Ray Jezek’s Blog

I have really been enjoying the Channel9 series about the history of Microsoft.  So far they have released years 1975-1981.  It’s always interesting to think about the chain of events that took place to bring us to where we are today and to be inspired by the stories of the pioneers who laid the foundation we stand on.

After watching the series I started digging around for some other videos that had a similar theme about the history of personal computers and found this great documentary called Triumph of the Nerds that aired on PBS in 1996 (hard to believe that is 13 years ago!).  Even though I knew a large portion of the history covered in the piece, it was a lot of fun to listen to the interviews of the guys who lived it and to think about what new frontiers are still ahead for us to conquer!

So if you’re in the mood for a little nostalgia, I highly recommend checking out both of these!

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Since C# 4.0 was introduced by Anders at PDC 2008 there has been a lot of buzz about the features that have been added to the language and why. Many people have questions about why something like dynamic static types needed to be added and what was the thinking behind such decisions. I have wondered along with everyone else about many of these questions. Thankfully channel9 has managed to get an interview with Anders and asked him to clarify some of the reasoning behind the decisions they hade with the language. Video is below:

C# 4.0 - Questions and reasons behind the answers

.NET, Programming Anders, C#, C# 4.0, channel9, PDC, PDC 2008, Programming