Now that the end of the year is upon us and everyone is anxiously awaiting their return to the office, a quiet retreat away from the hectic maelstrom of holiday cheer, it became quite obvious to me that what everyone really wanted and should have found...

Apparently Xena was not the only solar body renamed this week by the International Astronomical Union. In an attempt to align all planet and dwarf planet names along the Greek pantheon theme, a group of rather overzealous and somewhat tipsy astronomers...

I know I've not been attentive for a while. However, is that any reason to try and steal my crown? It looks like Charles Petzold is trying to be funnier than me. Check out his plan for a new book. He claims it's an ' Evolutionary Leap '. I'll gladly...

A new update to LINQ preview is available at MSDN site. What's the coolest new feature? IMHO, its IQueryable<T>. DLINQ's query mechanism has been generalized and available for all to use as part of System.Query. It implements the Standard...

Everywhere I turn, all I read about is dynamic languages. Apparently, there is a small yet growing contingent of programmers that think dynamic is the only way to go. These guys are frustrated with the shackles of static type systems that force them to...

I have been working a long time to bring queries into a modern programming language. Seven years ago I looked beyond ORM and saw the next horizon, a new world where boundaries between data are blurred and popular paradigms from different disciplines combine...

I was on my way to post that my site had not actually been blocked by a foreign government, aside from all the rumors spread recently, that the truth was I had just been incredibly negligent at forming any coherent thoughts or communicating in general...

It's December; time for the obligatory post. How are you? I am fine. Look at the family photo, everyone dressed in uncomfortable holiday sweaters. Last year was swell. Hope yours was too. Page filler - think of something for here. Until next year then...

A refresh of the LINQ preview that works with Whidbey (VS2005) RTM is available at the MSDN site. Here's the LINQ: http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/ Enjoy.

Now that LINQ is out the door, so to speak, I can start focusing my efforts on the next next technology here at Microsoft. Ever since I joined up with the C# team nearly two years ago I’ve been frustrated by my inability to wax poetic about all the goodness...