by Sam Ramji on October 25, 2007
We're excited to post Sam's discussion with Allison Randal that took place at this year's OSCON event in Portland, OR. Allison discusses the importance of particpation in the open source community and her perspective on Microsoft.... more
- Thursday, October 25, 2007
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by Sam Ramji on September 26, 2007
While at OSCON Sam and I had a chance to spend some time with Simon Peyton Jones to talk about Haskell, functional programming and other topics...... more
- Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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by Sam Ramji on August 30, 2007
On the day before OSCON officially kicked off I was heading back from the Oregon Convention Center to downtown and ended up standing on the MAX next to someone who caught my attention for two reasons. First, he was the first person to tell me about the O'Reilly/Moglen conversation from earlier in the morning which I had missed. Second he had a cool flash based microphone that he used to record podcasts... more
- Thursday, August 30, 2007
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by MichaelF on April 30, 2007
As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight...... more
- Monday, April 30, 2007
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by MichaelF on April 30, 2007
Mix 07 kicked off today with keynotes from Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. Amongst announcements regarding media and Silverlight Scott Guthrie announced the release of a cross-platform version of the .NET framework within Silverlight Alpha 1.1. Included is a Dynamic Language Runtime that allows developers to use languages such as Python, Java and Ruby to program in Silverlight...... more
- Monday, April 30, 2007
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by MichaelF on April 13, 2007
Sam sits down with a veteran of the video game industry, Development Manager of the XNA Community Game Platform and Star Trek Deck Plan expert: Frank Savage...... more
- Friday, April 13, 2007
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by anandeep on April 03, 2007
Michael Koziarski (a.k.a) Koz is one of the core group of about 12 people who holds the keys to the code repository for the Rails framework (also known as Ruby on Rails. They’re all listed on the Rails core page with name and mug-shot. (I checked, a guy who looks like the Michael I interviewed has his mug shot on the page!)... more
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by anandeep on March 30, 2007
Samir Chopra is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the City University of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Doctorate in Philosophy and is interested in the intersection of politics and technology – specifically information technology. In this post we both interview Samir and provide a chapter from his forthcoming book: Decoding... more
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by MichaelF on March 20, 2007
Awhile ago we talked to Martin Woodward from Teamprise about their suite of client applications allowing cross-platform access to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Today Teamprise announced free client licenses for developers who want to use them to access Codeplex. In this post we provide information on the announcement as well as a new interview with Martin...... more
- Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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by hjanssen on February 28, 2007
Hank Interviews Photosynth Developer Ian Gilman and shares his thoughts after 10 months at Microsoft...... more
- Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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by MichaelF on February 08, 2007
We get quite a few requests to provide more information about Powershell so we decided to go straight to the person who just finished writing the book on Powershell: Powershell in Action, Bruce Payette...... more
- Thursday, February 08, 2007
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by MichaelF on February 02, 2007
Following up on our post yesterday here is an interview with ASP.NET Technical Evangelist: Steve Marx. Steve discusses the three components of ASP.NET AJAX and shows us a demo of the software formerly known as ATLAS running on top of PHP on Linux to demonstrate some of the front and backend extraction capabilities...
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- Friday, February 02, 2007
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by MichaelF on January 29, 2007
In December Jamie posted a call for questions in the spirit of Festivus. Here is the result, or at least the first part of it...
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by Bryan Kirschner on January 11, 2007
Bryan interviews Mike Hines of the Sharepoint Learning Kit team to discuss the project and opportunities available to OSS developers and shares some thoughts on a couple of recent articles...... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on November 07, 2006
I know I’m running a risk of losing focus on the thread I started on analogy and metaphor, but there’ve been too many things popping up in the last couple weeks. In the interest of focus (and maybe good taste) I decided not to follow up There’s a Vendor in My OSS with “And Now There’s an Oracle in My Pudding” for now...... more
- Tuesday, November 07, 2006
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