Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Erik Meijer Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Erik Meijer http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/erik+meijer Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/erik+meijer en Mon, 20 May 2013 04:22:19 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 04:22:19 GMT Rev9 89 4 25 Erik Meijer, Immo Landwerth, and Andrew Arnott: Immutable Collections for .NET Erik Meijer interviews .NET team PM Immo Landwerth and Software Developer Andrew Arnott. The topic is Immutable Collections, a new set of immutable types for .NET. You can play around with these today as part of a preview release (NuGet link below). Tune in!

Niners asked questions in advance and some of them were addressed. Thanks again for asking and sorry we didn't get to all of them, but many of the topics were covered (what, why, how, etc...).

Over the last years .NET added many features to make writing multithreaded applications easier. This includes the Task Parallel Library (TPL) as well as the new async/await keywords features to reduce the friction when writing asynchronous code. However, it's still challenging to keep mutable state under control when multiple threads are involved. A common approach is to make use of immutable state that can be passed freely between different threads.
- Immo Landwerth

The NuGet package preview includes these types:

  • ImmutableStack<T>
  • ImmutableQueue<T>
  • ImmutableList<T>
  • ImmutableHashSet<T>
  • ImmutableSortedSet<T>
  • ImmutableDictionary<K, V>
  • ImmutableSortedDictionary<K, V>

Interfaces for each of these types are also defined to facilitate exchange of immutable collection types that may be implemented differently to optimize for very specific performance or memory requirements.

See Andrew's blog for more detailed information (on immutable types for .NET and more. Lots of great info...).

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Immo-Landwerth-and-Andrew-Arnott-Immutable-Collections-for-NET Erik Meijer interviews .NET team PM Immo Landwerth and Software Developer&nbsp;Andrew Arnott. The topic is Immutable Collections, a new set of immutable types for .NET. You can play around with these today as part of a preview release (NuGet link below). Tune in! Niners asked questions in advance and some of them were addressed. Thanks again for asking and sorry we didn't get to all of them, but many of the topics were covered (what, why, how, etc...). Over the last years .NET added many features to make writing multithreaded applications easier. This includes the Task Parallel Library (TPL) as well as the new async/await keywords features to reduce the friction when writing asynchronous code. However, it's still challenging to keep mutable state under control when multiple threads are involved. A common approach is to make use of immutable state that can be passed freely between different threads. - Immo Landwerth The NuGet package preview includes these types: ImmutableStack&lt;T&gt; ImmutableQueue&lt;T&gt; ImmutableList&lt;T&gt; ImmutableHashSet&lt;T&gt; ImmutableSortedSet&lt;T&gt; ImmutableDictionary&lt;K, V&gt; ImmutableSortedDictionary&lt;K, V&gt; Interfaces for each of these types are also defined to facilitate exchange of immutable collection types that may be implemented differently to optimize for very specific performance or memory requirements. See Andrew's blog for more detailed information (on immutable types for .NET and more. Lots of great info...). 3013 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Immo-Landwerth-and-Andrew-Arnott-Immutable-Collections-for-NET Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:56:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Immo-Landwerth-and-Andrew-Arnott-Immutable-Collections-for-NET Charles Charles 16 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Immo-Landwerth-and-Andrew-Arnott-Immutable-Collections-for-NET/rss .NET Computer Science Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Programming YOW! 2012: Jafar Husain - Rx and Netflix, A Match Made in Composable Asynchrony Jafar Husain, a Senior Developer at Netflix, has been working as a software developer for 15 years. He's developed software for companies like GE, Microsoft, and Netflix. Most recently he designed a data access framework that powers Netflix's PS3 and Windows 8 clients. His interests include programming languages, functional reactive programming, and user interface design patterns.

Here, we learn about how Jafar and team at Netflix use Rx, aka Reactive Extensions for (.NET, Obj-C, C++, JavaScript...). At Netflix, they use RxJS for their web app and Rx for .NET for their Windows Store app (Jafar is on the web team). Rx has proven to be incredibly valuable and effective for Netflix.

Jafar has always been a big fan of Rx (including his days at Microsoft), ever since he first learned about it by watching a C9 video with Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman geeking out on the math and theory behind Rx. Netflix is literally powered by Rx. Smiley Jafar really gets Rx. If you're struggling to wrap your head around it, even at the conceptual level, this conversation should make things crystal clear. Go Rx!

Of course, anytime you talk about Rx and Erik Meijer is roaming around the halls nearby, chances are pretty good that he'll drop into the conversation - literally. Does it happen this time? Will the great Erik Meijer appear? You'll need to watch this interview to find out...

