One seemingly-trivial-yet-recurring problem in financial software is the need for a live-updating line-chart. However, from multiple conversations with Lab49 folks, as well as from experience during my first project, I've learned that most WPF/ Silverlight charting packages suck in various ways, especially if you're updating their data frequently. Seems like everyone just rolls their own line chart and tailors it to each project, but doesn't share it for some reason. …
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This past weekend I spoke at NYC CodeCamp 2011 about the Iron Languages project and dynamic languages on .NET; here are the slides:
Most of the demos were from previous talks, so look through my previous posts on IronRuby and IronPython for relevant demos.
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…though under a different model . Also in April, IronRuby's project leader, Jimmy Schementi, put together one of Ruby Inside's best posts and demonstrations all in one: A Walkthrough of Ruby in the Web Browser using IronRuby and Silverlight
Padrino Released: A Webapp Framework around Sinatra - Padrino is a webapp framework that adds an extra layer of functionality on top of Sinatra ( ibid ) - think form helpers, extra routing options, …
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So who's in charge of IronRuby now? Jimmy Schementi, naturally, and Miguel de Icaza, the founder of the Mono and Gnome projects and generally all round super famous open source dude.
Schementi has written about what the leadership changes and Microsoft's announcements mean in the greater scheme of IronRuby's development. In short, Microsoft is no longer directly funding the projects but isn't restricting contributions or keeping code hidden …
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Now that I've moved from Seattle to New York , started my new career at Lab49 , got married , and just got back from the honeymoon , my public techie life can resume. And I'm happy to resume it on a positive note.
Today signifies a big step in Microsoft's commitment to open-source: Jason Zander announced new leadership for IronRuby and IronPython , namely Miguel de Icaza , Michael Foord , …
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Jimmy Schementi
Schementi left Microsoft at the end of July and is on his way to work at a NYC-based financial technology consulting firm. I'm sure most Rubyists would be quick to join me in congratulating Schementi and the rest of the IronRuby team (including John Lam, who left in 2009 ) for making significant strides in a company and environment where the obstacles were piled high. We've wondered for years whether Windows is a first class platform for Ruby …
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Though Frank Sinatra says it best , "I'm leaving today" isn't exactly accurate; my last day as a Microsoft employee was July 23rd, 2010. This post is almost two weeks delayed as Felicia and I have been on the road since the 26th, driving cross-country to the east coast; we also decided to leave Seattle in favor of New York, our home state.
Both decisions were extremely difficult to make, as I will miss all the brilliant people I worked with. Just being …
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I'm happy to finally announce that the ASP.NET dynamic language support is now open source :
Download IronPython and ASP.NET integration
For a full IronPython release with the Python standard library, download IronPython 2.7 Alpha 1 .
This release contains the source code to Microsoft.Scripting.AspNet.dll , located in the src directory, licensed under the Apache License ( Version 2) . It will be available in …
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New releases and announcements from the "Iron" projects have come out over the last couple days, so I wanted to give you an overview of what's happening, point out the really cool parts, and reiterate some of the motivations.
From a release perspective, both IronRuby and IronPython released new versions of the DLR-based .NET programming language implementations: IronPython 2.7 Alpha and IronRuby 1.1 . Click on the respective release name for the full release …
- LoGeek's software blog: Thoughts on IronRuby and .Net Testing
- Andrzej on Software: What do I gain from TDD or BDD?
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This post is part of the " MIX10 - Pumping Iron on the web" series:
Part 2.1 - Server-side web development with dynamic languages
Part 2.2 - Client-side web development with dynamic languages
Part 3 - Using scripting in static applications
Coming soon: Part 4 - Web-app extensibility with scripts
The original post was mistakenly removed, so it's been reposted with the original post date, 4/27/2010. Sorry if this …
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