I attended the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 / Visual Studio .net 2003 Launch event (hey it was right next door, and it was free!). Mostly marketing hype, but the last session covered some great features in VC++ 2003:

  • “98%” C++ ISO compliant (now supports template partial specialization, compiles boost, loki and blitz++ out of the box…)
  • whole-program optimization, can inline across modules
  • better intellisense, faster dynamic help, faster startup, generate html from comments
  • support for Windows Forms via Forms Designer – includes docking and auto-resizing layout capabilities – but generated code is “managed” (allocations are done on the .net garbage collected heap hrmmm…) – you can derive forms!
  • /G7 optimization switch for P4/Athlon, “5-15% improvement”
  • /GS security switch to check for buffer overflows and exception table hacking
  • /arch:SSE/SSE2 for improved (“2-3%”) floating-point performance

    Time to break it out…

  • OK, have fun drawing here (you need a Java-enabled browser, tis all)… For the really cool part, open up side-by-side copies of this page in two browser windows before you start drawing… then get your Australian penpal to do the same… then yer old girlfriend in England… then…

    Update: drawboard uses a custom port for communication, so there’s a good chance that any firewall will block it…



    Unfortunatelly, your browser doesn’t support Java applets. You have to use another one.

    Looked at a couple Java open-source whiteboard apps, this one is drawboard, there’s also babylon but it seems to be in unstable shape (or I did something wrong, but I TRIED, believe me…). BTW, if you want to do anything in Java under Redhat, I recommend this page to get set up…

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    Not too much going on here, except that I submitted this story from my beasty Handspring Visor Sprint PCS phone module. $12.95 off ebay