Here is what I liked this week.
Microsoft Sets Three Week Deadline for Yahoo! In Public Letter
In a letter sent today, Microsoft writes to Yahoo’s board of directors to tell them that they would like to ‘negotiate a definitive agreement on a combination of our companies.’ Their message is a combination of friend and foe: ‘If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders.’
How to Impress at Your Next Interview
I have had the opportunity to interview a lot of prospective developers. In that time I have come to understand more clearly what it is that impresses me most. And it might not be what you expect.
Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints
The App Engine team was looking for some sample apps to help kick the tires on their new system, so we invited Googlers to build some as side projects. A couple of our colleagues here built HuddleChat in their spare time because they wanted to share work within their team more easily and thought persistent web chat would do the trick. We’ve heard some complaints from the developer community, though, so rather than divert attention from Google App Engine itself, we thought it better to just take HuddleChat down.”
Yahoo’s Big Day of Fun
It’s been a busy few days for Yahoo. With scorned love letters being passed back and forth with Microsoft, to adding video to Flickr, buying a Web analytics company and now testing out Google ads, you have to give Yahoo credit. We haven’t seen this much excitement coming out of the number two engine in quite some time.
How Much Is Our Blog Worth?
If we’d go by these rules, we wouldn’t sell our blog for anything less then: $344,236! Shocking amount isn’t it? And we haven’t even calculated the value of the brand you’d be selling. The “status” and numerous new networking opportunities that would come knocking when you buy an established blog.
The War Against Blog Commentors Who Use Keywords as Names
A couple months ago, I followed an interesting discussion at Remarkablogger related to a new comment policy that Michael Martine posted for his blog. It seems that Michael had become frustrated with the increasing number of comments on his blog that appeared to be more interested in plugging their websites keywords than adding to the dialogue. After some very interesting and thoughtful comments from his readers on the new policy change, Michael posted a slightly modified policy.
The empty try block mystery
I had used .NET Mass Downloader tool to download .NET 2.0 Framework sourcecode some time ago. While reading Timer.cs (System.Windows.Forms.Timer) and a couple of other classes I noticed something interesting.
Does the following piece of code look odd to you? Notice the empty “try” block and all processing being done in the “finally” block.
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