Seriously, how did one of the best movies in a generation disintegrate into Matrix: Revolutions? I was into the Matrix universe and was willing to let Matrix: Reloaded suck in a typical middle-movie kind of way, but what the hell happened in the 3rd one?!? Anyway, I'm still reeling. Scott says it better than I can.

Luke wanted to add a new feature to SharpReader (which was just updated today [1]), so he turned to Genghis. Come one, come all. Genghis offers free features for everyone! BTW, the new feature was toast windows. [1] http://www.sharpreader.net

I think Don wins the prize for most obfuscated “Hello, World” implementation, but he does drive the point home nicely that XAML has nothing to do with Avalon and everything to do with declaring classes in .NET. Of course, most folks will think of XAML for declaring Avalon UI, but who knows what fun things will come out of the truth?

I have no idea how this SML application works, but it's cool that it does.

Watch Brad Abrams and learn the object-oriented, managed API for the breadth of Windows "Longhorn" and how it relates to the work you are already doing on the .NET Framework.

Check out the Longhorn Architecture Diagram and the WinFX Namespace Diagram from the PDC for a look at what we're building. Also, check out an early snapshot of the WinFS Schema: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/7/a/27ab8218-e3d8-4261-b8e4-6ffc7bd8f199/winfsschemadiagram.vsd

The VC++ team has a bunch of cool work they need doing and they're looking for candidates. Don't be shy. Apply today! And if http://microsoft.com/jobs is too slow for you, feel free to send your resume and a bottle of Scotch (OK, that last part is optional : ) to Terry Leeper, a friend of mine on the VS team desperate for help: tleeper@microsoft.com.

Don "XML" Demsak has been diving into XAML head first, using it for it's graphics language features and comparing it to SVG along the way. Very cool stuff.