Richard's Rant

Links for Wednesday 6 February

Lots today :)

• Lost of changes seem to be in Vista SP1
• Ballmer outlines Microsoft's 8 long term growth bets. Interesting reading. At least it shows wher Microsoft is betting the farm.
• Apple iPod Touch now in 16 GB. Tasty. (yet extremely expensive. Ouch. And interest rates havejsut gone up here to 8%)
• Interseting musing at Lang.NET about Ruby and others
• Ian M. Bank's new novel appears on iTunes before print release. (Now to see if I can get it in Oz)
• Scary as it sounds, I reckon that flying from Sydney to London in 5 hours is far far far better than the usual 24hr trawl that it currently is
• Interesting looking Enterprise Application Dev Tool called NConstruct.
• New version of Entity Spaces is out.
• Just finished listening to DotNet Rocks (all about Unit Testing Databases) and Mono on Mac (Awesome podcast . makes me want to do some Mono development)
• Mat Beserth has a great article on how to create glowing buttons for a web site. Pretty cool
• The Socceroos won their first World Cup Qualifier against Qatar this evening. Keep it up boys!
• Scott Guthrie has some new links for ASP.NEt and AJAX.
• Some tips from Caio Proiete on How to be a better Developer