Thursday, March 25, 2004 - Posts

posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:19 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview March 2004

For those with MSDN subscriber downloads it looks like there's an updated version of VS.NET (from VSLive) posted on the 24th March.   http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads/default.asp Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:16 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Assertions

  One of my real bug-bears when writing commercial code is around assertions. I love assertions and am probably over-liberal in their use if I'm trying to write code that I would actually ship to someone and expect them to pay for.   Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:09 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Asus and a Wirless Harddrive

  Another register story here saying that Asus has a WiFi harddrive in the making. I'm not quite sure I get this. Today, I carry around a 20GB hard drive that operates over USB2.0 and when I need to get some extra storage or transfer Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:05 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Sony and Electronic-Book

Interesting story over on The Register on Sony's "electronic book". It sounds as though it's a single-function device devoting to "e-reading" from the article. Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:03 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

TabletPC preview?

Some info over on TabletPCBuzz.com about what I would call the "Early Adopter" preview of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and its inclusion of the updated edition of the Tablet PC operating system.   Take care which devices you install the Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:54 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Brain.Reload()

  So, I guess it's a bad sign of your age when you can't remember whether you've blogged something before or not and I guess it's a sad indictment of your character when you can't be bothered to check ;-)   I saw a digital camera in Read More
posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:50 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

SOAP and denial-of-service attack

I thought this posting from Sun was interesting as it highlights how sending SOAP envelopes over HTTP to a server can result in a security problem. I'm a huge fan of SOAP and web services in general but I think that there's a general misconception Read More