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A typedef is a keyword in both C and C++ used to introduce new names for existing types. A simple typedef declaration lets you define your own names that can be used in place of type specifiers such as int, float, and double. Surprisingly, some people
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Most peculiar mama (whoa).
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The December issue of the Harvard Business Review contains a compelling article on "Why You Shouldn't Go Global" ( excerpeted here for free ). While the article is worth reading, a sidebar in the article raises some excellent points which we might be
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SOA is about loosely coupled system integration . Sorry, I meant to say that SOA is about enabling loosely coupled business processes . On the other hand SOA is about reuse , except that its actually not about reuse . Hang on a minute, SOA is like event
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I recently completed work on an internal Silverlight app. The project was a blast – it really reminded me of how coding could be fun again . One of the surprising gaps I found in Sliverlight was the inability to get the current user context (e.g. determine
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Apparently Lucas is up to his old tricks again . How sad . I was hoping that Spielberg might diminish Lucas’ influence on the film . *sigh* I’ll probably go see it anyway. On the upside Iron Man was surprisingly good and Prince Caspian looks to be good
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The World Wide Telescope (WWT) is amazing - I can't wait to show my son. You can see a demo of it from TED here . I'm not sure when this will be available but I hope its soon. This is a great application of the
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I'm not really doing anything BPEL related these days but a post by Jesper Joergensen caught my eye. Since I'm not focused on BPEL I haven't kept up with some of the developments in the BPM-related blogosphere. Apparently Bruce wrote a post illustrating
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Dave Linthicum recently blogged about not attending SOA conferences because he is able to determine the core trends and messages they would be promoting. I've thought this about SOA books, reports, trade magazines and online articles for well over
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I'm building out a website using Silverlight. The more I learn about Silverlight the more I love it - I haven't had this much fun writing code in a long time. This is seriously addicting stuff . One of the things that frustrated me is that many of the
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Seen this yet? Take a walk or a drive around Seattle or San Francisco. Very cool.
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Seen this yet? Interesting to see it pop up on Yahoo News of all places. I had a feeling something like this was going to happen.
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There is a FileWatcher WF activity sample that ships with the Windows SDK . I initially thought this might be of value to me but when I tried to open the workflow I ran into the following error: “Theme properties can only be changed in the Theme Configuration
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Interesting story popped up on ComputerWorld today about the Microsoft offer to Yahoo. Here's what made it most interesting to me (emphasis mine): According to the Post, the discord revolves around Yang and his followers being so opposed to selling the
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Today the XML Editor team released the XSLT Profiler Addin for VS 2008 , a quick and reliable performance analysis profiler tool that assists in the development and debugging of XSLT documents. The XSLT Profiler allows developers to measure, evaluate,
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