The Insider News

Devlicio.us[^]:

I started work with “Xaml-based” platforms in the pre-Beta days of WPF, so I’ve been working with this technology longer than most. Back then I was utterly awed and inspired by it’s capabilities. Today I’m frustrated and sometimes outraged.

Mindscape Blog[^]:

Dataflow programming is a style that describes your data processing as data flowing through a graph of operations, in contrast to the usual imperative processing style. It invites you to think of data operations as a collection of black boxes, linked together by a runtime which takes care of moving data from one box to the next.

Randall Degges[^]:

I was thinking earlier today about what makes me happy--really, truly happy. The desire to learn new things. The desire to build something that has never before been built. The desire to hunt down problems--and then solve them.

Lyle Backenroth[^]:

The File Transfer Protocol, otherwise known as FTP is 40 years old today. Originally put forth as the RFC 114 Specification on April 16, 1971, FTP (and the various iterations inspired from it) is as heavily used today as it was back then by people and companies all over the world.

guardian.co.uk[^]:

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalised computer services "with tremendous potential to help humanity".

Fast Company[^]:

Steve Jobs did not wander aimlessly into the wilderness after being ousted from Apple in 1985. Most important, his work with the two companies he led during that time, NeXT and Pixar, turned him into the kind of man, and leader, who would spur Apple to unimaginable heights upon his return.

PCWorld[^]:

As Microsoft works on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox, users will be pulled back into its orbit, one product at a time.

io9[^]:

There may not be a giant space baby, but these 2001 LEGO models by Jason Allemann are impressive nonetheless. That's a six-foot-long, 3,873-piece, 1:60 scale model of the Discovery One spaceship and he's published the build guide so you can make your own.

Allison Randal[^]:

Over the years, I’ve started thinking that participating in the open source community is like traveling on a path, toward becoming not only better programmers, but also becoming better people by working together.

jordanmechner.com[^]:

My Dad (yep, the same guy who composed the music for the original Karateka and Prince of Persia) called from New York to tell me he was doing some spring cleaning and had shipped me a carton of old games and other stuff of mine he’d found in the back of a closet. The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside.

Christian Heilmann[^]:

If you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon.

TechCrunch[^]:

Most web developers, myself included, do the bulk of their development and debugging in a single web browser, whether Chrome, Firefox, Safari or IE. Using web standards is the best way to get more mileage for your site. Locking yourself into any vendor, will eventually code your site into a corner that will maroon you into incompatibility.

Semicolon[^]:

An esoteric language made up of only semicolons. You can't escape the semicolon monster!

Blogging Windows[^]:

We have talked about Windows 8 as Windows reimagined, from the chipset to the user experience. This also applies to the editions available – we have worked to make it easier for customers to know what edition will work best for them when they purchase a new Windows 8 PC or upgrade their existing PC.