Ad-Hoc ListView Demo

Posted 7:50 AM
I built up a ListView demo in my Windows Forms course last week, and I promised to post it. Since it's going up on the course web site anyway, I thought I'd just post it in the open. It includes context menu handling for the list view, and column-specific sorting in Details view. (If you're in the Windows Forms class, the demo is also on the course page).

Tim Bray on REST

Posted 1:20 PM

Tim Bray wrote a great article that contrasts the REST and SOAP/XML-RPC models. It's short, clear, concise, fairly balanced, and has links to more detailed information sources. Moving forward I'm just going to point people to his article when I'm asked about REST.

CLR Spy

Posted 1:10 PM

Adam Nathan wrote one of my favorite .NET books. He's just released CLR Spy, complete with source code! CLR Spy takes advantage of new diagnostic features in the 1.1 version of the runtime to help find bugs in deployed managed code.

JVM and CLI Perf

Posted 8:06 AM

Werner Vogels has been posting some excellent perf comparisons between various JVM and CLI implementations. An interesting aspect is the improving performance of the Mono CLI implementation, especially when compared to Microsoft's SSCLI. Clearly, there's a need for someone to spend some quality time with the SSCLI JIT.

Winer Back to Being Winer

Posted 5:31 PM

Days after complaining about how nasty people were being to him (of course it's not his fault), Dave Winer unleashes the latest barrage in his plan to force everyone in the world to love him:

It's the dominant attitude at Microsoft -- of course we're the only ones in the market. Of course interop only means Works With Microsoft. This is the attitude of an unpunished and unrepentent convicted-of-antitrust corporate murderer.

I was going to post a comment, but when someone's standing on the corner yelling and shouting like an idiot, I really don't need to comment - it's enough to just point.

ASP.NET Caching Slide Deck

Posted 8:05 AM
Everything must go! I'm blowing out slide decks like there's no tommorrow! Here - have one on caching in ASP.NET. Includes info on page caching, partial-page caching, and using the caching API.