Microsoft is releasing a Java to C# converter to make it easy for Java developers to move their code to .NET.
Entries from January 2001
January 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
January 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
Declan McCullagh has a story explaining what happened to Microsoft’s Web sites this week. They were brought down by a DNS configuration error that they couldn’t figure out for nearly a day. I’m sure that many people are disappointed that they can’t blame (crackers | script kiddies | Network Solutions | Windows 2000 | [...]
January 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
Today, Salon runs some tales of dot com layoff woe. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that people who are incapable of running a business are also incapable of putting one out of its misery in a decent enough manner.
January 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Working to address the global shortage of IT workers, Cisco is educating thousands of people around the world in network engineering. This program is incredibly farsighted and a great example of how businesses can work to improve their own bottom line and also create positive global change if they’re creative.
January 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
Perhaps it’s Perl day here at rc3.org. I’m working on a Web application as a favor to someone, and I’m writing the whole thing in Perl, which is a nice change from the Java I’m writing at my day job. It’s nice to get myself back in a Perl frame of mind again. [...]
January 24th, 2001 · Comments Off
LWN interviews the incomparable Larry Wall. I try very hard to never miss a Larry Wall interview, although this one seemed a bit more by the numbers than most of them.
January 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
So, Atomz.com has introduced a hosted content management application that they’re trying to sell. The big news is that it includes a patent-pending templating system for building Web pages. When I read that, I nearly spewed water all over my keyboard. Templating systems for Web publishing have been done to death. Everybody [...]
January 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
Pair.com just upgraded the OS on rc3.org’s server from 2.2.x to 4.1.1. How exciting. The big news is I now get to read my mail in a recent version of Mutt, instead of the antiquated one I was running before. I must say that I’m incredibly impressed with the job Pair.com did [...]
January 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
The Slate 60: the 60 Americans who made the largest charitable contributions last year. Bill Gates once again leads by kicking in another 5 billion bucks to his foundation. Ted Bauer weighed in at number 8 on the list for his $40 million to my alma mater, the University of Houston (a.k.a. Harvard on [...]
January 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
Boy, the Dubya years are going to be even worse than I expected. Listening to the news in brief on NPR this morning on the way to work, I heard about several absolutely moronic and assinine policy changes that Bush is alrady proposing. From the State Department: harsher sanctions against Iraq (our brutal [...]