I've been doing a lot of coding lately. This has been a bit of a departure
from my usual work as a technology evangelist or a development manager, but -
as you might imagine - it has been quite a lot of fun! Having said this, the
process of actually sitting down and coding for 12 hours a day over the past
few months has left me wishing that Visual Studio .NET shipped with a handful
of additional capabilities in the box.
Track Changes
If you've ever written a book - or even an article - you have probably
encountered the "track changes" feature of Microsoft Word. By turning on
change tracking, every modification that is made to a document is recorded
and a history of changes is kept. This may sound a lot like source control
and, in fact, it is.
There are two important differences. The first is that, whereas source
control specializes in storing multiple historical ver... (more)
SYS-CON Radio interviews Simon Guest, Program Manager for .NET Enterprise
Architecture team of Microsoft about .NET and J2EE Interoperability.
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SYS-CON Radio interviews Billy Hollis, Author/consultant of Elysian Group
about distributed smart client architectures, and how they are preferred over
browser-based systems for many scenarios.
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SYS-CON Radio interviews Tim Landgrave, President of eAdvantage, Inc.
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(September 23, 2002) - InterSystems Corporation has recently announced the
launch of version 5 of their object-oriented database system, CACHÉ. This
database is considered to be faster than either Oracle or SQL Server and is
the leading database within the healthcare industry. It is most often used
"behind the scenes" by ISVs as a licensed part of their own software's
infrastructure.
Points of interest to .NET developers:
1) CACHÉ has its own language and IDE for creating stored procedures within
the database. However, the language is very similar to Visual Basic 6 and the
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Derek Ferguson, founding editor and editor-in-chief of .Net Developer's Journal, is a noted technology expert and former Microsoft MVP.
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