Jesse Ezell Blog.NET and Other Interesting StuffHard Code- January 31, 2008 "The trouble is that qaulity and value are wrapped in perception. Even if we built a product that precisely matched the spec with zero bugs, customers and reviewers might still hate it. If it doesn't work the way they think it should, it's junk. If it doesn't solve the problem the way they expect, it's trash. At the same time, I-Puke can produce a buggy piece of glorified plastic that crashes twice a day, and it will get showered with praise and command premium pricing just because it...http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/01/30/hard-code.aspx Silverlight Supercomputer- January 28, 2008 Dan Fay pointed to an interesting article on CodeProject about building a grid computing framework that runs on Silverlight. The proposition is really interesting. Imagine someone like the folding at home (http:folding.stanford.edu) project providing and embeddable Silverlight widget that people can place on their sites to help speed genetic research... or how about a little widget on your page that takes some of the load off of your server to help offset high traffic...http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/01/28/silverlight-supercomputer.aspx .NET Clipboard Problems Under VirtualPC- January 25, 2008 When performing Clipboard operations (SetDataObject, SetImage, etc.) in a .NET program under VPC, you may encounter the error "Requested clipboard operation did not succeed." This error turns out to be a major pain if you are doing dev. in a VPC like mine, because 99% of your calls will fail. Every once and a while, you'll get lucky and one will go through (it seems to work if you go to another application, cut some text, paste that text, then come back and use the clipboard in your .NET app)...http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/01/24/net-clipboard-problems-under-virtualpc.as... Sun Buys MySQL, Gets into Database Business- January 16, 2008 With their plans to acquire MySQL, looks like Sun is gearing up to go head to head with Microsoft on another front. 1 http:blogs.mysql.comkaj20080116sun-acquires-mysqlhttp://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2008/01/16/sun-buys-mysql-gets-into-database-busines... |