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Test twice, code once (or something like that). What's a good unit testing framework for C++?

In a filing Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Google admitted it mistakenly posted comments not meant for general release that offered a peek at the company’s financial self-portrait. Funny, I feel like we have heard this story before...

Plummeting storage costs and the availability of special hardware have finally made it cheap and easy to shrug off the shackles of TiVo and build your own personal video recorder out of an old PC. Watch out Comcast & Direct TV.

Microsoft enters the classified ad space (only a few US cities currently). Will they give CraigsList a run for people's money?

In addition to the live matches, T-Mobile International will offer highlights of all 64 games, expert discussions, and other information. Goooooooooooooooal!

My guess is that they think a lot of people will be buying new computers soon. Wonder why?

OASIS ODF Adoption Committee will work on promoting OpenDocument implementations among industries and end-users. They have also submitted the format to ISO for standardization.

At the ETech conference, Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie demonstrated "Live Clipboard", a technology that would allow data (not just text) to be copied between Web sites and computers.

News for Tuesday, March 07 2006

Latest release of Leppie's IDE for .NET development.

Seeking software for code collaboration.

Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, says a new study. K.I.S.S.

Forty-three percent of U.S. government employees sometimes telecommute instead of driving into the office, up from 19 percent a year ago. I wonder if that includes workers at the DMV?

Forty-three percent of U.S. government employees sometimes telecommute instead of driving into the office, up from 19 percent a year ago. I wonder if that includes workers at the DMV?

Attend Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2006 (May 8-11 in Las Vegas) and get the latest on building and bringing to market the next wave of devices, applications, content, and services for the Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded platforms.

A developer who challenged people to "rm my Mac" was surprised when it took less than 6 hours for the site to be defaced. The hacker only worked on it for 30 minutes.

I've often thought that a language's name was its biggest hurdle. They should have called it CTalk.

News for Monday, March 06 2006

Open AIM aims to get external developers to add new features to the #1 IM program.

Flash drive survives the wash. Now, try it with a hard drive...

Commercials or $1.99? Soon you'll have a choice for downloading television shows.

The world is safe again for the millions of BlackBerry-wielding thumbs.

An Earth-sized storm on Jupiter that has been raging since 2000 turns red, giving the giant planet not-so-Great Red Spot.

This SDK includes the initial release of the Cross-Platfrom Audio Content Tool (XACT), plus new Managed DirectX 2.0 beta libraries, an updated Direct3D 10 Preview.