Caching Architecture Guide pdf download. This guide provides information for architects and developers who are implementing caching mechanisms in their distributed .NET applications. It covers caching for different types of applications, best practices of technologies to use, and code samples to help you implement a caching system. [Microsoft Download Center]

ECMAScript gets XML. Better known by its original name of JavaScript, ECMAScript will soon be gaining XML extensions, according to a  press release today from ECMA International, ... [Loosely Coupled weblog]

If this comes to pass in MS JScript its very useful/important for environments such as Zeepe.

InfoPath 2003, a tool for gathering XML data (see "Ten things to know about Xdocs"). Now that I've had a chance to work with InfoPath, its role and value are becoming clearer. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio]

Regarding the XHTML editor, Jean confirms that it is, indeed, derived from the DHTML editor

How interesting.

'Regret' over Blair execution comment. A government minister expresses regret over any hurt caused by the prime minister's claim that two British soldiers were executed. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]

In particular he expressed outrage that pictures of the bodies were paraded on an Arab news channel... "It is yet one more flagrant breach of all the proper conventions of war. ..."

Interesting wording proper conventions, after seeing/reading about US/UK claims that broadcast of pictures of prisoners in particular ways was against the Geneva Convention a chum went and read said Convention (the wonders of the Internet) and can't find the clause that says anything particular about this. Anyone able to help? (whose got a few hours to spare!) - but my guess is it is down to interpretation of some phrase such as "should be treated properly".

Asked why he had referred to their deaths as executions, Mr Blair said it was "because of the circumstances we know".

Presumably, if he told us what he knew, he'd have to kill us.

So, I have been waiting with great anticpation DM'er Fritz Onion's book as he is one of the crown princes of ASP.NET and I must say that Essential ASP.NET With Examples in C# just absolutely rocks! Right down into the architecture in Chapter 1, Bing! HTTP Pipeline in Chapter 4, Valifation, Data Binding, Custom Controls, etc. In other words, the real stuff. This is the one ASP.NET book to rule them all! Excuse my enthusiasm,[Sam Gentile's Blog]

Well its about time I bought a new book.

If people are interested in Web applications, they migh consider Runtime Revolution [runrev.com], a cheap ($300) cross-platform (Mac, Win, Linux, etc.) alternative with native support for sockets and other amazing tools, including multimedia support, that really allow you to accomplish what needs to be done.

Apparently, not checked out.

How to price (server) software - Thoughts from Tim Bray.

Macromedia frees Flash from the browser. Macromedia hopes to make its animation player a "first-class citizen" on PCs with a new addition that allows the software to operate outside a Web browser. [CNET News.com]

Along with providing the client software--a free addition to the free Flash player--Macromedia plans to sell a wealth of downloadable Flash applications created by third-party developers. Macromedia will take 20 percent of any software sales, with the rest going to developers

And yet another way of doing things, cross-platform, small(ish), but what I don't get is how it is tied into Central:

Macromedia Central will create an environment where Flash applications can run independent of the browser.

Great Feedster results. Searching for URLs in Feedster and subscribing to it works great! I'm subscribed to the results for “http://w3future.com”, and there are more results than in the referrer statistics. Some blogs don't generate referrers because they are low traffic, and/or they repost my whole post so there's no reason to go to this site.[Sjoerd Visscher's weblog]

Hmmm, searching for "http://w3future.com" and "http://www.profundis.co.uk" seems to give the same result set, and especially for me a darned silly result set of over 42000 matches. I don't think so! It would seem such a search looks for "profundis" or "co" or "uk" - or something like that.

And the rss returned by feedster won't display in IE - or maybe its an error in one of the feeds that makes up the result set.

 

Useful Methods in C#.

Came across this little nugget today:

http://www.aspalliance.com/olson/articles/Util.aspx

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