Channel 9 interview with the VS.NET IDE team

Is located here. It's well worth 30 minutes of your time. Observation: Dustin is fitting in quite well with a great team.

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Euler problems in other languages

I've had some comments on the Euler problems, so I'm assuming there is some interest. There's also been interest among other developers in our office. Darrell Hawley has started solving the problems in Python. Marina Fedner has started solv…

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There is a reason I still get a big blue rash

Earlier this week, Open XML won ISO approval.  By any objective measure, it won handily.  86% of the participants voted for the standard. Does that mean that 16% of the voting countries are run by IBM officials? One could make the case that i…

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Copy Source as HTML for Visual Studio 2008

I kept looking for an updated version of CopySourceAsHTML (http://www.jtleigh.com/people/colin/software/CopySourceAsHtml/)  that would work with Visual Studio 2008. (which is why some of my recent code snippets don't look the way I want).&nbsp…

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Link / News: University of Illinois gets funding to take parallel computing mainstream

My alma mater, The University of Illinois, just announced a joint venture with Microsoft, Intel, and the University of California at Berkeley which will enable commodity computer systems to make use of parallel computing techniques previously in the ex…

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My second DNR TV is live

The world-famous Carl Franklin invited be to be on DNR TV again.  The episode is live here: http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=105 We discuss generics in C#, and how you can use generics to create more reusable block of code. We go from fairly o…

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VS 2008 Source Server now live

Oh happy day. I'm stepping into the .NET Framework source using the VS 2008 debugger.  Shawn Burke has the most detailed post on how to get your VS 2008 enviornment setup.

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Bill (Gates) shows his sense of humor on his last day

This has been on the net in a few forms, but On10 just posted a high quality version of the Bill Gates' last day video from CES: http://on10.net/blogs/larry/Bills-Last-Day-CES-2008-Keynote-Video/Default.aspx  I'm amazed at the number of pe…

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Interesing facts on Password strength: length beats complexity

Thanks to Kate Gregory for the reference. This article: http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/11/02/password-policy-length-vs-complexity/ points out that increasing password length helps more than increasing password complexity in …

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Brian Beckman explains monads

 I try to do more original writing here than posting links, but this is too good not to reference. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=358968  Brian Beckman is one of my favorite experts from Channel 9.  He's a real rocket …

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