LOL ;-))) Microsoft's interoperability efforts got a credibility boost when the latest version of Services for Unix earned a nomination for best integration solution at a major Linux show. SFU 3.5, released on Thursday, is a finalist for the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards in the category of Best Integration Solution. Microsoft's competition...

It seems today that a good bunch of good guys have been awarded MVP by Microsoft. Only one word Coool ;-) And another one congrats to all  

If someone told me few years ago I could done this with Cobol, I will have a laugh ;-)  

Helper class that generates and registers a client side script which sets focus to a control during the loading of the page.  By McGiv (like McGiver ? ;-))  

RonVecchi posted on CodeProject a nice control to add a flash movie. Cool !  

Like me you don't know what to offer to your beloved wife for Valentine's day. This is an idea, and yes you surely be able to eat the chocolates not the mobile ;-) Maybe Nokia knows something we don't about what the ladies really want for Valentine's Day, but in Japan they're selling a special box of chocolates that includes a Nokia phone (either...

This title is there to reflect the hell I live when you push the boundaries of event management, web and a little bit of client-side scripting.I will launch in few days a new website about science in Irish schools for Secondary pupils, ScienceUnleashed.Check yourself if you want to have a look, but be aware the site is still in debugging mode, and...

I posted few days ago about this nice tool Blogjet. Dmitry Chestnykh after I asked him for some modifications has finally be able to make Blogjet working with .Text.So now you can use it for your .Text blog and the categories have also been fixed.BlogJet 1.0.0.11 Release Notes January 19, 2004 FEATURES * "BlogJet This!" button for...

Just be notified by MyIE that a new update is ready 0.9.13.If you don't know what is MyIE, well it's Internet Explorer boosted ! What's new ? Browse tabs when holding right mouse and scrolling. Better browse tab support when pressing Ctrl+Tab. Option to select Microsoft's java vm or other vm at MyIE2 Options->Advanced . New plugin command...

I like all the conspiracy stories. It's usually good fun.Now Jim is coming up with his explanation on the recent algorithms changes Google made on their search engine.A combination of patent issues IPO and shareholders.Good theory, well documented, surely could be a great plot for a movie (well not so sure about this one ;-).

Christophe Lauer asked me more details about the web services access for any Unix application using WSFU 3.5.I still can't find any other info than the one published by MS Pass. ".... and the ability to extend UNIX-based applications in a Microsoft® .NET Web Services environment ..."Someone from Microsoft to clarify this ?  

Many times in 2003 we heard about X# the next generation language combining XML and OOP.We heard also that Microsoft abandoned the project. A internal video showing a presentation of X# has nbeen released and promptly asked by MS to be removed.Now Microsoft Watch come with some news about Xen a new language MS Research works...

Scott Galloway posted this and I think it's great news : This comment to my moan about this is VERY cool: I think I've solved your problem! I've successfully developed a Mozilla wrapper for Microsoft's HTC files. It is encapsulated in a single XBL binding, so is exremely portable. The binding is small (4k) and contains compressed JavaScript...

We have now a good bunch of aggregators to monitor our favourites feeds.But what's about websites. I tested this afternoon an excellent shareware call Website Watcher.And it does exactly what it say on the tin.You can bookmark all your websites urls, news sites, blogs, etc... You click the update button one time.After that you can specify an...

OK it's not .Net but just a bit of blues to see all this old machines on the web.Fun also to see that you can still find bits and parts for almost any kind of computer ancestor.I got the blues to see this picture. Surely a collector now. It was my first attemopt at computing.Remember the Kim ;-)