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Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:46 PM

Back in Action!

I know it’s cliché to blog about blogging, but I’d like to take this opportunity to explain why there has been such a lull. In short, I’ve been busy. Finished Programming F# As you might have heard, I was working on a book . Well no more! The book is
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:17 PM

Deep Fried F#

Episode 24: Chatting about F# with Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell “Get your code on!” Being the international media sensation that I am, back at PDC Dustin Campbell and I recorded a podcast for Deep Fried Bytes . The podcast turned out awesome. Well,
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:05 PM

F# No Longer Vaporware

REDMOND, WA - Sadly, after nearly four years of stringing developers along with Microsoft's longest touted non-product, F# was accidentally checked into the Visual Studio 2010 source tree Microsoft sources report. This mistake killed what would have been
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Monday, October 27, 2008 4:52 PM

PDC - Day 1

I'm writing this from the 'big room' in the LA Convention Center.If you don't know, PDC is a HUGE conference Microsoft holds to introduce cutting edge technology and show developers the roadmap for Microsoft's platforms. What that means for me, is that
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:45 PM

Due out Next Year – Programming F# by Chris Smith

I’d like to announce that for the past few months I’ve been secretly working on a book for O’Reilly titled Programming F# . My aim is to provide the one-stop-shop for learning the breadth of the F# language. A special thanks goes out to Nate LaMartina,
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Friday, April 11, 2008 3:18 PM

Shameless plug - we're hiring!

As Don and Brian have mentioned, we are working towards an April Update to the F# research release as well CTP this summer and eventually integrating into the next release of Visual Studio. Things are going great on the polishing/finalizing F# front,
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Monday, April 23, 2007 12:58 PM

Improving current approaches of testing

A while ago I said that a professional tester should split his or her time to testing the product and thinking about how to improve upon the current approaches for testing. Now that Orcas Beta1 is out the emphasis for many testers is on running and re-running
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Monday, July 31, 2006 10:51 AM

Back to the front lines!

So the past month I've been pretty busy. The Indigo team has started a new Sprint and I have had the fortune of going on vacation. I've done a lot of thinking about blog topics and things I would like to share with you, so hopefully August will be an
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:54 PM

How do I become a VP in five years and retire in 10?

Why don't more Vice Presidents come from Test at Microsoft?
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:08 PM

LINQ CTP release

New Linq CTP is available, check it out!
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Monday, May 08, 2006 3:37 PM

And so it begins - any suggestions on where to start?

The Visual Studio tooling support for Indigo is starting up. We will be regularly releasing our bits via CTP, what features would you like to see sooner rather than later to provide your feedback?
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Sunday, April 30, 2006 8:39 PM

Some Microsoft codenames

Before I act too harshly on Nintendo for having a cooler codename than product name, here is a list of Microsoft codenames which would make for some pretty interesting products.
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Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:11 PM

What makes a good tester

The VS Indigo QA team has its new member.
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 5:10 PM

You don't have to go home but you can't stay here

Now that the Visual Studio 2005 Generic Bootstrapper has shipped I'll be moving onto the new Windows Communication Foundation designer team for Visual Studio.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:15 PM

LINQ project reactions

Paul Vick, VB technical lead, gave a talk today about some of the new language features for VB .NET 9.0. I would describe the experience as jaw dropping . XML, Data, SQL just working together seamlessly. Wow. As the LINQ project solidifies I'll let you
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