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Borland, Microsoft Move Closer on Databases

Borland, Microsoft Move Closer on Databases The two competitors put differences aside to push a new environment on the .NET Framework. [via Internet Product News]

Ah! Now I get it, let's be database specific by bundling developer copies of all the supported databases. So we get one really huge product simply becuase we don't realize that ADO.NET pretty much ensures some degree of DB independence (ODBC delivers the real thing for SQL. but that's old hat! Not!).

 

 

Borland, Microsoft Move Closer on Databases The two competitors put differences aside to push a new environment on the .NET Framework. [via Internet Product News]

Ah! Now I get it, let's be database specific by bundling developer copies of all the supported databases. So we get one really huge product simply becuase we don't realize that ADO.NET pretty much ensure some degree of DB independence (ODBC delivers the real thing for SQL. but that's old hat! Not).

 

 

What makes a weblog a weblog? Dave Winer provides a summary of the technical and operational aspects of what makes a weblog a weblog in this article. A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.... [via TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog]

What makes a weblog a weblog? Dave Winer provides a summary of the technical and operational aspects of what makes a weblog a weblog in this article. A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.... [via TheArchitect.co.uk - Jorgen Thelin's weblog]

OSCOM Wrapup Here are the slides from OSCOM keynote at Harvard on Friday. The title of the talk was: "Everything you need to know about content management, you (should have) learned in grade school." Grade school lesson #1 was: "Write effective titles." It's surprisingly hard to remember that lesson. On these two slides, I admitted the ironic fact that my own slideshow software did not, initially, create meaningful HTML doctitles. Driving down to the conference, I realized I'd made the same error at another level. The entire slideshow was untitled! I wondered who would notice. Leonard Megliola nailed it. After the talk Tony Byrne, of CMSWatch, quoted an old adage: "Naming and cache invalidation are the hardest problems." How true! ... [via Jon's Radio]

OSCOM Wrapup Here are the slides from OSCOM keynote at Harvard on Friday. The title of the talk was: "Everything you need to know about content management, you (should have) learned in grade school." Grade school lesson #1 was: "Write effective titles." It's surprisingly hard to remember that lesson. On these two slides, I admitted the ironic fact that my own slideshow software did not, initially, create meaningful HTML doctitles. Driving down to the conference, I realized I'd made the same error at another level. The entire slideshow was untitled! I wondered who would notice. Leonard Megliola nailed it. After the talk Tony Byrne, of CMSWatch, quoted an old adage: "Naming and cache invalidation are the hardest problems." How true! ... [via Jon's Radio]