Tune in. Enjoy!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/YOW-2012-Jafar-Husain-Rx-and-Netflix-A-Match-Made-in-Composable-Asynchrony Jafar Husain, a Senior Developer at Netflix,&nbsp;has been working as a software developer for 15 years. He's developed software for companies like GE, Microsoft, and Netflix. Most recently he designed a data access framework that powers Netflix's PS3 and Windows 8 clients. His interests include programming languages, functional reactive programming, and user interface design patterns. Here, we learn about how Jafar and team at Netflix use Rx, aka Reactive Extensions for (.NET, Obj-C, C&#43;&#43;, JavaScript...). At Netflix, they use RxJS for their web app and Rx for .NET for their Windows Store app (Jafar is on the web team).&nbsp;Rx has&nbsp;proven to be incredibly valuable and effective for Netflix. Jafar&nbsp;has always been a&nbsp;big fan of Rx (including his days at Microsoft), ever since he first learned about it by watching a C9 video with Erik Meijer&nbsp;and Brian Beckman geeking out on the math and theory behind Rx.&nbsp;Netflix is literally powered by Rx. &nbsp;Jafar really gets Rx. If you're struggling to wrap your head around it, even at the conceptual level, this conversation should make things crystal clear. Go Rx! Of course, anytime you talk about Rx and Erik Meijer is roaming around&nbsp;the halls nearby, chances are pretty good that he'll drop into the conversation - literally. Does it happen this time? Will the great Erik Meijer appear? You'll need to watch this&nbsp;interview&nbsp;to find out... Tune in. Enjoy! 1662 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/YOW-2012-Jafar-Husain-Rx-and-Netflix-A-Match-Made-in-Composable-Asynchrony Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:15:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/YOW-2012-Jafar-Husain-Rx-and-Netflix-A-Match-Made-in-Composable-Asynchrony Charles Charles 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/YOW-2012-Jafar-Husain-Rx-and-Netflix-A-Match-Made-in-Composable-Asynchrony/rss Erik Meijer Reactive Extensions Rx YOW! 2012 Erik Meijer and Gilad Bracha: Dart, Monads, Continuations, and More While attending GOTO Aarhus 2012, the great Gilad Bracha stopped by the venue (he wasn't attending or speaking at the conference. He was in Aarhus to do work with the core DART engineering team, who are based there). Erik Meijer was a track owner for the event, so he was wandering around the halls in his trademark tie dyes...

Gilad and Erik. Same place. Same time. A coincidence that demanded an Expert to Expert session. They kindly agreed to be put into the spotlight (literally) for a C9 conversation. Here's what happened...

Giladism #42: "Mathematicians love to explain things backwards."
Giladism #43: "There is a huge role for mathematical abstractions in programming languages. It's just that you have to know when to shut up about them and stop taking them as religion."

Some highlights:

[00:00] State of programming language design today
[05:01] On actors
[08:28] Dart snapshot facility
[34:07] On monads
[42:26] On continuations and when to hide mathematical complexity from users

Tune in. Enjoy.

Huge thanks to Gilad and Erik for this excellent conversation!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-and-Gilad-Bracha-Dart-Monads-Continuations-and-More While attending GOTO Aarhus 2012, the great Gilad Bracha stopped by the venue (he wasn't attending or speaking at the conference. He was in Aarhus to do work with the core DART engineering team, who are based there). Erik Meijer was a track owner for the event, so he was wandering around the halls in his trademark tie dyes... Gilad and Erik. Same place. Same time. A coincidence that demanded an Expert to Expert session. They kindly agreed to be put into the spotlight (literally) for a C9 conversation. Here's what happened...Giladism #42:&nbsp;&quot;Mathematicians love to explain things backwards.&quot;Giladism #43: &quot;There is&nbsp;a huge&nbsp;role for mathematical abstractions in programming languages. It's just that you have to know when to shut up about them and stop taking them as religion.&quot;Some highlights: [00:00] State of programming language design today[05:01] On actors[08:28]&nbsp;Dart snapshot facility[34:07] On monads[42:26] On continuations and when to hide mathematical complexity from usersTune in. Enjoy.Huge thanks to Gilad and Erik for this excellent conversation! 3037 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-and-Gilad-Bracha-Dart-Monads-Continuations-and-More Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:58:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-and-Gilad-Bracha-Dart-Monads-Continuations-and-More Charles Charles 16 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-and-Gilad-Bracha-Dart-Monads-Continuations-and-More/rss Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Gilad Bracha Monads Programming Languages Dart GOTO Aarhus 2012 Erik Meijer - Functional Programming From First Principles Our favorite iconoclast, Erik Meijer, presented a very interesting talk at a recent GOTO Chicago event, Functional Programming Night. He originally planned on doing his popular "Fundamentalist Functional Programming" talk, but instead decided to address FP from a slightly different angle - "Functional Programming from First Principles". (Speaking of FP first principles, if you haven't seen Erik's FP lecture series, well, you really should!).

Has Erik changed his mind about rampant side effects and imperative programming? What's going to happen to the poor monkey Rich Hickey made reference to several times in his excellent talk The Database as a Value (which he presented after Erik's talk)? Is Erik still a functional programming fundamentalist? Watch and decide. As you'd expect, it's high energy, brilliant Erik all the way.

Get Erik's slides.

Tune in. Enjoy.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-From-First-Principles Our favorite iconoclast, Erik Meijer, presented a very interesting talk at a recent GOTO Chicago event, Functional Programming Night. He originally planned on doing his popular &quot;Fundamentalist Functional Programming&quot; talk, but instead decided to address FP from a slightly different angle - &quot;Functional Programming from First Principles&quot;. (Speaking of FP first principles, if you haven't seen Erik's FP lecture series, well, you really should!). Has Erik changed his mind about rampant side effects and imperative programming? What's going to happen to the poor monkey Rich Hickey made reference to several times in his excellent talk The Database as a Value (which he presented after Erik's talk)? Is Erik still a functional programming fundamentalist? Watch&nbsp;and decide. As you'd expect, it's high energy, brilliant&nbsp;Erik all the way. Get Erik's slides.Tune in. Enjoy. 3088 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-From-First-Principles Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:30:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-From-First-Principles Charles Charles 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-From-First-Principles/rss Computer Science Erik Meijer Functional Programming Programming Languages GOTO Chicago Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey - Clojure and Datomic At GOTO Chicago Functional Programming Night, Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey sat down for a chat about the latest in Rich's programming language, Clojure, and also a had short discussion about one of Rich's latest projects, Datomic, a database written in Clojure. Always a pleasure to get a few titans together for a random discussion. Thank you Erik and Rich!

As Erik mentioned in the discussion, Rich has been on C9 before. Welcome back, Rich!

Rich's session from GOTO FP Night -> The Database as a Value.

