Interoperability Happens

Dustin Campbell, a self-professed "IDE guy", is speaking at the .NET Developer's Association
of Redmond this evening, on the future of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010, and
I feel compelled, base...

... Corey Vidal, you have
outdone every YouTube video I've ever seen, and I was a huge fan of "White
and Nerdy".
John Williams, if you don't call this kid, you are missing out on some serious talen...

Having freshly converted both the Visual Studio 2010 and Oslo SDK VPC images that
we received at PDC 2008 last month to VMWare images, I figure it's time to dive into
M.
At PDC, the Addison-Wesley ...

Roy
Fielding has weighed in on the recent "buzzwordiness" (hey, if Colbert can make
up "truthiness", then I can make up "buzzwordiness") of calling everything a "REST
API", a tactic that has become...

Recently, a blog reader asked me if I wasn't doing any speaking any more since I'd
joined ThoughtWorks, and that's when I realized I'd been bad about updating my speaking
calendar on the website. S...

Having created a Window7 VMWare image (which I then later cloned and installed the
Windows7 SDK into, successfully, wahoo!), I turned to the Visual Studio 2010 bits
they provided on the hard drive....

The organizers of TSSJS 2009 have asked me to serve as the Languages track chair,
and as long-time readers of this blog will already have guessed, I've accepted quite
happily. This means that if yo...

I realized, I'm sitting here in Canyon's (in Redmond), with two laptops plugged into
the wall and the WiFi, playing with PDC bits.
It's a Saturday night, for cryin' out loud.
Please, any Redmondite...

So the first thing I do when I get back from PDC? After taking my youngest trick-or-treating
at the Redmond Town Center, and settling down into the weekend, I pull out the PDC
hard drive and have a...

PDC 2008 in LA is over now, and like most PDCs, it definitely didn't disappoint on
the technical front--Microsoft tossed out a whole slew of new technologies, ideas,
releases, and prototypes, all w...