July 2005 - Posts

25 July 2005
Commentary on Aaron Weiker's article and Richard Hale Shaw (C# MVP) blogs on "Moving away from C++"
C# is not acceptable in some situations for high performance mathematical code. E.g. In the forthcoming SQL Server 2005 Data Mining release, you can write native data mining algorithms in C++ but not so natively in C#. I was disturbed about this and I Read More...
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20 July 2005
Quickzip Freeware Archiver and Offshotthought.com
Working on a default.aspx home page layout and controls for a CommunityServer site, I came across a free set of asp.net controls by the good guys at Offshot These controls were packaged as a *.rar archive for which I had to download and install Quickzip. Read More...
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17 July 2005
Podcasting Software Converts Blogs To Digital Audio (MP3)
In a previous blog , converting text, web pages, documents and rss feeds to digital audio formats like MP3 was mentioned as a possible direction for bloggers to take enroute to podcasting. Today, I came across ZappTek's iSpeak It software which converts Read More...
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15 July 2005
Is Podcasting A Mass Market Technology?
Shares of Apple Computer Inc. rose as iPOD sales drove the company's profits to its best quarterly profit ever. Apple Computer Inc. sold more than 6 million iPODs in the last quarter alone and according to chief executive Steve Jobs "We are delighted Read More...
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12 July 2005
Reasons Why Blogging May Be Good For Your Career
Blogging is becoming a mainstream technology as more individuals and companies embrace the weblog as a tool for cultivating, influencing or changing public opinion. From the web savvy high school kid to the corporate executive, media giants like MSNBC Read More...
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10 July 2005
Podcasts (free audio/mp3 digital media) demand set to explode
Our friends, Bernard & Michèle, sent us an article which says that the use of audio digital media or podcasts is set to explode in the next 5 years. According to Alorie Gilbert , a journalist at CNET News.com, the demand for Podcasts and MP3 media Read More...
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