I’ve always had a soft spot for scripting. I know there is this stigma attached to shell and command scripting that reeks of ‘fake programming’ but honestly, I think ‘real’ programmer types can appreciate the benefits of being able to automate just about anything with a few relatively simple key strokes. I was [...]

.Net remoting is officially discouraged now, right? So, we’re all supposed to just quit that and go to web services because they are the standard. Who cares about ‘performance’ and ‘TCP channels’, because we’re trying to write services that inter-operate with the world… So, why does Microsoft still use TCP/proprietary remoting to connect to [...]

If any of you wound up here from DevX please do let me know what you think. I apologize up front for the silly captcha thing on the comment box, but I was getting so much spam, and moderation was not coming in moderation… if you know what I mean. So, please try [...]

So, Windows Vista is in RTM. I’ve been sort-of working on it now for a little over a week. I’m starting to get a feel for what it’s about.. and some of it I don’t like.
When you are learning to drive a car in a new place, you have to [...]

Just how fast does a blog-o-meme spread? Find out for yourself! It’s all in the name of not-so-hard science.