In this latest edition of Expert to Expert (and Going Deep), the great Brian Beckman, astrophysicist and software architect, is joined by
Greg Meredith, a mathematician and computer scientist. It's just bound to be an intellectual jam session!The idea for the format of this…
Flapjax is a new programming language designed around the demands of modern, client-based Web applications. Its principal features include:
Event-driven, reactive evaluation An event-stream abstraction for communicating with web services Interfaces to external web services
Flapjax…
In this episode of
Expert to Expert, programming language designer Erik Meijer chats with CCR creator
George Chrysanthakopoulos. We've spent a good deal of time on Channel 9 addressing the Concurrency Problem and the various approaches Microsoft is taking in an effort to help…
Part 3 of the Beckman Meijer Co/Contravariance in Physics and Programming Hypothesis/Challenge has finally arrived, Niners! You learned about Brian Beckman's perspective on
covariance and contravariance in physics. Erik Meijer found this topic to be incredibly interesting and the…
Harry Shum is the VP of Engineering for
Bing, Microsoft's latest search engine offering (well, it's more than a search engine - it's a so-called Decision Engine, but what does that mean, precisely?). Harry has a long history in the world of complex algorithm design and implementation. Before
…
Joe Duffy spends a lot of time thinking about the future of concurrent programming and parallelism. In his role as Lead Developer in the Parallel
Computing Platform team, Joe is the creator of PLINQ and a key contributor to many of the managed (.NET)
concurrency incubations happening…
Happy new year! It's hard to believe that it's 2010. To start off the new year right, how about some Beckman and Meijer? You recently learned about Dr. Beckman's perspective on
covariance and contravariance in physics. Dr. Meijer found this topic to be incredibly interesting and the two geniuses…
JavaScript is the most widely used programming language on the web. As the great
Douglas Crockford
likes to say, JavaScript is both the world's most popular programming language and the world's least popular programming language
at the same time.In this episode of Expert to Expert (to Expert),…
Microsoft Olso Program Manager Chris Sells and DSL expert Martin
Fowler discuss the history and future of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). This was filmed at
DevCon 2009, which took place on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, USA. For those of you who don't know, Martin Fowler…
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…