Charles - Channel 9 Channel 9 Blog for Charles Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Charles - Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles Channel 9 Blog for Charles http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles en Sat, 25 May 2013 02:01:11 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 02:01:11 GMT Rev9 594 24 25 Miguel de Icaza: Mono, Open Source, Visual Studio, and Xamarin At Xamarin Evolve 2013, I caught up with Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza after his keynote. It's been a while since I last chatted with Miguel, so it was great to catch up. Clearly, he and team have been very busy pushing Mono forward and building Xamarin—a new technology that enables developers to target multiple platforms by writing apps in C# and .NET. During his keynote, Miguel announced that F# is now a part of the Xamarin family, too. Smiley

Xamarin ships with a Visual Studio plugin, making it possible to write iOS and Android apps on Windows using the best IDE in the world. Of course, VS natively supports the development of Windows and Windows Phone .NET apps, so you can imagine that Xamarin makes it possible for .NET developers to target all major mobile platforms, sharing as much core code as possible across them - effectively enabling C# to be everywhere you want it to be.

Here, we learn why Miguel et al. started Mono, how they ended up at Xamarin, and, potentially, where they're heading in the future with their excellent cross platform development technologies based on .NET. We talk about open source and proprietary software today, Visual Studio, and more. This is a Channel 9 interview, so it goes as it went. The only editing was cosmetic, not topical. Tune in.

It was a real pleasure to attend Evolve 2013. The Xamarin team pulled off an excellent event. It certainly didn't feel like an inaugural developer conference. Great production!

Huge thanks to Miguel for spending time with Channel 9. We'll make sure to get him in front of Camera 9 again soon.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Miguel-de-Icaza-Mono-Open-Source-Visual-Studio-and-Xamarin At Xamarin Evolve 2013, I caught up with Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza after his keynote. It's been a while since I last chatted with Miguel, so it was great to catch up. Clearly, he and team have been very busy pushing Mono forward and building Xamarin—a new technology that enables developers to target multiple platforms by writing apps in C# and .NET. During his keynote, Miguel announced that F# is now a part of the Xamarin family, too. Xamarin ships with a Visual Studio plugin, making it possible to write iOS and Android apps on Windows using the best IDE in the world. Of course, VS natively supports the development of Windows and Windows Phone .NET apps, so you can imagine that Xamarin makes it possible for .NET developers to target all major mobile platforms, sharing as much core code as possible across them - effectively enabling C# to be everywhere you want it to be.Here, we learn why Miguel et al. started Mono, how they ended up at Xamarin, and, potentially, where they're heading in the future with their excellent cross platform development technologies based on .NET. We talk about open source and proprietary software today, Visual Studio, and more. This is a Channel 9 interview, so it goes as it went. The only editing was cosmetic, not topical. Tune in.It was a real pleasure to attend Evolve 2013. The Xamarin team pulled off an excellent event. It certainly didn't feel like an inaugural developer conference. Great production! Huge thanks to Miguel for spending time with Channel 9. We'll make sure to get him in front of Camera 9 again soon. 1805 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Miguel-de-Icaza-Mono-Open-Source-Visual-Studio-and-Xamarin Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:38:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Miguel-de-Icaza-Mono-Open-Source-Visual-Studio-and-Xamarin Charles Charles 13 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Miguel-de-Icaza-Mono-Open-Source-Visual-Studio-and-Xamarin/RSS .NET C# C9 Conversations F# Miguel de Icaza Mono Open Source Visual Studio Inside Windows 8: Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya - The Windows Runtime Windows 8 introduces an application programming model for building new kinds of user mode apps called Windows Store Apps. The name reflects the new way users discover, download, purchase, rate, and install applications on Windows 8: The Windows Store.

On Windows 8, underneath this new application model is the Windows Runtime (WinRT for short), which provides an API and ABI as well as services for these modern Windows applications. WinRT is a security sandbox and an advanced execution environment. It enables efficient interoperation among very different language "projections"—so, JavaScript, for example, can seamlessly interact with C++. 

What is WinRT, exactly? Why is it designed the way it is? What's the history of WinRT? What are the primary goals of this new technology? How did the Windows engineering team arrive at the design and implementation of this new Windows user mode development platform? These are the key questions addressed in this conversation with Windows Runtime engineering leaders Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya (we call him EHO). Elliot and Martyn are two of the original WinRT architects. Watch as they tell us how it was conceived, how it works, and why COM is such a big part of the equation (it's not your grandmother's COM, mind you. WinRT is a very different COM than classic COM). 

Huge thanks to Martyn and EHO for this excellent conversation.

Tune in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-8-Martyn-Lovell-and-Elliot-H-Omiya-The-Windows-Runtime Windows 8 introduces an application programming model for building new kinds of user mode apps called Windows Store Apps. The name reflects the new way users discover, download, purchase, rate, and install applications on Windows 8: The Windows Store.On Windows 8, underneath this new application model is the Windows Runtime (WinRT for short), which provides an API and ABI as well as services for these modern Windows applications. WinRT is a security sandbox and an advanced execution environment. It enables efficient interoperation among very different language "projections"—so, JavaScript, for example, can seamlessly interact with C++.  What is WinRT, exactly? Why is it designed the way it is? What's the history of WinRT? What are the primary goals of this new technology? How did the Windows engineering team arrive at the design and implementation of this new Windows user mode development platform? These are the key questions addressed in this conversation with Windows Runtime engineering leaders Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya (we call him EHO). Elliot and Martyn are two of the original WinRT architects. Watch as they tell us how it was conceived, how it works, and why COM is such a big part of the equation (it's not your grandmother's COM, mind you. WinRT is a very different COM than classic COM). Huge thanks to Martyn and EHO for this excellent conversation. Tune in. 2841 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-8-Martyn-Lovell-and-Elliot-H-Omiya-The-Windows-Runtime Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:54:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-8-Martyn-Lovell-and-Elliot-H-Omiya-The-Windows-Runtime Charles Charles 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Inside-Windows-8-Martyn-Lovell-and-Elliot-H-Omiya-The-Windows-Runtime/RSS Architecture COM Platform Programming Windows 8 WinRT WindowsContent Inside Windows 8 Erik Meijer: Latency, Native Relativity and Energy-Efficient Programming I caught up with Erik Meijer recently to see what was on his mind (wish we could do this more often as his mind is typically full of very interesting things at any given time!).

