The translation from Dutch is pretty good: “The better you can describe applications in models, the less code you need to write and the more transparency you provide to developers and others.” Computable spoke with Chris Sells. De programmamanager van de Connected Systems Divisie van Microsoft was in Nederland voor een Hot-or-Not lezing, georganiseerd door Sioux. The program manager of the Connected Systems Division of Microsoft in the Netherlands for a Hot-or-Not reading, organized by Sioux.

But they chose the strangest picture…

In Scott Hanselman's April 2009 podcast, Visiting Fog Creek Software and Joel Spolsky, Joel talks about Wasabi, FogCreek’s VBScript compiler, and he talks about it really being a subset of VBScript used specifically for bringing FogBugz to Unix and the CLR. In fact, it's a VBScript compiler built specifically to compile a single application, doing things like making the 5% of ADO.NET they use cross-platform. And just in case the point isn't completely obvious, Joel and Scott draw the conclusion for us: Wasabi is the domain-specific language just for FogBugz. Just another DSL in nature.

DSL Developers Conference
applied topics in domain specific languages

April 16-17, 2009, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA

 

Spirit of the Developer’s Conference

The goal of the DSL Developer’s Conference is to cut away all the unessential conference baggage and concentrate on why we’re spending time at a conference in the first place — the talks by industry experts and experienced practitioners. By doing so, we can keep your wasted time to a minimum. In fact, if you don’t go away with your head hurting from all the new ideas you’ve heard, we’ve haven’t done our job!

Summary

What	2 days of practical, applied DSL sessions from industry experts and practitioners
When	April 16th, 1pm-6pm (registration at noon), April 17th, 9am-6pm
Where	Microsoft Research Building 99, Room 1919 14820 NE 36th Street Redmond, WA 98052 USA (on the other side of 520 from main campus) If you’re flying, you want to target the Seattle-Tacoma Int’l Airport (SEA).
Cost	$0 for 1.5 days of sessions (half the bargain at twice the cost!)

Sadly, It’s Over

But you can see the videos and download the slides here!

There were countless blog posts and tweets.

Fabulous conference, folks. Best DevCon ever!

Site

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Here. Our own Paul Vick is on CodeCast: The Late Night Show for .NET Developers, with your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger. Enjoy!

All my friends have updated to Windows 7. My 14-year old son is running Win7. I’m the only one I know that’s not running Windows 7. The reason? Windows 7 took away a feature I use all the time, as shown on the right: Search the Internet.

Here’s what I do all day, every day in Vista: Ctrl+Esc to bring up the Start menu, then I start typing. If I’m searching on my HD, I immediately get matches and I can choose one with just the arrows and the Enter key. If I’m typing in the name of a program in the Start menu, I get those matches and choose one. If I want “calc” or “notepad” I can just type those and those work.

However, 80% of the time, I want to search the internet, so enter my search term, optionally including attributes like “site:”, I press, down-arrow once, highlight “Search the Internet” and press Enter. This brings up my default browser with my search results in my default search engine without me having to move the mouse or open the browser and wait for the home page or even decide where I want the search results to come from until after I’ve entered my search phrase.

And they took it out of Windows 7. : (

I logged the bug and heard nothing.

Does anyone know of I 3rd party program I can run that will work exactly like the Vista Start menu under Windows 7? Please?

At the last DevCon in 2003, blogging was rampant. We had about 100 posts in the lead up to the conference and during the conference itself.

A this year’s DSL DevCon, there’s a ton of buzz, but almost none of it is in the blogosphere. Instead, it’s all in Twitter.Last I checked, it was more than 150 tweets and we’re still on the first talk of the 2nd day (and day #1 was only a half day).

The worm has turned.

This year’s VSLive in Las Vegas (June 8-11), has three, count ’em three, “Oslo” talks! (And a Dublin talk to boot.) Just a few months ago, the “Oslo” team was giving all the talks and now there are so many of them I have to hear about them on the street! Our baby grew up so fast…

And as if that weren’t enough, Jon Flanders gave me a code for a discount:

“If you register with code S9V10 you can get and all-access Passport Package for just $1,295, a savings of $400.00 off the standard price of $1,695.”

I know I loved MIX in Vegas last month and I’m jealous I don’t get to go back in June. Put some money down on 22 for me!

This is a wonderful article on the use of an "M" grammar to parse a set of rules specific to credit card validation and then parse those rules at run-time to drive a framework for doing the validation itself. The article does a marvelous job of motivating the use of a custom DSL for construction and validation by non-engineers and then lays out the entire grammar and C# loader code. Recommended.