October 2008 - Posts

C# for dynamic programming!
Anders Hejlsberg demonstrated the dynamic programming features of C# 4.0. Very cool was C# calling JavaScript code without extra casts, calls to Invoke, and the like -- just straight function calls in C# that happen to be implemented in JavaScript. Even Read More...
Posted 28 October 08 12:10 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
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Windows Azure
PDC 2008 day 1: Ray Ozzie unveiled " Windows Azure ", our operating system for the cloud. After years of thinking of "operating system" as something that runs a computer, it's weird to think about the meaning of the term with respect to a large set of Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 09:36 by lblanco | 1 Comments   
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at the PDC again
I'm back in Los Angeles for this year's PDC. It was a long shot, given that the group I happen to be on is sending a smaller percentage of people to the PDC than the WPF team did back in '05, but thankfully I have an opportunity to present, which means Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 09:08 by lblanco | 2 Comments   
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taking the bus
Microsoft has been offering bus service in Redmond for about a year now. The idea is that the bus has a dedicated, direct route from close to your house to the Microsoft campus and back, with no stops in between, and that the route times are not only Read More...
Posted 16 October 08 09:32 by lblanco | 0 Comments   
Windows 7 will be called... "Windows 7"
It seems we've settled on an official name for the next version of Windows, codenamed Windows 7, and that name is (drumroll...) " Windows 7 ". Read More...
Posted 14 October 08 10:01 by lblanco | 1 Comments   
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