Good article on Code Project on some of the advantages of using C++/CLI for .NET development. The interop performance numbers in particular are pretty remarkable. Let's not be coy about it: if you're writing software that requires significant native...

An interesting article called Attack of the Weasel Words caught my eye a couple of weeks ago. I didn't blog about it at the time, but it's been on my mind ever since. The gist of the article is that public language is being strangled by cliches, management...

SOA Pipeline has a nice article on C++ potentially beating J2EE in terms of utility for building SOA technology on top of legacy systems. Now that C++ SOA frameworks have generally reached the same level of developer productivity as those of...

As a quick follow up to my Ban the Bomb article, as Internet News reports , quarterly numbers revealed today by SANS indeed indicate that vulnerabilities are up across board on IE, FireFox/Mozilla, and Apple. Again, there is no safety in (lack of) numbers...

Funny stuff. Almost like MST3K for nerds... Okay, that's redundant, but anyway... http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/

There was some internal talk today over email on the relative merits of C++/CLI vs. C# for a particular project. Someone posted an interesting code snippet I thought I'd share that looks like this: int a = 0; int b = (a & (a = 1)); Ambiguity...

The Inquirer reports that at least one individual has devised an interesting solution to the problem of spyware: when the machine becomes infected, throw it away and buy a new one. The fact that it's almost reasonable that someone would go to this length...

Wil asks a good quesiton on the "C++ vs. C#" blog thread ... "To what extent will MS now support VC++ as a "real" .Net language, instead as just a tool for interop with legacy COM code? I note that the forthcoming Visual Studio 2005 Toolkit for...

Tom Zagotta brings up several good points in his comment . There are three ideas in particular that Tom brings up that I want to try to address: MS should be clear about the future of MFC. MS should provide better guidance on when to use MFC...

Victor Volkman of developer.com highlights some of the new MFC features in VC++ 2005 .

Developer.com posted the last in a five part series of articles on VC++ 2005 IDE features. End of the article contains a link to previous installment in case you missed it.

Not content to let sleeping blogs die, Nick roasts yours truly in a further attempt to show how deeply we Just Don't Get It. Man, this is, like, turning into one of those cool, 1990s era, east coast - west coast rapper wars. Except we're two nerdy software...

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about a Visual C++ Accelerator Lab event here in Redmond. If you'd like to get your hands on the slide deck for the presentations as well as enjoy one stop shopping for interesting VC++ 2005 resources, look no further ...

Robert Scoble just posted an interview with Steve Ballmer. I admit that I don't always have time to watch the typical in-depth (read: long) Channel 9 interviews, but this one is pretty short at about 10 minutes. I just watched it, and it's great to see...

As a part of last week's blog discussion on MS & OOP , my friend Bill Fisher sent me a pointer to this blog entry on the Delphi "implements" keyword. I think Bill sent this to me for a couple of reasons, firstly because the "interface implementation...