Erik had just read an article - Every Programmer Should Know These Latency Numbers - and it got him thinking...

Here, Erik discusses his perspective on latency. We also discuss native relativity, energy efficient programming (what does that mean?) and nutrition labels for software Smiley. As usual, this is classic C9: the conversation just happens and it's all captured in audio and video. Whiteboarding included. Twists and turns, too.

Always a real pleasure to get the chance to geek out with Erik. Thank you, Dr. Meijer!

And remember, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but moved from state to state and place to place. It should be fairly obvious how this relates to the energy required to compute your code in this age of clouds and battery-powered personal computers (aka phones...). How much energy does your code use? How could type systems help here (could they?)?

Tune in. Think.

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Latency-Native-Relativity-and-Energy-Efficient-Programming I caught up with Erik Meijer recently to see what was on his mind (wish we could do this more often as his mind is typically full of very interesting things at any given time!). Erik had just read an article - Every Programmer Should Know These Latency Numbers - and it got him thinking... Here, Erik discusses his perspective on latency. We also discuss native relativity, energy efficient programming (what does that mean?) and nutrition labels for software . As usual, this is classic C9: the conversation just happens and it's all captured in audio and video. Whiteboarding included. Twists and turns, too. Always a real pleasure to get the chance to geek out with Erik. Thank you, Dr. Meijer! And remember, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but moved from state to state and place to place. It should be fairly obvious how this relates to the energy required to compute your code in this age of clouds and battery-powered personal computers (aka phones...). How much energy does your code use? How could type systems help here (could they?)? Tune in. Think.   2699 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Latency-Native-Relativity-and-Energy-Efficient-Programming Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:51:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Latency-Native-Relativity-and-Energy-Efficient-Programming Charles Charles 15 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-Latency-Native-Relativity-and-Energy-Efficient-Programming/RSS C9 Conversations Erik Meijer Programming Energy Smart Computing Native .NET 4.5 in Practice: Bing .NET GC developer Maoni Stephens, Performance Architect Vance Morrison and Bing front end developer Mukul Sabharwal join us for a conversation about .NET 4.5 in practice.

We spent some time with the.NET 4.5 team earlier in the year. You can see the series of conversational interviews we did here.

The Bing front end is powered by .NET 4.5 and Windows Server 2012 RC. This constitutes a large number of servers doing a lot of work. How do some of the new .NET 4.5 features (like multi-core JIT and background GC) scale? Bing's a rather good test case for both .NET 4.5 and WS 2012 given the volume of requests it serves.

Topics include:

Pinning and Heap Corruption (and strategies for alternative approaches to pinning).

Multicore JIT

Performance tuning and PerfView

Background GC

As usual, this is conversation that happened as it did. There will be a few random turns, but roads lead to time well spent! Thanks for being sports, Maoni, Vance and Mukul!

Tune in. Enjoy

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/NET-45-in-Practice-Bing .NET GC developer Maoni Stephens, Performance Architect Vance Morrison and Bing front end developer Mukul Sabharwal join us for a conversation about .NET 4.5 in practice. We spent some time with the.NET 4.5 team earlier in the year. You can see the series of conversational interviews we did here. The Bing front end is powered by .NET 4.5 and Windows Server 2012 RC. This constitutes a large number of servers doing a lot of work. How do some of the new .NET 4.5 features (like multi-core JIT and background GC) scale? Bing's a rather good test case for both .NET 4.5 and WS 2012 given the volume of requests it serves. Topics include: Pinning and Heap Corruption (and strategies for alternative approaches to pinning). Multicore JIT Performance tuning and PerfView Background GC As usual, this is conversation that happened as it did. There will be a few random turns, but roads lead to time well spent! Thanks for being sports, Maoni, Vance and Mukul! Tune in. Enjoy 2240 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/NET-45-in-Practice-Bing Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:58:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/NET-45-in-Practice-Bing Charles Charles 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/NET-45-in-Practice-Bing/RSS Bing GC JIT Performance Programming .NET Framework 4.5 Dare Obasanjo: SkyDrive - Personal Storage in the Cloud It's been way too long since Dare Obasanjo (of RSS Bandit and Carnage4Life fame) has appeared on C9. The last time was several years ago in an interview conducted by me and Scoble on a summer day outside of building 35 on the main MS campus in Redmond. What's Dare been up to since we last spoke? Turns out, quite a bit Smiley Dare works on the Live SDK team. They recently shipped the SkyDrive API. If you're not familiar with SkyDrive, it's a cloud-based personal file storage service, allowing users access to any file, anytime, anywhere... (we talk about what exactly that means and how it works in this conversation).

Here we catch up and geek out a bit on SkyDrive (from a developer and consumer's perspective, with an emphasis on the former, of course), web programming, personal file storage solutions (how do you design a SkyDrive?), the difference between SkyDrive and traditional (local) storage solutions, when to use SkyDrive verus Azure storage, and of course the SkyDrive API.

Tune in. Enjoy. Welcome back to C9, Dare. We'll come see you again!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Dare-Obasanjo-SkyDrive-Personal-Storage-in-the-Cloud It's been way too long since Dare Obasanjo (of RSS Bandit and Carnage4Life fame) has appeared on C9. The last time was several years ago in an interview conducted by me and Scoble on a summer day outside of building 35 on the main MS campus in Redmond. What's Dare been up to since we last spoke? Turns out, quite a bit Dare works on the Live SDK team. They recently shipped the SkyDrive API. If you're not familiar with SkyDrive, it's a cloud-based personal file storage service, allowing users access to any file, anytime, anywhere... (we talk about what exactly that means and how it works in this conversation).Here we catch up and geek out a bit on SkyDrive (from a developer and consumer's perspective, with an emphasis on the former, of course), web programming, personal file storage solutions (how do you design a SkyDrive?), the difference between SkyDrive and traditional (local) storage solutions, when to use SkyDrive verus Azure storage, and of course the SkyDrive API. Tune in. Enjoy. Welcome back to C9, Dare. We'll come see you again! 2111 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Dare-Obasanjo-SkyDrive-Personal-Storage-in-the-Cloud Mon, 14 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Dare-Obasanjo-SkyDrive-Personal-Storage-in-the-Cloud Charles Charles 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Dare-Obasanjo-SkyDrive-Personal-Storage-in-the-Cloud/RSS Live Services SkyDrive _techmeme Dare Obasanjo E2E: Donna Malayeri, Gilad Bracha, Luke Hoban - Web Programming and More At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9.

Here, Erik interviews Donna Malayeri (F# PM and Lang.NEXT speaker chair), Gilad Bracha (Dart) and Luke Hoban (ECMAScript). The conversation spans several topics, of course.

Tune in. Enjoy.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/E2E-Donna-Malayeri-Gilad-Bracha-Luke-Hoban-Web-Programming-and-More At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. Here, Erik interviews Donna Malayeri (F# PM and Lang.NEXT speaker chair), Gilad Bracha (Dart) and Luke Hoban (ECMAScript). The conversation spans several topics, of course. Tune in. Enjoy. 3510 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/E2E-Donna-Malayeri-Gilad-Bracha-Luke-Hoban-Web-Programming-and-More Mon, 14 May 2012 12:45:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/E2E-Donna-Malayeri-Gilad-Bracha-Luke-Hoban-Web-Programming-and-More Charles Charles 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/E2E-Donna-Malayeri-Gilad-Bracha-Luke-Hoban-Web-Programming-and-More/RSS Erik Meijer F# Gilad Bracha JavaScript Luke Hoban Programming Languages Web Programming Dart _techmeme Lang.NEXT 2012 E2E: Erik Meijer and Robert Griesemer - Going Go At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9.

Here, Erik interviews Go language designer Robert Griesemer. Go is a concurrent, garbage-collected systems programming language with fast compilation. See Robert's Lang.NEXT 2012 Go presentation.

Topics in this E2E conversation include:

Is Go native? What is native, exactly? Why Go?

Tune in.

Thank you Robert and Erik for the fascinating conversation.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-and-Robert-Griesemer-Go At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. Here, Erik interviews Go language designer Robert Griesemer. Go is a concurrent, garbage-collected systems programming language with fast compilation. See Robert's Lang.NEXT 2012 Go presentation.Topics in this E2E conversation include: Is Go native? What is native, exactly? Why Go? Tune in.Thank you Robert and Erik for the fascinating conversation. 2643 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-and-Robert-Griesemer-Go Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-and-Robert-Griesemer-Go Charles Charles 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-and-Robert-Griesemer-Go/RSS Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Programming Languages Native Lang.NEXT 2012 E2E: Erik Meijer and Jeroen Frijters - IKVM.NET (Java VM implemented in .NET) At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9.

Here, Erik interviews fellow Dutchman Jeroen Frijters, the creator and maintainer of IKVM.NET. See Jeroens' Lang.NEXT 2012 IKVM.NET presentation.

IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework. It contains a Java Virtual Machine implemented in .NET, a .NET implementation of the Java class libraries, tools that enable Java and .NET interoperability.

Tune in.

Thank you Erik and Jeroen for the excellent conversation.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/E2E-Erik-Meijer-and-Jeroens-Frijters-IKVMNET-Java-VM-implemented-in-NET At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9.Here, Erik interviews fellow Dutchman Jeroen Frijters, the creator and maintainer of IKVM.NET. See Jeroens' Lang.NEXT 2012 IKVM.NET presentation. IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework. It contains a Java Virtual Machine implemented in .NET, a .NET implementation of the Java class libraries, tools that enable Java and .NET interoperability. Tune in.Thank you Erik and Jeroen for the excellent conversation. 1683 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/E2E-Erik-Meijer-and-Jeroens-Frijters-IKVMNET-Java-VM-implemented-in-NET Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/E2E-Erik-Meijer-and-Jeroens-Frijters-IKVMNET-Java-VM-implemented-in-NET Charles Charles 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/E2E-Erik-Meijer-and-Jeroens-Frijters-IKVMNET-Java-VM-implemented-in-NET/RSS .NET .NET Framework Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Java JVM Virtual Machines _techmeme Lang.NEXT 2012 E2E: Erik Meijer and John Cook - R, Statistical Computing, Blogging and More At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9.

Here, Erik interviews John Cook, an applied Mathematician currently working at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics (see his Lang.NEXT 2012 session on R here). John is an avid blogger.

Tune in. Meet John and learn more about R and how he uses it to solve real world statistical problems in cancer research. You'll also get insights John's consistent sharing of and musings on a wide variety of technical topics. His blog is exceptional.

Thank you Erik and John for this excellent conversation.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-and-John-Cook-R-Statistical-Computing-Blogging-and-More At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations, some of which we are fortunate enough to have caught on camera for C9. Here, Erik interviews John Cook, an applied Mathematician currently working at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics (see his Lang.NEXT 2012 session on R here). John is an avid blogger.Tune in. Meet John and learn more about R and how he uses it to solve real world statistical problems in cancer research. You'll also get insights John's consistent sharing of and musings on a wide variety of technical topics. His blog is exceptional. Thank you Erik and John for this excellent conversation. 1764 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-and-John-Cook-R-Statistical-Computing-Blogging-and-More Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:45:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-and-John-Cook-R-Statistical-Computing-Blogging-and-More Charles Charles 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Erik-Meijer-and-John-Cook-R-Statistical-Computing-Blogging-and-More/RSS Computer Science Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Mathematics _techmeme Lang.NEXT 2012 Stefan Karpinski and Jeff Bezanson - Julia Programming Language "Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library." - julialang.org

Here, we meet two members of the Julia design team - Stefan Karpinski and Jeff Bezanson - to get a casual peek inside Julia (why a new language, what makes it special, why "Julia" for the name, etc...). You can (and should!) watch Stefan and Jeff's Lang.NEXT 2012 session for more details (and more formality).

Tune in.

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and-Jeff-Bezanson-Julia-Programming-Language "Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library." - julialang.org Here, we meet two members of the Julia design team - Stefan Karpinski and Jeff Bezanson - to get a casual peek inside Julia (why a new language, what makes it special, why "Julia" for the name, etc...). You can (and should!) watch Stefan and Jeff's Lang.NEXT 2012 session for more details (and more formality). Tune in.   1534 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and-Jeff-Bezanson-Julia-Programming-Language Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:30:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and-Jeff-Bezanson-Julia-Programming-Language Charles Charles 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and-Jeff-Bezanson-Julia-Programming-Language/RSS Computer Science Programming Languages Technical Computing Lang.NEXT 2012 Emmanuel Stapf: Eiffel Programming Language The Eiffel programming language is an object-oriented language that is based on a fixed set of powerful principles like Design by Contract and Command-Query Separation. It's a very powerful language that has impacted the evolution of the more popular general purpose OO languages such as Java and C#.

At Lang.NEXT 2012, I caught up with Emmanuel Stapf, head of the Compiler Division at Eiffel Software, to briefly discuss what's new in Eiffel.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Emmanuel-Stapf-Eiffel-Programming-Language The Eiffel programming language is an object-oriented language that is based on a fixed set of powerful principles like Design by Contract and Command-Query Separation. It's a very powerful language that has impacted the evolution of the more popular general purpose OO languages such as Java and C#.At Lang.NEXT 2012, I caught up with Emmanuel Stapf, head of the Compiler Division at Eiffel Software, to briefly discuss what's new in Eiffel. 1269 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Emmanuel-Stapf-Eiffel-Programming-Language Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Emmanuel-Stapf-Eiffel-Programming-Language Charles Charles 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Emmanuel-Stapf-Eiffel-Programming-Language/RSS Eiffel Lang.NEXT 2012 Mads Torgersen and Kim Bruce - Grace Programming Language At Lang.NEXT 2012 several conversations took place in the "social room" and we captured some of them for C9.

Here, computer scientist and C# PM Mads Torgersen discusses the Grace programming language with legendary computer scientist and educator Kim Bruce, one of Grace's designers. How do you design a general purpose programming language that is primarily a language for learning how to program (eventually) in other languages like C++, C#, Java?

Tune in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mads-Torgersen-and-Kim-Bruce-Grace-Programming-Language At Lang.NEXT 2012 several conversations took place in the "social room" and we captured some of them for C9. Here, computer scientist and C# PM Mads Torgersen discusses the Grace programming language with legendary computer scientist and educator Kim Bruce, one of Grace's designers. How do you design a general purpose programming language that is primarily a language for learning how to program (eventually) in other languages like C++, C#, Java? Tune in. 905 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mads-Torgersen-and-Kim-Bruce-Grace-Programming-Language Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mads-Torgersen-and-Kim-Bruce-Grace-Programming-Language Charles Charles 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mads-Torgersen-and-Kim-Bruce-Grace-Programming-Language/RSS Expert to Expert Programming Languages Lang.NEXT 2012 Alexandrescu, Bright, Meijer, Moran: Pure versus Native (and much more) Continuing with the series of conversations filmed in the "social room" at Lang.NEXT 2012, we present Andrei Alexandrescu, Walter Bright, Erik Meijer, and Andrew Adams-Moran discussing/debating various programming topics including pure versus native languages, Haskell, D, and more. Thanks Andrei, Andrew, Erik, and Walter for an excellent conversation! As always, this is presented to you exactly as it happened.

Tune in. Enjoy.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Alexandrescu-Bright-Meijer-Moran-Pure-versus-Native-and-much-more Continuing with the series of conversations filmed in the "social room" at Lang.NEXT 2012, we present Andrei Alexandrescu, Walter Bright, Erik Meijer, and Andrew Adams-Moran discussing/debating various programming topics including pure versus native languages, Haskell, D, and more. Thanks Andrei, Andrew, Erik, and Walter for an excellent conversation! As always, this is presented to you exactly as it happened. Tune in. Enjoy. 3221 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Alexandrescu-Bright-Meijer-Moran-Pure-versus-Native-and-much-more Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Alexandrescu-Bright-Meijer-Moran-Pure-versus-Native-and-much-more Charles Charles 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Alexandrescu-Bright-Meijer-Moran-Pure-versus-Native-and-much-more/RSS Erik Meijer Functional Programming Haskell Native Andrei Alexandrescu D Walter Bright Lang.NEXT 2012 Behind the scenes: Designing Microsoft’s reinvented certifications Join the Cert Doctors, Dr. Sneath and Dr. Munson, as they talk about how Microsoft designs its certification exams as well as some new and more interactive question types for IT Pros and Developers. Charles talks with them about the reinvented MCSE and MCSD certifications being launched today, and how the latest technologies like private cloud, SQL Server 2012 and Windows 8 are being addressed with new certifications.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Behind-the-scenes-Designing-Microsofts-reinvented-certifications Join the Cert Doctors, Dr. Sneath and Dr. Munson, as they talk about how Microsoft designs its certification exams as well as some new and more interactive question types for IT Pros and Developers. Charles talks with them about the reinvented MCSE and MCSD certifications being launched today, and how the latest technologies like private cloud, SQL Server 2012 and Windows 8 are being addressed with new certifications. 1314 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Behind-the-scenes-Designing-Microsofts-reinvented-certifications Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Behind-the-scenes-Designing-Microsofts-reinvented-certifications Charles Charles 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Behind-the-scenes-Designing-Microsofts-reinvented-certifications/RSS anode: An Experimental node.js Platform for Windows Azure anode is an experimental platform for rapidly prototyping web apps on Windows Azure. anode is built by Microsoft entirely with node.js and uses many great open source modules written by the awesome node.js community around the world. This is not a service. It's an experiment. That said, the anode team, as members of the node.js community, have released the modules they've built as part of the anode project.

