Saturday, October 05, 2002
No reason to install .NET
It may not go back to preaching COM, but given MS history it is entirely possible that they will "move forward" to the .NEXT big thing. .NET is waiting for a big client side application - otherwise there really is no point in installing it (98...2K). [Pete Cole]
Here is a list of .NET applications that I use on a regular basis:
- NUnit
- NDoc
- RegexDesigner.NET
- VS.NET
- Aggie
Only Aggie could be counted as an "end user" application. And that is probably pushing it at this point.
But Microsoft is winning the hearts and minds of developers. That has to happen before we see any applications that end users care about.
P.S. I don't use a single client-side Java application.
10:28:07 PM
Patrick Steele is moving too
Here's a small utility I wrote to read in Radio's archive of posts into an easy to use, enumerable .NET collection. If I've got time this weekend, I'll clean up the other code that puts all of this directly into Moveable Type's MySQL database and resolves all internal links to your Radio log to your new Moveable Type log (if your URL isn't changing, this might not be an issue). [Wrinkled Paper]
BlogOmania is hosting my new site so I don't have direct access to my database. I suppose I could've hacked something together using Perl or PHP but I didn't want to spend that much time on it.
I didn't update my links because I will still have this site available for my Radio archives. And besides, only a few of my posts point to my own site. I'll probably update all of those manually.
P.S. Patrick, this link is broken.
10:13:48 PM
