SBC DotNet Weblog

Sam has a wonderful little posting about taking his son Jonathan to work (at Adesso) and him writing his first distributed application! Adesso should consider using 6-1/2 year-old Jonathan as a model!

The long awaited Groove v3 comes out very soon - this is a different beast than prior versions. Not only in UI but very considerable improvements in performance. Peter O'Kelly, an analyst with research firm Burton Group calls it "This is the deepest security you're going to find in a commercially available product--period".

I am developing with the SQL2K Reporting Services and MSFT's recently acquired, ActiveViews, has me more interested in this SQL Server reporting capability. Does anyone know if ActiveViews has a web service interface? (see illustration in prior post).

Roy makes MVP! A very well deserved accolade. I recall encountering Roy well over a year ago and his 'Regulator' Regular Expression tool has helped me out a lot (I did attempt to document it via the Regulator Wiki and perform some beta testing). Roy also sponsors some interesting “contests“ - the Desktop Screen and the recent VS.NET Add-in. He's a great asset to the .NET community. Congrats Roy!

I use a W2K3 Server as a desktop (upgrading from WinXP). It's far more stable and in addition, has IIS6 and WSS built-in. Feed it more memory (>1gb) and it'll do more wonders. Kevin Moore had a posting about using W2K3 as a desktop and there's a site ('msfn.org') that's also a source of info on this topic.