Lance's Whiteboard

After months of developing reports with the various Beta's, its nice to finally see the official product launch.

Those of us coming from a background in ASP and Visual Basic have been hamstrung a bit with the .NET Framework because most of us don't have much experience with the Win32 API, and therefore didnt understand what functions each class or namespace was wrapping within the OS. Its one of the reasons I believe that many C++ programmers (esp. MFC) have seemed to have a leg-up on the rest of us.

This SlashDot article "Parens on Patents" really struck a chord with me, and brought back alot of anger I have repressed for some time.  (yes, I am seeking professional help now  :p )

If this article is true its time to get religion and prepare for the final days before the apocolypse, because there can be no other explanation for the headline “Sun machines to run Windows”!!!

Many of us have heard the occasional rumors and comments about Microsoft working on a new XML-based programming language.

Lastnight while working on some new RSS-related projects, I created a simple app to Export your entire list of IE Favorites to OPML (XML).

I just posted an update to the utility to fix a bug that left the /bin folder empty after a build. 

Have you ever wanted to build a project or solution without opening up Visual Studio.NET?