According to this CNet article, Harry McCracken of PC World resigned when pressured by SVP Colin Crawford to tone down stories critical of advertisers. I have no idea of the inside scoop on this, and the CNet article is full of anonymous sources, but sadly, I can believe it.

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Because I use primary_key_prefix_type = :table_name this did the trick for me. Basically, I just set up a hash mapping primary key column names ("InvoiceID" and the like) to the name of the appropriate controller ("invoice_admin"). When outputting a column, if the name of the column is contained in that hash …

Is there a product in the "cheaply deployable" range (say \~\$100) that you can point at a significant SQL Server database and it parses the foreign key relationships and presents a table viewer in which the values in the foreign-key column automatically hyperlink to the relevant table? And this tool …

The source code to the Microsoft.Scripting namespace is available at http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=438

A review of the IronPython codebase in the release makes the early-stage processing look pretty close to the (well-designed) IronPython 1.0 release: there's a language-specific tokenizer, parser, AST …

The preliminary documentation for the DLR is included in the IronPython-2.0A1-Doc.zip download at http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=438 :

We're leveraging the learning we did on IronPython to extract elements that could be common amongst languages (dynamic type system, hosting APIs, cached method dispatch …

Sam Gentile enthuses about the availability of the CLR on the Mac. Another thing is that Mac users, like PDA users, appear to be more willing to support small/Micro ISVs. Whether that would hold true for a Silverlight (i.e., non-native) UI, I don't know. But maybe I'll buy …

I'll be listening to this podcast ASAP.

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 …

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 …

Ozzie compared Google's position to Sony's position with the PS2 a few years ago. But doesn't that make IBM Nintendo?