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6 years ago I was in a WebServices DevCon in Boston and Don Box did a presentation about data, where he started playing with SQL and doing things like 'insert into people select * from products'. As People/Products had the same schema (Id/Name), it worked...
Everyone in Microsoft is talking about writing declaratively and letting the user express the intention and not the steps required to perform the task. I've heard it at least 3 times: - In the Olso talks - In the ' XAML as a declarative language ' talk...
Oslo was the most interesting technology I've seen at the PDC by far, and the Quadrant session was really amazing. If you did not see it yet, go and watch it. They had Quadrant run in the Microsoft Surface in the Expo area, and being able to explore a...
I was going to write a large post on Oslo, until I found this one . I still did not play enough with it yet to add value to what Fowler said. As I guess everyone in the world is waiting to listen what I have to say about it, I'd just say that I liked...
The first genuine, spontaneous, unanimous round of applause after a Keynote demo happened today when they shown the Live Mesh stuff. Two 'friends' were looking at the same picture, one edited it, and it was immediately changed in the other one's machine...
Infragistics sponsored the Expo-Hall Reception yesterday night, and all the Infragistics guys went dressed as movie characters or movie stars. I made ' Jay and Silent Bob ' with Ambrose (some people could not believe he was actually an Infragistics employee...
I attended this session as I'm working in both platforms right now, and expected to learn something. It was disappointing. There main two things mentioned as 'differences', what that in Silverlight you need to go through some hoops to make cross-domain...
Amazon Cloud offering provides, in beta, a Windows VM and a way to run SQL Server. The Microsoft Cloud preview basically provides a way to run ASP.NET, what it looks to be Windows Workflow activities, WCF services, and use SQL Data Services. Microsoft...
I was in Anders Helsberg the Future of C# presentation (actually, in the overflow room). C# 3.0 most important feature was Expression<Func>. C# 4.0 most important feature is IDynamicObject. I think the scenarios enabled by Expression<Func>...
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