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Fri, Oct 30 2009 22:14

MVP Again

I'm delighted to be able to announce that I'm now an MVP again. Google has reconsidered the situation and worked out a compromise: I now receive no significant gifts from Microsoft, and I'm not under NDA with them. While that precludes me...
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Fri, Jun 19 2009 17:50

OS Jam at Google London: C# 4 and the DLR

Last night I presented for the first time at the Google Open Source Jam at our offices in London. The room was packed, but only a very few attendees were C# developers. I know that C# isn't the most popular language on the Open Source scene, but I...
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Tue, Oct 7 2008 17:33

DotNetRocks interview

Last Monday evening I had a chat with the guys from DotNetRocks , and today the show has gone live . I wouldn't claim to have said anything particularly earth-shattering, and regular readers will probably be familiar with many of the themes anyway...
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Fri, Aug 29 2008 19:50

Lessons learned from Protocol Buffers, part 4: static interfaces

Warning: During this entire post, I will use the word static to mean "relating to a type instead of an instance". This isn't a strictly accurate use but I believe it's what most developers actually think of when they hear the word. A...
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Fri, Aug 29 2008 19:48

Lessons learned from Protocol Buffers, part 3: generic type relationships

In part 2 of this series we saw how the message and builder interfaces were self-referential in order to allow the implementation types to be part of the API. That's one sort of relationship, but in this post we'll see how the two interfaces relate...
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Tue, Jul 8 2008 19:30

Google release protocol buffers as an open source project

Yesterday the Google open source blog announced a new open source project, to release one of the core pieces of Google infrastructure: protocol buffers . Basically protocol buffers are a way of encoding structured data in a language-neutral and versioning...
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