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IronRuby on Rails

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I, for one, welcome our new IronRubyRails overlords

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Snippet on IronRuby: Aussie code inside

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

In ScottGu's comments to his excellent post, he mentions that Microsoft licensed some of the QuT Ruby.NET work! w00t! Aussie code lives inside IronRuby. Well done, Dr Wayne Kelly and team.
New Microsoft hire (starting in September), Scott Hanselman, is also getting into the Ruby-way.
Also, Miguel de Icaza gives a big tick to the project.
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John Lam and Jim Hugunin: DLR Presentation

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Microsoft's John Lam and Jim Hugunin go large with the DLR at MIX07. Here are my notes whilst listening and watching the presentation:
What to expect: a Mac, TextMate, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Safari and Silverlight.  TextMate equals text editing. Silverlight is not binary, its just XML and text. You can break it apart and look at the [...]

More DLR

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

John Lam, why Dynamic Languages from John Udell podcast:
expressing my intent in the code.
Interesting interview between Tim Heuer and John Lam on Ruby as a part of the announcements yesterday.
The Ruby support from Microsoft is more than just Silverlight; it also crosses into the server and the client, outside the browser.
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By the light of Dynamic Silverlight

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Keeping secrets is tough. Hearing about the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) from John Lam in February this year was one of those secrets that kept well.
John Udell interviewed John Lam, and has a backgrounder here. Some in the Ruby community didn't see this coming.
Jim Hugunin has a posting on the new DLR, open source nature [...]

I’m on Channel 9. MSDN Channel 9, that is

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

First of two interviews with the language & compiler gods of Queensland University of Technology. This was Wayne's first on camera interview. And only my third highly tehnical-audience interview.

Wayne Kelly on Ruby.NET.

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