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  Crash Responsibly As programmers, it is our responsibility to ensure that when something goes horribly wrong with our software, the user has a reasonable escape plan . It's an issue of fundamental safety in software error handling that I liken to those ubiquitous airline... Posted May 18 2008, 10:00 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: insult to injury, job, programmers, crashes, exclamation point, error messages, software error, spectacular fashion, disaster recovery, disasters, amp nbsp, last thirty years, crisis points, airline safety, signals, bugs, fundamental web, safety cards, web usability

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  Blogs I'm currently reading Recently, a former student asked me, I was in a .NET web services training class that you gave probably 4 or so years ago on-site at a [company name] office in [city] , north of Atlanta.&; At that time I asked you for a list of the technical blogs... Posted May 16 2008, 12:08 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: public apology, worthy investment, ror, flood, web frontend, rss reader, ruby, jack of all trades, backend, email client, zealot, type projects, amp nbsp, parrot, environments, inbox, smalltalk, bankruptcy, eclectic, web services training

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  Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta Earlier today we shipped a public beta of our upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases.&; These servicing updates provide a roll-up of bug fixes and performance improvements for issues reported since we released the products last November.&;... Posted May 12 2008, 09:51 AM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: public beta, vista rtm, exact steps, beta 3, beta1, critical machines, free updates, amp nbsp, failure, last november, feature additions, enhancements, bug fixes, performance improvements, shipping versions

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  Thinking in Language A couple of folks have taken me to task over some of the things I said... or didn't say... in my last blog piece. So, in no particular order, let's discuss. A few commented on how I left out commentary on language X, Y or Z. That wasn't an... Posted May 08 2008, 11:30 PM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: brief description, ted neward, laundry list, joe armstrong, programming languages, ericsson, interpreter, oriented language, amp nbsp, failure, reliability, reliable systems, language experiment, benefit, forgetfulness, thought process

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  Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 "SP1" Beta VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 offer a ton of customer value from Linq to Ajax and much more.&; The service pack we have been working on to round out this release adds even more new value in addition to fixing a 100s of customer reported bugs!&;... Posted May 05 2008, 10:12 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: reference material, cadence amp, spaghetti, web developers, favorite one, javascript code, javascript interpreter, products details, dynamic data, amp nbsp, linq, history server, information source, ajax history, web applications, omar khan, mapping technologies, server side, service pack, customer value

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  End-to-End Data Centric Application with Silverlight 2 I have been having some fun with an end to end Silverlight 2 demo recently and I thought I'd share it here.&;&; My goal with the demo is to show how easy it is to create an end to end Silverlight application.&; In particular, my goal is... Posted Apr 17 2008, 10:16 PM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: instantiations, silverlight, animation, business controls, home web, amp nbsp, line of business, html page, business logic, lt, data access, server source, demo, web server apache, web service, ui

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  JRuby 1.1 released From the "Where the hell was I that day?" Department.... The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.1! Homepage: http://www.jruby.org/ Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/ JRuby 1.1 is the second major release for... Posted Apr 12 2008, 04:40 PM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: scripting language, nine months, jmx, hell, jvm, great strides, main goal, jruby, enterprise consulting, ruby, deployment, improving performance, xml services, client scripts, amp nbsp, mentoring, web application

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  Is "Performance" Subjective or Objective in nature? (Editor's note: This post is likely to open a huge can of whoop-*ss on this blog, so unless you want to get caught up in the huge bar fight that's about to break out, you're advised to take your whiskey or beer and head outside for a smoke... Posted Apr 10 2008, 08:34 PM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: perf, mop, meta programming, whoop, blog entry, groovy, dynamic language, disbelievers, discrepancy, amp nbsp, ray tracer, scala, benchmarks, bar fight, gradient, spiewak, metaobject protocol, optimizer, option type, performance times

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  Help Name Our Website As I work on UI prototypes for the new web venture , I've been brainstorming names for the web site we're building. I've surveyed some of the finest minds in the software developer community (for very small values of "fine"), and... Posted Apr 06 2008, 06:00 PM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: brains, rss reader, poll, software developer community, finest minds, experts exchange, amp nbsp, vote, prototypes, collective realization, startups, metaprogramming, web venture, domain names

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  Is Microsoft serious? Recently I received a press announcement from Waggener-Edstrom, Microsoft's PR company, about their latest move in the interoperability space; I reproduce it here in its entirety for your perusal: Hi Ted, Microsoft is announcing another action to... Posted Apr 02 2008, 06:12 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: tool products, tom robertson, press announcement, microsoft clients, microsoft microsoft, microsoft servers, xaml, fwlink, design tools, waggener edstrom, osp, perusal, client server, amp nbsp, linkid, pr company, format converters, format documentation, windows client, application markup language

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  MSDN "F# Primer" Article Feedback Since the publication of the F# article in the MSDN Launch magazine, I've gotten some feedback from readers (for which I heartily thank you all, by the way), but in particular I've gotten two emails from "tms" that I thought deserved... Posted Apr 01 2008, 12:15 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: launch magazine, parameters, rest of the world, pseudonym, tms, amp nbsp, neward, functional languages

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  AMD Phenom X4 9100e &; World’s First 65-Watt Quad-Core Desktop Processor Imagine experiencing the powerful computing capabilities of&; multi-core architecture with a processor operating at only 65 watts . The AMD Phenom X4 9100e processor embodies a series of AMD... Posted Mar 27 2008, 04:47 AM by Paul Mooney Feeds Filed under: capabilities, core architecture, powerful computing, hd, ati radeon, phenomena, watts, amp nbsp, innovations, amd, amd phenom, desktop processor

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  ASP.NET MVC Source Code Now Available Last month I blogged about our ASP.NET MVC Roadmap .&; Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET Preview 2 Release .&; Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team published a good blog post about the release here .&; Scott Hanselman has created a bunch of... Posted Mar 21 2008, 07:33 AM by ScottGu's Blog Feeds Filed under: source code, bin directory, binary version, system web, phil haack, amp nbsp, scott hanselman, bugs, zip directory, zip file

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  Brad Abrams' pixel8 Interview Podcast posted I just noticed that the good folks at Pixel8 posted a podcast I did with them a while back.&; It was a fun conversation about a bit of .NET history as well as where we are going.&; Landing Page &; Download show I'd love the hear what you... Posted Mar 15 2008, 11:40 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: podcast, love, amp nbsp, good folks

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  Great new Silverlight Control Skins One of the great things about Silverlight is that the controls are very skinable.. that is you can make them look just the way you want to!&; Corrina is the lead designer on the Silverlight controls... she has already gotten board with the (very cool... Posted Mar 12 2008, 11:01 AM by Brad Abrams Feeds Filed under: silverlight, love, default skin, dynamic user, amp nbsp, own skins, user interfaces, karen corby, expression, corrina