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…
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…
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…
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…
You first learned about Windows Azure and the
Azure Services Platform at PDC08. Remember that? Yeah. It's been a while since we first unveiled our cloud computing offering. Now that the hysteria has died down, we thought it wise to go learn the details behind and inside Azure. Who…
Welcome to another edition of Expert to Expert. Once again the venerable language master Erik Meijer leads the conversation. This time, we're lucky enough to
have PowerShell creator and Partner Architect Jeffrey Snover. Jeffrey is really passionate about PowerShell and has…
Dr. Cormac Herley spends most of his time thinking about why and how computer users reject security advice (from both fellow humans and software
security warning prompts). Recently, his paper, "So Long, and No Thanks for the Externalities: the Rational Rejection of Security Advice by…
JavaScript is a language that appears to have a long lifespan given its ubiquity on the web. It pretty much powers the client-side in-page execution of hundreds of millions of web pages. As a language, well, it's cool and strange at the same time. It's not evolved much over the years and is the…
High Priest of the Lamda Calculus Erik Meijer, wearing celebration lights around his neck, reflects on Channel 9, Niners and the importance of showcasing the humans behind technology. Erik is the star of our Expert to Expert series and will continue to
provide…
SmallBasic is a new programming language aimed at beginners. It was created as a side project of
Vijaye Raji, a software developer on the Oslo team. SmallBasic is a very limited language with only a handful of keywords and a small set of concepts that should make builing an application on
…