June 14, 2008

One more IronRuby blogger

Jim Deville of Microsoft IronRuby team has started blogging. If you are interested in IronRuby, definitely subscribe. ...

June 3, 2008

"Try IronRuby" updated

I've updated Interactive IronRuby Web Shell aka Try IronRuby to IronRuby r113 engine. This is so manual, I need to implement automatic update. I also added a bit controversial recording feature. I now record everything users type there for security and research purposes.  Security - because "Try IronRuby" is hosted ...

May 12, 2008

Hacking IronRuby

IronRuby is coming! Expected to be released this year Microsoft's IronRuby is quite a unique project. Fully open sourced, OSI-approved/GPL-inspired  license, hosted at Rubyforge, accepting external contributions. Yes, Microsoft's IronRuby. Cool. Anyway, I decided why don't I build IronRuby version of the famous "Try Ruby in your browser" by _why ...

October 7, 2007

One more free Ruby on Rails book

This book looks like one of the best Ruby on Rails book I've seen so far. It's probably more an introductionary one, but seems pretty solid. Hey Amazon marks it as [ILLUSTRATED] book :) Anyway if Sitepoint lets you download it for free, why not. And if you prefer dead-tree copy, get ...

July 23, 2007

IronRuby pre-alpha drop and Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 in few days

 John Lam announced the very first pre-alpha drop of IronRuby - Microsoft open source (!) implementation of the Ruby language, licensed under Microsoft Permissive License. This release contains early bits of Ruby implementation for .NET based on the DLR(Dynamic Language Runtime), you actually have to build it if you want to ...

February 15, 2007

Ruby On Rails Hosting You Cannot Resist

I was looking for Ruby on Rails hosting and found this amazing offer from DreamHost. This is just unbelievable. Consider this: Disk Storage at signup - 178.5 GB, automatically increases weekly by 1 GB Monthly Bandwidth at signup - 1.785 TB, automatically increases weekly by 16 GB MySQL Databases: unlimited E-Mail Accounts ...

February 12, 2007

Ruby One-Click Installer - Ruby starter kit

If you were thinking about learning Ruby - this is what you need to get started smoothly. Just released One-Click Ruby Installer 1.8.5-22 Final for Windows is "A self-contained installer that includes the Ruby language, dozens of popular extensions, a syntax-highlighting editor and the book "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide ...

February 8, 2007

Microsoft-free Daily Grind

If you like the "Daily Grind" by Mike Gunderloy you might like its Microsoft-free version "Quick Links" at the "A fresh Cup" site ("Notes from a recovering Microsoft addict") too. Worth subscribing anyway. ...

November 10, 2006

Learning Ruby

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I’m not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. I believe that the purpose of life is, at least in part, to be happy. Based on this belief, Ruby is designed ...