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 …
more ...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 …
more ...more ...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 …
more ...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 …
more ...I am reminded of the South Park where Cartman tries to kill Stan with a wiffle bat.
Blogged on a Tablet PC
more ...My latest SD Times column contains my impressions of a standards meeting (based on my participation in the ECMA C# and C++/CLI meetings last month).
more ...Standard Issue
more ...Just launched: a website promising live virtual coverage of this weekend's Grand Challenge race, in which robotic vehicles will race accross the California desert. via [Boing Boing Blog]
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p dir=ltr> My guess is that this will be the biggest letdown since the last episode of Seinfeld, but on the …
more ...Thanks, Robert and Sam! I'm now in Orkut! But Scoble humiliates me further. If there's one thing more humiliating than begging for an invite, it's begging for an invite and having to clarify who you are.
Actually, this is evidence that Scoble lives in a future not yet distributed. I …
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