30 August 2004

30Aug2004

Error Message of the Day

By carlfish on

"We thank you for calling this method. All of our programmers are busy right now, but if you wait, then some day one of them might get around to fully implementing all of the methods in the JDBC2 specification. Phew, there sure are a lot of them!"

30Aug2004

"Don't Call it Shorthorn"

By carlfish on

Still, [Allchin] said, dubbing Longhorn without WinFS as "Shorthorn" is "derogatory," because the operating system "is packed full of capabilities." Some of the features he mentioned were "great roaming support," .Net Framework 2.0, "new browsing capabilities," the "fresh" user interface, improved migrations and deployments, "more resilience to malware" and "a new photo experience."

30Aug2004

The Joy of Bombast

By carlfish on

I half-jokingly mentioned I was considering doing a presentation called "Why My Brain Likes Ruby". They called my bluff. I'm almost hoping my second bluff is called, and someone asks me to present the damn thing. It might be fun.