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Monday, August 30, 2004 4:16 PM

Longhorn: We have a date!

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
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Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:47 PM

Mappoint: Do you know where you are?

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
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:39 PM

MDNUG: Melbourne MS Developer Group - Meeting Review - 24 August 2004

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
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Thursday, August 19, 2004 2:23 AM

Dependency Injection: World changing concept or nothing special?

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
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:48 PM

What makes a good open-source project?

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
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