Posts Tagged microsoft
Bad Word-UI and L4D
Posted by gamlerhart in 42, software-development, tools on December 8, 2008
- 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 do. For example scanning something directly into Word. I couldn’t find the functionality, so i searched for it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924462. I ended using Paint.NET and pasting [...]
Read complete postBrian Beckman: The Zen of Stateless State – The State Monad
Posted by gamlerhart in channel 9 on November 24, 2008
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
Read complete postI Really Need More Disk Space
Posted by gamlerhart in software-development on November 12, 2008
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP
Posted by gamlerhart in software-development on November 10, 2008
The preview of the new Visual Studio and .NET Framework is available. I will try it out soon.
Read complete postPDC and other Microsoft Related Stuff
Posted by gamlerhart in .NET, channel 9 on November 3, 2008
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) [...]
Read complete postBill Hill, framerate.de and updated posts
Posted by gamlerhart in 42 on October 22, 2008
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 interviews with Erik Meijer are online. framerate.de (german) is 3 years old. James D. Rolfe is nearly finished with his Gozillathon. http://www.cinemassacre.com Anyway, there he [...]
Read complete postBill Hill, Richard Dawkins and other stuff
Posted by gamlerhart in 42, channel 9 on October 11, 2008
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 [...]
Read complete postSpec#
Posted by gamlerhart in .NET, 42 on May 28, 2008
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 my opinion this is really sad, because it prevents lots of unnecessary and simply bugs in programs. According to the video, Microsoft uses contracts for [...]
Read complete postOffice-Ribbon and Windows-Explorer
Posted by gamlerhart in 42 on May 13, 2008
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 was getting to bloated and how the office team had developed, tested new ideas until the final product. The story of the Ribbon on http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh [...]
Read complete post…But the question is, do you want it get done or do you want it get right!
Posted by gamlerhart in channel 9, software-development on March 30, 2008
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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