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Dustin Campbell, a self-professed ''IDE guy'', is speaking at the .NET Developer's Association of Redmond this evening, on the future of Visual Basic in Visual Studio 2010, and I feel compelled, based on my earlier ''dissing'' of VB in my thoughts of PDC post, to give VB a little love here. First of all, he notes publicly that the VB and ...

Having freshly converted both the Visual Studio 2010 and Oslo SDK VPC images that we received at PDC 2008 last month to VMWare images, I figure it's time to dive into M. At PDC, the Addison-Wesley folks were giving away copies of ''The 'Oslo' Modeling Language'' book, which is apparently official canon of the ''M'' language for Oslo, so ...

Roy Fielding has weighed in on the recent ''buzzwordiness'' (hey, if Colbert can make up ''truthiness'', then I can make up ''buzzwordiness'') of calling everything a ''REST API'', a tactic that has become more en vogue of late as vendors discover that the general programming population is finding the WSDL-based XML services stack too ...

Having created a Window7 VMWare image (which I then later cloned and installed the Windows7 SDK into, successfully, wahoo!), I turned to the Visual Studio 2010 bits they provided on the hard drive. Not surprisingly, though a bit frustratingly, they didn't give us an install image that I could put into a VMWare image of my own creation, but ...

PDC 2008 in LA is over now, and like most PDCs, it definitely didn't disappoint on the technical front--Microsoft tossed out a whole slew of new technologies, ideas, releases, and prototypes, all with the eye towards getting bits (in this case, a Western Digital 160 GB USB hard drive) out to the developer community and getting back ...

The full list is here. It's a pretty prestigious group--and I'm totally floored that I'm there next to some pretty big names. In homage to Ms. Sally Fields, of so many years ago... ''You like me, you really like me''. Having somebody come up to me at a conference and tell me how much they like my blog is second on my list of ''fun ...

As Joel points out, we've made a draft of the SSCLI 2.0 Internals book available for download (via his blog). Rather than tell you all about the book, which Joel summarizes quite well, instead I thought I'd tell you about the process by which the book came to be. Editor's note: if you have no interest in the process by which a book ...

For those of you who were at the Cinncinnati NFJS show, please continue on to the next blog entry in your reader--you've already heard this. For those of you who weren't, then allow me to make the announcement: Hi. My name's Ted Neward, and I am now a ThoughtWorker. After four months of discussions, interviews, more discussions and ...

Another DZone newsletter crosses my Inbox, and again I feel compelled to comment. Not so much in the uber-aggressive style of my previous attempt, since I find myself more on the fence on this one, but because I think it's a worthwhile debate and worth calling out. The article in question is ''5 Reasons Why You Don't Want A ...

This comment deserves response: First of all, if you're quoting my post, blocking out my name, and attacking me behind my back by calling me ''our intrepid troll'', you could have shown the decency of linking back to my original post. Here it is, for those interested in the real discussion: ...