Here, we meet two of the developers of anode, Elad Ben-Israel and Saar Yahalom. We discuss the What, Why and How. Tune in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/anode-An-Experimental-nodejs-Platform-for-Windows-Azure anode is an experimental platform for rapidly prototyping web apps on Windows Azure. anode is built by Microsoft entirely with node.js and uses many great open source modules written by the awesome node.js community around the world. This is not a service. It's an experiment. That said, the anode team, as members of the node.js community, have released the modules they've built as part of the anode project. Here, we meet two of the developers of anode, Elad Ben-Israel and Saar Yahalom. We discuss the What, Why and How. Tune in. 1366 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/anode-An-Experimental-nodejs-Platform-for-Windows-Azure Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/anode-An-Experimental-nodejs-Platform-for-Windows-Azure Charles Charles 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/anode-An-Experimental-nodejs-Platform-for-Windows-Azure/RSS JavaScript Windows Azure Web Development _techmeme C9 Lectures: Donna Malayeri - F# 3.0 - Information Rich Programming, 1 of 1 Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. F# 3.0 brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform. F# Type Providers and F# Queries greatly simplify data-rich analytical programming, allowing programmers to easily access and manipulate a variety of data sources. In this lecture, Donna Malayeri, F# Program Manager, introduces these exciting new features and how they can be used to leverage technologies such as OData, WSDL services, and Windows Azure Marketplace.

Download the slides for this presentation.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C9-Lectures-Donna-Malayeri-F-30-Information-Rich-Programming-1-of-1 Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. F# 3.0 brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform. F# Type Providers and F# Queries greatly simplify data-rich analytical programming, allowing programmers to easily access and manipulate a variety of data sources. In this lecture, Donna Malayeri, F# Program Manager, introduces these exciting new features and how they can be used to leverage technologies such as OData, WSDL services, and Windows Azure Marketplace.Download the slides for this presentation. 2640 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C9-Lectures-Donna-Malayeri-F-30-Information-Rich-Programming-1-of-1 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:03:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C9-Lectures-Donna-Malayeri-F-30-Information-Rich-Programming-1-of-1 Charles Charles 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C9-Lectures-Donna-Malayeri-F-30-Information-Rich-Programming-1-of-1/RSS C9 Lectures F# Functional Programming _techmeme Mads Torgersen, Donna Malayeri and Erik Meijer: (Re)Introducing Lang.NEXT Lang.NEXT is a programming languages conference, a geek festival for programming language designers and implementers from across the industry and academia. The goal is to share ideas and learn. The presentations, conversations, debates and arguments should prove quite enlightening.

Here, Event Chair Mads Torgersen, Speaker Chair Donna Malayeri and Iconoclast Erik Meijer join us to discuss the event, what it means, some who, some what. We go Old School.

Tune in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mads-Torgersen-Donna-Malayeri-and-Erik-Meijer-ReIntroducing-LangNEXT Lang.NEXT is a programming languages conference, a geek festival for programming language designers and implementers from across the industry and academia. The goal is to share ideas and learn. The presentations, conversations, debates and arguments should prove quite enlightening. Here, Event Chair Mads Torgersen, Speaker Chair Donna Malayeri and Iconoclast Erik Meijer join us to discuss the event, what it means, some who, some what. We go Old School. Tune in. 894 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mads-Torgersen-Donna-Malayeri-and-Erik-Meijer-ReIntroducing-LangNEXT Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:09:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mads-Torgersen-Donna-Malayeri-and-Erik-Meijer-ReIntroducing-LangNEXT Charles Charles 5 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Mads-Torgersen-Donna-Malayeri-and-Erik-Meijer-ReIntroducing-LangNEXT/RSS Computer Science Erik Meijer Programming Languages _techmeme Matthew Podwysocki and Bart J. F. De Smet: RxJS Today and Tomorrow The JavaScript implementation of Reactive Extensions (Rx), RxJS, continues to evolve under the direction of Matthew Podwysocki. RxJS provides Rx operators in JavaScript and it does this in a download size of less than 7KB (using GZip compression). RxJS provides easy-to-use conversions from existing DOM, XmlHttpRequest (AJAX), and jQuery events to Rx push-collections, allowing users to seamlessly plug Rx into their existing JavaScript-based web sites.

Here, Bart J.F. De Smet - the lead developer of Rx - and Matthew sit down for a C9 conversation about RxJS (no demos or code-on-screen - this is purely a conversation). Who knows where it will go (will we only talk about RxJS?) and who'll make a cameo appearance at the very beginning Smiley Tune in.

Enjoy!

Follow Matthew: @mattpodwysocki

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Matthew-Podwysocki-and-Bart-J-F-De-Smet-RxJS-Today-and-Tomorrow The JavaScript implementation of Reactive Extensions (Rx), RxJS, continues to evolve under the direction of Matthew Podwysocki. RxJS provides Rx operators in JavaScript and it does this in a download size of less than 7KB (using GZip compression). RxJS provides easy-to-use conversions from existing DOM, XmlHttpRequest (AJAX), and jQuery events to Rx push-collections, allowing users to seamlessly plug Rx into their existing JavaScript-based web sites. Here, Bart J.F. De Smet - the lead developer of Rx - and Matthew sit down for a C9 conversation about RxJS (no demos or code-on-screen - this is purely a conversation). Who knows where it will go (will we only talk about RxJS?) and who'll make a cameo appearance at the very beginning Tune in.Enjoy! Follow Matthew: @mattpodwysocki 2534 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Matthew-Podwysocki-and-Bart-J-F-De-Smet-RxJS-Today-and-Tomorrow Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:30:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Matthew-Podwysocki-and-Bart-J-F-De-Smet-RxJS-Today-and-Tomorrow Charles Charles 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Matthew-Podwysocki-and-Bart-J-F-De-Smet-RxJS-Today-and-Tomorrow/RSS Bart De Smet C9 Conversations JavaScript Matthew Podwysocki Reactive Extensions Rx RxJS Energy Efficient Cloud Computing for Developers Datacenter energy efficiency is a hot topic these days (how to keep thousands of machines cool without consuming too many electrons, etc.), but something that doesn't get quite as much attention in terms of datacenter energy efficiency is the code running on the servers that make up the cloud datacenter—i.e., the cloud applications written by developers.

