Ruby

Join your guides Brady Gaster and Cory Fowler as they talk to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community. In this episode, Brady and Cory talk to Guang Yang from the Windows Azure SDK team to discuss some awesome new features. First, Guang talks about the new Ruby…

ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and MVP Stuart Celarier explore the new languages features in C#. It's a Whirlwind Tour of the important language features of C# 4. Stuart describes each major feature and why it is useful. But doesn't get into best practices nor suggested…

Most consumers are unaware of the extent of publicly available, online exposures of their information – including phone numbers, current and past addresses, birth dates, home values, income level, religion, and relative names (including mother's maiden name) – all of which can easily be used for…

Josh Holmes caught up with Dave Donaldson to talk about the cool project that he started back in 2005 called CodeKeep. This is a fantastic example of a passionate guy putting up a project that everyone can benefit from with no financial motivation. This is one of the longer…

In our previous episode, Vijay Rajagopalan shared with us some of the details about a session he did at MIX09 which showed how Microsoft was providing support for building Silverlight applications using Eclipse on either Windows or even on other platforms as well. In today’s episode Vijay…

Johnny Halife, Partner Architect from Southworks started a few months ago a project aiming at providing a Windows Azure SDK for Ruby developers. Still in beta, the SDK puts the Window Azure storage features ( table, storage & queues) very close to ruby developer. Johnny was at PDC09,…

As hard as it might be to believe, not everybody is using Visual Studio as their development platform. Then what if they want to develop a Silverlight application? Is notepad their only option?Fortunately not. Vijay Rajagopalan did a session at MIX09 earlier this year which shows how we've been…

JAOO 2008 coverage continues with Ruby expert and Relevance consultant Glenn Vanderurg sits down with UX Architect Josh Holmes to discuss dynamic languages and the importance of unit testing. With dynamic typing you can imagine that creating solid unit tests is of prime…

In this geekSpeak, Mike Vincent explains how dynamic languages like Iron Python and Iron Ruby running on the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) give you new options when choosing the best tool for the job. Mike addresses the advantages you can gain from using dynamic languages, when and where you…

Jimmy Schementi is a Program Manager (and developer) on the IronRuby team. IronRuby is an Open Source implementation of the Ruby programming language for .NET, heavily relying on Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime. IronRuby is Ruby, but implemented on top of the DLR (which of…