This week Bytes by MSDN and TechZulu bring to you Don Box.  Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft working on declarative languages and tools to simplify developing applications and services. In that role, Don is involved in creating languages, frameworks, and end-to-end experiences to help people translate their intentions and desires for software into a machine readable and executable form. Don joined Microsoft in 2002 as an architect of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), where he worked on software to enable programs to safely and securely inter-operate with one another. Don's responsibilities included both the design and architecture of the run-time stack, as well as interoperability protocols with IBM and other partners.

Stuff Don recommends you check out this summer:

• Oslo
• F#
• Scala
• ML Programming
• Elements of ML Programming by Jeffrey Ullman
• Martin Fowler
• Pride, Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Check out Don's take on being "Microsoft's first blogger," his favorite technologies, and his thoughts on Twitter.

Don't forget to take Don with you: