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Congratulations to John Lam and all the folks on the IronRuby team. They've just released the first public drop of the IronRuby source code. Ruby on .NET is now a reality. For more info, see John's post here . Get the bits here . Also, some more background
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There's a new .NET reference application out from Microsoft that showcases both interoperability with the Java platform and scalability on the .NET platform. The application is called .NET Stock Trader and it was built by Greg Leake and his team at Microsoft.
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There's been a lot of talk going on in the Microsoft community ( here , here , here , and here ) lately about agile development and whether or not Microsoft "gets it". Some of this was triggered by a recent post from Martin Fowler on Ruby and Microsoft.
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There's a new site for newbies to go to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/ If you're new to programming and looking to learn how to build Web or Windows applications, check it out! And the best part I can tell about it so far is that
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A while back, I wrote about migrating from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0 . I wrote that post almost a year ago, but it is still one of my highest traffic posts to this date. Well, it's been a good 6 months now since .NET 3.0 has been on the scene, yet I haven't
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Last week Mary Jo Foley hinted at it . (She must have good sources!) Now the news is out about the Dynamic Language Runtime for .NET. John Udell has just posted a podcast with John Lam from the Dynamic Languages team at Microsoft that they recorded last
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This is not a question I hear often from folks who develop on the Microsoft platform. (.NET is often what they eat, breathe, and sleep on.) However, it's very common for me to hear this from developers who aren't familiar with Microsoft's development
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After the NYC Code Camp last month, a bunch of the speakers went out for a couple of drinks and appetizers. We got on the topic of writing books and articles. There were folks like Don Demsak promoting the notion of independent self publishing vs. folks
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As part of the devStream program my team has been running, we've been scheduling a monthly series of "arcDevBrainPicks" where you get to pick the brain of your local Microsoft Architect & Developer Evangelists. William Zentmayer and I hosted the first
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Just a reminder, tomorrow, Thursday, December 7th, is the first (of what I hope will be many) devCouncils that my team will be running in the Microsoft Iselin, NJ office. The devCouncil runs from 1pm to 5pm. If you haven't registered yet, you can find
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For the past couple of weeks that I've been a delinquent blogger, it sure seems that way! I've seen things that I never thought I'd see, as well as things that I haven't seen in a long time. First off, in the category of things I haven't seen in a long
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Today marks exactly one year since I've taken on the Developer Evangelist role at Microsoft here in New Jersey and New York. Since then, I've gotten to meet many wonderful folks in the area developer community via various user groups, code camps, and
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My colleague Doug Turnure down in Atlanta came up with this cool idea. Check out .NET University for a great way to learn about .NET 3.0 for free. .NET University is a way for anyone to get to a set of overview courseware for each of the 4 new technologies
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If you spend a lot of time working with XPath, you probably know that it's not as easy as it could be in Visual Studio 2005. Back in July, our local resident XML-guru, Don Demsak (a.k.a. DonXml) released a really cool open-source plug-in to support XPath
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Via Dino ... If you model your data types in XSD, then maybe you have used xsd.exe, in the .NET Framework SDK. It can generate a .NET class from an XSD, and so can be really useful in the general domain of "XML Data binding" as they call it in the Java
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