will experience it or some form wrist/keyboarding...

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June 14, 2004
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Agile UML

Following on from the Disrespecting UML post, I've been thinking about what "UML" means to different people and what I want from UML tools.

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June 7, 2004
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Disrespecting UML

I was listening to .NET Rocks Live! today and enjoying it as usual. Rocky Lhotka was talking about the Visual Studio 2005 Whitehorse designer functionality.

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June 4, 2004
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The Microsoft Visual C++ /clr Switch

Today I had a go at compiling a large body of existing legacy C/C++ code with the /clr switch. The bulk of it compiled without changing the existing source code.

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June 2, 2004
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Just started

A couple of days ago another video was posted on the Microsoft Channel 9 site with Ward Cunningham as the subject. In the video, he was answering a question on whether there is a revolution coming in...

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May 31, 2004
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