As a language geek, I found this discussion of the new extension methods in C# 3.0 fascinating. I haven’t been paying as much attention to C# 3.0 as I probably should because I’ve been too infatuated with Ruby of late. I’d love to see someone from the C# team respond.
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Some Reflection on the Market for Components
30Jan07 – 16:29
Once upon a time, there was a HUGE market for ActiveX components that would work with Visual Basic. After Microsoft introduced .NET and especially .NET 2.0, a lot of the energy moved from the ActiveX component world into the .NET library world (although it should be noted that this doesn’t necessarily imply that all the [...]
A New Door Opens For PDF
28Jan07 – 21:10
Just in case you haven’t heard the news, Adobe just announced that the entire PDF 1.7 specification would be submitted to ISO via AIIM. The intent is to take PDF from its current status as a de facto standard and make it into a formally recognized international standard, controlled by a vendor-neutral standards body.
Eighteen years [...]
Java as a GUI Platform
22Jan07 – 14:29
Lots of people have been talking about the iPhone’s lack of openness and what it means. In particular, they’ve been discussing the news that Apple is at least considering putting Flash on the iPhone, but has dismissed Java as being too bloated:
Markoff: “What about all those plugins that live within Safari now, like Flash or [...]