As developers, you have the power to save power! This is important to realize as we enter the cloud era. Your bosses will be quite pleased if you do your best to not only make sure your code is as efficient as possible, but that the monthly bills from your company's cloud providers are as low as possible. Smiley We live in a new age. This is a very important topic.

In this developer-focused discussion, Mark Aggar, Senior Director of IT Environmental Sustainability at Microsoft (You've met him before), and Grigori Melnik, Program Manager in the Patterns and Practices group, share insights and recommendations about building energy efficient applications for the cloud. 

Grigori's team has made WASABI—an autoscaling application block for Windows Azure. If you're a Windows Azure developer, you should most definitely download this application block and try it out. It could literally save you money.

Related links/Learn more:

http://www.microsoft.com/environment/

IT Energy Efficiency Imperative (download file via link)

The Green Grid Forum

Energy smart coding for client

Autoscaling How-To Guide

Grigori's blog

Mark's blog

Microsoft Patterns & Practices Dev Center

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers Datacenter energy efficiency is a hot topic these days (how to keep thousands of machines cool without consuming too many electrons, etc.), but something that doesn't get quite as much attention in terms of datacenter energy efficiency is the code running on the servers that make up the cloud datacenter—i.e., the cloud applications written by developers. As developers, you have the power to save power! This is important to realize as we enter the cloud era. Your bosses will be quite pleased if you do your best to not only make sure your code is as efficient as possible, but that the monthly bills from your company's cloud providers are as low as possible. We live in a new age. This is a very important topic. In this developer-focused discussion, Mark Aggar, Senior Director of IT Environmental Sustainability at Microsoft (You've met him before), and Grigori Melnik, Program Manager in the Patterns and Practices group, share insights and recommendations about building energy efficient applications for the cloud. Grigori's team has made WASABI—an autoscaling application block for Windows Azure. If you're a Windows Azure developer, you should most definitely download this application block and try it out. It could literally save you money.Related links/Learn more: http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ IT Energy Efficiency Imperative (download file via link) The Green Grid Forum Energy smart coding for client Autoscaling How-To Guide Grigori's blog Mark's blog Microsoft Patterns & Practices Dev Center 1422 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:07:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers Charles Charles 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Energy-Efficient-Cloud-Computing-for-Developers/RSS Cloud Computing Data Center Energy Patterns & Practices Patterns and Practices Windows Azure Energy Smart Computing _techmeme C++ AMP: The Test Team - Hallway Office Tour C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a first class, seamless experience in modern C++.

You've been able to experiment with C++ AMP since the VS11 Developer Preview back in September 2011. We figured it was a good time to go C9 on the C++ AMP team. So, we did. Four interviews have been conducted that pretty thoroughly cover C++ AMP and the people who design, implement, and test it. C++ AMP is a great technology for native developers seeking to harness the power of the GPU using the language and tools they are already comfortable with. C++ AMP is also an open specification and we'll see other compiler vendors producing C++ AMP implementations for their target platforms soon—that's been the goal since Day 1.

Get VC++11 Beta Now - test out AMP!

Here, we meet the members of the C++ AMP test team;  the engineers who write C++ AMP test cases to push the technology to its limits, ensure that features work as intended, find bugs, make sure the technology is ready for prime time before it gets in your hands.

In Old School C9 fashion, we start off in an office - of team leader Jerry Higgins in this case - and then walk around the building to meet the C++ AMP  test team members in their native habitat (offices).

Meet Jerry Higgins, Joe Mayo, Bharath Mysore Nanjundappa, Pavan Marella, Kevin Gao, Lukasz Mendakiewicz, Daniel Griffing, Hasibur Rahman, Pooja Nagpal, and Tamer Afify. Come take a hallway tour with us.

Enjoy!

See Part 1 - Daniel Moth: AMP Overview
See Part 2 - Yossi Levanoni: AMP Architecture and Design
See Part 3 - The AMP Development Team Roundtable

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-AMP-The-Test-Team-Hallway-Office-Tour C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a first class, seamless experience in modern C++. You've been able to experiment with C++ AMP since the VS11 Developer Preview back in September 2011. We figured it was a good time to go C9 on the C++ AMP team. So, we did. Four interviews have been conducted that pretty thoroughly cover C++ AMP and the people who design, implement, and test it. C++ AMP is a great technology for native developers seeking to harness the power of the GPU using the language and tools they are already comfortable with. C++ AMP is also an open specification and we'll see other compiler vendors producing C++ AMP implementations for their target platforms soon—that's been the goal since Day 1.Get VC++11 Beta Now - test out AMP! Here, we meet the members of the C++ AMP test team;  the engineers who write C++ AMP test cases to push the technology to its limits, ensure that features work as intended, find bugs, make sure the technology is ready for prime time before it gets in your hands. In Old School C9 fashion, we start off in an office - of team leader Jerry Higgins in this case - and then walk around the building to meet the C++ AMP  test team members in their native habitat (offices). Meet Jerry Higgins, Joe Mayo, Bharath Mysore Nanjundappa, Pavan Marella, Kevin Gao, Lukasz Mendakiewicz, Daniel Griffing, Hasibur Rahman, Pooja Nagpal, and Tamer Afify. Come take a hallway tour with us. Enjoy! See Part 1 - Daniel Moth: AMP Overview See Part 2 - Yossi Levanoni: AMP Architecture and DesignSee Part 3 - The AMP Development Team Roundtable 2803 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-AMP-The-Test-Team-Hallway-Office-Tour Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:37:33 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-AMP-The-Test-Team-Hallway-Office-Tour Charles Charles 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-AMP-The-Test-Team-Hallway-Office-Tour/RSS C++ GPGPU Testing Visual Studio Parallel Patterns Library C++ AMP C++11 _techmeme C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism C++ AMP: Daniel Moth - Overview C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a first class, seamless experience in modern C++.

