Do you like Intellipad so much that you want to host it? If so, than you need Actipro’s SyntaxEditor, which is not only a kick-butt syntax highlighting editor, but can be completely driven by an

Last year right after the 4th of July, one of my kind readers offered to let the me and the boys help set up and set off this year’s 4th of July show in or around Portland. However, I can’t find who offered. If that kind reader is still out there, can you drop me a line? I’m sure my 60-year-old father would like to help, too. Thanks!

I love our customers. They do things like take our bits and produce MGDisplay, a tool written by Ceyhun Ciper for visualizing the parse tree produced by parsing a DSL instance document with a “M” language definition. Enjoy!

Jeff Pinkston, the lead program manager on the “M” languages team has some questions that he’d love your feedback on:

• How do you think about “M” inter-operating with XML? XSD? Other data formats?
• Given that OO languages are nominally typed and “M” is structurally typed, what is the purpose of a type? How do you think about it?

I’ll be speaking at the Portland Code Camp on Saturday, May 30th, just as the May CTP of “Oslo” is hot off the presses:

As you may or may not know, “Oslo” is also a place. However, we’re not going to talk about that. Instead, Chris Sells, a member of the technical staff on the Microsoft “Oslo” team, is going to give you a quick intro to “Oslo,” including “M” and Quadrant, taking you end-to-end on a few real-world-ish examples and then wave his hands furiously about the rest, begging you to give it a try and complain loudly and often so we can get it right before we ship v1.0.

The May 2009 CTP of “Oslo” available on the Developer Center contains a new unified setup, an Intellipad with an integrated DSL authoring mode, the UML domain and the CLR domain, a slimmed-down SDK with the samples and the documents available on the DevCenter, a unified tool set for the “M” language and, the one that folks have been most anticipating, Quadrant.

For more details about what’s new, check out the letter from Kraig and Kent and the release notes. Also, in the coming weeks and months, Kraig and Kent have a pipeline of content for the DevCenter to keep you informed about how we’re using “Oslo” and how you can use it better. If you’ve got suggestions, please use the Connect site and don’t hesitate to post your questions on the forum.

My mom came to visit to celebrate my 40th birthday and her 60th birthday. She and the Sells Brothers and I spent yesterday afternoon wandering along the waterfront, checking out exotic animals, ditching lame cowboy comedians and eating elephant ears. And then, to put a point on the day, we launched ourselves 100 feet into the air on a giant bungle cord machine.

A coupla weeks ago, I did two days with of meeting, greeting, talking and interviewing at a Dutch company in The Netherlands named Sioux. They do a conference with the politically incorrect name of “Hot or Not,” which includes an even more politically incorrect picture of two women as part of their advertising, one lovely and one… less so. They have done this conference 12 times before (I was lucky number 13, just like Bilbo) and the goal is to have someone known for a particular technology come and give a talk, e.g. Alan Cox on Linux, and then rate the technology as “Hot” or “Not.” Since they couldn’t get someone good for Oslo, they had to settle for me.