Scoble is right about MSN Found, but partly for the wrong reasons- February 25, 2005 Scoble got very upset about a bad marketing site one of Microsoft's product teams created. He won't say which one it was but it is obviously http:www.msnfound.com. Don't bother clicking the link and visiting the site - I am friends with more space aliens than people who could conceivably find something of value there. His basic objection to the site is that it doesn't do anything for the user, and he uses their lack of RSS feeds as an example of this. He is right about this...http://weblogs.asp.net/acampbell/archive/2005/02/25/380105.aspx Evil Visual Studio .Net "feature"- February 10, 2005 Try copying and pasting the following text into an ASP.Net page using Visual Studio. <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" id="ControlsPlaceHolder" > Then save and reload your page. You'll get a compile error because PlaceHolder doesn't have a property called Name nor does it implement IAttributeAccessor. This is possibly the most frustrating bug I've ever seen named as a feature. Visual Studio is actively going around breaking my code. I had a quick look around Google groups, and...http://weblogs.asp.net/acampbell/archive/2005/02/10/370330.aspx 'A truck the size of Sun's Java runtime environment'- February 5, 2005 Interesting article on ZDNet about Java creator James Gosling critising Microsoft's decision to support C and C++ in the .Net Common Language Runtime. He says some really stupid things, like describing the decision as one of the "biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made." This is clearly just hand-waving "look at me" behavior. And obviously he isn't aware of the Whidbey Secure CRT. My favorite part of the whole debate was a comment I saw on the Slashdot article: A.http://weblogs.asp.net/acampbell/archive/2005/02/05/367557.aspx |