October 2007 - Posts

• More JavaScript discussion on Ajaxian

  Re: my earlier post on the future of JavaScript, there is another interesting item today on Ajaxian: ECMAScript Edition 4: Brendan Speaks Out . --Scott Read More... Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 3:19 PM by scottwil | 1 Comments Filed under: Languages, JavaScript

• The Future of JavaScript

  Gabriele Renzi has a good post on the future of JavaScript: " ECMAScript 4, the fourth system syndrome ". The concept of a "fourth system syndrome" is a good one, particularly so for programming languages. For mature programming languages, thoughtful Read More... Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 9:10 AM by scottwil | 5 Comments Filed under: Languages, JavaScript

• F# Press Coverage

  Soma blogged earlier announcing our intent to productize F#, and we are seeing some press coverage of this: Ars Technica: Microsoft to push functional programming into the mainstream with F# by Ryan Paul BetaNews: Experimental 'Functional' Language Emerges Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 11:39 AM by scottwil | 1 Comments Filed under: VS, Languages, F#

• Second Life .NET User Group

  Funny thing. As soon as I blogged about Second Life at OOPSLA , I happened across the Second Life .NET User Group ! Saturday at noon is a difficult time for me, but I'll have to give this a try at some point. --Scott Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:43 PM by scottwil | 1 Comments

• Second Life at OOPSLA

  There was an interesting session at OOPSLA yesterday called " Second Life: The World's Biggest Programming Environment " by Jim Purbrick and Mark Lentczner , that covered two main topics. The first part of the talk was mainly about the popularity of LSL Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:28 PM by scottwil | 2 Comments Filed under: C#, VS, Languages

• Working with MSR Cambridge

  I've been traveling for the last week or so, first to Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England and then to OOPSLA in Montreal . We have top-notch languages researchers in MSR Cambridge, and this was a good trip to build a deeper relationship with them. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 1:10 PM by scottwil | 1 Comments Filed under: C#, Languages

• Unified Communications for Developers

  In sync with the release of unified communications products , Bill Gates published a well-written piece today on Software-Powered Communications . The primary focus of this software is Information Workers , it is also interesting to think about the trends Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:50 PM by scottwil | 2 Comments

• New Position for Me

  I recently switched from managing a large group (VB, VC#, VC++, and Phoenix product units) to working in a staff role for Jason Zander , who is managing a larger group that includes the product units I previously mentioned plus a number of others that Read More... Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 9:43 AM by scottwil | 7 Comments Filed under: VS

• Signed C# Book

  I got a nice email on Friday from Tudor Vlad , who was very happy to receive a copy of C# Programming Language signed by both Anders and me. Check out his post on the same topic, including a picture of the title page! We have signed a lot of copies of Read More... Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 9:18 AM by scottwil | 1 Comments Filed under: C#