Miguel de Icaza

Microsoft, Novell prepare 'Moonlight' beta

Ina Fried CNET News.com Published: 19 Nov Microsoft and Novell said Tuesday they are nearly ready with a beta version of Moonlight — a Firefox add-on that allows Silverlight content to play on Linux PCs. The software is being...

Miguel de Icaza: Framework Design Guidelines, 2nd Edition [Planet GNOME]

Article: A couple of years ago I wrote an enthusiastic review of Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalinas Framework Design Guidelines, a book that I absolutely love. The book is a great compendium of best-practices for building...

Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Must Watch Sessions (Day 3)

KYN04 Research in the 21st Century The keynote from Microsoft Research. While it's all kind of interesting, I'd draw your attention to these demos: Skip to 35' : Sensors and green IT. Monitoring the environment to understand,...

Mono's SIMD Support: Making Mono safe for Gaming

Miguel de Icaza's web log: "I believe we are the first VM for managed code that provides an object-oriented API to the underlying CPU SIMD instructions. In short, this means that developers will be able to use the types in the...

Miguel de Icaza: Mono and .NET talk at PDC video. [Planet GNOME]

Article: The PDC 2008 was a blast. It was a privilege to be able to present Mono to all of these developers. Joseph Hill helped me prepare my presentation for the PDC. Our goal was to explore how Mono could help .NET...

Miguel de Icaza: Interactive GUI Shell [Planet GNOME]

Article: This week at the Microsoft PDC I showed gsharp, our GUI repl for the C# 3.0 language, a tool that I had previously talked about. Before the PDC we copied an idea from Owens great reinteract shell where we provide our...

Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference and Novell

at 12:37 pm by Roy Schestowitz Microsoft’s PDC has already featured a variety of starring exhibits like Vista 7 [sic], Azure (Hailstorm reborn), a Web-based version of Office (that’s not new) and… Novell. Yes, Mono and Novell...

PDC 2008: Cross-platform .NET surprisingly makes a fast game scripting engine

An open source project to make a common language runtime for Linux, Mac, and iPhone that's .NET-compatible, has ended up succeeding in an area no one may have expected at first: as an artificial intelligence provider for gaming...

Open-source Silverlight slips into second gear

PDC The open-source edition of Silverlight could soon have feature parity with the latest, official release of Microsoft's browser-based media player. Organizers of the Moonlight project have said they are planning to deliver...

Windows 7 - user interface is king

PDC attendees received the Windows 7 "Pre-Release Preview" as part of the goodies Microsoft distributed Tuesday afternoon. I have already installed the new OS on a spare computer at home, though as I did that shortly before...

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