Posted in .Net, Information Technology, Just For Fun, Squeak, Technology and Software, Uncategorized on June 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I occasionally go in and fix past blog posts as a matter of course. I decided to go through all of my past blog posts today and fix any links that have gotten out of date or don’t work anymore. In a few cases I deleted links because the sites they refer to have disappeared. In one case I got [...]
Posted in .Net, Programming, Squeak on May 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve uploaded some corrections to both the C# and Smalltalk versions of my first case study of these two. I’ve put up a new C# version. The old one is still there (and can be referenced from the post I just linked to). The link to the new version is below. I’ve replaced the Smalltalk [...]
Posted in .Net, Programming, Squeak on May 12, 2007 | 9 Comments »
As promised here is the first case study I did comparing the “stylings” of C# and Smalltalk. I used C# 1.0 code on the .Net CLR 1.0/1.1. I set up a programming problem for myself, creating a business object, and looked at how well each language handled it. I was inspired to do this by Hacknot’s “Invasion of [...]
Posted in .Net, Technology and Software on March 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Late last year Microsoft revealed that Visual Studio 2005 would not work on Windows Vista when it was released. About a month after Vista’s release, Mary Jo Foley reported that Microsoft had released a patch for VS 2005 that would make it compatible with Vista. It’s available here. They’re calling it “Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update [...]
Posted in .Net, Programming, Technology and Software on January 24, 2007 | No Comments »
I saw this on Mary Jo Foley’s blog today: ASP.Net AJAX has been released. This is the add-on to ASP.Net 2.0 which was formerly known as ”Atlas”. It’s a combination of .Net code (on the server) and Javascript code (on the client) that allows you to set things up in your .Net code, and not have to write a [...]
Posted in .Net, Analysis, Programming, Squeak on December 17, 2006 | No Comments »
For some months I’ve taken time to study dynamic languages, particularly Lisp and Smalltalk. I’ve kind of wondered why though. There is a certain elegance that attracts me to them. I also like the philosophy that Dr. Edsgar Dijkstra espoused, which is that the computer should enable the programmer to express his/her idea to it, and [...]
Posted in .Net, Information Technology, Programming, Technology and Software on November 13, 2006 | No Comments »
Just saw today, from Mary Jo Foley, that .Net Framework 3.0 is now available. You can get it here [Update 6/9/07 - I've updated this link. It goes to the download page for the .Net Framework 3.0 SDK. It says it's "for Vista", but it will work with Windows XP or Windows Server. It also provides a link [...]
Posted in .Net, Just For Fun, Programming, Technology and Software on October 17, 2006 | No Comments »
I found this through Mary Jo Foley’s blog. Wow. I didn’t know coders could be so talented. It’s a nerd celebration in “Heavy .Netal” style (well, actually Carl Franklin of .Net Rocks! podcasting fame is pretty talented himself). You’ll need to follow along to the lyrics, because you won’t be able to understand what they’re [...]
Posted in .Net, Technology and Software on July 27, 2006 | No Comments »
I saw this today over on ZDNet: “Hints of support for WPF/E on Mac”. One of Microsoft’s developers, Nathan Herring, has announced he’s moving from the CoreCLR team to work on what’s called miniCLR for the Mac. Supposedly it’ll be just enough of the CLR to run WPF/E. Hey, maybe they’ll come out with a miniCLR [...]
Posted in .Net, Analysis on June 16, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I wish Microsoft would find people to assign good names to things and stick with those names. They have a habit of changing names on things to the point that they confuse people. The latest example is the announcement Microsoft made recently that they’re changing the name ”WinFX” to “.Net Framework 3.0″. You would think this name isn’t [...]
