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Animal - I just watched the video of the Mike Tyson brawl, and I don’t see what the big deal is. It sure looks to me like Lewis’s bodyguard started things.
Well, the .NET frameworks SDK, command-line compilers and tools are now available for free download. For people who also want a free IDE, SharpDevelop looks pretty good.
As far as being able to run .NET code on platforms other than Windows, today the news was that Mono project has ditched GPL and Intel and HP have joined the project as contributors. I don’t know what other people think, but I think this is awesome news. Miguel and Ximian are very effective and pragmatic.
GotDotNet just released a simple in-browser WSDL browser, it is pretty easy to use. I just picked a few services from xmethods.com and pasted the WSDL URL into this form; it was just a few clicks to fully-working code that calls the web services.
Well, get your plane tickets to NYC if you want to hang out with all the cool kids and engage in “rage against the system”. This thursday begins the WEF, and it is a lot cheaper for wanna-be insurgents to carpool to NYC than fly to Davos, Switzerland, where the event is usually held. Rand corporation has an interesting book (complete contents are online) about the topic of Netwar. I am skeptical about their claims that these ideas are new (for example, the French resistance in WWII was organized in decentralized “cells”; one of which Albert Camus was a member) but it is still interesting reading. And if you are one of the kids grabbing your black ski mask to take with you on the road trip to NYC, it is even more fun to think of yourself as the vanguard of a new movement in civil disorder, like the Zapatistas in the Rand report.