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100th Episode of Going Deep!

Welcome to the 100th episode of Going Deep! It's been a great ride so far and I hope you've been enjoying the show over the years. For this momentous occasion, meet Bart de Smet, a software engineer extraordinaire on the WPF team who spends his free time blogging (what an incredible wealth of truly useful technical information to be found on Bart's blog!) and creating custom LINQ providers. In fact, Bart is probably the world's most prolific LINQ provider creator, from LINQ-to-MSI to LINQ-to-Simpsons! How does he do it???

Of course, in this special episode who better to have involved in this LINQ'ified conversation (with lots of whiteboarding) than LINQ co-creator, programming languages designer, fundamentalist functional programming high priest and Channel 9 star Erik Meijer? In fact, given that this is an Expert to Expert Going Deep, Erik co-conducts the interview (and he's great at it as usual!). Nothing better than watching and listening to two experts geeking out at a whiteboard!

What makes LINQ so readily "providable"? How does Bart concoct his LINQ provider magic? Here, we dig into the details that enable LINQ-to-Anything.

Tune in. There's a lot of very useful technical information here (which I hope is the case for all 100 Going Deep episodes).

Enjoy and thanks for watching!

Software Composability and the Future of Programming Languages

How will imperative programming langauges evolve to suit the needs of developers in the age of Concurrency and Composability? What role can programming languages play in enabling true composability? What are the implications of LINQ on the furture of managed (CLS-based) and unmanaged(C++) languages? How will our imperative languages (static) become more functional (dynamic) in nature while preserving their static "experience" for developers?

Answers to these questions and much more are to be found in this Channel 9 interview with some of Microsoft's leading language designers and programming thought leaders: Anders Hejlsberg, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of C#, Herb Sutter, Architect in the C++ language design group, Erik Meijer, Architect in both VB.Net and C# language design and programming language guru, and Brian Beckman, physicist and programming language architect working on VB.Net.

This is a great conversation with some of the industry's most influential programming language designers. Tune in. You may be surprised by what you learn...

Programming in the Age of Concurrency: The Accelerator Project

David Tarditi and Sidd Puri, scientists at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA, are creating some really compelling managed libraries that provide an elegant approach to writing highly parallel data intensive code. They basically hack the GPU to enable roaringly fast parallel computation. They call this .NET-based framework "Accelerator" and explain it in detail on Channel 9. Check it out and get the bits in your hands now. This is great stuff.

Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR)

We just released a great video interview on Channel 9 that should be of tremendous interest to those of you who write managed threaded code: The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) is a lightweight port-based concurrency library for C# 2.0 developed by George Chrysanthakopoulos in the Advanced Strategies group at Microsoft. Here, we have a deep discussion about CCR with George, a Software Architect, and Satnam Singh, Architect. You can get more info about CCR on the CCR Wiki. This is super cool stuff and represents a really innovative approach to making managed threaded programming more readily understandable and predictable.

Please check out the OOPSLA/SCOOL paper on the CCR.

Enjoy!

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Spot the Bug on Channel 9

If you're a developer, check out this Spot the Bug post on Channel 9. These will appear every week or so (maybe longer intervals, depends on juiciness of the code sample). Enjoy and spot those bugs (there's a few of them...)!