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Tip: help IronRuby find SharePoint assemblies

One of the pain points in having IronRuby access SharePoint classes is that you'll have to help IronRuby find the appropriate assemblies. IronRuby (at least with the 0.9.0 version) has an IronRuby folder underneath the lib folder in its main directory...

Published 09-26-2009 8:00 AM by cruizer

Filed under: .NET, development tools, IronRuby, SharePoint

SharePoint + IronRuby

Yesterday I was banging my head against a (virtual) wall because of frustration trying to debug a WF -based workflow for SharePoint when I thought of a cool idea: why not use IronRuby and its REPL console to explore the SharePoint object model ? That...

Published 09-25-2009 9:51 AM by cruizer

Filed under: .NET, development tools, Ruby, IronRuby, SharePoint

IronRuby presentation slides and demo code

I have posted the presentation slides (in both PowerPoint 2007 and OpenDocument Presentation formats) and demo code here: [EDIT: added link to SlideShare copy] Presentation slides, PowerPoint 2007 format , OpenDocument Presentation format or view online...

Published 05-24-2009 4:54 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, Open Source, C#, .NET, code, presentation, Microsoft, dynamic languages, development tools, Ruby, IronRuby, event

IronRuby talk tomorrow!

I will be speaking about IronRuby in tomorrow's Community Technology Update event in Singapore. Good thing that IronRuby 0.5.0 was released yesterday ; that gave me enough time to adjust my presentation to take the new version into account. Nothing's...

Published 05-22-2009 11:57 AM by cruizer

Filed under: .NET, presentation, dynamic languages, Ruby, IronRuby

LINQ and db4o

I failed to mention in my previous post that db4o also supports LINQ for executing queries against an object database. In order to avail of this feature, a reference should be added to the Db4objects.Db4o.Linq.dll and you need to specify " using...

Published 04-24-2009 4:01 PM by cruizer

Filed under: C#, .NET, database, OOP, LINQ

Introduction to Object Databases (using db4o)

For the longest time I have been intrigued by object database management systems ( ODBMS ) and I have been wanting to try it out. Of course there are the usual excuses -- I'm busy, I've got no time, I've got so many other projects, etc. Recently...

Published 04-22-2009 11:12 PM by cruizer

Filed under: C#, .NET, database, OOP

TDD Step by Step, Part 2: The Database

Welcome to part two of our series on building a Windows application using test-driven development (TDD). In the previous article we drove the design of our entity classes and data access layer by means of unit tests. The unit tests acted more as specifications...

Published 11-24-2008 11:37 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, database, agile practices, development tools, unit testing

TDD Step by Step, Part 1

In a hot discussion thread in msforums.ph about the value of unit testing and adopting test-driven development (TDD), a suggestion was made to illustrate how TDD is used in creating a simple application, specifically Keith's October code challenge...

Published 11-24-2008 8:37 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, agile practices, unit testing

Data Access with LINQ

I discussed LINQ (LINQ to objects, XML, then SQL) during the Microsoft TechFEST event here in Singapore, and the slides are here . You can download the sample code as well.

Published 11-04-2008 7:25 AM by cruizer

Filed under: .NET, code, presentation, LINQ, data, access

Some WCF Gotchas

A project our team (in my employer) has been working on for a good number of months now makes extensive use of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is nothing really ground-breaking; its significance is that it unifies the various inter-process...

Published 10-05-2008 11:48 AM by cruizer

Filed under: .NET, development tools, tips, WCF

Concurrency is all the rage in MSDN Magazine

The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine features lots of articles about parallelism and concurrency. I guess it's all the rage these days! That's what happens when Moore's Law is no longer directly related to more GHz but more CPU cores instead...

Published 10-03-2008 12:02 PM by cruizer

Filed under: .NET, Microsoft, concurrency, F#, Haskell

Microsoft embraces jQuery

I couldn't believe it: read ScottGu's blog post . Finally, Microsoft is getting *it*. No need to fight it, no need to exhibit their traditional NIH mindset and create their own (as they have demonstrated many times, not only in the .NET platform...

Published 09-28-2008 7:46 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, Open Source, .NET, Microsoft

Learning Ruby from C#

Just in case you haven't seen this yet: http://www.codethinked.com/category/IronRuby-via-C-Series.aspx I'm sure it's a handy tutorial for learning Ruby (using IronRuby for .NET) the language if you've already got C#/.NET background. I...

Published 07-25-2008 7:58 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, .NET, dynamic languages, development tools, Ruby, IronRuby

IronRuby binaries out now

Of course it's still in Alpha, but get 'em here ! Took it out for a quick spin and it seems still rough around the edges, but hey...no need to build it yourself anymore if you want to try it now.

Published 07-25-2008 9:19 AM by cruizer

Filed under: .NET, dynamic languages, development tools, Ruby, IronRuby

Continuous Integration "Hang-ups"

I really like continuous integration . Having come from a company that didn't practice it at all (this was a time I used to regularly work 12 to 16 hours a day), I was so happy when I got into a company that actually practiced it. I found it to be...

Published 06-15-2008 10:44 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, .NET, agile practices, development tools, continuous integration

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