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Haskell in the Hallway: Sam Interviews Simon Peyton Jones

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
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

Talking Ruby and Dynamic Language Support with John Lam

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
• in: Community
• MichaelF

Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Support

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
• in: Community
• MichaelF

Taking the Heavy Lifting out of Game Development

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
• in: Community
• MichaelF

A Technical Look at ASP.NET AJAX

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... ... more

• Friday, February 02, 2007
• in: Community
• MichaelF

Socialpoint - Socialtext on Sharepoint a conversation with Ross Mayfield

by Sam Ramji on November 01, 2006

I got to spend an hour with Ross Mayfield (founder of Socialtext) today. We talked about a range of things, from open source calculators (WikiCalc) to the future of Sharepoint as a platform for open source development and the shift in Microsoft's approach to open source. Ross graciously gave us an extra fifteen minutes to capture part of our conversation on video...... more

• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• in: Media
• Sam Ramji