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IronPython in Action is Released
" IronPython in Action " by Michael Foord and Christian Muirhead, Manning Publications Co. ISBN 978-1-933988-33-7 was released this week in ebook and will be available in print on March 26, 2009. If you are at all interested in Iron Python,...
Rails and Merb Projects to Merge
Saw this on Dr. Dobb’s Code Talk today. Big news for the Ruby community and really makes a lot of horse sense. The Merb and Rails projects are planned to merge. Merb 2.0 and Rails 3.0 will be the same. Check out the blog posts by Rails creator David...
LA Code Camp a Success
The first LA Code Camp held Oct 25 and 26 at USC was a success. It's been about 5 years since I was last on the campus (USC was a major client for a few years) and there are new buildings sprouting everywhere. I met up with Harry Pierson (Iron Python...
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak on Wednesday September 10
On Sepember 10, I'll be doing a geekSpeak webcast on Dynamic Languages and the DLR . The web cast starts at 12:00 noon Pacific time. The link above will take you to online registration. Hope you can join us. Event Overview The geekSpeak webcast series...
More User Group Presentations on Dynamic Languages
Last Tuesday I presented my continually evolving “Dynamic Languages and the DLR” at the San Diego .NET Users Group . I have unit tests written in Iron Python running in NUnit as part of the presentation. This week, on Wednesday September 3...
LA Code Camp
Coming up October 25 and 26 is the first LA Code Camp . It’ll be held at the USC campus. This is the weekend just before PDC so we may see some of the Microsoft product teams attending. I’m again doing my continuous evolving dynamic languages...
Central Coast Code Camp
Coming up September 27 and 28 is the Central Coast Code Camp in San Luis Obispo. Again this year, it will be held at the Embassy Suites hotel. Check the Central Coast Code Camp web site for details. Looks like about 35 sessions registered thus far. I’ll...
Dynamic Languages and the DLR presentations at user groups and code camp
Over the past month, I’ve made the rounds of several Southern California user groups and the San Diego Code Camp presenting “Dynamic Languages and the DLR.” · San Gabriel Valley .NET on June 18 · IASA SoCal/SoCal .NET Architecture...
New PDC Sessions Added
On July 1, a bunch of new sessions were added to the PDC. You can see the full list of sessions that have been published (so far) at the PDC site . Here are some interesting sessions: An Introduction to F# Learn about Microsoft's new language, F#...
Silverlight 2 Beta 2
With the release of Silverlight 2 Beta 2 the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK has been updated as well. There is a lot of new stuff. Check out Jimmy Schementi's blog for details. Here's a quick recap: Description This project represents the integration...
Iron Ruby: The Road to 1.0 - John Lam
Last session on Friday, end of TechEd Developer week. There were two sessions in this time slot that I wanted to attend – Rich Hundhausen’s “Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server: Migrate of Integrate” or John’s...
Dynamic Languages at TechEd
Tuesday morning at TechEd after the keynote, I went over to the Dynamic Languages area, introduced myself to the team and did a little promotion for my BOF session. Bill Chiles and I went over to Neil Ford’s session on Design Patterns in Dynamic...
SoCal Code Camp June 28 & 29, University of California San Diego Extension
The next SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp is set for June 28 & 29 at UCSD Extension Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms...
Getting Ready for TechEd
TechEd 2008 is almost here. I'll be there for both the Developer and IT Pro weeks working with INETA to broaden our reach to the community. Developer week Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions My Dynamic Languages and the DLR BOF session will be Wednesday evening...