25 Pathetic Attempts to Make .NET Look Bad Fun stuff, especially the comments.

Met with Serguei Dmitriev and Eugene Belyaev of JetBrains, the makers of IDEA, the best IDE for Java. I was trying to show them some of Marin, but just as we got to the ocean, it started pouring. "We're from Russia," they said, undeterred. We walked for, oh, 3 minutes …

The future is not objects

Managage code is language-neutral, right?  No!  Right now the CLI is very much tilted in favor of Object-Oriented languages (C++, C#, VB, Java).  This is fine for now, but looking around the computing landscape leads me to a hypothesis:

Hypothesis: The interesting programming models in …

....Arguing whether keyword synchronized is better than keyword lock is all well and good, but it's irrelevant to why .NET is going to become the dominant platform for software development....: An article I posted to the DOTNET-CX mailing list today.

I'm trying to stretch the definition of "holiday season" over the weekend as an excuse for hacking up an xBack server for .NET that works with intermittently-connected Radio clients (the cool thing about Radio Userland is that it runs locally on your work machine and uploads static HTML pages …

Friday Five

1. Do you wear any jewelry? What kind?

I wear my gold claddagh wedding ring.

2. How often do you wear it?

I only take it off when I'm swimming / diving.

3. Do you have any piercings? If so, where?

I have a pierced ear, but haven't worn …

I had fun over the holidays, jazzing around with genetic algorithms, C#, and the Pocket PC. Time to go back to work and finish some articles...

Why is pingback / trackback a good design? Why isn't the referer [sic] header the way to automatically track pages that link to you? I was thinking of writing a pingback server for .NET, but on closer look, it seems inelegant. I only had a few hours sleep last night / this …

Friday Five:

1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year?

Writing Thinking in C#, a 1,000-page technical book. Although I started it in September of 2001, I did 80% of the work in 2002. * *

2. What was your biggest disappointment?

Despite having the content of Thinking in C# essentially …

MS Must Ship Sun's Java