Erik's session from GOTO FP Night -> Functional Programming from First Principles (Coming soon!).

Thanks to Dave Thomas for hosting C9 at this affair. We're lucky to have such a great supporter!

PS: The GOTO conference is coming to Chicago in 2013. Erik and Rich will be there along with several other great speakers.

 

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Expert-to-Expert-Erik-Meijer-and-Rich-Hickey-Clojure-and-Datomic At GOTO Chicago Functional Programming Night, Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey sat down for a chat about the latest in Rich's programming language, Clojure, and also a had short discussion about one of Rich's latest projects, Datomic, a database written in Clojure. Always a pleasure to get a few titans together for a random discussion. Thank you Erik and Rich! As Erik mentioned in the discussion, Rich has been on C9 before. Welcome back, Rich!Rich's&nbsp;session from&nbsp;GOTO FP Night&nbsp;-&gt; The Database as a Value.Erik's session from GOTO FP Night -&gt; Functional Programming from First Principles (Coming soon!). Thanks to Dave Thomas for hosting C9 at this affair. We're lucky to have such a great supporter! PS: The GOTO conference is coming to Chicago in 2013. Erik and Rich will be there along with several other great speakers. &nbsp; &nbsp; 1197 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Expert-to-Expert-Erik-Meijer-and-Rich-Hickey-Clojure-and-Datomic Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:29:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Expert-to-Expert-Erik-Meijer-and-Rich-Hickey-Clojure-and-Datomic Charles Charles 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Expert-to-Expert-Erik-Meijer-and-Rich-Hickey-Clojure-and-Datomic/rss Clojure Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Functional Programming Programming Languages Database GOTO Chicago 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&nbsp;an article -&nbsp;Every Programmer Should Know These Latency Numbers - and it got him thinking... Here, Erik discusses his perspective on latency. We also&nbsp;discuss&nbsp;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. &nbsp; 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 The Lambda Calculus, General Term Rewriting and Food Nutrition Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer are back with another episode of BMO! Smiley

In this installment, Brian and Erik spend some time explaining the Lambda Calculus and most of the time digging into a real world application of general term rewriting. The Lambda Calculus is a specialized form of term rewriting (so, it's not really general term rewriting). It's OK... Brian will explain all of this (and more) by way of his general term rewriting system for analyzing the accuracy of Food Nutrition Labels (NFL). If you're curious about term rewriting and its practical application outside of theoretical computer science, then you're in luck. Brian and Erik engage the concepts at play here in their usual fun, engaging, brilliant ways.

Tune in. Enjoy. Learn.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive-The-Lambda-Calculus-and-Food-Nutrition Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer are back with another episode of BMO! In this installment, Brian and Erik&nbsp;spend some time explaining&nbsp;the Lambda Calculus and most of the time digging into a real world&nbsp;application of&nbsp;general term rewriting.&nbsp;The Lambda Calculus is a specialized form of term rewriting (so, it's not really general term rewriting). It's OK... Brian will explain all of this (and more) by way of his general term rewriting system for analyzing the accuracy of Food Nutrition Labels (NFL). If you're curious about term rewriting and its practical application outside of theoretical computer science, then you're in luck. Brian and Erik engage the concepts at play here in their usual fun, engaging, brilliant ways. Tune in. Enjoy. Learn. 3443 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive-The-Lambda-Calculus-and-Food-Nutrition Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive-The-Lambda-Calculus-and-Food-Nutrition Charles Charles 17 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive-The-Lambda-Calculus-and-Food-Nutrition/RSS Brian Beckman Computer Science Erik Meijer Functional Programming Mathematics Microsoft Personalities Programming Languages What is a database, really? Alice wanders down a rabbit hole one day and finds Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman in the C9 studio. What's going to happen? What does she find? There's a plastic mouse, a hard drive, a hammer, database acid, a whiteboard and a couple geniuses in very rare form.

Erikand Brian explain what a database really is... Erik drinks hard drive acid, takes a hammer to a mouse in search of the database it hides (Brian's brawn is also employed in this endeavor), and Brian paints category theoretic expressions on the whiteboard. This isn't what you think it is, Alice. It's much, much more.

Enjoy. You don't want to miss this one. Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Brian-Beckman-and-Erik-Meijer-What-is-a-database-really Alice wanders down a rabbit hole one day and finds Erik Meijer&nbsp;and Brian&nbsp;Beckman&nbsp;in the C9 studio. What's going to happen? What does she find?&nbsp;There's a plastic mouse, a hard drive, a hammer, database acid, a whiteboard and a couple geniuses in very rare form. Erikand Brian explain what a database really is... Erik drinks hard drive acid,&nbsp;takes&nbsp;a hammer to a mouse in search of the database it hides (Brian's brawn is also employed in this endeavor),&nbsp;and Brian paints category theoretic expressions on the whiteboard. This isn't what you think it is, Alice. It's much, much more.Enjoy. You don't want to miss this one. 1121 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Brian-Beckman-and-Erik-Meijer-What-is-a-database-really Thu, 31 May 2012 18:12:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Brian-Beckman-and-Erik-Meijer-What-is-a-database-really Charles Charles 16 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Brian-Beckman-and-Erik-Meijer-What-is-a-database-really/RSS Brian Beckman Computer Science Data Erik Meijer Microsoft Personalities Theory 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 &quot;social room&quot;, 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)&nbsp;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 &quot;social room&quot;, 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 &quot;social room&quot;, 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,&nbsp;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 &quot;social room&quot;, 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).&nbsp;John&nbsp;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&nbsp;a wide variety of&nbsp;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 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 &quot;social room&quot; at Lang.NEXT 2012, we present Andrei Alexandrescu, Walter Bright,&nbsp;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 Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask) 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. We'll begin with these Expert to Expert episodes with a "standing" conversation (participants stand comfortably close to the whiteboard) with computer scientists Carl Hewitt, Visiting Professor at Stanford University, creator of the Planner programming language, inventor of the Actor Model (the topic of this conversation), Clemens Szyperski, an MSR scientist working in the Connected Systems Group and Erik.

