It's not a very good mnemonic but it's not every day we get a new planet.

In an anachronistic bit of dot-commery, a Bay Area America's Cup syndicate is auctioning it's sponsorship rights on Ebay. Starting bid is \$30,000,000. No word if PayPal will be used for payment.

It's well-known that America remains the leader in captured alien spacecraft technology due to our relatively lax highway signage. In England, by contrast, such things as secret nuclear bunkers are well-marked.

Inspired by Jon Udell's link to a New York Times article on network maps of polarized political books, I wrote a similar program in C# and mapped the polarization between readers of "The C# Programming Language" by Hejlsberg et al. and "The Java Programming Language" by Arnold et al. It's …

Bruce has an interesting discussion entitled "Generics Aren't". It's primarily about the new support for generics in Java, but it has a lot of "generic generic" material as well.  via [Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium]

The argument applies to C# generics, but dismisses type-safe data structures as only of concern to …

Beautiful post by James Robertson on the Whidbey slip: short release cycles improve quality. This has absolutely become the consensus over the past half-decade.

However, the .NET infrastructure significantly affects this particular release: the CLR itself, the compilers, and the major applications (SQL Server, Visual Studio) boot-strapped with those require …

Scoble has a good post on the Whidbey Slip [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

In it, he says "The idea that Whidbey is being slipped just because it needs to tie up with Yukon isn't wholly correct...." and I have to admit to blogging just that conclusion without having actually, you …

What is the next step in the evolutionary tree of programming languages...the new languages I have heard of seemed to fall in the existing classifications: it integrates such feature from language A, such other from language B and so on...At the same time, object oriented languages can be …

Does Tufte do any online training or have a CD? Asked "bro" in my comments (or maybe it was my brother Steve...)

I don't think so and having attended a seminar of his, I can guess why. Tufte treasures "density of information" in representation. One thing he passes around at …

Mike Schinkel wants Microsoft to create a stepping-stone language for .NET -- VBScript.NET.

A couple of thoughts:

There needs to be a language for .NET that presents the user a simplified object and typing model. Mike lays out the case very nicely.

Microsoft doesn't have to be the one to …