Hans Olav

• Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart

  Oct 12, 2012 at 7:09 AM

  @Alladin: I'm thinking the same thing about XAML + WebCLR as a good replacement for HTML+JS.

  Sooner or later we need to ditch the God-awful HTML standard and the God-awful EcmaScript mess that we're currently using as basis for client web applications. Come on, HTML 5 isn't a solution at all, it's simply a patch that's 10 years too late.

  XAML as an open loyalty-free standard with some kind of open loyalty-free runtime would have been a great solution here. However, it cannot be Microsoft or another privately-held actor that holds it - it must be W3C or some other neutral consortium.

• Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing TypeScript

  Oct 02, 2012 at 3:28 AM

  This is the most exciting new tech since C# and .NET came out! JavaScript is near useless for bigger projects, and with this it has suddenly transformed into a beauty.

• Episode 90 - Windows Azure Web Sites Update

  Sep 25, 2012 at 2:30 PM

  @nickharris:

  Thanks for the quick reply, Nick!
  Cross-database is almost always a bad design anyway (schemas anyone?). SQL VMs is cool but they don't provide real high-availability out-of-the-box the way Azure SQL Databases do, you know.

• Episode 90 - Windows Azure Web Sites Update

  Sep 25, 2012 at 12:26 AM

  Really exciting stuff! I'm especially interested in the updates on Azure SQL Databases. Does the new Linked server stuff mean that you can have cross-database queries inside Azure as well, or only from on-premise SQL Server?

  In real-world cross-database queries are used without a second thought, and porting over to azure is hard when this is not enabled..

• Keynote

  Jun 25, 2012 at 5:36 AM

  I have to admit that I got really excited about Windows Phone 8 - much more so than I thought that I would. I already have a WinPhone7 and it's kind of starting to wear off a bit - I got the first one out in the market.

  Now I really really want the new Windows Phone 8!

   

  I crave a new phone experience besides the ultra dull and boring iOS and Android ones. Windows Phone IS really a fresh breeze, too bad they came so late into the SmartPhone revolution.

• Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks

  Jun 19, 2012 at 11:24 AM

  Thanks for the great intro into the new features, Mark!
  The azure story is really kicking it up a notch this time!! Can't wait to migrate my apps

• Episode 72 - New Tools for Windows Identity Foundation and ACS

  Mar 20, 2012 at 7:48 AM

  @philjay: Thanks a lot! I'll quit my whining now

• Episode 72 - New Tools for Windows Identity Foundation and ACS

  Mar 20, 2012 at 7:48 AM

  @WadeWegner: Hi, thanks a lot for the post - it describes the situation in details, just as I wanted to know. But simply saying that the article was so brilliant there's nothing more to say isn't an actual argument for not covering the news. It's rather a good argument for presenting the article, no?

• Episode 72 - New Tools for Windows Identity Foundation and ACS

  Mar 20, 2012 at 7:45 AM

  @codingoutloud: Hi, I'm merely stating that not even mentioning it in CouldCover is a bit cowardly. Isn't the show called "cloud cover" and not "cloud coverup"? (Cheap point, I know).

• Episode 72 - New Tools for Windows Identity Foundation and ACS

  Mar 18, 2012 at 4:00 AM

  Wade,

  What up with not covering the azure outage???
  I've been waiting for you guys to go through that. Not even mentioning it seems cowardly and like you're trying to keep it quiet. C'mon! You're better than this!

  Also: What happened to fullscreen video? Can't find out how to do it now that the silverlight player is gone.

  Thanks!

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