RSS: The Ultimate Opt-In Solution

RSS: The Ultimate Opt-In Solution Shows a wonderfully simple idea, with many benefits: RSS feeds instead of emails as THE channel for sending periodic private information from companies (like banks) to clients. Point-to-point scheduled transmission (over secure protocols if needed), so it's by construction SPAM free...

Mono Beta 1 is out now

Things are getting shape with the release of the Mono Beta 1 on the road to version 1.0 - It's a pity that my MonoBASIC compiler is just packaged as a preview because I'm a lazy developer...

Aha! Found a list of Open Source Agent Systems Written In Java

http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/open-source-agent-java/view

Something to check and find what is good to port to a Mono-based agent architeture. I'm just thinking if I'll stick to my dear C# or will give Charming Boo (a new language, yet to be unwrapped) a chance on it.

Gave a bit of love to MonoWiki

Added MonoBASIC (VB.NET) open bugs item to MonoWiki - Home Page

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Microsoft SQL Server: Reporting Services Product Overview

Microsoft SQL Server: Reporting Services Product Overview Crystal Decisions (or whatever name they have now) isn't happy with this, I think. Also it's a shame RDL not being a truly open standard (just read the license in the initial pages of the spec pdf). It goes like that:

"look at it but it is ours, you may give comments back that we will happily incorporate and make it ours too, and you may implement a product based on it but we have many patents on it so that you'll probably have to pay us to use it"

Well the idea is good, but I stopped reading the spec after the license, because I prefer to work out an alternative open standard. Any candidates? I couldn't find anyone with Google, or perusing the W3C site...

Linux Today - InfoWorld: IBM to Launch MS Office for Linux

Linux Today - InfoWorld: IBM to Launch MS Office for Linux - Well I prefer not to have MSOffice in Linux, but a better OpenOffice.Org everywhere...