"Google is the PS2"
Ozzie compared Google's position to Sony's position with the PS2 a few years ago. But doesn't that make IBM Nintendo?
more ...Ozzie compared Google's position to Sony's position with the PS2 a few years ago. But doesn't that make IBM Nintendo?
more ...Scott Guthrie just announced IronRuby! Yeehaw!!!!!!
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Silverlight binding; demoing on Mac
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Dynamic Language Runtime announced
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"Shipping later this week" (I'm sure he means shipping a beta / CTP)
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Uses Ruby naming scheme when programming .NET libraries (weird. Not sure I like that.)
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"Switch the console into Python mode, Ruby mode, VB …
more ...Michael Suess's fantastic series of brief interviews with concurrence gurus concludes with Microsoft's Joe Duffy (whose own blog is must-reading for performance-oriented windows developers">)contains the intriquing quote in the title. I smell CLR support!
more ...Jonathan Edwards has a great piece of speculation. Man, if John Lam has produced a native CLR Ruby (maybe based on the IronPython codebase) in 8 months, he'd be the run-away winner of this year's He-Man Programming Award.
more ...Please, feel free to laugh at this column describing how I was completely pwned by hackers trading the German dub of 'Norbit'...
more ...This object, which is of uniform density, is self-righting. It has a second balance point that is "unstable"/highly susceptible to perturbation (when I first read the article I thought it said it didn't have such a point, which freaked me out). I love mathematical objects that are complex and …
Benoit Lavigne wonders if ageism is a problem in the software development profession. Oh, hell yeah. From the minute I began editing software development magazines (when I was 25) I began hearing from professionals in their 40s and higher who faced disproportionate difficulty getting work. There is not a question …
more ...more ...Disc Link, a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies Group (an organization that basically buys up patents so that it can sue anyone who violates them), claims that it's patent number 6,314,574 covers hyperlinks from documents stored on a CD that send users to sites on the web.
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