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Kapor Quits Groove
"Mitch Kapor has left Groove Networks, and according to friends cited in the New York Times, it's because of his concern about the company's role in the fast-developing surveillance infrastructure.
Groove was an early beneficiary of Panopticon Pork. The peer-to-peer company, founded by Lotus Notes inventor Ray Ozzie, has been working with DARPA's Total Information Awareness Office, which develops research projects principally designed to mine information on US citizens." -
Convert HTML -> PDF
"In my case I just want to transform some XML with XSLT and save the HTML output as PDF. That's just about three methods.
Are there any smart people out there with such an app laying around?" -
Code Quality
"I hate the fact that I have to produce a report of lines of code. I totally agree that I should be judged on the quality of code that is produced and not how many lines it took. In fact I've gone as far as intentionally written more lines to solve a problem when I knew it would take less. My boss tells me that it was the best code I've ever written??!? Because it was 200 lines as opposed to 20. WTF?!"
[Jason Tucker] -
DBC
"Is anyone employing XC# and/or formal DBC methods in their work?"
[Chad Osgood] -
Outlook 2003
Outlook 2003 is great! For one, it automatically connects over http to our Exchange server w/o any problems (bye, bye VPN). Didn't even have to set up anything, it automatically determined everything from the server name when I was adding the account. Additionally, the UI is a ton more responsive and there are a ton of really slick new features (like notifications that let you preview the text of incoming messages and preform actions on them w/o opening Outlook...very nice to be able to delete spam right away). Definately worth the upgrade.
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What the hell?
"Please re-enter your Password. It must be between 8 and 10 characters and contain at least 2 numbers. Please do not use characters such as @#$%&()!,."
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I Should Be Sleeping
"Architect Webcast: XML in Word 11
Previously Live Event:
This event was previously held live on March 6, 2003 . The recording of this event is 94 mins/secs long and 16272 KB in size. -
Office 2003 Beta
Downloaded / Installed my Office 2003 Beta tonight... very slick stuff. If you are planning on doing the same, the current Office Pro ISO seems to be missing an MSI (PROPLUS.MSI), but if you just click cancel instead of hunting around for it when it asks where it is, the setup will finish out with no problems.
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C# Refactory
"A coworker introduced me to the concept of "refactoring tools" lastnight by showing me the C# Refactory tool at Xtreme-Simplicity.net....
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Design Patterns
"If you restrict "design patterns" to GoF design patterns, some languages do provide support, you just have to look at the right lanugages. There was a discussion on this going around about a month ago, John Wiseman aggregated the links. When you think about it, C# actually implements a lot of design patterns for you, they're just generally too low level to conciously acknowlege. Aren't concepts like "scope" and "polymorphism" design patterns?"