Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in .NET on Apr 27th, 2004
When was the last time you saw the word poor used to describe a feature of a Microsoft product? Wait. Before you answer that question let me elaborate a little. Sure the slash-dotters are constantly slamming Microsoft products and technologies but when was the last time you saw realistic assessments of Microsoft products on a [...]
Posted in Conference on Apr 26th, 2004
Every industry has its share of professional conferences. This is certainly true in the programming world. It appears that there is a software conference for every type of programmer imaginable.
If you are thinking about spending money on a conference check out this calendar of events. Published by SD Times it lists an entire years worth [...]
Posted in Jobs on Apr 20th, 2004
have a lot of friends who are looking for work. Many of the programming classes I teach are full of unemployed programmers learning new jobs skills hoping to make themselves more marketable. So I’ve helped research job openings on numerous jobs websites.
Wading through a list of job postings can be a chore. Sure, you want [...]
Posted in General on Apr 17th, 2004
A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. - Dictionary.com
A unit of intellectual or cultural information that survives long enough to be recognized as such, and which can pass from mind to mind. - Richard Dawkins [The Selfish [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2004
Is there ever an ethical reason to decompile another developers code?
The program-transform site has a lot of information about programming, especially reverse-engineering and compilation/recompilation. Since they seem to promote techniques for decompiling code I wasn’t surprised to find a decompile ethics page.
Ethical dilemma
Well,that got me to thinking. What are the circumstances, if any, that would [...]
Posted in .NET on Apr 15th, 2004
I’m not the only one testing how accurate the Remotesoft Salamander decompiler is. I discovered the Program-Transformation.org website today. There are a lot of interesting sections on this site, including one that compares decompilers to see how accurately they rebuild your code. Here are the results for Salamander.
Posted in .NET on Apr 15th, 2004
If you have programmed in .NET for more than a couple of weeks you’ve probably read something about how easy it is to disassemble your .NET assembly. You may have also noticed the Dotfuscator Community Edition tool in the Visual Studio.NET 2003 tools folder and thought - ‘OK, I can use this to protect my [...]
Posted in .NET on Apr 6th, 2004
Five Microsoft employees think that the developer world is interested in a video oriented conversation. This concept, video enhanced blogging, is now available at the Channel 9 website. Today channel 9 opened it’s doors and already has a bank of 20 or so videos featuring several prominent Microsoft employees talking about writing code.
Eric Lippert talks [...]
Posted in .NET on Apr 5th, 2004
Headlines scream.
Microsoft now open source company!
OK, I’m exaggerating a bit here. Apparently a Microsoft employee got permission to release an XML based tool for automating the creation of MSI files I saw this first on Chris Sell’s MSDN blog. The story then makes the rounds to several online journalists and finally comes to Scobles attention. [...]
Posted in .NET on Apr 5th, 2004
I installed the latest beta version of Visual Studio.NET (Community Technology Preview March 2004) last week. I was looking forward to experimenting with the new ASP.NET 2.0 bits this weekend. There was a lot of cool stuff in the previous Whidbey release, and I’ve heard that ASP.NET is getting better by the day.
So I [...]