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iDevResource.com
Newsletter for developers and programmers
May 12th 2000 Issue #15
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> Sponsorship Notice
=> Welcome
=> New this Week
=> MSMQ competition
=> Poll - about books
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
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WELCOME to the 15th issue
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Welcome to the iDevResource newsletter for professional
developers. The site is run by professional developers who
give their time and expertise to create this resource and
community.
iDR offers cutting edge articles on the latest technologies
& tools, breaking news, forums, a developer catalogue
featuring products, training courses and jobs, humour,
prize competitions and much more.
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NEW This Week
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Another busy week, especially after COM+2 was (finally)
announced by Paul Thurrott in his WinInfo newsletter. As
you see we have an article on COM+2 by Richard Grimes at
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/bytesize/complus2news.asp.
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Discussion: There is a new group for COM+2 discussion at
https://www.egroups.com/group/complus2. Several key Microsoft
players will be invited to join this group.
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Problem (& Solution?): As a team which has almost perfected
the art of searching for COM material without being inundated
with everything and anything dotCOM, it is a pain that
the problem has now been exacerbated by using +2!! The fact
that the "+" sign acts as a Boolean Operator makes for
problems when searching for COM+2 information.
How about?: anyone adding COM+2 material, news, etc to their
site use "complus2" as a keyword both in the META tags
and the body text to enable developers to find the
information more easily. All of those developers from
a C++ background will already know the extent of this
problem! We want to find a solution. Bad enough that
Application Service Providers couldn't think of a
different acronym but making it hard to find information on
anything COM is unforgiveable (isn't it, RG?!)
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Article: ATL Internals Part 2 by Shivesh Viswanathan is now at
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/atlinternals2.asp
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Article: ATLServer by Richard Grimes - get the lowdown on what
ATLServer is all about.
https://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/atlserver.asp
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Zone: The WTL zone features a discussion group, forums
and articles to support developers using WTL.
https://www.idevresource.com/wtl Lots of input direct from MS -
Thanks Nenad. Also thanks to Eamon O'Tuathail from clipcode.com
for allowing us to reproduce his post to the ATL list on the
'Future of WTL'. It will go on the site on Monday.
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Article & Discussion: The dev-xml list has recently been the
arena for discussion on the Level 3 DOM and adding an addressing
api. Aaron Skinner contributed this, with additional thoughts
from Richard Anderson.
https://www.idevresource.com/xml/library/bytesize/level3dom.asp
dev-xml was the fastest growing XML list at one point with over
400 subscribers in 4 days! You can join at
https://www.egroups.com/group/dev-xml
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Wanted: Many sites cover ASP in depth, and there is no point
iDevResource.com replicating that sterling work. However, we are
still looking for ASP COM articles to complement the work going on
in the COM channel. However, don't let this request put you off
contributing _any_ ASP articles! If you have a high-level ASP
contribution, don't hesitate to get it in front of the iDR
audience by sending it to [email protected].
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Competition: Last few days of the MSMQ competition. If you wish
to write the proposed white paper
(https://www.idevresource.com/thisweek.asp) and win $1000 but
appear to be running out of time, just let us know.
Several COM+ entries for that competition have been allowed
extra time and we are flexible folk! The aim is to add quality
articles to the site AND give away money, so join in.
New competition to be announced shortly for ASP developers.
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News: the news database is now fully functional and news items
submitted can be seen on the site within a matter of hours. Submit
your news at https://www.idevresource.com/news2k/submit_newsitem.asp
We are considering adding a newsfeed so that other sites can incorporate
these targeted news items into their own sites. Any developers
interested in helping us achieve this? Contact [email protected]
To date we have developed all the solutions on the site and would
like to continue doing so.
We shall also shortly be launching 3 newswire sites with dedicated
news for Windows, Windows2000 and COM+. All news can be submitted
very easily so start preparing your press releases!
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Channel: ATR (All The Rest) is the channel for VB, Linux, and any
languages and technologies not covered in the other areas.
Articles welcome.
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Event: COMFest goes Fourth occurs this weekend in the UK so we hope
to be reporting on that next week. Have fun guys!
https://www.comfest.co.uk
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Advertisers: We are currently shaking up our advertising system and
now offer a growing niche audience to advertisers. Boxes are still
available for a mere $50/Ј30 per month until the new ad management
system is implemented.
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Catalogue: If you have a product, training course, seminar, conference
date, book, or even a website needing some promotion, add it to the
catalogue. Terms negotiable! Contact [email protected]
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Advert: Build complete word processing, intranet and desktop publishing
applications with TX Text Control Version 7- a word processing control,
which can be dropped into a number of development environments,
including Visual Basic and Delphi. Standard and professional
versions available. See web site for details and sample apps
https://www.textcontrol.com/?idr
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Get your advert in front of an international audience of professional
developers by contacting [email protected]. Rates negotiable.
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Jobs - watch this space for the launch of the iDevResource jobs site
aimed specifically at professional developers. The URL will be
idevjobs.com.
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iDR site - we shall shortly be restructuring the site to incorporate
recent changes in the developer world and new technologies announced.
We plan to make this as painless as possible for all of us. Any
ideas/suggestions on how to improve the site are welcome at
[email protected]
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Wanted: we have been contacted with a request for authors for
for "texts on Active X, COM, MCSD VB7, and a variety of other
programming and web topics. These would not be high level
books, rather they would be for soph/jr in college wanting to
go out into industry." Anyone interested? Contact us and we'll
put you in touch. i[email protected]?subject=nl_authors
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Please contact us at [email protected] if
you wish to write full-length articles, FAQ's, or Byte Size,
or have other contributions for iDevResource.com, or check
our author template and guidelines at
https://www.idevresource.com/contribute.asp
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Poll: OK, we admit to being flummoxed! The bookstore is
extremely well-visited and there are a constantly high number
of clickthroughs, which fail spectacularly to be reflected in
the purchases! Have we got something wrong?! iDR is not
VC funded nor do we have a fairy godmother to pay the bills,
so, yes, we watch our Amazon figures! (IDR is a very hungry
beastie when it comes to expensive UK bandwidth ;o)
Please answer the following questions and cut and paste into
an email to [email protected]?subject=Book_Poll so we
can provide a bookstore which caters for all.
1. Do you want book reviews & ratings from the community to help
you decide on a book to purchase?
2. Would you like a weekly list of the top books?
3. Do you purchase your developer books through Amazon?
4. Do you have another favourite site for book buying?
5. Do you buy from a site located in your country eg amazon.co.uk?
6. Do you check books out on the Net and then go to a bookstore
to buy?
Any other comments welcome.
(BTW this week's top book was Essential COM with Professional
ATL COM Programming a close second.)
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developers - truly niche.
Contact [email protected] for details.
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MSMQ COMPETITION - Last few days!
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The MSMQ Competition in association with Microsoft.com -
$1000 dollars go to the winner. The competition is to write
a paper covering the following:
MSMQ under Windows 2000
The brief is that the article should cover programming in
MSMQ in workgroup mode:
1)The principles and requirements of connected and disconnected
applications
2) Discuss what MSMQ provides for a typical disconnected
applications and basic architecture
3) Explain how MSMQ is now a service in COM+
Deadline May 15th. Details in This Week
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Have a good weekend. We'll be back with more news and views
next week. Feedback welcome as always!
The iDevResource.com Team
https://www.idevresource.com
[email protected]
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