Apparently Eric Gunnerson, confident that C# is now perfect (and who can blame him?) has decided to work on the Longhorn Movie Maker team (and who can blame him?).
I find these strangely compelling, especially this one:
Languages Zen Koan: “One day Fred was working with .NET. He overheard a programmer say to his superior, “Give me the best programming language you have.” “Every language in .NET is the best,” replied the butcher. “You can not find any language in .NET that is not the best.” At these words, Fred was enlightened.”
Daniel Lehenbauer, SDE on the Avalon team, posts another article on Avalon 3D with fabulous figures. As a guy that relies on screen shots and the kindness of his friends for such luscious figures, I've very jealous. Check it out.
Only4Gurus.com has posted a presentation by Jeffrey P. Snover, a Monad Architect, entitled "Monad Shell — Task-Oriented Automation Framework," in which he covers the Monad mission, the overall architecture and key developer and admin concepts. I'm a huge Monad fan and so should you be.
Eventually, we’ll be awash in real tools that output XAML, but until then conversion tools are important so that real artists can use the tools with which they’re already familiar, output them into a vector format supported by that tool and then convert them to XAML for use in Longhorn apps.
