Classpath hell
Classpath hell as seen from inside the great ball of fire.
AOP ServicedComponents!
For those attending my talks at the Microsoft Strategic Architect's Forum in South Africa next week (that's an "by invite only" event), I am very happy to announce that I am going to be demonstrating, for the first time, a stable version of my brand-new AOP extensions for Enterprise Services. It's an extensible framework that allows writing custom, managed attributes, which are invoked from within the server-side context and allow interception and inspection at the...
Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up on descent after atmosphere reentry
Terrible, terrible news. (check Google News)
Transcribing from TV news: All 7 astronauts aboard space shuttle Columbia (OV-102) [mirrored here] on mission STS-107 were killed when the shuttle apparently broke up on descent after earth atmosphere...
Huh! Someone really likes my utility set for Enterprise Services and correctly points out that they are in “preview” state, but very useful. The good news is: there’s no timebomb. And, yes, there’s going to be an update once Windows Server 2003 is “official”. And, yes, there’s going to be an option to get at the source code for all of it. These classes and a lot more code that only few folks have seen yet...