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It's today 30 years from the end of the Vietnam war. It's a war worth remembering, and on the net, you can find excellent historial descriptions. One of such sites is VietnamPix.com.
Peace.
As .NET Beta 2 rolls out as I write, there are more and more public details available on this new version of the framework.
MSDN has an excellent article about ASP.NET 2.0 internals, and to me, especially the following features are interesting:
Naturally, there are many more new and enhanced features, but the above sound the most interesting ones to me.
Details emerge on SQL Server 2005 as well. For web applications, I find the new "query governor cost limit" option useful.
With this option, it is possible to limit how much time an SQL query can take. So, if you write a foolish query with inner SELECT statements and many joins, the query won't be executed.
The MSDN article that talks about this query cost limiting is available here.
It's snowing outside, but luckily I got my hands on the VS.NET 2005 Beta 2 DVD today, sent to me by Microsoft Sweden.
Now that VMware Workstation 5.0 is co-incidentally out as well, I'm going to see if I have the time to start installing both products tomorrow. Installing a beta on my normal PC wouldn't be what I want -- I need to keep ASP.NET 1.1 working at the same time.
Oh, the public availability of Beta 2 seems to start next Monday (25th of April) in the EMEA region. Good stuff.
I just put online the newest set of photos, titled "Set 3: Home items".
If you are interested in regular (and not-so-regular) home items and the play of light, go check this set out. It has six pictures at present.
The forthcoming Visual Studio .NET 2005 contains Visual Studio Test System (VSTS), which allows developers and testers to use unit testing to improve the quality of their code.
Now, since I've lately found good use for unit tests for testing calculation modules, my views about unit testing have improved. It seems to me that modern development tools should have built-in support for unit testing (UT).
Borland's Delphi 2005 started the thing for .NET development environments, and the support of UT in Delphi allows for easy testing. However, the forthcoming Visual Studio seems to take the lead in this area over Delphi.
Based on the MSDN article, one can both generate UTs and also see the results with-in the IDE. This is very good.
Once I get my hands on the MSDN distribution DVDs, I will install the betas and check Visual Studio out.
A week ago, I got an e-mail from Microsoft: they have given me this year's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award! The award is in the area of "Visual Developer - Visual C#".
From the MVP web site: "The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Program recognizes and thanks outstanding members of technical communities for their community participation and willingness to help others. The program celebrates the most active community members from around the world who provide invaluable online and offline expertise that enriches the community experience and makes a difference in technical communities featuring Microsoft products."
Naturally, I'm very proud of this award, and would like to give my special thanks to at least Ismo, Sampo and Juhani from Microsoft Finland.
Part of the MVP award is a one-year subscription to MSDN Universal, which I'm waiting eagerly to arrive. :-)
My company arranged a three-day Delphi training spree this week, and it was our pleasure to have Brian Long for two days here in Helsinki for the first time.
The two masterclasses were excellent, and especially Thusday's debugging session was something I didn't want to miss. On Friday, I had my own ASP.NET & Delphi session.
We also took Brian to have a dinner on Wednesday, and it turned out that he liked salmiakkikoskenkorva, so we naturally gave him a whole bottle. Watch out, Brian! :-)
The April Fool's Day is a great day to start the biking season. This year, it was quite cold (only few degrees centigrade), but I had to get on the road nonetheless.
I only saw two bikes on my traditional Kaivopuisto tour, but I guess this weekend I'm sure to see more.
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