April 2004 - Posts

• Two great posts in a week for all the Microsoft haters out there...

  First, there was John Topley's post earlier in the week. I particularly enjoyed it as it was from a third party, disassociated with Microsoft and from a declared platform neutral guy. Then today, I read Chris Pratley's excellent post on Word. While Chris Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:03 PM by draper | 0 Comments

• For the Microsoft haters out there...

  John Topley has an excellent post on his blob regarding the pathology of Microsoft bashing. Read More... Posted Monday, April 26, 2004 10:24 PM by draper | 0 Comments

• 64-bit Compatibility Matrix

  Here's a very useful compatibility matrix of Microsoft product and their support for both Itanium and x64. What is x64 you ask? It is the “64-bit extensions“ technology pioneered by AMD which is in use in some of their Athlon products and Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:14 AM by draper | 1 Comments

• Smart Device Framework

  I learned about the Smart Device Framework project today. It looks quite interesting. A lot of this functionality will ship in Compact Framework 2.0, but this is available today. It supports things like working with the Registry and programmatically adding Read More... Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 5:40 PM by draper | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET

• Sony's new blue-violet laser

  Sony unveils its new “Blu-ray” laser . Say hello to 25GB per disc! The article claims 2 hours of hi-def video, but this has got to be using a really inefficient compression algorithm. It should be able to do MUCH more than that on 25 GB! Read More... Posted Friday, April 16, 2004 4:11 PM by draper | 3 Comments

• Great way of folding clothes!

  Wow, what an interesting way to fold clothes . Thanks Geeklife! Read More... Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:50 PM by draper | 0 Comments

• scalability != performance

  Harry Pierson raises the question, “ Is the middle tier dead .“ He goes on to say: “ Why do we distribute applications across multiple systems today? Is it because we like managing multiple systems? No! It's for scalability. We exploit Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 1:28 AM by draper | 4 Comments