Charles Petzold and Jeff Atwood have gotten in a bit of a kerfluffle that, I think, is an unfortunate example of how online writing can escalate and over-dramatize disagreements between even two talented writers. I'm sure that Atwood appreciates Petzold's work and I'm sure that Petzold appreciates constructive criticism. I'm …
more ...That Microsoft was going to increase support for dynamic languages is no surprise: they've been talking about that since (at least) PDC '03 and various hires and initiatives have clearly been in the works. I haven't seen the DLR yet, but my big question is: what version / runtime / patch level …
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'...
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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 …
Just back from a 4-day mini-vacation in Kauai, hiker's paradise (well, if your idea of paradise is a hike in the rain to the world's highest swamp along knife-edge ridges with 3,000' drops...) Looks like I missed lots of interesting goings-on and Mix is going to generate tons of …