I got this mail from my brother, thought it would be good to share it around. I'm sending this to all of my collegues because I think we all must put some attention to the root of the story. I have a friend living at Jubilee post ,Nugeogoda , few blocks away from where I stay. He has a Hardware shop by the side of Stanlythilakratne Mawatha,and...

I got this mail from my brother, thought it would be good to share it around. I'm sending this to all of my collegues because I think we all must put some attention to the root of the story. I have a friend living at Jubilee post ,Nugeogoda , few blocks away from where I stay. He has a Hardware shop by the side of Stanlythilakratne Mawatha,and...

What the heck were they thinking? MIT students come up with a urinal-based video game. http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html 

What the heck were they thinking? MIT students come up with a urinal-based video game. http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html 

http://www.xamlon.com/default.aspx Xamlon provides further proof (as if any were needed) that small companies can be more nimble than Microsoft. The comapny's eponymous product allows you to use XAML to create user interfaces today. Although it's still in beta, they're clearly well ahead of Microsoft just at the moment. A bit of background:...

http://www.xamlon.com/default.aspx Xamlon provides further proof (as if any were needed) that small companies can be more nimble than Microsoft. The comapny's eponymous product allows you to use XAML to create user interfaces today. Although it's still in beta, they're clearly well ahead of Microsoft just at the moment. A bit of background:...

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink,  I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think  about the workers in the brewery and all of their  hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they  might be out of work. Then their hopes and dreams  would be shattered.     ...

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink,  I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think  about the workers in the brewery and all of their  hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they  might be out of work. Then their hopes and dreams  would be shattered.     ...

I recently started looking into WiX as a replacement tool to create the install kit for NatLink and Vocola. It's not that I want to make life more difficult, but Visual Studio .Net setup projects don't support features. WiX of course does. The problem is that Visual Studio, by default, doesn't recognize .wxs files as XML. The fix...

I recently started looking into WiX as a replacement tool to create the install kit for NatLink and Vocola. It's not that I want to make life more difficult, but Visual Studio .Net setup projects don't support features. WiX of course does. The problem is that Visual Studio, by default, doesn't recognize .wxs files as XML. The fix...

Apple as usual always surprised everybody by their design. Very nice :-)  

Apple as usual always surprised everybody by their design. Very nice :-)  

For those who haven't gotten their hands on an Windows XPSP2 CD, new .NET Framework SP's are now available, for versions 1.0 and 1.1 (the first version of 2.0, or "Whidbey" is still yet to be released). Here are the links to Microsoft's download center, the related "Knowledge Base" links may not become active on the web for a couple...

For those who haven't gotten their hands on an Windows XPSP2 CD, new .NET Framework SP's are now available, for versions 1.0 and 1.1 (the first version of 2.0, or "Whidbey" is still yet to be released). Here are the links to Microsoft's download center, the related "Knowledge Base" links may not become active on the web for a couple...

This is absolutely fantastic news! A news release on Microsoft PressPass announces that Longhorn will be available in 2006 and get this Avalon and WinFX will be made available to Windows XP and Windows 2003 in 2006 along with the release on Longhorn. So what does this mean? Apps you write to make use of WinFX, WinFS and Avalon can run on all...