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sadly i've been asked by Microsoft (the speaker in the X# video no less) to remove the link to the presentation on X# delivered by Chris Lovett . i could have sworn i snagged it from ms research , but i trust his word more than my cluttered brain. here is the email i received: How did you get this? Actually, I don't event want to know, but it is pretty bad that you are making internal only video about our non-product related research project available to the general public. Please remove it, thanks...

Dino Esposito posted this blog that reminded me of something that Shannon blogged about here . Dino received a great (albeit short) response that i 100% agree with. there is also another comment that brings up a great point: how to debug declarative code statements? it's a very valid point, and one that i am interested in seeing implementation of. xaml to me seems like nothing more than a hopped up scripting language, and i thought one of the initial points of asp.net was to move web development...

i wrote this letter to the CEO of Lindows back when the idea was first incepted as a Windows desktop replacement (this letter is circa april of 2002). while i applauded what they were trying to accomplish at the time (completely erradicating MS from the desktop...or perhaps providing some true competition), the developer in me wanted details as i have made my living using tried and somewhat true MS tools. at the time, they were claiming that 90% of native Windows apps would run on Lindows out of...

Stumbled across this article this morning, perhaps they will find the gene for free will/autonomy next?

as i'm sure everyone has seen, the next version of C# will include compile time support for super late binding...also known in the OO world as Generics. since even the early VB days, in order to achieve this type of functionality (albeit at run-time), we would use variant types, or in the .NET world, object types...then just supply several overloaded methods based on the actual type of object passed in. not only does this lead to severely repetitious coding, there is a severe performance penalty...