The Wayward WebLog
Oh, what a tangled web
What the World is saying about LINQ
“LINQ is totally awesome. It’s like this thing that you use to condense your entire application into...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 09/21/2005
LINQ, BB’s and the HTTP’ness
The Language Integrated Query (LINQ) demo during the PDC demo was exciting. There was applause all...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 09/13/2005
ObjectSpaces:There and Back Again
It seems fitting to make one last tribute to ObjectSpaces on the eve of the PDC. Last time around...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 09/12/2005
Language Integrated Quirks
It’s done. The pencils are down. The bits are baked. No more time for polish and there’s no turning...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 08/29/2005
Nulls not Evil Anymore?
Soma explains the changes to the .Net runtime to fix the problems with Nullable<T>....
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 08/12/2005
Down to Earth
Virtual Earth is coming. I kept hearing about it, but was not sure quite what to make of it. You...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/24/2005
XML Generics
Designing a programming language is like inventing a metaphor for thought. Most of the time you...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/24/2005
N-Tier development with C# 4.0
Now that the PDC announcement has been made revealing sessions covering the new C# 3.0 features...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/18/2005
Sound Bites
It’s time for a rant, time to dredge up those same old topics, same tired old arguments. Why did...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 06/15/2005
Insecurity By Design
Kevin Kernan posts on C|Net that "the best long-term answer to the security problem is to make...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 06/14/2005
C# 3.0 Revealed?
Professional Developers Conference PDC September, 2005
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 06/13/2005
Nulls are Evil
Nulls terrify me. There is something passive aggressive about them. It's not just that they lurk...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 06/01/2005
Outliers
It was there today, again, waiting, watching, sitting idly by while I worked. Sinister. I try to...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 04/27/2005
Mousing Around
When I first wrote my previous post Interview Question: The Mouse, I did not expect to get so many...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 02/11/2005
Interview Question: The Mouse
I have a favorite interview question that I've been using over the last year. It's time to get a new...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 02/03/2005
Windows: Reduced to Tears
In the wake of the EU rulings against Microsoft, in which the company has been ordered to remove...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 02/02/2005
Seeking Wayward
I thought I'd let you all know about the project I've been working on for the last few months that...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 01/31/2005
The Great Big Lie
Now I'm not one to spread conspiracy theories, but I just can't get over the feeling that the people...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 11/17/2004
Tempted by Halo
I'm tempted to blow off work for the rest of the week and spend the time playing Halo 2. It's that...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 11/10/2004
Quality Fake Rolex Now
I'm sure you must have have at least 35 to 40 fake Rolex watches, each, by now. No? I'm drowning in...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 10/25/2004
Refashioning Software
In our never ending quest to provide you with better, faster, more powerful products and tools, we...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 10/14/2004
Halo, can you hear me now?
I played my first game of Halo last night. Not Halo 2 mind you, the developers only just finished...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 10/13/2004
Techmongers Unite!
With the political 'hard-bloggers' getting all the press these days (or should I say 'making' the...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 10/12/2004
Stern Resolve
There's been a lot of hubbub lately over which style of sales and marketing will prevail in the ever...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 10/11/2004
Code Shock
The first time I ever saw code written in Java, it scared me. The code looked awful. I mean it....
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 09/17/2004
Personal Teamwork
Do you every get that queasy, uneasy feeling when you are sitting at your desk, two monitors up,...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 09/01/2004
Less than Express
I'm heading out today on vacation for the week, far away from all things digital, miles and miles...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 08/21/2004
Hurricane Charlie
To think, there was a time in the past when my home was actually a place of solitude, a veritable...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 08/19/2004
Hacking the Planet
Since the Hubble Space Telescope was having so many problems recently, I decided it was my duty to...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 08/11/2004
The Anti-Hoax
I saw this article on blog hoaxes; fake sites where writers pretend to be someone else, a celebrity...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 08/03/2004
Focused on the Customer
The top level management at Microsoft spend a lot of time keeping the rest of us focused on the...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/29/2004
Warped Weaving
Aspect oriented programming uses a technique called 'weaving' to merge together and/or modify...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/27/2004
User Interference
There's a lot about todays web-site interfaces that bug me. First, let me say that many sites are...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/26/2004
Confessions of a C# Hack
I've been making a lot of changes lately to the c# compiler. You won't see these in Whidbey so don't...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/20/2004
Reusability Rant
During my lifetime (so far) of programming I've worked on a many projects that were built around or...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/19/2004
Xen meets its Omega
I got a surprise in my inbox this morning. An email from Erik Meijer read: The impossible has...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/14/2004
Fishing for Answers
Everything you do in your day-to-day life, how you approach solving even minor problems, reflects in...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/13/2004
Procrastinating Paradigms
Programming is sometimes a mind boggling and perplexing thing. If you know what you want to do, and...
Author: Matt Warren - MSFT Date: 07/06/2004