Ramblings of a Lazy Coder

  • A hands-on with Volta

    I could add a hands-on with Volta to elaborate on my previous post, but Wes already beat me to it on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/wesdyer/archive/2007/12/05/volta-redefining-web-development.aspx

  • Sinterklaas gift

    Dear Developer,

    Sinterklaas wants to move to Web 2.0,
    But his brain is old and slow.

    Client, Server, HTML, IE, FF, SL, CSS and ASP,
    These are all a mystery.

    If he could only use what he already knows,
    Using tools and languages he long ago chose.

    Not worry about client versus server,
    Is like getting tossed a life preserver.

    Just as he scatters candy to the kids,
    He puts custom attributes on his bits.

    Async code, that’s too easy,
    Before Volta, it made him queasy.

    If the dev inside you is still alive,
    This gift will help you strive.

    Tell others to get Volta this year,
    It will be a great addition to their gear.

    So Visit http://labs.live.com/volta real fast,
    Download the tool and you will have a blast.

    Sinterklaas, December 5th 2007

     

    Sinterklaas is an old Dutch tradition that involves amateur poetry and gift giving to celebrate the eve of Saint Nicholas’ birthday on December 6th.
    More information at
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas

  • First Post!

    Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation of using one of the most popular 'internet memes' for my augurational post.

    ontopic: Who am I and what is this blog about?

    My name is Jeffrey van Gogh and I'm a developer here at Microsoft. I work in the "DP Languages Team" for Erik Meijer. Our team is tasked with coming up with developer language features & tooling to make data more accessible to developers Currently I'm working on tooling to make data access across multiple tiers a lot easier for C# and VB developers. ("Democratizing the Cloud"). Expect news about these tools in the near future. Through this blog I hope to shed some light on these tools as well as receive your feedback on them.

    Why the title of my blog? Much to often, existing programming languages and tooling leave the developer too much plumbing. The goal of our team is facilitate the lazy coder, a developer should only need to write what is absolutely necessary. Accidental complexity should be left to tooling.

    Hope to see you back here soon!

     

    Jeffrey


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