“Day after day since 1984, teams of programmers, linguists, theologians, mathematicians and philosophers have plugged away at a $60 million project they hope will transform human existence: teaching a computer common sense.”
“Built Software recently released the first beta of BoxDB for .NET, a library
designed to simplify database application development. BoxDB is an
abstraction layer that sits between your application and a SQL database. The
purpose is twofold: First, BoxDB eliminates the type of repetitive SQL
programming that you might otherwise cut & paste throughout your app.
Second, BoxDB creates a simpler interface for persisting application data to the database.”
“Microsoft is developing new security software it hopes will make Web services and its entire product lineup more appealing to big companies. The software maker will announce plans on Thursday for technology code-named TrustBridge that will allow businesses to authenticate user identities between companies and applications using Web services standards. ”
“It’s easy to put Visual Build Pro to work doing all that manual labor for you so you can focus on more important things. Visual Build Pro is a powerful but affordable build management solution that will automate the build process without a huge commitment of time, and it works with the tools you’re using today.”
“Regex culture has gone wrong in a variety of ways, but it’s not my intent to assign blame–there’s plenty of blame to go around, and plenty of things that have gone wrong that are nobody’s fault in particular. …
“Given all this, I need to warn you that this Apocalypse is going to be somewhat radical. We’ll be proposing changes to certain ‘sacred’ features of regex culture, and this is guaranteed to result in future shock for some of our more conservative citizens. Do not be alarmed.”
Eric Eric Friedman has submitted code to support namespaces and uninstall. The former fills the biggest hole in XsdClassesGen (thanks Eric), but why would anyone need the latter?!? : )
“Christopher Sell’s restaurateur credentials are solid: He was trained as a French chef, managed a chain of London sushi restaurants and has been in the food industry for over 20 years.”
