The Road to .Net EndCharting a course to a managed existenceHow old is your school- September 16, 2003 AW just sent me a copy of the 9th printing of Essential COM. Either AW is printing 25 copies per run or my API of the Day posts have driven up demand for old-school programming techniques.Don Box's Spoutlet I checked my copy - 3rd printing. It seems there's old school and older school. Bah.http://weblogs.asp.net/gharwood/archive/2003/09/16/27827.aspx .NET vs. Legacy - the uptake- September 16, 2003 Don is suprised, but Sam is mistakenGreg Reinacker's Weblog I don't doubt many folk are using .NET and that Web Services technology is taking off, but Sam's point echoes resoundingly here. The title of my blog suggested a story of adoption and as yet I've written very little because the majority of what I do involves legacy code. I'm sure many folk are in a similar situation. There is a mass of software out there in daily use that will not be replaced in the near term because it works and...http://weblogs.asp.net/gharwood/archive/2003/09/16/27825.aspx Another cool tool..- September 16, 2003 Jeff Key just rocks. Snippet Compiler is getting better every day. ScottW's ASP.NET WebLog Is this cool or what Prototyping a small chunk of code usually means throwing it in to what your doing in Visual Studio, creating a whole new project or crufting it up in emacs on the side. Now you can fire up a snippet compiler. Ideal when for introducing colleagues to .NET without them having to learn a new editor or have the full blown IDE. Thanks to Scott for pointing out this and Jeff Key for...http://weblogs.asp.net/gharwood/archive/2003/09/16/27824.aspx |