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Re: What's New for JScript in IE8?

JChung2006 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:50:41 GMT

They probably filmed this ages ago before V8 and TraceMonkey were announced.

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Re: Building Channel 9: Inside EvNet - Part 1

JChung2006 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:02:06 GMT

The behavior you guys were talking about where redundant requests to fill or refill a cache entry can cause severe performance degradation is called "dogpiling." Glad to hear that anti-dogpiling is in effect on 9!

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Re: This Week on C9: Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger, VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

JChung2006 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:32:47 GMT

Gotta love the 9'ers in 9 videos!

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Re: MVC Preview 4 with Phil Haack

JChung2006 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:51:49 GMT

Good to see ASP.NET MVC talk on 9. Time to go check out Preview 4.

I thought ASP.NET MVC supported multiple view engines, not just ASP.NET, e.g., NHaml, NVelocity, XSLT, your own if you felt like building one. Check out MVC-Contrib @ CodePlex for some community-driven, ASP.NET MVC-related projects.

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Re: C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team

JChung2006 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:31:24 GMT

Great video, Charles!

With regards to the dynamic typing-static typing dichotomy, it is not either-or. It is not only-but also. We want not only the affordances of dynamic typing but also the assurances of static typing. Type inference sorta fakes us out into believing that it provides this, but it's still static typing, and there are limitations to that approach that cannot be worked around until changes to the type system are made.

Java and C# have been around for a while, long enough to where people will grumble if you make too many changes to the language. If it is impossible to make changes to the language without incurring "-1000" penalties, then maybe it's time for a new language (or perhaps an old one whose time hadn't quite yet come...) to step up and pave the way for programming language innovation. Better ways of getting the job done is the goal.

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Re: C9 Bytes: Alex Turner showing the evolution of C#

JChung2006 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:08:57 GMT

Another easy way to get black-on-white: the COLOR command. COLOR F0 will get you black on white. COLOR /? for more details.

Coincidentally, this video had an excellent demonstration of how IntelliSense can screw you up when you try to enter lambda expressions in C#. When Alex tried to enter c => c.City == "London", IntelliSense "helpfully" suggested case even though it makes no sense to enter the case keyword at that point (he wasn't even in a switch statement). I'm learning to hit Esc to cancel the IntelliSense, but I would prefer not having to do so. Please fix this.

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Re: Dev Diary for April 15th

JChung2006 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:19:05 GMT

I would rather see C9V4 live, not videos about making it.

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Re: Douglas Crockford, Alex Russell and Joseph Smarr: On the Past, Present and Future of JavaScript

JChung2006 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:45:58 GMT

Great video! I enjoyed listening to the perspectives of these JavaScript experts on the history, current state, and future of the world's most popular programming language. I would have liked a little more technical discussion about the upcoming ECMAScript standard but enjoyable nonetheless!

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Re: Chris Wilson: Inside IE8 Beta 1 For Developers

JChung2006 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:02:19 GMT

I installed IE8b1 and am loving it! The new CSS and JavaScript debugging services in the IE Developer Toolbar are a killer app in my book! Great job!

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Re: Scott Guthrie: Inside Silverlight 2 Beta 1

JChung2006 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:44:49 GMT

CRPietschmann wrote:

Hmm... For some reason I feel like drinking a Pepsi...

Yeah, I wonder how much Pepsico paid for that product placement. Apple, on the other hand, got no love, hiding behind Scott's Macbook Pro's C9 decal.

Great video! I'm excited to learn more about Silverlight 2, particularly the DLR, Python, and Ruby.

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Re: This Week on Channel 9: Feb 22 with Ed Kaim!

JChung2006 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:27:49 GMT

FireGarden wrote:

If I met you two gay cow boys in a bar I would kick both your asses.

You hang out in a lot of gay cowboy bars, Firegarden?

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Re: This Week on Channel 9: Feb 15 with Scott Hanselman!

JChung2006 — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:25:19 GMT

Awesome video, guys!

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Re: Burton Smith: On General Purpose Super Computing and the History and Future of Parallelism

JChung2006 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:36:35 GMT

evildictaitor wrote:

If your database was immutable (i.e. you never wrote to it), SQL would be purely functional, and achieves massive parallelism.

And be nowhere near as useful as a database where you could change data.

