.NET => COM Invalid Cast Exception
If you get an InvalidCastException when accessing a COM object from .NET, it generally means that there is a version mismatch between the .NET interop dll and the COM object…. Read more »
WordPress 2.1
I’ve crossed my fingers and switched everything on the site to WordPress 2.1. If you see anything that is obviously broken, let me know via the contact form. UPDATE: Two… Read more »
Lawrence Lessig on Orphaned Works
Few people have given more thought than Lawrence Lessig to the problems created by America’s ever-expanding copyright laws. Here he provides a detailed presentation on the problem of orphaned works… Read more »
The Soul of Some New Vaporware
Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine was one of the great nonfiction hits of the early 1980s, a gripping blow-by-blow account of how Data General developed the Eclipse… Read more »
If your product key is stolen, part 2
Woody Leonhard continues to examine the implications of Microsoft’s product activation scheme from Vista and Office 2007. If your product key is stolen, part 2 – Office Watch The obligation… Read more »
What happens if your product key is stolen? – Office Watch
Woody Leonhard discusses the new product activation features in Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, which allow Microsoft to remotely disable anyone’s computer at any time if they decide that… Read more »
Why XForms Matter, Revisited
Kurt Cagle argues (and I tend to agree) that the current fashion for AJAX is likely to result in a lot of nasty, unmaintainable code that probably will be full… Read more »
The End of Web 2.0?
To the horror of many developers Google is abandoning its SOAP Search API. Dave Megginson comments. Is this the beginning of the end for mashups and all the “Web 2.0”… Read more »
The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World
Oren Eini asks why .NET has fewer successful open source projects than Java in The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World.
REST for toddlers
Presumably for the benefit of those who find the RFC hard to follow, Mark Pilgrim translates the HTTP response codes into toddler-speak: REST for toddlers.