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1.0My Dev Kit
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6.1IronRuby at OSCON
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7.4IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC
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5.6IronRuby at Tech Ed 2008
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10.0IronRuby and Rails
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1.8MVP Summit Ruby Meetup
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5.3Nominate Us for Open Spaces Sessions at MS MVP Summit
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2.2Open Source Ambassador
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3.0Steve Yegge on Interviewing
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5.8Henry's Adventure in Las Vegas
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3.0Dynamic Silverlight bits now available!
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8.5Dynamic Silverlight Part 2: Managed JScript and flickr
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10.0Dynamic Silverlight Part 1: Hello, World!
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5.1IronRuby @ MIX 08
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6.7Want to work on languages at Microsoft?
Monday September 1st, 2008
1.0
My Dev Kit
From Less is better, 7 days ago,
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The IronRuby team is getting ready for another major push for the PDC. To get ready for this (be careful what you wish for!) I'm upgrading my laptop's hard drive from the stock 160GB that it came with to a...
Friday July 25th, 2008
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IronRuby at OSCON
From Less is better, 1 month ago,
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OSCON is a happy place for me. It’s my third OSCON, and I created good memories at each one. At my first OSCON, I was showing off RubyCLR to the world, and I met some folks from Microsoft who convinced...
Wednesday June 11th, 2008
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IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC
From Less is better, 2 months ago,
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At Tech Ed last week, I showed a prototype of integration between IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC. I was really happy about how straightforward this turned out to be; it’s a strong testament to the robustness of our hosting API that...
Tuesday June 10th, 2008
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IronRuby at Tech Ed 2008
From Less is better, 2 months ago,
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I’d like to start out by thanking everyone who came up to talk to me at the conference. We had a Dynamic Languages booth at the conference, and it was great to talk to all of the folks who took...
Friday May 30th, 2008
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IronRuby and Rails
From Less is better, 3 months ago,
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IronRuby dispatched some simple requests through an unmodified copy of Rails a few days ago. Today, we’re going to show off our progress live at RailsConf. This is an important milestone for IronRuby; it’s our ‘ticket to entry’ to the...
Monday April 14th, 2008
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MVP Summit Ruby Meetup
From Less is better, 4 months ago,
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OK. So here’s the scoop. 2pm at the International Meeting Place (see map). I’m going to be at the Convention Center from around 1:30 onwards. There are a lot of central public meeting places at the convention center. From where...
Wednesday April 2nd, 2008
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Nominate Us for Open Spaces Sessions at MS MVP Summit
From Less is better, 5 months ago,
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I have a simple request for you if you are: an MVP (MS Most Valuable Professional) are attending the MVP Summit in Redmond in April want to talk about IronRuby *or* dynamic languages in Silverlight in an ‘Open Spaces’ format...
Monday March 31st, 2008
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Open Source Ambassador
From Less is better, 5 months ago,
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Yep, that’s right. That’s my other job here at the company. This means that I participate in a set of events that have nothing to do with IronRuby as a technology, but have everything to do with IronRuby as part...
Thursday March 13th, 2008
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Steve Yegge on Interviewing
From Less is better, 5 months ago,
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Sorry, Steve for dragging out that lovely photo of yours that I took at Foo Camp. But hey, it's the only one that I have :) I've been interviewing a bunch of folks for our 4 open positions (a nice...
Tuesday March 11th, 2008
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Henry's Adventure in Las Vegas
From Less is better, 6 months ago,
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One day, Daddy put Ben's favorite train Henry in his pocket. He was cleaning up the house the night before he was going to Las Vegas for the MIX conference. When Daddy got up the next day, he brought Henry...
Saturday March 8th, 2008
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Dynamic Silverlight bits now available!
From Less is better, 6 months ago,
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Thanks to the hard work of John Messerly and Jimmy Schementi, we pushed the Dynamic Silverlight bits out to our temporary web site. We also published the hands on lab that we created for MIX up to the site as...
Friday March 7th, 2008
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Dynamic Silverlight Part 2: Managed JScript and flickr
From Less is better, 6 months ago,
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In part 1 of this series, we looked at how to build a simple Hello, World application using Dynamic Silverlight and IronRuby. In this part we're going to build a more sophisticated application using Managed JScript, IronPython, Silverlight 2, and...
Wednesday March 5th, 2008
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Dynamic Silverlight Part 1: Hello, World!
From Less is better, 6 months ago,
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Our team is happy to announce Dynamic Silverlight (DSL), which integrates our DLR dynamic languages with Silverlight. It requires Silverlight 2, which includes the cross-platform CLR and a set of libraries for rich graphics, media and web programming. It is...
Tuesday March 4th, 2008
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IronRuby @ MIX 08
From Less is better, 6 months ago,
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We announced IronRuby almost one year ago at MIX. We've come a long way since then, and we're going back to MIX to talk about where we are, where we're going and how you can help. We've had a lot...
Wednesday February 20th, 2008
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Want to work on languages at Microsoft?
From Less is better, 6 months ago,
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First a public service announcement followed by a message from our sponsors ... The videos from our Lang.net 2008 symposium are now online. For a recap of the conference, see my earlier blog post. If you like what you see...