Monday, March 14, 2005 - Posts

The .NET Show : SQL Server 2005 / MSDN TV : ASP to ASP.NET and .NET Courseware from AppDev

Well after those ugly CherryOS posts I've decided to get back to life at hand... MSDN's .NET Show have posted a cool video on SQL Server 2005 that talks about hte new features in 2005 and how they've added CLR support and how to use these additional features. Another interesting part is this “Multiple Bitrate Encoding” that is apart of the online viewing (I always download the 300K episode so i can watch it later) which bascially adjusts the bitrate depending on the connection, quite a cool feature...

Then theres MSDN TV who have released a short video on moving up from ASP to ASP.NET (if you've been slack to do so *still*) but focuses heavily on porting VBScript ASP to VB.NET ASP.NET.

Finally, AppDev (one of the best training courseware companies around) has released some material for .NET 2.0, quite useful for viewing (I posted about one of these in an earlier blog entry, however they were VB.NET oriented) but if you are yet to tempt the waters of .NET 2.0 these should get you in the know how about whats coming:

posted Monday, March 14, 2005 10:47 PM by wsoftware with 0 Comments

The finale for CherryOS... Wrap up article on PPC vs CherryOS

I found this article an interesting and very informative read on the state of the PPC vs CherryOS claims floating around...

after try numerous times on a very high end machine (we're talking 2GB RAM P4 3.6ghz with 400GB RAID 0 SATA drive machine running XP Pro+SP2 based on the ASUS P5AD2 Premium mobo which is a high-end system all of which was done on a clean install of XPSP2 with the latest ATI Drivers - catalyst 5.3) I've given up considering CherryOS to be a contender to PPC. If anything, it feels laggier than PPC which gives me the impression that they may have “stolen” an older release of PPC and hurriedly changed over to the latest release back late last year when PPC 0.3 was released...

Hopefully no-one actually made any “pre-orders“ and if they did, they should probably ask for a refund;-)

Final Verdict: Go with PPC, its free and continiously developing.

posted Monday, March 14, 2005 1:36 AM by wsoftware with 0 Comments