The W32.Novarg worm [http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html] ?(aka MyDoom [http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114461,00.asp])?is creating?havoc, breaking records for new infections. Update your anti-virus definitions. The Worm has spread to 1 in 12 e-mail…
* Open Source Testing [http://www.opensourcetesting.org/] is a compendium of 138 open source testing tools, including unit testing, feature testing, performance testing, bug tracking, the whole gamut. If you’re considering building some testing infrastructure, you should spend some time looking around here first. [via Ned Batchelder [http://www.…
* SQL Server Yukon seems to be the highlight in MSDN Mag (Feb 2004 issue)?with articles on?Yukon Basics [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/02/YukonBasics/default.aspx], XML in Yukon [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/02/XMLinYukon/default.aspx], T-SQL in Yukon [http://msdn.microsoft.…
The Republic Day [http://server1.msn.co.in/sp04/Republicday/] (Mon, 26th Jan) is near while the odd rains in and around New Delhi will hopefully not confine people indoors?during this long weekend. To me, the most amazing sight in the city this time of the year is the…
Rory Blyth [http://www.neopoleon.com/] is interviewed this week at .NET Rocks! [http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks/] Rory?talks about the .NET community and the Open Source Software (OSS) community, writing, blogging, driving to the PDC from Las Vegas, Longhorn, and lots of other great stuff.…
The Middleware Company [http://www.middleware-company.com/], a training/consulting company, conducted an experiment comparing J2EE and .NET performance. This whitepaper details those results. Free download – J2EE verses .NET performance comparison [http://www.middleware-company.com/j2eedotnetbench/report.shtml].…
Worst Technology of 2003 [http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,558787,00.html] – Paperless Voting Best Technology of 2003 [http://www.fortune.com/fortune/peterlewis/0,15704,558783,00.html] – The Camera Phone 10 Technologies to watch in 2004 [http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/…
Amazon.com’s feature for searching within books, introduced in October, now has competition. Google, the leading search engine, is testing a similar, unnamed service, introduced about two weeks ago with no publicity. When used with regular Google searches, the feature returns links to passages within books. It can also…