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Compare IronRuby with C#, Smile and Learn as well
know, Ruby languages always fascinated you with many of its great features and Rails always added, lots of smile to it.
Its time to smile more with IronRuby, for various reasonsGreat IronRuby News from oscon. Cheers.
RubyWorld News:- IronRuby:- has some interesting stuff to be shared for all Rubyists. IronRuby Contrib and other announcements worth reading here.Microsoft Blesses LGPL, Joins Apache Foundation
Penguinisto writes "According to a somewhat jaw-dropping story in The Register, it appears that Microsoft has performed a trifecta of geek-scaring feats: They have joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Platinum member(at $100K USD a year), submitted LGPL-licensed patches for ADOdb, and have pledged to expand their Open Specifications Promise by adding to the list more than 100 protocols for interoperability between its Windows Server and the Windows client. While I sincerely doubt they'll release Vista under a GPL license anytime soon, this is certainly an unexpected series of moves on their part, and could possibly lead to more OSS (as opposed to 'Shared Source') interactivity between what is arguably Linux' greatest adversary and the Open Source community." (We mentioned the announced support for the Apache Foundation earlier today, as well.)
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SQL Teaser: Where Clause Gone Wild
Try to guess what this WHERE clause is supposed to do.Microsoft Sponsors Apache Software Foundation
gbjbaanb writes "Ars Technica reports that Microsoft is to sponsor the Apache Foundation to the tune of $100k. From the article: 'I asked him if this could possibly be the beginning of a broader initiative by Microsoft to increase Apache compatibility with .NET web development technologies, but he says it's still too early to guess Microsoft's future plans for Apache participation. ... He doesn't anticipate a confrontational response from the developers working on individual Apache projects ... The response of the broader open source software community, however, is harder to predict.' (In related news, MS also intends to participate in the RubySpec project.)"
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Ballmer: Microsoft to Get More Narrow-minded
Steve Ballmer sent an email to Microsoft employees this week in which he acknowledged the success of Apple — and what the Redmond giant needs to do in order to better compete. “Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences with absolutely no compromises,” he wrote. “We’ll do the same with phones–providing choice as we work to create great end-to-end experiences.” For the full story, head over to jkOnTheRun.
An Adobe evangelist gives his opinion on Silverlight
I do NOT work for Adobe. I do NOT work for Microsoft. I do not work for Borland. I do not work for Oracle. I do not work for any competing manufacturer of any kind. I am Joe Developer. In the end, it’s folks like ME that will decide which technology survives and which dies - simply by our choices.RubyWorld News:- Meet and Get The New “SilverLine” Ruby On Rails Plugin.
Silverline is a Ruby on Rails plug-in which gives the ability to run Ruby in the browser to manipulate HTML, vector graphics, or just do some computation.
Bottom line: it let’s you write Rails code that can run on the client.Introduction to the Ninject IoC Container
Short screencast that will walk you through how to use the Ninject IoC (Inversion of Control) Container. This episode will also review the basics of the Strategy Pattern as it is critical to IoC.Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 3
In the previous part of my series about learning Ruby using C# we discussed constructors, instance methods, parameters, and then touched on blocks a bit at the end. Well, in this post we are going to delve a bit further into classes by talking about static methods (class methods in Ruby) , a bit more info about parameters, and then finish it up with some tidbits about conditionals and loops.25 Resources for Tuning Your .NET Application Performance
A great list of resources, including MSDN links, guides and .NET blogs, about improving .NET performance.Socialize Me: How to add Atlas 'Reach Me' link to Lotus Connections Person Card
This is a "repost" (is that the right term) of How to add a Microsoft Sharepoint MySites link to the Lotus Connections Person card, but for Atlas for Lotus Connections. Once you follow these instructions, you are going to integrate Atlas for Lotus Connect
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Five Business Lessons from Bill Gates
Bill Gates has left a legacy of business know-how that we can all use as part of our business knowledge base. Despite some of its shortcomings, Microsoft has grown from a small group of geeky entrepreneurs to a major international corporation that is at the heart of business around the world. This article features five lessons Bill Gates, together with Microsoft, has left for us to apply in our everyday business-oriented lives.Silverlight A Flash Competitor Not AIR Says Kevin Lynch
So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. According to Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is more a competitor of Flash than AIR, Adobe’s desktop runtime for web applications.
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