I still believe the best form of communication is two way, including in weblogs. It is nice that readers can comment to posts in a weblog. For years I have lived in newsgroups, being a heavy poster and replyer. Web-logs seem a little different from newsgroups, in a weblog you post something you want to tell about, in a newsgroup you post a question you want others to tell more about. I don't see this distinction, a post in a weblog could be an interesting start to a discussion. But the problem is how to get that organized, still nothing beats the tree-formed threads in a newsreader like outlook express. Last week I took a look at a web based newsagregator Junkie XL had mentioned. The user interface of Nifty portal is quite astonishing, it doesn't look or feel like a web-app at all. But on the content side it has major drawbacks : you can only subscribe to feeds served by Nifty Portal. Not to mention feedback possibilities. I keep on looking.
For the time being I will react to feedback over here. Delphi really is still a hot item. Joseph, you are not a blog pest at all but the Pascal for .NET you are refering to does not have the rich possibilities of Delphi's Object Pascal. Was it D(anny) Thorpe who pointed to this ? Must be, he really knows what a great language Delphi is. Next week it will be 20 years ago that Turbo Pascal saw the market. In the Netherlands there will be a party to celebrate (link in Dutch) that. I'll be there.
My comments on the datareader also rose some questions. Neil brought up that I only investigated the difference in execution speed and not the memory impact of a datareader. The ANTS profiler does not provide any statistics on that, maybe the profiler Joseph (him again) mentions does give any insight. Have to try that.
To conclude I do have to mention that my article on the datagrid is now online. But I guess you have already seen that on the dnj home page. Thanks a lot Donnie ! The sequel is almost ready.
Blog on,
Peter