You've been able to experiment with C++ AMP since the VS11 Developer Preview back in September 2011. We figured it was a good time to go C9 on the C++ AMP team. So, we did. Four interviews have been conducted that pretty thoroughly cover C++ AMP and the people who design, implement, and test it. C++ AMP is a great technology for native developers seeking to harness the power of the GPU using the language and tools they are already comfortable with. C++ AMP is also an open specification and we'll see other compiler vendors producing C++ AMP implementations for their target platforms soon—that's been the goal since Day 1.

Get VC++11 Beta Now - test out AMP!

Here, we meet the legendary Daniel Moth. Daniel's actually been on C9 a few times and his technical screencasts are among the very best that have been produced for C9 (please make more, Daniel!!). Daniel is the C++ AMP program manager (PM).

PMs are responsible for documenting the vision, building the execution plans to turn the vision into a real project, manage the project to completion, ship the result of the project and to attract and work with customers to help them understand what the product means for them and why it matters to their business. It's quite a job. Daniel is one part of a team of engineers that consists of program management (Daniel), architecture (Yossi Levanoni is one of the architects of AMP and you'll meet him (again) in one these interviews), development (you'll meet the AMP dev team soon, round-table style), and test (you'll meet the AMP test team soon, hallway-tour style).

So, tell us what C++ AMP is and why it matters, Daniel. Give us some context and history. What's going on here? What's next?

Tune in and meet the people behind the restrict(ion)s, kernels, etc. It's GPGPU time on C9. Enjoy.

See Part 2 - Yossi Levanoni: AMP Architecture and Design
See Part 3 - The AMP Development Team Roundtable
See Part 4 - The AMP Test Team Hallway Office Tour

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-AMP-Daniel-Moth-Overview C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a first class, seamless experience in modern C++. You've been able to experiment with C++ AMP since the VS11 Developer Preview back in September 2011. We figured it was a good time to go C9 on the C++ AMP team. So, we did. Four interviews have been conducted that pretty thoroughly cover C++ AMP and the people who design, implement, and test it. C++ AMP is a great technology for native developers seeking to harness the power of the GPU using the language and tools they are already comfortable with. C++ AMP is also an open specification and we'll see other compiler vendors producing C++ AMP implementations for their target platforms soon—that's been the goal since Day 1. Get VC++11 Beta Now - test out AMP!Here, we meet the legendary Daniel Moth. Daniel's actually been on C9 a few times and his technical screencasts are among the very best that have been produced for C9 (please make more, Daniel!!). Daniel is the C++ AMP program manager (PM). PMs are responsible for documenting the vision, building the execution plans to turn the vision into a real project, manage the project to completion, ship the result of the project and to attract and work with customers to help them understand what the product means for them and why it matters to their business. It's quite a job. Daniel is one part of a team of engineers that consists of program management (Daniel), architecture (Yossi Levanoni is one of the architects of AMP and you'll meet him (again) in one these interviews), development (you'll meet the AMP dev team soon, round-table style), and test (you'll meet the AMP test team soon, hallway-tour style) 1618 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-AMP-Daniel-Moth-Overview Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:34:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-AMP-Daniel-Moth-Overview Charles Charles 20 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C-AMP-Daniel-Moth-Overview/RSS C++ GPGPU Parallelism Visual Studio Parallel Patterns Library C++ AMP C++11 _techmeme C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism YOW! 2011: Nigel Dalton - On Being Agile, Lonely Planet, and Lean Development In early 2000, having survived Y2K in the role of Software Development Manager at AXA Australia, Nigel Dalton fled to the USA to be CTO and COO of an Australian dot com startup in San Francisco - which later moved to New York, then finally Minnesota. The 4th Winter at -40C finally drove him and his family back down under, re-igniting his career in behavioral economics in New Zealand, eventually returning to Melbourne to work as General Manager IT at Lonely Planet in early 2007.

This is not a technical conversation like all of the other YOW! interviews you've seen. Instead, Nigel takes us through how he thinks about agility (lean product development, agile methodologies, etc...) and the application of agile practices to building products and running businesses that can succeed for extended periods of time (did you know that most companies that existed in 1950 no longer exist?).

So, what does agile really mean, anyway? Talk to us, Nigel. Explain.

Thanks for joining us on C9, Nigel! Fascinating conversation.

Nigel's YOW! speaker page



The YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff - Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others - for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Nigel-Dalton-Agile-Product-Development In early 2000, having survived Y2K in the role of Software Development Manager at AXA Australia, Nigel Dalton fled to the USA to be CTO and COO of an Australian dot com startup in San Francisco - which later moved to New York, then finally Minnesota. The 4th Winter at -40C finally drove him and his family back down under, re-igniting his career in behavioral economics in New Zealand, eventually returning to Melbourne to work as General Manager IT at Lonely Planet in early 2007. This is not a technical conversation like all of the other YOW! interviews you've seen. Instead, Nigel takes us through how he thinks about agility (lean product development, agile methodologies, etc...) and the application of agile practices to building products and running businesses that can succeed for extended periods of time (did you know that most companies that existed in 1950 no longer exist?). So, what does agile really mean, anyway? Talk to us, Nigel. Explain. Thanks for joining us on C9, Nigel! Fascinating conversation. Nigel's YOW! speaker pageThe YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff - Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others - for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar! 2014 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Nigel-Dalton-Agile-Product-Development Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:44:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Nigel-Dalton-Agile-Product-Development Charles Charles 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Nigel-Dalton-Agile-Product-Development/RSS Agile Methodologies YOW! 2011 YOW! 2011: Bjorn Freeman-Benson - Software Psychology Bjorn Freeman-Benson is the Vice President of Engineering at New Relic - which produces cross-platform application and server performance monitoring software as a service (SaaS). He's been an engineer for many years and has focused on building tools.  

