Frans Bouma's blog

C|Net has the scoop. I simply can't believe it. Allchin: Don't call it 'Shorthorn'. well, Mr. Allchin, I will.You see, what are the consequences for us? Microsoft Business Framework anyone?

First of all, congratulations to Roland Weigelt for winning the first prize in Roy's Add-in contest!. I think his entry deserved the first prize without a doubt as the tool is amazing and, when extended with some additional logic/features, could become a big commercial success.

Apparently something was wrong with the new .Text engine as the admin interface is back to its old version, so no moderation possibilities for comments anymore. I therefore again disabled comments till the interface is back up again. Sorry for that.

One of the most famous demo parties ever, Assembly, has just finished. I just saw the winning 64KByte (that's 64*1024 bytes, people) intro and it's simply breathtaking. Another one worth watching is the 2nd placed demo competition winner of Andromeda Software Development: really a kick-ass demo and to me far superior to the 1st place winner.

... they jump into the water. Below are two photos I took 10 minutes ago, at about 300 meters from my house in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Needless to say, it's a bit erm... crowded

Scott updated .Text last night with a moderation feature. Cool stuff, thanks Scott! . Due to this moderation feature, comment spam can be prevented: all comments first have to be approved by the blog-owner before they're visible.

The Inquirer reports (and C|Net as well, so it's not an Inq. crackpot story) that Microsoft has pulled Service pack 2 for Windows XP at the last moment. It was scheduled to RTM last night and to be made available for MSDN subscribers today. . But I'm sure they have their reasons. I however hope that MS realizes that their patching strategy of releasing one big pile of fixes every 2 years is not working: 1 glitch in 1 patch inside that SP2 can delay the complete set of fixes. With smaller set of fixes released more often, this wouldn't have been the case. But I'm sure they'll address this in the (near) future.

This is the second day in a row where I have to delete a massive amount of comments full with just URLs to obscure sex sites and other crap , so enough is enough: for now comments are disabled. Personally I don't like this situation of not offering the ability for the reader to leave a comment, but at the moment there is no other option.

Until .text is updated with a better system for comments (i.e.: not being anonymous), I'll leave comments off. Sorry for that.