The Lang.NET conference wrapped up yesterday and session recordings are now available. Full details on the talks and pointers to the recordings are here .

Ben Gillis is on the right track wrt some of the benefits we believe Oslo could help provide to IT in the long run . Specifically, his focus on the costs involved in getting answers to questions is spot on: "Many applications are so large and complex...

There's a good discussion between Jean-Jacques Dubray , Doug Purdy , and Charles Young about if/how Oslo relates to MDA, MOP, UML, SOA, metamodels and a number of other high-science concerns related to modeling. I'll leave those discussions to the experts...

A couple people have asked how to get Intellipad to do custom text formatting of the DSL. You do this by creating a new Classification for Intellipad. There are 3 steps. Here they are for a classification I created called X10.CommandCode . Add a new ClassificationType...

I'm still writing up the overview post to describe the goals of the X10 solution but enough folks have asked for the grammar so I'll just get it out there. I've posted the grammar and a sample input file up to the MSDN Code Gallery. Here's the grammar...

Just saw this job posting for a developer in our Management division. If you read between the lines you'll see Oslo's dirty hands all over this. :) Job Title: Software Development Engineer Job Category: Software Development Product: (Not Product Specific...

An interview I did with Kathleen Richards back in February just posted on Visual Studio Magazine. In it we cover some good Oslo questions like: What's new in the January CTP? Is "M" considered one language or multiple languages? Is Oslo expected to be...

A couple weeks ago I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and bring Oslo to bear on an area I’m becoming increasingly interested in: Home Automation. Specifically, I'm creating a home automation application/service that allows people to control household...

Well, it's time to dive into the blogosphere both feet first. For now, this blog will mostly be about Microsoft's "Oslo" project, notions of models/modeling, and the application of both to solution development. Maybe a little later we'll get into how...