Can you tell it's a slow day in the office? :) Speaking of raising the level of abstraction as well as browser based applications, check out Nikhil's JavaScript Utilities project : The project introduces the notion of .jsx (extended JavaScript...

Chris Bilson left the following comment to my Thoughts on CAB post I hesitate to agree that raising the abstraction level of tools is a good idea. That's just hiding the complexity that's already there inside of more complexity. If you ever need...

He in this case is Tim Mallalieu from the data programmability team. He and I used to work on the .NET Adoption Team in the field together before we both moved to campus. Tim, if I recall correctly, was the first outside hire we made on that team. We...

I asked Scoble for his thoughts on my post about the term mashup , and he decided simply to link to it . While I appreciate the traffic, I'd appreciate opinions even more. Luckily, in the same post he linked to Sam Ramji writing about what he called ...

As I wrote earlier, I'm really impressed with p&p 's latest release - the Composite UI Application Block . I had to fly to Atlanta for a customer meeting last week and I spent most of my spare time (flying, in hotel, etc) digging thru CAB. Well, digging...

Wikipedia has two definitions of mashup : Mashup (music) : a musical genre consisting of the combination of the parts of more than one song Mashup (web application hybrid) : a website or web application that combines content from more than one...

First, Amigo Grady Booch admits to throwing away models . Now, Amigo Ivar Jacobson has signed on as a VSIP partner: Microsoft has tapped Ivar Jacobson, known as one of the fathers of the popular Rational Unified Process (RUP), to lead an effort...

David Hayden shows off the Export Templates Wizard from VS05. Very cool. Frankly, I like GAT for most of this type of template work, but this really fits nicely from a simplest thing that could possibly work " perspective.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the most recent issue of The Architecture Journal , I highly recommend it. In particular, I liked Metropolis and SOA Governance by Richard Veryard and Philip Boxer as well as Value Driven Architecture by Charlie...

I wasn't there, but apparently Grady Booch made a comment at OOPSLA last month that throwing away models is a good thing. Juha-Pekka's account of the Design and Modern Software Practices Panel has Grady saying "when the project gets closer to the delivery...