Week in review
Been a busy week, got lots on so tommrow (Saturday) will be a all nighter I think.
- As Robert mentions, Brad has a post on the CLR dev lab that is happening, its aimed at CLR compiler writers but anyone who is interested in the depths of the CLR and wants to understand how the internals work then this lab will a great education. It will be on the Whidbey changes so I would expect items like Generics and LCG will be covered. Hopefully info on the Rotor branch of this code will be made available to folk attending (its a NDA event) so they can start to target there compilers towards the new IL op codes and internal changes to the GC, JIT etc etc. As this event is Redmond there is no way on earth I can attend, prehaps if MS Research UK hold a simlar event I may be able to attend. The event will also give you a chance to meet other compiler developers for the CLR, I know Ernie is attending and I am sure many others will attend.
- Xamlons Flash compiler for XAML has gone into beta, looks like Robins hard work over the Xmas holiday know means a product we call all try out. Robin also reports that the compiler is compiling down to IL before creating the SWF, this means that any .NET language can be used. In the comments are notes on how this was done, an interesting read. Not tried this my self yet but I will :)
- Dare has post on a few C-Omega articles he has written for O'Reilly, got some mad ideas around C-Omega so I'll be checking them out.
- Next book target, Linux Kernel Development 2nd Edition. I have the 1st edition and its a great book, looking foward to this new edition.