Archive for January, 2008

User Experience at MIX08

29 Jan 2008

There will be a track dedicated to user experience at MIX this year.  That is very cool.  (For those who don’t have the pleasure of knowing everything about me, I spent some time in the human-computer interaction field as a student, so user experience is close to my heart.)

MIX UX, a three-day user experience [...]

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Sun Buys MySQL, Oracle Buys BEA

16 Jan 2008

And so the consolidation continues: Sun to Acquire MySQL Surprise! Oracle Buys BEA

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Canadians at MIX08

9 Jan 2008

Well, I’m all registered for MIX08.  Flights are booked.  Hotel is booked.

I vote that Treasure Island be the unofficial offsite Canadian MIX hotel.  :)  It’s a 4-star hotel.  I got a room for around $120/night.  Maybe it’s the Scottish in me, but I couldn’t bring myself to pay for a room at the [...]

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Performance of Visual Basic 2008

8 Jan 2008

The VB team has released some compelling performance numbers for Visual Basic 2008.  A few dramatic ones:

 

VB 2005 (ms)

VB 2008 (ms)

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