Martin Spedding's BlogAdventures in a disconnected worldDon't write off rich client apps, or why a J2EE application was rewritten- June 28, 2004 Recently I had discussion with a friend about a project he was working on. He said he was converting a J2EE application to a .Net application. Naturally my first question was why I was glad to hear that someone was doing commercial .Net development but I was curious what the ROI would possibly be. If you have already written an application and it works why rewrite it The answer was interesting. The reason they had gone with J2EE was that they thought they wanted to have a thin client and.http://weblogs.asp.net/mspedding/archive/2004/06/28/168119.aspx A question of trust- June 24, 2004 I was speaking with one of my collegues today about XP SP2 and he noticed the security centre and said that he expected that eventually MS will come out with their own anti virus software. He then said,: "Even though I am an MSCE, I would not trust MS and I would still install 3rd party anti virus software." I thought this was an interesting point of view because when you think about it the anti virus software companies have a vested interest that there are lots of viruses, as the more virues.http://weblogs.asp.net/mspedding/archive/2004/06/24/164591.aspx How many months are there in a year- June 10, 2004 Silly question, but interesting if you are writing a program and you want to return the months based on the culture of the user.Instead of having to hand code all the month names all you have to do is write the following piece of code:string _monthNames = System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.MonthNames;so question is what is the length of _monthNames You would expect 12 as there are normally 12 months in the year, but you would be wrong it is 13 !!_monthNames12 returns a...http://weblogs.asp.net/mspedding/archive/2004/06/10/152874.aspx Do people understand Indigo- June 2, 2004 Why is Indigo such a hard sell to a lot of people If you go to a set of presentations on Longhorn, people want to see the stuff about Avalon and Winfs but Indigo seems to a bit too theoretical for people and they are not sure why they would need it. Of course if you look at the very small proportion of the developer community who visit the PDC then they will soak it all up and say great that is what I need. Try and talk about it to a more general audience and you will get a bemused look. I...http://weblogs.asp.net/mspedding/archive/2004/06/02/147047.aspx |