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The Origin of LINQ to SQL

LINQ to SQL, possibly Microsoft’s first OR/M to actually ship in ten years of trying, was never even supposed to exist. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:52 AM by mattwar | 26 Comments

Less than Express

I'm heading out today on vacation for the week, far away from all things digital, miles and miles away from anything with a functioning central processing until, no cell phone coverage, no bandwidth, just blue skies, mountains, tall green trees and the Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:43 AM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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Confessions of a C# Hack

I've been making a lot of changes lately to the c# compiler. You won't see these in Whidbey so don't ask me about them yet. For the most part, it hasn't been too tough. The compiler was designed well and is generally easy to make modifications too. Yet Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:59 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Fishing for Answers

Everything you do in your day-to-day life, how you approach solving even minor problems, reflects in the way you write code. My soon to be four year old son, Charlie, has had his mind set on getting a pet fish ever since the movie Finding Nemo came out. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:05 PM by mattwar | 4 Comments
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Feeling Stupid

Programming makes you feel stupid. All the time. Just when you think you finally understand something, know all its ins and outs, along comes something new that you know nothing about, not even enough to hold up your end of a speculative conversation. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:38 AM by mattwar | 13 Comments
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Procrastinating Paradigms

Programming is sometimes a mind boggling and perplexing thing. If you know what you want to do, and how to do it, then it is a breeze and you can whip out a thousand lines a day, write an entire app over the weekend. If you don't know what you want to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:48 PM by mattwar | 7 Comments
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Code Farmers

I’m over the hump now. I can see the work for what it is. I’ve read all that I can. I’ve uncovered the truth. I’ve seen how it functions. I’ve learned what it says. Now I have to formulate a plan, a plan of attack, because Read More...
Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 10:03 AM by mattwar | 0 Comments
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Programming in the Nude

The week rolled by faster than I thought possible. The weekend was a blur. I was at it again, up late, hunched over the alphanumerics, my face tidally locked to the phosphorus glow of the picture tube. I was deep in thought, my mind lost somewhere between Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:05 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Real coders, real code.

It's late, do you know where your coder is? Really, it's a very good question. You think your spouse is sleeping next to you at night. They are not. They are awake, bleary, weary and barely lucid, secretly feeding their addiction. Yes, it is sad and depraved, Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:03 AM by mattwar | 41 Comments
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Compelling thoughts

Sometimes I get singly focused on my work. It's all I can think about. I know its happening. I even help it along by shutting myself off from everything else. It's easy to do at work. I go into my office, shut the door and I'm in my own little cave; a Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:09 PM by mattwar | 15 Comments
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Turbo Charged

At lunch last week a few of us were reminiscing about early language environments, compilers and what not. Anders was there telling us stories about his early days. I thought I would come clean for a change. I let everyone in on my dirty little secret. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:02 PM by mattwar | 5 Comments
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Cheat Codes

Betsy and I were playing Neverwinter again a few nights ago. We were having trouble with some metal behemoths. It seems our tactics and weapons were having no effect. We would have had a better weapon, but it was accidentally sold at the last merchant Read More...
Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 5:11 PM by mattwar | 2 Comments
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Terminal Atrocity

I'm sitting at home using VPN to connect into work. I'm downloading one of the later builds of whidbey and all of our source tree. It's going to take a long time. At least I'm not doing it manually, my home computer is talking to my work machine using Read More...
Posted Monday, February 02, 2004 11:09 PM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Chaos Trees Reloaded

A reader pointed me to a bunch of reviews of Wolfram's book A New Kind of Science, that I was alluding to in my last post. Here it is in case anyone else is interested in checking out how tiny computer programs actually created the universe. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1579550088/qid=1075577679//ref=pd_ka_1/103-5704049-9739019?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:35 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Chaos Trees

Have you ever done a lot of work writing code over tree based structures? I've been doing that a lot lately. It's kind of a habit now. It started years ago working on the .Net XML library, and it has progressed through various language development projects. Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:11 AM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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