Wednesday, July 31, 2002

WSJ: Microsoft's .Net 'Marketecture' is lacking in real innovation. Lee Gomes reports on his view of last week's .Net analysts' briefing at Microsoft. I was struck by how speaker after speaker, from Mr. Gates on down, would identify problems in the computer industry -- such as Web sites that are hard to use -- and then talk about how .NET would one day solve them. But .NET is behind schedule. Out in the real world, people like Mr. Maslov haven't been waiting for this Promethean gift from Redmond. They're rolling up their sleeves and getting to work, making the sort of innovative, lean, useful products one rarely sees from Microsoft. Of course, these outside products march to their own drummer, rather than conform to Microsoft's worldview. They're thus not cogs in some Microsoft master plan to increase its hegemony. [Scott Loftesness] 7:34:17 AM

San Diego Union-Tribune: Housing market hopping at low end, listless at high end. Signs of housing market slowdown in San Diego. Vince Outlaw, whose written about in the article, has a Radio UserLand weblog. After five years of ever-rising housing prices, Wright and Outlaw's real estate agent, Teri Hill, whose grandparents started the Hill & Hill Realty firm in 1957 in Del Cerro, said she's getting "nervous." "The big indicator for me is there's more inventory on the market," Hill said. [Scott Loftesness] 7:22:29 AM

Don't Use System.out.println!. So you already use log4j? I bet you could use it better if you read Vipan's guide to log4j - "Don't Use System.out.println!" An excellent read, with a lot of useful log4j tidbits and example configurations in it. [rebelutionary] 6:59:01 AM