Frans Bouma's blog

For the soon to be released major update for LLBLGen Pro, v1.0.2004.2, I'm porting the Microsoft Petshop project v3.x to show some of the new code implemented in the upgrade. Now, I've seen a lot of crap code in my life but what Microsoft dares to offer as an example for .NET is beyond, well... , crap. Sorry to say this, but after working with the Microsoft Petshop code for a few hours, my eyes bleed. This isn't an example, it's code solely ment to run as fast as possible in the benchmark tests to show how fast .NET can be.

Various people seem to have discovered 'Codezone'. The name rang a bell, the color scheme did too. Then I remembered: I saw it first in the summer of 2004, at TechEd 2004 Europe. It was then introduced as the new developer community. It doesn't surprise me it's still the failing marketing driven 'community' initiative as it was back then.

Eric Sink blogs his thoughts into the world about Team System, the pricing, MSDN and the recent uproar about all of this. I agree with him about the positioning of Team System, the pricing related to that positioning, the MSDN licensing as it is now and how it is misunderstood.

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=142719&cid=11958953

The founder of VoodooExtreme, one of the first gaming sites, Billy 'Wicked' Wilson, died at age 33 yesterday. As a long time fan of VoodooExtreme and later on Gaming Groove, it was always a big pleasure reading his writings. A true icon.

Over a 100 MVP's have signed an online petition to make Microsoft migrate the behemoth Visual Basic 6 (VB6) to VS.NET and let it live on as an unmanaged language. More information can be found here: http://rblevin.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-mvps-revolt.html

Mark Lucovsky left Microsoft today. Now, Mark is a legend, so I don't think he needs further introduction. What interested me was that he left to work for Google. Looking back at what Mark has done, you'll see things like 'Designing NT kernel', 'Designing in-house sourcecontrol system for win2k' etc. Not your average notepad-style projects.

Lots has been said in the past days about Richard Grimes statement to drop .NET completely. First I thought: "Who's Richard Grimes?". That's saying more about me than mr. Grimes, as I often forget people's names as I find it more important to know what the theory is behind what they've accomplished than what their name is.