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Why I totally regret buying a Windows Phone

I've been a Windows Phone 7.5 user since January and I love the different phone UI (doesn't look like iOS, nor does it look like Android) and the Facebook/Twitter integration. It's also good that the Windows Phone 7.5 OS feels smooth even...

Published 09-08-2012 11:37 PM by cruizer

Filed under: Microsoft, phone, windows

Source Control without Continuous Integration

Having a source control system is a must these days, but I must say that coupling that with a continuous integration (CI) build system is just as important. It's really frustrating to pull the supposedly latest or most recent 'stable' or 'production'...

Published 09-15-2011 6:31 PM by cruizer

Filed under: General, agile practices, development tools, continuous integration, tips

The post that stirred up the horNET's nest

I woke up yesterday to find Twitter abuzz with heated tweets by various developers. I live about halfway around the globe from the US so I'm quite used to situations like this, and looking for the news post or product announcement that caused it....

Published 08-04-2010 5:08 PM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, C#, .NET, Microsoft, development tools, data

IronRuby 1.0 is out!

Just in case you didn't know, IronRuby 1.0 has been released on 12 April (same day as Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0). See how it compares to Matz' Ruby interpreter as far as the test suite goes. No benchmarks found yet, but I wouldn't be...

Published 04-14-2010 1:06 PM by cruizer

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

VirtualBox article

Wow, I haven't updated this blog for quite some time. I'm finding out it's true: Twitter kills blogging. Anyway, my VirtualBox how-to article is out! For those of you who have been hiding under a rock (?), VirtualBox is a freely-available...

Published 03-04-2010 2:20 PM by cruizer

Filed under: Open Source, article, how-to

IronRuby and the DLR slides posted in slideshare

Posted the slides for "IronRuby and the Dynamic Language Runtime" in slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/cruizer/ironruby-and-the-dlr I delivered this talk on Saturday, 19 December 2009 at the Community Technology Update 2009 II event. It's...

Published 12-21-2009 10:37 PM by cruizer

Filed under: presentation, IronRuby, community, DLR

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

Enjoy The Silence

New Year is just around the corner...I mean Chinese New Year ... it's been almost two months since the last TDD blog post! Part 3 is totally overdue. Looks like I enjoyed my Philippine vacation so much, I forgot all about it! Anyway, no more excuses...

Published 01-15-2009 3:24 PM by cruizer

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

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