Whitepapers written by Googlers

Although not entirely related to .NET, Google Labs [http://labs.google.com/] has a list of some really interesting whitepapers written by Googlers [http://labs.google.com/papers.html]?on stuff like Data Mining,?Search Engine Design, Algorithms, File System Design, UI Design, Natural Language Processing and much more. Some…

Longhorn Article at CNET News

A new article (special report) on Longhorn [http://news.com.com/2009-1016_3-5103226.html] and Microsoft’s future strategy has been published at CNET News -?Is Microsoft’s new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, a radical innovation or a return to the company’s winner-take-all software strategy from a…

Longhorn Goodies

Thanks to Brad Adams [http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA/] for?posting the Longhorn Architecture Diagram [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/LHArch.PDC2003.png] and the WinFX Namespace Poster (PDF [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/pdc_namespaceposter.pdf] / JPG [http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/brada/pdc_namespaceposter.jpg]). Ofcourse,…

"... pregnant with thought ..."

Rory [http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/1303.aspx] on PDC 2003 [http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/]: “Up until a couple days ago, I was a Large-Conference-Virgin. I have since been robbed of my innocence, and am now pregnant with thought …” Got me thinking, maybe this ?should have said “I…

High-end Backend

Werner Vogels [http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/] has gathered some interesting notes [http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/archives/000280.html] on the backend architecture of some largely complex and distributed database-driven systems like those at eBay, Merrill Lynch, Swab, NASDAQ etc.…

Interviews from PDC

Radio Interviews with .NET techies from PDC [http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/radio2003/interviews.cfm] via SYS-CON [http://www.sys-con.com/] Radio.…

The Best New Technologies of 2003

Business 2.0 (November 2003 Issue [http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/current/0,1639,,00.html]) features a nice article on The Best New Technologies of 2003 [http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,52968,00.html]. “Social Network Applications” is rated as the The Technology of the…

Longhorn Development Center and XAML

The Longhorn Developer Center [http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/] @ MSDN is live as expected [http://weblogs.asp.net/ashben/posts/30864.aspx]. And so is the Longhorn SDK [http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/]. Scott Hanselman [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/] moblogs (cool term, for mobile/handheld blogging) from PDC – “They’…