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Monthly Archives: April 2008

More Doom and Gloom for Microsoft

April 18, 2008 – 5:01 pm

According to Gartner and some industry folks that are “in the know,” Microsoft is in for some dire straights ahead because of the failure for Vista to take off as expected and the way things are unfolding in the internet and application development space.
Kind of like I’ve be saying for the past few months (here [...]

By ed | Posted in cloud, microsoft | Comments (2)

Do you miss ASP.NET? Try the Acts as ASP.NET Rails Pluging

April 4, 2008 – 3:23 pm

Hilarious code comedy from Rails Jedi
My favorite:
“Viewstate is back. Now new and improved on top of Rails. acts_as_aspdotnet overrides form_tag to put a hidden variable that contains loads of crucial processing data on every postback that will fill your server pipes with more glorious bandwidth.”

By ed | Posted in .net, microsoft, rails, ruby | Comments (0)