A few months ago Alex Miller pointed me to this Delphi doom article (the site appears to be down at the moment), which reminded me to post about the same topic. Here goes.
Delphi shipped in 1995, and its demise has been declared frequently since 1997 or so. In a sense this demise is true, yet […]
Joel seems to “play it safe” … then goes off the deep end of irony in his final paragraph:
“FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5. Wasabi is a private, in-house language […]
I just read today (wow, where have I been?) about the issue with Win32 binaries under the (delayed) Vista version of Windows - most notably, that Win32 binaries will need to be signed, otherwise they will provide a, er, “downlevel” user experience. A proposed workaround is to code to another runtime environment (.NET, Java, […]
According to this article from Richard Grimes, it appears that .NET has not gained as much traction inside Microsoft as anticipated:
http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vistaAndDotnet.htm
“My conclusion is that Microsoft has lost its confidence in .NET. They implement very little of their own code using .NET. The framework is provided as part of the operating system, but this […]
At the October and November 2003 St. Louis Wireless SIG, I introduced the .NET Compact Framework, then discussed some lessons I learned in developing an application with it.
Download the notes here in PDF format
Notes in plain text are available:
http://kylecordes.com/net-compact-framework-development/
At the September 2003 Gateway JUG, I gave a talk on the similarities and differences between Java/J2EE and .NET.
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