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Globalization is a serious issue if you create a software that is to be used worldwide. You may for example take into account that people have non a-z letters in their names, like for example 'ź'. If you don't consider that, your users may come across windows like this one, I saw while registering to Windows Live Spaces. So what should I do? Lie about my last name? And the funniest thing is: there's no 'ź' on the list of forbidden characters. Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Office, Globalization, l10n, i13n
As Paulo Morgado brought to my attention, Microsoft published absolutely for free, full pdf e-book version of new Introducing Microsoft LINQ book, by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo. Its got average Amazon rating, but hey - don't look a gift horse in the mouth. You can get the book (and some free chapters of two other) here. Technorati Tags: ebook, linq, Microsoft
It seems that Jamie Cansdale's case is attracting attention not only in .NET world. Today I noticed that biggest Polish IT news portal dobreprogramy.pl published a news about it entitled "Microsoft sends out lawyers to community". It's good that case is getting famous, because it may trigger wider debate about vague software licenses. Technorati tags: Jamie Cansdale, TestDriven.NET, Microsoft, Work Around Technical Limitations
David Laribee coined the term ALT.NET. What it means, and why it's going to be the_hot_word? David basically explained it in 4 points: What does it mean to be to be ALT.NET? In short it signifies: You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc. You know tools are great, but...
You know who Krzysztof Cwalina is - right? The Framework Design guy. He recently gave a lecture on that topic at Microsoft Research center, and now he made it available for download. I haven't seen it whole yet (it's iver 3h long!) but i strongly recomend it. Get it here, and if you didn't already - subscribe to Krzysztof's blog: here. Technorati tags: Krzysztof Cwalina, .NET, .NET framework, design, lecture, Microsoft