Rico Mariani is a performance guru at Microsoft and a wonderful person. After a number of years on the Visual C++ team since 1.0, he went to MSN and then to CLR land where he now beats the "measure! don’t ship bad performance! measure!" drum to much good effect. It’s a pleasure to work with [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Rico Mariani Interviewed on Behind the Code
Posted in Software Development on February 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
ISO C++0x: Complete Public Review Draft In October 2007?
Posted in C++ on February 7, 2007 | 8 Comments »
You might say that it looks like "x might not be hex."
I’m happy to report that work on "C++0x", the much-anticipated Version 2.0 of the ISO C++ standard, has dramatically picked up steam over the past few months. The ISO C++ committee has now published the first partial draft of C++0x (for what "partial" means and what’s [...]
Wozniak on Apple
Posted in Friday Thoughts on February 2, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Here’s a wonderful interview with The Other Steve (Wozniak) on the start of Apple. It’s part of a new book called Founders At Work, full of similar interviews with all sorts of well-known founders of companies/products from Adobe and Lotus to TiVo and Ruby on Rails. (I don’t have any commercial interest in the book; I just heard [...]
