Whitepapers written by Googlers

Although not entirely related to .NET, Google Labs has a list of some really interesting whitepapers written by Googlers?on stuff like Data Mining,?Search Engine Design, Algorithms, File System Design, UI Design, Natural Language Processing and much more. Some of the “e-gadgets” and experiments at?Google Labs?…

Longhorn Article at CNET News

A new article (special report) on Longhorn and Microsoft’s future strategy has been published at CNET News -?Is Microsoft’s new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, a radical innovation or a return to the company’s winner-take-all software strategy from a decade ago? ??…

Longhorn Goodies

Thanks to Brad Adams for?posting the Longhorn Architecture Diagram and the WinFX Namespace Poster (PDF / JPG). Ofcourse, the details are as we know now (ie: post PDC 2003)?and are subject to change in the coming months/years. But its all a good preview of what’s under…

"... pregnant with thought ..."

Rory on PDC 2003: “Up until a couple days ago, I was a Large-Conference-Virgin. I have since been robbed of my innocence, and am now pregnant with thought …” Got me thinking, maybe this ?should have said “I want to get pregnant, but I can’t…

High-end Backend

Werner Vogels has gathered some interesting notes on the backend architecture of some largely complex and distributed database-driven systems like those at eBay, Merrill Lynch, Swab, NASDAQ etc.…

Longhorn Development Center and XAML

The Longhorn Developer Center @ MSDN is live as expected. And so is the Longhorn SDK. Scott Hanselman moblogs (cool term, for mobile/handheld blogging) from PDC – “They’ve brought out the folks from Adobe. They’ve got an image editing program (Adobe After Effects) that can…