Mary Jo Foley whose currently in Seattle at the Microsoft MVP summit has learned that “Microsoft plans to release by the end of this summer the Foxpro “Sedna” bits as Shared Source on its CodePlex code-repository site”. For the complete article check out the source.
Programming
A while back I received an email from Microsoft regarding a Daylight Saving Time (DST) update, which will take place via Windows Updates sometime soon. I highly recommend that everyone takes the time reads the below message even if this does not affect you, because it may help someone you know.
Today Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. I personally have been waiting quite sometime for this update to come out as it fixes compatibility for Windows Vista. Hopefully we will not have to wait that long for Visual Studio 2005 service pack 1 for Windows Vista to be released.
I found these posters after exploring an interesting MSDN blog of a K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager. The posters are nice and well worth spending the couple of seconds to download them.
I started this semester with a bunch of classes. But the one I’m most passionate about is CPS 260 Assembly Language. Ever since I was about 12 I always wanted to learn assembly language. Now I’m finally getting that chance. If you’re interested in learning ASM, you can buy this ASM book off Amazon like I did, which was around $80. Now I’m not the one to brag up a programming book as I have many on my shelf, but Assembly Language for Intel-Based Computers, Fifth Edition by…