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March 2008 - Posts

Script# converts C# into Javascript

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:11 PM by RickM
Many people in the .NET community seem to really like the Script# compiler. What it does is compile C# into JavaScript instead of MSIL. The compiler also optimizes the output so the the Javascript is as small and fast as possible. It even has full Visual Read More...
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Improving .Net Performance With Ngen: The Native Image Generator

Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:47 AM by RickM
One of the most often cited reasons to not use .NET is that it is initially compiled to an intermediary language (MSIL) and has to be recompiled every time you run it. In many high performance environments this wasted time is simply unacceptable. To combat Read More...
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IS - The Meta-Meta Language-Language (and parametric compiler)

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 3:48 PM by RickM
Ian Piumarta and some very smart folks over at the Viewpoints Research Institute have been working on a meta programming language named IS which is specifically designed for implementing other languages. The project actually has several names (IS, idst, Read More...
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Clojure Impressions

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 9:25 AM by RickM
Last night the wmassdevs Group hosted a Clojure presentation by Rich Hickey . Clojure was born of Rich's dissatisfaction with the current state of the concurrent programming and so was built from the ground up around the idea of making this task less Read More...
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The Evolution of Lambda Functions in C#

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:24 AM by RickM
Howard Dierking over at MSDN has a really interesting Blog post entitled " Lambda, Lambda, Lambda! " in which he described the evolution of the lambda function in C#. It seems fairly simple on the surface: 1.0 Introduced Delegates, 2.0 Introduced Anonymous Read More...
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Google's Leptonica

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 2:21 PM by RickM
Google's underground army of PhDs is secretly cranking out huge numbers of really useful and interesting libraries and tools . Within the next few years, these tools are going to drastically change the landscape of much of the software industry. The reason: Read More...
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Immutable Data Structures in OO Languages.

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:53 PM by RickM
One of the big reasons for the recent push towards functional programming languages is concurrent programming. Everyone is worried about how the switch from more megahertz to more cores is going to impact how they program. I was reading an article entitled Read More...
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DNG is just TIFF with a little makeup...yeah right (Part 2)

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:27 PM by RickM
After trying several different combination of tags I haven't had any luck getting photoshop to open my frankenDNG files. I poked around a bit on the the Adobe site and found the DNG SDK supports just about everything you would want to do with a DNG and Read More...
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DNG is just TIFF with a little makeup (Part 1)

Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:43 PM by RickM
Lets say you had a TIFF 6.0 file and you wanted it to be recognized as a DNG (Adobe Digital Negative) for some particular reason. This seems like it should be trivially easy to do with the DotImage TiffFile framework. As far as I knew, there were only Read More...
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AIIM Rundown

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:19 AM by RickM
The first thing I did at AIIM was to attend the second day keynote with David Pogue and Matthew Glotzbach. David Pogue really entertained well. I enjoyed his wordless slides and entertaining banter. However, I didn't take away much from his presentation. Read More...
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