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Outing dirty laundry
It's Jay Bazuzi's last day at Microsoft to become a stay-at-home dad . At one point Jay was development lead for the C# editor in VS. We've not met, and I'm sure he's a lovely chap and all that, but I did catch his parting wave on his MSDN blog, where...
Interview with Peter Spiro - Building Great Databases
This is great video from Channel 9 - an interview with Peter Spiro , a Technical Fellow and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. It's probably an understatement to describe Peter's career path as "unconventional", a path that lead to him eventually to...
Astoria: Data Services for the Web - Part 2
Back in April, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web , an incubation project exploring programming models for data over the web. As part of the announcement, the team deployed an online implementation...
Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers
Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year...
Adobe on Apollo Compeitors
Very interesting post by Andrew Shebanow (senior computer scientist at Adobe), reflecting on some of the reactions and comments he's heard since Apollo went alpha , including comparisons made with other offerings (Microsoft's WPF , Dekoh , Joyent...
A Short History of the Evolution of Microsoft Data Access APIs
Earlier this year I read Joel Spolsky's 'Joel on Software' . It's a collection of his blog posts bundled up into a real-world book on topics ranging from tips on code development, to advice on managing programmers, to strategies on running...
Astrophysicist-turned-Programming-Language-Designer
In my first week with the Data Programmability team, my new manager suggested I set up a bunch of introductory meetings with some of the team members. One of the very first of these meetings was with Software Architect Brian Beckman . I spent an hour...
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