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I recently noticed that Borland made the famous Turbo Pascal 5.5 available for free download. I couldn't resist to give it a quick run: During my college years at University of Bucharest this was the development IDE that everyone used it. I liked it because...

The Indigo & Avalon CTP (Community Technology Preview) is available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=85AB132B-F1AA-4422-B053-272D79863013&displaylang=en Maybe this announcement has a chance to be lost...

It is known that in a certain city there are a significant number of witches, even though this practice is forbidden. The problem is that nobody knows who these witches are, since a witch is very careful to appear to others as a perfectly normal person...

Both Java and .NET have several things in common - their runtimes are both able to execute code written in a machine-independent "assembly language". As we know, this code is represented in binary format: bytecode in the Java world, and IL in .NET. The...

There is an interesting article in the latest MSDN magazine about Reg-free COM and .NET components: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/04/RegFreeCOM/default.aspx The technology was present for quite a while, but still not very well known. Part...

John Cleese's play is pure genius... (altough some friends here seem to disagree, but who can dispute taste? :-) http://www.backuptrauma.com/video/default2.aspx

Normally, a VBS scripts is used to invoke COM components (written in C++ or even C#). But did you know that it can be the other way around? That is, invoking VBScript code from, say, C#. Here is a simple exercise: 1) Write a text file with the WSC extension...

Click on the Play button there: http://www.geoffellis.com/ebay.html No comment, no spoiler...

You have the following false "equation", made with six toothpicks arranged on a table in the following way: XI = I You have to re-establish the equality by changing the position of a single toothpick. Common-sense rules apply: you are not allowed to bend...

AJAX seems to be the new "buzzword of the day". In short, AJAX stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript And XML", an acronym coined by Jesse Garrett recently. The basic idea is very nice - you can actually perform client-side programming directly in the DHTML...

A friend of mine who works in the Indigo team sent me a link to the latest documentation on Indigo: http://winfx.msdn.microsoft.com/library/ The how-to section on self-hosted services caught my attention. Now, it is possible to expose a secure Web service...

Multitasking is an easy call. All you have to do is to start a separate process using the start command. Unless you specify the /WAIT option (which would cause a syncrhonous execution) the START command will simply start the other process, and return...

An intriguing comment on Slashdot: Why would I pay 8.00 for a paperback I know I'll probably only read once and then stick on a shelf or on a pile, when I can probably borrow the book for free from the Library? Psychology is fascinating... Schopenhauer...

There is a growing general consensus that the virtual machine technology can help in making a system more secure. This is true both for consumer market and server market. Let's take Virtual PC for instance. First of all, you have the ability to run separate...