Here. From Razvan Caciula: The technology behind Google in mp3 audio and 15 minute Q&A session with Jim Reese, Google's Chief Operations Engineer.

Here. From Razvan Caciula: "This product also feature full support for new and emerging Web Services, integrated model driven development, and preview capabilities for the Microsoft.NET Framework. Delphi 7 supports a first true model driven architecture with new UML solutions bundled in, updated cross-platform testing capabilities and Linux support with KylixTM 3."

Here. A conversation I had with my eight-year-old son yesterday.

Here. The Mindreef SOAP diagnostic tool (codename: Tide) is now available for beta testing! Mindreef develops a Web services diagnostic system that provides value through the entire software development life cycle of SOAP-based solutions. Our initial product, code-named Tide, collects information about SOAP transactions by monitoring communications between SOAP endpoints. It uses the information to provide visibility and insight into Web services communications through features such as logging, debugging, and reporting. We are currently accepting beta testers. If you're interested in being part of our program, fill out the Beta Tester Questionnaire.

SP1, as far as I can tell, introduced a bug wherein applications that had specific code groups granting them permissions with a membership determined by a strong key could not run when launched via the href-exe/moble code technique. Keith Brown did some spelunking and determined that ieexec.exe (the hosting process for such an app) would (mistakenly?) require that code from the site as a whole had at least Execution permissions before taking any of the other permissions for the specific assembly into account. The upshot is that to let wahoo.exe run on a .NET SP1+ box, you had to have two code groups, one that gave Internet permissions or greater to assemblies w/ a strong name and one that awarded at least Execution permission to all assemblies from sellsbrothers.com. I've updated the Wahoo! site w/ an MSI that creates both of these code groups along with the full source so that you can do the same for your own assemblies. Enjoy!

Yesterday my eight-year-old and I had the following conversation:

John: “Dad, do you know a lot about computers?”
Dad: “I know my share.”

John: “But do you really know a lot?”
Dad: “I know pretty much.”

John: “What buttons to you press to make that come up (pointing to the Start button)?”
Dad: “Ctrl+Esc”

John: “And how to you make it do Run?”
Dad: “Ctrl+Esc+R”

John: “Cool.”

Cool indeed. : )

Here. I plan on holding forth on smaller .NET programming topics in this bi-monthly newsletter.

Here. From Razvan Caciula: "Specifically, Microsoft announced that beginning tomorrow it will offer for a fee licenses of 113 communications protocols used to interoperate between servers and Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional. In addition, on Aug. 28 Microsoft will release for free to developers 272 application programming interfaces used by the company's middleware products, such as its instant messaging, media player and e-mail client."