Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Jason is working on another book. If it is his CIL Programming and .NET Security books are any indication, it will be another fine addition to the library. 4:00:23 PM

The consistently excellent Dino Exposito has a nice introduction to .NET Remoting. Unfortunately its in VB.NET but he's a great writer and teacher and it looks good. 3:18:40 PM

Wow! Peter has joined the CLR team at Microsoft. I knew there were some big changes coming in this life but not this. This is awesome. It combines his passions in research with his in the CLR. Starting November 4, I'm going to be joining Microsoft as a Program Manager in the CLR team, doing my bit to "ensure that the CLR remains the most innovative multi-language runtime in the industry". Specifically, I'll be working with both the internal compiler teams and the external academic research community to help identify, evaluate, prototype & productize future enhancements to the CLR. Formerly described by me as my Dream Job, it is a perfect fit for my interests: it involves a high-ish % of externally-facing work interacting with the research community and speaking/writing about the CLR & Rotor, lets me spend time working at the systems level with the CLR & Rotor, and requires me to stretch my commercial software development muscles again after almost 2 years of shipping mostly prose and slides. Most importantly, the job gives me an opportunity to actually *impact* the platform I've spent the last couple years of my life working on. 8:51:25 AM