What are actors, exactly? No, really. What are they? When is an actor an actor? Everything you wanted to know about actors, but we're afraid to ask... It's all right here. Big thanks to Carl, Clemens and Erik. This is an excellent E2E(2E)! Smiley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Hewitt-Meijer-and-Szyperski-The-Actor-Model-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the &quot;social room&quot;, 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. We'll begin with these&nbsp;Expert to&nbsp;Expert episodes with&nbsp;a &quot;standing&quot; conversation (participants stand comfortably close to the whiteboard) with computer scientists Carl Hewitt, Visiting Professor at Stanford University, creator of the Planner programming language,&nbsp;inventor of the Actor Model (the topic of this conversation), Clemens Szyperski, an MSR scientist working in the Connected Systems Group and Erik. What are actors, exactly? No, really. What are they? When is an actor an actor? Everything you wanted to know about actors, but we're afraid to ask... It's all right&nbsp;here. Big thanks to Carl, Clemens and Erik. This is an excellent E2E(2E)! 2554 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Hewitt-Meijer-and-Szyperski-The-Actor-Model-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Hewitt-Meijer-and-Szyperski-The-Actor-Model-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask Charles Charles 16 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Hewitt-Meijer-and-Szyperski-The-Actor-Model-everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask/RSS Computer Science Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Programming Languages _techmeme Lang.NEXT 2012 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&nbsp;a&nbsp;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&nbsp;Donna Malayeri and Iconoclast Erik Meijer join us to discuss the event, what it means, some who, some what.&nbsp;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 LINQ - Composability Guaranteed It's been far too long since we've brought Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman together on Channel 9.

Today marks the end of a drought and the beginning of more regular appearances by the dynamic duo. The band is back together!

Introducing a new Channel 9 series - Beckman Meijer Overdrive. Smiley

One of the truly great things about Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer is their natural ability to explain complex subject matter in ways normal people can readily understand, all while engaging and entertaining us. In this new series, Brian and Erik will get together each month to make music in the form of conversational (and improvisational, of course) jazz. Tune in and learn something new from two programming legends and true iconoclasts. It's guaranteed to put your mind into overdrive.

Here, Brian and Erik recap LINQ and dig into the notion that LINQ is composability. What does that mean, exactly? Where does Rx fit into this? What about the cloud? What's so special about LINQ? As you'd expect, other topics emerge naturally from this conversation as Brian and Erik make their case for a LINQ-ruled world.

We're excited and honored to have Brian and Erik back on C9—and excited, too, that this will be a recurring treat. Thank you, Brian and Erik!

Tune in. Enjoy. Learn.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive-LINQ-Composability-Guaranteed It's been far too long since we've brought Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman together on Channel 9. Today marks the end of a drought and the beginning of more regular appearances by the dynamic duo. The band is back together! Introducing a new Channel 9 series - Beckman Meijer Overdrive. One of the truly great things about Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer is their natural ability to explain complex subject matter in ways normal people can readily understand, all while engaging and entertaining us. In this new series, Brian and Erik will get together each month to make music in the form of conversational (and improvisational, of course) jazz. Tune in and learn something new from two programming legends and true iconoclasts. It's guaranteed to put your mind into overdrive.Here, Brian and Erik recap LINQ and&nbsp;dig into the notion that LINQ is&nbsp;composability. What does that mean, exactly? Where does Rx fit into this? What about the cloud? What's so special about LINQ? As you'd expect, other topics emerge naturally from this conversation as Brian and Erik make their case for a LINQ-ruled world.We're excited and honored to have Brian and Erik back on C9—and excited, too, that this will be a recurring treat. Thank you, Brian and Erik! Tune in. Enjoy. Learn. 3178 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive-LINQ-Composability-Guaranteed Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:03:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive-LINQ-Composability-Guaranteed Charles Charles 31 http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive/Beckman-Meijer-Overdrive-LINQ-Composability-Guaranteed/RSS Brian Beckman Computer Science Erik Meijer LINQ Programming Rx RxJS Software Composability Checking In: Larry Osterman - 26 Years of Programming at Microsoft and Counting Larry Osterman is a legend and one of Channel 9's favorite personalities - it's been too long since you've been on C9, Larry! Now, what would happen if C9 hero Erik Meijer interviewed Larry? Well, you'd get the latest episode of Checking In and one heck of a conversation. Oh yeah. Make yourself comfortable, grab a beer, some egg nog or whatever you like to drink, sit back, relax and enjoy this truly fascinating conversation as though you were in the room with us - classic C9.

Larry's been at Microsoft for over 26 years and he's been a software developer (SDE) for almost all of this time (he dabbled in management briefly, but writing software is what he really loves to do). He's well known for his work on the Windows audio subsystem. But what else has Larry worked on over the years? How did he land at Microsoft? What's his story? We cover several topics ranging from STL to Larry's Microsoft job interview with Steve Ballmer.

If you know Larry or have seen any of his other Channel 9 interviews over the years, you know that he's full of great stories and delivers them in a way that only he can. It's Larry time on C9. Smiley

Thank you Larry and Erik for this conversational treat!

