Archive for category channel 9

Maven-Reference, Validation and Geek-Videos

I’ve stumbled over this Maven online book. It’s quite useful for everyone who’s maintaining Maven-builds. This post about “Magic” null argument testing describes how to implement an extremely elegant way to check arguments in C#. The check looks like this: new { argument,anotherArgument }.CheckNotNull(); Read the post to find out how it works. Do you [...]

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Soap & Skin, My Pal Satan, Erlang and nullptr

My Pal Satan is a little comedy web-series about a Donna and her roommate, Satan. However there are only six episodes =( On infoq.com a talk from Joe Armstrong about fault-tolerant systems and Erlang is avaible. Maybe this doesn’t affect many developers today, but I think in the future more and more systems need some [...]

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Rx-Framework, Lombok & Music For Everyone

There’s a new talk/interview about the Rx-framework for reactive programming on channel 9. Yes, it’s the third time I link talks about the same topic here (here is the first and second) . But as Erik said in the talk: “Maybe I can never in my lifetime invent anything this beautiful anymore”. (Part1, Part2) I’ve [...]

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Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer: Reactive Framework

This wonderful talk with Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman about reactive programming was published recently on channel 9. It starts of with simple and familiar things, the IEnumerable-Interface (or Iterable in Java). Then comes a little math, explained with a wild mix of Haskell, C# and fictional programming languages. And at the end the circle [...]

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Lang.NET Symposium 2009

The videos of the Lang.NET are online. Again wonderful  geeky talks about programming-languages and other programming-related stuff: http://www.langnetsymposium.com/2009/talks.aspx One of the best talks is again from Erik Meijer. He explains his LINQ-to-Events stuff with coins and his talk is really fun to watch. Sadly the video only includes the slides: Silverlight, WMV Additionally there are [...]

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Brian Beckman: The Zen of Stateless State – The State Monad

There’s a new wonderful interview with Brian Beckman on Channel 9. This time he’s explaining more details about functional programming and the theoretical basics to avoiding obscured state. Part One Part Two

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PDC and other Microsoft Related Stuff

A little summary what I found interesting: C# 4.0 adds dynamic typing to the language. The type ‘dynamic’ represent a dynamically typed object. All method-calls are dispatched at runtime and return again a dynamic type. If you assign dynamic-typed objects to static-typed objects it will convert that at runtime. The well-known DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) [...]

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Bill Hill, Richard Dawkins and other stuff

There a new interview with Bill Hill on Channel 9. Currently only part 1 is available, but part 2 will follow soon. A nice talk with Richard Dawkins about evolution, science and religion (Youtube-playlist). I think his criticism is eligible. In my opinion especially Creationism is a really stupid, wrong theory. I’m scared if people [...]

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…But the question is, do you want it get done or do you want it get right!

A quote from the talk on channel 9 with Erik Meijer, Bertrand Meyer and Yuri Gurevich. Charles Torre (the interviewer) is asking, why the majority of the programmers using languages like C++, PHP, C#, Java etc and not “better” ones) Charles: “…theres also this notion of productivity. I’m a developer, there’s an algorithm I’ve to [...]

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AWSOME: Singularity Source Released Under Academic License

Microsoft has released there research OS under there Academic License. I’ve really waited for this a long time and I’m going to play around with it. Well it’s not open source, but at least you can test is it and look at the code. Singularity is a research Operation-System created by Microsoft to explore how [...]

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