In this screencast, Garrett Serack from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center talks about his new project, the Common Opensource Application Publishing Platform (CoApp). CoApp aims to create a vibrant Open Source ecosystem on Windows by providing the technologies needed to build a complete community-driven package management system, along with tools to enable developers to take advantage of features of the Windows platform.  Discover the project wiki at http://coapp.org/, the Launchpad…[more ]

After a long day of sessions at Emerging Languages Camp 2010, I caught up with two of the day's presenters, Clojure creator Rich Hickey (you've met Rich before in an Expert to Expert episode with Brian Beckman) and F# compiler developer Joe Pamer. Clojure is …[more ]

"The biggest problem with programming is that we don’t agree on what the problem is", says Jonathan Edwards, who is first and foremost a practicing programmer. Jonathan also spends a great deal of time thinking about how to evolve the languages and tools programmers use to solve increasingly complex problems in general purpose computing. He is currently a Research fellow at MIT, and I caught up with him at [more ]

A group of us gathered after a long day of language sessions at ELC 2010 and a conversation just happened. Sure, we talked about doing this before the camera started rolling, but I pressed record only when the time was right—when EROS creator and BitC designer Jonathan Shapiro …[more ]

I got the chance to spend a few days at the Emerging Languages Camp at OSCON 2010 in Portland, Oregon. It was great to learn about so many new (and not-so-new) approaches to programming language design. The event was set up to ensure maximum number of sessions in an 8 hour chunk of time. You will be able to watch all the sessions soon on the Emerging Langs website (perhaps in a few weeks, so keep on checking!). I caught up with a few folks a…[more ]

Bill Hill has always been a fan favorite on Channel 9. In fact, his early interviews helped us crystallize the original (now referred to as OldSchool since we have other great methodologies in place on 9) Channel 9 Method of human-focused, unrehearsed real conversations with people. We haven't forgotten about you, Bill!…[more ]

The Archivist is a new lab/website from Mix Online that lets people archive, analyze and export tweets. Here’s a little more about why we built The Archivist and who we built it for. …[more ]

Jaron Lanier is an extraordinary individual. He is the father of virtual reality, a forceful pundit for "software humanism", an accomplished musician, a philospher and an Partner Architect at Microsoft working on cloud computing problems in the Extreme Computing group. Jaron was a Scholar at Large for three years, providing valuable technical input to the Live Labs folks. Jaron was a technical consultant for the wildly popular science fiction film, Minority Report(which of course involved…[more ]

Arvind Suthar, Director of Service for Microsoft Online Services, is a key part of how Microsoft Online Services helps to make our customers and partners successful. Arvind runs the team in the middle between Engineering, Support, and Operations that defines and prioritizes customer issues for the engineering team and helps unblock customers with issues getting onboard with BPOS.   …[more ]

The IE team has released the second IE9 Platform Preview build. From Dean's blog post:   …[more ]