A fascinating blog posting from Matt Warrer of Microsoft on the origins of LINQ and how the technology escaped the black hole of WinFS:
Why didn’t I start with WinFS? After all, it was all the rage inside the SQL Server org at the time. Unfortunately, it was the same story as with ObjectSpaces. They were [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Origins of LINQ and the WinFS Black Hole
31May07 – 15:21
iPhone may someday allow 3rd party apps
30May07 – 19:46
From the All Things Digital conference comes news that Apple will someday allow third party applications, but we have to be “a little more patient”:
This is an important tradeoff between security and openness. We want both. We’re working through a way… we’ll find a way to let 3rd parties write apps and still preserve security [...]
Google Gears
30May07 – 17:24
Google has announced Google Gears, an open source engine to add offline persistent db storage to browsers. Google Reader now uses it if its installed. Pretty cool technology that will make offline applications more practical, with the only downside being that Google doesn’t support Safari yet. Opera and Mozilla announced support, so we can expect [...]
Fowler on Microsoft and IronRuby
30May07 – 17:12
Martin Fowler has written a very interesting post on Microsoft, alpha geeks, and IronRuby. It is well worth a read. Quote of note:
My colleague John Kordyback pointed out that at the heart of all this is realizing that Ruby is not Yet Another .NET Language but a whole community and attitude to software development. Ruby [...]
