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Sunday, January 02, 2005 5:27 PM

Secure CRT

One of the cool new things we are doing in the security push is the conversion of all uses of potentially unsafe CRT (C Runtime) functions to their new, safe counterparts. When we think of unsafe CRT functions, we usually think of string manipulation
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Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:05 PM

Open Source Courses for .NET

Open source courses based on .NET are a great resource both for creating courses at other universities and for people who simply want to use the materials to learn something on their own about either .NET in general or Rotor. I know of two such courses
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Monday, July 19, 2004 6:21 PM

Rotor benchmarks

To date there has been no standard set of benchmarks that do something meaningful, run on Rotor and execute long enough to enable performance measurements. Standard benchmarks are very important for publishing research results because they make easier
Posted by michaljc | 5 Comments
Friday, May 28, 2004 6:51 PM

IVNET'05

IVNET’05 (Conference of Innovative Views of .NET Technologies) is another conference related to CLI. Its scope is actually much larger but the CFP lists a few areas relevant to my Rotor blog. The two most obvious ones are programming languages and
Posted by michaljc | 2 Comments
Friday, May 28, 2004 3:50 PM

Slides from MSR Academic Days in Portugal

I returned yesterday from the MSR Academic Days . These events were quite interesting. Organizers of the event in Portugal made the slides used for presentations available on-line . Slides for my Rotor presentations are there . In addition to Rotor, the
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:13 AM

Rotor RFP2 recipients

As mentioned earlier , we have the final list of researchers awarded grants for proposed work related to Rotor. The list is now public . Check it out: there are many very exciting projects there.
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Friday, May 14, 2004 7:38 PM

A servicing update of Rotor

Jan has just announced that he created a project with the modifications needed to build and run Rotor on versions of MacOS, FreeBSD and Windows that were released since Rotor was shipped. This servicing project is available at http://servicing.sscli.net
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:29 PM

Rotor talks at MSR Academic Days in May

I will be giving talks about Rotor next week in Vilamoura in Portugal and the week after that in Barcelona in Spain . If you are interested in Rotor and will be around there, let me know even if you will not attend these events. _uacct = "UA-238213-3";
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Monday, May 10, 2004 7:36 PM

Rotor BOF notes

Last Thursday I went to the Birds-Of-A-Feather session about Rotor at the Virtual Machine (VM'04) conference . There were over a dozen attendees. Most people haven't done much work with Rotor yet and they were there out of curiosity. I managed to write
Posted by michaljc | 4 Comments
Sunday, May 02, 2004 10:34 PM

Rotor BOF at the VM'04 conference in San Jose

I wanted to remind you about the Birds-of-a-Feather session devoted to Rotor at the VM'04 conference this week. The BOF is scheduled for Thursday, May 6, 7:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m. You can find a description at http://www.usenix.org/events/vm04/bofs.html
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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:16 PM

Rotor BOF is now on the USENIX web site

The Birds-of-a-Feather session about Rotor at VM’04 that I mentioned earlier is now officially scheduled at the conference web site: http://www.usenix.org/events/vm04/bofs.html - it is scheduled for the evening of Thursday, May 6. I hope that we
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Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:19 PM

Popularity of the Rotor book

Peter has recently pointed out to me that the “ Shared Source CLI Essentials ” book is quite popular on Amazon. If you look at Amazon’s page for the book , you will see that it is number 1 for readers in Redmond, WA and number 5 for
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Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:16 PM

Rotor Birds-of-a-Feather Session at VM'04

John Gough , Peter and I are organizing a Rotor BoF at the VM’04 conference in May in San Jose. Watch this space or one of the two Rotor mailing lists ( http://www.mail-archive.com/dotnet-rotor%40discuss.develop.com/ and http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-sscli/
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:31 PM

Yet another blogger writing about Rotor

Check out a new blog by Yun Jin . A yet another person from the CLR team with a lot of interesting insights about our source code.
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Saturday, January 17, 2004 4:01 PM

Replacing GC in Rotor

I talked on Thursday to Steve Blackburn and Andrew Gray who work on porting JMTk to Rotor. JMTk is a memory management toolkit that is used to implement high-performance garbage collectors. The source code of the port of JMTk to Rotor is available at
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