the case against .NET

This hedgehog was found in a black bin liner (garbage sack) in our garage yesterday morning. We’re not too sure how/when it got in there, though it probably climbed in sometime during the previous couple of days. My wife was alerted by a rustling from inside the bag, which she had thought contained [...]

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thecaseagainst.net has, at last, been upgraded to WordPress 2.5, having previously languished on the 2.0 branch for far too long. Thanks to a great short guide from Word Press this was a quick and easy process. Let me know if you spot any problems.
Now I need to find a new theme to freshen [...]

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I’m sure this has been blogged numerous times already (and I didn’t notice), but the biggest problem with Google, for me, has been that searching for product reviews has never worked. The top 20 or so results would always include one or two real reviews, and a pile of shopping sites which offered customers [...]

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Tim Anderson has been blogging from Tech.Ed. In a useful post about convergence between Silverlight and WPF, he makes the comment
in many ways Silverlight is .NET done right, from a client perspective; it delivers just what is necessary for a rich client
This echoes my previous remark that Silverlight 2 suggests a route to a [...]

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