White paper on IronRuby published
Manning published my white paper -- or green paper as they call it -- on IronRuby. You can find it here: http://manning.com/free/green_carrero.html This paper tries to give you an introduction on what the ruby language is and how it could work for you. If you want to know more than what's on those pages there is always the book: http://manning.com/carrero Technorati Tags: IronRuby...
IronNails: Some progress
I thought it might be a good idea to update you guys on how IronNails is progressing. I think I've got it so that you aren't exposed to writing many of the boring boilerplate code that comes with taking this approach (M - V - VM- C). Also to execute an action on a controller asynchronously you can by just adding :mode => :asynchronous to your view_action declaration. A lot is still left to do but this proves that it is possible to use IronRuby today to do some pretty cool stuff. From t...
Finally found the insert key on my macbook pro keyboard
I finally managed to figure out what the insert key is on my macbook pro. I missed it a lot because in Resharper the standard command to generate code is Alt+Ins. This key combination seems to be engraved in my brain because it was really hard for me to use it with a different key combination. Anyway the winning combinations are: Insert: fn+return Alt+Insert: fn + alt/option + return Technorati Tags: keyboard shortcuts,macbook pro...
IronNails : Rails like development for IronRuby with WPF/Silverlight
For my book IronRuby I'm working on chapter 4. That chapter is about doing WPF development with IronRuby. I started out with a straight port of Witty to IronRuby. As I was doing that the cogs started turning and I came up with a way to bring the rails style of development to WPF. I decided to investigate that route a little bit further and now I have a small framework that enables you to write WPF applications with the MVC paradigm. I decided to open that code up as open source and h...
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