Happy holidays from Channel 9 wherever you are and whatever, if anything, you're celebrating!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Larry-Osterman-26-Years-of-Programming-at-Microsoft Larry Osterman is a legend and one of Channel 9's favorite personalities - it's been too long since you've been on C9, Larry! Now,&nbsp;what would happen if C9 hero&nbsp;Erik Meijer interviewed Larry? Well, you'd get&nbsp;the latest episode of Checking In&nbsp;and one heck of a conversation. Oh yeah. Make yourself comfortable, grab a beer, some egg nog or whatever you like to drink, sit back, relax and enjoy this truly fascinating conversation as though you were in the room with us - classic C9.Larry's been at Microsoft for over 26 years and he's been a software developer (SDE)&nbsp;for almost all of this time (he dabbled in management briefly, but writing software is what he really loves to do). He's well known for his work on the Windows audio subsystem. But what else has Larry worked on over the years? How did he land at Microsoft? What's his story? We cover several topics ranging from STL to Larry's Microsoft job interview with Steve Ballmer. If you know Larry or have&nbsp;seen any of his other Channel 9 interviews&nbsp;over the years, you know that he's full of great stories and delivers them in a way that only he can. It's Larry time on C9. Thank you Larry and Erik for this conversational&nbsp;treat!Happy holidays from Channel 9 wherever you are and whatever, if anything, you're celebrating! 4101 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Larry-Osterman-26-Years-of-Programming-at-Microsoft Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Larry-Osterman-26-Years-of-Programming-at-Microsoft Charles Charles 36 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Larry-Osterman-26-Years-of-Programming-at-Microsoft/RSS C++ Erik Meijer Larry Osterman Microsoft Personalities Windows Native Development _techmeme Checking In: Stephan T. Lavavej - Inside STL (the person, not the library) Stephan T. Lavavej is a Channel 9 hero. You've learned a great deal from him over the years, but you've not really learned much about him. How did STL—that's what we call him since, well, look at his name and what he does for a living—get to where he is today? What's his story?

Of course, given STL's expertise and passion, this conversation includes STL's perspectives and opinions on C++ programming, compilers, templates, modern C++, STL (the library), and more. But it also includes a more personal perspective, too. How does STL think about computing? And why C++? 

Did you know that STL can compile code in his head? Really.

Erik Meijer leads this friendly interrogation and considering the IQ, passion, and great conversation the hour goes by much too fast. It's a real pleasure to share a more personal piece on STL as an addition to the usual deeply technical and pragmatic lectures and conversations we're accustomed to. But there's certainly no talking to STL without talking about STL and C++. You are definitely going to learn things by listening in. This is for sure.

A huge thanks to Erik for taking the time to do this interview. He was super busy cranking code (C++ at that) on the day we shot this and this interview took him away from his keyboard. Thank you, man.

Thank you, STL, for taking the time to be checked in on.

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Stephan-T-Lavavej-Inside-STL-the-person-not-the-library Stephan T. Lavavej is a Channel 9 hero. You've learned a great deal from him over the years, but you've not really learned much about him. How did STL—that's what we call him since, well, look at his name and what he does for a living—get to where he is today? What's his story? Of course, given STL's expertise and passion, this conversation includes STL's perspectives and opinions on C&#43;&#43; programming, compilers, templates, modern C&#43;&#43;, STL (the library), and more. But it also includes a more personal perspective, too. How does STL think about computing? And why C&#43;&#43;?&nbsp; Did you know that STL can compile code in his head? Really. Erik Meijer leads this friendly interrogation and considering the IQ, passion, and great conversation&nbsp;the hour goes by much too&nbsp;fast. It's a real pleasure to share a more personal piece on STL as an addition to the usual deeply&nbsp;technical and pragmatic lectures and conversations we're accustomed to. But there's certainly no talking to STL without talking about STL and C&#43;&#43;. You are definitely going to learn things by listening in. This is for sure. A huge thanks&nbsp;to Erik for taking the time to do this interview. He was super busy cranking code (C&#43;&#43; at that) on the day we shot this and this interview took him away from his keyboard. Thank you, man. Thank you,&nbsp;STL, for taking the time to be checked in on. &nbsp; 4202 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Stephan-T-Lavavej-Inside-STL-the-person-not-the-library Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:44:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Stephan-T-Lavavej-Inside-STL-the-person-not-the-library Charles Charles 38 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Stephan-T-Lavavej-Inside-STL-the-person-not-the-library/RSS C++ Erik Meijer Microsoft Personalities Stephan T Lavavej STL C++11 Checking In: Marcin Dobosz - MVC, NuGet and the Open Web Welcome to the latest edition of Checking In with Erik Meijer! This time around Erik interrogates Marcin Dobosz, a software engineer working on MVC and NuGet packaging. Marcin writes tools that makes the lives of web developers even more productive and open. Open? What does that mean, exactly? What will Erik ask the young Jedi?

Thank you Marcin for having the courage to withstand a truly impromptu conversation led by one of the world's foremost language designers and cloud programmability theorists (new title for Erik? Smiley). It's always great to meet and learn about the folks at Microsoft who write and check code in for a living. Keep on coding, Marcin!

