July, 2007

First, the IronRuby bits hit on Monday. Now, the beta 2 bits are out for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 too. Coming next week, the release candidate of Silverlight 1.0. Get the rest of the story from Somasegar's blog . Get the juicy details...

Congratulations to John Lam and all the folks on the IronRuby team. They've just released the first public drop of the IronRuby source code. Ruby on .NET is now a reality. For more info, see John's post here . Get the bits here . Also, some more background...

Via Tim ... This one nearly made me @%#$ my pants laughing! It's 15 minutes, but worth the laugh. Chris Pirillo gets a telemarketing call from an IT consulting company offering to sell him some Web 2.0 services ... but no one there can explain to Chris...

A few months back at the CES show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced a new product called Windows Home Server . From a technical viewpoint, Home Server is designed to be a central computing hub in your home to help with: Automatic backup of all Microsoft...

Having been out at the beginning of the month, I haven't had a chance to get up my usual monthly user group listings post. I wanted to let folks that tonight the Lehigh Valley .NET user group will be meeting at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania...

There's a new .NET reference application out from Microsoft that showcases both interoperability with the Java platform and scalability on the .NET platform. The application is called .NET Stock Trader and it was built by Greg Leake and his team at Microsoft...

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft made some cool announcements regarding its new Surface technology. See this video from Popular Mechanics that Andrew linked to a couple of weeks ago. While the technology is certainly cool in a "gee wiz" kind of way, some...

Via The Server Side.NET ... The Hotmail team used Visual Studio Team System and it's testing capabilities during the recent rollout of the new version of Hotmail. The team just released a case study documenting how they used VSTS to ensure that the new...

Well, it's good to be finally be back and typing behind the keyboard again! It's extremely rare that I go two weeks completely offline without checking e-mail. But I was really knocked out while in the hospital, and then sleeping most of the week at home...

Last year at the AJAX Experience conference in Boston, all of the attendees received an iPod shuffle as part of the swag package. I have four media players I rotate between: a Zune, the iPod shuffle, an iRiver T30, and an old Creative Nomad Zen. I love...

I usually don't write much here about events in my personal life, but figured I'd let everyone know that I just got out of the hospital yesterday. I have been in and out of the hospital since last Tuesday battling a kidney stone. If you haven't heard...