Disruptive Programming Languages Technology Todd Proebsting, Microsoft Research, October 16, 6 PM - 9PM, PARC, Palo Alto. See you there!

Peter Coffee reviewed C# Builder in a recent eWeek article and came to pretty much the opposite conclusion as I did. I respect Peter tremendously and there are no facts in his review that I dispute (although I was very surprised to see his report that the performance was excellent …

This pan of Borland's C# Builder was among the hardest things I've ever written. It's a crying shame that Borland didn't do a better job on this product.

Funny:

A colleague of mine at SD Times tried to sign up for press credentials to Sun's SunNet conference and received the following error message:>

>Application Web Server Busy

>The application web server is too busy to handle your request at this time.

>Possibly reached capacity.

>Please notify the site's …

Micro-expressions -- facial expressions that last a fraction of a second -- give away exactly how you feel, no matter how hard you try to conceal it. A CD-ROM set teaches how to detect the emotions people try to hide. By Kim Zetter. via [Wired News]

Okay, the particular application is cool …

We had a lot of fun at the Portland .NET Users group showing the information that's publicly available on Whidbey, Yukon, and Longhorn (with a little Indigo thrown in).

We've posted our slides.  Feel free to check them out. via [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]

Good stuff …

Don's take on the state of MS's developer relations (although, as he admits, he's no longer unbiased).

via [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]

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Martin Fowler argues that even if we abandon Lines-Of-Code, still we CannotMeasureProductivity: "...Even if we did find an accurate way for function points to determine functionality...if I spend a year delivering a 100FP system and Joe spends the same year delivering a 50FP system can we assume that I'm …

There are lots of lectures going on at Microsoft...many recorded talks online publicly at the Multi-University/Research Lectures project.  via [Curiosity is bliss]

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