A List Apart brings back Dean Allen's 2001 article called "Reading Design" which talks about the goal of communication design to to make vital, engaging work intended above all to be read. He raises some important issues: How can you design for the web if you can’t code? How can you direct photography if you’ve never worked in a...

The W3C working draft for XmlHttpRequest is out. Strangely, there's no attribution to Microsoft. And no Microsoft representatives on the panel either. And I thought Microsoft invented XmlHttpRequest. An innocent slip, perhaps? Tags: Microsoft

The W3C working draft for XmlHttpRequest is out. Strangely, there's no attribution to Microsoft. And no Microsoft representatives on the panel either. And I thought Microsoft invented XmlHttpRequest. An innocent slip, perhaps? Tags: Microsoft

For all of us who develop solutions on the .NET Framework, or who maintain a healthy curiousity for how things work inside the CLR, the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0 will prove immensely useful. You can now see how the compilers are built, how GC works and how the .NET Framework is laid out. All in all, I think this is...

For all of us who develop solutions on the .NET Framework, or who maintain a healthy curiousity for how things work inside the CLR, the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure 2.0 will prove immensely useful. You can now see how the compilers are built, how GC works and how the .NET Framework is laid out. All in all, I think this is...

This is not a social outcry. I just came across yet another article on some technology killing/launching an assault on another. This one from CNET News said something along the lines of "Microsoft will step up its assault on Adobe Systems' customer base with the release early next year of its Expression line of design and development software."...

This is not a social outcry. I just came across yet another article on some technology killing/launching an assault on another. This one from CNET News said something along the lines of "Microsoft will step up its assault on Adobe Systems' customer base with the release early next year of its Expression line of design and development software."...

Here's Nick Kramer's post on how we prioritize bugs on the WPF team. I work on the Application Model team. In addition to the core WPF application model, we also own resource loading, deployment/hosting (think browser-hosted WPF apps and loose XAML) and Avalon's build system (our MSBuild scenarios, IDE integration with VS/Cider/Sparkle...

Here's Nick Kramer's post on how we prioritize bugs on the WPF team. I work on the Application Model team. In addition to the core WPF application model, we also own resource loading, deployment/hosting (think browser-hosted WPF apps and loose XAML) and Avalon's build system (our MSBuild scenarios, IDE integration with VS/Cider/Sparkle...

The New York Times has an interesting article about Wikipedia which debates the epistemological question: Can an article be judged as credible without knowing its author?I'm something of a Wikipedia junkie: sometimes more so than others. But I'll be the first to admit I wouldn't bet all my money on the facts in a Wikipedia article. Finding...

The New York Times has an interesting article about Wikipedia which debates the epistemological question: Can an article be judged as credible without knowing its author?I'm something of a Wikipedia junkie: sometimes more so than others. But I'll be the first to admit I wouldn't bet all my money on the facts in a Wikipedia article. Finding...

Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons and leading proponent of "free culture" recognizes the importance of InfoCard, a WinFX technology that hardened against tampering and spoofing to protect the end user's digital identities and maintain end-user control. In a post in Wired, Lessig says it may be the "the most important contribution to...

Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons and leading proponent of "free culture" recognizes the importance of InfoCard, a WinFX technology that hardened against tampering and spoofing to protect the end user's digital identities and maintain end-user control. In a post in Wired, Lessig says it may be the "the most important contribution to...

This post isn't an attempt at taking the simian tradition of this blog to the next level. So, bear with me as I explain my point. The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon is attributed to Lyall Watson, who wrote about a sudden spontaneous and mysterious leap of consciousness achieved when an allegedly "critical mass" point is reached. Although the...

This post isn't an attempt at taking the simian tradition of this blog to the next level. So, bear with me as I explain my point. The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon is attributed to Lyall Watson, who wrote about a sudden spontaneous and mysterious leap of consciousness achieved when an allegedly "critical mass" point is reached. Although the...