A rant on a talk falling to pieces
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of doing a talk for the Belgian .NET user group. During this talk I ran in to all kinds of problems. I've done presentations where I was royally underprepared and to avoid that this time I actually started prepping for this talk on time. I was done on time, was prepared had 5 backups of my presentation and samples. What did I learn from this, if you're prepared other things will go wrong. I'll share the story of stuff that can go wrong. Before star...
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...
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...
Dynamic Script Control
Both Silverlight and WPF use XAML markup to describe their user interface. As I'm currently writing my chapter on WPF for my book IronRuby In Action and I want to use some xaml that has been generated before for a different project but with an IronRuby class to load the xaml I'm in trouble. This is because you can declare assembly references in the xml namespace declarations so you can use the types in that assembly from xaml. The DLR based languages don't compile into static assem...
Minimal IronRuby/silverlight examples online
I just posted the first post in my series on getting started with Silverlight and IronRuby on the rubydoes.net website You can read more about it here: http://rubydoes.net/2008/04/14/silverlight-minimal-examples/...
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