Archive for March, 2008

Flickr moving to .NET

Cal Henderson from Flickr said yesterday they will to move their website to .NET and SQL Server – yay! another win for Microsoft, still there is only one huge website based on .NET and that is MySpace.

Flickr is currently written in a proprietary language intended some time ago for a game they were developing.

Japan’s software industry

Do you know any Japanese software company / product ?

Nokia phones will run Silverlight

At last, something interesting from both Nokia and Microsoft – more here. I just hope they will have something backwards compatible with the existing S60 devices, I mean an installable Silverlight runtime.

Who wants to bet

That Microsoft’s up-to-come web-based Office will run on Silverlight ?

CS problem

How would you solve finding differences between two string lists i.e. find out which entries are new, which are updated and which are deleted ?

Take this as example:

Source list:

27th February

Ok … WTF? A telescope? Are you people nuts ?