I'd like to say a word of welcome to James Margetson , who has joined the F# team. James started with us at Microsoft Research in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago, and has a lot of experience with mixed functional/imperative programming from his days at...

Some sessions I've attended: This morning was City of Wings -- from their site: "The Hive is a unique and multi-layered community based on an enchanting shared-world of image, dreams and meaning. It explores humanistic themes like duality, emotional...

I listen to NPR religiously but sometimes I miss the shows that really like to listen to: Democracy Now, Alternative Radio, This American Life, etc. I spent hours today looking for "TiVO for radio" to record shows for offline listening. Eventually I found...

I'm pleased to announce that Robert Pickering has launched an F# Wiki . Robert was one of the early adopters of F#, and pushed the implementation in many useful ways, including being the first to use it in conjunction with ASP.NET. I'd encourage those...

Back to the university time, before my call to the enterprise problems, I was a maniac of everything had to do with computational geometry and computer graphic in general. One of my favourite toys was LParser , a program which would produce elegant 3D...

I presented Avalon yesterday at FITC , a very cool conference. It has both creative and technical tracks and is attended by lots of people think on the edge of UI design. For example, check out this site http://www.moock.org/ -- perhaps the only site...

I just discovered that Photoshop CS supports scripting in AppleScript, JavaScript and Visual Basic! There's a complete type library available for the Visual Basic developer, and you can use either VBScript or full blown Visual Basic. I'm going to bet...

För dig som tycker dig ha hört ordet Indigo men inte riktigt har koll på vad det är så tycker jag du ska ta en titt på följande film som ger en bra introduktion. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20050407INDIGOSS/manifest...

The Fourth Estates's foruntes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC? You've to watch a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson , with music by Aaron McLeran . Watch it at http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

(Apologies to those who are offended by the South Park movie scene that inspired the title of this post!) About a month ago, Daniel J. Smith asked me something that prompted me to say Dere are qvestions? In zat case ... Then last week, Martin Müller...

You don't need to strongly name EXEs. When you strongly name an assembly, you want this assembly to be shared by multiple applications. But you typically don't share applications between applications. An EXE usually is considered as an application...

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1760375,00.asp Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has some big hopes and dreams for SharePoint, Microsoft's collaboration technology. Gates sang SharePoint's praises on Friday during his keynote...