Developing World-Ready Applications

Developing World-Ready Applications [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpcondesigningglobalapplications.asp] . > When developing world-ready applications, you must focus attention on a variety of issues throughout the application design and development process. The three key issues are globalization, localizability, and localization.…

J2EE vs .NET Web Services

The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET – A comparison of building XML-based web services [http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=J2EE-vs-DOTNET] is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.…

J2EE vs .NET Web Services

The whitepaper J2EE vs. Microsoft.NET – A comparison of building XML-based web services [http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=J2EE-vs-DOTNET] is now online at TSS. The conclusions seem quite interesting, which also talk about the arguments for, against and supporting both platforms.…

Internet Communications Engine (Ice)

The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) [http://www.zeroc.com] is an alternative to object oriented middleware such as CORBA or COM/DCOM/COM+. The latest release includes a new native implementation of Ice in C#, supported for both .NET and Mono (announcement [http://www.zeroc.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=…

Ten Must-Have .NET Tools

Ten Must-Have .NET Tools [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/04/07/musthavetools/default.aspx] , recommended by Microsoft.…

Oracle's comparison of PHP and ASP.NET

Oracle’s comparison of PHP and ASP.NET [http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/hull_asp.html], and some comments on it by Bertrand Le Roy [http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/articles/193608.aspx]. Having written code in both PHP and ASP.NET for quite some time now, I personally…

Indigo: The end of the rainbow

Indigo: The end of the rainbow [http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=8855]. A nice summary of what Indigo might achieve when it is finally launched as part of Windows Longhorn.…