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January 2008 - Don Box's Spoutlet

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  • The Overfactored Foreword

    Chris Sells has decided to reveal the technique I used last year to write the foreword for both his and ChrisAn's books. If you have both books, read the forewords I wrote. Note that there is significant reuse between the two forewords (they'd be identical...

  • Java and doneness

    Ted Neward has an excellent post on the state of Java . In general, I really like the piece a lot. I do think Ted slightly misses the point when he talks about Bruce Eckel's statement: Arguably one of the best features of C is that it hasn't changed at...

  • Lang.net 2008

    Even though my title and abstract aren't up on the site, I'm giving a talk at Lang.NET 2008 later this month over in Building 20. Of course, I can't quite get over that we got Dan Ingalls to speak. Should be fun.

  • Jim Johnson's back

    Jim's resurfacing on his blog . Let's hope his “I'm back” post isn't followed by months of silence like so many others' posts to that end (including some of my own). My vote for first blog entry is a dissection of how binary and JSON data...

  • CharlesF

    Like a lot of folks, I just found out that Charles Fitzgerald ( charlesf ) is leaving the firm soon. Charles has been one of my favorite Microsofties since long before I joined the firm. His bullshit detector was one of the best in the company, and it...

  • XCOPY deprecated - long live Robocopy!

    I was recently surprised when I was working on a virgin Vista machine and found robocopy was already there. I assumed it was part of the MS IT standard internal install of Vista. I just noticed that when you run xcopy /? you get this: C:\>xcopy /?...


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