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Console, Cygwin and Ruby on Rails
07 March 08 12:11 AM | Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
I was playing around with my e editor and trying to learn how to customize it. The center of its customization story is cygwin and updating it. It was about that time that I also made the move to Console based on Scott's recommendation. His HanselShell...
New and Notable 168
03 June 07 02:37 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
My four year old daughter, Heather, had her first ballet recital last night. It was a very proud moment for me. She had to wear a little makeup for the lights and with hair up, she looked beautiful but older and that was emotional. I have some things...
New and Notable 165
07 May 07 01:21 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
It's time for a New and Notable Update when my flagged posts in FeedDemon gets past a screenfull. Hurry, hurry before Iteration Planning starts... IronRuby/DLR/CLR John introduces IronRuby here and collects opinions here Meanwhile Jim posts on the...
Cross-Platform CLR!
04 May 07 02:50 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
I have been preaching for 7 years now about that the CLI/CLR was designed for cross-platform and the rest was packaging. Today, the news from MIX ‘07 was very exciting on the CLR front as well as many other fronts (to be covered later). Today that become...
New and Notable 164
02 May 07 01:26 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Microsoft has definitely hit one out of the park this week at MIX. I have been talking with both Microsoft fans and "non Microsoft fans" and I have not seen this level of excitement in a long time. In fact, I think that this is the first time...
New and Notable 150!!
22 March 07 02:24 AM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post...
New and Notable 149
18 March 07 01:02 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up...
New and Notable 146
24 February 07 02:12 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Ah Saturday morning where we can sleep in, ah no wait...I have kids to wake me up at the crack of dawn... Software Architecture The PAG folks continue to deliver their goodness with their first weekly drop of the new version of the Smart Client Software...
New and Notable 108
07 July 06 12:00 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Ruby/Rails Martin notes that a video of his keynote at RailsConf is online and the rest are starting to appear (PragDave is up there). John Lam talks about why Ruby (and a little bit about RubyCLR), on NET Rocks . LINQ/Data Daniel Cazzulino on how upcoming...
New and Notable 102
16 June 06 11:31 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over...
New and Notable 100! The Big 100!
14 June 06 12:52 AM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
On May 19, 2003 , I said " I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to...
AJAX may be the biggest waste of time for the Web
26 May 06 01:56 PM | Sam Gentile | 22 comment(s)
Daniel Cazzulino says " AJAX is OLD. It's been around for a decade . It's based on the techniques that exist almost since the web exploded: HTML, Javascript. Both have served the Web well. Both are bound to die. Seriously: do you really want...
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