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.
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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).
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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 …
more ...Okay, I'll admit that it's obvious that I'm not a "connector" but surely there's at least 1 reader willing to admit knowing me.
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more ...Yukon and Whidbey have slipped to mid-2005, Microsoft has confirmed. via [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
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p dir=ltr> Ooh, that hurts. This is a big stumble on Microsoft's part. One wonders if they are actively rethinking the linkage of tools and database products... Back in September, it looked …
more ...more ...A USC roboticist has built a robot for "printing" houses that can extrude cement or adobe and shape it using trowel-manipulators to a CAD-represented spec....The key to the technology is a computer-guided nozzle that deposits a line of wet concrete, like toothpaste being squeezed onto a table.... via [Boing …
Edward Tufte is one of the leading thinkers in how to visually present information. His latest stuff, on Sparklines, is showing up on lots of the feeds I'm reading tonight. via [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
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p dir=ltr> A "sparkline" is a very compact graph that you inline with …
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