I’ve “finished” cache, serialization, and storage for the .NET version of Pocket Blog. The entry management module should be done, but when I started updating my test application to thoroughly stress everything I ran into problems with my HTTP module. I turned to Google: HttpWebResponse “Compact Framework”. Naturally, the first link is me bitching about […]
Archive for December, 2002
Inside IIS
23Dec0296 Window Stations ought to be enough for anybody.
Not!
Microsoft and Linux
23Dec02Reuters: META Predicts Microsoft Will Offer Linux Software.
META Group predicted that Linux will be used on nearly half of new servers by 2007, up from its current share of 15 to 20 percent, making it difficult for Microsoft to ignore Linux as a platform for its database, Web hosting and e-mail server applications.
“We believe that, […]
Exchange Blog
22Dec02Exchange Server 2000 rocks. Within a couple of hours, I’ve been able to render my weblog posts directly from an Exchange public folder. [Ingo Rammer]
I hate Exchange as much as the next SysAdmin, but… Ingo has put together quite a list of advantages over traditional weblog platforms. And I can think of a few others, […]
More SL-C700 Eye-candy
22Dec02English SL-C700 Screenshots and misc details.
Pocket Blog .NET
22Dec02Last week I finally got around to installing the “Final Beta” of VS.NET 2003. The .NET version of Pocket Blog is moving along again. The base libraries (HTTP, XML-RPC, Blogger API) are done and everything critical is wrapped in Try / Catch blocks. Error handling will be much better in this version
Still lots to […]
Meg Hourihan spent a month in Paris and learned that broadband isn’t everywhere and dial-up isn’t always cheap. My dial-up bills when I lived in Germany were $250-$350 per month. When DT briefly offered a flat-rate single-channel ISDN Internet plan for about $100/month it seemed like a bargain!
Today, thankfully, we have the technology to make […]
iSync vs ActiveSync
20Dec02CNET thinks there is a battle brewing:
synchronization software is shaping up as a key battleground for Apple and Microsoft. As consumers shift spending away from PCs to more portable devices, such as cell phones or digital music players, controlling the key element for synchronizing data on these devices with computers is becoming increasingly important, say […]
