June 15, 2004
May 20, 2004
John Robbins BugSlayer Tips
Tough morning for competitive ideas… OurPictures and BlogJet
Walt Mossberg reviewed OurPictures which is close to one idea I’m developing.
A fellow blogger pointed me at BlogJet, which reminded me to get cranking on TonesNotes.
May 19, 2004
Troubleshooting ASP.NET authentication, authorization, and security issues
May 01, 2004
Transhumanism, It’s ok to see that good isn’t good enough for everyone.
Then again if we’re in an every accelerating whirlpool towards The Singularity within our lifetimes, perhaps its time to really start paying attention.
Transhumanism is the active pursuit of human improvement beyond what’s normal through technology.
So who would I know who was in Orkut?
www.orkut.com
Vernor Vinge’s Singularity Paper
April 14, 2004
WeWantWorkBoston.com
April 13, 2004
Design “issues” with .NET
I came across the following reference while looking for a definitive statement on WHY the documentation says that you MUST follow the EventHandler / EventArgs pattern when declaring events and their delegates.
Here’s a good list of design issues with .NET. It’s not a new list (seems to be 2002 to 2003 vintage work) and unfortunately most of the points are still valid. Good reading for anyone doing software design against .NET. Reminds you of when the pain your feeling is due to other people’s design mistakes and the features you should avoid or compartmentalize.
March 22, 2004
www.answersthatwork.com identifies Windows Task List entries
www.answersthatwork.com maintains a list of Microsoft Windows processes you might see running with information about what they do.
March 09, 2004
Automating Windows Forms testing
February 24, 2004
Anti-spam algorithms & MIT conference papers.
CRM114 - the Controllable Regex Mutilator is a spam filter that claims 99.9% accuracy.
DSPAM is another scalable, open-source statistical-algorithmic hybrid anti-spam filter.
Source code is available for both. Both are meant to integrate with unix flavor mail servers. One wonders whether the spam / anti-spam war isn’t much like the virus / immune system: Spam will adapt to each new filtering algorithm; all victories will be temporary.
The end result, of course, will be spam that passes the Turing test and anti-spam filters that can measure intelligence. Which is harder?
January 19, 2004
WikiPedia.org, A free encyclopedia being written by almost everyone that wants to.
While thinking about practical applications of wikis and worrying about the portential work load arising from vandalism to a public wiki I came across www.wikipedia.org, which is a free, public encyclopedia being written by everyone that wants to.
Well almost everyone. There's actually a page here where the vandalism battle is documented.
At first glance, it looks like they've found the vandalism workload to be remarkably light.
Maybe there's hope for humanity after all.
January 13, 2004
Excellent source tree comparison and differencing tool: WinMerge
To speed up integrating Scott's latest Dottext changes with my own mods I went looking for an easy way to pinpoint changes in trees of source files.
WinMerge does the job well and its free. Highly recommended.
January 11, 2004
Good reference on use of treemaps in user interface design
by Ben Shneiderman, December 26, 1998, updated May 21, 2003
Share your RSS subscriptions with the world
For reference when it comes time J to care about this myself…
If you haven't checked it out yet, you should really take a look at
http://feeds.scripting.com/rankings
Basically it's a site that allows you to upload your OPML file and share it with others. The link here shows the top 100 feeds people subscribe to. You can also go to each person and see their OPML list. You can also see who subscribes to your feed. Sadly, it seems that only 5 people subscribe to me, which is even less than my imagined 10 readers :) (but then, Lutz Roeder's feed only has 3 subscriptions so what do I know)
Anyway, I just discovered some very cool feeds from there but I think it's still little known. So, what do you subscribe to? (BTW: you need to manually enable sharing your subscriptions so that you will be counted as a subscriber to someone else's feeds)
(This is not aggregated on the main site so that I only bother the people who actually subscribe to my blog)
December 22, 2002
Windows Forms Order of Events
Key MSDN document on Windows Forms event sequences for various controls and actions.
November 09, 2002
reverse engineering, MSIL spec, salamander
www.remotesoft.com salamander
MSIL specification is found at file://c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\FrameworkSDK\Tool Developers Guide\docs\Partition III CIL.doc
October 21, 2002
MSDN multi-threading Windows Forms article.
Good multi-threaded Windows Forms article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnforms/html/winforms08162002.asp
September 03, 2002
web.config file syntax documentation
Web.config file's syntax documentation root is labeled “Configuration File Schema”