speculation

Is there another way to do screen scaping apart from regular expressions?

I'm doing a personal, just for fun, project that is using screen scraping to give me a System Tray notification in case another line on an HTML table is added, modified or deleted. Having done this before I thought: well let's go with the regular expression thing and that's it, but being a curious person, made me think that there could ...

What will happen with Office VBA?

The company I work at is run on Excel sheets. Several of those sheets have some form of VBA code embedded. I'm doing some maintenance on them, but it feels really dated. What's gonna happen to Office VBA? Why hasn't Microsoft released an embedded .NET macro language for Office? ...

C# Language Speculation 4.5 / 5.0

What have you heard about the next version of the C# language specification after 4.0? This is not intended to be a wishlist of features, only items that have been discussed as possibly being implemented in the next version. I understand that there is not much information available yet, but I am looking to compile the bits and piece...

Will methods like POST and GET formally evolve someday?

The question may sound a bit naive or stupid, but i was wondering...will POST and GET evolve someday? What other methods exist besides those two? I was wondering specifically about server-pushes... why can't exist a method specifically for that? I don't even know if there's already something similar, and if there is, i apologize for my i...