Enjoy!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Marcin-Dobosz-MVC-NuGet-and-the-Open-Web Welcome to the latest edition of Checking In with Erik Meijer! This time around Erik interrogates Marcin Dobosz, a software engineer working on MVC and NuGet packaging. Marcin writes tools that makes the lives of web developers even more productive and open. Open? What does that mean, exactly?&nbsp;What will Erik ask the young Jedi? Thank you Marcin for having the courage&nbsp;to withstand a truly impromptu conversation led by one of the world's foremost language designers and cloud programmability theorists (new title for Erik? ). It's always great to meet and&nbsp;learn about&nbsp;the folks at Microsoft who write and check code in for a living. Keep on coding, Marcin! Enjoy! 2385 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Marcin-Dobosz-MVC-NuGet-and-the-Open-Web Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:49:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Marcin-Dobosz-MVC-NuGet-and-the-Open-Web Charles Charles 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Marcin-Dobosz-MVC-NuGet-and-the-Open-Web/RSS ASP.NET MVC Erik Meijer MVC NuGet Checking In: Gov Maharaj - Shimming the World, Dreaming in Assembly Gov Maharaj is a developer on the Windows Compatibility team. You know Gov from the popular C9 show, Defrag. He spends most of his time solving problems reported by customers over the phone, in email, or via automated telemetry data. Gov is one of those people who makes work-a-holics feel as though they aren't working hard enough. Gov works ALL the time. He's one of the most prolific posters on a few of our internal Windows-specific email discussion lists, helping folks with coding issues or troubleshooting hard-to-figure-out Windows errors reported by customers. From a code perspective, Gov spends most of his time reading and writing assembly, but he does dabble in the higher level stuff like C and C++. Gov's team is in the business of writing effective compatibility shims for Windows code, ensuring code will run as expected (if possible) across versions of the OS. You'll learn a lot about this art in this conversation.

This is a great episode of Checking In with Erik Meijer -> Classic Channel 9! Thank you, Erik and Gov, for an excellent conversation.

Tune in.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly Gov Maharaj&nbsp;is a developer on the Windows Compatibility team. You know Gov from the popular C9 show,&nbsp;Defrag.&nbsp;He spends most of his time solving problems reported by customers over the phone, in email, or via automated&nbsp;telemetry data. Gov is one of those people who makes work-a-holics feel as though they aren't working hard enough. Gov works ALL the time. He's one of the most prolific posters on&nbsp;a few of our&nbsp;internal Windows-specific&nbsp;email discussion lists, helping folks with coding issues or troubleshooting hard-to-figure-out Windows errors reported by customers. From a code perspective, Gov spends most of his time reading and writing assembly, but he does dabble in the higher level stuff like&nbsp;C and C&#43;&#43;. Gov's team is in the business of writing effective compatibility shims for Windows code, ensuring code will run as expected (if possible) across versions of the OS. You'll learn a lot about this art in this conversation. This is a great episode of Checking In with Erik Meijer -&gt;&nbsp;Classic Channel 9! Thank you, Erik and Gov, for an excellent conversation. Tune in. 3840 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:55:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly Charles Charles 21 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Gov-Maharaj-Shimming-the-World-Dreaming-in-Assembly/RSS Compatibility Erik Meijer Microsoft Personalities Windows Checking In: Eric Lippert - On Compiler Evolution, Designing C# and Blogging Happy Birthday, Channel 9!!!

We are 7 years old today! Smiley Hard to believe... What a great 7 years it has been. THANK YOU, NINERS! In celebration, we bring you the latest episode of Checking In with Erik Meijer. Our very special guest is Eric Lippert. To Erik, thank you for some many years of great content. From your lecture series on functional programming, Expert to Expert series and now Checking In. You are a C9 titan and we salute you.

Many of you probably know Eric Lippert from his exceptional blog. You've also met him on C9 before (in fact, Eric was the very first interview Channel 9 shot almost 7 years ago—I remember Lenn, Jeff, Bryn, Scoble, and myself huddled around the computer in my office watching the video with Eric. It was clear we were on to something...).

But how much do you know about Eric? Where is he from? What attracted him to computers? When did he first start programming? What was the spark that lit the fire inside of him for writing code? How did he land at Microsoft? What projects has he worked on over the years? What's he working on these days?

Compilers have evolved to meet the modern needs of developers, and Eric, one of the developers of the C# compiler, knows this firsthand. From Intellisense to refactoring, compilers do much more than take syntax and convert it into an optimized language that a target execution layer can understand. Currently, the C# compiler is written in C++ and it's architecture is becoming outdated (not because of C++ mind you...). Eric et al are rebuilding the C# compiler from the ground up and they are writing the compiler in C#. Why? Why not stick with C++? Will there be performance penalties to pay for going managed? We talk about all of this, of course...

Erik has many questions for Eric. What will the answers be? Tune in.

Enjoy, and thanks to Eric for spending time with Erik and Channel 9! Great conversation, as usual.

Happy Birthday, Channel 9!!!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Eric-Lippert-On-Compiler-Evolution-Designing-C-and-Blogging Happy Birthday, Channel 9!!! We are 7 years old today! Hard to believe... What a great 7 years it has been. THANK YOU, NINERS! In celebration, we bring you the latest episode of Checking In with Erik Meijer. Our very special guest is Eric Lippert. To Erik, thank you for some many years of great content. From your lecture series on functional programming, Expert to Expert series and now Checking In. You are a C9 titan and we salute you. Many of you probably know Eric Lippert from his exceptional blog.&nbsp;You've also met him on C9 before (in fact, Eric was the very first interview Channel 9 shot&nbsp;almost 7 years ago—I remember Lenn, Jeff, Bryn, Scoble, and myself huddled around the computer in my office watching the video with Eric. It was clear we were on to something...). But how much do you know about Eric? Where is he from? What attracted him to computers? When did he first start programming? What was the spark that lit the fire inside of him&nbsp;for writing code? How did he land at Microsoft? What projects has he worked on over the years? What's he working on these days? Compilers have evolved to meet the modern needs of developers, and Eric, one of the developers of the C# compiler, knows this firsthand. From Intellisense to refactoring, compilers do much more than take syntax and convert it into an optimized&nbsp;language that a target execution layer can understand. Currently, the C# compiler is written in C&#43;&#43; and it's architecture is becoming outdated (not because of C&#43;&#43; mind you...). Eric et al are rebuilding the C# compiler from the ground up and they are writing the compiler in C#. Why? Why not stick with C&#43;&#43;? Will there be performance penalties to pay for going managed? We talk about all of this, of course... Erik has many questions for Eric. What will the answers be? Tune in.Enjoy, and thanks to Eric for spending time with Erik and Channel 9! Great conversation, as usual. Happy Birthday, Channel 9!!! 3792 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Eric-Lippert-On-Compiler-Evolution-Designing-C-and-Blogging Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:28:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Eric-Lippert-On-Compiler-Evolution-Designing-C-and-Blogging Charles Charles 45 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Eric-Lippert-On-Compiler-Evolution-Designing-C-and-Blogging/RSS C# C++ Compilers Eric Lippert Erik Meijer Programming Programming Languages Checking In: Jeff Derstadt - Programming Data and the Entity Framework Jeff Derstadt is a developer on the Entity Framework team, and in this video Erik visits Jeff to learn more about what he does day to day. Jeff and Erik talk about programming data, generally, and the Entity Framework development model, specifically. We learn about how Jeff got into software development, how/why he landed in the data world, things he's working on, his team's interaction with developer customers, providing the things users of EF need/want - like Code First-, and the software engineering processed employed by his broader development team, especially as it relates to the developer-tester relationship. Check out the latest Checking In with Erik Meijer.

