Watcher of the skiesChannel 9, Astrobiology, Operating Systems, and other unrelated thingsDeep Vista Audio Stack and API video interview- December 14, 2005 I recently caught up with seasoned Niner (Channel 9 member), Larry Osterman, an SDE and 20 year Microsoft veteran, and Elliot H Omiya, a Software Architect and audio guru, to dig into the innerworkings of Vista's updated Audio Stack and new user mode API in the latest installment of the Going Deep series on Channel 9. Much of the guts of Windows audio have been moved up into the land of the user and this has consequences for both Windows audio developers at the API level and for..http://blogs.msdn.com/lifeontitan/archive/2005/12/13/503418.aspx Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR)- December 7, 2005 We just released a great video interview on Channel 9 that should be of tremendous interest to those of you who write managed threaded code: The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) is a lightweight port-based concurrency library for C 2.0 developed by George Chrysanthakopoulos in the Advanced Strategies group at Microsoft. Here, we have a deep discussion about CCR with George, a Software Architect, and Satnam Singh, Architect. You can get more info about CCR on the CCR Wiki. This is.http://blogs.msdn.com/lifeontitan/archive/2005/12/07/501200.aspx Singularity Revisited- December 5, 2005 Recently, I had a discussion with four of the reseachers behind MSR's Singularity, a research kernel written predominately in safe managed code (where possible...) that represents a highly innovative approach to Reliability and Security in operating systems. For example, the notion of shared memory does not exist in Singularity, nor does the ability to inject code into a running process. The notion of Channels as means for messaging is also highly interesting. I will head over to MSR again.http://blogs.msdn.com/lifeontitan/archive/2005/12/05/500302.aspx Channel 9 Shows- December 2, 2005 We just released a new "feature" on Channel 9: Shows. The Show concept is a way to categorize tightly-bound video interviews, podcasts, etc by creating a "content encapsulation structure" that contains Episodes. You know, the same thing they do on commercial TV. So far, we have Videos and Podcasts as show mediums, with 3 Shows, one episode each: Going Deep: Singularity Revisited WM_IN: Angela Mills: From UDDI to Indigo ArcTalk: DSL and Software Factories The number of episodes for Going Deep..http://blogs.msdn.com/lifeontitan/archive/2005/12/01/499215.aspx |