C# 3.0 – Now an OO, Functional and Prototypical langauge? :)

Ok, so I just finished the C# 3.0 session given by Anders. Basically C# 3.0 is receiving functional style programming through the addition of lambda expressions. Even scarier is that the lamba expressions can be compiled into actual IL or into an expression tree which custom methods can turn into something like a SQL statement […]

[X|D]LINQ

The hottest technology of the PDC so far is LINQ for me. I’m a huge fan of O/R mappers and have written my own and so it’s quite interesting to see how DLINQ has come together. Anders just made a comment like “With DLINQ we allow you to return only partial object queries, no other O/R […]

Working on Avalon/WPF New Change Log

I don’t know how many people have begun digging into the Avalon/WPF bits that were released for the PDC, but there are a ton of breaking changes. The biggest breaking changes that are bound to affect any existing projects are in the Animation APIs. To that end, I’m working on a new change log to […]

Begging For Quartz

Quartz is the codename for an web development IDE, part of the Expression suite, that is targeted at web designers/developers. It’s undeniably the best implementation of web development environment out of Microsoft ever. It blows VS.NET off the face of the Earth with it’s support for designing web sites with respect to standards technologies (CSS, [X|D]HTML, XSLT, etc.). It also […]

I Have Arrived @ PDC ’05

Currently blogging from my little hotel room desk at the Wilshire Grand. I’m in room 446, my cell is 973.699.0532. Feel free to give me a buzz if you’d like to chat or grab some grub. One thing I will say is that there is already a larger female presence here at this PDC than I’ve ever seen […]

New Orleans

First off, my condolences go out to all those who have lost anyone or anything due to Katrina’s devistation. I was there only two weeks ago enjoying the sights, eating in the restaurants, drinkin’ Hurricanes (ironic) and Hand Grenades in the bars and celebrating a friend’s birthday. The way it’s looking right now, that may have […]

Don’t try to use SN to create/install encryption keys…

I was looking for a quick an easy way to generate a key pair that I could use to do some prototyping around encrypting data. I’m no crypto expert (or at least wasn’t!) and knew about SN.exe for signing .NET assemblies so I figured I’ll just use that. So I generated a key using the -k […]

AtlasWiki

I started an Atlas Wiki homepage over on Channel9. Dying to get some new info out of Microsoft, but so far it looks like they’re keeping their lips sealed until the PDC.

Amex’s fraud detection algorithm needs a little work…

So I went to check my statement for my Amex card today to see if I was credited for something and to my surprise my outstanding balance was a whopping $29,102.55. Hmm… well I knew I went a little crazy with my motorcycle racing hobby in the past month or so, but not that crazy. 🙂 So I scroll […]

Congratulations Nicky Hayden

Nicky Hayden, American MotoGP racer, has won the first MotoGP race on US soil in eleven years which, incidentally, is also his own personal first place podium finish ever in his three year career. Congratulations also have to go out to to Colin Edwards, also American, for second. Naturally it wouldn’t be MotoGP if world champion Valentino Rossi wasn’t […]

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