In case you haven't seen it yet, we have a date for Longhorn ! News.com's coverage even includes an interview with Bill Gates . As expected, the company on Friday announced a new road map for Longhorn, its revision to Windows XP. The changes--removing...

I heard about the launch of an Australian MapPoint service a couple of weeks ago, but I hadn't played with it until now. I was just using the US MapPoint to pinpoint my friend, Kamil, in New York and I was amazed at its speed and ease of use. The zooming...

Last night we had the monthly MDNUG meeting at Microsoft's offices in Melbourne. Thank-you everyone for an excellent meeting. A special thank-you to Jill Martindale for hosting the meeting, Brett for his impromptu talk on TechEd 2004, Todd Mitchell for...

That was the question that I got asked about a month ago. My response was "something in the middle". I like Dependency Injection . It facilitates testing, it facilitates change, and it facilitates clean design. I have been thinking about container assisted...

Ted Neward made an interesting post on TheServerSide.Net about .Net and open source: What makes a good open-source project? I posted a response and I thought I'd put it here so I could refer back to it later: Nice post. Those points make alot of sense...