Bad Word-UI and L4D
- Although I like Office 2007 and I find that the Ribbon is way better than the old icons- and menu-overkill, there’s still some stuff which is awful complex to…
Read moreBrian 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…
Read moreI Really Need More Disk Space
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP
The preview of the new Visual Studio and .NET Framework is available. I will try it out soon.
Read morePDC 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…
Read moreBill Hill, framerate.de and updated posts
Finally the second part of the interview with Bill Hill is available on Channel 9. (Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web, Part 2, Part 1). Also new…
Read moreBill 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,…
Read moreSpec#
Spec# is a extension to C# which add contracts to the language. Contracts are nothing new, it has been around for decades, but aren’t present in most popular languages. In…
Read moreOffice-Ribbon and Windows-Explorer
I’ve recently found this extremely enlightening blog-post with a presentation of how the Office 2007 user-interface, called Ribbon, was born. It tells the story of the Office interface, how it…
Read more…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…
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