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Re: Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, Mads Torgersen: Perspectives on Programming Language Design and Evolution

JChung2006 — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:27:54 GMT

Great video! I have been debating the pros and cons of reflective programming with somebody in the Techoff threads who is adamantly against it, and many of the points I would have liked to have made in favor of dynamic languages and better type systems were made here in this video and in a more eloquent manner. Keep up the good talks, Charles!

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Re: April Reagan: The Future of MSDN Help

JChung2006 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:09:03 GMT

I am looking forward to the new and improved MSDN Help!

Here's an off-the-wall suggestion (not necessarily for April and her team but maybe for a clever dev out there with some free time): a command-line interface to MSDN Help a la UNIX man.

Here's another: write a Sidebar Gadget with MSDN Help.

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Re: Erik Meijer: Functional Programming

JChung2006 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:34:04 GMT

MetaGunny wrote:

I've watched all of the related videos.

However, I'm assuming that you reference reading other material because you yourself don't truly understand the why.

If you did, you could have explained it.

No, I referenced them, because they explain some of the benefits of pure functional programming where the minimization of shared mutable state can enable opportunities to simplify the construction of highly concurrent software.

Not sure why I wasted my time though. You're rude.

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Re: Erik Meijer: Functional Programming

JChung2006 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:59:40 GMT

Why functional programming? See Joe Duffy's video on ParallelFx here on C9 and Simon Peyton Jones' papers on Software Transactional Memory on the MS Research site for a couple approachs to improving the concurrency of applications in this multi-core age we live in.

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Re: Niners on 9: Littleguru, Zeus and JasonOlson

JChung2006 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:12:40 GMT

It's nice to put some faces and voices to the names and avatars!

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Re: Kate Gregory, Ale Contenti and Steve Teixeira: VC++ 2008 and Beyond

JChung2006 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:49:02 GMT

I really don't like the "shiny objects" analogy. Try asking IBM how many of those conversions from mainframes to Microsoft software were "green fields." Now that Microsoft is the landscape, not IBM, suddenly those "green fields" are "brown fields?"

The disconnect here is why those libraries that are only available to C++ programmers are not available to .NET programmers. Maybe you should have made them available to .NET programmers? Not only are they not available, but there is no publicly available roadmap for when that might happen, if ever.

I loved the IntelliSense discussion!

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Re: Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad

JChung2006 — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:57:11 GMT

So monads convert functions from this

int f(int x)

to this

int* f(int x)

where int* is int plus some encapsulation of relevant things that don't fit into your functional model, e.g., I/O, mutable state, etc. Lambda functions are then used to transform int* back into int.

int* => int

The lambda functions allow the converted functions to seem monoidal like the original functions by isolating their side effects from the original functions.

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Re: Don Syme: What's new in F# - Asynchronous Workflows (and welcome to the .NET family!)

JChung2006 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:35:43 GMT

Besides the dynamic language bits, which are nice, what is interesting about the DLR is that they are refactoring the CLR aka CoreCLR.

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Re: Don Syme: What's new in F# - Asynchronous Workflows (and welcome to the .NET family!)

JChung2006 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:14:15 GMT

You should definitely check out Tomas' blog, which littleguru linked above. He has an article with a code sample library for implementing asynchronous workflows-like code in C#, as well as a nice set of articles introducing F#.

As interesting as F# is, I would still love to see LISP or SCHEME running on the CLR/DLR. I would find it absolutely delightful if a user-friendly dialect of LISP became the most popular software development language 5 years from now, with versions to generate CIL and JVM (and maybe Dalvik) bytecode.

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Re: Soma, Carol Grojean, Jeff Beehler: Visual Studio 2008 RTM!!!

JChung2006 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:21:56 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6ff3bc60-32c8-4c22-8591-a20bf8dff1a2&DisplayLang=en

Somebody posted this earlier in the thread. It's the download link for the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 DVD ISO.

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Re: Soma, Carol Grojean, Jeff Beehler: Visual Studio 2008 RTM!!!

JChung2006 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:39:13 GMT

BlackTiger wrote:

Ok. Downloading...

But... No MSDN library for VS2008?

It was an option to download during the installation for the Express Editions. I can't imagine it being unavailable for the Standard, Professional, and Team System editions. Perhaps it is available as a separate MSDN download?

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Re: Soma, Carol Grojean, Jeff Beehler: Visual Studio 2008 RTM!!!

JChung2006 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:48:23 GMT

Charles' link is a redirect link from Microsoft's Outlook Web Access server. Here is the direct link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx

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