Alex Hoffman
Perspective on development, management and technology
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Why Code Separation in .NET 2.0?
While Amanda Silver of Microsoft demonstrates code separation through partial types in a clip on Channel 9, I remain convinced that this is solely of use to those creating development tools and frameworks.
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PostXING Your Weblog
Chris Frazier has released a free weblog editing tool - PostXING - supporting the Metaweblog API. It's become my preferred application for creating and editing blog entries. Thanks Chris.
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Updated: MS Longhorn Release Dates
Updated 23-Jul-06: This topic is now out of date.
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What is the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture?
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing organizations and those seeking to facilitate systems within them is complexity. And that complexity has two facets:- content and process.
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Update: displaying the Gmail ATOM feed in your Web Browser
Update: you can download the script here and the script engine here. If your Gmail account name contains a 'dot', you should use the /a command line switch e.g. axscript /a:myaccount,mypassword gmail.csx
Transforming the Atom feed XML returned from Gmail to HTML and displaying the result in your web browser - makes the previous example somewhat more useful. -
Getting Unread Gmail as an Atom Feed in VB.NET
Gmail currently provides a list of unread emails in a subscriber's inbox as an Atom feed. While that may change in the future, the following Alintex Script code will retrieve and print the returned XML given a username and password.
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MSH vs IronPython
[See here for my original introduction to MSH]
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Quote of the Week
You know what I want for Christmas? Markup Barbie. You pull a string and she says "XML is tough".
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The Old Boys Club
Pascal is saying out loud what many in the community are thinking ...
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Update: Why Don't Most Windows Systems Have .NET Installed?
Perhaps Microsoft really does see .NET as only a web (and mobile) technology.