Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : Media, Dev Center

Eclipse Executive Director, Mike Milinkovich, Talks with Sam

Sam Ramji — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:21:00 GMT

Mike Milinkovich is the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation - an open source community - supported by a non-profit foundation - dedicated to building an open source development environment. In this podcast, Mike joins us to discuss some history around Eclipse, the larger open source community - and his varied background in accounting and computer science. Mike also touches on the architecture of participation's impact on the foundation and the development team behind the Eclipse platform.

For interested Eclipse users, Sam will be speaking at this year's EclipseCon 2008 - stay tuned to Port 25 for more information as that draws closer.

Talking Ruby and Dynamic Language Support with John Lam

MichaelF — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:05:00 GMT

As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight. In this video Sam sits down with John Lam, who we interviewed during the LANG.NET Symposium in August (before he came to work for Microsoft), to discuss his work with Ruby and the DLR.

Video: John Lam and Sam Ramji discuss RubyCLR, Avalon Ruby Editor and Open Source Fundi

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

MichaelF — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:45:00 GMT

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.

I could drone on about this but we decided to go sit down with two of the individuals who contributed to this effort: Jim Hugunin and John Lam instead. Jim, who we interviewed before, gives us some insight into this announcement including some information about new MS-PL releases to Codeplex tied to this announcement (Hint: IronPython 2.0).

Later today, we will post the second interview with John Lam.

Video: Python, Java, Ruby, Oh My! Silverlight Alpha 1.1 ships with Dynamic Language Sup

Taking the Heavy Lifting out of Game Development

MichaelF — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:21:00 GMT

In this interview Sam sits down with a veteran of the gaming industry, Star Trek Deck Plan Expert and Development Manager for the XNA Community Game Platform: Frank Savage. Sam and Frank discuss his background and how he ended up at Microsoft as well as the finer points of XNA. Included are demos of both games that have been developed using XNA as well as how XNA eases much of the work associated with game development allowing users to focus on the game itself.

Video: Taking the Heavy Lifting out of Game Development

You can download XNA Express Studio and the XNA Framework here.

Something wonderful has happened... Number Five is alive!

jcannon — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:03:00 GMT

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 to get started. In this video (there are two - we'll post the second tomorrow), we learn a little bit about the design goals & architecture behind Robotics Studio...tomorrow we have some very cool demo time with the team.

Why is robotics such an interesting area to watch? According to the latest statistics from the International Federation of Robotics, about 1 million personal robots will be sold around the world this year. And by 2025, the Japanese Robot Association predicts the personal robot industry will be worth more than $50 billion a year worldwide.

Video: MPEG4 Available Something wonderful has happened... Number Five is alive!

Additional Links:
- Robotics Studio Home Page
- Download Robotics Studio (Free for Non-Commercial Use)
- Channel9 Interview

From Atlas to ASP.NET AJAX: Sam Interviews Brad Abrams

MichaelF — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:31:00 GMT

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. Brad also does a quick demo near the end of the video.

Video: From Atlas to ASP.NET AJAX: Sam Interviews Brad Abrams

Related Links:

ASP.NET AJAX homepage: http://ajax.asp.net
Shanku Nyogi's (Product Unit Manager for UI Framework and Services Team) blog: http://www.shankun.com/Atlas_Php_2.aspx
Brad's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada

Video: From Atlas to ASP.NET AJAX: Sam Interviews Brad Abrams

Andi Gutmans on working with Microsoft & Improving PHP Performance on Windows

MichaelF — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:31:00 GMT

Today at Zendcon Bill Hilf and Andi Gutmans announced a new technical collaboration aimed at improving the performance of PHP on Windows both for IIS 6 as well as in the future including IIS 7 on Longhorn. The partnership has multiple components including Microsoft releasing a FastCGI add-on for IIS and Zend will establish a Windows testing lab to ensure high performance on an ongoing basis. In the end the winners are the millions of PHP developers and hosters who want an viable choice in operating systems.

In this interview Sam and Andi discuss how Zend came to be as well as the details of the announcement. Andi provides his perspective on what this collaboration will mean to the PHP community and has a question of his own for Sam.

Video: Andi Gutmans on working with Microsoft

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Java and .NET Interoperability: JNBridge

MichaelF — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:57:00 GMT

Update: We thought we would try our videos on YouTube...would love to hear feedback on this implementation.
Sam interviews Wayne Citrin to discuss work his company, JNBridge, has done to provide interoperability between .NET and Java.

Wayne Citrin is the CTO at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridgePro, and has been engrossed in Java and .NET interop issues since .NET's beta days. Previously, Wayne was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers, and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland, and has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science.

