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On the Edge

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on December 28, 2007    0 comments    last post: December 28, 2007
Steve Rowe harkens back to days of yore. When 'edgy' was a Commodore. Yes, this Microsoft blogger is taking some time at the end of the year to read a book on that special pre-PC PC.

.NET Blog View: What’s all this talk about Oslo and SOA?

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on December 01, 2007    0 comments    last post: December 01, 2007
In November, Microsoft trotted out a concept piece known as Oslo. Oslo is a bit vague on detail, but the company is discussing general-purpose modeling to roll-up its DSL models, and a Unified Component Repository – something that strikes fear into the heart of our writer.

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The Twilight of Vendor Consortia

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on November 28, 2007    0 comments    last post: November 28, 2007
In looking at Microsoft's Oslo, David Chappell ponders the future of Java standards.

TSS Interop Blog: Ruby-Visual Basic similarities revisited

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on November 20, 2007    0 comments    last post: November 20, 2007
We had some fun on TSS Interop blog a little while ago when Huw Collingbourne ably essayed on Ruby, its place in the development world, and its possible resemblance to the original Visual Basic. George Lawton digests related comments that appeared on TSS.com.

Microsoft's Software + Services: The elevator pitch

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on November 16, 2007    0 comments    last post: November 16, 2007
After a presentation it occurred to MS Platform Strategy Adviser John Mullinax that people could use a "Software + Services (S+S) in a nutshell" kind of post. So he walks through the essence of S+S in about 10 minutes.

Tracing DLLs

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on November 10, 2007    0 comments    last post: November 10, 2007
Go to the SQL Developer Connecting Databases blog for information on BID Tracing.

DSLs: Let a hundred languages spring forth

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on November 07, 2007    0 comments    last post: November 07, 2007
Language ‘mashups’ in .NET will become more prominent as use of the .NET DLR expands, said David Laribee. He predicts that Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) will become more common as developers become polygots, working with many languages. So, perhaps, the DSL is “The Real Juice of the DLR.

Zend pushes PHP connections

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on October 30, 2007    0 comments    last post: October 30, 2007
A blog entry discusses this month’s ZendCon, where PHP cozied up to DB2, Oracle 10g, and Server Core for Windows Server 2008.

Generic delegate types are always invariant in C# 3.0

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on October 23, 2007    0 comments    last post: October 23, 2007
Eric Lippert has recently been considering Covariance and Contravariance in C#. In C# 3.0 today, even though it is legal to assign a typeless member group for a function that returns a Giraffe to a variable of type Func<Animal>, it is not legal to assign a typed expression of type Func<Giraffe> to a Func<Animal>.

Microsoft said to agree to EU concessions

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on October 23, 2007    0 comments    last post: October 23, 2007
A European Union competition commissioner said Microsoft agreed to concessions, and won't pursue an antitrust appeal with the EU. In a comment on Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog, a Freedom Task Force member takes a wait-and-see attitude.

Did Ballmer know it was coming?

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on October 13, 2007    0 comments    last post: October 13, 2007
The timing of one) Steve Ballmer's comments on Linux Intellectual Property (IP) issues and two) a suit by IP Innovation and Technology Licensing Corp. against Red Hat and Novell, has led some people to wonder if Ballmer knew this was coming.

Werner Vogel on Amazon's Dynamo

Posted by: Jack Vaughan on October 06, 2007    0 comments    last post: October 06, 2007
Werner Vogel writes that Amazon is prepared to present a paper on its Dynamo technology at the upcoming 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. Dynamo Amazon technology addressing 'the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system.'



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Windows Presentation Foundation and your architecture - Where does it fit?

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a new client user interface technology that ships as part of .NET 3.0. (November 2, Article)

XAML finds common ground

Opening up the SDLC to non-engineers requires re-examination of processes and clarification of roles, according to Burton Group's Chris Howard. (November 20, Article)

The Old New Thing

These chapters explain the quirks behind the user interface design of Windows and the complexity of GetWindowText. (November 9, Book Excerpt)

Inside MS Speechwriters' HQ

When it is time for a keynote, the crew at Redmond is ready. But words don't always flow. Today we take you behind the scenes for a look at great speeches in the making. Come with us now to Microsoft Speechwriters' Headquarters. Cool! (December 18, Cartoon)

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