Ted Roche’s weblog

William Grosso: “Is it just me, or did we have a month of good, old-fashioned, Internet time in the web browser universe.” Link via Scripting News.

Europa goals
Based on wish list customer feedback
Enhance database language and types
Additional end user UI features
Increase developer productivity
Improve report writer significantly
Extend XML, .NET and SQL Server interop
More designer hooks for extensiblity

UPDATE: Thanks to Tamar Granor for a few updates.

Top 10 ER Rejections
Object oriented puzzle
Localized Pig Latin version
ACTIVATE WINDOW mywindow NOWINDOW WAIT WINDOW NOWAIT WINDOW IN [...]

Hope to polish these up a little later, but here’s the raw typing, no spell-checking. About 300 attendees at the 8 AM keynote.

Taskpane
Toolbox
Empty class
AddProperty() and RemoveProperty()
Collection class
Structured Error Handling
TRY/CATCH/FINALLY
Event Binding
BINDEVENT() and RAISEEVENT()

enhanced getfile dialog
now auto-increment for tables
enhanced view designer
cihild member subclassing
vcs support for more classes
many new features for Grid control
Code Refences tools

Beyond XMLToCursor/CursorToXML
Hierarchical XML support
Multiple [...]

Got a surprise birthday party, cake and all, when friends interrupted my pre-conference session wth 5 minutes to go to sing “Happy Birthday.” Attendees seemed amused. After one refrain, they let me get back to finishing the presentation, only 10 minutes late or so. Carrot cake, a clever card and a golf club cover in [...]