Enjoy.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Jeff-Derstadt-Programming-Data-and-the-Entity-Framework Jeff Derstadt is a developer on the Entity Framework team, and in this video Erik visits Jeff to learn more about what he does day to day. Jeff&nbsp;and Erik talk&nbsp;about programming data, generally, and the Entity Framework development model, specifically. We learn about how Jeff got into software development, how/why he landed in the data world, things he's working on, his team's interaction with developer customers, providing the things users of EF need/want - like Code First-, and the software engineering processed employed by his broader development team, especially as it relates to the developer-tester relationship. Check out the latest Checking In with Erik Meijer.Enjoy. 3487 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Jeff-Derstadt-Programming-Data-and-the-Entity-Framework Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:56:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Jeff-Derstadt-Programming-Data-and-the-Entity-Framework Charles Charles 12 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Jeff-Derstadt-Programming-Data-and-the-Entity-Framework/RSS Data Entity Framework 4 Erik Meijer Programming SQL SQL Server Checking In: Mike Sampson - Channel 9 Cloud We've started a new Show on Channel 9 and it's the result of a conversation I had with Erik Meijer just after the Herb Sutter E2E before Christmas 2010. Erik told me that he wanted to go around the company and meet everyday devs—the folks who first and foremost spend their time at work designing and writing code. The employees who debug, build, and check in the high quality code that produces the products and services so many of us use every day.

What an excellent idea, Erik! We will do this—and so here is the first episode of Checking In.

For this pilot, we thought, who better to interrogate than our very own Mike Sampson? Mike, also known as Sampy, is the lead developer of Channel 9's back-end infrastructure and has done some really excellent engineering in the cloud (C9 is wholly run on Azure and Sampy made all the pieces fit and work together in addition to designing the system and, of course, checking in the code). Let's see what Erik wants to know (we honestly don't know!) and how this conversation unwinds. Thank you, Sampy, for taking the orange pill! Smiley

Enjoy this beginning of a great series of content brought to you by Channel 9's favorite genius, Erik Meijer. Thank you Erik! We love you, man!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Mike-Sampson-Channel-9-Cloud We've started a new Show on Channel 9 and it's the result of a conversation I had with Erik Meijer just after the Herb Sutter E2E before Christmas 2010. Erik told me that he wanted to go around the company and meet everyday devs—the folks who first and foremost spend their time at work designing and writing code. The employees who&nbsp;debug, build, and check in the high quality code that produces the products and services so many of us use every day. What an excellent idea, Erik! We will do this—and so here is the first episode of&nbsp;Checking In. For this pilot,&nbsp;we thought, who better to interrogate than our very own Mike Sampson? Mike, also known as Sampy, is the lead developer of Channel 9's back-end infrastructure and has done some really excellent engineering in the cloud (C9 is wholly run on Azure and Sampy made all the pieces fit and work together in addition to designing the system and, of course, checking in the code). Let's see what Erik wants to know (we honestly don't know!) and how this conversation unwinds. Thank you, Sampy, for taking the orange pill! Enjoy this beginning of a great series of content brought to you by Channel 9's favorite genius, Erik Meijer. Thank you Erik! We love you, man! 3435 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Mike-Sampson-Channel-9-Cloud Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:30:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Mike-Sampson-Channel-9-Cloud Charles Charles 11 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Checking-In-with-Erik-Meijer/Checking-In-Mike-Sampson-Channel-9-Cloud/RSS Developer Developers Erik Meijer E2E: Herb Sutter and Erik Meijer - Perspectives on C++ It's not often that we can get two minds of Erik Meijer's and Herb Sutter's caliber together for an impromptu technical conversation during Christmas break at Microsoft... Well, we did and the next hour or so contains a lot of intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, and passion. This is one of the more heated E2Es we've had the pleasure to be a part of and we think you'll agree. Herb and Erik are among the brightest of our trove of bright-minded engineers. We thank Erik and Herb for being so flexible and accommodating (there was no specific topical plan for the conversation other than the obvious—Herb and what he knows so well, C++). 

