It's Christmas now. Beagle 2 has just landed on Mars but as far as I know, no one's sure if it arrived intact. Apparently another mars probe will land shortly. Odd, I think. Perhaps a bit of a space race there?
I've been fiddling around with DotNet. I think that it's a really powerful, flexible environment. It's also very complicated. I wonder if M$ isn't fighting the last war. To me, one of the really cool things about Java was that you could create your applications as Applets that users could run directly from a web page without having to install any software.
As far as I can tell, DotNet has two modes--ASP.NET which translates backend applications into a Javascript-based UI which is then forwarded to the client browser, and EveryThingElse.NET which is traditional fat-client with some web additions like web services. There doesn't seem to be support for anything akin to an applet.
I still have a lot of delving to do so I could very well be wrong (and pleasantly surprised to be so!) about lack of support for applets. I think that Microsoft pushes developers toward activeX for applet development. Personally, I shun ActiveX as a massive security risk. How many innocent users have unwittingly installed the Gator spyware software via an ActiveX control?
I do really like the new VB.NET--it's a real language now, not the ugly kludge that was VB6--and I especially like the way that you can step into a C DLL. This is wonderful! It makes debugging DLLs so much easier.
I've been fiddling around with DotNet. I think that it's a really powerful, flexible environment. It's also very complicated. I wonder if M$ isn't fighting the last war. To me, one of the really cool things about Java was that you could create your applications as Applets that users could run directly from a web page without having to install any software.
As far as I can tell, DotNet has two modes--ASP.NET which translates backend applications into a Javascript-based UI which is then forwarded to the client browser, and EveryThingElse.NET which is traditional fat-client with some web additions like web services. There doesn't seem to be support for anything akin to an applet.
I still have a lot of delving to do so I could very well be wrong (and pleasantly surprised to be so!) about lack of support for applets. I think that Microsoft pushes developers toward activeX for applet development. Personally, I shun ActiveX as a massive security risk. How many innocent users have unwittingly installed the Gator spyware software via an ActiveX control?
I do really like the new VB.NET--it's a real language now, not the ugly kludge that was VB6--and I especially like the way that you can step into a C DLL. This is wonderful! It makes debugging DLLs so much easier.
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