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November 2007 - Don Box's Spoutlet
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I've been spending more time thinking about how programs actually look. I love writing Lisp more than any other language. I hate reading Lisp (even Lisp I've written) and am finding that VB is far more readable than Lisp or C#. My VB coding chops are...
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Since we started shaking the tree last week on hiring for our team , I've noticed that the stream of interested parties has been predominantly male. Our team currently is 15 people, all male. I really want our team to look like our user base - and I hope...
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I was happy to see explicit support for reduce (a.k.a. fold) in the language. Dim numbers%() = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} Dim n = Aggregate a In numbers Into Sum() Thanks to Amanda Silver for helping me figure out why type inferencing wasn't acting the way I expected...
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I just posted about Purdy's opening of the recruiting gates . It's worth mentioning that we're a relatively small team ( O(15) ) and run the team on the 1 month milestone/continuous integtration/TDD plan and have no traditional PMs, SDEs, or SDE/Ts. Rather...
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Details here: http://www.douglasp.com/blog/2007/11/15/MyTeamIsHiring.aspx I spend most of my time on option 1 (with language/compiler wonks) - I could use some company. DB
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Sam has an interesting response to my bitching about authentication . “I’d suggest that the root problem here has nothing to to with HTTP or SOAP, but rather that the owners and operators of properties such as Facebook, Flickr, and GData have...
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One other feature I'm liking in VB is that you can omit the trailing select clause in a query. That is, you can simply say this: From ch In "Hello" Where ch <> "H" which in C# would look like this: from ch in "Hello" where ch != 'H' select ch
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I'm starting to write more VB code lately. The XML support rocks. More importantly, a huge amount of people who use the technology I work on see it through that lens, so I'd be an idiot not to walk in their shoes as much as possible. I found the lambda...
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Vinoski asks an interesting question : ...how many, if any, dyed-in-the-wool WS advocates ever seriously, honestly, and fairly looked at REST, actually tried it, but then decided it didn’t work and so willingly chose to go back to WS. I wouldn't...
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Several people have read too much into my recent post about Orcas . By “thankful for next thursday“ I meant “the one day of the year where folks in the US eat turkey” not “the top-secret day that Microsoft is going to ship...
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James Snell chews on the raw notes from Stefan here . I like a lot of what James has to say.
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Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday.
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I recently found this short video in the archives. Nostalgic on multiple fronts...
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