The JNBridge blog can be found here.

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Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza

MichaelF — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:30:00 GMT

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.

In this interview Sam and Miguel talk about the history behind Mono, the current state of the project and Miguel's thoughts on Mono as it relates to .NET.

Video: Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza

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John Lam and Sam Ramji discuss RubyCLR, Avalon Ruby Editor and Open Source Funding

MichaelF — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:10:00 GMT

The second person we interviewed during the LANG.NET symposium is John Lam. John is the creator of RubyCLR and most recently he created an Avalon Ruby Editor (we capture a short demo near the end of this video. Let me acknowledge now that, yes, I need to work on my skills capturing demos on film.)

John has his own blog: http://www.iunknown.com and he has an entry about his time with us in the lab here.

Video: John Lam and Sam Ramji discuss RubyCLR, Avalon Ruby Editor and Open Source Fundi

Credit to John's Blog for the photo below, from his visit to the Open Source Software Lab

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Sam Ramji and Professor John Gough talk Virtual Machines, Dynamic Languages, Ruby and .NET (Part 2)

MichaelF — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:38:00 GMT

In part two of two, Sam and Professor Gough continue their conversation focusing on Dynamic Languages and Professor Gough's work with Ruby and .NET.

Part One of this interview, as well as some background on Professor Gough and the LANG.NET symposium can be seen here.

Video: Sam Ramji and Professor John Gough talk Virtual Machines, Dynamic Languages

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Sam Ramji and Professor John Gough talk Virtual Machines, Dynamic Languages, Ruby and .NET (Part 1)

MichaelF — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:30:00 GMT

Last week Microsoft hosted the LANG.NET symposium in Redmond. From the program: "The conference program will focus on the pragmatics and experience of designing languages, implementing compilers, and building language tools that target managed execution platforms such as the .NET CLR and other implementations of the ECMA CLI."

During the conference we had the opportunity to meet with a few attendees and film interviews to share with you on Port 25.

In part one of a two part interview Sam talks with John Gough, Professor Emeritus at Queensland University of Technology, about his background in compilers and virtual machines, Dynamic Languages and how he became involved with the .NET project.

Video: Sam Ramji and Professor John Gough talk Virtual Machines, Dynamic Languages

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Black Hat US 2006: Networking & Heap Manager Updates with the Core Windows Team

jcannon — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:38:00 GMT

At this year's Black Hat Security Conference, several engineers on the Windows Networking & Security teams will be presenting <for the first time, ever> on a number of technical topics, ranging from the new improvements made to the reliability & performance of the OS Heap Manager, to the NetIO stack—a re-architected and re-written TCP/IP stack. Our discussion on this podcast has three distinguished engineers discussing their work with Sam, including:

Noel Anderson - Group Manager on the Windows Wireless Team (IP Stack for Bluetooth & Wi-Fi)
Adrian Marinescu - former member of the Windows Kernel team, LPC, Object Manager & Heap Manager. This past year, Adrian has focused his work on Vista's Heap Manager.
Aboldate Gbadegesin - Architect on Core Networking on Windows (TCP/IP & related protocols, tools & components)

We'll cover their respective areas of work & discuss the topics being presented at Black Hat for those that cannot attend.

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Podcast: Accessing VS Team Foundation Server from Mac, UNIX or Linux through Eclipse

jcannon — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:51:00 GMT

Sam interviews Martin from Teamprise, a company which has developed a pretty interesting suite of client applications that can access Visual Studio Team Foundation Server from Macintosh, UNIX or Linux clients using Eclipse. The Teamprise implementation allows development teams to use the source control features as well as work item tracking from within the Eclipse IDE.

Related Links:
- Check out the Teamprise site
- Download the MP3 File Directly

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Do many eyes make a bug shallow?

jcannon — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:43:00 GMT

Sam interviews Mike Howard, Senior Security PM at Microsoft around security in the operating system and how we think about & engineer security defenses into an operating system. What are the myths around security - do many eyes make a bug shallow? How do you protect and engineer against attack types that haven't been invented yet?

Video: Do many eyes make a bug shallow?

Also worth checking out: Mike just published a book - Security Development Lifecycle - that explains what the SDL looks like, how it is applied through the engineering process at Microsoft and how others can adopt & enhance their own development processes.

Related Links:
- Learn more at the upcoming Black Hat Conference on security processes - a couple folks will from MS will be presenting.
- Check our Mike's security blog.
- Check out the new Security Development Lifecycle book (Amazon)
- TechNet Security Center

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