Patents ..sigh!

Tom Clark brought a very interesting article on patents to my attention: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2013011,00.asp This is really not to single out Microsoft – everybody in the technology field(s) is doing this kind of thing right now. But it is plain wrong:…

More on Persistent AJaX

Here is a little article on Persistent AJaX (P-AJaX) I will be publishing: — Persistent AJaX Applications using Asynchronous JavaScript There are a growing number of applications that use Asynchronous JavaScript with the XMLHttpRequest object to dynamically update the contents…

SQL 2005 .NET code

I was setting up SQL Server 2005 client tools (which are in parts .NET based) and notced that as part of the installation process, the installer generates native images from the the .NET MSIL code. The benefits are obvious, but…