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 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 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 jcannon on December 21, 2006
If you missed our post yesterday, we started a fascinating conversation with the Robotics team about the impetus and design goals of new Robotics Studio, from distributed intelligence & network-based agents, to why web browsers can provide strong interfaces to robotics control. In the second part of this conversation, we get a sense of what early work is possible with demos being run in the Robotics... more
- Thursday, December 21, 2006
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by jcannon on December 20, 2006
Last week, Microsoft released the first version of Robotics Studio, an SDK that contains three sets of tools; first, a common runtime architecture that can be used across robot devices; second, a set of programming tools that harness the power of Visual Studio, and a physics engine, to allow programmers to build & test their robots in simulated 3D space; and finally, a set of tutorials and sample code... more
- Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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by MichaelF on November 30, 2006
Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for the .NET Framework, sits down with Sam to discuss all things AJAX including: the Open AJAX Alliance, Atlas, the Microsoft AJAX Library and cross browser compatability...... more
- Thursday, November 30, 2006
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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
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by MichaelF on October 26, 2006
On September 6, 2006 Microsoft and Cisco announced the details of a technical partnership announced in October of 2004 focused on providing interoperability between the companies' disparate network security technologies: NAC and NAP. In this interview Sam digs into the details with Mark Ashida, General Manager of the Enterprise Networking Group...... more
- Thursday, October 26, 2006
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by MichaelF on August 11, 2006
In this, the last of our interviews from the LANG.NET Symposium, Sam sits down with Miguel de Icaza, VP Development Platform at Novell and co-founder of Ximian. Miguel is also responsible for starting two Open Source project you may have heard of: GNOME and Mono. ... more
- Friday, August 11, 2006
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