Isolation, Agents, and Message-passing in .NET

The State of Axum

Those who have followed this blog will have noticed that it’s been a long time since we posted...

Date: 02/28/2011

Axum for Visual Studio 2010 RTM is here!

The feedback we’ve received from our fans has been incredibly useful in shaping our approach to...

Date: 04/26/2010

“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!”

Thus quipped the great writer Mark Twain after a newspaper supposedly prematurely published his...

Date: 03/19/2010

Axum at PDC!

Going to PDC this year?  We are too! Niklas Gustafsson, the Principal Architect on Axum (and...

Date: 10/23/2009

Erlang at Yahoo!

Jebu Ittiachen and Arun Suresh of Yahoo! have written an interesting article for Dr. Dobbs about a...

Date: 10/19/2009

Thought Exercise: Axum + F#

Our friend Matt Podwysocki posted a very fascinating look at why Axum and F# might make a happy...

Date: 09/30/2009

What are you building?

Hello Axumites! It’s been a while since we’ve last talked but many of you have silently been...

Date: 08/12/2009

Asynchronous programming in .NET survey

Update:  The survey is now closed.  Thanks to all that participated! Axumites,  ...

Date: 07/20/2009

Axum 0.2.0 Released!

Are you excited? We thought so. We’ve been listening to some of your pain points with Axum 0.1.0 and...

Date: 06/23/2009

Yielding with Asynchronous Methods

It’s been two weeks since we released the CTP on DevLabs. Thousands of people have downloaded it,...

Date: 05/23/2009

The Mechanics of Messaging in Axum

This article is in response to some great commentary from someone writing under the screen name...

Date: 05/10/2009

The First Axum Bits Are Now Available

It gives me great pleasure to announce the availability of our Axum technology preview at the MSDN...

Date: 05/07/2009

More on Immutability

The subject of immutability sparks intense interest among the people who follow our blog, as is...

Date: 05/06/2009

Asynchrony

We rarely speak of parallelism when discussing Axum, because you very rarely think about it when...

Date: 05/05/2009

Empty / Full Storage

Axum has a couple of storage modifiers not found in most other languages (although several languages...

Date: 05/02/2009

Distributing an Axum Application

Note: a variant of this text also appears in the Axum Programmer’s Guide, which will be distributed...

Date: 04/29/2009

Flow Control in Axum

One of the problems in asynchronous message passing is preventing a situation where a sender...

Date: 04/25/2009

Objects in Axum

When we talk about Axum as a programming language, we make the point that it is not an...

Date: 04/20/2009

Forging Ahead

Greetings from the Axum Team! If you thought that this is one of those blogs that fizzles out after...

Date: 04/17/2009

Same face, a new name

You might’ve noticed that the title of our blog has changed as well as some mysterious disclaimers...

Date: 03/31/2009

Channels

Disclaimer:  The Maestro project has been renamed.  While referred to in this article as...

Date: 03/02/2009

Dataflow Programming with Maestro

Disclaimer:  The Maestro project has been renamed.  While referred to in this article as...

Date: 02/27/2009

Isolation in Maestro

Disclaimer:  The Maestro project has been renamed.  While referred to in this article as...

Date: 02/27/2009

More about Axum

Looking for more info on Axum? Here's some links you might find useful: Channel 9 InterviewDr....

Date: 02/26/2009