Linus Torvalds continues to take a dim view of a proposed new version of the GPL, blasting what he says is a turn towards moralizing at the expense of pragmatic legal and business decision-making.
Associative arrays, also referred to as maps, hashes, dictionaries, finite maps, lookup tables, and the like, are abstract data types composed of a collection of keys and values
As one of the architects of Microsoft's Smart Client technologies in the Patterns & Practices group, Microsoft Software Development Lead and Agile guru Peter Provost of the Patterns & Practices group digs into the internals and history of the Composite UI App (CAB) block including intriguing comments on what led to its initial development.
Smart Client guru Brian Noyes talks about how Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) awaits an improved version of Visual Studio to allow developers to be fully productive with the technology. Also a discussion that includes a list of resources available from Brian on SmartClients including an upcoming book on ClickOnce, and some exciting Smart Client news from Microsoft.
