Don Box's Spoutlet

  • Talks I want to see @ PDC

    In looking at the agenda for the event, here are some talks I'd really love to crash: Oslo: Building Textual DSLs - lots of geek porn appeal, and if internal usage is any indication, a highly addictive technology. I predict this will be the World...
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  • Paul Vick relocates to Oslo

    Paul just joined my team to work on the Oslo language, specifically the parts covered in this talk . I can't put into words how happy I am that Paul signed up to help us birth this baby.
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  • Schlimmerblog

    I just noticed that JeffSch started blogging again - he was at the VSX conference this week (conveniently right across the street from our building). Go check it out .
  • eWeek piece on Oslo

    Darryl Taft has written the best piece I've seen on oslo so far . Bonus points to Darryl for being the first press person to get BradLo to talk :-)
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  • Another Oslo talk

    ChrisAn and GioDL's talk just got published this morning: "Oslo": Building Textual DSLs The "Oslo" modeling language can define schemas and transformations over arbitrary text formats. This session shows you how to build your own...
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  • Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) - now with source code!

    Microsoft just shipped the MEF sources on codeplex . It's fantastic to see the BradA's team getting this stuff into people's hands out-of-band with the big trains - very very nice. Also cool is the fact that the source is there - I love this...
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  • Oslo

    As PDC ramps up, I find myself meeting lots of new people, many of whom have no idea what I do for a living (I work on the Oslo project btw). I decided to take a few minutes to write this post so I can stop giving the “what is Oslo” talk one...
  • Elation

    Lest the title of this post be interpreted as syncategorematic, let me say that I am elated that AlexSto’s dream has turned into a reality. Today Alexander’s team got the first public release of the Microsoft Solver Foundation out the door...
  • Tito's Tacos

    PDC is increasingly taking up my time, so I've got LA on the brain. Having lived in LA for 39 years before joining the firm, I use PDC as an opportunity to visit my favorite haunts. My first stop will be Tito's Tacos . Every time I go to LA (PDC...
  • Mary Jo's Codename Roundup

    Ms. Foley has a call out for Microsoft codenames over at ZDNet . I first read this on my phone and was busy coming up with names I thought would be interesting project names. Unfortunately when I got home and read the blog, it was clear she was looking...
  • Impromptu Vacation

    For the first time ever, I took a completely spontaneous vacation by booking a flight Wednesday to head out to Martha's Vineyard to hang out with my wife & kids (and Sara Spalding's husband and kid). I really like Martha's Vineyard - I...
  • Wahoo - Microsoft Sponsors Apache Software Foundation!

    http://port25.technet.com/archive/2008/07/25/oscon2008.aspx This is great news in so many ways. (Ed Note: Thanks to those who've pointed out that sponsorship and membership are distinct - the title is now correct.)
  • Naming the Baby

    I've been working on "Oslo" for quite a while now. Like "Oslo" itself, several of the major pieces of "Oslo" have placeholder code names that will be replaced with the actual names we'll brand the product with. This...
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  • PDC Musings

    This year's PDC will be my eighth as a speaker and my third as an MSFT employee. The last two PDCs were more or less the same in terms of my involvement. This year, I'm also helping out on selecting roughly one-fourth of the talks being given...
  • MJF and WHG on Oslo

    Mary Jo has nice coverage of David Chappell's Oslo talk at TechEd this week. Also nice was BillG talking about the project in his farewell address as an FTE. I'd love to hear from folks who saw the Chappell talk - I had to miss it when he was in Redmond...
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