Performance Comparison of Java/.NET Runtimes [http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/] – Technical Consultant Kazuyuki Shudo has published a set of benchmarks [http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/] comparing various Java Virtual Machine and .NET runtimes. Slashdot also has an on-going discussion of the results [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.…
I was looking at Lucene .NET [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lucenedotnet] for a full-text search engine implementation?but I was surprised to find out that the Lucene.NET application library is not open source anymore. It has been relaunched as a commercial product called SearchBlackBox [http://searchblackbox.com/]. Lucene .NET…
Just came across this nice open source tool called MyXaml [http://www.myxaml.com/] (dev blog [http://www.myxaml.com/marcclifton/]), which?offers declarative markup (XUL-like)?capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles on…
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.…
* dotText pre-0.96 – Two new features (among others), Search [http://scottwater.com/dottextsourcetree/browse.aspx?f=C:SitesDottextSourceDottext.Search] and ScheduledEvents [http://scottwater.com/dottextsourcetree/browse.aspx?f=C:SitesDottextSourceDottext.FrameworkScheduledEvents] ,?in dotText (pre-0.96) [http://scottwater.com/blog/archive/2004/02/01/Pre096.aspx] that I’ll be?going…
* Code Reviews – Sample chapters [#2 [http://www.processimpact.com/reviews_book/chapter_2.pdf] and #6 [http://www.processimpact.com/reviews_book/chapter_6.pdf]] from Karl Weiger [http://www.processimpact.com/]s’ book on Code Reviews. [via Joseph Cooney [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/JosephCooney/posts/6397.aspx]] * Web Services…
* A new version (4.1.3) of Inno Setup [http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php] (an application installer & setup creation tool that I use quite frequently [http://weblogs.asp.net/ashben/archive/2003/10/25/33443.aspx]) has been released with an all-new Explorer-like folder browser. * With Visual Studio…
* Sample chapters (Part 1 [http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/ado.netckbk_chap01/index.html] and Part 2 [http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/ado.netckbk_chap01/index1.html] ) from O’Reilly’s ADO.NET Cookbook [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/adonetckbk/] * Ted Neward shares his…