Herb Sutter is an Architect on the VC++ team, chair of the C++ Standards Committee, a polished technical speaker and a super capable programmer. He is an ardent advocate of native code and works with the industry to move C++ in the direction it needs to go as general purpose computing evolves. As you know, Erik Meijer is a functional programming fundamentalist, a C9 celebrity, a master of mathematical duality and an unusually productive innovator (LINQ, "Volta," and Rx, are a few of his recent accomplishments). Erik is also the Chief Interrogation Officer for C9's Expert to Expert series. In this case, given functional programming's conceptual fingerprint showing up in almost all general purpose programming languages, including C++ with the addition of lambdas, putting Erik and Herb in the same room was sure to create some geeky technical magic. This post captures exactly what happened, unedited and raw. It's one of the best E2Es to date! Thank you, Erik and Herb! Keep pushing the envelope.

Tune in. Enjoy. Learn.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Herb-Sutter-and-Erik-Meijer-Perspectives-on-C It's not often that we can get two minds of&nbsp;Erik Meijer's&nbsp;and Herb Sutter's&nbsp;caliber together for an impromptu technical conversation during Christmas break at Microsoft... Well, we did and the next hour or so contains a lot of intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, and passion. This is one of the more heated E2Es we've had the pleasure to be a part of and we think you'll agree. Herb and Erik are among the brightest of our trove of bright-minded engineers. We thank Erik and Herb for being so flexible and&nbsp;accommodating&nbsp;(there was no specific topical plan for the conversation other than the obvious—Herb and what he knows so well, C&#43;&#43;).&nbsp; Herb Sutter&nbsp;is an Architect on the VC&#43;&#43; team, chair of the C&#43;&#43; Standards Committee, a polished technical speaker and a super capable programmer. He is an ardent advocate of native code and works with the industry to move C&#43;&#43; in the direction it needs to go as general purpose computing evolves. As you know, Erik Meijer is a functional programming fundamentalist, a C9 celebrity, a master of&nbsp;mathematical duality&nbsp;and an unusually productive innovator (LINQ, &quot;Volta,&quot; and Rx, are a few of his recent accomplishments). Erik is also the Chief Interrogation Officer&nbsp;for C9's&nbsp;Expert to Expert series. In this case, given functional programming's conceptual fingerprint showing up in almost all general purpose programming languages, including C&#43;&#43; with the addition of lambdas, putting Erik and Herb in the same room was sure to create some geeky technical magic. This post captures exactly what happened, unedited and raw. It's one of the best E2Es to date! Thank you, Erik and Herb! Keep pushing the envelope.Tune in. Enjoy. Learn. 3926 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Herb-Sutter-and-Erik-Meijer-Perspectives-on-C Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:31:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Herb-Sutter-and-Erik-Meijer-Perspectives-on-C Charles Charles 51 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Herb-Sutter-and-Erik-Meijer-Perspectives-on-C/RSS C++ C++0x Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Functional Programming Programming Languages Herb Sutter C++11 E2E: Concurrent Programming with Revisions  

 

Building applications that are responsive and can exploit parallel hardware poses an important challenge. In particular, enabling applications to execute various tasks in parallel can be difficult if those tasks exhibit read and write conflicts. Revisions are forked and joined much like asynchronous tasks. However, rather than accessing global shared data directly (and thereby risking data races or atomicity violations), all revisions execute on a (conceptual) copy of the shared state, a "global mutable snapshot" so to speak. Any changes performed in a revision apply to that snapshot only, until the revision is joined at which the [sic] changes become globally effective [source = http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/revisions/].

Here, Erik Meijer interrogates (in a nice way) computer scientists Daan Leijen and Sebastian Burckhardt, the researchers behind Revisions. As usual, Erik asks great questions and the scientists spend much of the time at the whiteboard, drawing and writing answers to clearly explain what revisions are, how they work, and why this model matters. In a nice twist of fate, Erik was Daan's PhD advisor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands (that must have been awesome—lucky Daan!).

Revisions are yet another example of the great work coming out of the RiSE group in MSR. You don't have to wait for a "CTP" of Revisions for C# -> Just go to http://rise4fun.com/Revisions and write some code! Thanks to Peli and the RiSE team developers for implementing such an awesome web-based experimentation sandbox.

Tune in. Learn. Enjoy.

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Concurrent-Programming-with-Revisions &nbsp; &nbsp; Building applications that are responsive and can exploit parallel hardware poses an important challenge. In particular, enabling applications to execute various tasks in parallel can be difficult if those tasks exhibit read and write conflicts. Revisions&nbsp;are forked and joined much like asynchronous tasks. However, rather than accessing global shared data directly (and thereby risking data races or atomicity violations), all revisions execute on a (conceptual) copy of the shared state, a &quot;global mutable snapshot&quot; so to speak. Any changes performed in a revision apply to that snapshot only, until the revision is joined at which the [sic] changes become globally effective&nbsp;[source = http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/revisions/]. Here, Erik Meijer interrogates (in a nice way)&nbsp;computer scientists Daan Leijen and Sebastian Burckhardt, the researchers behind Revisions. As usual, Erik asks great questions and the scientists spend much of the time at the whiteboard, drawing and writing answers to clearly explain what revisions are, how they work, and why this model matters. In a nice twist of fate, Erik was Daan's PhD advisor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands&nbsp;(that must have been awesome—lucky Daan!). Revisions are yet another example of the great work coming out of the RiSE group in MSR. You don't have to wait for a &quot;CTP&quot; of Revisions for C# -&gt; Just go to http://rise4fun.com/Revisions&nbsp;and write some code! Thanks to Peli and the&nbsp;RiSE team developers&nbsp;for implementing such an awesome web-based experimentation sandbox. Tune in. Learn. Enjoy. &nbsp; 4238 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Concurrent-Programming-with-Revisions Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:54:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Concurrent-Programming-with-Revisions Charles Charles 18 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/E2E-Concurrent-Programming-with-Revisions/RSS Concurrency Erik Meijer Expert to Expert Microsoft Research MS Research Parallelism Programming RiSE