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17 minutes, 38 secondsA conversation with Justin Smith about syndication and REST in the Orcas release of Windows CommunicMay 29, 2007 at 8:33 AM
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In version 3.5 of the .NET Framework, the Windows Communication Foundation will define a set of types that abstractly represent syndication feeds and items in feeds, and will provide mappings from those abstractions to RSS and Atom. In this conversation we discuss how this new support for… -
33 minutes, 36 secondsA conversation with Allen Wirfs-Brock about the history of Smalltalk and the future of dynamic languMay 21, 2007 at 8:01 AM 5
More than 25 years ago, Allen Wirfs-Brock created one of the early implementations of Smalltalk. He was working at Tektronix at the time, as was Ward Cunningham who became the first user of Tektronix Smalltalk. Allen later served as chief scientist of Digitalk-ParcPlace and CTO of…
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35 minutes, 0 secondsA conversation with John Lam about the dynamic language runtime, Silverlight, and RubyApr 30, 2007 at 12:02 PM 6
On the Friday before MIX, I recorded this podcast with John Lam. He's the creator of RubyCLR and, as it happens, he joined Microsoft on the same day I did. John's been running silent since then, but no longer. In this conversation we discuss the dynamic language runtime (DLR), a…
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1 hour, 7 minutes, 0 secondsJon Udell interviews Bill Crow about HD PhotoApr 02, 2007 at 10:19 AM 5
July 31 2007: Update from Bill Crow: This is a pretty exciting day for all of us working on HD Photo. Today, the Joint Photographic Expert's Group (JPEG) announced a new work item for the standardization of a HD Photo as a new file format called JPEG XR (XR is short for "extended…
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42 minutes, 55 secondsJon Udell and Mary Czerwinski on interruptions, context reacquisition, and spatial/temporal memoryFeb 12, 2007 at 3:46 PM 3
My guest for today's episode is Mary Czerwinski, a research area manager at Microsoft Research. Our conversation begins with a reference to the search strategy I used to recall Mary's name, which I'd seen in a SeattlePI.com story about a workshop on attention and interruptions that was held…
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47 minutes, 42 secondsJon Udell: Brian Jones on Office XMLFeb 05, 2007 at 2:53 PM 6
Brian Jones has been working on infusing XML smarts into Office for six years. In this episode we discuss the history of, the current status of, and future prospects for XML-enabled Office applications.
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37 minutes, 22 secondsJon Udell: A talk with Marty Collins about blogs, architectural guidance, and technical marketingJan 31, 2007 at 3:34 PM 0
Marty Collins is senior marketing manager with the solution architecture group responsible for msdn.microsoft.com/architecture and skyscrapr.net. She wanted to interview me about the relationship between blogs and technical marketing, and I wanted to hear her thoughts on the same subject,…
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39 minutes, 46 secondsJon Udell: Chris Wilson on IE7, Ajax, and web standardsJan 26, 2007 at 2:48 PM 8
Hi, this is Jon Udell. In this first installment of my new Microsoft Conversations series I got together with Chris Wilson. He's been involved with Internet Explorer and with web standards for over a decade. We talked about the history and evolution of IE, about Ajax, about ways of…
