The "Oslo" team heard you! There was some "regression in the quality of the bits" in the Jan CTP from the PDC CTP that affected you guys in our 3-pane mode for grammar editing in Intellipad (aka the bits are worse than they used to be). It was just a sample, but it's so so useful, that language deve...

Even though I have been to two Microsoft strategic design reviews on Oslo, attended all the PDC sessions, and presented “A Lap around Oslo� at the MDC, I have been learning something new about Oslo every day. As I stated before on this blog, Telerik is building some cool Oslo tools for Microsoft...

Filed under: Haute Home When it comes to safety equipment, designers always seem to drop the ball when they get around to considering aesthetic values. Think about it, when was the last time you saw a plaid airbag, or a fire sprinkler that wasn't hideously ugly? Have you ever owned a fire extinguish...

Hello again from Chris and Kent, your editors on the "Oslo" Developer Center. On Friday, January 30th, we released the January 2009 CTP of the “Oslo” SDK . This release was primarily a quality release, but we’ve also added some new features (which you can read about in the release ...

There's been such a flood of DSL DevCon talk proposals that I've had a hard time keeping up (although feel free to let those nice folks in Eclipse, XML, Java and Unix land if you know who they are!). Also, there's been a huge amount of interest in attending the conference itself and some f...

Philharmonic Filter: Novice goes to see a great night of orchestra music in Oslo. Bolero was the finale, now I feel captivated and ready to explore. Which direction should I take and how can encourage my auditory palette to grow? Ideally, any recommendations towards best approach for learning more o...

If you’ve been using the WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo”, & “Dublin” PDC08 Virtual Machine provided on the PDC08 Goods Disk, you’ve probably noticed that Visual Studio 2010 within the VPC expired at the end of December and you are presented the following message “...

I found an interesting post on domain-specific languages and Lisp from June of 2007. It has this to say about designing a DSL: "There are three approaches to designing programming language syntax. The first is to develop a good understanding of programming language grammars and parsers and then care...

Distance is Only a Matter of Time...

We had this idea a few weeks ago, and it was a success, attracting quite some people in the streets of Oslo. We were able to share Jesus with them afterwards. Enjoy the video (by Katrine Whinnett)...