Usability issues in the design of novice programming systems

"I'm gonna convert my porn collection to WinFS." via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Hmmm... check the Visio WinFS schema diagram... Nope... The Ontology of Porn: Is a Top-Down Approach Best?

Longhorn enters the witching season: "Microsoft products never run as quickly, are more robust, or stay more secure than during this magical period. Every promised feature is present and works perfectly." via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

That quote is supposed to be sarcastic, but it seriously damages the credibility of the …

While debating whether to take a 3-month Java programming contract (short of Microsoft suddenly deciding they need a Bay Area-based mobilized computing evangelist, it looks like I'll be spending the winter in Denver), I wrote a quick little application that creates Outlook 2003 tasks and notes from ink. Try it …

...a new feature in next release of .NET -- "Friend Assemblies", that does precisely what you're suggesting. It will use an assembly-level custom attribute called "InternalsVisibleTo", that grants access to a named "friend" assembly (Omer.B in this example) -- for all "internal" types...John Lam describes how friend assemblies will be …

4. Ink comments in source code. Doesn't it make sense for ink comments to be embeddable in source code? 5. New programming models. Over the years people have tried various visual programming methodologies, but nothing sticks. Programming may just be a hard problem in general to solve... via [Incremental Blogger …

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Mono project roadmap via [Microsoft Watch]

Now with JPEG compression

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