Here, we talk about client and cloud monitoring tools, Bjorn (of course!) and more. Bjorn describes himself as a Software Psychologist - he listens to software and makes it better after understanding it's deepest needs and problems. Smiley I like the sound of that!  Another thing I like about Bjorn's optimistic outlook on software complexity is the notion of "drinking our own champagne" versus "eating our own dog food" when it comes to using the software you build - in a real world context, daily - before you unleash it on the world.

Thanks for joining us on C9, Bjorn! Keep on listening to software's deep issues and help correct them (hopefully without the need of powerful "medication")!

Bjorn's YOW! speaker page

 

The YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff - Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others - for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Bjorn-Freeman-Benson-Software-Psychology Bjorn Freeman-Benson is the Vice President of Engineering at New Relic - which produces cross-platform application and server performance monitoring software as a service (SaaS). He's been an engineer for many years and has focused on building tools.  Here, we talk about client and cloud monitoring tools, Bjorn (of course!) and more. Bjorn describes himself as a Software Psychologist - he listens to software and makes it better after understanding it's deepest needs and problems. I like the sound of that!  Another thing I like about Bjorn's optimistic outlook on software complexity is the notion of "drinking our own champagne" versus "eating our own dog food" when it comes to using the software you build - in a real world context, daily - before you unleash it on the world. Thanks for joining us on C9, Bjorn! Keep on listening to software's deep issues and help correct them (hopefully without the need of powerful "medication")! Bjorn's YOW! speaker page   The YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff - Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others - for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar! 1597 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Bjorn-Freeman-Benson-Software-Psychology Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:51:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Bjorn-Freeman-Benson-Software-Psychology Charles Charles 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Bjorn-Freeman-Benson-Software-Psychology/RSS Analysis Tools Programming _techmeme YOW! 2011 YOW! 2011: Aslak Hellesøy - Web Sockets and Webbit Aslak Hellesøy is a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading in London and the creator of Cucumber. Aslak is also a contributor to Webbit, a Java event based WebSocket and HTTP server (and the subject of his YOW! session).

Here, we talk about Webbit and Web Sockets and learn a little about Aslak, of course. Thanks for joining us on C9, Aslak!

Aslak's YOW! speaker page

 

The YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff - Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others - for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Aslak-Hellesy-Web-Sockets-and-Webbit Aslak Hellesøy is a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading in London and the creator of Cucumber. Aslak is also a contributor to Webbit, a Java event based WebSocket and HTTP server (and the subject of his YOW! session). Here, we talk about Webbit and Web Sockets and learn a little about Aslak, of course. Thanks for joining us on C9, Aslak! Aslak's YOW! speaker page   The YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff - Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others - for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar! 1157 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Aslak-Hellesy-Web-Sockets-and-Webbit Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:31:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Aslak-Hellesy-Web-Sockets-and-Webbit Charles Charles 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Aslak-Hellesy-Web-Sockets-and-Webbit/RSS HTML 5 HTML5 Java YOW! 2011 YOW! 2011: Tony Morris - Functional Programming and Functional Thinking Tony Morris is a developer who has deployed functional programming techniques in industry for over 10 years.  He's also a teacher and key player in Australia's increasingly vibrant functional programming community. Tony actively programs in Scala and Haskell so he possesses a well-rounded view of the functional world (from hybrid to pure functional).

Here, we talk about functional programming—when to go functional and why—and Tony addresses some of the problems that face developers who want or need to go functional but possess only an imperative way of thinking when it comes to designing and writing software. It's the functional way of thinking that most newcomers to functional programming find most difficult. Of course, there's no conversation about functional programming without talking about monads, so we talk about monadic design (and definition).

Thanks for joining us on C9 Tony!

Tony's YOW! speaker page

 

The YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff—Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others—for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Tony-Morris-Functional-Programming-and-Functional-Thinking Tony Morris is a developer who has deployed functional programming techniques in industry for over 10 years.  He's also a teacher and key player in Australia's increasingly vibrant functional programming community. Tony actively programs in Scala and Haskell so he possesses a well-rounded view of the functional world (from hybrid to pure functional). Here, we talk about functional programming—when to go functional and why—and Tony addresses some of the problems that face developers who want or need to go functional but possess only an imperative way of thinking when it comes to designing and writing software. It's the functional way of thinking that most newcomers to functional programming find most difficult. Of course, there's no conversation about functional programming without talking about monads, so we talk about monadic design (and definition). Thanks for joining us on C9 Tony! Tony's YOW! speaker page   The YOW! Developer Conference offers outstanding opportunities to learn more about the latest practices, technologies, and methodologies for building innovative software solutions as well as the chance to meet and network with international software experts and other talented developers in Australia. Thanks to Dave Thomas and the event's excellent staff—Mary Catherine (MC), Lisa, Aino, Melissa, and others—for inviting me to this excellent pure developer event and thanks to all of the speakers for letting me take some of their time to record conversations for Channel 9. If you live in Australia, or aren't too far away, or just like to travel (who doesn't?), then you need to go to this yearly event. It's outstanding. There are many great developers down under. That's for sure. The speakers are exceptional—Dave and team set a high bar! 1463 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Tony-Morris-Functional-Programming-and-Functional-Thinking Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Tony-Morris-Functional-Programming-and-Functional-Thinking Charles Charles 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Tony-Morris-Functional-Programming-and-Functional-Thinking/RSS Functional Programming Monad Monads Programming Monadic Design Patterns YOW! 2011