From The DepthsMatt Thalman's BlogThe Good and The Bad of Dogfood- August 26, 2004 When first becoming a Microsoft employee, I was excited to get to see and use many of our products before they were released to the public. Most people love to be the one of the first at trying out brand new software. After a while, the novelty wore off, however. When using pre-beta daily build versions of software like Visual Studio and Longhorn, you will see the not-so-pretty defects of incomplete code. Of course, this is expected and, with each new build, things get a.http://blogs.msdn.com/mthalman/archive/2004/08/26/221096.aspx Distinguishing Compositions and Associations- August 20, 2004 For all the application developers out there, this is a request for comments. In business apps there are generally two types of relationships: compositions and associations. Compositions are tightly-coupled relationships where the composition's lifetime is tied to its parent. Associations are loosely-coupled reference relationships. In designing a prescriptive framework such as the Microsoft Business Framework, it may be beneficial to the application developer to...http://blogs.msdn.com/mthalman/archive/2004/08/20/217895.aspx Search Engine Game Show- August 10, 2004 Sometimes it's crazy the things you think of when you wake up in the middle of the night. Last night was one of those nights. About 3am, I woke up, and then... Search Engine Game Show. What an idea! Have a trivia game show where the contestants have a computer with an Internet connection. They're allowed to use the Internet to answer the question. Whoever can answer the question first, wins that question. This lets you have extremely obscure questions...http://blogs.msdn.com/mthalman/archive/2004/08/10/211871.aspx |