Here is a way to ruin your day: watch this movie about a simulation of a 500km rock hitting earth (most unfortunately only in Japanese, but the pictures are excellent). NEO Asteroid
Category: General
Well – it seems that WinFS returned to the undead for at least another 1-2 operating system releases: Quentin Clark writes in the WinFS group blog, that WinFS is canceled for Vista and XP. They are now moving those parts…
Since last Thursday, I am a happy owner of a Cingular 2125 (HTC Farady) with Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition. I have to admit that since my first step with Windows CE (Pocket PC 2002 on an iPaq 3850) they…
I talked about Atlas pains in the last entry – here is an innovative approach how to get this across to the developers at Microsoft. Kudos to those who can make fun of themselves. Enjoy! Humor
Nicholas Allen shot a photo of Kirill and myself during our chalk talk yesterday. Nice to have you met in person and thanks for the photo, Nicholas! TechEd 2006 Photos
Seldom have I seen somebody less honest than Mike McCurry: His claim that the discussion around Net Neutrality is ‘left’ vs. ‘center’ and/or corporation bashing could not be much further from the truth. As many have already pointed out, Net…
After J#, X# and some more abberations, Microsoft is now fiddeling with the idea of Script#. This is a code generation tool for JavaScript – you start with a C# class, run the ssc.exe compiler and get JavaScript from the…
Ars Technica reports some good news on the net neutrality issue. At least there is now an alternative to the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act proposal available. Some members of Congress seemed to have realised the importance of this…
My final project for this quarter’s Stanford course (MS&E 201: Dynamic Systems) is going to be quite interesting. We will try to understand the dynamics behind open source adoption and the challenges it brings for Microsoft. Microsoft Open Source Stanford…
You might know that StAX (JSR 173) and the System.Xml.XmlReader/Writer classes are quite similar, at the very least in scope. A very interesting difference (that gave me a lot of grief in porting/implementing these APIs) is the way namespace attributes…